Until the Weather Warms Up

So I'm discovering that I'm not so good as a homebody these days. During the week I love to be lazy once I come home from work (I'm pretty much a zombie from 4:30 PM until bed time every day aside from home planning), but Saturdays I always want to do something outside the house. This isn't always the same mind set as Larry so I've been doing what I can with others while I'm waiting for the weather to warm up a bit and then I can drag him around haha. None of which are new or too exciting to warrant their own blog post, but here's what I've done so far:

A few weekends ago I was able to talk my brother into going to the Zoo. I figured him and I always have a lot of fun together, I needed someone who would be okay taking their time at the Zoo (Larry and I rush through it so quickly that it makes it noth worth the money), and I wanted to ask him about birthday plans (I've come to love our tradition of taking him out to get him out of the house and catch up for his birthday). It ended up taking us quite a few hours to walk through it and we saw lots of fun things: the polar bears random circle pattern he always has to do ( I'm convinced he's OCD because he always has a pattern when I see him), the wolves chasing each other around and acting like dogs (can you say awww!), the lions chasing the birds and acting like cats, seeing turtles eat with their babies (I love turtles and baby animals so I was in heaven!), and even watching the elephants bang their heads against a door to tell the feeders they wanted a treat. After the Zoo I met up with Cindy and two of her girls so we could walk around The Container Store (which is SO going to be my favorite store once we are in the house), then we walked around Scheels (Wow! That store is HUGE on the inside), and then we went to eat at Blue Lemon (yum!) while we caught up. We both live farther away from each other so we hardly see each other in person. It was a nice get together with family members.

Aww...I love the bears!

A couple weekends ago Larry and I decided to hit Wendover since we had a free weekend. I love going out there once in a while, even though we hardly ever really win anything. The buffet is always my favorite part, but I also love when their TVs show different parts of the world. It makes me get vacation envy, but also ideas of which places to add to my ever growing list of places in the world I need to see. As for the gambling, Larry was doing REALLY good in the beginning, he was really on fire. I started losing really quickly. We went to eat and then afterwards both of us started doing even worse than before. I ended up being down like $50 and Larry lost it all. But we still consider it a fun time out there. Next time we'll just drive out ourselves and then once we start losing we'll hit the buffet and come home...although we say that every time and we always end up taking the Fun Bus because it's...well fun! Haha.

This weekend I met up with Stacey to go baby shopping. She's having her third but has decided she wants to keep the sex a secret (she already has two boys) so she wanted to get some newborn sized girl clothes in case baby M is a girl...just something to hold them over until they can get more. I can't believe how cute newborn clothes (especially swim suits) are! I don't think I've ever bought newborn clothes and I haven't had to buy baby stuff in a while so I had a lot of fun looking around with her. Baby shopping is just the best and Stace always has the cutest baby belly. She'll be leaving me in July (she's headed to Texas for her husband's work) so I'm trying to soak up as much time with her (and her little one as soon as M is here) as I can get!

So like I said, nothing TOO special, but still fun times. Looking forward to the summer so I can drag Larry on lots of hikes and maybe a couple camping trips :)

The Eagles

I find news sites to be pretty depressing, so imagine my surprise when a co-worker shared a great story she found about some bald eagles that were parenting at The White House. Even better, some bald eagle enthusiasts had put a camera by their nest to watch them while they raised their little babies...I'm in love!

My favorite point in the day is feeding time. It may sound morbid, especially from me, but it's so cute to see them so caring when it comes to their babies

 I know the image quality is pretty bad, it's a cell phone pic of a computer screen, but it still gives you a good idea of what's going on.

Watching these birds in as natural a habitat as you can get is really eye opening. Watching them take care of their babies, feeding them, protecting them, keeping them warm...but also making sure each other is taken care of. It's so fun to catch new things throughout the day.

The site to watch these amazing birds is http://dceaglecam.eagles.org/ I promise it's so worth it if you find animals even a little bit interesting.

New Home...Eventually

So we got our awesome news that they should be breaking ground next week on our home. I can't wait to get the call to have our pre-construction meeting! We'll finally get to put our down payment down and be done with any and all deposits/down payments and finally can focus on the home.

I spent the day with Andy at the zoo today and Cindy walking around the mall and Scheels with a couple of her girls so by the time I got home Larry decided it'd be fun if we spent the night walking to our lot. We knew it was close, but I wasn't sure it was "walking" distance close. But I was almost to my step goal by this point so I figure why not.

Turns out our house is VERY close. Total time walking there and back was about an hour and twenty minutes, and that's including walking our lot for a bit and snooping around the other Silverton that is being built right now (we just looked in the windows...no one freak out about any crazy criminals walking through your home).

I love how close it is, I love our lot location, I love that they have a ton being built right now so I can see what it looks like as it goes....I just can't wait for a dang hole to be in the ground already :)

That's all the house update I have for now...we're just trying to be as patient as possible.

In the Life of a Cat Owner

If all these weren't our cats to a T I don't know what is. I got a laugh out of them so I'm sharing here in case anyone out there wants to know what it's like to own a cat (or three):

This will be our fridge when we finally move

Oscar
Every. Single. Time!

A Little Lesson in Love and Murder

Whoever said you can't have fun seeing a play is mistaken! Larry and I took a risk and went to see " A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" at Kingsbury Hall last night and I have to say it's made me want to see many more plays!

If you recall, we went to see a fun Christmas one a couple years back and we really liked it, but it was different than I expected a play to be. The Thanksgiving before that play I had been watching the parade on TV when they played a snippet of a play that seemed really interesting. I didn't remember the name of it, but when I saw the below picture this year I knew that was it!

I looked it up and text Larry to see if he'd be interested in going. He said since it was a "comedy musical" he'd be open to it. We made it fun by deciding to take Trax up to the event center...there are some weird people who ride Trax! I love how convenient that is though, it makes for good people watching too.

We were looking pretty good

As for the play, it started out a little slow. It worried me when we were there and people were laughing at the beginning. I was wondering if there was some sort of inside joke or if people had seen a movie/read a book version of it so they knew what to expect. I worried Larry would hate it already. Once they started killing people it became a lot more entertaining and funny, surprisingly. By the intermission Larry was telling me how he found it pretty interesting. He had the same thoughts I had, it was a slow start and we were both worried it would be more stupid than funny. By the end though we spent the rest of the night talking about which parts we liked and why. I was so glad he liked it, I know I REALLY liked it. Enough that I hope they come out with a movie version or a book version because I'd buy it in a second!



View from our seats...wasn't too bad

After that experience I definitely want to find more that we can do to make for fun date day/night ideas. I hope they have Wicked or Beauty and the Beast come this year, I've been wanting to see either of those for a while or. I do see Book of Mormon and Cinderella are coming so maybe I can go see one of those.