Las Vegas (beware picture overload)

so as you all may now, my sister Cassi moved to Las Vegas about a month ago. My other sister tracy and her 2 girls along with me and my 2 boys and my mom took a ROAD TRIP to see her. Can you imagine- 4 kids under the age of 4 and 2 sisters and there mom all in 1 car for about 6 hours!!! That was a call for DISASTER!! well guess what, it was not actually that bad. no i am not just saying that because my mom and sister are going to read this, it really was not that bad. We made it 3 hours before we even stopped for our first potty break! then we made it the next 2.5 hours with no potty breaks. yeah for diapers and no drinks!! we had a great time hanging with my sister and her kids and hubby! we did not do to much exploring around vegas. lets face it, it looks just like AZ except for all the lights and people and thats only if you go to the strip. which who really wants to drag 6 kids to the strip?! well we did! we just saw the Bellagio water show and left. it was a little disappointing though. all that works getting the kids out of the carseats, putting them in strollers and potty breaks was not worth the 20 minutes of watching water shoot into the air. my kids and i enjoyed it, but there were some others worried there brother was going to fall in the water( Madi) and ones who did not care about the water at all ( jersie). anyways we had a great time give that we had 6 kids locked into house for 4 days! we did venture and go to the splash pad and the kids had a blast there. Also the best part is that i got to FLY home. I stayed a couple extra days and got to fly home!!! no road trip home for me! well i just want to say THANK YOU to my wonderful sister and her husband for opening up there house and letting all of us stay there. I think the next time we go we might all get our own HOTEL rooms. Even if we dont make that decision i think cassi and her hubby will ask us too!!!!!

fun at the cabin

the crawdad ryland and roy caught
ryland actually held the crawdads until one pinched him!
parker loved to get on the quads and go for a ride
parker just chillin. while roy parked the other quad parker thru a fit because i took him off, so he had to sit on this one until roy came to put it away
ryland and mom going for a ride
ryland did not like mom driving, so roy took him for a fast ride!
ryland having fun
parker and daddy going for a ride
ryland walking around looking for sticks and stuff!


this past weekend we spent some time up at our friends cabin in payson. we had a great time just relaxing and hanging out!

finally done!!

Saturday night we had a date night. we were sitting at dinner thinking about were we should go next. we had a few errands to run but nothing really in mind of what to do. So what better to do with our time while we have a babysitter than to go to Home Depot and get stuff for projects at home. We ended up getting stuff to paint 2 walls and redo our dining room table in rustic black finish. so we painted a wall in the dining room red. then in the kitchen a blueish green color. it appears to be pretty blue in the picture. it has a tint of dark green in it, if u can picture that in your head. then we are still redoing the table so pictures will come later for that!! we managed to paint 1 coat of pink primer and 4 coats of the red during naps on Sunday and Monday and the kids spent the night at Roys sister Tuesday night while Roy and I stayed up til 1 am taping and painting our 1st coat of the blue. Then Wednesday I painted the 2nd coat before i had to get the boys. Thanks Roy for staying up late even though you had to go to work the next morning. Also thanks Buffie for keeping the boys so i could get it done in one shot...

random

i put Ryland to sleep one day in his bed and later i went to get Parker from his nap and found ryland sleeping at the top of the stairs!! as long as he is sleeping, i guess it does not matter were:)

lake

we went to the lake with our friends DJ and dawn a couple weeks ago. we had a great time. we went tubing and swimming and just relaxed. Ryland and Mia tried to catch some ducks while they were swimming. needless to say they did not cash any:( we had a great time. a Bug Thank You to the Pratts for inviting us to go!!

lulu's bday party!!

i am so late on updating. so there is going to be alot. we went to my nieces bday party and had a great time. they had a huge water slide and 2 little pools to play in. the kids had a great time. then towards the end they broke out the water balloons. what a great party. Thanks LULU!! hope you had a great day!