Vegas Baby!

Our trip to Vegas was so much fun, it was so nice to actually go on a vacation without the kids (thanks Mom and Dad!). We went with my sister and drove down, we got there around 2:30 pm, went down to the buffet and ate, then started shopping!!! we stayed at T.I., which is right across the street from Fashion Show mall, which for me was perfect! We shopped for 4 hrs there! Kurt was quite pooped by the end of it, but he did great, and didn't complain once. After shopping we met up with some of my sister's friends and went to dinner at Maggiano's, its an amazing italian place, the food was amazing!The next morning Kurt and I walked down to the Paris hotel and ate breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi, this little french restaurant right across the street from the fountains at Bellagio. It was a little too cold and windy to sit outside, but we got the next best thing, they sat us right next to the window. We had an amazing view of the strip, and to top it off, our crapes were delicious! Then we met up with my sister at the Miracle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood and shopped for several more hours. I was most excited to shop at H & M since we don't have one in Utah, unfortunatly the store was packed, but I did manage to find some cute shirts and jeans, for way cheap. That evening we ate at an amazing Mexican restaurant at T.I. called Isla. It was so much good food, we totally could have gotten away with just appetizers, because by the time, out entrees arrived we were stuffed! Then we headed off to go see Daniel Tosh. He is one of my new favorite comedians. He was great, and even his opening act, a guy named Jasper Redd was hilarious. It was such a fun night, I really didn't want it to end.Sunday morning we decided to skip breakfast and just have an early lunch. So, we drove down to Mandalay Bay and ate at the Burger bar. This place was SO, SO good! They had the most amazing burgers and fries and I ordered a twinkie shake, it was so yummy, its sounds like such a weird combination, but it was so delicious! Then we headed over to the Premium Outlets. I found such amazing deals at the Kenneth Cole outlet, I so wish we had one here in Park City. I would be there every week! By the end of shopping here we were all pretty shopped-out! We went back to the hotel and took naps. For dinner that night we drove down to MGM and ate at the Grand Wok, Dani and Kurt wanted sushi and they also had great Chinese food for me, then we walked down to the fountains at Bellagio. We were all completely exhausted by the end of this trip, but we had a ton of fun!

Happy Birthday Kar-kar!!!

I can't believe my baby is 3, he's getting to be so big, it makes me a little sad. Karter has been so exited about this birthday, for the past several weeks, everytime he sees a toy on TV he says "I want that for my birthday!" But when it came to planning this event he knew exactly what he wanted. He wanted to go bowling have chicken nuggets and a batman party.

That morning Kurt took the boys out for dough nuts, so we put candle in them and sang him happy birthday.
That afternoon, we went bowling. It made my laugh that this little 3 year old wanted to go bowling, but it was his day after all! His attention lasted about halfway through the first game, then he just wanted to go to the arcade.

Then for his party we got a chicken nugget platter from chick-fil-a.
He got lots of presents, I think his favorite was an Imaginext space shuttle that aunt Dani gave him. That night he tried to go the sleep with it.
And here is his favorite thing of all, his cake. He kept telling me that he wanted a batman cake, so we started looking online until we found one he liked. Then we went to Dippidee by my work and had them make it. Besides being so cute, it was So yummy!

Our January and Febuary

So this new year I had two new years resolutions, sticking with a budget and getting Karter off his binkie. So far we have done both, Kurt and I started the Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover after one of Kurt's co-workers suggested the book. Needless to say, I read to entire book in one night, and told Kurt the next day I wanted to do it! We actually started on Christmas day, but so far we've been able to pay off our credit card and put quite a bit on money in savings for our yard and our trip to Vegas! Its been a bit of a roller coaster, I actually really like being on a budget (which I never thought I would say!) but it is hard to sometimes have to pass something up, because "it isn't in the budget", but so far we've done pretty well, and I really think its going to pay off in the long run.

