Our little family

Our little family

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Viva Las Vegas, and Oklahoma Too!

We have been gone the past few weekends so I thought I would do a quick post to update everyone. To start, 2 weekends ago we took a trip to Las Vegas, just me and Jacob. Huge thank you to Nana and Pawpaw (Jacob's parents), for taking care of the girls while we were gone!! Thanks also to Scott and Michelle for taking care of the pups, y'all are all awesome! We had a great time and met some of our awesome friends out there, Nick and Liz, and Greg and Lauren. We stayed for 3 nights and had a blast. It was so nice to get away on our own and enjoy time together. Not to mention, Vegas just has so many fun things to do! We went out to some nice dinners, saw a Cirque Du Soliel show, hung out at the pool, and of course did a little playing at the casinos. Jacob really likes to play craps, so we mostly played that and some blackjack.

The first night we got to Vegas we went out dinner with our best buddies, Greg and Lauren at a steakhouse inside of The Palms. Everything was delicious and it was great getting to catch up with our friends!


The boys at dinner!


The next day we walked around the strip for a while and found a place for dinner that night. We decided to make reservations at the Eifel Tower Restaraunt inside of the Paris hotel and casino. This restaraunt is directly across from the Bellagio, so we got to watch the Bellagio fountains go off while we ate dinner. It was an amazing view! We took some pics inside the restaraunt that afternoon when we made reservations becuase it was so pretty up there!


Greg and Lauren at the Eifel Tower Restaraunt with the fountains behind, beautiful!


After walking around the strip for a while we found this yummy cafe inside of the Bellagio to eat lunch at.


This picture was made completely out of flowers, so cool!


The BEST bellini I have ever had, it was SO good!


Yummo!!


On saturday night we went to see the show Mystere at Treasure Island. Mystere is the original Cirque Du Soliel that pretty much started it all, so it is completely amazing! We all loved every minute of it, and it was especially awesome since Lauren got us all tickets (and great seats) for FREE! Yay Lauren, you rock!

Jacob and I at Mystere.


Nick and Liz before the show.


Greg and Lauren at Mystere!


Mystere was an amazing show!! I would highly recommend this one!


After the show we were headed down to dinner and came across this little Elvis impersonator. We just had to stop for a picture, so funny! The boys could not stop laughing at us!


All 6 of us getting some drinks at The Mirage on the way to dinner.


This is where we had dinner at, awesome place!!


On sunday we went back down to the strip to check things out with Nick and Liz. Jacob and Nick had fun playing blackjack at the Flamingo casino.


Nick and Liz out in the wildlife habitat at the Flamingo hotel, what a cute picture!


Me and my hubby at the waterfall.


After playing blackjack for a bit we went to lunch at Margaritaville with Nick and Liz. The margaritas there were great, as excpected!


Yay for ritas!!


The girls all ready to go out for our last night! Yay!


All ready for our last night out!


This past weekend we took a trip up to Oklahoma to visit Jacob's grandparents, Mammaw and Papaw. We stayed for 3 nights up there and had a great time as always. While we were there we celebrated Mammaw's birthday, which was last thursday, with a yummy dinner and a delicious cake and ice cream. We had a great time with everyone and the girls loved getting attention from 4 grandparents at the same time! Big thank you to Oupa for taking such great care of Harley and Nina while we went away, they were spoiled to death and I'm sure not too happy about having to leave the grandparents, haha!

The girls wanted to go on a ride while we stopped at Sonic on our way up to Oklahoma. They thought this was so funny!


Singing Mammaw Happy Birthday!


Jayda took a ride on the horsey at Mammaw's store. She loved it!


Jacob and I took the girls to the gaming center in town and played a little glow in the dark bowling. The girls had so much fun, even Sydney loved it!


All of us while bowling!


The girls also rode in the little helicopter at the game center.


One last ride on the horsey at Mammaw's store before we had to leave. They loved riding it together and couldn't stop laughing! It was so cute!


Our last night there we went to the park by Mammaw and Papaw's house where the Kiwanas have a little train and carousel for kids to ride. Of course we had to do both and the girls had so much fun!


Going for a "riiiiiiiide!!" as Sydney would adamently say!




Monday, July 25, 2011

Jayda's 4th Birthday!

Our sweet little girl turned 4 yesterday and she had a wonderful birthday! It is hard to believe that Jayda is already 4 years old! She is such a loving and caring little girl and we are both so proud to be her mommy and daddy. We love her, and Sydney, more than anything in the whole world!

We started celebrating a little early on saturday, the day before her birthday. She first went with Jacob to get his hair cut, like she always does, and then came out with my mom and I to get our nails done.

Jayda got 4's on her thumbs when she got her nails painted.


That night Jacob grilled us steaks to celebrate.


And she was very excited!


We sang her happy birthday a little early the night before and she had fun blowing out the trick candles that Oma brought. She could not figure out why they would not go out!


When she woke up on her birthday we gave her our present and she was so excited to get this puppy dog! YAY!!


Sydney had to get a dog to play with too of course!


Enjoying some yummy donuts!


She had to take several phone calls while we were at breakfast on her birthday.


After breakfast we headed over to our favorite park to feed the ducks and turtles in the pond.


Throwing out some crackers to the animals.


We even got to watch these adorable ducks with 9 little baby ducks. The girls loved them!


Little teething munchkin playing at the park.


Being silly on the slide.


Opening up her birthday card from mommy and daddy.


Jayda had a tea party for her 4th birthday. Everything turned out so nice and the girls all seemed to have a blast! It was so cute to see them all dressed up and having fun. She is so blessed to have such an amazing family and wonderful friends.

Miss Sydney playing on the stairs at Jayda's birthday party.


Jayda getting a little makeup on at her party. All of the girls could get some makeup on and got their nails done after they picked out an outfit to dress up in.


Getting her nails painted, so fun!


Jayda's sweet friend Riley all dressed up, so precious!


Oma brought the girls some dress up jewelry for the party, yay!


Jayda with her pretty little cousins, Molly and Cecilia. How cute!


Sydney wanted to get in the picture with her cousins.


Riley and Jaylie all ready to party!


Jayda and her friend Kylah from school having a ball!


Priceless picture, love it!


Most of the pretty little princesses at the party.


Another one of Jayda's friends from school, Elena with her little sister Ava. Too cute!


Jayda LOVES her Caitlyn!!


The tea party started out with a little popcorn first, yummmmy!


Singing happy birthday to our sweet 4 year old!


Sydney was really enjoying her cupcake.


The beautiful centerpiece at the tea party.


Nana helping the birthday girl make her princess crown.


Jayda loved her handmade card from cousin Molly!


She was SO excited to get $$$ from Uncle Justin and Auntie Lourdes!


Jane gave Jayda a Barbie lifeguard that dives into the water. She thinks this is so awesome!


The precious friends that came to celebrate Jayda's birthday.


The birthday girl on the way to dinner. She was all partied out!


She was thrilled to get the crocs she'd been wanting from Oupa, YAY!!


Oma got her a Rapunzel doll set, so cool!


Jayda with Justin, Lourdes, Nana and Pawpaw at her birthday dinner. So happy!


Pawpaw was tickling little miss Sydney!


Oma got Jayda her very own Rapunzel dress up outfit and she loves it! She wore it all day today!


She stickerfied her birthday card!


Little bit wearing big sisters new shoes, and pushing her baby around the house with all of her purses!


Thank you so much to all of our amazing friends and family that helped make Jayda's
4th birthday so special! We are very thankful for each and every one of you and love you all! Huge thanks also for all of the awesome gifts, she is one lucky little girl!