Sunday, October 14, 2007

we want to viva in las vegas

We just got home from a getaway to Vegas! We had a blast while we were there! We had Fall Break at school and decided if we stayed home we would probably just lounge around all day, so we called up Jenny's cousin Jana and her hubby Joe and decided to go spend the weekend with them. They were such great hosts and their house was awesome and it was fun to spend time with them...
The first night they took our kids and let us spend a night on the town. We ate at Cheesecake Factory (of course!) and walked through the malls on the strip and watched the fountain show at the Bellagio (that is my favorite part! There is nothing naked in it)

Vegas has the best parks! This one is the one right by her house! Isn't it cool?! It reminded us of the Bug's Life Park in DisneyLand...






Zoey and Livy (Jana and Joe's girls) have one of those motorized Barbie Jeeps and Jack was OBSESSED with it! He wanted to ride it any time we were at the house. He had a great time on it... (although I disapproved of it's color--he had the best time giving Chunky rides)

We went to a really cool aquarium in the Mandalay Bay casino. It was a "predator based aquarium", which means sharks! So we took this picture for Josh-- thought it would be his dream job if law school doesn't work out--shark tank cleaner.

(Jack was afraid of the sting ray--we had to hold Chunky to keep him from diving in)
We took the boys to the Lion Habitat at the MGM hotel (right in time for feeding hour). Jack LOVED it! He made sure Nana saw his brothers.


Vegas is a fun place for hiking...we went to this desert conservation hiking place--it was cool.



(This is the cactus that falls on Lightning McQueen in CARS)
We got tickets to the UNLV vs BYU game. We sat by some obnoxious UNLV fans, so it felt good to win! Yeah baby, Rise and Shout!

This is the gas station in Beaver where we stopped on our way home. Jenny and I took a picture in this chair when we went down to Vegas for Sam Thorley's farewell.

It is good to be home. We are putting out the suggestion to the family that we all move to Vegas! We LOVED it! It was warm and fun and central to so many thing like skiing and deserts and red rock and the beach and DisneyLand and Mexico! (Ok, the last one is wierd, but it would be a fun place to live...not as fun as Hawaii)
Oh...P.S. Our close encounter with death...

8 comments:

Julianne said...

Hey butlers! I stalked your blog off of Clint's? Bertie's? Oh, I can't remember... anyway - I was so excited to find it! I can't believe that you have two beautiful sons - time passes SO quickly! I hope your little family is doing as well! Please keep in touch! - Julianne (Pratt) Smoot

Holly said...

Oh, so that's where you were when we were waiting for you to some home teaching yesterday. :)

Aaron and Jessie said...

Wow looks like ya'll had a super fun time! I'm jealous! I couldn't believe that park! you weren't kiddin Jenn when you said they have fun parks there. That picture made me want to run and play on it! and of course I'm so jealous ya'll went to Cheesecake Factory, its been way too long that I've gone without it. Next time you want to go we'll come along.

josh and jacqs said...

I dodn't know you guys left! It looks like so much fun!

Emma and John said...

oh my gosh- that looked SO fun. I've never been to Vegas. I can't believe you found an MLK street! You guys always have great adventures.

FOREVER 8 AND MORE... said...

That did look fun! Are you sure the boys don't want a Barbie car for Christmas?

shannon said...

so very fun! i love all the lights and things to do in vegas...it makes me wanna live there and then i get back to reality and realize i hate the smoldering heat! sounds like you had a great time!

Marc said...

What's up, friends? Found you guys through Shane's blog. Blog-stalking is awesome.