The Binkie on the otherhand was a bit more of a challenge. Karter was totally addicted to the thing, and had NEVER slept without it, so I was quite scared to take it away. But we talked to him about how he was a big boy and didn't need it anymore (we also did a bit of bribing!). After a trip to Target he found an Imaginext castle that he really wanted, so I told him I would get it for him if he would trade it for all his binkies. He agreed and when we got home he gathered all his "ba ba's" and gave them to my mom (so they would be out of the house and away from temptation). He only asked to it a few times after, but he has been without it now since the second week in January., and now he's even more of a big boy! (now we just need to do the potty training and we'll be there!)In January I also turned the big 30. Let me say this is a birthday I have not been looking forward to! At first I wanted to do something huge like a trip, but in the end it was super low key. Kurt and I went and saw the movie Youth in Revolt ( I loved it!) and then we went to Cucina Toscana. Now I have been wanting to eat at Cucina Toscana for years, its always in the best of edition of City Weekly and I've always heard wonderful things about it. Let me say, this place is absolutely AMAZING!!! I kept telling Kurt that it didn't feel like we were in Utah. The place is exactly what I would picture a restaurant in Little Italy to be. Our waiter Marco was seriously THE best waiter I have ever in my life had! The food, the staff, everything was absolutely wonderful, I can't say enough good things about this place!
On February 2nd was the premiere of the final season of Lost. Many of you may not know,but I'm a total Lost addict, and so are many of my co-workers. So for the last few years, we all get together for the first and last episode of each season, since this is the last year, Nolan went all out! Dr. Lloyd catered it and Nolan decked his place all out in Darma gear and tiki torches, it was fabulous, I just wish I had actually taken pictures of the party :(
Kurt's mom also came for a visit in February. So so we all got together for a few dinners and just to hang out. The boys love seeing their cousin Sofia.
So basically, that was our last two months, not a whole lot to report. We are all doing well and hoping you are too!

Christmas!

Our Christmas this year was so much fun, the kids were really onto it this year. For Christmas eve we went to my parent's home and had dinner . Then the kids decorated a gingerbread house and then unwrapped our Christmas PJs. On Christmas day the kids were very spoiled! Keaton got several Wii video games and Karter got lots of cars.Karter mostly ate the candy!

December

December was such a busy month for us. Working in retail during December is always crazy, then throw in all the festivities...needless to say it was a bit crazy! But we did manage to do a few things: the boys got to visit with Santa, we went and saw the lights on temple square, and had two pretty large snow storms, and of course Christmas!

Stitches!

On Tuesday morning, Karter and Keaton were playing when I heard a horrible scream. When I found Karter he had blood dripping down his forhead into his eye. Appearently he had fallen onto the edge of the frame of our laundry bag. We ended up having to take him up to Primary Children's Hospital to get 6 stiches. This is Karter's second time getting stiches and last time I passed out in the hall, so this time I decided I would leave before they started. They gave him a sedative called Versed, and then I went out in the waiting room. But appearently the Versed didn't work all that well. Kurt said he screamed and fought with the nurses for about a half and hour. It took three nurses to hold him down, they almost had to put him completly under, but they were finally able to get all the stiches in. By the time they called me back he was totally sweaty and exhausted. The doctor did say that the Versed will make it so he won't remember what happened. Lets hope so, because if this happens again (and knowing this child, it will!) we probably will have to knock him completly out!

While we were waiting to get his stitches they wrapped up his head.

He thought it was pretty cool.

Sledding

On Sunday we got a few inches of snow (boo!). Kurt has really been wanting to take the kids sledding. So Monday morning he woke up bright and early, and took the kids up to a park about a block away from the house. (I did manage to drag myself out of bed to shoot some pictures!) Karter loved it, as long as someone carried him up the hill, he really hated walking in his boots. Both kids had so much fun, except for on the last run when the tipped over at the bottom and everyone face planted in the snow.

This is where they biffed it!