This year for Thanksgiving we decided to take off to the warmth again and spend some time at my Aunt Cathy's beautiful family home in St. George at Stonecliff. We love to go there and play tennis, swim, workout, and especially to see the sun when it is starting to get cold here! My mom Sadie and I started the vacation a little early this year and heading a week early and stayed a few days and Aunt Cathy's place and then decided to take a girls trip for two nights to vegas! First we were wondering how it would go with a 2 yr. old in vegas but Sadie was an absolute trooper but she has always been a night owl. We stayed at the excalibur which Sadie thought it was so cool to stay in a castle she called it the excalibird and she always talked about a dragon that lived in the castle. After all the fun in Vegas we went back to St. George to meet up with everyone for Thanksgiving Steve, Cathy, Hailee, jonathon, Rachelle, Dalton, Eddie, and Dad. Eddie and my dad left one day early for the Byu Utah game which ended up being worth it for two reasons 1 st Utah won and 2nd Sunday was the worst blizzard driving home it toke us 8 hours from St. George. What a miserable ride and Sadie broke her DVD player 30 minutes into the drive which made it even longer with her asking over and over to watch a movie!!! What a successful thanksginving for very memorable!
First stop was the M&M store which Sadie thought was so cool she picked out every girl color for her and every boy color for Boston she love to pull the lever down and let them fly. This was not a great way to start our first night walking around vegas she had so much energy we could hardly contain her!
This is all her energy right in this picture. She was running like crazy through the gardens of the Belagio she said these flowers are soooo pretty and would smell each one and would get very upset if I would following her she would say leave me alone mom! That is the last thing a mother would do in Vegas!!!
Sadie in the belagio flower gardens with her new hat from the coke factory!!
Guess who was at our hotel yes it was sponge bob square pants! This is the only mascott I have ever seen that Sadie was not afraid of maybe it was because this one was actually not real!
Swimming at the Excalibur in November not the hottest outside but we definatley had to take advantage of the sun!!! Sadie was in heaven this year she just learned to swim by herself with the water wings she thinks she is pretty cool!
Rainforest Cafe in MGM Grand. She was so afraid of all the animal especially when they start making noises. Towards the end of the meal she was laughing because I told her the lions were laughing at her then she loved it.
aunt Cathy and Grandma D cooking thanksgiving dinner. As always plenty of yummy delicious foods. Thanks for all the preparation
Uncle Steve getting his hand into cooking thanksgiving he always does the manly things like the turkey and ham!
Thanksgiving day! I am very grateful for my little family!
Mom and Grandma laughing and smiling while cooking a huge dinner thank goodness everybody puts there share in but all the girls are dfinately in the kitchen all day this year we did not eat until 5 because we were still cooking until then.
Once our bellies were full we had pie and sat down to watch Toy Story 3! What a great family movie we all enjoyed it Sadie loves Buzz Light!
Mom, Sadie, Hailee and Steve!
The Sandy fish aquarium with my tennis buddy Rachelle and her cute little kiddos. This is Sadie and Caroline. We saw the fish and Sadie and I even stayed for storytime which may have been the best part. Sadie thought she could take nemo home, when she found him in the tank!
Disney on Ice with Uncle Blake, Aunt Ry Ry and their neice Meredith! This was so fun Sadie sat still the whole time she like Mickey, Minnie and all the traditional characters the best but they unfortunately are the ones they show the least of! Otherwise her favorite was probably tinkerbell she is definately in the tinkerbell stage right now where everything is Tink from clothes to her bed. Her favorite movie right now though is Tangled (the only movie she has ever sat through) definately buy that when it comes out! Her favorite movie to watch at home is toy story 3 she can watch it with no volume and over and over which is quite nice because I don't get sick of it that way!
Sadie trying to direct Meredith where to go. Meredith is older and was getting so sick of Sadie clinging right to her Sadie had a blast not sure Meredith did! They were cute together Sadie kept saying come on Mer-dith!
Two happy faces after Disney on Ice it was a success!!!
