Celebrating 55 Yrs of Marriage!!

Grandma and Grandpa Hugh and Sondra Drake celebrated 55 yrs of marriage!!! They invited all the kids and grandkids to join them to celebrate this wonderful milestone in  thier life! What an incredible example they have set to each of us and what a Real, committed Marriage means :) We sure do love them. It was so nice spending time with them and family we haven't seen in a long time. They are such a blessing to us in our lives. Congrats Grandma and Grandpa !! You guys are Awesome!

Pictured with great grandkids Matthew, Luke and Dakota in gramps lap

 Grand kids

Justin, Jessica, Eric, Joe, Taylor and Jen

Lunch at Claim Jumpers

We are so proud of you :)

 At South Point Hotel and Casino they had a very family friendly bowling ally. Way cool!
 Boys absolutely LOVED it! They played a whole bunch of games the entire weekend.

Ate at South Points famous Steaks and Shakes restaurant! cool hats !!

Took the boys on the strip. They loved all the lights!!! 

Mathew posed with Star Wars dude and a Halo dude :) lol

View from our room 

Belagio 

 They had character all over the strip!! Here's just one! I took lots of picts from Spongebob and patrick, Barney... Toy Story characters.. You name they were there on the strip!! Kids thought that was just awesome!



WE had a fabulous time showing the boys around. We didn't go into casinos since their's too much smoke and laws of kids being allowed in them. Which is fine... we really don't want to expose them to too much just yet ! lol! Thankfully they are so young and innocent and things go right over their heads! :0)



Bolder City Brewery

Ate at Bolder City Brewery for lunch! I have to say one of the best lunches i have ever had! and this is my 2 nd time going to a Brewery. I had a drink called "The Rattlesnake" and mix of their special brewed beer and apple cider. It was delicious!!! Justin had their Pilsner brewed beer. They poured our beer fresh out of their vats as you seen below! If you go to Vegas and go towards the Hoover dam you come to the little city Boulder City.... you have to stop at their brewery! You will not be disappointed!

Being his usal ree ree self ! LoL! :

Dinosaur Chicken Nugget fight!!! haha!

Great Outdoor World Bass Pro Shops

Mans most favorite place to go on earth :) This is the boys first time at this store! I think we came here 4 times haha! so much fun and so much to see! Boys had ablast as did Justin! lol! it is pretty cool even for a girl :) 

American Chopper made them a motorcycle! pretty awesome!

Yup... they even had a Mermaid :)

Flash Flood

After eating we experienced some serious rain in a matter of minutes! Rain drops were sooo big and came down so fast! we literally walked 10 ft to our car and all of us were soaking wet by the time we got in the car and we rushed! Unreal! From what i hear they have monsoons there! craziness! but so cool! I think it rained maybe 30 minutes and it flooded like this!

Hoover Dam

Took the boys to the Hoover dam. They thought it was pretty neato! Amazing how much they have done in a matter of a couple of years since Justin and I have been there. Huge and very high bridge that is now just a highway! They built it so you cannot see the dam when you drive over it. You think you are just on some bridge. Till you actually go to the Hoover Dam and you realize just how high you are and how big that bridge is! Mind Blowing!

Over looking the Colorado River

 been in 3 states in 2 days :) first for the boys!

Toothless

Luker lost his first tooth on Sept 1, 2011!!!! LoL !! his other bottom tooth is loose and is soon to be lost!! He was eating a hamburger when he noticed a crunch while chewing and spit it out and Wala! A tooth! When I told him the tooth fairy would visit him he immediatly laughed cuz he imagines a little man coming to give him money. You know where he got that from right? the movie The Tooth Fairy! hahaaha! So yes.. he really does believe there is a tooth fairy. Matthew almost gave it away that there is no such thing but I want Luke to have fun while young. so in our house. The tooth fairy exists :)

The boys had their friend Gage over to play and I heard some giggling. So i go check on them and they used Lukes stamp on their lips to make it look like they have lip stick on! hahahha! no they are not tranny's lol! I guess they are around me a bit to much! lol!!! Ohhh the things boys do :0)

Picasso de Luke

 Luke did such a good job!! Spongebob with side walk chalk!

And Squidward!! LoL !! pretty good drawings for a 5 yr old! :o)