Spring Break Part 1 Vegas.

So we got ready packed the car and headed to Vegas a little bummed and sad.  We got to our resort and headed straight to the pool.  The weather was supposed to be the best that day and the next so we decided to take advantage of it.  They had a few waterslides open and the kids went to town on them.  The water was warm and enjoyable and we stayed tell it was time for dinner.  After everyone got ready we headed out to eat  to Chili's.  Then we did a little shopping and headed back to our resort for the night.  The next day we were up and decided to look at a few stores while we waited for the pool to open.  There was a park at the Town Square shopping center so the younger boys ended up there with dad  while I  took the big kids shopping.  The girls found quite a few things, as well as Preston.  We grabbed a quick lunch and headed back to our hotel to swim the day away.  They had a couple more pools open on Friday since it was the weekend. We all enjoyed the warm spring weather and lounging by the pool.  We ended up leavening around 5:00 to get cleaned up for dinner.  We went to so many different places to try to get a seat and everywhere was booked...we ended up at Black Bear Diner.  It was okay, but the boys were most excited about the icecream they got at the end.  We them went around vegas down the strip to watch the light show and show the kids fremont street.  You had to park your car and get out and walk so we just drove past, not feeling to comfortable going out with all the kids down the old strip.  We called it a night and new it would be windy the next day so we were going to do a big shopping/mall day.  Saturday we woke up and shopped from sun up to sun down.  We went to a few different malls, the boys were so over it, but the big kids could have kept going.  We came back to the resort and ordered takeout which dean went and picked up and ate at the hotel.  We were supposed to check out Sunday and head home, but decided to head to Phoenix Arizona instead!! Aunt Marie, Uncle Eric, and their girls were headed down there so we decided to go with them. 

 

Exec coucil

The first part of the week before we left for spring break, Preston decided to run for Exect Council.  It's a lot of work and the first part is to write a paper of why, then you have to put together a 30 second video then everyone vote from that vote they clear the field down to the top 14.  That's when the real madness begins if you make it that far.  Well we were trying to come up with a slogan or theme for his 30 second video and for some reason my sis stephanie said a phrase from dumb and dumber and we went with it.  So we rented the suit and he went in with 2 of his friends for the video.  There were about 25 people trying for the top 14 spots.  Honestly we didn't know if Preston would make it or not.  There were that many good people.  It could have went either way.  So he did his skit and then the next day was voting...the day we were leaving.  If you made it through there was a mandatory parent mtg that night with your kid.  Well Preston got a text saying he made it so we were so excited.  It was going to be a lot of work, but he couldn't wait to start. 

 

Hawaii Bound....(maybe)

Back in December I found a killer deal on flights to Maui.  Since dean and I  had credit already from missing our first Maui trip back in March from Covid, I jumped on it and bought the whole family Hawaii tickets from a Christmas presents.  Everyone was so excited.  As it's getting closer we are getting so much info about all we need to do to be able to even get on a plane to go to Maui.  Maui's guidelines were download an app and have our Covid test put in before we get to the airport and the tests couldn't be done to soon.  We had a 72 hour time slot where we had to get our Covid test taken and hopefully get the results back in time to go to Maui.  You had to set up time slots to go and with a family of 7 that became a little bit tricky to get us all in.  We wanted to do a rapid test in vegas but they didn't have enough time slots so we did one in Hurricane the Monday before we were supposed to leave.  We would need our results by Thursday to make it on our trip and before 3:00 on Thursday to be within the 72 hour timeline. By wednesday we hadn't received our results yet, but we still cleaned and packed like we were going to Hawaii.  We had to be up by 4:00 am to make it to the airport in Vegas for our flight at 6:00 am Vegas time.  at 4:00 we still hadn't received our results.  Some places have testing at the airport so we thought we would do the rapid test there, but the test was 250$ per person and that adds up with a family of 7.  That was more then we were spending in flights. So everyone was up on Thursday morning and we had to make the call to back out of our flights.  We were so bummed to say the least.  Landon was crying, and the older kids didn't want to go to school.  So we loaded up and headed down to a resort in Vegas for the weekend.

 

Weekend shenanigans.

The last Saturday in February the Church put on a program for the primary kids called "Friend to Friend"  it was durin the boys soccer games, so we watched it later that day.  It was so cute and my boys loved it and watched over again.  They loved the drawing part of it and were so proud of their pictures of a child praying.  It was so fun to see them get excited about listening to the gospel with people their own age.  Addison was able to attend a friends sisters wedding and helping out all night with the little kids.  She loved it.  She loves little kids and they gravitate toward her.  She was so excited and looked so cute.  The boys had great soccer games.  Both scoring and playing awesome.  Brecken had our first goal for our team, and I think Landon had 4 or 5 goals for his team.  I've loved watching those to improve and play each season.