Our First Home :o)

We are proud to announce that after many months of house hunting, putting lots of offers in on lots of different houses, and saying lots of prayers, we finally got the one house we wanted the most of all! Yipeee! We are oficially homeowners, and we LOOOOOVE our house. It was definitely worth the wait (and the living in a tiny one bedroom wedding chapel apartment for 5 months) to get this steal. It was a "short sale" which means it was almost foreclosed on, but the bank agreed to let us buy it for less. It was buildt in 2006 and it is 2056 square feet. 4 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom. Close to both sets of "grandparents" (which is a real nice feature), and in an awesome ward. What more could we ask for? By popular demand, here are a few pictures of our lovely abode (and a video of it will follow as soon as we can get it to transfer right.

This is the master bathroom. Look at the nice big garden style tub. We love it. and so does Sarah.

Here is our backyard. Not bad for Vegas. And our kitchen. It's awesome! We got a stainless steel french door fridge to match the other appliances of course. Love it Love it Love it. :)


Here is our family room. Don't the carpets look nice and clean. We got Larry to come and steam clean them. He does a fantastic job. His business is Larry Cleans Carpets and I would definitely use him again. Just ask me if you want his number.

It is so cool that this is ours now. I will post more pictures later too when we get more decorated

Young at Heart Still

Sorry it has been forever since we last posted, we have been VERY busy here in the Foote family this last month. First of all, we have accomplished a LOT of our life goals these past few months, so we are feeling OLD and accomplished. It seems like I just realized that I am old. Every single thing that I used to catergorize as meaning you are "grown up," I have done now. Here is a list of some of them:

1.) Married
2.) Done with school
3.) Have your own child or lots of children
4.) OWN a HOUSE....yes, that is right. We own a house!!! Yay! We are proud home owners and we are SO excited about it! (More to come on this in the next blog post)

But those of you who are concerned about us being old and all grown up. Don't worry we'll try not to turn boring too. I think we will always be Toys R Us kids, really excited to go to Disneyland or wake up way too early on Christmas morning to see what Santa Claus brought, taking great joy in the little things in life. I think we will always be young at heart.

We have made our CMT debut

Alright, well the Carrie Underwood song featuring the chapel is now out, if you would like to watch it click here! They are not really exemplifying what we try to create for our wedding couples, a nice, romantic, well thought out, elegant ceremony. We were not aware of the songs content when we signed up for this, but hey, it is kind of cool that our sign blows up!

Tagged by my wife. . .

Well, Katie tagged me . . . a while ago . . . So I guess I better fill this thing out.

Here are my answers.4 Jobs I've had:
- Water Extraction Grunt - I worked for Water Extraction Technologies or WET helping tear out carpet and pad, move furniture, and dry out wet houses. Good times!
- Student Consulting on Teaching or SCOT - This is a BYU program where I go paid to go and watch professors as a student and consult with them on their teaching. Thus the name of the position. Well it was pretty cool, I met a lot of great professors and learned a lot about powerful and effective teaching and communicating.
- School Bus Driver - Sorry no acronym on this one. I really loved this job, it was early in the morning, I got to hang out with kids, and I got to drive a totally awesome vehicle. All good things. I recomend it as a good paying college job to any RMs at BYU. They are alsways hurting for help. Tell Delayna I say hi if you give it a try.

4 Movies I’d watch over and over:
-The Princess Bride
-The Bourne Movies
- The Man Who Knew Too Little
-Pure Luck (check this one out if you haven't seen it. . . classic Martin Short)


4 Places I have lived:
-Reno, Nevada - The biggest little city in the world, and the shakiest little city in the world. I heard they have had something like 300 plus earthquakes over the last two weeks, only a few big ones, but wow!
-Las Vegas, NV (until college)
-Provo, UT (until recently)
-Chapel of the Flowers - Who lives at a wedding chapel? What kind of wierdos are we?

4 TV shows I watch:
-Monk
-American Idol
-Dirty Jobs
- Myth Busters

4 Places I have been:
-Hawaii - I highly recomend it!
-Cozumel Mexico, an awesome little island with tons of great scuba diving. Fun place.
- Snow Skiing - I have been to several different resorts, one over 40 times, but they are all a little piece of heaven so take your pick.
-Panama - This is the farthest from home I have ever been. Cool little country, and that canal is pretty sweet.

