Bing, Bang, PoW! Our house is Snazzy!

Let me preface this story for you: The exterior (front) of our house was U-G-L-Y. Like, to the point I refused to even go look at it when we were house hunting. Tyler had to convince me, a.k.a. butter me up by raving about the quartz countertops that were recently installed. The quickest way to my heart is via stone countertops or Mexican food. Tomato/TomAto. So... flash forward to a year later and we live here with a 9 month old. The interior of our home is nice and pretty :) but the exterior still looks like a vacant-but-sadly-it's-not-vacant-ugly-duckling house. Well, we and by we, I mean 60% Tyler, 30% my Dad, and 10% me, tore out SEVENTEEN TONS of the ugly gravel, added SEVEN TONS of dirt to build mounds and create some depth, then SEVENTEEN new TONS of new rock in a *prettier* color. Thank you Tyler and Travis. Then we installed a flag-stone walkway so we look more inviting and less like the people that live in the vacant-ugly-duckling house, pretty plants, a tree and some solar lights. And, since Tyler has a pipe-dream that someday we will be boat owners, we added a drive path of 1/4 minus gravel in a contrasting color flanked by natural stone pavers leading up to our RV gate. To top it all off, we saved $2500 by doing it ourselves. And that's what I call BING, BANG, POW! :) ***Thank you SO SO SO much to our family and friends for helping us. My Dad and Travis shoveled their hearts out, Josh helped us lay the stone walkway, my Mom can install plants like nobodies business and Monica and Barry watched Cruz so we could actually get this accomplished! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Here is the BEFORE/LAME/UGH! picture:

....drumroll, please....

Easter

Yes, I am posting about Easter and that was abooouuuuuuut 2 months ago. Sorry. It has been BUSY, BUSY, BUSY! We spent Easter at my parent's house along with about 30+ other family members. I grew up celebrating major holidays with our big family and I absolutely LOVE it. Everyone is loud and opinionated talkative and it's chaotic and enough crumbs on the hardwood floors to feed an army by the time everyone is gone...but it's us and it's perfect!!! Cruz had fun playing in his new exersaucer. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma Wagner/Karen...? I still need to figure out a "grandma" name for my mom. :) I'm really excited for next year because Cruz will get to hunt for Easter eggs, and eggs mean more chocolate for Momma! Here are some pictures from Cruz's first Easter!