Vegas Vacation

Last week we finally got away, and went to Las Vegas. Aaron's job requires him to take 5 consecutive days off every year for auditing purposes. We had plans to go to Florida to visit my aunt and her family and to leave Molly with Grandma Goodrich. However, Molly still nurses and I have tried everything to get her to drink formula from a bottle, sippy, cup with a straw, but she won't. She also doesn't sleep at night, and lets face I wasn't really ready to leave her. I would miss her too much. The longest I had ever left her is maybe 2 hours. So I couldn't leave her behind. We decided we would go somewhere close that we could drive to. That is why we chose Vegas. We wanted to go see some shows and we were given free tickets to Phantom of the Opera but we didn't know how we would do that with Molly. We were able to talk my mom and aunt Marianne into going with us to help with Molly. So I will tell you day by day what we did. Unfortunately we couldn't take pictures of some of the shows but oh well.

• Sunday afternoon we drove to Mesquite just to break up the drive a little. We didn't do anything there since it was Sunday.
• Monday afternoon we got to Vegas. After we unloaded we went to a show a Treasure Island called Mystier Cirque Du soliel. We took Molly with us to that and she absolutely loved it. All the lights and music had her saying Ooh and Aah all night. This show was amazing. It is all acrobatic stuff. We couldn't believe the strength these people had.
• Tuesday we were able to spend time at my Grandpa J's house. He lives in Henderson and he is totally smitten by Molly. We just spent the day at his house visiting since we don't see him very often. My dad and step mom also were visiting my grandpa that same week so we were able to have them babysit also.
• Wednesday Aaron and I went to the Phantom of the Opera. It was AMAZING. We were given these tickets by a lady who's son is in the program my mom and I work at. Our seats were up close to the front right under the chandelier when it fell. After the show we met my mom and aunt and we went to the was museum. It was crazy how real these statues looked.
• Thursday we took Molly over to my grandpa's so they could all tend while we went to the Las Vegas temple. It was so beautiful and a nice break from the craziness of that wild city. When we came out there was a 98 year old lady that needed help getting over the curb and walking to the front door and so she held on to Aaron's arm as he helped. It was adorable. 98 years old and still faithfully attending the temple. After that we went to a buffet at the Sam's Town, and watched a waterfall and fountain show. We went and got Molly and decided we wanted to go the chocolate factory. It was disappointing because they weren't making any chocolate, but we got samples anyway. Outside they have a cactus garden to walk through and my mom was looking at one that was fuzzy and it looked soft so she toughed it. Needless to say she had hundreds of little fuzzies in her hand that hurt. It sure gave us something to laugh about all day. After resting we headed back out to the strip and met my dad and step mom to ride some of the roller coasters. We started at New York, New York's roller coaster. Then we were headed down the strip to the stratosphere. We stopped to watch the fountains at he Bellajio. It got late so we ended up going back to the hotel for the night. I love roller coasters but after New York New York I didn't want to go another one for a really long time. It came me a mean headache.
• Friday we SHOPPED! We were just a mile from the Las Vegas outlets and that is were we spent most of the day.
• Saturday we stayed is St.George. We went and Les Mes at the Tuachan. It was freezing cold. Thanks to Sisalee we had lots of blankets and coats to keep us warm, and she watched Molly for us. I was stressed because we were gone so long and way late, but of coarse Molly was just fine. Thanks Sisalee!
• Sunday- came home!

It was so fun to get away

and spend time together before Aaron starts school again next week and life gets crazy. We appreciate all the help we got from family that made it possible to go on vacation.