Anouncement!

So we have some great news to share! For all those who haven't heard we will be having a new addition to our family soon! That's right, we will be having a baby boy...

Puppy!

Haha, sorry I guess it wasn't that funny. But we are really excited! We have been on a waiting list for a while with a family that breeds and shows AKC malamutes. They had a litter of puppies that were actually born on the day Andrew and Analyn got married, and they just turned 6 weeks old. We finally got to go see them yesterday. They had a litter of 6 boys and they are all so adorable. The owners are keeping one puppy to replace their main male show dog and stud Recon (who is the father), but other than that we have first pick! We've narrowed it down to two dogs that we really like. One is a "gray" and the other a "seal". I have always wanted to get a gray, but after playing with them yesterday the seal really stole my heart. We get to bring him home in about 2 weeks! We have been busy getting things ready for him to come.

Here's the two that we like. Any opinions?

This is Recon, the dad, he's a gray.

This is Choas the mom, she is also a gray.

It's so hard to decide, they both are so cute!

Another Wedding

So my brother Matt and our new sister-in-law Mitra got married over the weekend. We flew to LA for the wedding, they were married in the temple on Friday, and then on Saturday they had a traditional Persian style wedding and reception. It was all so beautiful, Mitra did an amazing job planning it out. We had a lot of fun meeting Mitra's family and celebrating with them. They were all so nice and really fun!

We stayed in Beverly Hills and Ryan was in heaven seeing all the cars! Every other car that drove by was either a Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Lamborghini, or Aston Martin just to name a few. We were even lucky enough to see Chris Brown who was staying at our hotel with his posy. My sister saw Rhianna at lunch in the restaurant. We were all hoping they would come and serenade us at the wedding reception. Haha.

Matt and Mitra came to Utah for a reception here on Monday night and then flew back to California to celebrate a short honeymoon. After that they will be off to Hong Kong to live! Hopefully we can save up and go visit them sometime in the near future! We are so excited for them and know they are going to have an amazing life!

We got to babysit Tori while everyone was inside the temple

She kept making this face whenever I tried to take her picture! She's so funny. 

House

So I have been meaning to post some pictures of our new house for some time now. I posted some pictures of the house before we bought it, but they were of the previous owners things. I guess we haven't done too much with the house yet, but I have been told by a few people that I need to post some pictures on our blog. So here you go.

We have so many plans! It's all quite overwhelming to think about them all at once. We're planning on being here probably about 5-10 years. This house is really just the perfect starter home I'd say and we definitely have no regrets about buying it. Some of the things that we would like to do while we live here would be:

1. Finish remolding the master bathroom! Haha. We started this project almost first thing after we moved in and it has yet to be finished! But we've gotten pretty far. We stripped all the baseboards and doors off as well as the window frame. We stripped what we could of all the old wallpaper off and plastered the cracks and dings and evened out the walls as much as possible. Then we textured the walls and ceiling! We put a nice "knock-down" look to it. It was really lots of fun actually. We have primed the whole room and have chosen our paint, which was hard to come to an agreement on. We chose a neutral beige with a slight hint of green in it. We also got a new window for the room, but still need to install it. Last on our list is that we need to order new baseboards, crown moulding, doors and carpet. We are still trying to decide if we want to stick with the house design and do all white or if we want to do a wood. We are so close to being done, but we've hardly had any time with work and school and weddings. Hopefully we can find some time soon. It will be nice to have two rooms again!

Here's a look at the knockdown texture we did

2. Next on our to-do list is put up a backsplash in the kitchen. We've already picked out some stone that would look nice. We also are going to put up another cabinet instead of the shelves, we just need a little more space. We'd also like to texture the ceiling in here as well and put up some crown moulding.

Here's the tile that we like, any comments?

3. We are going to frame out one of our empty basement rooms to be a pantry! This will be nice, and I think it will be pretty easy to do.

4. Landscape! This summer we are hoping to do a nice makeover to the yard. It really needs it. Ryan hates these big stumps and wants to rip them out. My back just hurts thinking about it.

5. Master Bathroom! This is on my wish list. We have a small bathroom right now, and it's cute but just doesn't have a lot of storage space. There's a small addition off of the master bedroom that would be the perfect place for a bathroom. We think it would add a lot of value to the house and it was just be so nice for us too. Hopefully we can knock this one off the list in the next few years.

6. We'd like to replace all the windows eventually. We actually just bought 5 new ones for the master bedroom, bathroom, and then three downstairs. We installed the first one last week together. Ryan never ceases to amaze me. He knew exactly how to do it, just like a professional. It's so nice to have him around! Hopefully we can get the other ones in soon, depending on how much free time we have this next week.

7. We would like to repaint the house hopefully this summer if we aren't too busy. It could use a good paint job.

There are so many other projects on our minds, but these are the main ones we're thinking about now. Hopefully we can just finish the first one.

Here's some more pictures of our house for those who are interested...