Our New House

We've nicknamed it "the castle". My mom came into town this weekend for a family reunion and we entertained ourselves by going to the Parade of Homes (for the non Utahns- builders show off their homes before they sell them and/or to try to sell them- but they're not just the typical homes as you can see- some are but most of them are unique in some way). The Castle, pictured above was actually even bigger than the picture shows it was hard to get the whole thing in. It had an indoor pool, workout room, dance studio, movie theatre room, guest suite, and the master suite was like bigger than my whole house practially, an actual suit of armor guared the entry way to the Master suite. The whole house had kind of like a modern castle feel and was amazing to see. We actually started off the visit by going to the Thanksgiving point gardens which I always love going to.

Random thought: I don't think I ever made a blog about this but last summer Ryan's company spent a whole day at Thanksgiving Point getting footage for their stock footage department. So, I got to be a "model" for a few hours, although I never got paid as promised so really that makes me more of free laborer. It was kinda cool being followed around by camera but also awkard cause I never know how to act or where to look and seem natural.

Thanks for coming to visit Mom, we had a fun time!

Memorial Weekend 2010

Unfortunatly we had such a fun weekend we didn't really take any pics. We left town right as a storm was blowing in and headed to, yes you guessed it, where we always go, St. George. It was beautiful every day we were there, 90 degrees and sunny without a cloud in the sky. We stayed at the condo with our friends April & Clint and Ryan' s sister and brother-in-law. I got plenty of pool time, played tennis, volleyball, raquetball, basketball, played games, and ate good food, including Ryan's grandma's famous breakfast memorial day morning. We hung around as late as we could soaking in the sun and hanging out with friends and famly till we finally made ourselves come back to the real world of having to wake up and go to work. The only crappy thing was that we had left Ryan's car at his work during the weekend and he had some stuff stolen out of it. Speakers, keyboard accessories, and worst of all his temple clothes including recommend. We feel extra bad about that because we had a goal to go to the temple once a month, but got so busy during May that we kept putting it off and then thought about going to the St. George temple and then at the last minute decided not to bring them, so moral of the story if we had gone to the temple when we were suppossed to the clothes wouldn't have been in the car that weekend. Guilt trip.

I don't know why we took this picture of ourselves at this gas station of our reflections, random, I know. Also, It looks like I am pregnant in this picture, which I am Not. You might be able to see us playing volleyball in this pic but it so dark we could barely see the volleyball while we were playing, but we had to fight our way into getting our turn on the volleyball court so we played regardless of being able to see or not.

B-Town & Girls week

Sorry for those of you who have already read Annaliese's blog, I'll try to post some different pics. We were able to go to Bremerton for Mother's day weekend and my little brother's baby blessing for the newest addition to the family Liberty Bell. We had a really fun time. Saturday we went to Port Townsend and ate at a cafe that had some amazing yummy cookies and walked around to the little shops and then went to Fort worden.

At the cafe...
Fort Worden, we also got to go up to a cute light house why didn't i take a picture of that.
It looks like we have matching jackets but they are really quite different...

Me and Penny as prisoners...

Sunday was the baby blessing...The guys before blessing Liberty..
The girls, except we are missing mom.. we're all kinda color coordinated, i like it.
Monday, we went to Paulsbo and ate at this yummy seafood restaraunt, yes I actually am sorta starting to like some sea food, I really only like to eat it when we go to washington though. We caught the ferry to Seattle and got to Pike's place market just in time to buy some flowers to take back for Ryan's mom and do a little shopping before heading to the airport. We realized that that day we had taken almost every mode of transportation: car, ferry, train and plane.

The day after we got back Ryan left me to go to Dallas (which I would have loved to go too) and Indinia for work. I kept myself pretty well entertained while he was gone by hanging out with the girls. Went to my friend's baby shower, ate dinner with the girls at Texas Road house, went to Aimee's birthday bbq, and of course did some shopping and went to a chick flick with Ryan's mom. I did still miss my husband and was glad when he came home.

Birthday Extravaganza

I love this time of the year when for a few months me and the husband are the same age. Friday night we went out to dinner in salt lake just the two of us and did a little bit of shopping at the out door Gateway mall and then went to our friend's house to watch the game. That would be the Jazz playoff game. There is a lot of basketball watching goin on in the Egan house hold as of late. Saturday was our neighbor and good friend's 30th birthday so we did a combined birthday celebration day consisting of a delicious break fast, fun movie "Date Night" & bbq.

