5 years and 1 year!

The end of May we celebrated 5 fabulous, amazing years of marriage!!!  I can’t believe how quickly the years have flown by! I swear it was just a few months ago that we were getting married. I am so grateful for a wonderful husband that I can definitely say I love more and more each day.  On the actual day, we had a pretty normal day with work and what not. We celebrated that weekend by going to Zarkana at the Aria and spending the night and the LVH on The Strip. Zarkana is one of the Cirque du Soleil shows. It was AMAZING! We had been wanting to see one of the Cirque shows and decided that our anniversary was a good reason to splurge. We had a great weekend celebrating and relaxing and reflecting over the past 5 years together.

Holy cow! We have lived in Las Vegas for 1 year already! Where did the time go?!? It seems like we were just on our way down here with a big moving van.  I am glad that time has been going quickly. We have been continuing with our stream of visitors and that has been a blast! 

The middle of May our friends Kylee and Joe came to stay with us for a few days. I don’t think I have laughed so much in a weekend before. I’m pretty sure we laughed the whole time they were here! We didn’t do a lot other than hang out together, go swimming, and just chill. Kylee went to culinary school and I have been telling her ever since she graduated that she needs to cook for us. So she cooked Sunday dinner and it was fantastic! She made stir fry and I could eat it every single day! Hats off to Kylee and her mad cooking skills!

This week our friends Annie and Mike and their kiddos stopped in Vegas for a visit as they were making their trek to Phoenix. Mike just finished dental school in Virginia and they moved to Phoenix for him to start his practice. It was great to see them! They have such adorable kiddos and I couldn’t believe how big they had gotten. We had dinner together and then they came back to our place before hitting the road. We were so excited to see them and almost as excited (maybe more) to have them only living a few hours away instead of all the way on the other side of the country!!

I think time is just going to keep flying by. We are only a few weeks away from the 4^th of July. The week after the 4^th Rumel is flying up to Idaho for his family reunion in Island Park. Then three weeks after that we drive up to Utah to spend a week in Bear Lake with my family. And by then the summer will almost be over. The only trouble will be trying not to melt in this Vegas heat when we are home. We are just starting into the 3 worst reasons about living in Vegas. I am not ready for this again. Oh well! Bring on the summer and the vacations!

Same ol' same ol

Welp its been several months since either of us posted anything.  We ended up going back to Utah in October for Heidi's Grandma's funeral.  We've had several visitors in the past few months.  Our friends Erick & Alli came down in October and we spent some time on the strip with them.  My parents came in November and we were able to go to Hoover Dam, The Blue Man Group and Fremont Street. We were able to go home for Christmas and spend time in Utah and Idaho. Coming back to Vegas after the holidays was a little tough because we knew it would be quite a stretch before we would be back in Utah or Idaho.  My brother-in-law Kyle came and visited us in January.  Travis and Heather came down in February and we were able to go to Tournament of Kings with them.  In March our friends JDee & Christa and Erick & Alli came down.  We also went to Fresno in early March to visit Heidi's sister and her family.  While we were there we were able to attend Anna's baptism and Wesley's eagle court of honor.  Heidi's parents were there and her brother Todd and his family.  It was great to see everyone.  I'd never been to Fresno area so it was really cool to go up there and see the area.  The winter weather in Vegas has been awesome but now summer is just around the corner and we aren't really looking forward to the 100+ degree days but the pool will help offset some of those.  Not a whole lot else has been going on with us. We are just taking things one day at a time.