Our first trip was on March 20th to Vegas for March Madness. I LOVE LOVE LOVE going to Vegas!! The Hubby and I always have so much fun! It has been over a year since I have been there and I SO missed it!! We literally check into our room and immediately hit the tables. I actually spent most of my time at the Roulette table! I pretty much addicted to it! We do leave the tables every once in a while to eat yummy food! The food in Vegas is AMAZING!!!! We ate at Comme Ca the first night and breakfast the next morning at The Henry. They are both inside our Hotel we stay at, The Cosmopolitan. On day two, Jason's college friend and his wife came for his 40th Birthday so we went to dinner at STK also in The Cosmopolitan. The next day we actually ventured out of our hotel and went to Caesar's Palace and ate brunch at Serendipity and gamble. For dinner we went to The Bellagio and at sushi at Yellowtail. They have AWESOME sushi!! My favorite one has pop rocks in it. SO YUMMY!!!! I really have SO many pictures from all the times that I have been to Vegas, I don't have any pictures to take because I have seriously taken a picture of everything in Vegas!
This is inside our limo The Cosmopolitan sent to the airport to pick us up.
The was the other picture I took in Crystals Shopping Center. The blue flowers are hydrangea's which are my favorite flower!
Our room faced The Bellagio fountains and this was the view! So pretty!!!!
So, we got home from Vegas on Sunday and Wednesday we were off to our next vacay, Playa Del Carmen in Mexico! We decided to stay at a Boutique Hotel rather than an All Inclusive so we could venture out for dinner. We stayed at Acanto Boutique Hotel. It was a very nice place that was only a block away from the beach and right at 5th Street, so for the convenience factor it was perfect! But, I wouldn't stay there again. The rooms smelled like sewage and was really overpriced for what we had! But, it was worth staying at because we had the BEST food ever!! When you stay at All Inclusive hotels you tend to stay at the resorts since your meals are included.
This was by far my favorite trip for more than one reason, but the main reason was because it was our first wedding anniversary. It was four days of fun in the sun and I was SO excited!!! We started our trip off with massages next door to our hotel. It was FABULOUS!!!! Jason was very excited to find out that he could make bets on the March Madness games. He was in total HEAVEN!!! We spent our days at the beach and nights at The Tequila Barrel!
The Living Room and dining area of our hotel room.
Our kitchen area which we did not use!!
The bedroom
The view of the beach from my lounge chair! So relaxing!!
This was the book I read while laying on the beach. I HIGHLY recommend it! Very good message about losing weight through a spiritual connection!
First drink in Playa!
Best shrimp quesadilla I have ever eaten, EVER!!!! Café Adela was such a fun place!!
We went to this little Cuban place called La Bodeguita del Medio that was just amazing!!! Seriously, these were the most amazing shrimp fajitas of my life!! You need to run to this place the second you get to Playa!! Trust me on this, just trust me!!!
Crazy girls dancing on the bar for free shots of Tequila at The Tequila Barrel! I love watching these girls act crazy!!
Our Vanilla Latte's at Chez Celine. These were pretty tasty!!
This is the almond croissant from Chez Celine. This was scrumptious!! So AMAZING!!! I can't even describe to you how truly yummy this tasted!! I can't wait to go back and get one! You better run to this place too!!! Then run all the way to the beach to burn off the million calories this thing probably has in it!! Do you see a trend of the food being AMAZING!!! Not kidding!!!!
Our Anniversary dinner on our First Year Anniversary, March 29, 2014! This is also the only picture we have of ourselves from our whole trip. I was WAY too busy taking pictures of the food we were eating to take pictures of us!
Our last trip was this past weekend to Arkansas for Baby Luke's Christening. We left on Wednesday afternoon after a Baby Doctor Appointment and the thousand things I was trying to get done for the house builds!!
We stayed at a house on the river in Heber Springs that was SO cute!! As much as I hate to admit this (Don't tell my Father in Law), it did make me want to build that lake house he keeps talking about! Not because I like the lake because I actually hate the lake, but really just for the relaxation of it! The guys fished and the girls drank wine on the porch. Seriously, My Sister and I spent every waking hour on that porch. It was really a much needed relaxing trip.
The house on the River.
Our bedroom
The porch were we spent all our time! This is a MUST for any lake house I have to own!!
The kitchen.
The living room
It is sad that I don't have any pictures of Baby Luke's Christening from Saturday, but in my defense it was because I was the photographer at the event with my Sister's camera! I will have to post pictures when my Sister gets back. She is still at the house on the river until Wednesday. But, I got this picture from My Brother in Law while we were driving back home in the monsoon of rain!!
She was SO proud of the fish she caught. Apparently, she had some fish blood on her white pants and she was SO proud!! I told my Sister she probably won't let her wash those pants either!! I LOVE my Little Buttercup SO much!!! She seriously is me re-incarnated!! It drives me Sister CRAZY!!!
So, after the fun of the last few weeks, the weekend coming up will be a little "rest" from travelling for a few weeks at least!!
Last but surely not least, things with Baby R are moving right along. I still struggle with the things I can't control and the BEYOND RUDE things that people say and ask!!! I want my little Baby to be here already!!! I am secretly praying DAILY that Baby R will make an early (but healthy) appearance, just by a little bit!! I don't think that is asking TOO much, right??!!! Besides, I do need to be in my new house BEFORE the birth!! I think I have seriously aged a few years!! I may need an appointment with Botox by the end of the year for a little "pick me up" on this face of mine!! I have learned I am not cut out for being out of control of ANYTHING!!! I accept it and embrace it!!
I have started getting things in order for the arrival of Baby R too and that has been A LOT of fun!! It is one of the very few things I do have total control of and LOVE it!! I knew I was going to do a gender neutral nursery from the beginning so that it could get multiple use out of it. I would rather decorate a gender specific room for when the kid is older and will get more years use out of it for any future Babies we may have. I have spent hours looking at crib bedding and getting a plan of how I would decorate the nursery. I FINALLY found something I absolutely love. It is being custom made by a sweet Lady on Etsy. There are so many things I need to order on Etsy with Baby R's Monogram. I just LOVE shopping for Baby R!! Going to register was WAY too much fun!!! Some could say that I probably registered earlier than usual, BUT there was a reason to my madness in regards to that!! Everything I registered for was gender neutral and totally perfect!! There is so much stuff for babies that wasn't even thought of when Lily was born just a little shy of three years ago! I am going to be IN TROUBLE with the Hubby for sure when this kid is born!!!
Building my new house has actually been just what I need to distract my time when I am not shopping for Baby R! In fact, building this house actually consumes the majority of my time! If I am not at my house, I am at the Duplex down the street that we are building too. So, I spend my days meeting with contractors and making every single decision that has to be made on my house everyday. Just today I spent two hours of my day learning all about appliances! Good thing I am a Google freak and already knew some stuff. Actually, the guy at the Appliance Store was quite impressed with my knowledge of stuff. A lot of work goes into building a house and quite frankly I LOVE it!! I was born to do this! Seriously, I have found what I want to be when I grow up!!
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