4 People who e-mail me regularly:
-Jason Myers
-David Foote
-Holly Myers
-Nicole Robertson - I e-mail way too much at work, all three are people I see everyday anyway. Yikes, I need to keep in contact with friends more.

4 Favorite things to eat:
-Cookie Dough
-Fresh Baked Cookies (both with milk)
-Brownie sunday
-Butterscotch pudding with a scoop of Vanilla (cook and serve pudding, still warm off the stove, if you think I am crazy, so did Katie, and now she loves it!)

4 Places I'd rather be: If this is as of right now:
-Asleep - it is late at night and I have no idea while I am still concious
-Water Skiing - it has been way too windy lately. We need a lake day.
-The Ranch - We just got back from a trip to the Ranch, but I would go again. Such a beautiful peaceful place. One of my favorite places on earth.
-Asleep - Did I say that already? Well this is different, I would love to be asleep in the house we have basically bought. But the seller is in Thailand and hasn't signed the paperwork yet, so here I sleep at the chapel instead. Bummer. Hopefully he will sign before May 7th or the house will be foreclosed on and auctioned off.

4 Things I look forward to this year:
-As my wife said, I am also excited to move into a house
-Going to Brazil to visit Steven's mission.
-Making the wedding chapel even more sucessfull.
-Celebrating Sarah’s first birthday- also all of the milestones she will pass in the meantime. Sitting up on her own, giving hugs, eating solid foods, all kinds of dorky parent stuff I never thought I would get THIS excited about.

4 People to tag:
-Jeremy Foote
-Tyson Young
-Whoever reads this and wishes they had been tagged. Just pretend this is personal, "Hey _____, I like you, and so I have tagged you. Now just take more time than you think this should take and write about yourself. . . Thanks ______!"
-The person sitting next to _______

It Isn't Easy Being Green... =o)

What's Your True Color?

My Result: Green

You're green, the color of growth and vigor. Good-hearted and giving, you have a knack for finding and bringing out the best in people. Green is the most down-to-earth color in the spectrum — reliable and trustworthy. People know they can count on you to be around in times of need, since your concern for people is genuine and sincere. You take pride in being a good friend. For you, success is measured in terms of personal achievement and growth, not by status or position. Rare as emeralds, greens are wonderful, natural people. It truly is your color!

What are you?
http://web.tickle.com/jumpto?test=colorogt&c=50652

I saw this little test on our friends Marie and Tyson's blog and I wanted to see what color I was too...turns out Tyler and I are both GREEN! Let me know what you are too.

American Idol Gave Back to US!!!

So for those of you who couldn't tell-- this is us with Carrie Underwood. That is right, the famous, totally wicked cool, American Idol winning, Grammy receiving, country singing Carrie Underwood. How did we get this privilege you ask. . . because we live at a wedding chapel . . . That is right Chapel of the Flowers was chosen as one of the settings for the new Carrie Underwood music video.

So we waited around and watched about a hundred people fill our parking lot and put all kinds of cameras and lights all over the place. Then we waited around some more while they filmed, and then finally on their way out the door we got a quick photo with her. It was pretty cool, and we are excited to see our little business featured on a music video!

Sarah was so good during the whole thing. Carrie Underwood actually said (about Sarah): "Oh look she's just chillin'." :)

This was the original shot they were going to use before the wind wouldn't die down. Then they moved it all inside.

This is Katie and Sarah chilling on the set (literally chilling, it was cold and windy).

So now we have yet another Chapel claim to fame. Pretty cool, huh?

I WAS TAGGED!

I was tagged so now I can share more about myself with you. Thanks Lindzie! Here are my answers.

4 Jobs I've had:

-Speech Teacher (I loved this job, and I miss all of my kiddos and awesome co-workers)
-Gorilla package delivery service (I know, I know, some of you are probably thinking that I am joking, but actually this really is me in the photo below. Funny, huh? It was a temp job with Kelly Services and they drove me around in a limo to deliver the packages. I have some funny stories about this one. :) )
-Lifeguard
-Receptionist for a law firm

-I've also been a wedding planner, florist, and sales rep.

