Las Vegas

Josh had a conference in Las Vegas the first week of December. We decided to go with him. We had not taken a family vacation since the babies were 3 months old and we went to Oregon for my grandma's 80th birthday. We took my mom with us. I told them all half way through the week, I brought Grandma to be Cass's buddy and Jordan and Kylee to open doors for the stroller to get through. Here are just some highlights. Lots of pictures. You know how much I love to take pictures and my girls have taken after me. We had 4 cameras there. Here we go:We had Circus Circus games practically to ourselves. They had so much fun! We came home with a big bag of stuffed animals.

AJ riding his truck. He thought it was pretty cool.
Addison holding on for dear life.
The Beliagio had an amazing Christmas display.




The weather was so nice, but it did cool off at night.


We all liked the water show at the beligio. It was a little loud for Addie, but she couldn't quit watching.
We stayed at the Luxor, We had a great view of the Excalibur caSTLE AND THE KIDS LOVED THAT!




Josh got an awesome suite for the babies and Cass and me and him with a jacuzzi. It was nice to relax in after you walked all day. Jordan, Kylee and Grandma had there own room down the hall.

Aj insisted on pretending he was drowning, but only when I was fully clothed and just soaking my feet. I ended up completely wet every time.

After breakfast in Paris.
Ky and Cass after getting their picture taken with the lion cubs at MGM grand
Waiting for it to rain inside.
My m&m's




There were many crazy things to have your picture taken with for a buck or two.
Have you seen the desserts!?

We ate our way through Vegas!
3-D movie at the M&M store




One of our favortie places to eat The Rainforest Cafe.



My little gladiator


We passed this everyday on the way out and Cass thought it was so cool!

We went to the Shark reef aquarium! It was amazing! Had a room that was a sunken ship with an aquarium all around you on top of you and below you!
Sun and jungle trees!

Grandma's hang over omelet!
At serendipity, Cass is so happy to be there!

After a few days the babies and Cass needed a nap. Grandma stayed with them in the room for a nap and Jordan and Ky and I went to go get their picture with the Lion cubs. Something happened with the lions and the cubs were not there. We had to come up with something to do. Didn't take us long. We decided to go on the roller coaster at the New York, New York.
After Jordan and I shared a huge sandwich.








We took this picture and the girls texted it to Grandpa with a message of what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!
Later we went to what ended up being our favorite restaurant. Chocolate by the bald man.
Chocolate shots for dessert!






Addie ate all of Cassady's spaghetti sauce they served in a syringe.
They gave the kids little paint brushes to paint their fries with ketchup.
Cass's mac and cheese in a little pot.

The best hot chocolate in a fun little cup.
Just too cute!
This restaurant was a great , because we went to this instead of the FAO Schwartz giant toy store which the kids were looking forward to , but was out of business and replaced by a clothing store. We were sad, but had so much fun at this restaurant.
My tough guys!
We stayed in Payson with our friends the Carlson's on the way home. It was so nice to see them and catch up. We had so much fun, but I don't think I will ever go out of town again in December. We pulled the kids tree out of the box and plugged it in and put up the ornaments from Vegas and the festival of tree's and that was all the decorating we did. Which did work well for the babies. My sister-in-laws got Avon stuff, since I didn't get their gifts made. I did get my niece and nephews cute little ABC books made though.

Birthday week

We start birthdays in this family in October. We went to lunch with Shawn on the 13th for his birthday.
Then Josh's birthday on the 16th. When did he get so much older than me? Then Kylee turned 14. Yes that is right 14! When did my baby of 7 years grow up to such a beautiful amazing girl?
She had a birthday party with 4 girls. She wanted to project a movie on the side of the house, but it ended up being really cold, so they did it in the toy room. Then at 10:30pm went out and jumped on the tramp and woke up all the neighbors being so QUIET! We gave her money to help with Competition fees for Tumbling. She joined the tumbling Team after not competing in Gymnastics for quite a few years. Now she will start competing in January. It will be fun to go and watch again. I have been missing her for the 5 hours a week she practices. She is the best kid!!! Always helping out and playing with Cass and the twins. She is always out to have a good time and makes us all laugh. She gets a 4.0 without me every bugging her. She is such an amazing part of our family and we love her so much!!!!

October

We started out October by going to the Dinosaur park in Ogden for UEA. We went down for Jordan's eye doctor appointment and then to lunch with my mom and Shawn for Uncle Shawn's birthday. Then we headed off to see the Dinosaurs!
The babies walked the whole park, thinking they were so big!
They have it haunted at night, so all the haunted decorations were still up and Addie was very cautious.

Kissing alligators!Take my picture mom.
AJ decided he wanted his picture taken and with every dinosaur. ROAR!!

What's this rope for mom? Oh, to hang on and knock them all over!


Watch out, Addie Bug!!!!!!
Take my picture here mom!
The playground was a big hit! My Ky and AJ man.

