A non-Christmas Party

To celebrate this guy's birth.

Good friends are real heroes. We had a great time!!

Happy Birthday Sir Henry. We'd keep you at three longer if possible, but I'm sure you'll be just as charming as a 4 year old.

It's Complete

We drove over the bridge on the way to Vegas when it was dark...so Jacob requested that we drive over the dam, back track and drive over the bridge. It was a great idea. So we drove to AZ on the old road, back tracked to NV and then on to AZ via the bridge. It was truly awesome to behold.

Chilly and wet weather didn't stop the crowds nor us from stopping at the look out points at Hoover Dam.

Who knew concrete could be so beautiful? It's worth a trek to see.

Spontaneity

The extent of doing anything unplanned these days is straying from the grocery list to buy grass hopper cookies. An unplanned trip to Vegas was surly in the makings... Haylee called Sunday morning with news that our dear friend, Marina, was going to stop in Las Vegas on her way from Disneyland to Utah with her family.

I haven't the nerve nor heart to let my kids know that Marina and Jenya's 3 very lucky kids from Moscow made it to Disney land before they did.

So with Dan at church meetings, Jacob enlisted as my co-pilot; Oscar and Henry were graciously received at my sister's household, and we were off within 2 hours of the phone call.

Seeing Marina again and meeting her wonderful husband and beautiful children was one of the best days of my life. I told Marina, though I don't know how our dwelling arrangements will be in the next life, I sure hope that we are, if not neighbors, living much closer than we do to each other now.

Thank you Prete family for hosting this memorable reunion. It was so good to see you all.