Las Vegas

Lauren and I went to Las Vegas last night to spend an evening with Brooke and her friends, celebrating Brooke's 21st birthday. They had already been up there since Thursday, but Laur and I only wanted to do a night. It was a good time, although I am sick of Las Vegas and it seems to get dirtier and grosser every time I come back. I do love to dance though, and it's fun to be able to stay out all night doing just that! Lauren and I ended up being insane and leaving at a crazy early time this morning and made it back to Prescott around 10am which I loved! What I didn't love was driving home on no sleep and JUST waking up now from a long long nap, at 6pm...I hope I can sleep tonight!

I spend a lot of time with my sister, and again I was reminded of how lucky I am to call her my best friend. I had a blast with her, on both the drive and in LV.

Tomorrow starts a new week, and I have some serious goals to accomplish. It's a new start, in a few different ways, and I'm looking forward to it and feeling very inspired. Next weekend Hank plays his first show with Hot Skin, our friends Ben and Kati visit, and I will be spending Saturday with Shirley, Erin, and Autumn and family in Phoenix. I love having another fun weekend to look forward to.

Here are some photos-

Brooke, Lauren, and me

Back home

So after a quick little trip to Vegas, we are back home! I swear, nothing is better than seeing that "Welcome to Arizona!" sign anytime we drive back into our wonderful state. The weekend was wonderful though, won quite a bit of money and spent some great quality time together. And yes, you heard me right...I gambled, and won! I ended up playing a lot of "Let it Ride," which is a poker game at the card tables. It's my favorite and so fun. I also played this funny little slot machine that has a hamburger theme and won a lot too! Overall great time. It was very relaxing and fun to just kick back a little with Hank and his very generous family. Both sides of his family do so much for us and I always hope they know how much I/we appreciate them. So sweet. So yes, it was such a good time, and I was also able to workout every morning in the hotel gym which made me really happy. The only downfall was being around smoke 24/7 in the casinos- disgusting. My skin really feels gross after being around that for even just a few days.

Now I am just focusing on getting situated and getting ready for some house guests this week! Jonathan and Melanie will be up Thursday, along with Sarah too! My parents arrive Saturday and then we leave for Lake Powell Sunday, so it's a pretty busy rest of the week but I am super excited for all of it. Tomorrow I am spending the day on "me" stuff, relaxing and re-centering. :)

So, here are a couple of photos from the trip!

driving to LV




view from our wonderful room


just arrived, heading down to eat


next morning, heading to breakfast


gambling legs


Hank playing Let it Ride


Hank, his Uncle Bruce, and Grandpa (step-mom's Dad)


Hank, step-mom, and Dad :)


another day, another mirror pic, good morning Las Vegas day #3!


playing that blessed, wonderful Hamburger game! I love it!

Saturday

First of all, I want to say thanks again to all of my readers for the comments on all of my blogs, y'all are the best. And weird, I don't think I've ever typed out "y'all" but I strangely like it.

Now I may be alone in this, but I am such a morning person. I love getting up at 6am (5am when I'm working) and getting my workout done early and just enjoy the mornings. I love going to bed early and waking up early. Today is a good day, so no wonder I jumped out of bed. Hank had to do a few things at the salon this morning, and when he is done we'll be heading to Las Vegas for the weekend, I am so excited to just swim all weekend in Mandalay Bay's pool, shop, and eat yummy food. I'm not a gambler at all I think its sad to just throw money away like that. Last time we were there with Hank's Dad, he gave me a lot of money and had me gamble with it. I played cards and all sorts of stuff and even though it was fun because it wasn't my money, I ended up crying at the end of the night because I felt so guilty for wasting it. But I guess people think its fun and that's why they spend the money. As for me, I hate it. Hank likes to play poker and blackjack, so if he wants to do that I will probably just find a comfy little seat at the nickle slots so I don't feel guilty for throwing money away if I don't win! No tears this trip! Haha. I know it sounds silly but that's really how I feel. So anway, gambling is not my thing, but I do like Vegas a lot because I truly enjoy doing the whole pool thing. Give me a comfy loungechair and beautiful pool anytime. And luckily Hank is the same way. When we went to Tahiti we literally spent almost two weeks doing that, mixed with swimming in the ocean and it never got boring.

Errands now, but in just a bit Vivaaaaaa Las Vegas! Yay!