The first Saturday of every month Home Depot offers a free class to dads and kids- this is Halle and Dustin's second class ( the first one they built a birdhouse) and this one they built a flag and pole! What a fun daddy daughter thing!! 
Hopefully everyone enjoyed the book as much as I did...took 2 days and I am done!! We met on Friday night for a little party at Kate's house and just had a blast!! Then we went to Walmart where there was a line of... 2 people to get the book! (Score for us, I heard that there were horrid lines all over the area!) Started reading there and continued during all times of naps and evenings (yep Dustin got ignored all weekend)! 
Just pictures of our recent park adventure- this is right down the street from our home!! Halle is slowly starting to get wet...little scared of the water (we think it was due to our blowing in her face and putting her under water when she was a baby)! 
Wanted to share our mornings with everyone. While I am cleaning up breakfast Halle goes outside and rides her bike... and Bennett cheers for her. This is what Bennett sees every morning, 
and this is what Halle sees every morning.
Am I serious? Yep I am! After weighing the pros and cons we decided to get rid of our cell phones. I know! It is crazy! But you know what, I find myself doing so much more now that I don't have a cell phone. I talk to my kids in the car, we sing in the car...I spend a LOT less time on the phone at home, AND the best part- (well kind of) if we are on a family outing....we can't be disturbed by the phone. It is SO much cheaper to just have a home phone and just seems like a simpler life that we are leading. You ask what happens in case of an emergency? Well that would bring in our handy dandy trac phone... it has a total number of minutes on it and we can just use it! Why am I announcing it publicly on a blog? Well, after speaking with a dear friend today she decided that we should announce it on the blog AND start a club for those that don't have cell phones! So, If you don't have a cell phone let me know because we will get t-shirts made...and matching scrunchies too.
When my mom was here last week she took the kids and I to the Mandalay Bay aquarium (who knows if I spelled that right) and it was great! You got to get really close to the animals and they actually had a lot of them there! We got to see a Komodo dragon (the highlight for Halle), crocodile, sharks, jellyfish, all sorts of fish, and we actually got to pet the stingrays!! We had so much fun with my mom here if only she could have stayed longer than 2-1/2 days but we are looking forward to the next visit!! 
(Last week)
My husband called me on Monday afternoon and asked if my mom would mind watching the kids (she was coming in town for 2 days) on Tuesday night because he had a fun date idea. He wanted to surprise me so I had NO idea what we were doing! We pulled up in front of the Hard Rock Casino so I figured concert... but I had no idea we were going to see.........
Yep, (if you can even tell who that is) Colbie Caillat! We were about 3 people from the stage it was SO amazing! Jason Reeves opened for her (please look him up on itunes or youtube!) he was GREAT! If you are a fan of Colbie it was neat to find out that her, Jason Reeves, and Jason Mraz all grew up together writing songs!! The best part of the whole night... it was free! When you live in LV you can become a member of this tickets program where you pay $89 to join and at last minute they will post that a certain performer or concert needs more people so you "grab" (via email) the tickets and just show up. Dustin's bud at work is in it and he has a membership for 4 tickets and grabbed tickets for us. We are joining so if you will ever be in the area let us know we can get you tickets to shows and if you already live here let me know if you are interested because we would LOVE to share tickets with everyone!! Dustin's bud has seen Blue Man Group, he saw Gavin when he was here a couple of days ago... so many fun things to do and all sorts of concerts are always available! 
I do have such a sweet husband who knows I would love this kind of thing...and then to surprise me.... even better!!
