Birthday Fun Vegas Style!

This year for my birthday we went to Vegas!  It was actually for both of our birthdays.  Charlie's is 2 days after mine.  We decided to spend the night in Jackpot on St. Patricks Day since we had a free room coupon during the week.  We left late Wednesday night and arrived in Jackpot around midnight...  of course...we stayed up later than we should have gambling!

The next morning we woke up and headed out to Vegas.  Needless to say...we stayed up half of the night gambling so we didn't exactly get a early start.  But we were on vacation...no schedule needed!

When we arrived in Vegas I was amazed at all of the people.  They were everywhere.  It was all so fast paced it was almost overwhelming.  We got there about 6pm and went straight to our hotel to get checked in.  We were staying at the Monte Carlo. 

Charlie's friend Marshall that he used to work with in Alaska lives in Vegas now and works at the Monte Carlo and was able to get us a great room rate for our whole stay.  When we got there he told us we were 1 floor from the top...It was so sweet of him to hook us up!  When we got to our room this is what we found:

Not only did he get us great room rates...He set us up with a llittle mini bar, robes on the bed, etc.  We were very impressed!  Thanks Marshall!

Once we got into our room and were getting settled, the phone rang and Marshall was calling to see how we liked it and to let us know that he got us some tickets to a show and to be ready at 9 and meet him downstairs and he would have someone take us to our seats.  The show was Frank Caliendo who is an impressionist and he was hilarious.  We gambled and drank some while we waited for 9 to get there.  It was a great 1st night in Vegas!

The 2nd day we just walked around the streets of Vegas and went into shops and checked stuff out.  Each night we would go out and gamble...The gambling there was fun but man was it a joke!  SO...many people.  Although, we did end up going to Circus Circus and Charlie won about 750 on one hand and I won 150...so that wasn't too bad.  We both made our money last with gambling pretty well.  It was a good time!  I can't wait to go back.

We made a trip to the M&M Store on the last day we were there.  I love that place!  It is by far my favorite place in Vegas so far!!

Another stop that I had to make was the "Welcome to Vegas" sign!  That was 1 of the main things I couldn't miss!

Marshall took us on a ride to old downtown Las Vegas to Freemont Street.  We didnt spend much time there but I really hope we get to go there next time!  It was really neat.  We then took Marshall out to dinner to thank him for getting us set up with our room and show tickets!

While we were in downtown Vegas...we visited the Golden Nugget. We ended up meeting one of the employees and he showed us around.  He took us out to the pool and they have their slide that goes through the center of a shark tank.  It was really exciting.

All in all...We had a fantastic trip and we both had a great birthday!  I want to go back again!

Cody's 8th Birthday Party

This year Cody wanted to go to Pojo's for his birthday.  We decided to go to Pojo's at around 2 and I let him invite 1 friend. As of the night before his party his friend hadn't RSVP'd and he was getting bummed that he wasn't going to have a friend at his party.  Well we tried to cheer him up with the fact that we would all be there together and we would still have fun.  Needless to say, his friend Joey showed up to the party right when we got there and it was a hit.  We all had a great time and it was a success!

Christmas Time 2009

Christmas this year was amazing.  Charlie and I both had our kids for Christmas morning.  At that time we both lived at our own houses so we wanted to be able to keep the kids home to wake up in the morning and open presents.  So we got together Christmas Eve during the day while my kids were with their dad.  We opened gifts and had dinner.  I got to go get my kids and spend the rest of the evening and Christmas morning with them.  We met up late morning Christmas day and went to my moms to open more presents and to have dinner...All in alll.it was a great Christmas!

At Charlie's house...

He is not a BSU fan!  : )

Charlie's daughter Nicole

Charlie's son Cody

I let my kids open 1 gift before bed on Christmas Eve

Lexi is almost as tall as the tree this year!

Now Charlie and Nicole and Cody came over so the kids could open presents that they had gotten for each other...

Then we were on to my mom and Mike's...

It was a fantastic Christmas with our little family!

Halloween 2009

Halloween was really a fun time this year!  We were invited over to our friends house Jerry and Niki's for a costume party...It took us a few weeks of shopping around to find a good couples costume.  Charlie was a nerd and I was the nerds hot girlfriend...it was so much fun!

Everytime I looked at Charlie...I couldn't quit giggling.  The teeth really made me laugh.  Too funny.  I love that he is such a good sport.