Recent Events

It's almost to the point where it's been so long, it's embarrassing to update this!! I was worried I wouldn't remember how! In my defense, we've been pretty busy - school... holidays... spending time with family.... working on our house.... but I'll just post real quick about our Vegas trip.

My sister Sarah had been asking me and James to come down to Las Vegas with them for a while and get tickets to the game show "Let's Make a Deal", but things kept coming up and we kept pushing it back further and further. Finally in the middle of the week, she called up and said this weekend is the last taping, get down here. My James had to work so couldn't come, so we grabbed the next available James, my brother, and headed down!

The first night: we checked into the hotel and grabbed a bite to eat.....

Sarah and Cody at Baja Miguel's.

My brother and me. The matching plaid was not planned.

Then we hit up the bingo tables....

we started out excited.. feeling some winning in the air....

james and cody were slightly less excited... but still feeling a victory.

two hours and lots of stamping later... no winnings.

but we were okay with that. we still had Let's Make A Deal bright and early the next morning.

We weren't allowed to take camera's in, so a quick, pictureless, summary of our first game show debut.

For those who don't really know the show (i didn't!), everyone is supposed to dress up as something, and then it's kinda like the Price is Right. Cody was a hunter, Sarah was a box of Valentine's Day Conversation hearts (we went two weeks before V-Day), James was a hillbilly, and I was a pirate. I'm so sad we don't have any pictures of us all dressed up!

We wait in line for about 4 hours, and finally get on the stage and are seated in the far corner. The camera's equipment couldn't even move over that far haha so we knew we weren't going to be on tv, and none of us got called up as contestants.

We got up from our crappy seats and were exiting the staging room when the producers said that they had some extra seats for the next taping if we wanted to come back. We thought about it, and decided we had nothing else to do so why not. Throughout the wait of getting on the second taping, each of us at one time or another thought it was pointless to stay again and wanted to leave.

But boy are we glad we didn't!! Tune in on April 6th to see one of us be a big winner with curtain #3!!!

Cody and Sarah getting ready to check out.

That really took up most of our day, and then the next morning we just checked out and headed home. It was a quick trip, but very much worth it. I loved spending some time with my brother and sister and am glad we all live close enough that we can do fun things like that.

And finally - we've actually made some progress on our house! This week, we finished up painting one of the guest rooms, and the guest bathroom. James has also been working on finishing up all the closets in the guest rooms and our master - I'm so excited to have a place to hang our clothes!!

Guest Bathroom #1 - Just needs a frame for the mirror - and it's completely finished!

Guest Bedroom #1 - we also finished up painting one of the guest rooms, and picked out colors for the other two completely empty rooms to get finished up this week also!

This is in the middle of James' closet project for one of the guest rooms. I'm glad he's so handy because I wouldn't even want to guess the cost of having someone come put the closets in.

And now I know why I don't blog very much! I don't know if everyone else struggles with putting pictures up like I do, but i can't ever get them to go where I want! They always just go in a big group up at the top and I slowly have to drag them through all the texts, which messes up the spacing, and drives me nuts!! But other than that, life is pretty good at the Wyatt house :)