viva

We started off our summer early with a trip down south for the long weekend. Blake's younger brother Clint and his girlfriend (now wife) Abby got married in Las Vegas and it gave us a really good excuse to go to a warmer locale!

We decided to beat the holiday traffic and leave on Thursday. Nothing too eventful

happened in St. George except pool time, lounge time and too much money spent at the Gymboree outlet

(this is the trip that made me realize I do have an addiction buying clothes for Lucy -

an addiction that Blake does not support).

yes, we lounged

Lucy has an addiction too - rocks. Everywhere we go she seems to find
a pile of rocks and they end up in her pockets, in my purse or all over the back seat.

It was cute for a minute but now they are taking up a lot of space and she's starting to take them from our flower pots on the patio. Blake spends a lot of time arrange them "just so".

We arrived in Las Vegas on Friday and had a full day of pool time and then some shopping (H&M kids' department - OMG!)and eating al fresco. We went to Town Square in Las Vegas. It's away from the strip and they had a darling little toddler/kid land outside. Lucy could've spent hours there -but after awhile my swine-flu paranoia set in and we headed back to our hotel.

in her "vegas" outfit - she looks too old for my liking in this pic

running through the hedge maze at dark

Saturday we did some more of the same and then headed to the Hilton for the wedding. Abby is such a sweet girl and I'm happy she's now legally a part of the family.

congratulations to the newlyweds!

blake & brothers (kyle, clint, brad)

yeah, she won't even get to attempt to catch a boquet for about 25 years!

It was a fun weekend getaway and I didn't even get that bad of a sunburn. Lucy was such a good girl - even though she constantly was chanting "wanna walk awound".
Viva las vegas and viva summer time!