We spent 4 lovely days in Las Vegas with our friends, Ben and Jen, and their new little girl Madalynn (4 months). It was our first time meeting sweet Madalynn and their first time meeting our little Monkeygirl. Lelia was completely enthralled with Madalynn and shrieked with glee whenever they were in close proximity!
Lelia did great on the flight. No problems taking off or landing. She did get a bit fussy from being tired but went down very easily and napped for the majority of both flights. Phew. I'm glad that went well. I'd been stressing about it for weeks. I do have to say that going through security does require a few more steps and is a little more chaotic than without kiddo, but overall, once we got a system established it was fairly breezy.
The highlights of our Vegas trip:
* supper at Lawry's....without a doubt Tre's favorite place!
* two trips to In n Out burger...without a doubt Tre's favorite burger joint!
* a picnic and hiking in Red Rock
* some much needed down time to relax
* sunny warm shorts wearin' weather
On Friday we went out to Red Rock to do some hiking/geocaching and have a picnic. The weather was amazing and it was fun to hike in the desert...so very different than the forests of Oregon/Washington. We had a couple run-ins with catci (man, are they nasty) but also reveled in the beauty of the landscape. It had rained about a week prior to our arrival, so the desert was alive with colorful little flowers and lots of green! Beautiful!
It was so nice to be with friends and enjoy the beautiful 80 degree desert weather. It was quite a shock to come back to lush/green/rainy Oregon! Some picture highlights of our Vegas trip:
Red Rock
Madalynn, Jen, Lelia and me
Sweet little Madalynn
Lelia hammin' it up
Madalynn, Jen, Lelia and a sun-stroked me
Lelia has gotten her first tooth...her upper right tooth. I can see the left one on its way down and her bottom gums have started to get puffy which seems to precede actual eruption.
