A few weeks ago, Michael had the opportunity to attend the Amazon Web Services conference in Las Vegas! He was gone for a whole week, and we definitely missed him (getting all three girls washed up for bed without him was the hardest part of the day!), but this is basically where all his nerd dreams came true.
Luckily, he sent us a lot of photos, so we were able to see what he was up to and how attractive the city can be.
He stayed at a cool hotel called the “Flamingo” (and yes, they did have live flamingoes there)!
He did a ton of walking (about 85,000 steps in 5 days) and took several panoramic shots. This was taken inside his conference building, The Venetian!He even met a ninja… …and had an 80’s-themed dance party one night (what you can’t see in this photo are his neon orange leg warmers!) One of the highlights of his trip was visiting the Las Vegas LDS temple! I love the palm trees.Back home, we spent about half the week on our own before Grandma Gina and Grandpa Skip came up for a few days.
This was the first time Nella met her Grandpa!Where there are grandparents, there’s bound to be Chinese food. 😉 We all enjoyed a dinner out on Thursday night. Kaelyn probably ate her weight in jello…These girls loved snuggling their Grandpa as soon as he woke up.
They also had one of the giggliest games of hide-and-seek. Kaelyn was pretty good at hiding for only a few minutes at a time before giving away her location…On Saturday, we went to Lowe’s for their free kids’ workshop. Kaya and Kaelyn were both so excited to make Christmas ornaments!
This was only Kaelyn’s second-ever workshop, but she did a pretty decent job with the hammering.
We had so much fun (and I was thankful for the extra hands and just the fact that I wasn’t alone all week), but we were definitely excited to see our Daddy when he came home late on Saturday night!