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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Las Vegas Vacation

Okay so there is pictures at the beginning and at the end of this post with what we did in the middle, oh and it goes backwards from what we did, so the first pictures you will see are from our last night there up to the first day.

At the buffet, I love the look on Addy's face it's so funny and of course Nyah won't stop from eating her icecream.



Here is Aisia with Keira, my nieces crack me up.


Here is Jer and me at the Buffet


Here is Ryan and Kelly at the buffet


We couldn't resist having a picture with the Cocoa-Cola bear
All the kids playing in the pool on Monday
Kell, Jayda, and I lounging by the pool, watching the kids play
I think she likes this water

Keira I think died and went to heaven when we walked into this room full of "M's" she wouldn't stop looking at them and touching them, her and her sugar addiction.
Jared liked this Elvis we saw whilst walking to the M&M factory
Keira kept looking into the M&M's mouth like she was looking for the person inside this costume it was so funny
Me, Ny, and Jayda with all the "M's"


So we had a BLAST on our trip to Las Vegas. We got there Friday night around 8 their time. We just hung out and visited the first night. We of course stayed up late and the kids where so excited to see each other. They have 2 girls, Aisia who is 9 and Addy who is 6 and my girls LOVE them. So the next day we got up went to Lake Mead for two days, the guys camped out there overnight with the girls, me and my sister-in-law, Kelly came back to sleep in the house. I totally would have camped out to but with Jayda I figured it would be too hard to get her to sleep and then the whole heating up bottles thing. So we slept at their house and met them back at the lake the next morning. So we had so much fun at Lake Mead, it was too cold to go swimming in my opinion, well the Lake was cold, the weather was PERFECT! It was in the low 80's the whole time we where there. We loved soaking up the sun and totally needed it. We found this perfect little cove with a beach where we camped, the kids loved playing in the sand and the water. We roasted hotdogs and had smores the first night which was fun. We did more boating around the second day where we saw the Hoover Dam which was neat, I have never seen it so I was excited to see it for the first time. We where all so tired when we got home that night, we just had some Pizza and watched a movie. The next day we took the kids down to the strip to see the M&M factory since they had never seen it. We usually don't even go down there when we visit Las Vegas which is just fine with me but this time we decided to for a few hours while my nieces were school. We saw the Lion exhibit at the MGM Grand which the kids liked and they LOVED all the M&M's which where super expensive, they where like $10 a pound so we didn't get any of those, we figured we had eaten enough junk food that weekend anyway. After we got back my nieces were home from school, so we decided to let the kids go swimming in their pool, they all had a blast, while the adults just soaked up the rays lounging around the pool. I love their pool to it's really neat looking with a waterfall. That night we figured we can't go to Vegas without hitting a buffet. We went to our typical buffet at Green Valley Ranch which is local casino in Henderson where they all live. It was yummy as usual. We came home and went to bed, the next day we were just getting all packed and ready to go. My sister-in-law was getting rid of a TON of stuff so she gave me a TON of clothes, shoes and even some shoes for Keira we could not fit anything else in our car even if we tried. I love when she hooks us up with clothes so I wont have to buy any, any time soon. So we drove back home on Tuesday, the drive wasn't too bad but I hated watching the tempeture gage in our car get lower and lower the further we drove. So we loved our vacation and are now hating the cold tempetures of Utah. We need to go on vacation more often, as I really enjoy it. Okay so the rest is just as promised tons of picts from our trip, I took more but of course just picked a few.









Kelly, Ryan, Me, and Jared on the boat at Lake Mead
After 2 days at Lake Mead the girls were very tired and layed down to watch a movie
Here we are looking at the Lions at the MGM Grand
In front of the New York New York



Roasting Hot dogs
Aisia, driving the boat
I thought this picture was funny of the girls, look at their hair flying
me and Nyah in front of the Hoover Dam





The girls loved playing on the tubes and then Jared would stand on shore with a rope and run to pull them in and they loved it. Why we didn't just pull them behind the boat I don't know.
Nyah and her favorite cousin Addy, they are inseprable whenever we get together with them
So I LOVE this picture, do you notice the my baby's freakishly large foot on the left. . . ya it's Keira's who is sitting next to her, I thought it was funny.
No boating trip would be complete without Keira's "Yummy's" that is the term she has reserved for Starburst's, she loves them and whenever we go boating with my parents they always have Starbursts so when Ryan and Kelly had them to she was so excited.





They even have to have the same swimsuits
Here is their boat, it is really nice and very roomy
Me and Kelly
Jared and his bro







Nyah was our sand castle builder, well she played in the sand a lot, I don't know if she ever did build any sand castle though.
Keira loved the water and would always go in backwards and not very far.
Our little sun bather, complete with her umbrella to keep her in the shade.
she didn't like this water very much, i'm telling you it was cold.
This says it all, it cracks me up































5 comments:

The Mathews Family said...

Hi Jess! So cool- we can keep in touch better now :)

Boy am I ever jealous of your Vegas trip! Looks like you guys had a great time. Your girls are absolutely scrumptious!! Glad you took a minute to say hi!

Shamae (Ghost written by Loren her hubby) said...

Wow what a fun trip! So jealous of the warm weather down there!!! I loved the boating pics! Makes me wanna go boating!! Anyway sounds like a great trip!

The ZamFam said...

How fun for your little family! It makes me want to go to Vegas!! Now that you have been back for a couple weeks, are you ready to go back?

Shannon said...

Looks like you had a great time! I love Lake Mead eventhough I have a nice saphire ring at the bottom of it.

Nichole said...

Ohhh Vegas looked like fun. My brother & s-i-l live their with their 3 kids. We are definetly due for a trip down there but I am thinking gas is so outrageous right now. But your blog has inspired me...maybe we should take a trip, soak up the sun, eat a buffet, etc!

BTW...I love Nyah's school pics...it has been fun bein gin the same class this year! Mrs. Morgan is fabulous!