Monday, March 30, 2009

Sky Ranch

We went to visit Granny and Poppy at their home in Sky Ranch! We love seeing Dave and Eloise and playing in the desert! This is Kavella's first 4-wheel ride!



Beanie and Christopher came down for one night, which wasn't long enough, but we were stoked to see them! Colleen was my first sibling to meet Kavella!

Colleen navigates the "Red Baron" airplane....only slightly different than Dave's planes!
Chris on the new four-wheeler!
Choco rode in the safest place possible!

There are real dinosaur tracks by their home! It's hard to see in pics, but there are two different sets of tracks--one dinosaur was 100 lbs and the other was larger! I thought it was pretty neat! That's Colleen's foot by the larger print....


And here is the little whipper-snapper! I weigh more than a dinosaur. That hurts. That's what it feels like to get dissed by an artifact.

Uh, it was a bit sunny.
This is where you park to walk down to the tracks. I'm sure it was some lad's Boy Scout project to build the fence.

Poppy bought a new Jeep to tool around in, so we went for a ride! Kavella's first off-road adventure! A city girl in the country! Doesn't she look tasty?

K-baby and cattle.







Aunt Colleeeeeeeeeeeenie!












Can you find Choco?


























Eloise and me!

Poppy and Kavella








Choco has no idea what's about to happen, ha ha!














Granny was successful at getting Kavella to snooze.....














And laugh!





























Whew! What a fun weekend!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

What Happens in Vegas.....

We thought at 2 months old, it was time for Kavella to party in Vegas! So, we all loaded up! Kavella insisted on a window seat....

Choco wasn't going to be left behind.....



After checking into the hotel, Kavella got right to drinking! Chug, chug, chug!!

After tippin' back some bottles, we got ready to visit the strip! Kavella got dressed in her best bow....


Checked herself out in the mirror...

Offered a few jokes...laughs....Then we cruised down to the strip--feeling good! The sights were amazing! Besides our favorite activity of "people watching," we enjoyed the Bellagio water show....



Liked walking under the Eiffel tower.....When all of a sudden, those bottles of milk caught up with us! Kavella swore she was seeing things....everything was sooo colorful and psychadelic! "It's so mesmerizing...."


We HAD to see the spring flower arrangements. Notice how focused Kavella is....over here, little one!









Yawwwwnnnnn, getting a little sleepy...

....and......OUT!
After a quick nap, we went back to the hotel. There was this hypnotist in ads throughout the Paris hotel who looked like a straight up psycho. Did I imitate him well?

This indoor path, which led to the casino, was pretty cool! The ceiling is painted!

After playing craps all night, this is how Kavella felt:





Around 4 in the morning, after a night on the town, Kavella crashed!

I doubt she'll remember much of her first Vegas trip!