First Day of School!!

I was so excited for Macee to finally start Kindergarten since she just missed the deadline last year by a week! She was very excited to and is loving it! We actually only found out the day before school started which school she wouls be going to so it was a bit crazy - this mom stuff is tuff!
She ended up getting into a great school and her teacher is actually a good friend and fellow education graduate of my Sister in law, Beth. She recommended the school her friend taught at and we also got lucky enough to get her as Macee's teacher. Macee really likes her, mainly because of how cute she dresses:) Every day when I pick her up she tells me how pretty her teacher looked today and describes her ensamble to a "t". Do I have a fashionista on my hands or what! Ugh! Her other favorite thing is eating "hot lunch" in a cafeteria! It's the best thing ever!
Jadyn is also going to preschool right next to the elementary so it works out great for the two fo them and they are still together. Jadyn loves recess and also a girl named "Nicolette" who likes to look out for Jadyn. One day Jadyn asked if we could bring her home with us:) Macee is loving it and can't wait for her first field trip next week to the zoo! The only thing she wishes was that she could have the bus take her home instead of me picking her up:( Maybe someday!

Fun at the Fair!

It was fair time again and of course we couldn't resist! Although the fair is quite expensive these days! So, we ate dinner before we left and vowed to just get a treat to share, and enjoy a few rides and look around. I joined Jadyn and Macee for an airplane ride to start, which they loved, but then Jadyn went to go on one by herself and screamed the minute it took off. Nice how my child had to be the one to stop the ride and be taken off :) After that she just wanted to play games- so Miss Macee got extra ride tickets! She was just fine with that! While Macee and Ben enjoyed a father daughter Ferris Wheel ride at the end of the night- Jadyn and I headed out for some mini chocolate covered doughnuts- YUM!!! Then back to the petting zoo for the second time to feed her good friend- the baby ox. She LOVED him and loved feeding him. Four cups of feed later, we met back up with Macee and Ben and headed home. Just the right taste of the fair this year:)

More Pirates Cove

Here's a few more pics of our awesome trip to Pirate's Cove- I want to put them all in, but that would take forever! Here's someone flying out of the crazy waterslide that comes out of a pirate ship. This slide goes sooo fast and plays music as you go through it. At night it is all lit up in side with crazy disco lights too which makes it so fun and exciting!
Here's where the slide comes out and the rope swing you can swing across from the rock ledges or the top of the ship and jump in to the water!
Ben and Bro in Law Matt having a blast playing in the water- we missed you Chelsea!
View of the second pool which you could gradually walk in to and hang out under the tiki huts while kids played. It also had a slower kid slide to go down , and behind the slide was a secret cave with a fish tank inside. There was also an outdoor kitchen right next to the pool here with an outdoor brick oven pizza oven, BBQ, and lounge area where we would eat a lot of meals.
Kind of hard to see, but this was the living area and kitchen of our "house" . There were about 4 houses that had 3-5 bedrooms and a living area with big screen tvs and kitchens full of food. Ours was right nest to the waterslide pool so we had a lot of compnay all day long!
There were two giant teeter totters on the roof tops of two buildings. They were enormous and hard to get on, but boy what a view of Lake Mead from up there!
ARGH MATEY! Lots of fun pirates hanging around everywhere- Me and my firned Val having some fun with the scenery:)
View of the main house and pool. There was basketball at this pool, and you can see a big projector screen ont he side of the building where we watched a movie lounging in the pool one night. Some people even fell asleep in the water! There were also icee machines and an ice cream machine here for continous refreshing treats ALL DAY LONG! Yes, I did gain a few pounds while staying here, but also worked it off climbing all the stairs and getting around everywhere int he huge 20,000 square foot complex!

Here's the mast where there were a few crows nests to jump from into the water. I only made it out of the first one, but Ben jumped all the way from the top one on our last night there! Luckily I was in bed by then or I probably wouldn't have let him jump=yikes! There is also a hidden grotto behind the waterfall there. This trip was so much fun and a great way to end the summer! We also had a day in Las Vegas where we enjoyed shopping, a massage at the hotel ( thanks dear sweet hubby for the gift :), and we saw the ever popular "O" performance- really cool!! Thanks for a great mini vaca DotComSecrets!