Another Vegas Weekend

The kids and I took another quick trip to Vegas this past weekend. This time we went over to spend time with "Guya" since her birthday was June 4th. I hadn't spent a birthday with her since our grandpa's funeral 4 years ago, which incidentally was on her actual birthday. Yes, that was a rough year for us, but that's another story. So...since Papa Vaughn had drill weekend, just the kids and I drove over. "Guya" decided to keep the weekend low-key. We spent most of the day just hanging out at the really cool park in the pictures below, shopping at Kohl's and hanging out at Guya and D's house.

We packed a picnic lunch to enjoy at the park before shopping. Big Boy was not thrilled that I made him stop to eat before he was allowed to play. Food is definitely not his priority.

I have seriously "ruined" this child. Boopy LOVES to pose for pictures. She would eat a bite of her sandwich, then go out to the grass area and lay around posing wanting me to take her picture. Of course I have to oblige!

I actually managed to get a picture of both kids together, looking at me (mostly) and being super cute. It's getting harder to get them to both sit long enough for a decent picture together.

I loved the entrance to the park. It had these wooden painted flowers up high above the arched entrance. I had Boopy sit up on Uncle "D"s shoulders so I could get them in the background with the beautiful blue sky.

The rock wall proved to be a big hit for my daredevil children.

Of course I had to try out the twisty slide with Big Boy.

The kids favorite thing at the park was this really cool caterpillar "monkey bar" type structure. After an initially cautious climb, Boopy discovered it wasn't so difficult and she could scale it just as easily as Big Boy. They would have played on this structure all day if we let them.

The park even had tube slides, caterpillars to balance on, tunnels to hide in and other structures to jump and climb on. With all the bright fun colors I couldn't help myself with the camera. Just wish we had parks like this in Fresno since it would be a fabulous park for young kid family picture sessions!

I LOVED the brightly colored stairs.

Overall another lovely summer weekend. Happy birthday Guya! AND happy birthday to Grandma Vaughn, who celebrated the day before on the 3rd!

Been working...

I've been working on more picture sets. Slowly starting to catch up. Check out the latest on my photo blog. Other than that, the kids and I are going to my mother-in-laws company picnic in Los Gatos tomorrow. Sunday will be spent on pictures, painting the trim in Papa's and my room and picking up a new bed for Boopy. That's right the great room switchero has led it's way to getting new beds for the kids. We picked up Big Boy's bed Wednesday night. Thanks to may friend, "Mother" Michelle, we got a super deal through craigslist! We pretty much saved nearly $700 on each bed! I'll be sure to share pictures of the beds in their rooms once we get to that point in the room switching.

So, go have a wonderful weekend, think of my parents as they go out to support the Deckers tomorrow. Be safe, kiss and hug the ones you love and praise God for all the blessings you have in your life!

Park Day!

I'm finally getting a chance to relax a bit with my own pictures this weekend. While I still need to load up Mother's Day & Boopy's birthday, I did do a few quick edits to some pictures I took at the park this afternoon. My good friend and coworker Natalie has kids a year older and a year younger than Big Boy. Our kids get along great. We went out to a favorite local park not far from home to play with her kids and take pictures of them for Natalie's fiance's birthday and Father's Day. The kids had a ball chasing ducks, playing on the playground and splashing around in the water.

I'm hoping to have some more down time this week. I'm not off jury duty yet, but since the judge decided to take vacation, we have this week off but go back next week. I'm really hoping they'll be down then as that will be 5 weeks jury service. I'm really tired of trying to lead two lives and figure out who I am and where I'm supposed to be! Until though, I plan on enjoying my normal regular life this coming week. I am however off on Monday for taking Boopy to her two year Dr appointment and Big boy to a dentist appointment. Should make for a nice day with the kids.

Oh, by the way, both kids should be moving up to the next classrooms at daycare. While we won't be at this daycare in the fall due to Big Boy getting into a speech program through the school near our house, it will be a great transition for the kids. I'm keep you updated!

Boopy was my photo assistant.

That is, when she wasn't busy being a monkey.