Mi Amore

Watch out Lance Armstrong, Jeff got his first road bike!

etch-a-sketch on my phone
Scrubbed in to observe at a conference in Houston a few weeks back

Both my boys, napping together

I love them.

V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E-S

Since February marks the first month of us making payments on Jeff's student loans we had agreed to not do gifts for Valentines. I should have known that Jeff wouldn't stick to our agreement and friday after he left for work I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and discovered a hidden homemade card by my one and only. It explained in a very clever rhyme to back an overnight bag. I quickly put together the candy bar card I had planned to give him on tuesday and when he came home he got a little surprise too :) We dropped Scout off at Jodi's house (Jeff's cousin) and headed to Lake Las Vegas. It is awesome and so beautiful out there. We were there during their off-season and even though it was a bit of a ghost town we loved it and can't wait for the summer months when they put on their free jazz concerts.

the private beach at our resort
the courtyard view from our room

another view from our room

Celine Dion lives somewhere out there, or so I've heard. I'm happily spreading that rumor

Scout was exhausted when we picked him up and brought him home! And then we took him to 2 different dog parks and he resumed this position for the rest of the night when we got home

the candy bar card I made for Jeff for Valentines

Thanks for a great weekend! Love you b00!

On saturday after getting home from "the lake" we checked the mail and got a fun valentines surprise from Becky. She is so sweet and of course the first thing I mentioned was the fact that she made it turquoise just me. Thanks Beck!

I made some delicious and darling little rice crispy chocolate drizzled heart pops! They turned out so cute and Scout and I spent Tuesday delivering them around.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines! XOXO

Ab text me and her and Lollie were making valentine cupcakes. Yum!

2012=visitors!

We have had so many visitors since we got here in October and especially since the first of the year. We love it!!! In October, the in-laws, Chris and Tess and their friends John and Courtney came down and helped us move into our apartment. November, my parents came down for the weekend and then Chris and Tess came back down to play over the Martin Luther King Day weekend. A week later Ryan and Jill were here for a business convention and we got to hang out with them a couple of times over the weekend. The weekend after that Abbie and her kids came down and my mom came with them. Over Valentines weekend we went out to Lake Las Vegas and this weekend Dave and Becky will be here! Hopefully the rest of the year will continue this way, we love having all the visitors we can get!

Here are some pictures we took while Abbie, my mom and the kids were in town.

the gardens at the Bellagio were decorated for the Chinese New Year

War couldn't get enough of the dragons, especially when he saw them blow real smoke out of their noses!

Warner loved the glass Coke bottle elevator at the Coke store. Grammy was nice enough, despite her fear of heights to ride it more over and over with him

the park by our house

Thanks to everyone who has made the trip down to see us! Come again, we love you!

Pinterest

I hate to admit that I am on pinterest, along with the rest of the ladies in the world. Seriously. But I do find it is full of great ideas, advice, recipes, etc. Here are a few of my pinterest makes thus far..

whole wheat peanut butter banana bread

book page wreath

christmas goodies
Zupa's Wisconsin Cauliflower soup, so so good!
Chocolate sour cream bunt cake with added peanut butter chips. BEST cake ever.

I love you picture frames

I stamped the paper behind, anyone need to borrow valentine stamps? haha

Much more to come

A week of Firsts

Scout had a very big week this week. Are you all sick of hearing about Scout? Well too bad, he's our only child for now and we love his every move. Well, almost! Anyway, he had a big week. Monday he got his last set of puppy vaccinations. Tuesday he got his first haircut and went on his first walk. Finally we are no longer cooped up in the apartment, we are out enjoying the gorgeous January Vegas weather.

PS. it's 63 degrees out today :)

This was our boy on Sunday. Black, fluffy, totally dirty, stinky and ADORABLE.

If you look closely you will see what is left of the little orange tennis he was playing with. What a goof!

This is our boy on Monday, NAKED, grey and freezing!

He is still adorable but I was a little heart broken when I picked him up and realized my fluffy, black puppy is gone ;(

His first walk. He didn't take to the leash very well at first and when we would tug him a bit to get him moving he would tug right back with a defiant look on his face. It was pretty funny.

Just a close up of his naked little body, he's so skinny! And Jeff says he looks like a gremlin because his head is so much bigger than his little body. For those of you who don't what a gremlin is, (I'm not the only one right? I had to look it up.) here is a picture.