Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Our Vegas trip, 2007!

Saturday morning we left for Vegas, got a late start, but better late then never. I wasn't sure how Maddie would do, having to stay at someone else's house, since she's never been away from home (except when she was 6 months old). Well, she freaked out a little bit. It took her a good hour to get use to everyone at my Uncle's house. Then, I took her to see my Grandparents (which is attached to my Uncles) and she clammed up again and started crying all over again. Poor thing, it was pretty tramatic for her. But, Chad could care less! He was all smiles, which really made my grandparents happy.

I got to meet my new little cousin, Richie, he is so cute, he's 4 weeks old. It's cool to think that in just a few years, Chad will have a little buddy to play with when we come visit.

Maddie met a new little friend, Nalani. My aunt's sister was also staying the weekend, and Nalani is her 3 year old daughter. Thank god for her, because I don't think Maddie could have made it through the trip without her. They had a lot of fun playing together.

We didn't have much opportunity to go to the casino's to gamble, which really bummed Chris out. But, the whole point of the trip was to spend as much time with my grandparents as possible. And that we did!

I really was looking forward to taking Maddie to the strip at night so she could see all the lights, but when we got there, they had plans to go to dinner, so we did that the first night. Then Sunday night, my Uncle had planned a birthday BBQ for my aunt, and Maddie didn't take a nap, so she was really tired and cranky, so there was no way we were going out on the town with her. So, on the way home, we drove down to the strip and walked around a little bit. She wasn't too interested though, except for the M&M guy that was standing out front the M&M store, she just loved him.

Well, that's about it for now.

2 comments:

Tara said...

It looks like you had a good time! It's good that you went up there to see your grandparents--that is so awesome and I bet they loved seeing Chad and Maddie. Nice job Maddie on being away from home--Jacob informed me that your car looked like you were moving out.

Anonymous said...

Those are great pictures. Glad you had a great time. I am sorry you didn't get much gambeling in. Carter is the same way when we go places he is not familiar with. He is even weird when family comes to visit at our house. It always takes him awhile to warm up to people. I am glad she had someone to play with. I am sure that helped a lot.