Las Vegas Trip

I'm sorry to do yet another post about a trip, because I know it won't be that interesting to that many people. However, it was such a nice trip. We were able to go and visit my family for a few days (I wish it could have been a few days more, actually!) and the visit was almost a surprise for my sister Jessica's birthday. However, my niece (Jessica's daughter) who is not known for her great secret keeping skills spilled the beans before we got there. It was no big deal though, because we still had great fun celebrating Jess's b-day with her. A few other highlights of the trip were:

We were able to spend lots of time doing fun stuff with my family, Ryan and I were able to do a session at the Las Vegas temple, we went to church in our old ward and saw many friends and their cute babies, we went to lunch at Cafe Rio (AKA, my heaven on earth!) with some of said friends and their cute baby boy, we went to lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings (AKA, Ryan's heaven on earth!) with a girl that served as a sister missionary in our old ward when Ryan was the ward mission leader, I took Addy to the school I used to teach at where she was fussed over by all my teacher buddies and eating a huge a** dessert (refer to pictures below) at Claim Jumper's.

We had such a fun time with my family and Addy was so happy the whole time we were there. She loved all the attention from my niece, Ana. She also loved being entertained by all of Ana's old baby toys that we pulled out. The weather was very non-Las Vegasy while we were there. It was monsoon season, so there was quite a bit of rain and humidity. I didn't mind at all though, we still had a great time and can't wait to come back soon for another visit!

Jess and I and I can't for the life of me figure out where this picture was taken!

Addy doing her baby push-ups. We figured she was getting so much chub, that she should being a daily exercise routine!








"Who me? No, I don't know anything about that mess over there."


"Oh no, I've been caught red handed!"

I love how proud Addy looks of herself in this picture!

Addy and my mom at the bowling alley for Jess's b-day.


Not totally sure what's going on here, but I do know that Ryan is one of Ana's favorite people ever!


Addy and Ry hanging out at the bowling alley.


Jess, striking her most thoughtful pose.

Ry and I before going to the temple

In case there was any question, this was the dessert I was referring to above. Isn't it unbelievable? It was a gigantic (as if I even need to say that!) eclair with ice cream underneath it and whip cream all around it. Jessica's direct quote to our waiter when he brought it out was, "What the HELL is that?" We finished maybe 1/4 of it between the 2 of us.

As you can tell from the picture, we are both shocked and alarmed by the enormity of it all!