A new marketing ad....

 I would like to preface with it bugs me when people come to Utah or other places that I love and they will either complain or speak negatively. I think to myself if you don't like it here, don't come here.

So with that said my new slogan for Vegas is......"sinner's, winner's, chicken dinner's, cruiser's, looser's and boozer's"

Not really the top destination for a vacation, BUT it is cheap, close and HOT!!

 A few pics of Hoover dam, (the boys love this place because of Transformers....don't know what I am talking about, you should watch the movie)

We walked across the new bridge, just a tad bit of anxiety with the height and little kids not knowing what on earth they would do.

 We took a little friend/cousin with us, it was fun to have her. She balanced out the boy crazed situation we usually have.

 I love me some Lake Mead, maybe not as much as I used too, with the quagga mussels and everything.

 Our agenda, sleep, eat, swim...repeat.

 Kessler trying to push Ben in.

 A short walk down the strip to the Bellagio fountains, sadly Alivia and Kyleigh commented on the inappropriate attire some ladies were wearing.

 Ben practicing some poker skills...for his some day dream World Poker Tournament.

(he made 50$, half tank of gas?)

 Cooper was glad to see the blue M&M, he told me last time it was green one....glad he remembers.

 Love this picture above, we were just walking back to our car and I had my camera hanging around my neck and snapped a photo while I was walking.

Our hotel was pretty nice, customer service was pretty crappy. Oh well. They had a nice workout room I used a few times, I watched the republican debate one night...it was pretty cool it was held in Vegas hosted by my beloved Anderson Cooper ( I thought about stalking him at his hotel, but 5 kids with me wouldn't have been so discreet). Also our hotel was very close to the airport so all day we saw airplanes landing and taking off. Kessler was in heaven.

We had some special visitors one day, it was so fun to hang out at the pool and let all the kids play and get some quality mommy time!!

Fall Colors

 A tad bit late for fall colors, but there was still plenty to see. I LOVE the colors!

(btw...one step closer to Target Canada, Ben passed the first interview:)

Monster Mash

 The official costumes of the Ward/neighborhood Halloween Party. 

Cooper = Spider Man (surprised?)

 Kessler = power ranger

 Bauer = Pirate (nice pirate face above, mean pirate face below)

 Alivia = Sailor girl

And I do not know who this person is below.......I will say he probably dressed up because he has been up for 36+ hours due to working a really early morning shift and not going to bed the few hours before he had to get up. (delirious)

He was a VERY good sport and the kids thought is was hysterical.

Isn't she so precious!!

 This is Miss Addi! she is just over 4 months and is the cutest thing ever. I love it when she comes over.

She had a rough day the other day when she was over visiting, she had shots the day before she was the saddest I have ever seen her.

These were taken after a little Motrin and a little cat nap later!!

Bauer Loves Kindergarten

This little man has started a new chapter in his life. I love to watch him write the pages, if you will.

He is are only (likes to get up early, and is in a very good mood child) and so I knew putting him in the early class would be the best for him and me, plus I didn't want to keep hearing, "is it time for school yet?".

When he leaves every morning it gives me and Kessler some quality time which usually is Kessler sleeping until 9:30 or 10am and depends on the day what I do, go back to bed or go do 1,238 other things on my lists.

He is our happy, silly, sweet, smart boy, his eyelashes are to die for, his smile puts a smile in my heart and 

never ,ever want to forget what it looks like.

He loves to play with his friends and everyday he comes home he likes to run across the street and eat his lunch with his two friends that are in a later kindergarten class.

Yeah for Kindergarten!!

Cooper Grade 2

Cooper is in 2nd grade this year and his cute teacher is Miss Maurin, she is the same teacher that Alivia had last year.

Unfortunately his teacher became very ill the first week of school with some serious heart problems. She is maybe her mid or late twenties.

So he went through a week or two of subs and struggled through the changes. His teacher came back for a day or two and became ill again and he know how a permanent sub until further notice. 

I met his sub Ms. Leslie at parent teacher conference and she is fun and was so nice, I told her my concerns she took some notes and we figured some things out. I feel a lot better after meeting with her and am super excited for Cooper and the year ahead of him.

He is still up to his same stuff, dressing up in costumes, pirates and police officers lately. He is loving Eggo waffles and wants to have school lunch everyday. Last year, he would almost be physically ill thinking he had to eat school lunch because he was nervous about what he would have to eat.

He really wants to be Luigi for Halloween and he wants his brothers to be Mario and Toad.

What have we been up to lately?

 The same stuff we are always up too...school, homework, chores, yard work, room mom stuff, working out, cleaning, parent teacher conferences, losing the hermit crab 'Nancy" and then finding her again a week later still alive, flying, errands, shopping, Ben prepping for Target Canada interviews, searching for hotels for a fall break (UEA) vacation and some digital scrapbooking. 

 The kids brought all of their baby books up the other day and the only one that didn't have one was Kessler:( rude mother I know. My excuse is all the other kids baby books are paper scrapbooking and I digital scrapbook and so I don't print them out like I should.

(p.s. typos in the above page that I haven't fixed yet)

So I have MANY pictures that I need to take care of and get journal-ed. Here are 'some' of the pages that have been done recently. Now off to printing them...right?