Six on Friday - Lilly, Utah, Lights, Vertical!

I've been pretty out of commission this week.  So here I am on Friday playing catch up at my office and in our world at home!

ONE:

Gifts with purchases this weekend for Lilly Pulitzer's birthday!  Be sure to visit my friends at the Charlotte store!  These gifts are great!

TWO:

I went to Salt Lake on Tuesday for the day.  Well I left on a 6am flight and returned at 6am on Wednesday morning.  It was a LONG 24 hours.  After our meetings were finished and before we caught our midnight flight, we had time to kill.  We headed up the canyon to Park City.  The views are unreal.  Check out this waterfall! 

First stop was at Boneyard which is a cool little spot.  We had the best fontina cheese ever and Meiomi Pinot Noir is always a good idea!

Our brokers came up and met us then we went to Grub Steak Restaurant  for dinner and it was soooo good.  Each entree comes with a trip to the salad bar (always the best places have these!) and check out the steaks behind on the grill!

It was rustic and low key which was cool for a place that had amazing steaks.  We didn't have to be all dressed up or anything to be there.

The filet was huge and basically it was two of them in one!

Awkwardness 101 with our brokers.  We love these guys...they are so fun to hang out with and really make our trips to Utah much more exciting!  

Whenever we land in Charlotte at 5:45am I always tell Laura that we are never doing a red eye again (because at this point I had been up since 3:30am the day before so for 26 hours) but then when I get home and Molly Anne is still asleep it's all worth it.  I get to be there when she gets up!  

I got to sleep for a few hours that morning and I'm starting to get back in business with my regular sleeping habits today.  The time change last weekend plus only a few hours of sleep Monday, no sleep on Tuesday and traveling all of that way....I was a tired puppy!

THREE:
Got this little family photo from Sarah that Lindsay Hart took at Mary Scott's birthday party!  That's funny because I'm wearing the same Lilly cardigan I was wearing in Utah and I hadn't worn it since this party ha!  The cool thing about this picture is Molly Anne's tongue sticking out but the other cool part is that our backyard is in the background of this picture!

FOUR:
I was really into these lights and we ordered them but I think I'm taking them back.  I was reading on a local Mom's facebook site that they're very difficult to keep clean.  And they're going to be the primary focus of our large room so they need to be clean.  I think I am going to have to break up with them.  Sad.  Now I have to figure out something else.

FIVE:

Our house did start going vertical yesterday and it was amazing how quickly they work!  I went by at 9:45 and then again around 3:45 and it was drastically different.  Then we went by around 6:15 and they were still there last night working.  We got to watch them lift a large section of the front left of the garage up and wow.  Those guys work hard!  I can't wait to go by later today and see how much progress they make today!  (These pictures are from the 3:45pm visit)

My parents bedroom and bath...haha!  AKA the guest bed and bath downstairs.

SIX:

We are on a two week break from music class so yesterday morning I took her to a place called Impact One.  It's basically a huge gym that has trampolines and bounce houses.  For $5 she got to play for an hour.  It was fun!

We have some fun plans tomorrow that we are looking forward to!  Other than that, we hope to chill because I have another big week next week.  Happy St. Patty's Day!!!!!

House Update - Construction

Well I haven't posted an update on what's been going on with the house construction since the middle of February so here it is!  

They laid the block foundation and put rebar (reinforcement bar to make it strong!) in it.  They built columns on the inside to hold the house up.  Next, they waterproofed all around the living quarters which is the black stuff on the block 

Then they filled the crawl space with this itty bitty stone.  

You can also see the back part of the house - the covered porch was filled with stone.  And floor framing happened last Wednesday!

Last Friday, lumber was delivered!

Yesterday they finished framing the floor!

Covered porch all filled with stone!  We will be out on this porch all the time!  From being in our current house, we know we live out back so we pushed the house towards the road as much as possible to maximize our back yard!

Today they are supposed to be going vertical finally!  I talked to the guys working yesterday and they said around 3 weeks to finish framing plus the roof.  We'll see!

J. Crew Order

On Sunday during nap time I did a little online shopping with some J. Crew gift cards I've had since November!  I'm not sure I'll be keeping everything but I just wanted to try a few new things.  

I always get the Vintage Cotton Tee but I'm going to try their new Perfect tee and see how I like it.  I got it in green and pink!  I love simple tees to wear with shorts in the summer or to tuck into a pencil skirt for work with a fun necklace.  

Drapey Ruffle Trim top - I like this to wear under a cardigan to work.  

I bought this Sheath Dress in Fingy Lace to possibly wear to a wedding we are going to in April.

I'm going to see what I think about this off the shoulder top.  It wouldn't be for work but would be fun for the Spring and going out on the weekends.  

I had to get this cute little dress for Molly Anne!  Adorable right?!!

Hopefully I get everything by the end of this week!

Snow in March!

Snow in Charlotte is rare anyway but definitely in March!  

This is what we woke up to after the Spring forward time change!

The best kind of snow - covers the ground but not the roads!  Of course we had to go attempt to sled!

In a baby pool......

It was good packing snow so made for perfect snow balls as evident by Kevin nailing me on my hair that I thankfully was washing yesterday afternoon anyway.  He got lucky on that!

Tulips and snow are a weird combo to check out!

We wrapped up our little family weekend with pasta and provisions chicken parm, spinach and a salad and after miss Molly Anne went to bed, we talked to Dad about audio video stuff for our new house!

Today I'm in Utah for the day.  Yikes.  I'll report back in tomorrow with some J. Crew purchases I made on Sunday during nap!

Weekend - Little PM, Dinner and Play

Friday afternoon I took our little project manager over to the lot and let her walk all over the place!  Couldn't resist a couple pictures of her on what will soon be our front steps!

We got home and played outside as usual.

Then we went to dinner with Kevin's parents and niece at Chuys!  Sweet little cousins...

Saturday morning Kevin and I took her to bounce at Sky Zone then to the playground of our new hood.

Nap time for Molly Anne and Kevin's brother came over to wash our windows.  I helped him on the inside after I did roundup on the yard.  It feels soooo good to have our windows cleaned up.  We also took all of the screens off and we're going to leave them off.  Freshen things up!

Mills has really been attached to Kevin lately which is funny because he is soooo much more my dog than he is Kevin's.  

That evening after  Molly Anne's 3.5 hour nap (!!!) we headed to a new pizza place to us called Inizio in Providence Promenade.  Oh my if yall haven't been there you must go there immediately!

Then of course we went to Lowes to walk around and Molly Anne loved it.  I guess we don't really take her to those kind of places all of the time but she loved walked around and checking things out by herself!  She found this boat in kids section that she wants Poppa to build with her!

Sunday morning, it snowed!  Tomorrow I'll post about our little snow day!