Derby Time!

As you are well aware, I am the Den Leader for the Wolf pack. Here are my boys: Conner and Ethan. We worked for about a month on getting their cars in shape for the Derby. Ethan ended up winning for his age group. That means that he goes on to the area races. Ethan also received his Bobcat patch the same night.

Ethan during one of his races.

Yep, he won! Did I mention that his Papa was one of the judges?!

Here's the winning car for his age. He made it and designed it all by himself.

Missing Tiffy

We were missing our Tiffy, so we got to meet at Chik. They talked her into buying them ice cream.

Work It!

Ethen's family, Alex, and our family were trying out P90x one night. The wrestling mat made it's way into my house AGAIN!!! We had fun joking with each other. Of course the kids had to join in too!!

My Bro

As life goes on, your paths start to go different ways. I'm glad that we've been able to keep it together. (Jason's happy birthday)

Leavin' Las Vegas

This was our last day. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that we would be attending precious Carlie's(Brandon's girlfriend) baptism. Brandon (our nephew) was able to baptize her. Then we all got to go out to breakfast. Our last hurrah took place at Red Rock.

Brandon and Carlie. This trip was perfect, it was fun, filled with love, and spiritually uplifting.

L to R-Roc,Lizzy,Gabriel,Noah,Angel,Kela,Frankie,Brandon. We really miss seeing these guys!

Frankie dressed Roc for the baptism. He looks more put together than he's ever been!

What a Fruit Loop!

Sexy man! This would be the perfect Facebook pic.

Lizzy and Marina-"I'm gonna choke someone if we don't eat soon!". We waited a long time to get in this restaurant for brunch. Our group is always too big.

Hoodlum...trying to figure out what we are going to do at Red Rock. I didn't realize we were actually supposed to do serious hiking here. I thought it was a pretty place to look at and take pics, like the painted desert! Consequently, we ended up losing half of our crew.

We ditched this hiking area for the kiddie one. Next time, next time.

Look how daring me and Carlie are crossing this dangerous stream!

Roc was eating sunflower seeds the whole time. You'll see that bag again.

Little known fact about me-waterfalls are one of my favorite things. One of my dreams is to go see Iguacu in Brazil.

Where are you going?! He's showing us who's boss.

Chillaxin' on this random bench that was laying on the ground.

Whew! THE END!!!!

Vegas-Day 4

As I said we were starting to fizzle out. We decided to go see the Hoover Dam. I could not coax my hubby away from the Wii this time. So, again it was just the girls. But, we had a lot of fun. Of course! After our tour here, we just hung out at Marina's and cooked dinner for everyone.


Lizzy and I in the tunnel. We managed to turn a boring tour into something fun with our shinanigans?.

Trying to do a mock rock climb. Lizzy says I look like I'm loving on the rock!

Me and Marina were a bunch of wooses at the dam. Having kids has made me weak! I could feel my nerves going crazy because this dam is so high up!

I know we joked around a lot. However, I have to say that I can appreciate why this is one of the wonders of the world. The design of this dam back in the day is genius! If you ever go, invest in seeing the movie. The tools that they used were so simple for something so massive!

Look at the new bridge they are building...who wants to drive over that?! Lizzy kept joking with us about going over the edge. I thought Marina was going to punch her! Hah!

Lizzy and I in the Dam Store!! We are in Vegas, baby. : )

Just hanging out! We had to lift each other up to be able to reach this man's rope.

Vegas-Day 3

Ok, WoW! We certainly did pack a lot into this day. Apparently, I need help on uploading pics. Because I ended up putting them in the opposite of chronilogical order. Rocco and I started our day by walking the strip. We went to the M&M store and a few others lookin' for souvenirs. We rode the double decker buses around some, until we ended up at celebrity chef: Bobby Flay's restaurant. We then met up with our crew to catch a comedy/magic show. Following, we ate at a huge buffet(a must). To gear us up for: THE GIRLS-drag show...THE BOYS-hypnotist show. But, the girls picked up Paris before indulging in "the show". We met back up for the last water show of the night at the Bellagio! No wonder we were draggin'!!


I got freaked out here, b/c we were standing on the ledge of the Bellagio pool when the fountains came on. : )

These were some terrorists that we picked up. The volunteered to take our picture, but then they wanted to jump in. Why not? We're in Vegas baby...and it's girls night out!

Me and Lizard standing on a lamp post in "Paris". I wish I could put more pics up. But, there's just too many good ones.

Rocco tearin' up some crab legs at the buffet. I think all this running around started to hit me at the buffet. From this point to the rest of the trip, I had to keep giving myself a pep talk that I could rest when I got home.

This was our posse' for the day. Roc, Ang, Marina, Lizzy, Brandon, and Carlie

It was required to get drinks at the magic show, so we all went for virgin daquari's (we think). By the way, we got in trouble for taking pics here.

In the lobby waiting for the show. It was actually hilarious! I've got to get the pic from that from Marina to show y'all.

Roc trying not to be seen with the purse. Don't think he did himself any favors!

My tastay, tastay food at Mesa Grill. Mmmm, makes my mouth water. Love my food!

This is one happy man! This was a must eat place on our list. We made it!

This tunnel was painted really well, because when you went through it, you came out feeling sick.

This was only a fourth of the M&M's on this wall. It was like a kids wonderland.