Viva Las Vegas Gone Country

Four of my darling friends at work decided Friday to make a 34 hour trip to Vegas to the see the Country Music Awards; they took pity on the married pregnant co-worker and invited me to come along! We had a blast. We started our road trip at 5 pm Saturday and returned home at 3 am Monday morning. The capstones of our Vegas vacation was In-&-Out Burger and somewhere in between eating burgers we managed a church service, a pool, primping for the award show, bargaining with scalpers and The Award Show! Noelle, Laura and Valerie had tickets to the show but Cheryl and I were banking on buying tickets from a scalper. When we got to the outside of the arena when the doors opened they were selling tickets for $1,000. I love country music but I do not love it that much. With scalping prices at a high we tried to sneak in the "fillers" (the people who sit in the celebrities seats when they perform or go to the bathroom) line but it turned out that we needed to be pre-screened and be wearing a wrist band. Feeling like our options were out we took a seat on a bench and people watched which was spectacular as you can imagine. With 20 minutes before the doors closed Cheryl and I decided to see if the high rolling scalper had lowered their prices, they had come down from the thousands to the hundreds. As we scanned the area for more scalpers I saw a very large cowboy give a group next to us 3 tickets for FREE! Without hesitation I ran after him and said, "Sir, do you have any more tickets?" He responded to me that he only had one and handed me a ticket. I immediately looked down at the face value to see what we had to work with, $450! We couldn’t believe our eyes. We traded the ticket for 2 tickets and made it into our seats before the doors closed! SUCCESS! The show was amazing with great performances from, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Brooks and Dunn, Sugarland and a medley of greatest hits by the one and only Garth Brooks! We had a fun filled 34 hours with NO REGRETS!

Cheryl, Valerie and I in the back seat crew on the way to Vegas

Chery, Me, Laura & Noelle waiting for our order at In-&-Out

Looking creepy in the burger hat

Getting ready country style to walk the red carpet

Me & Val at dinner before the show

Cheryl, Me, Noelle, Valerie & Laura posing in the MGM lobby

Me & Cheryl showing off our tickets for FREE! Thank you rich cowboy!

Carrie Underwood rocking the stage
Garth Brooks rocking out to a medley of his greatest hits

Hello My Name is Earl Birthday!

I had the greatest 24th Birthday. After I woke up from sleeping in Jordan and I made a list of everything that we wanted to accomplish to celebrate my birthday! Thanks to Jordan being a fabulous friend and Historian she documented each event! Disclaimer part of my birthday was not to wear make-up and wearing our sweats!!!

First stop was shopping. We found the most success at Down East Outfitters. I bought 3 darling dresses and a charm bracelet! For those who's eggo is not preggo may I suggest you check out Down East's swim suits! They are amazing!

We worked up an appetite and of course had to go to the one and only Tom's Deli for a Turkey Sub! If you have not been there I would highly suggest going. It is just South of Holiday Inn on Bluff Street! YUM! We ate lunch there both days!



We then raced across town to Washington where we had appointments to get our hair did at the new Paul Mitchell Hair School . We fully understood getting our hair done at a beauty school could make or break the birthday! Jordan and I both loved what we ended up with! Can you really complain about an $8 haircut? We are trying to convince Zac and Chris that we need to go every 8 weeks for a cut! Below are our new and mostly improved do's!!!
After all of our hard work of getting our hair done we need a Route 44! The new brew is a Vanilla Lemonade! A great beverage of the summer! It is a must try! After being hydrated we need a pedicure in order to break out the sandals( speaking of which Chris gave me two darling sandals for my birthday! Picked them out himself)! Below is Edison who thought that is would be more fun to tickle my feet then massage them, semi-creepy!



Edison was also a great photographer as you can tell from this Pic!!!

While we were having all of this fun Zac and Chris were working on their glove tan and biking the red rock! From this picture you can probably imagine how bad they stunk!


We went to dinner at the Pasta Factory! Chris and Zac's friend from High School Scott and his wife Rachel came with us! They were hilarious and fun and we wished they lived in Salt Lake so we could hang out more.




After dinner we topped off the meal with Golden Spoon! That is right , for all of you frozen yogurt fans they have Golden Spoon in Saint George! Bring them back to the Wasatch Front, please!!!

We then went and saw the movie Baby Mama! I am not sure if I thought it was funny because I was pregnant or if it really was funny! Either way I would recommend it! Who can go wrong with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler???
And yes, we snuck this picture in the theater!

We came home and Chris surprised me with the best birthday cake, a candy apple from the Rocky Mountian Chocolate Company! It was delicious! I know I look like a creep in this picture but not as creepy as Chris's sly smile!
Toasted the day with sparkling cider that Goose left for us! As a request to my friends who live out of state and are not able to see my ever so big and growing baby bump, here it is! This was the end of the day so it looks extra BIG!!!

Thank you to all for the birthday messages! I apologize if I did not call you back! As you can tell I was very busy pampering myself!!!