New Year's Mini Vay

(For some reason, I can't move my pictures around! Lame!)

The Shark Reef at the Mandalay Bay
Dax, Kristie, Tucker, Drew, and Kali

US!

The kids touching a stingray!

Matt carrying Pippi around in the Baby Bjorn...

Londy hitching a ride on the stroller

Self Proclaimed "best buddies" Beck and Tucker!

They actually just call eachother "best buddy" rather than by name!

Best buddies holding hands!

We were lucky enough to spend New Year's this year in St. George and Las Vegas! It was a great little getaway! First of all we learned several things...

1. Snow makes the drive take about 7 1/2 hours one way.

2. Piper + long car rides= not the best idea for sanity's sake

3. Leapsters make fantastic car entertainment when the kids have done something to the car's DVD player

4. 16 people can fit into the condo! (10 of them being kids ages 5 and under...)

We seriously had a great time! It was so fun to get away with friends, and later family, for even a couple of days! We headed to St. George the Tuesday after Christmas. Drew, Matt's friend from work, and his wife, Kristie brought their 3 kids along, too! Their kids are exactly our kids' ages, and they all get along great. It makes for fun times! The roads were pretty bad most of the way so we took it slow. Piper decided that she REALLY despised her car seat for most of that ride. Fun... The older kiddos did great. We made it down there and were ready to vacation! We took the kids to Vegas Wednesday. The highlight was definitely the Shark Reef at the Mandalay Bay. The kids were in heaven! It was so dang cute watching them walking around listening to the guided audio tour, and occasionally stopping to scream out random facts about the creatures. So cute! I had to take pictures of Matter and the baby. Not a whole lot of men walking around Vegas wearing a Baby Bjorn. He was a trooper! We took the kids to see the water show at the Bellagio, to Treasure Island to eat, to walk around the Mirage, and to see the crazies on the Vegas Strip. Good times...

The next day, the boys went golfing while Kristie and I wrangled the kids. We headed to the outlets and did some great shopping, then onto dinner. Let's just say that we won't be returning to the St. George Chili's anytime soon... It was New Year's Eve, if you can't tell by our amount of celebrating! Beings the fun folk that we are, we went back to the condo, got the kids in bed, and settled in to watch a movie. Matt was asleep within minutes. So basically my New Years was spent as a third wheel watching a movie! It was actually really fun.

We headed home Friday and went straight to the "friends" holiday party. I wish so bad I would have taken my camera in! We look forward to this party every year! It's all of Matt's high school buddies and the wives. We have dinner, a great white elephant gift exchange, and some crazy games/competitions. So much fun! We had a great week!