St. George/Las Vegas Trip

Last weekend, we went to St. George to visit Brad's Dad and family. We have been looking at a job for Brad down in Vegas area so we went to look at some neighborhoods that had houses we were looking at online. It was bittersweet, some of the neighborhoods weren't great and the houses weren't all great either. But we did go to a couple of fun places for the girls. At the Bass Pro Shop right outside of it in the casino there is a big fish tank and it had some really cool fish in it, the girls liked it a lot!

We were just looking at the fish until we realized that there was a mermaid in there! She stopped right in front of Allie and was doing a clapping game with her and the girl next to her. Marlee was too scared to go up there with Allie so I held her and she liked to see the mermaid too.

After that we wanted to check out the adventure dome at Circus Circus. It was a little different than we thought it would be but we did go on a ride. There was a Ferris wheel that was hot air balloons as the seats, we got to all ride together on it. Here is me with Marlee:
And me with Allie:

And here is Brad with the girls. If you look behind them you can see a little bit what the seat looked like.

It was way fun and we went up really high and it was all indoors. There was a big roller coaster that was fun to watch go around too. They had a cool 4D Dora the Explorer show but it wasn't on that day, it was Spongebob instead so we didn't go.

We went back to St. George and hung out at the Taylor's house on Sunday and played games and read books and stuff. On Monday morning we met my sister Chelsy who was on a road trip with a couple of roommates. We met her and went shopping at the outlets because we thought it would have great sales because it was President's Day. I got some really cute outfits and good deals at OshKosh there but that's all.

It was a great little getaway and we didn't have to be here when everyone at home got a lot of snow!

Marlee 2 years

While Allie was at preschool one day, Marlee and I went to the store to get some party stuff. We looked at all the party theme birthday stuff and I asked Marlee which one she wanted for her birthday. She chose Minnie Mouse! I was excited to make a Minnie Mouse cake and we got a MM banner, MM plates, MM napkins, and I snuck in a MM singing card for her!

We gave her some Minnie Mouse panties and Kai-Lan panties. She was going potty a couple weeks before her birthday. I'm so proud of her, she didn't need much bribing, she just loved for us to clap for her when she went. I thought it wasn't very fair of her to be potty trained and she can't even get out of her bed if she needs to go potty, so we gave her a big girl bed and some new bedding! She loved it and got right in it and pretended that she was sleeping! She even said "shhhh!" :)

She got a baby stroller and a super cute outfit from they Young family, and a bunch of toys and stuff from the Bingham family. The bag was super big and she had to crawl inside of it to get her presents it was so deep!

Here is the Minnie mouse cake, it is all frosting, I didn't do fondant this time. The black frosting was a little difficult but I think it turned out pretty cute!

Here is the birthday girl right before she blew out the candles. She had a great Birthday and loved every second of it. It was really funny because some of her aunts couldn't come on her Birthday so they called and said Happy Birthday to her, and she would say Happy Birthday back to them. She understood though I think, I tried to teach her how to make a 2 with her fingers to show how old she is now.

Her birthday was on Sunday, so the day before, we went to Boondocks in Kaysville to have some fun with just our family. She got a crown and a badge and loved to say cheese.
She got to ride on the little rides and they played the arcade games, her favorite actually was the air hockey for little kids and she would always have the puck go into her side even if she had to pick it up and put it in herself.

Marlee loves to wear shoes all the time, she loves cute shoes like any little girl should. She likes to color and have anyone read stories to her. She is very advanced with her speech , I think she says every word. She will say things like "delicious, creepy, that would be great, I'll be careful..." She speaks like a little girl still so cute but she says words like a 4 or 5 year old would. She definitely knows what she wants and when she wants it, she is super stubborn. She sleeps in her big girl bed really good, goes to bed when I tell her and stays in bed all night and sleeps 9-10 hours every night. She has pretty much given up nap time, she doesn't usually have a nap in the day unless she really needs it. She likes to sing, and makes up her own songs. She holds little toys and trinkets in her hands everywhere she goes and she says, "I got my treasures."

She is a very unique little girl and I love to be around her every day. She loves to learn and play and follow her big sister. Marlee is growing up so fast and I hope that I will always remember her at this age.