{A four state adventure}

It has been a busy couple of weeks for our little family!  Mike  finished his recruiting school for the Air Force, which was a six week course in San Antonio, Texas.  Shortly after he graduated Mike found out that he made rank - next year he will promote to Tech Sergeant!  So proud of him and all his hard work.  Look how handsome he looks in his blues - 

We are very excited to start our new adventure in Henderson, Nevada!  I am not sure how I feel about living in the desert yet... but I am sure after this record hot summer I will have some opinions. :S

Mike came up to Utah and we spent a day with Dan and Krystal going on a fun date to the aquarium - we love spending time with those guys!  We were excited to hear the gender reveal of their baby and we were happy pregnant women eating delicious food at a Mongolian buffet.

After our super date we headed out of town to start house hunting in Henderson.  Nate, our realtor, has been so awesome and even let us stay in his house while we were looking!  We found the perfect little home and are just waiting for the bank to finish up the funding  - hopefully we will be able to move in this July!

While we were in Vegas we stayed in our timeshare for some of the time and had a nice get away.  I have wanted to see a Cirque du Soliel show and we went to one called "Mystere."  It was ... strange.  I still don't know how I feel about it.  A little frightening. 

After the house hunting and mini vacation in Vegas we drove to Arizona to catch up with friends down there.  We spent some time with Justin & Elissa.  It was Justin's birthday so he was gracious enough to allow us to mooch off several free food offers he had found - we drove from restaurant to restaurant and ate ourselves into a food induced coma.  Oh, and we also walked around the new Gilbert Temple, it was fun to see! 

We visited one of Mike's buddies from college (John) and his girlfriend Julie and little girl Paige.  We got some lunch at a delicious little restaurant called "Cornish Pasty" and got our butts kicked at Bananagrams.

We also got to spend some time with the awesome Pinedo family!  Mario had a sweet set-up with two TVs so we could watch multiple world cup games at one time.  We stayed a few nights at their house and road tripped to see the Grand Canyon and Bearizona with them  as well.  It was fun to catch up with them and meet little Milo for the first time!

During this lunch at Rainforest Cafe Milo got a taste of his first lemon...  He was not super excited about it.

Little Max charmed this goat by playing his flute for him, he loved seeing all the animals in Bearizona!

Last but not least we found this town called Perkinsville in AZ.  Mike says its another sign that we should retire in the Grand Canyon State... every time we visit I get a sales pitch on the perks of being Arizonian.  You can take a girl out of Utah but you can't take the Utah out of a girl!  :D  

It has been a great trip and tomorrow we will arrive back in Utah to visit more family and friends.  Glad to have my husband back and looking forward to starting the next chapter of our lives together!