viva las vegas..and its weather.

i'm tellin ya, the sun makes all the difference.
we were so lucky to go at the last minute down to vegas with kristin and taylor for the weekend. the hotel was awesome!
kristin and her marriott deals made us feel like celebs with how nice it was.
and i think we all managed to gain a good 10 pounds with how much we ate.
(but i think we lost all the weight on the way home from how much gas we all had afterwords)
we even managed to get in some heavy-duty horse shoe playin.
we were using any excuse to be out in the sun.

*best part of the trip- when taylor told us all that we had to sleep in till 9 so he could get some good sleep, then him waking us all up at 6:00 am because he was too excited to gamble.

*second best part of the trip-watching taylor lose his 60 bucks while gambling.

*third best part-we actually spent our time doing cool things other than walking the strip. (but yes, we did of course spend some time walking the strip:))
the strip isn't the coolest when your lds.

goodbye crap weather.

me and brad are heading out of this nast weather to get some sun lovin.

goodbye fetching utah....hello vegas weekend!

busy, busy, busy.

i'm someone that if i have any ounce of responsibility i feel busy/stressed.
also known as...lazy.
i'm the young woman's camp director (promise i'm not saying this to be a mormon talking about her calling on her blog-even thought that's exactly what i'm doing) and this heck of a calling is keeping me busy, but i have to admit-i'm uber excited to hang out with all 3 of the girls that are going. city wards..... nothing beats em.

but in the mean time, we had an awesome bbq (before this winter struck) with the elda's, a good, wholesome lunch at zupes with my fam, and a perfect one tree hill session with stace.

so despite how "busy" i've been, i always find time to play, which of course makes life enjoyable:).

p.s. i walked into work yesterday and i actually did my hair and dressed myself (which is rare because i always wear scrubs) and one of the girls i work with saw me, laughed and said, "melissa your so funny, you always look like you just roll out of bed and come to work".
i laughed right along with her and agreed, but in my mind i was thinking of myself slapping her face so hard her head was facing backwards. girls are a funny breed aren't we?

weekend wedding

this weekend we went to a friends reception from high school, kurt frandsen. the reception was beautiful! and the best part was the golf carts we were able to just drive around and look at the gardens. brilliant idea if you ask me!

and the chatting with old high school friends at iceburg was the cherry on top of the night.(golf cart action)

another rainy day.

does anyone else feel exhausted from this week?
all i want to do tonight is cozy up to a good movie and eat some good food...... some unlimited good food.

i hope everyone has a good, rainy weekend!
ok so a little bit of me is hoping it rains the whole weekend so i have an excuse to not get dressed, put on makeup, or feel like i have to be productive.
just watch some good, wholesome, cheesy love movies.
and eat.
and sleep.

some pictures we couldn't get enough of from sunday.

i know.......... i feel like i overload with pictures, but for me, looking at pictures is way better than reading. which is why i still read books with giant pictures on each page.
i feel like today is friday. i hate days like that, because then tomorrow it feels like i'm working on a saturday. oh well, i'm just glad it's towards the end of the week:)

for a good laugh go here. brad's older brother sent it to us, and we have literally watched it every day since we got it.
i think brad secretly wants to be this guy.

what a weidner sunday walk looks like.

i'm sure some people thought it was a parade.
but we all just wanted to go out and walk in the good weather.
we can't help but take up the road,
our family is just so dang big.