Las Vegas

This past week we had the opportunity to go to Las Vegas to visit my sister Angela and her family.  Jesse and Eli spent the whole weekend at a Magic tournament which Jesse absolutely loved.  He played pretty well too.  One day Angela and I took the kiddos out for some fun.  We went to the Silverton Hotel where they have an aquarium.  We were able to watch a man feed the rays and we also so a "mermaid" swim around in the tank.  Cambria was acting up during the mermaid show so I wasn't able to get a picture but I really like this one of the ray. 

At the Silverton is a Pro Bass Shop which we walked around in for a bit.  There was an aquarium with a huge fish (which I can't remember the name of).  The kids had fun playing in front of it and watching all the fish.

That same day we headed to M&M's World on the strip and on the way we met Bumblebee and Ironman.  Atreyu and Wyatt were so excited!  We tried to get Katie and Jonah in the picture but they were both a bit shy.

It wasn't the most fun trying to keep track of five kids in M&M's World but they all had a lot of fun and were excited about all the different M&M's products.  We were able to watch a 10 minute 3D M&M's movie during which Atreyu had to keep pulling off his glasses to see if everything was really so close to him.  On the top floor we saw the Nascar racecar and on our way out we met a giant, dancing M&M.  It was a really fun store that I would've loved to have spent more time in.

As we left M&M's World we saw Hello Kitty.  This time Katie was excited to get in the picture.

We spent a lot of our remaining time in Vegas at Angela's place.  It was just difficult to manage all those kids and we didn't want to spend a bunch of money.  We had fun still the same enjoying each other's company and playing with Play-Doh.  Aren't they cute?

 

 

Once the Magic tournament was over the Daddy's stayed with the kids while Angela and I went to Olive Garden and then to The Internship.  Outside the theater were some slot machines so Angela and I decided to try our luck.  Unfortunately we didn't have luck on our side and we ended up losing $11.  That will teach us to gamble.  We had a fun girl's night out.

On Monday we went to our friend Leah's house.  We have known Leah since we were kids.  I hadn't seen her in a few years so it was nice to catch up.  The kids (and Daddy's) loved swimming in her pool and then we had a delicious dinner. 

On Tuesday morning we all went to the Wet 'n Wild waterpark.  I think we all had fun for the most part but everyone was getting hungry and we had tired kids so we left earlier than we had planned which turned out to be a good thing.  We got everything packed and Eli took us to the airport but we almost missed our flight.  Thank goodness Heavenly Father answered my prayer and we were able to make it onto the plane.  It was a lot of fun visiting with our family and friends.