Las Vegas Girls Trip

This past weekend I got to get away for a short girls trip to Vegas with Jen!  Our husbands are going to Costa Rica later this year on a fishing trip so about 6 months ago Jen and I started talking about taking a girls trip since they guys were taking a guys trip.  We decided on Vegas!  We stayed at the Mirage Hotel which was a first for both of us and it was wonderful!  We enjoyed pool time with adult drinks, walks up and down the strip, shopping, seeing Amy Schumer (comedian) at the Riveria and Cirque Du Soleil show "O" which was amazing, the animal habitat at the Mirage and a nice romantic dinner with a view at Eiffel Tower..oh wait!  LOL

Breakfast at BB King's BBQ joint in our hotel

Lunch at Carnegie Deli (this was half of the sandwich that Jen and I split!)

Miami Vices by the pool

Amy Schumer at Riveria

So Jen and I LOVE to play Wheel of Fortune in Vegas.  The last time we went together we won $1100 on the big Wheel of Fortune machine!  We were a little sad to find out that all the hotels had taken out the big wheels and replaced them with the smaller electronic versions.  Jen and I found our 'lucky' machine and one of the winning spins came up with 'Arkansas' as the word we won on so I of course had to take a picture!  We didn't win like we did several years ago but we had a great time!

(3000 = $30.00 on this machine)

Being silly with hats

White Sangria (don't worry...we were sweating so much that this pitcher did nothing to us)

Dinner at Eiffel Tower (our table was right behind us at the window so we had an awesome view)

Our view at dinner of the Bellagio water fountain show

Our view at "O"

front row of the balcony

Jen won $129 at one point on the Wheel of Fortune machine

Sunday we walked to Serendipity 3 and had a world famous Frozen Hot Chocolate!  It was yummy! 

It was a great time away with some much needed relaxation for both of us while the dad's spent some time with the kiddos!

Here is a video of the Dolphins talking

Here is a video of the Dolphins jumping

Destin, FL 2012

This year instead of driving all the way there in one day we split it up and it was super easy!  Lauren had a little stomach bug on Friday when we left and threw up once at home and then once in the car (right after we got on I-540) but then was fine.  So thank God she was feeling better after 24 hours and no one else got it!

After a little drive in the car the kids both fell asleep as we left town just after 12 noon Friday (their normal nap time).

We stayed the night in Vicksburg, MS and then got up and drove the other half to Destin.  This is the underground tunnel in Mobile, AL and the Navy boats, etc just after you come out of the tunnel.

King and Queen hats from Burger King always make a trip fun!

 

Saturday afternoon once we got checked in the first thing we did was go to the pool!

Sunday morning we went to the beach for a bit...Lauren loved it and Colton got more and more used to it but still never loved the water...he wanted to stay up on the sand and build things.

We had dinner at Russ and Sue's condo two nights during the week so here are pic's of the kids having fun!

Colton = 2 years and 7 months, Lauren = turned 5 the Sunday we got back from vacation

Kieran = 3 years and 1 month, Ava = 1 year and 10 months

Tuesday night we had a group dinner out at the Fisherman's Warf area in Baytown Sandestin.

This was also the night I had contractions for 3 hours straight (from 7-10 pm) and we had to leave dinner early but all turned out fine and the contractions stopped.  Guess I overdid it that day at the beach/pool.

Swimming fun

Colton playing with a monster truck on the last day at the pool (this boy loves trains and cars!)

The kids did AMAZING this year at swimming!  Lauren was jumping off the side of the pool and going all the way under and coming up not afraid of getting water in her eyes/mouth/etc.  Colton was more adventurous this year than he has been in the past (probably because he see's Lauren doing stuff and he wants to be big like her).  He was jumping in the water also and would go under sometimes but would rather jump in and keep his head above water.  :-)  Lauren even went under the waterfall this year so that was big for her!

Here they are swimming together.  Lauren kept trying to get Colton to jump to her in the water, and he would...but I was more afraid he would not jump far enough or she would not catch him...so this time he was standing on the ledge (in the water where people normally sit) and she came over and picked him up in the water and then was being a true big sister and carrying him around the pool, etc.  I'm really enjoying this stage right now because yes they fight...but Lauren is also playing 'mommy' sometimes and saying "here Bubby" or "let me show you how that works Bubby" and Colton is saying "come here sissy" or "look sissy" so it's really cute!

Family dinner just the four of us at Bistro Bijoux (I can only say "the four of us" for a few more weeks!)

We ended up eating here two nights during the week because the food was so good.  Once just because and once for our 9 year anniversary dinner!

The BIG Chair

Kids saying 'airplanes'

More beach time

Lunch at Cheeseburger in Paradise

My three kiddos - handsome little boy, adorable Cowgirl and baby #3 at 34 weeks!

View from our room (on a cloudy morning)

Breakfast on the patio

Good bye Sandestin!  This was the sunrise on our way out of town.  Just beautiful!