Vegas baby!

So we spent a four day weekend in Vegas last weekend, it was a blast. Thursday.. we got there and went to the Excalibur, won like 20 bucks, then walked down the strip to Toby Keith's, I love this bar. That was fun, but we were exhausted by the time we got there at 1ish. They had the bartenders that spin the bottles and do tricks, it was pretty neat. Here are some pics of everyone being so excited to be in Vegas! This is when we first got there




Friday we got to see my mom's friend Vicki get married by Elvis. We went to a for reals strip club (waste of time!), we went to our first Vegas show, Fantasy, at the Luxor, then we went to Coyote Ugly, where me and my mom danced on the bar!


My mom and Doug dancing at the wedding.

Me and Kyle mocking them, posing like we're dancing, because we are too cool to actually dance!

Posing by Elvis' pink Cadi!

Dancing on the bar at Coyote Ugly!

Saturday, we walked the strip and rode the rides. The Nascar cafe ride is short and sweet but it was a lot of fun. We hung out in the adventure dome at Circus Circus for most of the day. We went to The Steakhouse for dinner. There is a reason they call it The Steakhouse, it was tasty. Then we went to the Stratosphere where me and my mom rode the big shot at the top and then we joined the boys for our second Vegas show, Bite. Last but not least, what would a trip to Vegas be without a new tattoo!


So all in all it was a fun weekend. We didn't get to see everything we wanted too, mostly because of the late nights resulting in late starts, but we got to see a lot. We didn't wake up until 12:30 on Sunday, since we were up to 5am the night before! So we didn't get home until like 11 at night. By the time we made it to Park City and back from getting our kids it was almost 2am. We missed our kids and are glad to be back in the valley of anti sin! Our kids missed us too. Ethan wants to know if he ever gets to go on vacation with us. Kyle didn't bother to tell him that we go on vacation to get away from them! Here they are posing with their souvenirs!

Random pics

K these are not related to anything but I wanted to post them!


Hangin out in the van


I made myself a spot to read while they played outside the other day and she stole it when I went inside to get water or something.



Some pretty sweet tattoos!

Brynn's first real haircut!

I took all the kids to get their hair cut 4 weeks ago or so. This was Brynn's first real hair cut. I have only trimmed her bangs before.


Not quite sure what to think


Definitely knows she hates it! The crying was short lived


Still not too happy about the whole thing


Finally an almost smile, still wouldn't look at the camera


Oh man, those are some cute kids!

July 24th

I had to work the whole 24th of July weekend (well Thursday and Friday night!)so we did not get to go to the St Anthony's sand dunes. Kyle was bummed. In all honesty I was pretty bummed too, but we did have a little pool party on the 24th so the kids had something to do. Then Kyle went to his Dad's that night for a BBQ, and the kids did some little fire works why I went to work. Then Saturday night we had a beer pong BBQ. It was fun, we set up the volley ball net for the first time in the two years we have lived here and it has gotten regular use ever since. Kyle also attempted his first back flip on the tramp that night and landed right on his head! Luckily there were no serious injuries.


Smiling but not looking at the camera


Playing happily and my brother's butt!



Just chillin'!


Playing in the mud Saturday while the adults were eating


Holy cow!!


So proud of herself and actually she has been dirtier!

Another zoo day

We went to the zoo for something to do a couple Sundays ago. Here are a few pics!


Cheese!


The bottle Paxton through in with the giraffes. We had to find a zoo worker to get it out.


Stuck like a bug in the net


Nobody was happy about posing next to the rhino

Hangin out

My kids love their picture taken. These are just some random day when they saw the camera and we had a quick photo shoot.


Oh man! Soooooo cute


The kids favorite hiding place


Just love to see her smile


Don't trip on that lip. This is how you know he is faking being sad. The bigger the lip the bigger the fib!


Being silly, love photo shop!


So Scary


You can almost see her evil, almost, not quite!

July 4th!

We went to starvation for the four of July with our friends, Brynn and Chris. It was a lot of fun, there were a ton of kids there. We had a few cocktails, some swimming, some tanning, and a good time. Here are some pics.


Life jackets on, but no helmets! I guess they don't realize all safety equipment is not created equal!


Hangin' out in dad's hat


Does it have gasoline and horsepower? If yes, then Brynn is game!


We loaded all the kids on the party barge and sent them off into the night. I think there was about 16 people on the boat and two were adults! They had a blast and in the morning they did it again.


Just being geeks.