Christmas in Vegas

This was our first year celebrating Christmas in Vegas as a family and it was great to spend 10 days there.  We celebrated Delson's birthday on his actual birthday while we were there and Grandma Madge and Grandpa Dick were able to come and celebrate with us.  Stephanie and Trent and Miranda and Leila came too and we had a house full of fun!  We hadn't seen Miranda and Leila since last Thanksgiving so it was fun to get the sisters and cousins together again.  We went to lots of parks, saw the Sherlock Holmes movie, ate at Cafe Rio, went to the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef, cooked WAY too many goodies and had lots of great laughs.  My Uncle Bill and Aunt Mary even came for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  I hadn't seen them since before Alex and I were married, so it was a much overdue reunion.  It was so fun to have everyone together!  I look forward to the next family get together.

Delson's birthday cupcake.

Getting ready to blow out the candle.

The whole box of delicious cupcakes.

Grandpa Dick and Grandma Madge with us.

Aunt Stephy playing Legos with the kids.

Delson's appropriate holiday shirt.

At one of the many parks.  It was a cold windy day.

Kambria went in the slide straight and came out this way.  Silly girl.

Delson playing at the park.

Miranda and Leila.

The whole group before heading to Mandalay Bay.

The Mandalay Bay Christmas tree.

Delson and Leila looking through the aquarium window.

Leila and Delson playing Mary and Joseph in our reenactment of the nativity.

Kambria was an angel.

My Aunt Mary and Uncle Bill played the shepherds.

Uncle Trent, Grandpa Walt and Alex were the wise men.  Here they are offering Mary their gifts.

On Christmas Eve the kids got to open new pajamas and a bedtime story.

Delson and Kambria wrestling in their new PJs.

Opening presents from Santa on Christmas morning.

Kambria in her new hat.

Delson in his new superhero outfit.

Stephanie and the Family Heritage Cookbook that I made for her.

The kids all dressed up in their Christmas Sunday clothes.

Steph and I dressed up in our matching H&M outfits.

We had family pictures taken and here is Grandma and Grandpa with the grand-kids.

The 3 cute grand-kids.

The 4 girls.

The whole gang.