Our new bed :)

I've been eyeing my dream bed at RC Willey for some time. I've been waiting for it to go on clearance, but for the last year it did not. Since we were moving, we made the decision to buy the bed. We returned it once when we got the scare that we lost our funding for the house. The second time we list the funding for our house, we had the bed on lay away and decided to go through with the purchase. And then, right as we were going to pay off the balance,THE BED WENT ON CLEARANCE. RC Willey adjusted our balance and the bed was ours. We received it last friday and other than the new furniture smell, I LOVE IT. Last bed we'll ever buy for us!

Halloween Gingerbread House

So I decided to do something wild, I figured out how to make gingerbread dough and brick frosting, and since it's no where near Christmas we decided to make a gingerbread castle. Making it was easy, getting the walls to stick together was the hard part -even with the brick frosting.

Rhett loved decorating it because for every piece he stuck on the castle he got a mouth full of candy! Those are ghost and pumpkin cookies next to it. Can you tell what Rhett decorated and what Saria and I decorated?

5 Years

5 years ago about this time we went to the Blue Man Group as part of our honeymoon, now to celebrate 5 years we are back in Vegas going to Phantom of the Opera

It's a fancy show and an important day, so we had to dress up in our most fancy clothes.

Saria loved it - first time for her - it's my favorite musical, so of course I liked it.

The musical was at the Venetian, so we walked around for awhile after, watched the gondolas, and window shopped the Italian Carnival masks and the Italian blown glass.

Hanging on the Strip

The best part of the Strip is by FAR, the Bellagio water fountains. The night we were there, they were performing maintenance tests in between the showings, and this is the ONLY maintenance that I have ever heard of that is FUN to watch! It was basically the water show WITHOUT the music, which Rhett didn't seem to mind at all!

Mt. Charleston Hike

I had no idea there was anything like this anywhere close to Vegas, let alone 30 min away.

It reminded me a lot of the Uinta mountain range in Utah - violette with bristle cone pines, cool weather, weeping rock water falls and mountain views.

Rhett loved the hike! And so did I! It really showed me that there are other things to do in Vegas like the things I liked to do in Utah.

At the Wide Spread Panic concert

Won tickets at work at went to the concert at the Hard Rock Hotel. saria loved dancing around.

Rhett's first time with a real unrelated  baby sitter - hope she's doing a good job sitting on our baby, and hope he's having fun too

And yes, saria looks drunk in that photo, but she's not

Out was our first date without Rhett in a very long time. We finally had to leave early because the smoke was a little overwhelming, but we had a BLAST!

At Winter Quarters

On the way to Michigan, stop at Winter Quarters.

Mom helped with the stained glass when they were being made in Utah, and she wanted to come and see the done and on the temple.

Since the last time we were here they have added a visitor center and a temple next to the pioneer cemetery