Apr 25, 2010

Grandma & Grandpa Suhler Come to Town

My parents came to town for my mom's birthday weekend. We had a fun weekend of house projects, hiking, visiting, and watching the Masters.

The first thing on my dad's priority list was getting into our pool. The water is not heated but he didn't care, he was determined to be the first one in. He went in twice a day almost every day that they were here...

On Friday morning we went to gymnastics. It was not one of Abby's best days in class but my parents got to see my little bundle of energy in action.

On Friday afternoon mom, Abby, and I went for a short hike at Red Rock Canyon. Dad stayed behind to work on some shelving that I asked him to build in the guest room and watch the 2nd round of the masters. It was a beautiful day for a hike.


On Saturday Jim and ad worked hard putting up shelves in the garage while mom and I played with Abby.



Sunday was mom's birthday. After a delicious breakfast of banana walnut pancakes we all got into the car and headed to Valley of Fire. We had heard a lot of great things about this park and it lived up to every word.











After Valley of Fire we rushed home to watch the back 9 of the Masters...at dad's request. For birthday dinner we headed out for Thai food. After dinner we did a driving tour of the strip and a walking tour of downtown Las Vegas. When we were in downtown Vegas dad turned to me and said, " This place is weird". Yes it is dad, yes it is.

On Monday my parents were not leaving until the evening so we headed to Pahrump to have lunch at the winery. Unfortunately the day we not so nice but we made the best of it.
We had another great visit and can't wait for our next time together!

Apr 24, 2010

Easter

We had a very nice Easter this year! The day started off with a visit from the Easter Bunny...











Just as a reminder...this is how Abby looked last year with her Easter basket...WOW what a change!!


Next it was off to a nice brunch at the Mt Charleston Lodge:




The funny thing about our breakfast is that we had made a reservation...at least we thought we had. When we Told the people at the reception desk that we had a reservation they looked at us a bit funny. Then, when we asked the waiter were the buffet was he told us that there wasn't one. It was then that we realized that our reservation was at the Mount Charleston Resort. We are so used to going to the lodge we assumed that is were we were going...WHOOPS! We felt bad about missing our reservation bur we still had a delicious brunch!

After brunch we headed back home for an Easter egg hunt with some of the other kids in the neighborhood.




From left to right: Abby, Ryan, Rohan, and Maddy

Spring Has Come to the Desert

On March 28th we went on a nice hike near Red Rock Canyon and we started to see some signs of life in the Desert. The beautiful desert wildflowers are starting to show their color...

Here are some other pictures from our hike...



WE HAVE A POOL!

After several weeks of construction our pool and backyard landscaping is complete. It was quite a process and I am so happy that it is completed...I was getting pretty tired of people in my backyard! Here are the construction pictures from start to finish:

Before...



Pool spray painted in:



Plumbing:




Re-bar:


Concrete:


Tile:


Deck Framing:


Abby overlooking the progress:


Deck Poured:


Cool Decking Installed:


Finally the finished product:




Now we are excited for the weather to heat up so that we can go for a swim!