Vegas....Again!

August 23-26

This past weekend Jared and I went on a couples weekend to Vegas.  I was so nervous to leave my kids as any mother I'm sure is, but my mom and Jared's mom pitched in and I was fine away from my little munchkins.  We had such a great time.  Although I love my children more than words can describe, I do have to say that it was a big treat to just worry about myself for a few days.  I got to sleep in, treat myself to a massage and be with my hunny bunny Jared.  We so needed a weekend to ourselves.  Jared was so sweet all weekend making sure I was happy with plans and making sure he took me to do whatever I wanted. 

Day 1:

We arrived at the hotel and decided to walk over to the outlet mall that was near and do some shopping and then headed back to the room to get Vegas Strip ready.  We went gambling for a bit and did dinner  with our friends, then we all went to a club called Tryst that was awesome.  I was a little tired this night and I think Jared got worried I was going to be a bum all weekend, but I think I was just tired from getting everything situated with the kids, packing and just trying to get out of town.  I was ready to call it a night at 2am.  (That's still hella late though, right?)



Jared at the Farmington Airport goofing off while we had an hour delay.  (This is one of the reasons I love him)



Day 2:

Jared dropped me off at Fashion Show Mall while he went and gambled.  I needed to get some accessories for my dress I had bought the day before.  I managed to shop for 4 hours and it was awesome.  You don't know how great it was to take my time and do whatever I wanted to do.  It was great! I later met Jared back at the room to get ready for our night.  That night was the best night.  We started out going to dinner at Tao at 6pm (LOVED) and then we had the Beatles LOVE show, which surpassed my expectations by far.  It was so wonderful I didn't want it to end.  After that our friends Christy and Clay reserved a table at Moon at the Palms and we danced till 4:30 am. and I still wasn't ready to go, it was the time of my life.  We had so much fun letting loose and getting down.  I'm not really a fan of that show the Jersey Shore, in fact I have only seen like 10 minutes of an episode and hated it, but thought it was kinda cool DJ Pauly D was there getting down DJing.  I like seeing people from TV. 

After that we got a limo back to our room, got changed and headed to Denny's.  We were all starved.  Then to BED at 5:30am.  I was a zombie.  I believe we slept till 11 the next day.

Jared is having the time of his life

Day 3:

We got up at headed to lunch and then Christy and I had a facial and a massage scheduled and you can imagine how wonderful and relaxing that all was after the long night we had.  Later on that night Jared had made reservations at Delmonico's in the Venetian just him and I so we got ready and headed there.  It was so nice to be on a proper date with just my husband and I, especially since we really didn't do a date night for our 6 year anniversary.  I love him so much.  It was delicious food and even better service.  It was amazing.  After dinner we headed to Madam Tussuad's Wax Museum which was so neat.  I loved seeing what the celebrities looked like in real person.  Some of those figures are so real, it's trippy.  We finished the night gambling, which I of course lost and we headed home to be in bed by 1:30am.  I was pooped.  We slept till 8:15 the next morning.  I felt very rested.

Of course we had to get a picture with Spiderman at the Wax Museum so we could show Kade

Day 4:

Go home day.  Before we had to be at the airport at 4, Jared and I met up with my aunt and uncle from Mexico that happened to be there on the same weekend.  We met them at the Sugar Factory for brunch and then my aunt and I headed to Sephora which was nice spending time with my mom's one and only sister.  I love them very much!  After we parted ways with them Jared and I decided we would play our luck one more time and try and win some of our money back and we had no such luck and no more money, LOL.  Oh well, it was a blast anyway.  We then needed to get the kiddos some treats back at Sugar Factory and the M&M store.  After that it was time to make our way back to our hotel for a short nap and check out. 

What a wonderful trip.  I didn't get many pictures at all, but it was a great time and I am so thankful to my mom for staying at our house all weekend and also to Jared's mom for being a huge help as well.  Couldn't have done it without them.



Us with My Aunt Monica after eating at the Sugar Factor



My babies

I love my babies more than anything and can't believe how fast their growing. I want to cherish every single moment with them. Here's a little update on what's been going on with us.  I took Taylor to the doctor last week because she has had this cold that was lingering and starting to keep her up in the middle of the night so I thought I would take her since Jared and I were headed to Vegas this past weekend, and thank God I did because my little Sugar has a double ear infection. I never even knew it. She'll be better now though with her medicine. As for Kade he's doing awesome as ever and had a wonderful time being with his Nena (My mom) all weekend while we were gone. I was very nervous to leave my babies, but I knew that they were in good hands. Looking forward to sharing our Vegas trip. Oh, I got my necklace 2 days before we went to Vegas,  just in time for when I left my babies and I was so pumped about it. It's perfect and I love it and I love more than anything being a mom to my two sweet angels.  Here's some random shots of my kids getting bigger and smarter by the days. 

I sure do love my babies!

LOVE

My recent Etsy purchase

I have always loved these necklaces and recently bought my girlfriend one for her birthday and see it on her all the time.  I have been eyeing these for a while and finally decided I had to have one.  I contemplated getting one with a pearl on it, since you know the saying "Mother Pearl" but when I saw this one I thought "Yes, definitely this one".  I saw that some had separate circles for the names, but the representation of my kids' names being on the same circle meant to me that they were close and together and the heart over it to me means that they have my heart, that they are my heart.  I also love the stamped look as well. Can't wait to get this in the mail, I don't think I will ever take it off.  I think every mother should have one of these necklaces.  So excited!

Obviously my Kids' names will be on there

Kade and Taylor

Pagosa

Labor Day

This past weekend we headed to Pagosa for Labor Day.  We rented an 8 bedroom cabin with some friends of ours and glad we did it.  We had such a wonderful time sleeping in, laughing over good times, playing cards, taking walks, hiking to a waterfall and just sitting around visiting.  Glad I had no phone service so I could just let go and relax and slow down from the realities of life for a few days.  My little Kadders had a temperature throughout the weekend, but when he had medicine in him he seemed fantastic, we knew it was probably a virus that needed to run it's course and with us just out in the middle of nowhere able to relax we all figured he would be doing the same thing at home so we might as well make a weekend out of it and stay.  Glad we did!

  

As we were leaving the waterfall we ran into a girl I went to Junior High and High school with and she was with her boyfriend who happens to be an NBA Player that Jared likes to watch so Jared caught a photo with him.  It was kinda neat.  However we outed him to all the people at the waterfall, not sure if he was happy about that. 

Chris Anderson AKA Bird Man (LOL)

The last day we were in Pagosa our friend Christy told us about this farm about 5 miles out of town, so we all decided it would be fun to stop by there before heading home.  The kids really liked it, and I'm happy we went.  There was no one there so the lady rode around on her four wheeler and gave us a person show in feeding the animals so we were able to get really close to them. 

 Taylor, watching her Dad and Brother feed the Ducks.