Vegas Baby

We had a FABULOUS weekend!!

It started off on Thursday night, when one of my favorite people came back to AZ! Jes, myself and a lil 5 weeker Canon lived it up. It was so exciting! He slept the entire time and we didn't shut up the entire time. Now if only I can get them to move back....

Then bright and early Friday morning (ok so not as early as I had unrealistically planned) we headed out to Vegas. But not without an emergency pit stop at Walmart to buy another portable DVD player since ours decided to crap out that morning. And there's no way I'm taking a road trip without movies for the kids! After that minor detour, we were on our way! Anden asked 438 times if we were in Vegas Baby yet....and that was before we got to Wickenburg! Seriously kid.

We finally arrived at 3pm. Would have been an hour earlier if it weren't for the Dam(N) traffic. Ugh, finish that bridge already! We were at Lyndsay's condo officially 15 minutes before my kids were going stir crazy. Taylee's quite the interior designer. She couldn't resist rearranging everything in the entire place. So off to the pool we went.

Jeremy taught Anden how to use the 'emergency only' life preserver as a lasso. The pool was freezing so they moved to the hot tub which was luke warm. Perfect! Anden floated inside the life preserver and was loving it. The boys would whip him around with the attached rope. Taylee was hating life that she wasn't in her swimsuit. I finally gave in and stripped her down to swim naked. Well at the same time, a girl and her mom from Lyndsay's church ward were coming over to meet our kids. The daughter was going to babysit for us that night so we could go to the concert. So Jer/I hurried and took Taylee inside to properly clothe her. White trash naked toddlers in hot tubs might not be the best first impression. We were gone 10 mins. Lyndsay and Dad were supervising Anden. The odds were in our favor. 2 adults, 1 child. We quickly learned we shouldn't be in Vegas gambling with those odds.

As I was walking back out to the pool with a properly clothed Taylee. I saw the neighbors had just gotten there to meet us. Also at the same time I see Dad waist deep in the hot tub, in his clothes, scrambling to get Anden. Then we all watch in horror, our new friends included, as Anden is retrieved from under the water while hacking and gagging and coughing and crying. I calmly open the pool gate and everyone proceeds to tell me, all at the same time, what had happened. The story was interrupted when Dad, who's still standing waist deep, realizes his phone is in his pocket. He quickly jumped out. Luckily (for me) that was the only fatality! Not so lucky for Dad. After the quick cellular interruption, the stories continued. Anden was in the floaty. Suddenly he leaned forward and somehow he flipped under the water...while still stuck in the tube. All they could see was his little butt vertical in the air...and no head. Then they could see his little hands coming back up from under the water to try and paddle himself upright. Lynds FROZE in a panic. Dad stared in DISBELIEF for a second and then jumped in. After Anden had caught his breath, we asked what happened. He firmly stated, "I was trying to get that penny!" So in the end, all was well. Just a minor scare...and a broken phone...and a lost penny. He jumped right back in the water and continued to play. However, we had surely impressed the new babysitter. Our parental skills were beyond stellar. I was waiting for the moment for them to flee back to their car and bolt out of there. Somehow they stuck around. It must have been the same concept of a train wreck; they simply wanted to gawk at what could possibly happen next. And we didn't disappoint them.

We gathered the kids and partial belongings and took everyone back inside. Jer had Taylee locked down in a bedroom to try to salvage our image as responsible parents. Well while we were giving the babysitter a tour of the place, Taylee starts death screaming from behind the door. I humbly excuse myself as the tour guide and bolt in to see what happened. Anden "bumped" Taylee who then hit her head on a nightstand. When I slithered back out of the room, surprisingly the babysitter was still there. She definitely must be a glutton for punishment. I guess the grand $20 was already burning a hole in her pocket and she couldn't resist. Even I would have ran at that point. (and yes people, we had only been in Vegas about 90 mins now!)

Fast forward a couple hours and we were now ready to head to the concert! Taylee was already in bed and Anden was sucked into a movie. How hard could this be for the babysitter?! So we bid our farewells and tried not to think about pint size humans the rest of the night.

We had an AWESOME night! We went to the Keith Urban concert - as a celebration for Dad's 60th birthday! And of course we couldn't just roll with the commoners...nope we were up in the balcony at the VIP tables!! (shout out to ROB for hooking us up!!) You know you're cool when even Keith himself pointed to our section and jokingly asked "Is there anything else you would like me to play My Lord?" Nope, Sir Urban you're doing just fine. Well ok maybe just on thing...could you show me your cute butt one more time! (oh wait, did I say that out loud?)

Heading to the Concert

Sporting our Country Gear

The MAIN event

Halfway through the concert he walked out in the crowd and jumped up on a mini stage!

Daddy & Daughters

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!

It was all worth it just to see how giddy you were to watch a man jam on his guitar!

And as an added bonus...