Valley of Fire

We headed out to Valley of Fire and it was the perfect adventure. Lots of space to run around and fresh air. The outdoors are my happy place. Here are way too many pictures. 

Lunch time.

He finally fell asleep. Poor Baby.

 I climbed to the top to see into the crevasse. 

 

Valley of Fire was wonderful and I can't wait to go back!

Bass Pro

 COVID has changed a lot of things but the craziest one was visiting Santa. Poor Santa has to sit in a little bubble with a face shield and a mask. WOOF! We had to book our time slot and we couldn't take our own pictures. BUT we got a cute picture of the 2020 holiday and the cousins together.

Gramma had the brilliant idea to head down to Bass Pro and have a scavenger hunt. Las Vegas has an amazing Bass Pro and there was a lot to hunt for. Roo was mesmerized by the "Dory" fish tank. He was happy screaming and dancing like crazy. 

We split into three teams and we were off.

Benicio and Duke were with Aunt Janet and Uncle Chad.

We had Violet and Sprout. I'm not going to lie, we were pretty competitive.

the fun part was that we didn't run into any family members until the very end. We were all in!

It's pretty safe to say that we won ;)

 

We headed outside to play in the water, I mean take a couple of pictures.

Roo REALLY wanted to play with that Christmas ball. 

Cousins!

I sure do love our tribe.

Thanksgiving

We headed off to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving. With Covid and all of the stress around getting sick, I almost cancelled this whole trip. I cannot even begin to tell you how happy I am that I didn't. I walked into Mom and Dad's hose and it felt like coming home. I actually started crying. It has been over a year since we had been back to Vegas and my soul missed it. Mom and I rocked out Thanksgiving dinner. It was a labor of LOVE!

Lots of labor ;)

Best part about Thanksgiving was that Chad and Janet came along too! It was so nice to spend time with them and to have some cousin bonding going on too!!!!!

Cheers!! 

Violet is the second oldest cousin, and Roo is the youngest.

This years cake was a pumpkin cake with a browned butter buttercream and it was delicious! 

 Gosh darn it I love this crew!

 

Mom and Dad's home doesnt have enough room for all of us so mom got creative and put up two tents in her bedroom for the boy and girls. Roo got put in the closet and mom and dad slept in their bed. It was crazy but so dang cozy and SO dang fun!! 

Okay, foods done, LET'S PLAY!

Fun at Home

While most of our pictures are of us racing around, we did have a lot of home time too which mostly consisted of children playing in the back yard. Here's a few pictures from our day to day.

Duke rocking the Golden Knights helmet. ♥

Hair cuts!

I think Sprout is cross eyed. Sometimes it's pretty bad, like in this picture and other times he's totally fine. I do wonder if it's a big deal given the fact that this kid can sink hoops and hit baseballs like no other, but it's still something we will get checked out once we get home.

Slip n slides and water fight to boot!!!

Sprout "digging." The mess was photographed, quickly cleaned and the tree was promptly moved to another corner of the house.

Pout Pout Fish game. Duke's reading has really improved this summer!

Music time with Pa. I think Duke will be our musical one. He was all about clapping along and making some music on drums while Pa played.

He even sat through all of band practice and danced and sat quietly while he drummed away.

 There was food prep.

 Such great helpers.

 Sprout eating bread products. This is a BIG deal people!!

 Peanut making some cookies. She is going to be an excellent baker!

 Sometimes we would just pretend. 

 E wanted to do an experiment, Pa was a good sport!

Watering the turtle.

Pa rescuing a marble!

Sig is growing!! 

So much fun at Grammy and Pa's. I really need to work on my backyard it has been so wonderful just shooing them out the door to play and they LOVE it!