Vegas

On our way home from Arizona, we met up with Brian and Sally in Las Vegas. We stayed the weekend at Hooters Hotel and Casino on the South part of the strip. It was Hooter-ific. Hooters! Hooters! Hooters! The entire time Gavin kept looking at pictures and thinking..."mmmmm....mama's Milk".

We did ride on the New York, New York. It was AWESOME!!

M&M World with Brian

We all got an AquaMassage. It was LOVELY.

This pic is a bit dark, but in the background was the most Mulletified Mullet ever. He takes the cake for the best Billy Ray Mullet in Vegas!

Gavin LOVED the pool.

We ate the most amazing buffet on our last night, the Carnival Buffet at the Rio. It was expensive, but man, was it good. They had everything! Crab legs, sushi, Cheeseburgers, steak, tons and tons of pasta! Not to mention the unbelievable desserts. It was amazing. I dared Tim to try the sushi and he did.....but I thought he was going to yak afterwards. Gavin ate EVERYTHING I pushed in front of him. He didn't want to leave.

Gavin stealing dad's Jalepeno chips. Kid loves spicy.

Needless to say, we had fun. Meg, I wish I could have called you and came and saw theat cute kid of your! Next year for sure!!

Arizona

Party at Grandma's! I know I'm late blogging this, but these big blogs are daunting. We left for my Grandma Grandpa's house in Yuma, AZ the first week in March. It was fun...like always! We get excited every year to get to drive down and see them. They are the best Grandparents ever!

I promise to make this the short, short version.....

Gavin was WONDERFUL driving down. Last year it took us 16 hours to make the usual 11 hour drive. It was nice not having to get Gavin out of the car every 2 hours to nurse him. He LOVED his new DVD player. We stopped more to let Tim go pee than anyone else......quite funny.

On the way down, Tim almost got beat up by a trucker who thought he peed on the seat......classssssay. It was downright funny.

When we got there, it took a bit for Gavin to warm up, but he was right there when Grandma busted out the toys. She bought him a toy for every day he was there. It was like Christmas for the kid. He LOVES his Grandma! He even ate every last bite of Grandma's good cooking. Every meal was gormet!

Trying on Grandpa's shoes. He was so proud!

Grandpa let Gav drive the Yukon to Mexico. He figured we'd get through the customs line easier with him driving. Mexico is always fun. We have to go down yearly for my mom's annual drug run. My Grandparents get all their medical and dental work done down here. It's super cheap with good doctors. It's a good thing Gavin speaks Spanish!

We found Gav this super sweet 'Nacho Libre' cape. Hilarious!

Playing in Granpa's yard. Loves to make elephant sounds.

We took my Grandparents to the Olive Garden and Gav was a pill at first. He just whined and whined. Then when they brought his spaghetti he was HAPPY! He had never had spaghetti with the sauce and he just thought it was AMAZIN'
They like each other.


"Fwimmin" with daddy. One of the many, many card games we played. Tim and I ALMOST skunked them at Canasta, but we were shot down. It was still fun. Though, I think I only won one game the entire time.

One night during dinner Gavin was being a PILL, so I threw on a movie for him while we all ate. We turn around a few minutes later and Gavin was passed out on the couch with the stuffed kitty. He looked so cute.

We always love going down there. The nice slow pace, warm weather and my wonderful grandparents make it something we look forward to every year!

(Yes, that was the short version...)

Boy, did he make cloth diapering momma's mad....

I can't begin to explain how appalled I am by Parents Magazine for printing the article. It's basically some uninformed mann who decided to try cloth diapers without one OUNCE of research. I do feel bad for the guy though...if he would have had the sense to research, it would not have been so traumatic. Also, I think his days of writing in Parents Mag are shot. All those cloth diapering mommas weren't too kind with the feedback.

I found this article through Ninali on my Babyzone Cloth Board.....
This is for the other cloth diaper mommas who didn't see it yet .

http://www.parents.com/parents/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/parents/story/data/1204903765533.xml

***Whether you cloth diaper or not....don't rag on others for their choices. Everyone does different things for different reasons. Be kind....especially when printing in a popular magazine!

Slumber Party

Okay, no trip pics, but I do have something to let everyone know....

I'm having a SLUMBER PARTY at my house tonight at 6:30 so come on over! I have lots of food to entice you as well. Hurry up, your husbands will never be so happy to get rid of you!! If you need my address call me or email me!

Movie Night

Tonight, we successfully took Gavin to his first movie, 'Horton Hears a Who'! I was such a proud momma with a big grown up boy. He just sat there perfectly happy the entire time. Never even budged...well, except to steal popcorn away from Tim. He laughed at all the jokes (when others laughed, of course) and just hung out with mom and dad.

We really didn't know if he'd sit through an entire movie, being such an active kid. So we came up with our game plan.....get him all doped up on Leatherby's Icecream for dinner then hit him with a funny cartoon. He never saw it coming. Monday nights just got better!

**I PROMISE I'll post pics of our trip tomarrow! Really!