Can you say Neglect?

I sure can! I have been seriously neglecting our blog and I want to apologize to all of you who check up on us now and then. I wish that I could say it was because I have been busy, but that would only be partially true. We have been doing a little traveling as well as the usual for this time of year which includes Halloween and all of the festivities that are involved with 2 kids in school. So to catch everyone up here it is.

A visit from my sister!!

Well she was actually coming to watch our kids, but her real reason was to go and see this:


We are both hooked on these cheesy kiddy movies, but I decided that my interest is solely for Hadley and her complete obsession with the "gang". I won't say that it is the same reason for my sweet little sister because she has a crazy crush on Zac Efron's character Troy. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and can't wait to buy it and add it to my collection. Next was:


Vegas Baby!!

We spent 4 days there during the middle of October so that Pat could attend a course at LVI. We finally got our vacation sans kids. We started out our trip star struck when we found out that Donny and Marie Osmond were on our flight from Salt Lake to Vegas. We were pretty much standing right beside them walking through the Vegas airport. Not every day something like that happens. But now back to the trip. I was able to spend my days lounging around the resort, shopping, reading, sleeping in etc etc...all of the luxuries that I am not really able to take advantage of when I am at home including a well deserved trip to the hotel spa for a pedicure. Thankfully I didn't have to shop alone because there was another wife on the trip as well. We stayed at the Red Rock Resort and it was beautiful. All I can say is wow. There was a ton of restaurants on site as well as a bowling alley, and movie theater. With the additional shopping they are planning to add in the next couple of years, it could end up being a place we go and never have to leave to do anything else. Although Target is only 5 minutes away! We did of course venture to the strip to take in the sites and see a few shows. We basically filled every night with something just to keep it interesting. Our first night was spent walking the strip and picking up our tickets for the rest of the week. Wednesday we saw this:



My favorite show of the week. I have seen it before, but there is something about Phantom that makes it easy to watch over and over! Then we splurged and went to The Delmonico Steakhouse for dinner which is an Emeril Lagasse Restaurant in The Palazzo. Soooo good and sooo expensive!!!

The next night we went to PF Changs for dinner with everyone that was on the trip and then saw Cirque du Soleil KA with Clayton and Amie. We had front row seats which were cool. Pat had an especially fun time razzing the actors who walked around before hand making sure no one took any pictures or got to close to the edge of the set. I was laughing so hard!! It was a great show as well.

Our last night we went to a preview showing of Criss Angel Believe. This one got a thumbs down for me. I don't know if it was because we had bad seats or if they were still working out the kinks because it hadn't actually premiered yet. Not sure. Haven't read any reviews since it opened on Halloween. There was one highlight of this show as we were leaving we had a Celebrity moment. The red carpet was laid out for Reggie Bush from the New Orleans Saints and Kim Kardashin plus an entire entourage of people we really didn't know. Kind of fun to see, but crazy as well. The picture is not the greatest considering there was a lot of people trying to do the same thing as us.


An early flight home the next day and a lost bag to boot ended our otherwise fabulous trip. I don't think we will be taking any trips without our kids again any time soon, considering Emmy walked around most days calling for us and now won't let me out of her sight for longer than 2 minutes. Although the older 2 did have a blast with Auntie Renee.