4 Movies I’d watch over and over:

-The Princess Bride
-The newest version of Pride and Prejudice
- While You Were Sleeping

-The Sound of Music

4 Places I have lived:
-Southern California (until I was 7)
-Henderson, NV (until college)
-Provo, UT (until recently)

-THE STRIP (currently)

4 TV shows I watch:

-Monk

-American Idol

-General Conference (only about every six months though :) )

-Occasionally I’ll catch some HGTV or Discovery Channel

4 Places I have been:
-Hawaii (see pic below)
-London

-Walt Disney World (in Florida)

-The Bahamas

4 People who e-mail me regularly:

-Costco

-Amazon

-Jason Foote’s weekly mass spiritually uplifting thought

-My Brother John’s forwarded emails from his mission
…how sad is this? Please email me! I need a pen pal.

4 Favorite things to eat:

-Dried Mangoes from Costco

-Smoothies--I have an AWESOME blender. Check out http://www.willitblend.com/ and you will see the amazing power of my blender :) Seriously, it can even blend lightbulbs, golfballs, or matchbox cars.

-Yogurt and Granola (Quaker brand granola is the best!)

-Fresh fruit. Especially peaches or strawberries or pineapple YUM!!!

4 Places I'd rather be: If this is as of right now:

-Hawaii (I am jealous of my sister-in-law Lisa who is currently living this dream!!!)

-Swimming at the lake or in a pool
-In a nice neighborhood that is not scary to take stroller walks in

-The Ranch
Or the temple. I haven’t been to the temple in too long and I wish I was there right now!

Here is a lovely picture of the ranch.

And here is one of beautiful Lake Powell (I love going here with my family every summer!

4 Things I look forward to this year:

-Moving into a HOUSE! (Well I don’t really look forward to the moving part, but I am REALLY looking forward to the living there part. Yay! :) )

-Picking up my brother John from his mission in Lisbon, Portugal!!! YAY!

-Seeing family and friends again (We miss so many of you a LOT!!!)
-Celebrating Sarah’s first birthday

4 People to tag:

-Stephanie Kearl

-Mary Gunnell

-Kedra Foote

-Tyler, my hubby (if he has time to! That way you can all learn more about him too!)

Sarah's First Easter

Sorry I haven't posted in so long. We didn't fall of the face of the earth, I have just been a little bit busy! Sorry! But we will try to do better, I won't promise to do better, but I will promise to try to do better.

So anyway, Easter was really nice. The Easter bunny left a cute little stuffed bunny for Sarah since she can't eat candy yet. But the Easter Bunny left Tyler and I a few little goodies to munch on . . . yumm! Anyway, Sarah got a really cute little dress from her Grams (My wonderful mother) She also got some really cute outfits from Tyler's mom, who is also amazing and wonderful . . . thanks grandmas!!! Anyway, between the cute dress and the cute little bunny we could not help but run down stairs to our photo studio (there are some benefits to living at a wedding chapel!) and get some photos. So here they are, our little sweetie!!!

She started sitting up nice and high . . .

But her dress was very slippery

and she slid all the way down like this, several times!

The Move

So, it turns out that moving is hard, and takes a long time, and sometimes when you are moving you put things on the back burner . . . such as blogging.

Sorry it has been so long since we have updated we have been a little busy. We have been painting, parenting, moving, working, and all kinds of other ings (just not sleeping . . . enough) that have taken up all of our time. And now that we have all of that done we are house shopping!

Why are we house shopping already you may ask. Well it turns out that our new house here in Las Vegas is not actually a house. We live in a wedding chapel, Chapel of the Flowers to be exact. We live right on the strip in an upstairs one bedroom appartment. It is pretty cool, but we do not reccommend moving from a three bedroom to a one bedroom, especailly if you add a member to your family at the same time. Yikes, we did not know where to put stuff. So we got a storage unit, and we still don't know where to put all of the "necesities"

One nice thing about our new place is that we live right upstairs from a florist, so Tyler has brought me flowers a few times, and we live right upstairs from a photo studio. We have used this a few times with Sarah and it is awesome. We also live right upstairs from a wedding chapel, not quite as useful. But funny, and sometimes we wake up to the wedding march being played right below or bed.

Alright, that is about all for now, but here are a few pictures.