Look at these rocks mom! Can I just have 2 from each display?
Is my belly as big as his horn?We had so much fun and AJ and Addie both know what a dinosaur says.

black eye

We started a play group type of thing and this time it was at Carl's Junior. We have a new one here and it has a playground!!!! Although their food is not much better than McDonalds, but they do have fry sauce. Anyways, AJ fell off a step I didn't see what happened, but went over and held him gave him fry's and my friend says, "Oh my Gosh, that eye looks horrible." I asked, "What eye!"

This Eye!!!

Not his first black or purple eye and I am sure not his last! It healed really fast.

He is always doing crazy things like swinging on the table. Addison pretends to do it with him.

Peach Days Parade!

All decked out for the parade!

My two favorite guys! Aren't they cute?

Jordan decided if he wasn't going to wear his sunglasses she would wear them. What are we sitting here for?

If you have never been to the Peach Days celebration you are missing out! They have the best parade! It starts with like 40 cop cars, fire engines, and ambulances all with sirens blaring and horns honking. I could do with out that part. Addie hated that and AJ was Ok until the fire trucks started honking.

Here I am, look how cute I am, throw me some candy!
Addie would run all the way down the street to get more candy! We had to chase her down a few times.
She sat still once she got a Popsicle as big as her head, at least until it was gone.
It didn't slow AJ down.
More popsicles
More popsicles
And even more popsicles!
and more!

After that I couldn't believe the amount of candy and things they threw out!! Cass always loves the cereal that Malt-O-Meal throws out. In fact she prayed the night before that she would be able to catch some cereal. Good thing they make sure everyone gets on and she actually got three! You got to take every chance you get to let your kids know that prayer works, right!? I told her good thing she prayed for cearal. She even got Silly bands! Pretty exciting. After a yummy lunch at Josh's Aunt Kathy's, Cass aqnd I went to the fair and boutique, once again expecting something small for such a small town, It was huge and wall-to wall people. Cass and I got split up from the people we came with. You know me, I didn't bring my phone, so we walked back to the car and waited for them to show up there too. We had so much fun! It will be a tradition for us from now on.

The Broadway Lion King Show

We bought tickets to the Broadway Lion King show a year before it came to Utah. We gave the tickets to the girls for Christmas. We finally got to go on August 12th. Grandma Debby came with us. She was the one who got to the ticket office early on opening sales day and got us tickets!!! We were so excited! It was an amazing show! It was worth every penny we spent. Cassady loved the whole thing. She kept asking what was going to happen. I didn't realize she had not watched the movie. Kylee's favorite movie was Lion King. She would watch it once a day if I let her when she was little. Her and I had it memorized and could repeat the lines from the movie.

The whole crew after the show!

Before the show started Cass wanted to take a picture of Josh and I. I kept forgetting that the camera we had flashes twice and I kept moving after one flash. This one turned out really pretty good. Cass and I waiting for it to begin.

A big thanks to Sarah for watching the twins for us. We thought Addie would have a hard time, so we brought a bunch of things for Addie to do. Addie was fine and AJ cried a lot.

Homecoming

Isn't she beautiful?

Jordan was asked to homecoming by Chris (her Boyfriend). He asked her by droping off a 12 pack of Mountain Dew and Reisen candys on the porch with a note,"You are the "Reisen" I live, will you "Dew" me the honor of going to homecoming. She answered him by dum-duming his room. Jordan and Ashley's term for throwing dum-dums all over his room and putting her answer of "I'd be a dum-dum not to go to HOmecoming with you"

Hannah brought her prom dresses over and is letting Jordan borrow them. She went with this Pink one. It looked really go on her. Beverly did her hair. I told her to pose in this picture. It reminds me of "Walk like an Egyptian" for those of you 80's kids like me.

Jordan and Chris after she told me not to take a lot of pictures.Mom, How do I put this on? I told her and this is the look I get from both of them when I said just don't stick him! Pretty funny!
After much planning a suggestion of reservations for 14 at Olive garden on a Saturday night at 6pm. (It would have taken hours to been seated) And a fight over midnight curfew, Josh and decided that we would have all the kids over here after the dance and project a movie on the side of the house. But when the temp at midnight was suppose to be 54, we set it up in the garage. Our garage set up after we moved everything to the sides. Josh borrowed a screen and set it up right in front of the door. Easier than hanging a sheet like we usually do. I got popcorn, drinks and root beer floats. They all came back to our house and come to find out all the girls had to be home by midnight! Not just our child. The boys all took their dates home at midnight and came BACK for the movie! So Jordan watched the movie with 7 boys! Next time we will just do root beer floats! She had a good time, but went to get pictures taken at 10:30 and the photographer was already gone.
Church the next day was interesting, with Josh falling asleep on the stand and me fighting babies to stay awake so I could have a nap after church too.