Home Sweet Home, boy do we all miss you!

It feels like we have been around the world for the past month and 1/2. We traveled to San Francisco, had a blast. Went to Idaho for two consecutive weekends in a row and of course had a blast, and last of all went to Las Vegas and had a blast. Yes, its time for us to stay home for a while and just recoop. The kids are tired, I am tired and yes the hubby who loves his house is tired. Our next trip will just be for the adults going back to Vegas the end of August. It's a trip worth waiting for.

The last trip to Vegas in which the whole family went was kinda crazy. I swear everytime we go on vacation someone gets sick. For Jaycee it was San Francisco, in which she was miserable, and for poor Aya it was Vegas. Aya came down with a head cold the night before, we were thinking of just bagging the trip and staying home, but the girls were totally psyched to go, so we packed up the SUV and headed to Vegas. Anyone who knows Amaya knows that she hates to take medicine. She won't take it to save her life, its a big fight and usually ends up in a throw up mess. It didn't change on this trip, we begged, we bribed, we fought we tried to say it was candy, yep didn't work. It was hard, and even more hard for her. We did find a medicine and by adding it to Capri Sun and of course ice from the hotel vending machine turned out to be wonderful. She didn't even notice, she thought it was a special Juice made just for her, and yes it was. She would drink it like nothing and ask for more, what is that the same girl? What a disguise the Capri Sun did, whahooo! For the remainder of the night we hung out in front of the hotel at a place called the "Hawaiian Marketplace". Wow what a cool place. It has these outdoor vendors, a bunch of places to eat and of course Hawaiian dancers, what could be better. Well for Aya it would be not having her head hurt like crazy and being all stuffed up, she still enjoyd it and was begging to go back throughout the trip. She even tried to immitate the dancers shaking her hips and moving her hands, it was so cute. She has got moves. Jaycee was pretty entertained by the guy throwing fire and dancing around the fire. She went up and gave him a tip, I know we are starting out kids off early lol. We made it to M&M world, and to the Coke factory, by that time the kids were spent and was time to go back to the hotel and chill. We spent quite a bit of time in the hotel just hanging out. Rhandie on the other hand was in paradise. There was a ton of Filipino foods all around and he wasn't going hungry at all. He wanted to try everyone. We walked into a restaurant and immediatly Amaya and Jaycee smelled it and said, "We are not eating here," so funny, okay so we dropped off Lola and Rhandie and the two girls and I headed to KFC. Yeah thank goodness for the good old fried chicken. That was our deal we would drop off Lola and Rhandie and we would head somewhere else. That way everyone would be happy. We had fun, wish everyone was feeling good and it wasn't so hot. The temp there was over 100* argh, hot hot hot. It was funny to see the girls expressions when they saw all the naked girls photos laying all over the ground, hummm what do you tell the kids they are for. Just don't look at the ground keep your eyes up, I mean what can you say? They are everywhere and they are handing them out like candy, yep Vegas not a very kid friendly place. We also took the kids to the Adventure Dome in Circus Circus, they loved it. Totally cool place for kids.

Amaya did have her Dance Recital and yes she did awesome. So pretty and we went over her staying in her spot and also not trying to flash the audience. On the rehersal she didn't understand that lifting up her dress was so cute but not really appropriate, and staying in her line and not running over the other kids was also a good thing. On her recital she did perfect. She was even the "Leader" as Sabby called her. She had her moves down, stayed in her spot and no flashing. We did record it so you will all have to check it out. At the end she was pretty tired, but still went out there and shook her booty, man she was getting down and enjoying herself. So cute!!!!
It is just nice to be home and hopefully we can stay home for a while. Relax, enjoy the outdoors because right now in Utah the temps are staying in the mid 80*'s. Ahh sitting outside swinging with a popsicle. Yummy!!!