Vegas with the Granum's!!

We met our bff's "the Granum's" in Las Vegas to celebrate Jenn's birthday!

 They came all the way from Maui!

it was a much needed trip {kid less} to just hang out and relax, like old times.

We stayed at the "Aria" resort and it was very cool and modern.  The Spa and Gym were 

TO DIE FOR!

We ate at our favorite spots and tried some new ones too,  We shopped, rode the Roller coaster at the New York Hotel, learned how to play PAI GAI Poker and fully enjoyed all my JENN time!  

I Love this girl like crazy!!

goooooo Tigers!!

Hayes has been LOVING his baseball season, we have just a few more games until the playoffs.

It's Machine Pitch and he loves being on the same team as his cousin and his friend.

to play in this league they had tryouts and i was dying that they did that at age 7! crazy!

He has learned a lot this season and can hit the ball and is learning

 how to be a good fielder. {wink wink}

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spring break!

We headed to Las Vegas for some Sunshine!!  it was fabulous weather for the first few

 days then as we were heading to California for my nephew's farewell it 

got cold and stormy. boo!

we went with the Carson's and enjoyed the fabulous pool at Tahiti Village Resort!  

awesome kid friendly resort with plenty of kids activities and it was just off the strip! 

 The pool had a sandy beach area along with a lazy river! it was so perfect!

they had some fun poolside activites and contests for the kids.  

Hayes did the hula hoop contest! haha

one day we went and had a girl day with shopping and pedicures.  

 after our pedicures we went to eat brunch at "Hash House a Go Go" it's one of the famous 

stops of Man vs. Food!  the portions of food were ginormous and 

TO DIE FOR delicious!!

just look at miss olivia's plate! ha

while we were shopping in Vegas they had this darling playground where the

 kids wanted to stay.

on friday we headed to LA to play with the Johnson cousins!

we were hoping to hit the beach in california, but since 

the weather was cold we went to Vasquez Rock instead, played lacrosse, shopped 

around and celebrated Blaker's birthday. So much fun!

tons of movies were filmed here... most recently "John Carter"

Sunday morning was the farewell and then we came back for a delicous brunch.  

 it was fun to visit with blake for a bit more before we headed back to Vegas to stay one

 more day in the HOT sun!  The weather was taking a turn back to 90 degree 

weather so we decided to extend our stay!

LACROSSE

Boston decided to play Lacrosse instead of baseball this year.  He loves it!!  It's so fun to watch, even 

though Cory and I are still trying to understand how this sport is played! 

Boston has his cousin Cade playing on his team this year so that makes it super fun for them!

the first game they played boston scored 2 of the 5 points! 

hoppy easter...

we celebrated Easter all weekend.  We had lots of parties, and 

festivities to attend to on saturday so the Easter bunny came saturday morning.  

Our neighborhood does an annual Easter egg hunt saturday morning

with the kids at our park.  Some eggs have an address on the inside of the egg where the kids

 go and pick out a toy or sweet prize!  {only 2 Star eggs per child}

We thought it was so awesome! Plus the weather was incredible!!

  Boston decided last minute to do the hunt, 

so he took a few of Ivy's and ended up winning the "Grand Prize" basket.  

 so hilarious how that kid always scores the goods!

all the kids got goggles, pool toys, treats and some treats... we are now ready for summer!

i love boston's "pretending to be excited" face. haha  

you gotta love her pick of jammies.  oh boy!

after our neighborhood party, & lacrosse game for Boston, we went to

 Alpine Country Club's Egg hunt... it was so fun!  

Ivy even won a HUGE stuffed chick! ha

we ate lunch at the country club and they were handing out lots of cotton candy! yikes!! 

 Can you say major "Sugar High"!!

On Sunday after church we went and ate a delicous Easter dinner at Nana's and Papa's house. 

 Nana hid so many eggs and made it super hard for the big kids to find.  

she even hid eggs with $$ in it!!