Family Vacation

Hello! As you have noticed not much has been going on around here....
This week we decided to take a much needed family vacation! Woohoo :) We went to Las Vegas to hang out at the pool but it ended up being cloudy and windy :( Figures!!! So we had to go with plan B...what to do with kids in Vegas??? In the meantime the girls soon noticed the castles! "That's a castle Mom!" "I want to go to the castle!" "I want to see princesses!" The funny part is we weren't even on the strip yet! haha So we had to find our hotel...I mean Tae's and Rhay's castle!!!  Once we arrived at our castle the semi-frustrating 3 hour trip to Nevada was forgotten and the fun began! We started at Silverton with the marvelous fish tank where we had to hunt for Dori and Nemo.  We ended up finding Nemo's cousin with one stripe and Dori's baby...weird...I know!  I'm learning that if a fish tank doesn't have Dori or Nemo it really isn't even a fish tank at all, at least not one to waste our time on! lol So we walked around petting the stuffed dead animals in Bass Pro! :)

As we returned to our castle the girls were so tired...that part was not that funny as we were not looking forward to bedtime in a new environment. DUN DUN DUN! :/ To my surprise I was laughing all night :D They reminded me so much of my sister and I! Rhaylee will talk until she falls asleep and Taelyn wants pitch black and silence, so we struggled in the process of them in one bed! hehehe So Kenny and I snuggled up with them until they fell asleep which took about 2 hours! While I was laying there I was just smiling and laughing! Just seeing my angels jump over one another to take turns sleeping by me and Taelyn laying in Rhay's arms, and the same irritated look on my husbands face that was all too familiar from my dad's face many years ago. I cherished every minute from their cries for their individual blankets, to tiny whispers, to girlie giggles with Kenny's slight snoring in the background. It's funny when something as crazy as that will be my most memorable moment of the trip! :)

The next day we had an adventure at the Shark Reef in Mandalay Bay where Taelyn learned to scream "SHARK!" and follow with a very loud "AHHHH!" as she looked up at the ceiling! hahahahaha That trick continued all day even at lunch in the famous Burger Bar (Kenny's and my treat for the day) where people just thought she was just too cute. ;) Of course when we tell Taelyn "shhhhh" everyone else laughs and encourages for more! :) We made our way back to the castle to try to swim in the 'wimming cool' (as Rhay would call it) and it was shivering cold :( We finished off that night with a great dinner date with PoPo! Well the visit was great... I don't think Kenny would agree the dinner was as his white shirt in between the girls didn't look so great! ;) lol But of course none of that mattered as the girls were fed and happy to see their PoPo and every role of a father seems to be a huge napkin! hahaha

Our last day on our mini vacation was at Circus Circus where we watched an amazing gymnast show and played golf with the girls! I can't figure out if the miniature golf was more hilarious than us being fooled by a magic trick and spending money on a piece of fuzz in a cup! lol I'll start with the golf story as I end with a lesson learned! :) So there were tons of rides at Circus Circus but the girls just aren't big enough so we played a round of golf. I never noticed that this course was 18 holes!!! So I knew right away this was going to be forever long, so we invited the people behind us to go ahead but they insisted they would wait their turn. Yes laughing starts now! :D So Kenny is on Taelyn's team and I have the lovely left handed golfer, Rhay.... with a huge diaper suitcase on my shoulder! Every time Rhay and I swing it's just crazy and my bag falls and moves my arm and Rhay insists on holding the club like a bat! haha Needless to say Rhay ends up picking up the ball and throwing it in the hole. lol Taelyn having an awesome time with her dad making every shot, she soon realizes that hitting the ball with the club isn't as fun as Rhay throwing it! Yep, Tae begins to pick it up and throw it in the holes. It didn't click until the end that Kenny being left handed probably would have been more helpful to Rhay than I was. haha

Yes, the family behind us is now regretting their decision to stay behind as we are chasing thrown golf balls and allowing them to put it in the hole but encouraging them to use the club.... contradicting? yep! Throwing them in the holes is faster and we were pretty much done with this game at hole 5 and telling them to at least try it with the club is "the right thing to do". hehehe Rhay is doing all right with it on her own as she has to conquer everything in her path :) Taelyn, being sleep and food deprived has now become deaf and is only worried about picking the plastic flowers apart on the course! She doesn't care about the ball, club, or holes...just fake flowers and how many she can get before I catch her as she doesn't hear Kenny or I telling her no every second! lol We barely finished 18 holes and the last hole is a pirate that " is not very nice..." because he took the girls balls! lol  Rhay didn't understand why the pirate took her ball and now being sleep and food deprived just like her sister, she couldn't care less what the reason for the ball pirating was and she MUST have her ball back!

The walk back to the car was a tad stressful! Trying to find anything that would catch their attention is where we got tricked! Earlier in the day I noticed this neat toy that was "bug like" this piece of fuzz that resembled a moving bug. Confusing, I know but we were amazed by it! So we stopped to just let him entertain the girls for a second knowing that we would not buy it as we normally don't buy the tricky aisle cart stuff. Wrong! This fuzzy bug thing was crawling everywhere and jumping up out of a cup to kiss the man and he was just too cute. He kissed the girls (the bug!) and crawled all over Kenny and I! Then the price came up! EEKK! No way! Okay girls say goodbye.... The man said, "if you buy 1 I'll give you 1 free and free cups!" SOLD! Only in Vegas.... :(

We ended our trip saying goodbye to PoPo which the girls at this point were exhausted and begging to play with their new toy, so to avoid tantrums we opened these awesome fuzzy bugs up at PoPo's house and soon enough we found this stupid fish wire attached the the fuzz in the cup!!!! Need I say more??? The girls and I waited patiently as Kenny read the instructions and apparently the bug doesn't ever wake up and kiss anybody. He is just a fuzz puppet who lives in a solo cup!!!!! Lesson learned! Consequences... 3 hr trip starting with "mom wake him up." "he's still sleeping." "mom, where is my snake (bug)?" "mom! wake him up!"
Wasn't laughing then...laughing now :)