Vegas or Bust

So...we made it to Cedar City, UT...all in one piece, but barely! I really wish someone would invent a time machine...I mean...come on! Flying with children is excruciating. It's a form of torture, seriously.

But in this case, it was a kind of self-inflicted torture, since I was the one who booked our 6 hr flight! What the heck was I thinking?? I guess it was a cheap Southwest flight, where I thought we just had a stopover in PHX. Turned out we flew to OK City, stopped and didn't get off the plane, just let people off and on. Then we flew from there to PHX...which we got to EARLY...so we got to sit and wait for the plane to Vegas for an extra half hour! So not cool of them. Bella switched into ultra-hyper mode in the PHX airport! Holy moly....that girl just could not stop! Thank goodness for Emmalee being there, and being a good sport by chasing her around, trying to keep her from getting on another flight. But both girls crashed on that 39 minute flight to Vegas. They were both very happy to see their Tia Kari, and even though the first words out of Bellas mouth when she saw her Grammy were "Oh No! Where Papa?" I just KNOW she was happy to see her!! LOL....that will be a story told over and over again. Bella is quite obsessed with her Papa...I dunno if its necessarily obsession, but she remembers things he has done at our house and places he has been with her. I will be moving the paint can and she will say "Tha Papa" in her Bellanguage. Or we'll go to Home Depot, and she'll call out "Papa, Papa" ....crazy girl. ANYWAYS....we spent all of Sunday visiting friends and me having a nice little crying breakdown (stupid Aunt Flo always makes me cry). But man oh man I had forgotten how HOT Vegas can get!! You just can't stay out in that sun for even a minute. It's still a nice and dry heat, so you're not sweating profusely like in TX, but it will scorch ya! I am excited to get some of these pictures up I have taken, but its going to be awhile....I didn't bring my cables to hook stuff up, so we will all just have to wait patiently. In the meantime...I have been surfing around my mom's saved pictures here on her computer and found this cutie of Bella...I took her and got some professional pics taken for her one-yr mark. This is back when she would sit STILL and actually sMiLe for the camera....I just love that smile!