Look closely at the mirror....Looks like the ghost of Ryan watching over them.... creepy

Ryan did his best fruity pose:)

Sunday, the big day, we had dinner with Ryan's family with his mom's famous home made ribs which were wonderful and then had his family and a few friends over to our place for cake and you guessed it another Jazz playoff game. I tried making a peanut butter cake recipe that my friend had made and Ryan loved. He had been talking it up for months in advance. I definitly should have done a trial run before the big day because it was a disaster. Actually, I think it tasted ok it just looked terrible, like if there was some contest on the worst looking cake I could have entered and won. Its hard to tell in these pics but it was bad. It turned out to be more of a peanut butter cobbler look.

Vegas Baby

What happens in Vegas usuallly stays in Vegas but I guess I'll break the rules. It had been forever since we had been down south and I couldn't stand another cold weekend, so we drove to St. George last friday after work. Immediatly upon entering St. George we stopped at my favorite ghetto fast food restaruant Jack in the Box. We then tried hitting up the hot tub at the condo but kicked out about 5 min after getting in due to the pool patrol who closed it up right on the dot of closing time. Not too long after that our friends showed up and we watched a movie. Saturday morning we made our way to sunny warm Vegas. On our scout to find somewhere to eat, always so hard to do in Vegas cause there are so many options and none of us were decision makers we stopped by Tiffany's (never been in one before). I was eyeing a gorgeous diamond ring and the sales lady asked me if I wanted to try it on. No, no I'm just looking I said, (obviously, like I'm ever going to buy anything at a store where armed security guards in tuxedos greet you at the door) then she says, are you sure it looks better on or something to that effect so I gave in and tried on a $34,000 ring. Didn't look to bad on either, hint, hint husband:) Yea right I wouldn't even want that a ring that expensive. Anyways, we found a PF changs to eat at and sat on the patio. After that me and Aimee went to the pool and soaked up the sun and took a really wonderful nap while the guys went to the casino and promptly lost their allowance. After that we headed to the factory outlet mall where I found the coolest jacket at Armani but it was still on the expensive side so I used all my will power and resisted it. After all the shopping that my husband could handle we went to the Venitian/ Pallazo hotel for dinner and at a place called the Grand Lux which is owned by the same people as the cheese cake factory so of course it was delicious. After walking around for a bit me and Ryan decided to go to our favorite Vegas activity the Bellagio water show and gardens. We walked and walked and got there just as a show was beginning and it just happened to be our song "Your song" by Elton John. It is our song because when we were first dating Ryan took me to St. George/Vegas (don't worry mom we were staying at his grand parents house :)). It was a little early in the relationship and I thought that this trip was either going to make it or break it and it definitly made it. We waited forever at the Bellagio for the water show to play that night and when it finally came on I think it was really windy or something that night "Your song" was the one it played, anyways that night was when I really started to like Ryan so Vegas is always fun for us cause it brings back lot of good memories. If we had danced at our wedding this is what we would have danced to. Anyways back to the present day after our

Bellagio jaunt it was about 1am in the morning and we thought a good time to drive back to St. George. Our friends were staying in Vegas thru Monday so we thought we would just head back to St. George so we could have the day there to relax. Luckily Ryan was driving because I was so tired I could barely stand it and thanks to his good driving skills we made it back alive so that I could write this really long blog post. Sunday we slept in, relaxed in the sun again, visited Ryan's sister and headed home. A Pretty nice get away but it made me want to go on a much longer one and with a beach. This is a taste of the water show.. .

Muse

For Christmas I got Ryan tickets to see the band Muse and so yesterday the day had finally arrived. We had a really fun time. We ate dinner in Salt Lake and then went to the concert. Unfortunatly we missed the opening band. But they played all our favorite songs and had cool light show.

I really want it to be spring, (hence the new spring like blog background) it was snowing so hard yesterday I couldn't believe it when we were making the trek from parking to the stadium

Painting Fiasco

So, I've been wanting to paint an accent wall in our master bath for a while now, (ever since I was dying my hair and accidentaly splattered it on the wall above the toilet). So we made a pre-visit to Home Depot to check out the options. I wanted to do that Ralph Lauren textured paint same as Annaliese did for our downstairs bathroom but they didn't have any samples to take home. All our previous painting adventures took me at least 5 agonizing trips to look at paint but I was determined to be more decisive this time but still lets not get too crazy I couldn't do it on the first try. Saturday we went back debated between three shades ( at first I was thinking of doing a teal color but couldn't get up the nerve) so then what I wanted to do is a sand color since we have a little beach theme going. We looked at a couple of darker colors and then decided to play it safe, this is what no risks get you=EXACT same color as our current walls. We look at our walls everyday how could we not know it was the same color? And I hate wasting, we just threw $30 down the drain, I can't stand it. If you take it back can they add more color? I would gladly give it to some one to avoid this terrible waste but who needs beige paint or should I say desert taupe? -they throw you off with those creative names