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!

greys christmas party

Today was Greys school Christmas party.  I left work early to go to the party and spend some time with him and Ella.  Grey really had a good time.  The parents did a good job of having fun crafts and games for the kids.  I think the kids most enjoyed the Frosty Freeze game.  They danced around until the music stopped and then had to freeze.  It was so cute to watch Grey interact with his friends and really get to let loose a little.  Ella is ready to start school already!  She loves Mrs Palmer and also really enjoyed the party!

Christmas cookies

Next weekend our crazy Christmas break begins, so we took advantage of this weekend to relax and just enjoy our time together.  As you can see, Grey never even got out of his jammies!  Oh, alright, truth be told, I  didn’t either!  We spent Saturday laying around, watching movies and baking Christmas cookies.  Then Sunday we went to church and back home for more laying around and movie watching!!  It was a great weekend to relax and rest before the end of the year!

polar express

Today was Polar Express day at Greys school as well as Billys office Christmas party.  First off, let me document a little about the first picture.  Last week was the holiday store at Greys school.  He was so excited about his purchases and wanted us to open them right away.  I got a pretty little note pad, and Billy got a Christmas tie.  Grey also got himself a bakugon (lol!).  But Grey was so excited about that tie for Billy!  And what was funny was that it was a child size tie.  Grey wanted Billy to wear it, and I just casually mentioned maybe Billy could wear it to his company Christmas party!  LOL!  So, on the morning of Polar Express, Grey was so thrilled to see that his Daddy wore the tie!  I took a long lunch today and brought Grey McDonalds at school.  He was thrilled to see me and I loved being able to see him in the middle of the day!  He had a great day and really enjoyed getting to wear his jammies all day at school!

Santa Baby

This year I did a family photo session at the Gaylord Texan. It is an awesome place! So we decided to go see Santa there. The decorations are amazing and they have some fun activities for the kids! We visited with Santa, Grey got to go tubing down a snow hill, and we turned ourselves into elves to visit the North Pole!













Ella wasn't really sure about Santa so we had to take a family picture with Old Saint Nick.


















We had a blast and I would highly recommend going to the Gaylord for some Christmas cheer!



Someone was exhausted after we were done!