The Joys of Work

Now many of you know that by reading my headline you think Im being sarcastic but Im really not. I really do enjoy my work I started working at Millennial Falls Reception Center in June of last year as their wedding hostess. I love love love what I do and really enjoy working with brides and making their day special. As a wedding hostess I make sure the day goes perfect for the Bride. I run the wedding for her and make sure nothing goes wrong and if something does go wrong I make sure the Bride has NO idea. Millennial Falls is a beautiful reception center in Draper just down from the Draper Temple. It is very Modern Style inside and has beautiful gardens and a huge waterfall out back. It is a great job for me right now with Riley in school and working because during the off months I only work one wedding a month until April. Then April through August EVERY Friday and Saturday is booked already.. its CRAZY!! I am super excited about this summer and getting to work, although I am very nervous about babysitters because Riley is doing school through the summer but we will see how it will work. I do have a girl in the ward lined up for babysitting but you never know what happens. So if any of you are willing to babysit let me know I would love to have a back up list in case of emergency.

Here is a beautiful picture of Millennial Falls

Anyways over the weekend I was able to work the South Towne Expo Center Bridal Showcase. It was super fun and very busy. I have never worked a Bridal Show so it was exciting to see all the new brides and see all the vendors we work with regularly. We had a beautiful set up and realized we did an awesome job choosing our colors because Grey and Yellow are the colors of the year again!! Let me tell you what though working 2 days in a row without sitting down really takes a toll on your back.. HOLY OUCH!! But it was such an experience I am super excited to be able to work them again. Millennial Falls only does Salt Palace and South Towne but I think within the next year they will go down to just South Towne because they didn't receive very much business from Salt Palace. But we will see..

Here is a picture of our booth at South Towne

Be sure to check them out on Facbook and if any of you are getting married come check us out!

New House

I know this is a long awaited post for those who have never been to our house,

 but this post is mostly for my Grandma because she asked for

 pictures of our new house so here they are.. 

Now first thing to remember I didn't clean my house to take these pictures so dont judge the mess.

Second I am also going to tell you what we have changed or what we are going to do to improve the house.

We first decided a condo because we didn't really want to spend a whole lot because we are only staying here for 5 years max (until Rileys finishes school) and while riley was working full time and going to school full time I didn't want to have to take care of mowing or racking leaves or watering or any of that and that was our biggest factor for buying a condo. We love our Condo everything about it even the 4 flights of stairs we climb a billion times a day (because we live on the top floor) we love the neighborhood, we love the ward, and we love all the people we have met out here and cant wait to make them great friends. We also have found an awesome preschool for anna just in one of the other condos and she loves it. Also We just love being out in the Ranches of Eagle Mountain.. All young families and we love that everyone has a child annas age or bradleys age!!

Ok so enough of the back story here are the pictures..

so first is the blue print to help you guide your way through the pictures

Now our living room it is GINORMOUS (as anna would say)

We are planning to buy couch height cabinets and then put them along the back wall where the mirror is and scoot the couches forward. that way it will give us extra storage. Also we love our vaulted ceilings and cut outs.. We also plan to build boxes up on the one cut out without decor so we can store things there as well.

this is what you see when you first walk in

Dining room

We love the open concept

Kitchen it has a huge pantry, and a bar area and the pan rack. 

Master bedroom

it is a huge master bedroom and we love everything about it, it has a master bath and a walk in closet. Also in my bathroom there is a jetted tub and then im going to have riley build  a closet organizer in the closet

Laundry room

yes i have a laundry room and love it. we want to find a way to add more storage but we don't know yet

Annas room 

once again sorry for the barbie mess.. her room is fairly small but thats ok it works for her. it has a soft pink color and bead board up the sides on two walls it also came with a super cute quote. I don't plan on changing much in her room but this summer we are planning on buy her a new bed and we want the kind that she climbs up a ladder and there is play room under it.. so hopefully that will open up the floor more also I am having riley build a shelf up near the top of her room to store momentum's. 

Brads room

now his room was purple so we definitely changed the color and I really wanted to stick with the grey blue and orange so this is how we painted his walls and Im having riley do a shelf in his room as well and it will be orange.. and his room is perfect size for him right now. we will see how well it does when he gets in a big boy bed.

Kids Bathroom/guest

We have 2 bathrooms, yes thats right 2. their bathroom is just a simple bathroom and I might add shelfing to help with the storage issue again but we will see

Well thanks for taking a tour with us and hopefully as projects get completed i will post pictures to keep you updated!! 

Achieving a dream

Ever since Anna was born she has had a very best friend. Miss Kate is Anna's best friend and will be for life. Lisa, Kate's mom was my Girl Scout leader growing up and Her little sister and niece were my best friends growing up. Then later in life Lisa was my babies (both brad and Anna) NICU nurse and that is what she does for a living. But anyways her beautiful daughter Kate is an ice skater up in park city and she loves every minute of ice skating and has been doing it since she was 3 years old. She is also very amazing at it so if you want to help some achieve there dream help donate and get this girl through her lessons and private skate time and everything else it takes to make her the best. And if you on a business she would definitely be someone you would want to sponsor!!

Here is the link to find out more!!

Donate for kate

Thanks for checking her out!!

Anna is 4..

I can't believe my baby girl is 4.. she is so big now its CRAZY!!

For her birthday this year she really wanted a Butterfly party (she loves butterflies). So we did as much butterfly decor as we could handle. We had her party the Sunday before her birthday so September 8 and it was so fun to have family and friends over again. Grandma Susan did her beautiful cake and cupcakes and had very beautiful butterflies all over it!! she got tons of presents of course. 

So here are some pictures from her party this year

Now on her actual Birthday September 10 we just had a special day with her

We went to lunch at Olive Garden (her favorite) and then Anna and I

just went and got pedicures and she got a manicure and she 

loved it very much it will be a yearly special for us!

We are so excited how she is growing up. Riley and I have also decided that next year

Anna will start getting friend parties and then we will only be doing 1 party for family

and combining it for her and Brad since there birthday are so close.

For Annas next birthday she really wants a Rainbow birthday so

 we will see how that turns out (pinterest here i come)

Bradley turns 1.. !!

I know this post is really late but its better late then never right?? 

Bradley turned 1

 August 25, 2013

 and we were very

 lucky because this

 year his birthday fell 

on a Sunday so it made

 if perfect because that

 was when his party was.

    We invited lots of friends

 and family out to our 

NEW HOUSE (yay we

 were so excited to be 

able to show off our

 new house). We did a

 Monster themed party

 and it was perfect for

 him. Bradley loved all of

 the attention he got at his

 party and also didnt really

 know what was going on

 at the same time! I cant 

believe how big he is getting

 its just amazing how much

 they grow in that first year. At his 1 year appointment he was 

28 inches long and 18 lbs 6 oz.. really skinny but long, Riley and

 I are both afraid he is going to be our smallest kid because he has

 always been behind Anna (besides birth weight) but we will see!! 

(I tried to make the words look like a 1)

Well here are some pictures from that wonderful day!!

the party favors were monster playdough and a silly straw

we had a feed the monster sign and everyone
could feed him snacks through out the night

we had monster drawings tapped to the walls
so all the kids could color them
drawings by riley and I

his first birthday cake
done by grandma susan up at
Midway Country Corner

silly monsters at the end of the night

It was such a great party and we cant wait for his 2nd birthday Riley and I decided we are going to do an airplane party because Riley really wants to take him up to Hill Airforce to the Museum. I cant wait