my mom was going to come out and visit us during her spring break from seminary.. and then decided it would be more fun to fly daniel and i out to vegas to see all the family... and then it turned out chris had a week long training in bethesda, md so we extended our stay another week leaving chris for almost 3 weeks!! crazy! we had a great day of flying!! daniel fell asleep the second the first plane took off and slept the whole flight. once we landed in atlanta and quickly changed planes we were off to vegas! he played for a while on this flight, mostly with the window (up down up down) and then i finally stood in the back hostess area and rocked him to sleep. he then slept for the rest of the flight! yay!
once we landed and found grandma we headed home. it was nice to be in my old home. i love that place. I got my hair cut friday by my favorite hairdresser jessica... she's the best! that night we had a fun visit from my brother sam and his wife meesha and of course gigi! who daniel loves! Laura and her mom also came to town... it was so fun seeing little william again! saturday was an awesome day! my niece amanda was sealed to her parents emily and greg in the las vegas temple for time and eternity! it was such a neat experience. my mom made her the cutest little white dress which she will also wear for her baptism in may. ed smith was the sealer... which was so perfect... he is my grandpa vern's business partner and friend and he was close friends with my grandpa virgil who passed away a couple months ago... ed started by saying how special it was for him to be there for his two closest friends performing such a special ceremony for our family... and he was glad he could be there to do it for virgil as he would have done it were he still alive... i was bawling at this point and made the mistake of looking at grandpa vern (who is the biggest bawl baby) and totally lost it... cried through the whole thing after that. when it was all over ed smith looked at amanda and said "wasn't that neat?" and she just shrugged her shoulders and threw up her hands like... i dont know... perfect amanda answer, shy not really wanting the attention on her self like that. after we headed to my moms for a big bbq and party. lots of food and friends.
on a side note... right before i came out to vegas i had to have my front tooth pulled (external resorption... basically tooth eating itself to death) so i'm not getting an implant but we had to do some bone grafts first... for the time being i'm toothless... and wearing a flipper with a tooth glued into it to fill the space... actually my original crown that was drilled and filled and super glued in...
amanda had also lost that tooth the same week so we took a picture together...
she then pulled out the other front tooth on the car ride home. no more twinners....
sunday we went to church and daniel had fun sitting next to papa at church... handsome boys
monday we hopped in the car and headed to carlsbad,ca to go to LEGOLAND!!!! that first night in the hotel was hilarious. gigi and daniel had so much fun chasing each other between the two joined rooms... it was a serious party.
although he did face plant and get a pretty nice fat lip...
the park was so fun! filled with awesome things all over built out of legos! chris was so jealous he couldn't come as legos are his favorite! we first stopped in the little duplo village where gigi and daniel rode a little train with grandma, and then daniel crawled all over the place climbing on everything. it was the perfect place for him to play... otherwise he spent the whole day in the stroller.
we took a little break to watch a silly fire truck show... with a song they kept singing over and over about water on fire something... we couldn't get it out of our heads and now ive blocked it forever...
there were a few rides gigi got to go on. but daniel was too little for most so we walked around a lot and watched people go by... and ate food :) my favorite part by far was mini land... replicas of famous cities all out of legos. vegas, dc, san francisco, new orleans, etc... and they just added star wars... very cool!!
i just loved seeing all the different creations... like the mariachi band that moved and played music... the line of famous heads including lincoln, marilyn monroe, elvis, etc... the old man sitting on the bench was hilarious because i sat to take a pic and hit my elbow on his knee... legos are sharp and hard! ouch!! i also loved the shark head which daniel is in and the pirate... daniel and i also took a pic with him but i forgot i had taken out my tooth to eat so... its a scary picture! haha
that night we had dinner and headed back to the hotel. daniel had so much fun playing airplane with grandma...
the next morning we did it all again... rode a few different rides including our favorite storybrook lane or something like that... it had the 3 little pigs, a genie, hanzel and grettle, and sleeping beauty... all out of legos. super cute... we actually rode it twice in a row.
the kids (and mom and sam) had great fun playing in the creation area. just a bunch of duplo blocks all over to play with. daniel kept playing with this one on an earthquake simulator... pushing the button over and over knocking down all the legos on it. and playing in the crane with gigi.... another place he could crawl all over...
after we had some apple fries (they were only ok) we decided to leave and head home... the car ride we rough as daniel woke from a nap and was acting all funny and sure enough right as we were getting off the freeway he barfed... what? my kid?? car sick??? weird. he had never done that before in his life so weird. lucky for me my mom was sitting in the back seat with him and yelled out right as it happened so i threw her his big bib which is a hand towel so she was able to clean him more easily... we stopped at in-n-out... i couldn't eat so i hung out with daniel and aired out the stinky van. we did make it home with no more incidents.... and still had a really great time and glad sam and meesha invited us on their trip and glad meesha's brother could get us discount tickets through his work!!
