Las VEGAS!!

Darryl and I just got back from a wonderful 10th Anniversary vacation to Las Vegas! We left on Tuesday, July 20th and stayed until Sunday the 25th. It was the first time we left the girls that long, and we missed them terribly! My cousin watched them and they had a fabulous time being at the beach for the week.
Neither of us had been to Vegas before, and wanted to experience it without kids, so off we went!

We left Manchester at 7am and got to Vegas at 9:40am with the 3-hour time change, we had all day to hang out on our very first day there which was nice! We were like a deer in headlights the whole time! :)We stayed at Planet Hollywood right in the middle of the strip. Here are a few photos from the view of our room on the 25th floor...(the Bellagio across the street, and Paris next door)


We were starving when we got there, so we headed over to the Monte Carlo for a buffet (late) lunch and then more site seeing. (more to come....stay tuned!)

Twilight

I have seen the movie Twilight, but never read the book. Are you surprised, and shocked?! Call me crazy, but I never sat down and read all of them, like every other tween and adult female has over the past few years. I didn't think I could ever get into a series about vampires and werewolves....until now. A student gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card at the end of the year, so I thought I would pick it up. I am nearly finished and ready to read the second one. I wonder if I will end up reading all 4 of them this summer? And the Twilight saga continues. :)

playdate

My girls LOVE having friends over to play. Today Mardy and Jaiden came over on this rainy day we are having and brought sunshine with them. I just love listening to them talk, sing, boss each other around, play hide & seek, watching them pull out all the Barbie and Polly Pocket stuff in the playroom, making crafts, and just them being girls!

City Pool, yuck!

My girls and I LOVE to swim and they are both getting great at it! A close friend of ours have an in-ground pool and it is so nice to relax and enjoy it together! We have gone a few times to one of the local city pools and I have been very disgusted. We actually have 3 city pools and they are all free to get into. In a way, I wish they would charge, because they need A LOT of work. The bathrooms are nasty and today the pool was loaded with pine needles. I wish our town would spruce them up and make them enjoyable for all tax payers! They are so bad, there aren't any google images, except for this one...



My brother and his family live in Iowa and their city pool is AWESOME and looks like this...



Even my parents home-town city pool in the middle of no-where looks like this....



So if our city can't clean up our pools, I think next year we are going to invest in our own above-ground pool (it not now)!

Awesome Weekend!

We had a wonderful July 4th weekend! My in-laws have a place on Silver Lake (attached to Winnasquam) in the lakes region up north. We spent the day up there on Saturday swimming in the lake (for hours!), using the wave-runner, and being together as a family. We went to dinner at Town Docks in Meredith, and back to the camp to light sparklers before going home.







We went to York Beach, Maine on Sunday and stayed until Monday. My grandparents, my Aunt and cousins live up there. We had an awesome time on the beach all day, an awesome BBQ for dinner, then watching the fireworks over the ocean! Monday, we were right back on the beach again bright and early. I forgot to pack my camera in the beach bag, so I don't have any photos of our awesome 2 days (boo~hoo) on the beach. But here are some I took at the house. The girls had flag cupcakes at 10:25pm after the fireworks...they were exhausted, hungry, and VERY messy!