For Reals?

Ok update, we went to Denver for my Birthday, Thank you wonderful Husband. This is what happened.

Saw the fam for my Birthday, YEA!

Played Battle of the Sexes, girls won but totally shouldn't have.

Took fuzzy Pictures.

AWWWWWW...... everyone told me what a good dad my husband will be.

Bridget got eaten by Jaws.

Then got spit out in a bubble.

Lucas wanted to eat.

Scarlet just helped herself to a snack.

Bridget climbed on things (She also fell a lot)

Then we went to the zoo and saw the animal. I was so glad I got to see the bears, Black, Grizzly and event he Polar bears were swimming (My Favorite). Both Lucas and Bridget ran and fell a lot but they were not to big of criers. They begged Uncle Cory to take them on the train but then decided to go on the carousel instead.

We saw a statue of Klondike and Snow, I remember when they were born HUGE deal. Funny thing is when I was in Orlando last October they announced that their Polar Bears were Klondike and Snow from the Denver Zoo. Can't freaking escape the small world stuff... oh well. The statue was hot but the kids kept trying to climb on then got burned.

That concludes my trip to Denver, I got to see my family a lot we had a picnic the night before we left but I left my camera in the car so i didn't get any Pictures, Val of course did so check out her blog if you want to see.

HEAT!

So we have been here for a while now but we just got into our new home! We will have pictures of the house set up soon, we just have a few finishing touches. But in the mean time here are some random Phoenix pictures. They aren't the best quality but at least I posted! The heat has been actually wonderful. it was over 100 for a full week but Cory and I couldn't tell, it felt like a good 90 degree day. We love it here and can't wait for our visitors to start coming.

Lots of things, lots of pictures, long blog.

I am finally getting around to posting what we did with Cory's parents when they were in town. They came down to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary, Congratulations to them. Shanna Cory's younger sister came down with them kind of last minute but we got to hang out with them a little bit, here is what we did. They are really out of order, I am still not that good at that aspect of the blog. Oh I bought a new camera, it was a killer deal and I am pretty sure mine was lost in the move :(

On Friday we got to go to the Easter Pageant at the Mesa Temple, it was really good, except the dancing, I just don't understand why there was dancing, but it was good. Here is Cory pondering before the Pageant started.

Here is a picture of the actual Temple. It is the same design as Hawaii, beautiful just like most other's.

It was SO windy that day, we were FREEZING, but we didn't have any sweatshirts I was lucky i wore pants or I would have been flipping out. I underestimated Arizona on a windy day in March.

This is the stage that the Pageant was performed on. There were 2500 people there, it has that many people for 9 days!

We grabbed Pizza on the way down since we had to be there 2 hours early to get seats.

On Wednesday we went to Dave and Busters and played games. It was SO much fun, Thanks again Brian and Bonnie!

Here is Cory Racing his Dad on jet skis.

Here is Cory and his Dad playing Madden. Surprise, surprise, Cory wanted to play a game he always beats everyone at.

Here is another jet ski race.

Shanna and Brian racing the jet ski's, Shanna cracks me up, she was mad I kept taking pictures.

Cory on the skateboarding game. he of course did well.

Tuesday Brian and Bonnie got us all tickets to the D-Backs game, we sat in the all you can eat section, it was such a good time except we lost to the Rockies. Thanks again Brian and Bonnie.

This is Cory and I, I think it is the only Picture I am in the whole week.

Here are the players, doing their thing.

This is the three visitors having a great time. It was snowing in SLC when they left so the 75 degree game was perfect, they had the AC on in the seats.

Here is a picture of the fields sign.

Another picture of the fam.

It was such a fun week Cory and I had a great time, we were exhausted at work everyday but it was worth it. We cannot wait to get into our house and having lots more visits from Family. My family was supposed to come down for the Pageant but didn't make it, maybe next year. We hope we get to see some more family this year.

The Big REVEAL!!!

So Cory's Parents were in town this week and we did some really fun stuff but before I post about that I wanted to show some people this. I have been debating for a while on if I should cut my hair. After finding a hairball in my jeans one day I had enough of my hair being so long and getting EVERYWHERE. So..... Here is what I had when I left this morning.


And this is what I came home with...

It went a little shorter than I expected but it could also just be the shock of it, I haven't cut more than an inch off my hair in about 3 years and it was shorter than this then. AAAHHHHH... it is so weird to not have it resting on my back and how short my ponytail it. CRAZY.... Oh and as for why I am wearing long sleeves, it rained today, A LOT!!!

Specs...

Ok so since you all have seen Cory's LOVELY home tour here are the details.
The house has:
2,120 sq feet
4 Bedrooms (Cory totally skipped one and it had teddy bears on the wall!)
1 Office/Den
3 Full baths

So there is lots of room to come stay with us, the 4th bedroom and 3rd bathroom are right at the front of the house so it is private for the mom's and dad's and the kids can stay in the office that is next to that or in the bedrooms back by us. We are really excited and can't wait to move in. We are hoping to close and move in by the end of April, right before it gets really hot. We are in a community that has HOA's that include a really nice community pool, a gym and even tennis courts. They offer lessons and training in multiple sports and personal training. We cannot wait and I hope to see all you peeps coming down here to see us. next time we go up I will try and take some better pictures.

Pics and Video Tour of the New House

Here's the new place hopefully only another month in our apartment before we move up to Anthem.

Oh what happens in a year...

Dreams come true. A year ago this week Cory and I were visiting Phoenix, looking at neighborhoods and wishing we could move here. When we landed literally I turned on my phone and it rang. I answered and it was American Express offering me a job in SLC. Great way to start off the week. We then got to the car rental desk and they gave us an UPGRADE to a Cadillac CTS, SWEET. It was a wonderful 85 the entire time and then we went home, went back to reality. I got to leave my old job, telling one of your best friends, who is your boss, that you are quitting was hard, but fun at the same time. I started with American Express within a few weeks. During the same few weeks we were lucky enough to sell our house. We decided to be apartment people for a while and live closer to work. We got to our 5th year anniversary in Orlando. We didn't do much more and then in December Cory was goofing around looking at jobs in Phoenix, the snow gave us the itch every time. He found a posting at American Express in Phoenix and I told him what could it hurt... Well 3 interviews and a delayed flight back from a 4th (snow again) later he had an offer, more than we needed to justify the move, it was bliss. Cory was starting the beginning of February and I still had to find a position to transfer into to. Thinking we would be apart for a few months we had a plan, a sad sad plan, we had never even been apart for more than 3 days in the over 5 years we were married. Well just my luck I applied for a job and got it, starting the same day as Cory, which happened to be in a week and a half, well we changed our plans and thankfully Cory's parents helped us out so we didn't have to get a Uhaul and 2 cars down here. Well here we are a year after the dream started and it is a reality. Things are good. Now we just need a house, offer is in will hear back by the 30th. Hopefully we will be posting pictures soon. Livin the Dream and never giving up.