Las Vegas :)

Well better late than never, right? Early August of 2011 we had our first grown up trip together. We had started planning our trip earlier that year, after MUCH deliberation we decided Las Vegas would be a good trip for us. It took a little convincing for me, I am just not the Vegas type. Boy was I was wrong! I had a BLAST! TJ has wanted to go to Vegas for the longest time, and tells me on a weekly basis that he wants to go back.

We stayed at Planet Hollywood. I don't think we could have picked a better hotel for the two of us. TJ loved the casino that was a whopping 30 seconds from our room, while I enjoyed the TONS of shops that were about 60 seconds from our room. Win win for the both of us.

Most mornings I was up early and was out walking around the strip before the excruciating sun came out and fried us. TJ didn't come to life until closer to noon most days. So I was able to have some "me time" and enjoy the things TJ was less interested in. This went both ways though. I am one of those people who needs a FULL night of sleep or I will become cranky or sick. For this reason I was in the room relaxing around midnight almost every night. This gave TJ his "me time"! He kicks butt at Blackjack! So he would usually play once I was chilling out in the room like the grandma that I am. HA. I think that having our own time throughout the week was amazing for our vacation. :)

While we had our own time a couple hours out of the day, we had a BLAST together! I can't even begin to talk about everything we did. We were going FULL blast sun up to sun down, loving every second of our vacation together.

We did a lot of shopping on the strip, in the hotels but most of all at the outlet malls. AH, I could live in some of those malls. I am SO happy that I have a good shopping buddy, I'm pretty sure TJ likes shopping more than me most days. I picked me a good one. ;)

I'm not much of a gambler, but TJ is pretty good at it. I tend to stick close to the penny slots, I made the same $50 last me ALL week. That is the extent of my gambling HA. TJ is better that me at gambling for sure! He dominated blackjack, played a little poker, and occasionally joined me at the slot machines.

Last but certainly not least... THE FOOD! Oh my goodness, I have never been to so many delicious restaurants in such a close area. We went off of a lot of recommendations and chose a few random places. Hands down our favorite place to eat the entire week was Mesa Grill. It is Bobby Flay's restaurant in Cesar's Palace, TO DIE FOR! :)

I didn't have the awesome camera that I have now when we were in Vegas. So most of the pictures are taken on either our phones or a little digital camera. But at least we documented some fun memories!

Towards the end of the trip we ventured down the strip to the aquarium in Mandalay Bay Hotel. The little kid came out in TJ, it was too funny. We loved it!

Heaven forbid we take a serious picture HA. We were total tourists in The Bellagio! I found myself oohing & awwing over everything. :)

Home sweet home for the week.

Prime example of how big of a dork I was in The Bellagio. It was just SO beautiful!

This was us on top of the Eiffel Tower, I was petrified at first. But once I loosened up. We really enjoyed it and got some wonderful pictures of Las Vegas.

AH! Ok, so I get that these guys are totally nuts but I LOVED taking my picture with all of them. Not to mention they were so funny! Nothing like having Bumblebee hitting on your AND your boyfriend.

More of the fabulous Bellagio

Oh, we found this guy our last night in Vegas and he was a hoot. Very talented, by far the funniest guy we saw all week on the strip. :)

Isn't it pretty!

Gotta love those double decker buses! We were the only ones on it this particular day, it felt like we were on our own little tour of Las Vegas.

Me and our BFF.

This is the casino that was just around the corner from our room. It ended up being my favorite casino through out the entire week. :)

Oh Vegas, keeping it classy! Goodness..

AH so pretty at night! :)

Hehe, ya.. we sure did love them! Especially TJ.

No big surprise what I enjoyed on our vacation! I was obsessed with all of the huge frozen drinks in the crazy cups the first 2 days. I got burned out on them FAST though. Too much sugar, but they kept me cool in that desert heat!

Getting ready to go all the way up to the top.

My dream is to stay here the next time we go. We had the perfect view of the water show from our hotel room. I must have watched it 20 times over the course of the week!

To wrap it all up, we had such a blast on our first grown up vacation together. I can't wait until we have our next vacation. Also looking forward to go back to Vegas. Maybe for bachelor / bachelorette parties? ;) Wishful thinking!

Sweet P Turns 3

Our sweet Piper just turned 3 last week, December 8th. She has been such a sweet & CRAZY addition to me & TJ's life. I can't believe that we have a 3 year old. ;) I'm beyond thankful that she is slowly but surely emerging from the terrible 2s! The little stinker has been a daily challenge, but we did good! She's such a fun little weenie. :) It blows my mind how little she was when we got her. She may be the best Birthday/ Valentines Day gift I have ever received. We are blessed puppy parents for sure!

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D5100 - LOVE

So my wonderful (and I mean WONDERFUL) boyfriend got me the greatest early Christmas gift. That gift issss.. Nikon D5100, and I am in love. I'm still getting the hang of it all, with the help of Cyndi there may be hope for me. Ha. I have wanted a nice camera for quite some time and was SO grateful when I found out TJ got it for me. I haven't done a whole lot or really gone anywhere out of the norm since I got the camera, so I have been practicing on anyone and anything that will let me take a picture. As you can see from the pictures bellow Ha. :) Slowly but surely I WILL become a good photographer with my camera, just may take some time warming up to it.

