Labor Day Weekend...

Cousins: Dima, Lexi, and Daniil

Rain Forest Cafe

This weekend Benj's sister, Roselle and her family came for a fun visit. The kids always have a great time playing together, so they were excited to see each other. Saturday, after Roselle and I hit the scrapbook store, we all went down to the strip for some lunch and some fun. We took the kids to Rain Forest Cafe where they were quite entertained by our goofy waiter and of course the balloon animal guy. Then it was off to M&M World! Later that night, Benj and his brother-in-law Mike went to the UNLV/USU game. We are all USU alumni and were secretly hoping to see them win one. Needless to say, USU still doesn't have the greatest football team and they lost. But we had a great time this weekend! Thank you Harney family for coming to see us! And Lexi and Ava miss their cousins already!

Today Benj and I took the girls hiking up Red Rock... but this time we did a different hike. It was a little more difficult for the kids, but they were real troopers and seemed to be having a good time. We had stopped at the store to get Lexi a new pair of tennis shoes (her ones from last year were too small... I swear, the kid has BIG feet for a 5 year old girl!), so she was very excited about that and jumping off all the rocks. And Ava wanted to do it all on her own. I kept hearing, "NO! Don't hold my hand!" Or, "NO! Don't carry me!" But by the time we were almost to the end of the hike, both girls were whining and crying (so much that you could hear it through the whole canyon from the echo!). We figure all together we did about 2 miles or so. Great job girlies!