We must be CRAZY!

So, one day my sister-in-law, Valerie (Jacob's sister) said, "Hey, I want to do a girls weekend up in Vegas, we'll invite out other sister-in-law (Sabrina) and just have some fun!"..... Sounded good to me! So we picked a weekend, tweaked the participants a little (Sabrina) is a super busy lady! And up they came. (Natalie who is 6, Kyla who is 7, Val and Carrie who I won't age because after 25 it's just not nice)

On Friday they met us at our church where we were having our congregation's Christmas Party. After a little singing we thought we would go hit the Bellagio, see the Christmas Display and enjoy the Christmas themed Water Show...

This is the Bellagio Christmas Display. Most everything is made of flower or some other plant material.

Then we walked down to see the fountains. This is a side view but the kids wanted see it from right in front, so we walked down the rest of the way... Which was quite an adventure, making sure your own kid and someone else's kid doesn't get hit by some crazy Vegas taxi driver took a little energy and lots of holding hands!

Here are the 3 girls waiting for the next show to start.

This show (they are different every time) was really cool! It started with fog, which was beautiful with the instrumental Christmas music.

Then we walked all the way around the Bellagio because 1 it has a wall separating the sidewalk from the street and 2- it made it so that us big girls could window shop.

The little girls window shopped too!


On Saturday we woke up and got ready to see the Secret Garden at the Mirage. And we had a ton of fun! Seeing the dolphins and the white lions and tigers and all those fun things!

The White Lions at the Secret Garden

The dolphins hanging out. They have 3 generations of dolphins in this tank

After the Secret Garden we drove over to the Silverton to try and see Santa, which didn't work out with 1 hour lines! But we did get to see the Mermaid. You may remember me blogging about the mermaid before, (actually i looks like we hit all the same spots in March) I don't have any pictures from this trip because my camera batteries died... but the girls loved it!

Then it was over to Menchies for frozen yogurt and home for playtime, dinner, baths and bedtime. Kyla and Natalie went to church with us on Sunday and were VERY WELL BEHAVED!

I know I say this ALL THE TIME!!! BUT I LOVE that Kira has cousins and that even though we are not in California anymore we still live close enough to have fun weekends from time to time. Hopefully Sabrina can make it up next time and maybe Dallin will get his turn to visit us in Vegas soon.