New House

So here it is!! These are the pics I took on my phone the day we moved in so sorry for the mess and lack of decorations! I will hopefully take some more soon when everything gets settled and put away.

This is Charlotte. She lives right outside my door. I hate her.... but she might be endangered or something so we have to leave her there for now.

This is a pic of the breakfast nook and the kitchen before we installed the microwave.

This is the game room upstairs. It is now filled with miscellaneous boxes and the computer desk.

The blue bedroom. It has a sky and clouds painted on the ceiling. I actually really like it so it will be staying for a while. It is going to be the guest room for now.

The bright pink room. Yes it needs to be painted. It is really bright and is currently empty so that we can paint as soon as we get a chance!

One view of our master bedroom. The windows look out over the garage. Sorry it doesn't show much but we hadn't even put our bed together yet when I took the pics.

The backyard! I love the string lights that they left!

One of my favorite parts!! The new fridge!!! Now we don't have to keep buying water to drink because it has filtered water and ice.

My second favorite part- the new washer and dryer! Aren't they pretty?!

Another view of the kitchen from the day we moved in.

Here is our formal dinning room and the sitting room filled of boxes. It is actually almost empty now since Nick did a lot of putting away when I was sick this last week.

The half bath downstairs.

The living room before the tv, the keyboard and the coffee table made their appearances.

So there are a few pics of the new house! Look for more when we get everything put away, stuff on the walls and maybe a little more furniture!

Mom and Jenn's Texas Vacation Part 3

Oh Chick-fil-a.... Mom and Jenn miss it since they took them all out of Oregon and Washington. So we went there a bunch of times! Here is a pic of the one in Austin that we ate at after we visited Archiver's.

Nick made us some Raviolli. We had to demonstrate for Mom how well the pasta maker attachment to our kitchenaid worked since she got it for us for Christmas a couple years ago.

Nick had to go back to work so the girls went to San Marcos for some shopping!!

It was hot hot hot outside so we stopped for some flavored lemonaid!

Pottery Barn Outlet is my favorite!! Too bad that chair was still $250

Mom really wanted to go to Archiver's so we drove to Austin for her and hung out at the store for a while.

Did I mention we went to Sea World a ton of times!! Here is a pic from the Shamu Rocks Texas Night Show.

Me and Jenn hanging out1

Steel Eel ride at Sea World. Jenn and Nick ran across the park to get on before they closed the ride. Here they are after reinacting their ride.

Since Nick was working we decided to go visit him for lunch and get a tour of the USAA campus. No pics allowed inside the building so here is the entrance!

Also, on the last day they had here we decided it was time to stuff my elephant. My dad sent me an elephant when I was in rexburg but it wasn't stuffed to save on packing space and there wasn't a Build a Bear there so we finally found one here in San Antonio and took it in! It really was just another excuse to go shopping but here I am with Charlie the elephant.

Mom and Jenn's Texas Vacation Part 2

More pics from the vacation! Here we are at the Alamo. There were a million people there that day so we just took some pics outside, visited the gift shop and skipped the line to get inside.

So we have been waiting for Mom and Jenn to get here to see Harry Potter! Here we are in the theater. If you can tell from the picture I was feeling excellent this day! Actually, I had a fever of about 100.8 but I couldn't miss out on Harry Potter!

Mom and Jenn are so excited to see the movie even though they cheated and went before they got here.

Mom and Jenn couldn't visit us without going to Rudy's. And of course Hermes had to join us. The food was delicious as usual!

They came to visit us at the perfect time. When they arrived we had just moved into our house and had not yet cleaned out our apartment. Here is a pic of Jenn learning to use Nick's blow gun while taking a break from the last minute cleaning of the old apartment. They had tons of fun aiming for letters on the moving boxes.

Waiting for a show to start at Sea World. Yes we went back again and again and again. We had to get good use out of the season passes they got!

And since we went back we had to feed the dolphins again. Feeding them is a total rip off but it is pretty much the only way to get up close so we spent a small fortune on fish to get some cute pics. Jenn says it was totally worth it!

Look how many penguins Jenn found in the gift shop! We hung out in the Penguin building for a while to cool down and Jenn of course had to take some pics to remember her trip!

More vacation pics to come!

Mom and Jenn's Texas Vacation

Yay! Jenn and Mom are here!! Here are some pics from the beginning of their trip.

We had pizza the first night they were here and I got to meet Hermes. He is Jenn's adventure frog that goes on all her fancy vacations and tries to appear in all of her pictures. He has been to New York, Dubai, Macau, and Vietnam this summer to name a few places. Here he is with our pizza fixins.

Of course the very first day we had to go to Sea World for Jenn to pet the dolphins! Long story short Jenn has been to Sea World a few times and has never been able to touch them. Look how excited she is!

Here are some pics of us interacting with the Beluga Whales. Aren't they adorable! Thanks Valerie!

Nick and I waiting for The Cannery Row Caper Show. Our first day at Sea World was tons of fun. We were able to see all of the main day time shows and made plans to go back the next day for the water park fun!

The Greatest Show on Earth

The circus came to town! Nick and I had never been to a circus before so we decided to get some of our friends together and see what it was all about!

Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey present "The Greatest Show on Earth"

So, our seats were a little high up (notice the back wall) but they were pretty inexpensive! (Plus I now have 20/10 vision with my new glasses so I could see great!) Here are some pics of our group while we were waiting for the start of the show-

Elephants! They had a lot more of them than I expected. And although they are not African Elephants (my favorite!) they were still cool to see. They always walked in a row holding onto the tail in front of them which I thought looked cute. One even did a nice break dance move and stood mostly on it's head! The pic we got of that is pretty blurry- sad I know.

That's all the pics I have right now but stay tuned for more once we get together and swap photos with the other couples! Check out the really cool video Nick got of the motorcycle guys. The cage fit one motorcycle on the floor of it at a time but they managed to get 7 in there to drive around. It looked really dangerous to me, but since no one died, it was fun to watch!