Vacation post (a little late)

I'm finally getting around to posting about our vacation. Since we lost our sweet little Odie the day after our return and as life slowly got back to normal and picked up as usual, I haven't had time to blog about our activities. I'm determined to do that today!

We went to my sister's house in Las Vegas. And it's ALWAYS a fun place to visit. She and her husband are amazing hosts. We had a great time.......of course, I won't go into details about the "mishap" we had on the first day when Jacob decided it would be fun to hide under one of her corner tables in her living room and literally KNOCK OFF the BEAUTIFUL marble (and very heavy and expensive) globe sitting on top. Luckily IT didn't break (whew!), but it happened to land on a plastic storage cube, which DID break into a million little pieces. Just a little stressful at the time.....but we won't dwell on that now, will we? (That was pretty much the only "disaster" that occured, so that was good).

Anyways......

My sister has a hot tub, which of course, is filled with cool water and my kids had a blast "swimming" in it. Here are a few pics:

We went to Chuck-E-Cheese's, of course, which is a must when we go to Vegas. Yeah, I know we have one of those here too, but we don't make it there often.....I guess we reserve it for when we go on vacation, for some reason.

We went to a water park too and that was so much fun for the kids. I hate to admit it, but I haven't taken my kids to one for years.....I know, I am such a lame mom. But that made this time just that much sweeter. It wasn't that hot (as Vegas goes), so the adults even enjoyed sitting and basking in the sun. Everyone enjoyed it!

This is me and my sister, Wendy!

I even think Eric had fun. He didn't get wet, but he DID swing!

And then we did the famous chocolate fountain! The trip is never complete without doing that. SO MUCH FUN!

This is Alexis, my neice. She was supposed to be mine! :) (And what I mean is.....I was supposed to have a girl in my family and name her Alexis. But that didn't happen, did it? Let's not rub it in...) But she's a cutie! At least someone in the family got an Alexis. And you can't tell that she enjoyed the fountain, can you?

And here is AJ and Jacob. I was helping AJ get dressed one morning and found in his drawer an outfit that I thought, at the time, was Jacob's. As it turned out, they had twinner outfits, so we had to dress them alike the next day. It was so cute!

On the way home from Vegas, we stopped in Cedar City and stayed a night. We went to a concert of the Hughes Brothers. They actually grew up here and we were in the same stake. They now live in Branson, MO and perform daily shows. But they were in Cedar City for the 4th of July, so we decided to plan our trip around one of their concerts. It was way fun to see them, since it's been like 20 years or so.....probably more actually. We also ran into a few friends from high school that live in Cedar and it was awesome!

Driving back from Cedar, we decided to stop at Cove Fort. We've actually never been there. And honestly, I would say it was one of the highlights of our trip. There is a special spirit there and it was really amazing to hear about the pioneers and SEE where they actually lived and what they did on a daily basis. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a chance to visit.

That about sums it up! We had a good time. Of course, all the happy smiling faces in the pictures are a little deceiving......there was also fighting, kicking, screaming and crying along the way. But what trip would be complete without that? It just wouldn't be the same without it!