Caspian and house

The 20 just started! We are currently waiting for the midnight
showing of Prince Caspian and it WILL be awesome.

And more importantly...we have a closing/move in date! June 16th!
Exactly a month from today we will b moving into our HOUSE!! The
countdown has begun...

Slabbin it

I'm here at Daltile signing off on the four granite slabs theyre using
for our house. Exciting stuff!

Sunday afternoon

Packing, cleaning, packing.

Resting. Relaxing.

Eating. Inventory-ing.

Reading.

Prepping for another week.

Sleeping (arguably the best part)

We have stucco!

There she is getting closer every day to being lived in!

Brandie and I are so exited to move and are so thankful for God's provision.

Who's ready for a party?!

A complete weekend wrap-up

Woo! What a crazy week this has been, so much going on, so many places to be, shows to see. Here's what went down this weekend.

Thursday - Drove down to L.A. to see Wicked. Had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory at The Grove. Saw Jason Castro from American Idol (dreads, bad singing). Pretty sure I also saw Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) driving in her van down Hollywood Blvd.

Wicked was really good as I've said before. Elphaba, played by Caissie Levy just blew Bran and me away, check her out below, really great.



I'd already read the book that the play's based on, and after seeing it I want to read it again (which I'm doing). Also bought the sequel at Target yesterday. The girl who played Galinda (with a Gaa) was hilarious, Bran and I would keep looking at each other lol-ing. Check her doing her thing on youtube, i'm too lazy to post an embedded vid. I'm pretty sure Wicked will be in L.A. for some time, so that gives everyone a chance to go check it out....just make sure to let Bran and me know when you're going so we can come too.

Friday - Shopping at the Beverly Center in Beverly Hills, specifically H & M. Bran bought two cardigans and some capri pants and I loaded up on work shirts, socks and underwear. Then we headed back home to a TON of laundry that we were neglecting before we left; did some later evening grocery shopping, then called it a day.

Saturday - Slept in! BIG Target run for household essentials. Then caught up on Lost (Michael's back, shocker) and some other DVR'd goodness before we had to prep our salad to take to my family's Easter celebration in Clovis.

On our way there we stopped by our lot at Harlan Ranch and took a picture of THIS!



Our FOUNDATION!! We're very excited about our slab of concrete. Even more exciting is the huge pile of lumber ready to go for framing - hopefully this week!

Easter with the fam was fun; good food, good times. Sean and Allie invited us over afterwards and we watched "The Secret Garden".

Easter Sunday - Brings us to today. Church this morning, then Mimi's (twice in one week!), then home, walking, visited Mary (Brans Mom) and now typing a new blog post.

Freaking great

Casey, to answer your question, yes, we loved it

Wicked that is

I was too tired from fighting traffic last night to post so here I am
this morning.

The show was so good! Especially the girl who played Elphaba, Bran
and I were blown away by her.

Now its off to Starbucks and a little
H & M to finish off our mini trip!

Kinda live-blogging Wicked

Brandie and I are in LA celebrating our anniversary (a tad late) and
we're seeing Wicked. We've heard really good things about the show and
we're just sitting in the theater anxiously awaiting for it to start!

More to come....

I still don't like Oprah...

....however, thanks to a performance on her show today, Leona Lewis' song "Bleeding Love" is #1 on the US iTunes chart!

I've been a big fan of Leona for almost 2 years now ever since she won the X-Factor in the UK back in '06.

I've been waiting for the day when she would hit it big in the States and it looks like her time has come.

Clive Davis and her label are doing a genius job of launching her in the US, slowly building a name for her at Davis' pre-Grammy party (where she performed), today's Oprah appearance, and of course she's gonna show up on American Idol very soon (thanks to Simon who was a judge on X-Factor when she won).

Her album "Spirit" comes out in the US April 8th with a slightly tweaked tracklisting (the US staple, an Akon collab just HAD to be included for anyone here to take notice, bleh), so be sure to check it out!

Going into the weekend

- Gonna play as much smash bros brawl as possible - bring it brian!!

- Visiting our home out at Harlan ranch....think we have a foundation
now!

- Potluck dinner with friends Sat night

- Church and Relevant group on Sunday

- Catch up on tv, the Gosselins and Roloffs are calling my name!

What're you up to?

First pic of our new house

This post is very exciting for two reasons. One is obviously that here
for the first time is a picture of our house in the very early stages
of being built.

Second this is the first time I'm using Bloggers mobile capabilities.
All I have to do is attach my pic and send it to my special blogger
mobile email address.

So hopefully this means more frequent posts cause now I can post
faster from anywhere!