Hello Las Vegas

It's been a while since we've taken a good long trip to Vegas. And with the twins getting older we had good reason to spend some time enjoying all the sights.

We took some time to walk around Boulder City. It's a really neat little city. Highly recommend spending some time there.



We took the boys up to Hoover Dam. They loved it! They kept asking us to lift them up so they could look over the edge.





We walked across the new bridge out at the Dam, which is just incredible I have to say. These two engineering marvels suit each other well.




On the way home from the Dam we stopped at Lake Mead to feed the fish. The boys loved this as well!



We spent some time on the strip.



We showed Big H the lions at MGM-- he loves cats!



And we took the boys to M&M's world



We stopped at a local park so the boys could get some wiggles out.



We finished with a late night trip to Freemont Street-- the baby really enjoyed The Freemont Experience. Craig had never been, and now that he has hopefully we never have to go again. At least we weren't the only one's wheeling our kids around downtown at 11:00 at night.



This is why you have kids, so all those things that have lost a certain luster become like new. It's been a long time since I've enjoyed seeing the sights, in Vegas, like this. I really loved sharing something, that I've always loved, with my boys-- and actually getting response :).

Thanks to Aunt Pat and Donnie and Travis and Alisa for making this trip possible. We really enjoyed ourselves and appreciate you putting up with us while we enjoyed a good old family vacation!

Southern Utah Trip

It's true! We finally made a trip down to Southern Utah. We even took a day trip to Las Vegas. It has been forever since we could afford to head down that way. I was way excited to have a change of scenery.

The boys were excellent travelers. I couldn't believe it. Baby M was wonderful! He's a good car rider though. The twins needed a few breaks here and there, but they did very good.

We had so much fun seeing everyone one. The kids loved to play with some new toys at Grandma and Grandpa Stratton's.








Even Dad joined in on the fun





We visited Great Grandma and Grandpa Stratton while we were there. We had a fun night, and a good dinner, with them. They loved seeing the boys!



We took a fun trip to Vegas and had fun visiting with Travis, Alisa and their cute kids. We got to meet their newest addition for the first time.

Sadly this is the only picture I got of her.




The last day we were there we visited friends in St. George and their cute twin girls.

Then we visited Saddie, Levi and the kids. We had to snap some shots of their baptismal font. Saddie loaned us some pants for our messy boys- the one time I try to pack conservatively and we run out of clothes. Thank you Saddie!



Then we stopped by Grandpa and Grandma Stratton's for one last visit.

Grandma has got her hands full



I should have taken this picture the night we visited great Grandpa and Grandma Stratton, so I could have gotten all the generations. That's something I'll have to do next time we're down.



We had a great time! Thanks everyone! And thanks John and Holly for letting us stay with you guys. We really enjoyed our visit and hope we can make it down again soon.