Viva Las Vegas!

Nick has to travel alot for his job. A couple of weeks ago, he was going to have to be gone out of town AGAIN - this time on a weekend, no less. But - the event he had to attend was a family one so we all got to go along with him! We drove up to Las Vegas on a Friday, took the kids to the Bellagio buffet and discovered that Gavan's "new thing" is to try to kick complete strangers. He chose casino employees most of the times that he tried it. Yikes.

On Saturday, we went to the M&M's store and then off to the association picnic (the event we were there for). The kids had fun throwing water balloons and playing in the jumper. That night, we went to Kahunaville (a restaurant at Treasure Island) and got ice cream afterwards.

It was a quick trip but we were so glad to have a getaway with Nick!

Casino employees QUICKLY made me get my kids off the chairs by the slots :)

Last Day of Dance Class

Myla and Gavan were enrolled in a couple of classes through the town and here are some pics from the last day of class. Gavan was in a Little Sports Class so the teacher did not have us come in to watch them perform the things they learned. Myla was in a Ballet/Tap Combo class (yes, I had to spend $20 on tap shoes that will probably not get any more use than the 8 classes that she attended) and we got to go in for the last few minutes and watch them do a cute little dance to "It's A Small World After All"

Evolution of the Black Eye

This happened awhile back but I took pictures and thought you might like to see how Myla's black eye progressed. Quick background - she and her dear friend were playing outside one afternoon. Her little friend got ahold of one of her Dad's metal baseball bats and was innocently swinging it in a circle. Myla was running around and neither girl saw the other and - bam! - Myla's brow bone met the bat. No blood was lost - it was just quite the shock - for everyone! The first day it was only swollen on the side but this picture is from the next morning, on our way to the doctor's office to get it checked out.

She can still smile even though her little eye can't open very far!

Day 3 (the day that we staged the boxing match photos in the post below)

Day 4

Day 5

After the 5th day, we were all so used to it that I stopped taking pictures. The whole thing ended up taking almost 2 weeks to completely fade. We're just glad that it was only a black eye and not a worse injury!

Fight Club!

This past Christmas, Papa got us a couple of sets of boxing gloves. Its great - this is how we settle disputes in our family now! Look how well we were able to figure out who was right and who was wrong in a recent disagreement between Myla and Gavan:

The face-off

Round one

She got in some good hits...

And he's down for the count!

The winner!!