Dyllan's Birthday Presents! ! !

After playing games at Chuck E. Cheese for a while we headed over to Drew's house to open Dyllan's birthday presents and have cake!! The cake was a bundt cake and it was REALLY yummy!!!!

Some more Vegas. . . Chuck E. Cheese!!!

The boys had been begging to go to Chuck E. Cheese for months. So it worked out really good when Drew called and said that he was going to have Dyllan's birthday party there and it happened to be the same weekend that we would be in Vegas. So it worked out well. Here are some fun pics . . .

Friday night in Las Vegas :)

Here is a little bit of what we did on Friday night. . .



All of us (excluding me, but you can see my empty seat)sitting down to eat VERY VERY yummy spaghetti!!!! Thanks Aunt Jan, Aunt Cheryl and Uncle George!!! :)



Rom and Bay being goofy!!!

Brax coloring


Boys opening their Valentine's presents from Mom and Dad!!

Romney's Valentine's gift from Mom and Dad. A new swimsuit!

Braxtin's Valentine's gift from Mom and Dad. A new swimsuit!

Baylen's Valentine's gift from Mom and Dad. You guessed it . . .a new swimsuit!

George doing dishes. He is so sweet!

Bay, Brax and Aunt Jan

The boys had fun taking pics with the camera these are a few good ones they got of Aunt Jan. I thought they did a pretty good job.





Cheryl in her UNLV PJ's. She was teaching the boys to come home and tell Alex "BY who?" ;) The boys thought it was funny.

Romney had fun "raking" George and Cheryl's carpet. He and Baylen took turns either dusting or "raking".

Our LAS VEGAS trip. . .

So I got this idea to go on a trip. . .then we thought why not use this time to go see Nicholle, Brent and their kids then Alex said he didn't feel comfortable taking the time off of work right now. So then it was no trip. Then last minute we talked about the boys and I going to Vegas and so I called to make sure that the relatives would be around to even go and visit and they said they would be!! So on Thursday night, February 12 me and the boys headed for VEGAS!!!!

We had an interesting trip to say the least. We had gotten as far as Mesquite, NV and just after passing through the van started to act up. The check engine light came on and started flashing then the whole van started to vibrate!! I was talking to Alex on the phone at the time and I told him what was going on and he didn't know what it could be, so I called my Dad and my Dad said it could be a few things, but didn't know. He suggested I call My Aunt Barb and Uncle Bob that live in Moapa, NV and see if we could spend the night with them. So I called my Aunt Barb and bless her heart, she said that would be fine. So the boys and I made it to their house and Bob came out to see if he could see anything that might be wrong. I thought he was done looking so I turned the van off then he said he wasn't quite done so I turned the van back on and it was fine. What!?!

The boys and I went ahead and spent the night there with them and then the next morning we had the mechanic at Barb's work look at it. He thinks I might have gotten some moisture in the gas tank, but that it looked and sounded just fine now. So before we headed out of town we stopped at the gas station in Glendale and got some fuel injector cleaner and some better gas (I had 85 in my tank, which doesn't work in Nevada very well). So we were on the road and the van seemed just fine then the check engine light came on again, but this time it wasn't flashing and the car didn't act any different.

When we finally arrived in Vegas to Cheryl and George's house we called up the Toyota dealership to have them hook it up to their computers just to be sure it was alright. So I took it in and they looked at it said it was fine probably just a problem from the elevation change, but the guy at the dealership asked me if I had looked at my front tires lately. I said, no not really and then looked at them and they were completely bald!!! I knew they were getting bad, but I hadn't realized they had gotten that bad. So then George, bless his heart, took me down to Costco and got me in with his membership and I paid for two new tires to be put on the van. Man could this trip get anymore complicated or expensive???? So the van was fine and taken care of and all was well. Now maybe our vacation could start!

More Valentines with Nana & Papa

My Mom made her traditional Valentine Cookies and brought them over to the kids. By the way thanks Mom for putting seven on the plate so Alex and I could also eat one of your yummmy cookies!;) My Mom and Dad also had some Valentine gifts for all five kids! They all loved their books and treats!! Thanks Mom and Dad/Nana and Papa!!! :)

Making Valentine Cookies!

The kids had a blast making Valentine cookies and when it was over my kitchen looked like a tornado had hit it!! The kids helped me make the sugar cookie dough then we rolled it out and they took turns cutting out their own cookies. The cookie cutters were 2 cupids in different poses and a heart. Only the hearts came out looking at all like the cookie cutter. Oh well they had fun. Here are some pics. . .







Thanks to my Mom Lexee's blanket has been completed! She absolutely LOVES it!!! :)

Valentine Boxes. . .

Let me just clear up one thing first. . . I HATE one aspect of Valentines and that would be making Valentine Boxes!!!!! The kids LOVE it though so I pretend. Alex came up with some REALLY good ideas this year. He suggested one of the boys make an outhouse and the other make a Pepsi vending machine (of course!). :) They actually turned out really cute. Brax made a box for fun. I found a template off of the Internet and made his. :)





Brax had to dress up as a cowboy dude! He had just bought with his birthday money a kit that had a red handkerchief, a canteen, a knife and case and a sheriffs badge in it and he wore it everyday for a few days!! :)