June 26, 2008 at 6:07 pm (Tyler, family, holiday)
Has it REALLY been over a month since I have been on here? Man, time is going by so fast these days. This past month I have felt like every time I get one thing done three more pop up screaming to be done next! We have had a ton going on. The community we live in is called Southern Highlands and every year they have a big Memorial Day Celebration. This year instead of having just a carnival type area for the kids they had a “water play” area. It was great!! They had at least three different types of water slides, squirt gun mazes, dunk tank, and many other things for the kids to do. Chayse went on one slide, with a little help from her dad, and that is all she wanted! Tyler on the other hand had a blast!! He played with his friend TD as long as he could, then it was time for a Subway dinner. Once it started getting dark they had a huge fireworks show.
Next up was Tyler’s Spring Program at his preschool, Springstone. Each classroom had two songs that they performed. Ty’s class sang “Tootie Tot” and “Little help from my friends”. He did a great job! We also have said good-bye to soccer for now. The season ended May 31st with the Tigers winning 4-3! It is just way to HOT in Vegas for him to play during the summer session. We will be back in the fall though!
We were also able to have a great visit with most of my family. My brother, sister-in-law, and mom all came out the beginning of this month. Plus, Katie came home with her boyfriend Pete from New York, so I was finally able to meet him. He is an amazing person and all I’m going to say right now is I wish both of you all the love in the world!!! We all were able to spend some much needed and over do time together as well as celebrate Sheila’s 40th birthday!!! You look good old women!! 
Thank you to all of you for braving the Vegas heat to see little old us. I can’t wait to be able to do it again soon!!!
Coming up we have Tyler’s last day at Springstone, private swim lessons for the kids, and bridal show again……I will try to be more on top of things and post about these as they happen, not months after!!
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April 10, 2008 at 10:54 am (Mark, Tyler, family)
Right after Easter Mark’s half sister Kayla and nephew Ryan came out to visit us during their Spring Break. Kayla is a freshman in collage and Ryan is a junior in high school. Both live in St. Louis and wanted to get away to Vegas Baby! We actually were not sure if they were even going to make it out. There was so much mix up in their flight schedules that they spent literally one entire day just trying to get out here! I personally would have given up, but they put up with flight after flight and 4 airports to get here. Man, to be young again!!
The first day they were here I stayed home for some much needed “alone” time, but Mark had taken the day off so he took Kayla, Ryan, Ty, and Chayse to the strip so Kayla and Ryan could ride some of the roller coasters. They were not able to go on Speed-the ride at the Sahara since it was closed, but they were able to go on The Roller Coaster at New York New York. Then, they went to ride the Big Shot at the Strastosphere. If you don’t live here that is the one on the very very top of the Stratosphere that shoots you straight up into the air. Here is the descriptions it gives…”Shoots you 160 ft. in the air at 45 miles per hour. It goes from a height of 921 ft. high platform up the tower’s mast to a height of 1,081 ft. and down again. You experience four ‘G’s of force on the way up and feel negative ‘G’s on the way down.” Okay, with that being explained not only did Kayla and Ryan ride this BUT TYLER DID TOO!!!!! What the *#&% was Mark thinking???? Tyler is 5! I still can’t believe he was actually tall enough to pass getting on this thing. All I can say is thank goodness I was not there because I would have literallypassed out. What is my baby thinking wanting to even ride a ride like that!? I mean, we went on the roller coasters at Disneyland, I’m okay with that. Nothing to over the top, at least the ones he was tall enough to ride at the time. But the Big Shot?? I think this is my first indication of what kind of kid he is really going to be. Now that he has been riding his bike for months without his training wheels, he no longer wants to simply ride up and down the street. He would rather ride up into the yards, on the rocks, and over the curbs. He is even “trick” riding by putting his feet on the middle bar of the bike or holding on with one hand. If he keeps this up we are going to have a ramp in the middle of the street and he will be trying to do flips!! AAHH!!!
Unfortunately, because the kids had to end up going home earlier then expected the only other thing we were really able to do was take them to the Fremont Street Experience. We had dinner and were able to see two of the light shows, which Ty and Chayse loved!
Thanks for coming out Kayla and Ryan. We loved seeing you and the kids really enjoyed the time they had with you!
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