Hey Baby, lets go to Vegas!

During Spring break, we took the family to Vegas. It's been about 5 years since Ryan and I have been there. I have a brother in the Airforce stationed there at Nellis and Ryan has a cousin living there. My brother Johnathan just got back from a 6 month tour in Iraq so we thought it would be fun to visit since he was not here during the holidays this past year.

We left on Thursday afternoon and drove to SLC to my sister's house. We stayed there that night and left about 10:30 the next morning. My niece, Keli, came with us.

Saturday, we ventured down to the strip. We went to MGM and saw the lions.

We went to M&M World.

We went to New York, New York and then we rode the tram that travels from Excaliber to Mandalay Bay.

By the time we got back from that, we had 7 tired kids, 4 tired adults and one bored teenager.

Wholly cow, it is a circus trying to keep track of that many kids and trying to get them to the bathroom when they start pee-pee dancing (not all at the same time, mind you).

Saturday night, we rounded up a couple of babysitters and Ryan and I and his cousin Russel and Tanya went out to dinner at Memphis Barbeque. MMMMMMM! and then went down to Fremont Street to get a deep fried twinkie for dessert. MMMMMMM!

On Easter Sunday, we went out to my brother's house for dinner and to hang out. We got our first opportunity to play with a Wii. It was a blast. Ryan now insists that we need one. We'll see. We had a great dinner (Thanks JaNay) out on the back porch. she had also made up little Easter baskets for our 3 kids and for Keli. We had a great afternoon and evening with them.

Monday, Ryan and Russell and Johnathan went out to Bass Pro Shop. When they finally got home about 3:30, we packed the car and headed back to SLC. It was a nice drive and we got to my sister's about 11 pm. Next day, we headed out about 1 pm and took our time getting home. We stopped at our friends' new home in Malad and visited with them for a couple of hours.

It was a fun trip, and more vacation than we've had in years. When we got to Malad on the way home, it started raining and snowing. We were tempted to turn around and head back down there.

We were all exhausted and happy to be home. We might just do it again next year.