Friday, December 31, 2010

new years eve!!

This year we stayed at home for New Years since we were out of town for Christmas.  We had our bff’s over and had a really fun, low key evening.  We had  WAY too many snacks, fun games (GIRLS WON!!), tried to do karaoke (Ella completely took that over and refused to give up the microphone!), bounced on the trampoline, and let Grey stay up to watch the ball drop in NYC.  We did a sparkling apple cider for Grey and for the adults at the CST midnight, I had attempted to make ice glasses for our champagne toast.  They were mostly a flop, but it was fun anyway!!  So, we ended 2010 on a really fun evening.  2011 has big shoes to fill!

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Saturday, December 25, 2010

christmas 2010

This year we went to Houston for Christmas to spend time with my mom, Stacey, and the Collins Family.  We had a wonderful time.  On Christmas Eve we went to Karl and Sandras for a few early gifts and then back to Mom and Staces.  I think the best part of Christmas was that Grey actually saw Santa putting his gifts under the tree!  Grey is so excited that he saw Santa!  For our Christmas dinner we dined on “surf and turf” and had an amazing day!  It was such a special Christmas this year!

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

viva las vegas

Years ago, Billy and I worked as Travel Agents for American Airlines Vacations.  Working there, I learned so much about the amazing hotels of Las Vegas and was just in awe.  I have wanted to go there for years and see hotels, see shows, just walk around and soak up Sin City.  We finally decided to bite the bullet and just book a trip.  We went with our best friends and left the kiddos with Billy's mom.  I have to say, it was an amazing trip.  It was everything I had hoped and so much more!  We were only there three days, but the hotels were just amazing.  We stayed in THE hotel at Mandalay Bay.  It is an all-suite hotel and the rooms there are just incredible.  Floor to ceiling windows, one and a half bathrooms, the largest bath tub I have EVER seen, and so on!  We arrived on Sunday wearing our Chiefs gear to support Billy's favorite team and met up with our besties who were supporting their team, the Cowboys.  The boys found a place who put both games on and us girls started out with a little slots and some shopping.  We went to a fabulous dinner, Joes Stone Crab and then crashed.  Billy and I had to get up at 3 for our flight and with the time change, we had been up almost 20 hours at that point!  The next day was a whirlwind of hotel site-seeing!  We saw Venetian, Bellagio, Paris, Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, Luxor, MGM, Excalibur and so on.  We went downtown and saw the Freemont Street Experience.  This was especially cool since they were kicking off a bowl game and had a special show as the football teams were walking down Freemont Street.  Very cool!  We had dinner at Red Square in Mandalay Bay and stayed mostly at the hotel with The Mix, and Eyecandy.  On Tuesday we did more site-seeing and shopping, and went to Minus 5.  It is an ice lounge and possibly the “coolest” thing ever!!  Then we went to the Gold Lounge at Aria before our show – Viva Elvis!  This show was amazing.  I think my mouth was open the whole time in amazement!  We hung out at The Chandelier at Cosmopolitan, and then were hoping to catch 80’s night at The Cathouse.  They had canceled 80’s night, but we still had the best time dancing the night away!  We had to leave the next day, but we had an absolute blast!  I can’t wait to go back again!  ?Sorry the pictures are so out of order.  Blogger just isn’t working with me today!

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