Trip to Las Vegas

We drove down to LV with Ken and had to stop in St. George for caramel apples at Rocky Mtn. Chocolate factory, that is a Urry must.  The Moulton side of our family has to stop at Beaver for cheese curds, but the Urry's stop for the apples.  While there we stopped for dinner at Annika's choice, McDonalds.  Here was a cute pic of the kids on Ronald himself.  After taking the bottom photo, I remembered taking photos at this McDonalds before in February of 2005, top picture.  Annika and I took a day trip up with my parents, Megan and her kids for a family funeral, and this photo of Annika and my dad was taken right next to the same Ronald McDonald statue 3 years earlier.  Man how my little girl has grown.  The kids did great on the drive down, that is always a relief.   It does help that the trip is now 3 1/2 hours shorter since our move to Utah.  

Thursday, I went and hung out with my sister in law Michelle and we did shopping and errands.  Which of course meant bribing the kids with ride on the coin train ride thing at Babies R Us.  We met up with our other sister in law Joella and did the lake shopping too.  I got to hang out with my family that night, and the girls ran crazy around Grammie's house making noise and having fun.  Friday, Ryan and I hung out, I went and bought a temple dress (a birthday present) that and my recent Maurice's shopping spree were my gifts this year.  It was fun to spend the day together.

Friday night, we went to Rainforest Cafe with all of our family and the extended Farnsworth family to celebrate birthdays.  My niece Jessica and I share a birthday.  So does my niece Amber, but she lives in California.  We all went and had good food and fun, saw the lion exhibit and then went back to Meg's for cake and ice cream (thanks Meg for planning such a good time).  We were all exhausted and went home to get to bed since Ryan, Annika and I were going to have an early morning driving out to Lake Mead.  My mom had offered to keep Ashton on Saturday, so we could enjoy ourselves a little more and then my in-laws brought him out Saturday to stay, play and camp.

We went out early Saturday morning, Ryan's brother is a pro at the dutch oven and cooked such great meals for us, but the women did a lot of the planning, shopping and prepping too.  It was fun to spend that time with all of Ryan's family and sit around the campfire and just hang out.  On Saturday, we went out on the water, even though it was overcast.  We had fun on the jet ski's and the boys who can, wake boarded.  Annika loved riding the jet ski with Ryan and I love riding them too, until I got lost and could not find the beach everyone was back on.  I got sore though, and probably sleeping on an air mattress in a tent did not help much either.  The water was pretty cold though.  We came back and got to camp in our tent for the first time that we have had over a year.  Sunday we came into town to go to church and then went back and let the kids hang out at Boulder Beach for a bit.  They love to be in the water.  My camera battery died, so we do not have many pictures, I will have to get those from Michelle.  We headed home Monday, and it was great to be back home in our beds again.