Busy Busy Busy

 This week has been insane.  It's been crazy.  It's been beyond busy.  There have been so many things that happened this week, didn't happen this week, that were great, that were bad...but we survived.  It is now Friday and onto another busy and fulfilling weekend.  

First blessing: Owen and his happiness.  Always such a happy kid. Even shivering in a drained bathtub (I will admit I forgot he was in there) he is happy and just laying there playing and waiting for me to realize that Daddy had not dried him off yet.  He was still waiting for me.   Oops.

Second blessing: Steven has ALWAYS wanted a Toyota Tundra.  It has never before been in our budget for him to purchase one.  Thanks to all his hard work and God's blessings he was able to buy a 2012 this week with only 7,500 miles on it.  Everything he wanted in a truck and even more.  God is BEYOND good.

Third blessing: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas inthe Kueny household.  As crazy as this week has been we stopped Wednesday night and decorated together!

Fourth blessing: I will be running my first Half-Marathon in about 36 hours.  I am extremely nervous, excited, and ready for this thing to begin and end.  There are many emotions floating around about Sunday morning.  I have learned many a thing about perserverance and determination throughout my training for this one race.  Here's to Sunday!

 

Vegas Sightseeing

Day 3 Vegas trip.  This day we did all the normal sightseeing Vegas stuff.  I even let Steven throw in some gambling.  I am NOT a gambler but he did so good not complaining about taking me around places that I figured I better let him play/waste money for a little bit.  He said it's entertainment cost.  I guess.  I just hate seeing that kind of money evaporate.  He was up for a time but NOBODY walks away when you are up because you want to get more up.  That's why peoplelose in gambling.  Of course, he stuck around to earn more and lost it all.  Oh well...such is Vegas.

I loved the Bellagio fountains.  I was expecting a bit more though. I just didn't know that hundreds and hundreds of people line up on this huge sidewalk just to watch one show that is 4 minutes long to a song.  I mean, it was cool, just not totally what I was expecting.  

The Venetian was probably my favorite of all the hotels. When I walked in I had to stop for a second because I literally thought we had taken a wrong turn somewhere and were back outside.  Nope, that's just the lighting and the ceiling.  It was pretty remarkable how much the architects of this place could make an inside building look like the outside of St Marks Square in Venice.  It made me want to go to the REAL Venice even more:)

Now for my favorite picture of the 3 days.  I just love how bright and colorful everything is in this picture.  Viva Las Vegas!

Desert Golf

 Day 2 Vegas trip.  Now, there's something you don't see every day while golfing in Oklahoma.  I had to snap a photo because I thought that was funny.  There's no grass hardly anywhere in Vegas.  What am I supposed to not run over?  Dirt?  

I purchased a Groupon to one of the many golf courses around Las Vegas.  I was not planning on golfing but wanted to go with Steven and watch him golf and spend time together.  He loved it and I have to say it was a gorgeous course.  This golf course was even prettier than the one we went to in Jamaica over the summer.  The cactus, desert, and mountains were all around us.  So different than where I am used to living!  

Seriously, how beautiful was the view from this hole?  I would go with Steven every day to golf if this is what I could look at!  Fore!!!!!

Hoover Dam

 Day 1 Vegas trip. Thanks to an extremely early start time we were off the plane and eating lunch, yes lunch, in Vegas at 8:45am.  4am wake up call combined with a 2 hour time difference makes you starving for lunch when it's still breakfast time:)  Since we were in an airport many places were already serving lunch to us weirdos.  We filled up with some Pei Wei and off we went to Boulder City and Lake Meed to see the Hoover Dam.  Of course, Steven has done most all of the things that I wanted to do this weekend but he never complained and took me along to everything I wanted to see.  

This place was massive.  Thanks to my 10 mile run the day before my knees were not too happy with me.  See that 1,000 foot high bridge behind us?  I really wanted to walk across it.  I saw lots of people doing it and thought it looked so fun.  When I saw the amount of steps you had to climb just to get to the top I changed my mind.  Maybe next time I can do it when I am not weeks away from a half marathon.  

I think Steven thought the state border lines were the coolest thing there.  There is one spot of the dam where you can stand and one foot is in Arizona while your other foot is in Nevada.  Steven used his hands to illustrate for your viewing pleasure.

