VEGAS BABY!

Okay first off, Vegas isn’t on my top 10, okay really on my top 100 places I like to visit, but an occasional stop through is okay. ESPECIALLY if it is with all my sisters and my mom. Girls trip! My baby sister, Kjersti, turned 21 and we decided to celebrate, big time.  I cannot believe she is 21… that makes me almost 31! yikes.  I love this little sis of mine.  Though there are years between us all, We are all close and love being together. This trip did not fail to deliver.  We stayed in St. George at a gorgeous time share townhome and just took a day trip to Vegas to see the one and only Celine Dion! Her performance was INCREDIBLE!!! I love her music, but the way she delivers it live is more amazing that I can describe. I loved each minute of it and hated when it ended.  We spent the afternoon shopping at the Vegas Mall and then went to the Rio for the dinner buffet. I had two servings of prime rib and way too much ice cream, but it was fabulous! Throughout the weekend we ate too much food, bought too many sweets, and had lots of laughs. We listened to girl music and sang our hearts out to way too many Broadway songs, okay no too many for me and my sisters who were raised to love them, but others may have cringed by the 5th Broadway cd. (: It was such a great, quick, get away. Thanks to Holly for being our fabulous chauffer and my hairdresser! Thank you to Dave for letting me sneak away and have this trip!

Here are some highlights (photos mostly taken by cell phones)…

 

Goodbye Twenties

I turned 30 last week! And celebrated in style… in Lake Tahoe… at a family reunion.  I’ll post more on that later, but I have to say I had a great week of celebrating.  First we celebrated with the Kinnersley family, then my mom took me shopping, then we celebrated in Modesto at my favorite steak house, with WAY too much chocolate cake (did I really say that?) and then @ Tahoe. It was a fabulous week.

My best surprise? WICKED tickets from my hubby! I AM THRILLED. Cannot wait for that! He also had many people say nice things about me and typed it up. (You know the things people would say to be nice at a funeral.) It made my day. He also surprised me with cake and ice cream (and so did his parents) which we shared with the family reunion. (Anna was funny, around lunchtime she said, “Mom we have to make you a cake!” then proceeded to ask me what kind I would like. knowing that Dave had gotten me a white cake with balloons on it, that is what I told her I wanted! sly devil, eh? She was pleased to see I got the cake I wished for!)  Dave bought candles and had my name on the cake, but unfortunately it was cut before we could do the candles or take pictures. oh well.

We went to HEIDI’S for breakfast! It was delicious I got yummy crepes with an H on them (they did it special for me I am sure… acutally they didn’t know until the end that I was HEIDI and it was my birthday.) When they did find out they brought me a muffin with a candle and sang happy birthday in about 5 different keys… at that same time. It was beautiful! (;

Anna and I having fun in the bathroom…

We headed to Camp Richardson for Lunch. Dave was thrilled. ha.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anna and Chelsea had a fabulous week together, every morning Anna asked when we would see her! Can you believe Chelsea is actually a year older than Anna? She is the cutest little spitfire! They loved exploring camp Richardson and even found frogs in a tree stump and a “snake with fangs in the tree-actually that one was made out of bark!ha)

Maddie and Kendra are just a month apart and love to play together or get into mischief, whatever you want to call it!

It was gorgeous there today! Rich and Heidi showed up at the end to eat lunch and say hi.

Jamaican Feet

For some odd reason I started taking photos of our outings and moments with just my feet in them.   Which is quite odd, because I HATE my feet, if you know me well enough you know how my skin is awful, especially when I wear flip flops.   Well, with cute glitter toes, thanks to my friend, Natasha, it seemed okay to show them off a little bit.  This actually turned out to be a fun way to journal and I thought because I went to all that work it deserved a whole blog post.  (Dave also took a few pics with his feet, mocking me of course, and he’ll be amazed at how many I took.) Here’s to you feet, thanks for taking me everywhere!

Our first day on the beach

On the paddleboat 

With the Ocean waves  

Waiting to climb the waterfall

Hiking the falls

Kayak Ride

Getting read to go to dinner

Hanging out in the bedroom

Watching the sunrise

 

Making sand art

Laying out at the beach

Swimming

Dave’s feet look gross in this photo

Laying out on a pool lounge chair

Swimming in the ocean

The hour long bus ride to the airport

Waiting in the airport to go home. ):

And to bring it to a close, this was a great way to document my tan (however funky it might have been).