Routine to Random

The past week or so since I have written (possibly more) haven't been terribly interesting. I mean they weren't bad or anything, just not something I thought worth blogging about. Some highlights, but not enough to make a blog entry worth reader's time. At least in my opinion.

But things are changing!

Firstly, Breanna (the lovely Mrs. Sykes) and I have been taking an adult ballet class for the past few weeks. You can read my views on it on my last SpouseBUZZ article here.

Home life has been the same. Applying for jobs and spending time with Rylie and Ryan.

Rylie loves to go under our bed, Ryan decided to join her and they spent an hour playing. Cute.

Sometimes Rylie just wants to be close. Ryan was napping on the couch and Rylie kept kissing him and bugging him, so this was my husband's solution.



We love playing Draw Something! This was my husband's latest creation and it was so cute I had to save it!

Now our Rylie is very very destructive! She is a powerful chewer, so all of her toys recently have been completely torn apart. She literally had one nylabone left! So today we ran to PetSmart and got our pup some Powerful Chew toys. For over an hour she chased this Kong around the garage trying to get the treat out and now is chewing her bacon flavored HARD plastic S. Pup is still chasing the stuff around the living room.

Now last week a friend of mine posted on my Facebook that the Community College was holding auditions for Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. I got excited and decided to give it a go and audition. I was pretty nervous, it has been a long time since I really auditioned for anything! I left really early and got to the theatre almost an hour early and naturally it was pouring rain. I forgot my umbrella so I went in looking a little bit like I swam there.

Ever enter a room and realize everyone in the room know each other already? I had one of those moments but luckily theatre people are pretty welcoming. Being a newcomer I wasn't sure how good my odds were but apparently it didn't matter..... I got cast!

This email arrived at 12:15am this morning, just as we were going to bed. I think I scared the crap out of Ryan when I screamed! I forgot how amazing it feels to see your name on a cast list! And Mollie has a lot of lines... I am going to be busy for the next seven weeks! Rehearsals start Monday and I am really looking forward to it. I will be out of the house and doing something I love. Perfect.

 Of course the show is in October (psst Jacksonville ladies, please come!) and Ryan is due to be in California for training the entire month. Sigh. It always tends to work that way doesn't it? Out of the six or seven shows I have worked on or been in since Ryan and I have started dating I think he has made maybe three of them. Not too bad but I wish he could come to this!


So hopefully I will have more stories and things to share soon now that I will be getting out of the house more. And thanks to everyone on Facebook and Instagram who already said congratulations and other such things, it means a lot to me!

Las Vegas!!!

What a blast.

Seeing Ryan at the baggage claim waiting for me was honestly an explosion of happiness. Yes, I just said explosion of happiness, it is appropriate. He is thinner (all that working out!)and all muscly and just as handsome as ever. I gave him a huge hug and may have held it about five minutes. Straight. I was so so happy to see him. It made getting up, going to work, taking a metro, two flights, a four hour layover in Atlanta (where a Marine returning from Afghanistan via LeJeune shared a table with me at dinner, how do they always find me?!) all so so worth it!

We got to the hotel around 11pm Vegas time so my poor east coast body was exhausted but I carted the professional wedding album my mom gave me as an early birthday present in my carry on so we looked at that... and Ryan had champagne (: Needless to say I was up very late that night.



We slept in and then made our way to our first all you can eat champagne buffet. You give us eggs Benedict and french toast and you get happy Loves.







We wandered the casino a bit before getting on the monorail and hitting The Strip.

Our first stop was the MGM Grand. There was roulette to be played and a Lion Habitat to explore.









We then wandered around got our first real taste of The Strip as the sun was setting.



It was hot so Ryan and I grabbed some frozen absolute lemonade and saw lots of the hotels like....

The MGM



NY NY





Excalibur



Paris





And many more.

Gosh I have a lot of pictures.

We went on a gondola ride at the Venetian and the guy even sang to us! Two songs were all Italian so I didn't know them, but he did sing "Bella Notte" (:




Shows! We saw two shows!

Blue Man Group



And Penn & Teller!!!






And of course the Bellagio Fountain Show (:










The Bellagio Fountain Show... some of it

There was a lot of roulette played, money lost (that we set aside for gambling only) but it was a wonderful time. I loved being able to hold his hand, rest my head on his shoulder, hug him and kiss him, and fall asleep and wake next to him. It was wonderful.



And the lights! It was crazy cool. We walked around as much as we could and still did not see close to it all.



All in all it was a great trip and very hard to say goodbye to him again :(

I did see the Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon from the plane though on the way back.





But good news.... I turn 24 tomorrow! (: