Circus!

It's been a tradition for the last couple of years to go to the Ringling Bros. circus that comes to Salt Lake with Shan and Jake. This year tickets were expensive and it didn't end up being a good weekend to meet up with Shan and Jake. So we had decided not to go and I've got to admit, I was a little disappointed. Brian had been in a 4-man golf tournment with work on Friday and they came in 2nd place. They got to choose from a lot of good prizes and he picked free tickets to the circus for Saturday night!! When Preston saw how excited he was about it he took back the golf stuff he'd picked and grabbed the other set of circus tickets. So they invited some friends and took Logan and we invited Gina and AJ to go. Maybe it's cheesy but we LOVE it.

Gina and AJ were able to come with us-happy birthday to AJ. We talked it up a lot so I hope everyone had fun....

The circus!!

Even Logan had fun. He really liked the music and lights.

My Birthday

This is the best picture I have because all of the other ones were blurry but Kai was helping me out with blowing the candles out. And the tradition stands to celebrate birthdays with Grandpa Nelson. :)

This picture is a little dramatic looking. lol I'd actually like to use the word, dashing.

Las Vegas

We went to Las Vegas for our first anniversary trip. Jared and Amy gave us tickets they had to a mentalist show there, which was totally awesome. It was the first time either of us had gone and we stayed in the Circus Circus hotel. Of course it had casinos but it had some good restuarants and a whole amusment park! They also had circus acrobatics every hour and a whole floor with carnival games. Needless to say, we were highly entertained.

Vegas At Night

We only wandered out at night to see the water show at the Bellagio. It was pretty amazing. Much better in real life than on tv.

We watched the water show at the Bellagio. It's pretty amazing.

This jellyfish tank was sweet. Much better if I'm not standing in front of it, blocking the view. :)

This is the tunnel fish tank we got to walk under. It was sooo cool. Cross that one off my bucket list. :)

This was the awesome shark exhibit. It was a huge tank and had tons of different fish in it.

St. George Family Vacation

Wayne and Debbie rented a house in St. George this year for their family vacations. It had tons of rooms and bathrooms so every family could have their own which was super nice. It had an indoor pool and an outdoor pool so the girls and kids took full advantage of that everyday while the boys golfed. Super relaxing and we all had fun. Kellyn is having Uncle Brian read a book to her.

This is Preston and Debbie in the pool. Brian, Preston and I had come up with a new pool game and Debbie wanted to try. In this game you go underwater and sing a song for the the other person to guess. That's right-"Underwater Name-That-Tune." lol Try not to drink too much water though cus that'll make you sick. Trust me. Also try underwater charades for some good laughs. I have trouble getting to the pool floor and staying there so I just sort of float to the top in the middle of a round. Brian and Preston tried to teach me how to sink but all I'd end up doing is bobbing to the top and swallowing half the pool. lol

This is Preston sleeping in the pool. Yes, he has 4 floaties. And yes, he was toasted when he woke up.

Jr. Miss

Shantel decided to do the Jr. Miss program through the high school which is a type of pageant and she asked me to be her hostess. She worked really hard with interviews, practices, her piano piece and shopping of course! She did a really good job! She didn't win anything but she was glad to have done it. When I asked her after the winners were announced if she was ok with not winning she gave me a big grin and said, "I'm so relieved!!" haha. Lots of work but lots learned.

This was her beautiful dress Jenny let her borrow. She got so many comliments and looked beautiful.

Bowling with the Fam

We went to Preston one weekend and went to good ol' Pop N' Pins bowling alley for some old fashioned bowling. REALLY old fashioned. You score by hand, it has some sweet color schemes, shoes older than I am, and who can forget it's fame in Napolean Dynamte? Everyone seemed to have a good time.

What a ham!

Brian's Birthday

Aunt Becky had a birthday dinner for Brian and we had a big party and of course Brian was right in middle of all the little kids. The real question is, who's harrassing who? It's gets hard to tell when they all get going.

I got him a gift certificate to the Logan Golf Course and you can see that he was more than a little excited about it.

Strength Contest

I don't remember how this got started but somehow a pushup contest started. And then a contest with who could do them with someone weighing them down. (What can I say, we got bored...) I don't think they did more than a couple each but it was pretty silly to watch. Here is Ben doing a push-up with Mike on his back.