Spring Break Family Visit!!!!

We love when family comes to visit! The Heckert Family (and Grandma & Grandpa) came to visit for Spring Break. It was a busy week with lots of fun things to do!

Christopher loved spending time with Drew and Dad. They went to eat sushi and shoot guns.

 

We also celebrated Drew's birthday by going to the Malt shop.

Emily & Lily :)

Papa & Melanie

The girls loved playing with each other. They are all growing up so fast!
Grandma made the girls matching Easter dress. We tried to get a group picture, but as you can see, there was a lot going on!

Meg & Mel

Kate & Lily

Unsuccessful attempt....

Kate & Madeline

The babies, Elise & Madeline

Almost got it :)

 We love our family! Can't wait for the next time!!!!!

Christopher & Elise

Las Vegas Trip!

This past weekend we went to Vegas!

Melissa ran the Red Rock Half Marathon in Vegas on Saturday. It was a very hilly course climbing about 1500 feet! On the plus side, the weather was beautiful and the scenery was gorgeous!

Home stretch!!

While we were there, we walked around on the Strip including a stop at the Pawn Stars pawn shop, the M&M Factory, the Luxor, and some of the newer hotels and casinos.

Outside of the Coke Store

Christopher is trying to do what the Yellow M&M is doing :)

"What I could do with all of these M&Ms!"

IT'S BUMBLE BEE!!!!

The front of a clothing store with hundreds of sewing machines :)

Outside the Luxor

It was a fun trip, but we are happy to be back home!

We bought a HOUSE!

 We now live in Spanish Fork!

We closed on Tuesday and by that night we had ripped out the carpet (thanks to Jamie’s help J), took off all the outlet and light covers, and taped up the whole house to be ready to paint. Wednesday Christopher painted all day long while Grandpa Baum worked on putting up shelves in our master bedroom and stairs going into our cold storage. Thursday Christopher (with Brett’s helpJ) started putting in the hardwood floors and took many trips to the drop off trash and junk that was left behind in the house. Friday Melissa started cleaning out the apartment and taking trips to the house while the carpet was put in and Christopher continued working on the hardwood floors (with Dad Borget's expertise and determination). Then Saturday we moved all the rest of the things from the apartment over. THANK YOU, THANK YOU for all your help Jonathan, Jamie, Rob, and Mom! We then worked hard to get everything into place on Saturday and Sunday to be ready to go back to work on Monday. WHAT A WEEK! 

Right after Closing :) We are offically homeowners!!

The first of MANY trips to Home Depot

Here are a few before and after pictures to let you see all the work that was put into the house!





BEFORE

AFTER

We love the hardwood floors :)

We got a big Monster Sac! It's super comfy!

It was tons of work but so worth it! Stop by and see us anytime!

Merry Christmas!

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From our first cruise together (see March blog) , getting good ideas at the parade of homes, a quick trip to Indiana for the Fall Festival (see October blog), reading the Hunger Games (and anxiously awaiting for the movie to come out in March), and conquering our first year of marriage,  we have had such a fun and busy 2011!

  

We have so much to be thankful for :)

This is our cute little Christmas tree. We love it!

(Thanks Grandma Baum for all your help in teaching us how to really decorate trees :)

We wish you all a very merry Christmas and the happiest New Year!

We love you all!

OCTOBER 2011

October has been a really fun and really busy month filled with a trip to Indiana, celebrating our anniversary, and Melissa’s birthday!

We were so glad that we got to visit Indiana and see some of our friends and family. Christopher also got to experience the legendary Fall Festival. (For those who haven’t had the opportunity to attend the Fall Festival, you are missing out on a whole mile worth of booths full of FOOD!) We were in a constant state of full the whole week!  We ate many Monster Ears, a few Texas tenderloins, fried s’mores, Stromboli’s, meatball sandwiches, walking tacos, corn on the cob, bacon wrapped jalapenos, and Christopher even tried a Brain Sandwich! We loved spending time with Kate, Lily, and Elise (and the older people too!) and we already miss them so much!

We also LOVE having family close too! We were able to celebrate Emily's birthday this month!

Happy Birthday, Emily!

Emily had a few helpers :)

Madeline smiling at Jonny

Christopher & Jack are matching!

We celebrated our 1^st anniversary! What a wonderful year! Christopher surprised me at work with a beautiful bouquet of star gazer lilies. They smell so good! I also gave Christopher a notebook that I wrote in during the whole first year of marriage. He really liked it, I think :).  It really has been a wonderful year of being married! And the best is yet to come!

And I had a great birthday! Christopher bought me a whole new set of makeup brushes from MAC, new hair brushes, and new Love Rocks lotion and spray! He really spoiled me by sending her to work with a bag of goodies, bringing me lunch from Zupas, and getting ingredients to make me a yummy cake! It is great to have Christopher to celebrate with!