Panguitch and Vegas

After driving back to Vegas from Disneyland, we got up fairly early the next morning and drove to Panguitch Lake in Utah, a lake Jeremy always went fishing at when he was younger.  We hadn't been there in so long, several years before the girls were born, and Jeremy couldn't wait to get back there. 

One of many trout that we caught.

Each night we took a short drive in the mountains;  we always saw tons of deer and were also surprised to see several elk. 

Since we were out there over Bri's 4th birthday, grandma planned a wonderful Hello Kitty birthday party for her complete with an ice cream cake and pinata.

What's a camping trip without a campfire?

After spending 3 nights in Utah, we drove back to Vegas for two more days.  The girls had a blast walking the dogs to the park each day.

One day we went to a place in Vegas called "Springs Reserve," which was awesome.  It's hard to describe but was full of Las Vegas history, animals, gardens, a playground, educational stuff, etc.  The best part was that we were like the only ones there. 
They had an awesome cactus garden.

The garbage truck was one of the favorites.

Much thanks to grandma, grandpa, Darryl, Wendy, and Michael for a great week!

Disneyland

Sometimes you have so many pictures that you end up sharing none of them because it's almost too overwhelming.  But you gotta start somewhere, right?  So I'll start with day 1 of our trip to Vegas a couple weeks ago.  We had planned to fly to Vegas and spend several days with Jeremy's family in Utah at a fishing resort that Jeremy grew up going to (which we did).  After we booked our flights, Jeremy got the idea that it'd be fun to drive to Disneyland for one day and surprise the girls.  So that's exactly what we did.  We got into Vegas at 6:00pm on May 31st and Jeremy's parents met us at the airport with an extra car.  We then drove straight to Anaheim, telling the girls that we were going to visit Aunt Erin for one day (which we were.)  The girls slept the whole way in the car (since it was 8:00pm to their bodies and time for bed) and arrived at our hotel right by Disneyland at 10pm.  But since my girls are early risers, they were up at 4:00am since it was 6:00 am to their bodies, which is their usual wake up time.  Fortunately my husband was up as well and took them to Denny's while I got a couple more hours sleep.  After getting ready we headed into the park.  As we're driving in, Jeremy told them that this was where we were meeting Aunt Erin.  Emily looked around, saw the signs, and with a big smile on her face yelled, "Disneyland, Disneyland!"  It was great.  So here are some pics from the day:

Getting on the plane with their Minnie Mouse purses, having no clue:

Waiting for the park to open.  Mom just happened to pack the Minnie ears from Emily's birthday party.  :)
 We just happened to see this stone out front, one of many donors, I'm assuming.

 We took a picture of "our picture" during Splash Mountain.  Bri just barely met the height requirement.

 The highlight for the girls was probably the parade.  Bri was waving like crazy at all the characters that came by. 

We left at 5:00pm and boy were the girls tired.  They were asleep before we left the parking lot, and we drove straight back to Vegas that night.  It was a great day.

More to come from the rest of our trip . . .