Worlds (kinda)

Recently, my husband took our school demo team to an open tournament. It was the IMAC 'worlds'. There were about 8 teams. (I think? It was 7 or 8). They did an amazing job and ended up taking 3rd place. We had some points knocked off for a few minor things here and there, which sucked, but despite the few mess ups the team had a great time, they looked amazing, and we couldn't be more proud of them. They put in so much time and energy into practice, we love them! (although, I do think they were honestly the best team there! =] ) Here is the link to the video of the team at the tournament. It was taking too long to just straight upload on to here.

The Best Dam BBQ!

The Best Dam BBQ is an event in Boulder City they have every year. I've learned that this is something you DON'T want to miss! BEST FOOD EVER! Anyone who knows me knows I'm all about food. Here, bask in the amazingness that was our BBQ sandwhich and skewer.

I wanted this yummy looking lemonade, and sent hubs on a hunt for it. (My feet were dunzo). He came back with a crappy minute maid lemonade. ::sigh:: But what he did find were his yucky pickle things that he gets from memphis BBQ. Yea, sure hun, you can search our memphis BBQ but you can't search out the awesome lemonade stand? Fired... ;-)

Anyway, They had a cool big inflatable maze thing for the kids. Best of all, it was F-R-E-E!! Ryan and his buddies from karate all went on it more times than I could count.

Ry and Gage

They also had a bigger car show than they did for the Spring Jamborie!

Family Outings

The weekend before Lilly came, we had quite an adventurous weekend. Probably the LAST thing I needed while 191874983 weeks pregnant, but hey, it was my last horah I guess ;-)

Bobby had a couple of surprises for us Saturday morning. Nothing big, but they made for a really good Saturday for us. First we went to the Lake, to feed the fish. These fish were MUTANT fish! Seriously, probably the ugliest things I've ever seen. Here, take a look for yourself.





Mutant fish, no??

Asside from the fish being mutant fish, we had a nice relaxing morning at the Marina.

Next up was something I've been wanting to take Ryan on for about a year now and just haven't gotten around to it. I've mentioned it to Bobby a few times, so he took it uppon himself to take us :-)

Boulder City has a really cool train ride you can go on. It's part of the tracks of the original Union Pacific, and it was used to bring all the supplies to the dam when it was being built. Since then, there hasn't been much use for it, so the trains run now, only as a tourist attraction. They wear real conductor uniforms, which are so cool that I wish I had one.

The little old man that took our tickets was so cute. He reminded me of my grandpa. Ryan was really excited to give him his ticket, pretty much ran to him and threw his ticket to him.

The train ride goes from Boulder City, pretty much to our house, just on the other side of the freeway. It was a 45 minute ride, and througout the whole thing they give you cool history and some fun trivia. We played while we were on the ride, so I didn't absorb too much of what was said. Ryan really enjoyed himself, and I thought it was really cool. I'm a sucker for cool museums and fun history, though, and my husband is well aware of my dorkiness.

Ryan in the window sill of the train. Any smaller and this big kid wouldn't have fit! Man he's getting big! You see those long muscular legs???

Hubs did a good job of planning this fun outing. +10 points to him!

San Gennaro

In May the San Gennaro Feast came back to Vegas. I love going to this festival every year. I love the food (duh), I love the rides (although I couldn't ride them this year being pregnant), and I just love everything about it. The Welch clan joined us for the evening and we just really enjoyed ourselves. Ryan had a blast riding all the rides, there were a couple he wasn't quite tall enough for yet unfortunately, but he had a really great time. And that's all that matters :-)

Our goofey little family. I love these boys with all my heart.

and our extended family, without them I think we'd be lost.

Ryan has the best daddy ever.

And the best uncle Tony as well.

The food was SO good!

Put me down!!

The Mr. & the Mrs.

Give the monkey a dollar and he shakes your hand :-)

His favorite, CHEESE!!!

I'm so behind on my blogging... ::sigh::

Adding a new Perez to the family

My brother recently came to Las Vegas and got married! My sister and I are so happy for him. He seems truly happy and just so much more rejuvinated than I've seen him in the past years. I'm so happy for him. So, welcome to the crazy family Ashley. I hope you are ready!

The Perez kids

And the 'new' Perez. hehe.