When Grandma Visits!!!

So are there any other Grandmas out there that do what I do when you are in charge of a grandchild?I offered to babysit little Courtney Rose so that Jaxon & Megan could celebrate Jaxon's B-Day. I can honestly say that Being around little ones the second time around is one of the most rewarding experiences ever. I pray my own kids will forgive me for my shortcomings while I was a young mother. I tried my best and know I failed you at times but the love was always there and I warned you often that you were my guinea pigs...since I had never been a mother before.

While watching Courtney I was totally into her and nothing else. She was so entertaining, so insightful, so innocent and so loving! I could no wrong in her eyes. We went for a walk and picked "fowlers", we looked an airplanes 'in the clouds grandma", we read the book about "a really hot day, grandma" over and over and I didn't even mind! She let me know what she wanted for dinner and then proceeded to get her own bowl. Unlike when I was a young mother, I didn't have to do laundry, didn't having a tub to scrub, the phone was never for me, and every ounce of my attention was in her hands to do as she pleased. Thank you Jaxon & Megan for the privilege of watching your daughter for it is I that learn from her and it brings me back to the days I will cherish forever.

Las Vegas...the rest of the story!

Sorry, but I haven't figured out how to add more pics without adding a new post........

So my good sister, her hubby Lon and their "only child" drove up from St. George to spend the day with us. They are great people and fun to be with.Here is one of the only billboards you can actually take a picture of and post it. We thought this was hilarious! Out of all the fine restaurants we could have chosen to eat at we settled for
The Cheesecake Factory. Stuffed our faces I might say!

This one is for you Sheezie!!!!

Can you say NECKLACE!

These are just a few of the pics to show our great time together...not to mention the Bellagio water shows to music, Circus Circus, walking 6 miles in one day, basking in 85 degree weather, checking into our casino-free/smok-free hotel, Hoover Dam, A&W Rootbeer in Henderson, NV., church at the UNLV Institute, people watching for 3 hours in the Las Vegas airport, Flamingo watching, Human Body Exhibit (Amazing) and LOVE!!!!

Viva Las Vegas Baby!

The three of us decided to cash in on some Jet Blue vouchers and flew to Las Vegas this past weekend. It's a good thing we were together because it wouldn't have been nearly as fun and enjoyable. We keep telling Maddie how lucky she is to be the "only" one at home because we didn't do this kind of thing with the other kids. I'm not sure if she is buying into the idea!Here we are in our "Poncho Section" gear getting ready to watch the "Blue Man Group". We had tickets on the third row and so they prepared us for the possibility of flying paint or squished bananas......
But they didn't tell us about the rolls and rolls of toiletpaper we would receive from the back of the venue! It was one of the funniest nights we ever had together.

Everyone had left the theater but us and we found great joy in making the best of every kind of lighting for a picture moment.

After the show Mr. Blue #1 himself was there to greet us and posed for pictures and even gave Maddie an autograph...a thumbprint of paint off his head.

To heck with Vegas just give me family!!!