It's about freaking time!

Yes, I am FINALLY taking the time to actually write a post. I have been a little tired (i.e. LAZY) these last few weeks, so the most I have done regarding blogging is read and comment on other people's blogs! And with so much going on in my life right now, it's really quite stupid of me since I have already forgotten all of the "important" things I was going to write about!

So I'll just write about what happens to pop into my head.

The Restaurant:

My handsome stud of a husband is currently in Utah (again) doing training. He is training our manager and head chef up there for the next couple of weeks. Hooray!!! We were very happy that they were willing to go up to good ol' Utah. However, that leaves me without a husband (again) for a couple of weeks. I am staying in Farmington holding down the fort and taking care of whatever Derrick needs me to do for the restaurant while he is away. Hopefully I won't screw everything up! Progress is FINALLY being made on the build-out. We were held up for a couple of weeks waiting for the building permit, but things are really moving now. Here are some pics:

We are really excited about the location. It's a brand new building (very hard to come by in this town) located right on Main Street. There are 4 units in this building and we are taking up the front two with the restaurant.

The framing is now complete.

We are really pleased with how it is turning out, and think that this will be a very nice-looking location. There will be a water wall coming down from the "figure-8-looking" area.

Our Home:

Melinda Stailey's husband will probably think I am crazy for saying this, but I LOVE FARMINGTON! I love living here! I love the people here! No, there is not much to do, but I really am enjoying my time here so far! We've already made some great friends, and after the last neighborhood we lived in, it has been a breath of fresh air to feel like our neighbors actually like us! And it just continues to get better. It will be nice, once things calm down with the restaurant, to explore this town a little more. I keep meaning to take pictures of our house, but I always forget to take them when it's clean, and I still have some unpacking to do and a few pieces of furniture to purchase. But here are a few I have been able to get:

Who would have known I'd live in such a strange looking house? But hey, when in Rome...(I mean Farmington) The door is pretty ugly, so we are going to get a new one, and hopefully we will get a yard in soon. I love our oversized 3-car garage. Garages in our neighborhood are apparently required to have extra space...for a golf cart. (No, our extra space doesn't contain a golf cart--although Derrick already plans to get one so he and a few of the neighbors can start their "golf cart posse." Our extra space is currently full of boxes, and I am happy to have the extra room!)

We love to relax out on our back patio. It is fun to watch the sky here. It rains just about every night, and you can literally watch the storms roll in. We get some pretty awesome lightning storms. It's funny, though, because it can pour all night long, and there is no sign of it in the morning because the soil just sucks the water right up!

Our Living Room

I still have pictures and things to hang on the walls, and I would like to get a nice coffee table.

We had our builder customize our fireplace. We don't like the style they do here, so it was probably a frustrating job for our builder to figure out what the heck we wanted, but we thought he did a pretty good job!

Our Bare Family Room

Cecily's Room

The Master Bedroom

The Master Bath

Cecily:

Cecily has been such a good little girl. She is such a good helper and so nice to have around, especially since Derrick has been gone so much. I think she misses him when he is gone, though, because whenever she is around any other father figure when Derrick is gone, she will cuddle up to them and play. She couldn't care less about me! But I love her so much! My mom says that I take more pictures of Cecily asleep than awake, and here I've done it again. I just can't help it! She's so stinking funny!

She insists on taking a few toys to bed with her, and when she wakes up, she has to take everything out (including all of her pillows and blankets!) And yes, she STILL loves stickers, although she has found a new favorite spot to layer them on!