Vegas Vacation Day 5

Hoover Dam on Leap Day! Today we decided to go to Hoover Dam. Everyone had a great time and the tour was great - luckily we didn't do the long tour (comes back to the cheap thing) but the short tour was enough for Cannon! The kids thought everything was pretty cool and had a great time going up on the new by-pass bridge.

When we came back to the condo the kids went swimming again! I'm sure that will be their favorite part of our vacation!

Vegas Vacation Day 4

Today we decided to get the kids out of the house. We wanted to find something cheap (guess when you have to buy tickets for 6 kids you become cheap!). So, we took up grandma and grandpa's suggestion to visit the Valley of Fire. It is a beautiful state park. The best part of the visit was Monica saying when we pulled into the park, "Is this grandpa's idea to come here?" Of course, I tell them that grandpa AND grandma said it was cool and they thought the kids would enjoy it. Monica tells me she's seen enough petroglyphs...... funny thing - she enjoyed the park!

We walked and walked, climbed a few rocks and wore them out! It was great. We came back to the condo and Jared took everyone but Cannon swimming. They came back, ate ice cream and crashed! It was great! What a great vacation day! :)

Vegas Vacation Day 3

Today we waiting for Jared and Monica to get here - yeah! It was nice to have dad around!!!! The kids went swimming and we played games - nothing too exciting, but a nice day with all of us here and enjoying each other.

We picked up some ice cream and had milk shakes and big huge bowls of ice cream - the best part of vacation - eating way too much! :)

I figured after the last two nights I should find a way to silence the chairs, in hopes it would help the overall noise. I bought felt at Wal-mart and tied it around the bottom of the legs of the chairs. It definitely helped - although I figured we would get another visit for sure. After two full days of being cooped up - they were noisier that they should have been. Amazingly, we didn't get a visit.....

Vegas Vacation Day 2

Today we did nothing.... we slept in, watched T.V., played games, really, nothing. It was great. Of course, the boys basketball team played Saturday night and won! State champions - pretty exciting. Monica was very excited. But, since it was such a late game and they didn't leave until almost 11 am today, they won't be back to Wendover until 7ish, which is too late to turn around leave for Vegas. So, they won't be here until tomorrow.

The boys and I had a great time hanging out with each other. We were able to set up the Wii, break out the card games, and the best part, break out fun shapes that you put special 'melty' beads on. Who knew that would provide such great entertainment. Love it when I run across something so fantastic! :)

Tonight, of course, we got another visit from security. This time it was 10 pm and the complaint was, "There is too much walking around." REALLY? The security guard filled us in that the bottom condo had two 'older' couples who apparently went to bed very early. Blah..... Luckily, the boys were ready for bed anyway.

Vegas Vacation Day 1

This year we found an amazing deal on a condo in Vegas. (Thanks Grandpa) We ran into a little dilema since the boys basketball team decided to be AMAZING and go to the state tournament. Monica was cheering on Friday night and then on Saturday (if they won on Friday)..... so, the master plan was to wait for her to get home on Saturday, if they lost, and go without her, if they won. Sounds not very family 'oriented' when you put it that way. Lucky for her, we were going to leave Jared at home to bring her down when she finally did get home.

The basketball team was amazing and won their game on Friday night. The state championship game would then be at 8:45 pm on Saturday night. No way she was going to get home - so the boys and I took off Saturday early afternoon. Of course it was a REALLY long trip with Ryker asking every five minutes, "When are we going to be there?"

When we got to Vegas we found our condo was amazing. The first not so amazing thing was having to lug everything upstairs without my hunky husband. At least I had Jaxon to help be my luggage carrier! I think we brought everything except the kitchen sink. Luckily it was already here! We are also conveniently located next to every fast food place possible! We spent the evening plotting out all the amazing food places that we were going to eat.

The kids thought the place was amazing and at 9:30 (Vegas time), we had a nice visit from the security officer, telling us that we were being too loud (walking/running around too much). The sad part of all of this, they were actually being good. I think the extra noise came from us getting in and out of the kitchen chairs which made a nice rubbing sound on the tile floor. Apparently, 9:30 is late. Everyone was pretty tired so they went to be without too much complaining! :) Darn bottom neighbors.....