Quick Visit.....

Dana and Tyler are making their way down to do their yearly family visits. They were heading to Arizona, but made a stop here in Vegas Friday super early morning. Slept for a bit and then we packed a lot of play in a couple of hours with them.

The kids and I got up early and out the door, so we would arrive around 8:00 at Adri's house (where everyone was at). We played for about an hour and then loaded up and headed to my parents house. I love that when we are with cousins, everyone scatters and are in different vehicles with different cousins!

We played, fed Papa's chickens, and had fun. Then we said goodbye to Papa and Grammy and headed back to Adri's for some swimming and lunch.

Delaney was in heaven with Tori!!

I think we all were, actually!! I just adore her!

They bathing beauties!

I didn't get enough pictures, but we had a blast! The boys swam, competed and had so much fun!!!

We were sad to say goodbye, but glad that it was only for a week and a few days until they will be back for more fun!

Bellagio Summer 2016

We love the Bellagio Garden and look forward to each season to see what theme they will do. This one, this summer, is at the top of our list as a favorite!

On either side of this tunnel are salt water fish tanks. We love salt water fish tanks, so this was super awesome!!

Looking at the fish.

They always have such beautiful flowers!!

The scuba diver may or may not be getting Haden's head.

We stood and waited so she could get a picture of the clam open!

This boy is such a clam...er....I mean ham!

Loved the seat turtle!
(in fact I think I have a picture of each kiddo with it)

Oh this girl! She has come out of her shell so much in the last year. I LOVE it!!

Man I'm lucky to be these kids momma!

Art work made with vegetables!

Love the big jelly fish!

This boy, oh my goodness, we laugh a lot with him!

Grant is quite the character as well :)

And this one is just growing up too fast!

I mean, come on!

And Grant brought his guns.

Oh the whale! Another favorite!!!

I spy my people looking at me through the fish tank!

The parents (that's us) were there too :)

Such a fun afternoon we had!!

Some Bucket List Adventures!

We are slowly working our way through our bucket list this summer!

We had a blast with a Lego Challenge!

Just a few pictures from it:

Spelling his name in Legos.

For making a musical instrument, Cole built a stage with drums, lights, etc. It was awesome!

The challenge was to build an igloo. You can see that Haden's is yellow....

Kahle's igloo! His is white.....

What Delaney built with 'a' handful of legos.

Frozen Hot Chocolate! One of our favorite Summer traditions!!

Yum!!

51's game. Oh so much fun!!!

Watch fireworks!

Purple Penguin, not the first or the last of the season.

Watching Finding Dory! Such a cute, sweet and fun movie!!!

Sleeping on the trampoline!

We learned Haden doesn't love it and came in half way through the night. The other 4 loved it and want to do it again!

We have more fun planned for this week and can't wait to cross off more items on our list!

4th of July!!

Some old, some new, but traditions are my favorite part of any holiday!! I have always had a love for the 4th of July. And even more so in this time, with the government we have, our freedom is so important and we need to exercise those rights we have. 

We usually start the day off by going to the Summerlin Parade. Even though it's on our bucket list, we decided to forgo it this year. It was fun when our kids were younger, and a tradition we started, but I have learned as my kids get older some traditions will change. And I'm okay with that. 

We slept in! We took our time getting ready to go to the Tippetts for a BBQ lunch and swim.

It was a super relaxing morning and an easy going day!

All of the kids and the adults swam and had fun!

After playing for a couple of hours we headed back to our house to get cleaned up and ready for a surprise!

Watching the 51's and fireworks!

Come to find out we had purchased tickets for the 5th instead of the 4th. Since it was a holiday they wouldn't let us trade our tickets. So we opted to purchase some cheaper tickets to still enjoy the night. They did however let us trade our tickets for the 5th to another date later on in the summer. So we will get to go again.

I love these 5!!

Celebrating our freedom, as a family, enjoying good 'ol American baseball!

Sunkissed cheeks, and loving this beautiful girl!

I love how many times they took to celebrate and honor our freedom throughout the night. From the color guard and the national anthem, to having another person sing American the Beautiful. They had any person who has served to stand and we all cheered for them. They had 2 different men who had served throw the first pitches. We stood for a moment of silence. It was awesome!!

I am so very grateful for this man!!

Before going into the stadium they gave stickers that said 'I support our troops' and flags. The kids had fun with the flags!

Cosmo!!

Oh this boy, he melts my heart!!

The firework show did NOT disappoint! It was fantastic!!!

This is something Jeff and I agreed that we will be making a tradition. Yesterday could not have been more perfect! We had so much fun. And even with the hiccups, it still made it a great day to live in this wonderful country!!!

I want to remember:

We grabbed dinner on our way to the baseball game. As we were exciting the freeway there was a man begging for money. Jeff and I both felt impressed to help him. We had some extra food from dinner and a few bucks, so we offered it to him. Kahle asked why. So we talked about it. With tears in his eyes he said 'mom when we were talking about that, I felt really happy inside.'