Hoover Dam was a good experience and one that I am glad I got to enjoy while in Vegas. Next time though, I am going to opt out of the Dam and go for a hike through Red Rock Canyon.  That place looked amazing but once again we ran out of time, my knees were killing me, and I didn't wanna risk getting hurt right before my run.  Hiking will be a for sure thing on our next journey there!

Flip House #3

 Our third flip house is nearing completion and I thought I would give everyone a closer look at what we have been doing the last six weeks!  I would say we have about two weeks left of things that still need to be done before total completion.  We are still lacking carpet, granite countertops, a few light fixtures, sod, and landscaping.  Those are all scheduled to go in sometime in the next two weeks.  

If anyone knows someone (or even themselves) that is looking for a great house please let me know.  This house has some character and was very "weird" when we first bought it.  Over the last six weeks we have made it much more "normal" but kept some of the oddness that I have grown fond of now.  This house has BRAND NEW flooring, showers, tubs, bathrooms, stucco, landscaping, sod, concrete, electrical, plumbing, paint, carpet, light fixtures, doors, knobs, sinks, faucets, trim work...the list could go on but I think you get the picture.

It is a great house in the Union school district with a neighborhood park, pool, and tennis court.  It is located at 65th and Memorial near Woodland Hills Mall, Wal Mart, Gold's Gym, and many more stores and restaurants.  

The house is 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, and a playroom.  2,642 square feet.  Please put the word out!!!  It should be listed in about 2 weeks. 

A Full Weekend

 This weekend was a big mess of lots of different activities.  We were supposed to have football practice on Friday night but due to the fields being too wet we cancelled practice. Good for us!  A little more family time was needed anyways.  Enter "Watty".  The pumpkin.  The first Jack O' Latern the boys have ever made.  The love him.  He sits on our fireplace and I have to light him first thing in the morning (this morning it was 5:45 am thanks to the time change).  Owen has named him "Watty" and we have no idea why.  I don't know where that name comes from, where he heard it, or what it means.  "Watty" is very important to O Man though and he talks about him and to him all the time:)  Will named him "Sooner".  Shocker!

Saturday morning it was time to get up and head to the football fields for Will's last day of games.  He was sad and wanted to win both games to go out on a high note.  I was proud of him for trying his best, pulling tons of flags, and scoring 2 touchdowns for the total of the day.  He had a double header on Saturday with games at 10am and 2pm.  His team won BOTH games and he was pumped!

At the end of the game my friend Melinda gave me my picture orders that she did for us last month.  Hello...I am in love with these pictures!  They were all amazing and she does awesome work.  These two were my favorites though because they were of my babies.  My babies that aren't really babies anymore but always will be to me.  Check out her website at Melhunphotography.com to book your Fall session.  She is great!  

Now....to go enjoy my lazy Sunday.  My favorite day of the week! 

Halloween 2013

 Ahh...Halloween!  The perfect night to eat a teeny amount of dinner and then splurge all your calories on candy.  The perfect night to walk around this awesome neighborhood all while sneakingly grabbing kids treats and eating them as their up at doors getting more candy (not that I did this at all, but I could have seen other parents doing it:)

My boys love Halloween (what kid doesn't?)  This year they were more brave than last year even.  We have some pretty scary houses in our hood filled with fog machines, hands and heads coming from the ground, people that jump out and scare you, things that fall of roofs, and even a house that has a cage (yes a cage) with a person in it that jumps out at you.  Both boys did every house we came upon this year though.  I was proud of them.  Last year the cage house really got Owen.  He was never the same after that for the rest of the night.  This year, with Daddy's help, he went right up, got his candy, and was OUT OF THERE!  No tears though:)  

Tonight Ironman and Spongebob got to share in their fun with Doc McStuffins and a furry cat.  They had a blast together and ran like speeding bullets to each house.  I love watching these four cousins grow up together.  That's super special!

I'm going out on a limb here but I think, just maybe, that the boys have enough candy to last them quite some time.  This picture was taken after about 15 pieces were already consumed.  Geez!  I feel sorry for all those teachers that have to handle kids today in school. Cranky, tired, and coming down from a sugar high. I don't envy them.  Not at all.  Happy Halloween!