5.7.10
So the 4 of us made a 10 hour trip to Vegas! wahoo! Some of our dear friends the Schelins and cousins, the MacKays both live there. We left at 11:00pm and drove through the night. While the kids were sleeping, Ry & I kept time by listening to music & talking. We pulled over I think in Eli (sp?) , Nevada in a chruch parking lot and we took a 30 min snooze for ourselves...then back to the road we go! As the sun was peeking & our eyelids were burning, we pulled over at a rest stop that was conveniently in the middle of no where! :) One of the coolest men we've met lives there...I don't know how old he was, but I could just envision him liv'n on a couple hundred acre ranch. His skin looked weathered by the sun & wind from working his land. From just a few minutes of talking with him, I gained a tremendous amount of respect for him, for the value of hard work, & for the simple beauty of life & what it offers us. I thought about trials, & how they are individually catered to us. The the Lord knows us, & all things are to stretch us & give us experience.
We arrived in the city named Vegas just in time for breakfast! We ate, our friends watched our kids & we were fast asleep. We had so much fun playing with friends & cousins. We did a temple session, played in parks....which by the way, there are some pretty cool parks there! We toured some of the casinos like the Belagio (it was my first time there, & we had our kids so we were as careful as we could be)
Swinging and soaking up the sun. Thankfully it was May, so it wasn't killer hot
Davis & his cousin paused from playing so us mean moms could take a picture
Lauren loved the slides
How fun that our cousins the MacKays & the Schelins are good friends as well, & with us in town we all hung out more than once! We had a tasteful bbq
Lauren & Mya are only weeks apart
Lauren's silly face
ummm...darling house! can I please be a little girl again?
Play'n house
Thanks to the Schelins & MacKays for housing us, playing with us, creating wonderful memories with us, & loving us! Can't wait to come back soon!