I am a Pinterest addict, and I saw the most adorable Christmas picture of a puppy with colorful lights! I was determined to get a good picture like it. Lily was SO calm and loved how warm the lights were. All she wanted to do was warm her nose up next to the bulbs. :)

This Hellion on the other hand was NOT cooperative! In this picture she is actually attempting to eat the lights. Don't get me wrong, Piper is a good dog for the most part.. but MAN does she have a lot of energy! Maybe I can sedate her and get a good passed out picture for Christmas HA.

This is Will, and I love him to pieces. Two days a week I babysit Will and his sister Whitley. They brighten up my week every morning I get to spend with them. This picture just so happened to be taken on his 1st birthday! I can't believe how time flys.

Miss Whitley was cracking me up this particular morning. Will woke her up early and she was a little out of whack all morning. Ha. Look at those eyes! She is so pretty, her daddy and brother are going to be scaring off a bunch of boys. :)

Love my sweet Lily! She has been a trooper with me taking 12398471 pictures this week. Ha!

Oh Lord its hard to be humble..

So today was a little bitter sweet for Northwest Arkansas Hog fans. It was our last Fayetteville home game BUT it was an amazing win for the Razorbacks! I always love when we play the two orange "T" teams (Texas & Tennessee). They always are fun games. The wind tonight was absolutely intolerable! I was so grateful to be able to sit inside with Bailey. TJ spent the game with the boys, out in the cold. I know they had fun, I am just glad they had their fun with out me. :)

So I found this new store, Versona, and it is my heaven! I bought this super cute, unique ring there to wear to the game today. LOVE that store :)

The fine gentleman that TJ spent the evening with. Don't they look SO excited. ha

My sister, AKA sugar addict! This girl could eat her weight in sugar if she was allowed. ha.

We were so glad to get to see Uncle Tim and our cousin Savannah. So good to get to see them at the games. I'm so jealous they went paint balling this morning in Charleston!

I live for moments like these. There are few things in the world that make me as happy as seeing that Arkansas A! :)

Bailey and I snuck around the stadium once all of those stinky Vols fans headed out. :)

LOVED getting to play with my new camera at the game.

LOVE my sister, it is crazy to think that this time next year she will be a student at the UofA. :( My baby is growing up *snif snif*.

To end the evening we sat in the box with my Daddy!

I'm SO sad that my favorite time of the year is wrapping up.. but there are still a few more AMAZING games left in our season. Hopefully a great bowl game to follow ;). Now it is time to get in the swing of the seasons. I can't believe Thanksgiving is just in a couple weeks, and Christmas is right around the corner. LOVE this time of the year! :)

Crystal Bridges

Tonight we were lucky enough to be able to go to the Crystal Bridges American Art Museum. It reminded me SO much of being one the museums in NYC. I LOVED IT! As we wales throughout it I kept thinking, "we can not be cool enough to have such an awesome place like this". Ha. It's so true, it seems too modern & sophisticated for little ole Bentonville, AR. I'm very grateful to have these amazing works of art SO close to home.

As we exited from the museum we saw this unique tree, it was SO beautiful with the moon in the background.

Isn't this just gorgeous!

My artistic little sister taking a closer look, what you don't see is her getting her butt chewed for coming within 3 feet of the piece of art. HA

BAM! POW! WAM!

Pinocchio :) isn't he cute!

I can NOT get over how amazingly beautiful this building was!

I feel like I was in love with the architecture even more than the art work.

Woot woot! LOVE our Cardinals!

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My sweet Mommy & Daddy.

So sweet.

We had a blast tonight, especially at dinner afterwards. We went to Tusk & Trotter, American brasserie right off of the square in Bentonville. It is one of my favorites! Me and Bailey shared her seafood risotto and my fried chicken and carrot cake waffles. I'm not sure that it gets any better than that! I am still STUFFED! So to cure my food coma, I am off to bed. Good night! :)

Aiyana Jade

Aiyana is here finally :) AJ came into the world October 23rd at 10:45am. She is 6 pounds 5 ounces and 20.5 inches long. Her and her momma are both great! Andrea had what I would call a PERFECT delivery. Lucky girl! Uncle TJ & me scurried down there as soon as we heard she was here. Made it to Ft Smith in record time. :) we are all memorized by her! Ready to snuggle her, for more than 5 minutes. Ha. We are so blessed!

We were both just floored by how sweet she was!

Ok seriously, who wouldn't fall in love with thi? She's SO sweet.

Baby feet are so sweet! Just want to eat them up :)

Uncle TJ is so proud. I think he may be her favorite. She was so peaceful with him!

Andrea is so protective & loves Aiyana to pieces!

This little girl has totally captured my heart! She's in for a lifetime of spoiling and loving! I can't get over this sweet face!