Family Vacation to Vegas

Kiel gave me the go ahead for our mini trip to Vegas on Tuesday morning.... We left Thursday afternoon... Although no one was in Vegas when we went.. it was just nice to be together just the 4 of us. We stayed at my parent's condo (thanks mom and dad!) and enjoyed the sites... here's our trip...

Friday morning we dedicated to checking out the strip... it's been awhile since I've really walked around and for everyone else it was their first time. I am not a Big fan of being a tourist but for 3-4 hours I was one... Yikes. Here's Connor at the Harley Davidson Cafe... thought Grandpa's would appreciate these shots! Connor saw this and said "big modorcyle!" He was thrilled to be able to get on it!!!

Next was the M&M factory!!! Interesting shop... 4 floors of over priced merchandise no one would EVER need in their life. We got Connor a bag of M&M's and ran out of there!!

He did enjoy the M&M Nascar.

We patiently waited to see the water show... but our patience ran out... it was getting too close to nap time!

After nap time we went out to the pool... not really warm yet but it was fun. We loved the kiddie pool!

I love this shot... you can see the blue car Connor threw!! He was having fun throwing the cars and then Rescuing them!! Like Buzz Lightyear of course.

Then we cleaned up and went to go see the temple... So beautiful. Kiel and I will have to make another trip and go inside! In this this picture I literally told Connor go stand by the flowers so I can take your picture... he sat on the ground, crossed his legs, turned his body and said "Cheese". Wow... that's my boy!

I had to add this sassy little face! another one his poses!

This one I have to say was my idea. I love my little boy... So willing to play along.. for now at least.

Our little family in front of the temple! It was a good day!

Saturday morning we decided to make the 2 hour drive to visit Grandma and Grandpa Miller in St. George. It was so nice seeing them and just relaxing in the backyard while chatting. The kids loved being out of the car and playing with all of Grandma's toys!!!

Plus Grandpa let Connor play on his piano... I thought we were going to have to fight Connor into leaving.. :(

That night we went to the Red Rock Casino Buffet.. what's a trip to Vegas without going to a buffet.... this is a video of Chloe after feeding her whip cream and a little big of frosting!!! She was a happy baby!

We had a great trip... Thanks again Mom and Dad!!

8 Months + Zoo Day

A little late but yesterday I took Chloe's 8 Month photo!!! I didn't trust her with the actual piece of paper.. so it's taped to the couch:)

Next we went to the zoo!!!! Connor loves having the zoo passes!! We went with cousins...Caleb, Gideon and Cori!! It was a fun day.
Chloe missed her afternoon nap.. she couldn't miss anything!

Kangaroo!!

Komodo Dragon... and after taking Connor to go see "How to train a dragon" on Tuesday, he loved seeing the Dragon!!
Cori and Connor riding the little horses in the new barnyard area at the zoo!!

Easter Weekend

I have to catch up a little.... Monday morning I came down with Tonsillitis.. something I get once a year so... it's horrible but I try to get meds asap. So I am on the down slide now... so I can catch up on some blogs now.... Easter was really nice this year... The boys woke up to their joint basket... I didn't do too much... the toy story 2 movie satisfied Connor!!! He loves Toy Story so much right now.. we are excited for Toy Story 3 to come out this June!! Kiel surprised me with a beautiful diamond ring... it is in the shape of a bow... super cute and really a shock. He normally isn't a romantic but I always say he has his moments!! Anyways, we had a great breakfast with Marc and Mikia and watched conference... Then after the afternoon conference we had more family come over and had a great lunch and did an Easter egg hunt for the kids. It was a great day and Conference was wonderful!!

All Kiel said he wanted was the classic chocolate bunnies!!

Cousin Taylor on the hunt for Easter eggs.

Cousin Caleb!!

Connor had so much fun with his cousins!!!
Chloe jealous she couldn't run around with everyone else!!!

Kiel and his 2 brothers, Marc and Sean with the 3 boys! Gideon, Connor and Caleb

Happy Easter.... Love Chloe!!

Don't kill the flowers

Spring is here!!! ....... well.... it's been here for awhile now... well let's just say it didn't go far. Arizona has 2 seasons...beautiful.. and I want to die. Right now fortunately it's beautiful so I decided to switch out the flowers in my pots this weekend. Not that the ones that were in them were dead they were just.... being lazy. So I refreshed them! The weather is just wonderful. Connor and I find ourselves outside all day long and love it. Anyways. Here are some of beeeeeeautiful flowers!

Easter Egg Hunt

Every year the ladies in the ward put together an Easter egg hunt for the kids instead of our traditional "park day" on Friday mornings. Plus the kids in our city don't have school so there are always a ton of kids, which makes it so much fun!Before the madness started I had to wrangle Connor to sit and take a picture! It's torture to just sit and look at all those eggs!!
Miss Chloe in the cutest white outfit provided by Great Grandma Miller!!! Super cute!

And he's off... He could barely sit still!

He asked if he could pick this one up because it was pink.. (a Girl's egg, I guess)

"Cheese!!"

He's still understanding that there is candy in the eggs.. so each time he would open an egg and see candy he would get super excited and do his crazy deep laugh!!

Connor and his older lady friends!! They helped to make sure he didn't inhale the wrapper as well as the candy!!