Hawaiian Party

I made some cupcakes for a friend's little man, Caden, for his first birthday party. He had a sweet hawaiian outfit to wear, so she chose a hawaiian theme with red velvet and vanilla cupcakes!

Lake Hadley

This past weekend we drove up with some couples from our class at church to Kansas for a lake trip. We had an amazing time with some amazing friends. There were too many great pictures that I had to include, so sorry for all the pics!!!

The Group

Sessler's and Maenius'

The wild crazy MEN

All the guys "trying" to get on one tube

Trent jumping over Sam...I think Sam was a bit suprised!

Sam

Bye Bye Trent!

Brandon attempting to hang out...I can't remember the outcome but I am going to assume he was a gonner!

Sam taking out a girl! geeze!!!

Sam and I

Thanks a lot babe!!

THE GIRLS!!!

All the girls successfully getting on one tube....it all went downhill from here!

Melanie, Amy, and ?????

Mandy and Melanie...I look like I am enjoying this more than her!

Chrishtan, Melanie, and Mandy

Amber & I

My transition....


holding on....holding on...


where did she go??? She's on the other tube!!!

No good terrible very bad blogger!!!

I have been a no good terrible very bad blogger this summer!! I guess I have just been enjoying our summer so much that I keep putting off blogging!!! Forgive me. Since I don't want to bore you with separate posts for some of the things that we have done since I last posted, I thought I would just share a few pics!

We have.......

Hung out with family....

(although I only have a few pics of just this occurrence) Ms. Quinci

Reed

Got my first tattoo...

(ok, so its a non-permanent henna tattoo...please excuse the unpolished toe nails, and the weird crusty stuff is the sugar water they put on to help the tattoo stay..I'm not dirty!!!)

Taught some friends how to make cookies...

(I think I might have to hire them one day!)

I met some of my girl friends at the lake for a fabulous girls weekend....

We did this the entire weekend!!!We're goofy, I know!!!

and Sam has played some softball....

I also thought I would share some pics of my niece Mia. She just turned 3 months old and is precious!!! I had to borrow these from her parents blog though b/c I have been a bad aunt and don't have many recent pictures!! I would also like to ask you to please remember her and her parents in your prayers as they have now reached the 12 month mark. Please pray for peace and faithfulness for her parents, and that they would not allow fear to overcome the joy of having this precious little girl. I know they would appreciate it!

Viva Las Vegas!!!

A few weeks ago we went to Vegas for the first time to celebrate our 3rd anniversary!!! We went with our good friends, Jennifer and Jacob, and had a great time! We had so much fun seeing all of the sites and watching all of the very "interesting" people!! One of my favorite parts of the trip was getting to eat some fabulous food! I love to research great restaurants and tend to eat A LOT on vacation, but hey, that's my favorite part!!! We did not gamble much - but we did come out ahead for the little that we did play! I only played blackjack because it is the only thing I know how to play. I did not even try a slot machine until the last day!!! I'm afraid if I started that I might not stop!! Plus Sam was convinced that they had to be rigged b/c they were computer generated!!! Sam played a few different games, but he won almost half of his money playing War!!! Not too hard of a game...just beat the dealer!!! We stayed at the Venetian hotel and it was amazing! The hotel itself was of course huge and had so much to look at; the pool area had several huge pool areas; and our room was awesome! I'm pretty sure it was the biggest room I have ever stayed in. It had a hallway!!! (I really need to get out more) There were three flat screen tv's! Since the US Open was on the weekend we were there, Sam always had the tv on so we could catch a bit when we stopped by the room. If you had all of them on at once it was like surround sound!!! So basically we did a lot of walking, a lot of eating, a lot of people watching, some gambling, some time at the pool, little sleeping, and a pretty good amount of shopping!!

One of the biggest reasons for us even thinking about going to Vegas was to see the Cirque du Soleil - Love show. Since Sam is such a huge Beatles fan I wanted to get him there to see this show. It was SOOOOOOO worth the money!! I would recommend it to anyone, but especially to those who enjoy the Beatles!! Such an amazing show; I honestly don't know 1. how they do the stuff they do, and 2. how they even put something like this together with all that is going on and all of the crazy costumes!!! I kept telling Sam that I felt like I was watching an amazing show of organized mass chaos; I honestly could go back 5 times and still not catch everything!!!

It was a great way to celebrate 3 amazing years! I probably won't go back anytime soon (too many other places on my list), but definitely some day!! And now....PICTURE OVERLOAD!!!

The Venetian

Outside of Caesar's Palace after eating at Spago - Wolfgang Puck

New York New York - fun hotel!! I totally paid way too much to

ride the roller coaster, but I couldn't pass up a roller coaster opportunity!!!

I could not get enough of the Bellagio fountians -

I might have even been slightly obsessed!!

Chill'n at the pool...please pay not attention

to the lack of tan bodies!

Looking at the Vegas sites from the Effiel Tower at the Paris Hotel

Going into the Beatles show

Trying to win some money!!!

I just like this pic!

Bobby Flay burger at Mesa Grill - I had to get a burger
created by the "burger master"

Ok, that's enough...I suggest just checking it out for yourselves if you have never been!!!