Vegas was a blast!! We had so much fun hanging out at the pool, going to shows, going out to dinner, and most of all hanging out with friends. I wish a had a lot of pictures to post, but unfortunately I did not take more than a few. I brought both my digital camera, and our videocamera that I bought just for this vacation, and never really used. Thank goodness Michelle was there. She ended up taking quite a few pictures and sharing them with us. The only problem is that I have not figured out how to download those yet. So here are a couple from what I have.
Aaron, Spence, Amelia, and me outside in front of the New York, New York hotel.
This is our cabana that we rented on Monday. It was wonderful!!!!! It had a flat screen tv, a fridge stocked with water and pop, a lot of seating, and a ceiling fan. We spent the entire day there and had a blast. Mike and Natalie stopped by and spent a couple hours with us before they had to head back to L.A., and then Jay and Michelle joined all of us for the rest of the day.

This is the view of our pool from out hotel room. We will definitely stay at Mandalay Bay again. Oh, I forgot to mention, the one downside of this pool is their lifeguards. Aaron found this really cool way for all of us to bodysurf in the wave pool. We all lined up at a certain point and the waves would carry us to the end of the pool. I guess we were supposed to be further back because the lifeguards blew the whistle at us. A bunch of people saw what we were doing, and started doing the same thing. After awhile there were about five lifeguards watching all of us. Aaron found a loophole though so we were able to continue and not really break the rules. It was so much fun, I felt about eight years old!

Catching Up

Okay, I am finally going to get some of the pictures from the last couple months posted.

On the second to last week of school, Max's second grade class had a sleepover at school. I got to volunteer to stay the entire time, and it was a blast. All of the second grade classes were there. The kids got to do a scavenger hunt, survivor races, karoke, have pizza, make smores on six different fire pits, look at the stars through a telescope, and read stories in tents. We slept in their classroom, and then had doughnuts and juice in the morning. Max had so much fun that he was almost in tears when he had to go home in the morning. It was a very eventful night, and I thoroughly enjoyed being able to watch Max and his friends.

Max and his team were being paleontologists and digging for fossils. (really they were excavating chocolate chips out of cookies with a toothpick)


As you can tell by Max's headband, he was on the purple team.


I just added this picture because I love it. We had Nick and Mason over one day and Nick (who does not usually nap) got tired and fell asleep with Conner on the couch. As you can tell, Conner has a soft spot for the little red heads.

Vacation is almost here!

On Sunday morning, we are off to Vegas. I am soooo ready for this vacation. We are going to be staying at the Mandalay Bay hotel because of their pool. Aaron and I are big water park fans, so it only made sense to stay where the best pool is. On Monday we are renting a cabana and spending the entire day there. Of course the most exciting part of this trip is getting to see some of our best friends again. Mike and Natalie, who live in L.A., are going to be there Sunday and Monday. The last time I saw them was six years ago. Jay and Michelle will fly in from Dallas and they will be there for the entire four days. Yeah!! And of course, Amelia and Spence will just be stuck with us from start to finish.

As far as the kids go, I might feel a little guilty taking a vacation without the kids, except they get to spend the week with Grandma Merry! Aaron's mom is driving down on Saturday to take care of the kids and my guess is to spoil them a little bit as well. We can not thank her enough!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am planning on staying up late, and sleeping in. I will post a bunch of pictures when we get back. I also have a gazillion picture from the last few weeks that I just have not gotten around to posting yet. Be prepared to be bombarded with photos!!