Lego Land

We spent many days at Lego Land and I have many more pictures than this on my good camera that I still need to post.  Cannon was beyond excited for this day.  He was creating snap chats and vlogs and wanted to document everything.  I knew he was going to love it and it was so fun to create so many memories with him this trip.  

I love how good of friends these two are.  

Seriously the sweetest. 

Building a car to race

Waiting in line is super fun when you can just play with Legos while you wait. 

It was a dream come true for my little guy and we had an awesome time.  

Spring Break - Day 1

I really wanted to make sure this year we did something super fun for spring break.  After weighing all the options with the kids, we booked everything we needed for a vacation to Southern California.  After a long wait, the day finally came to leave.  Our flight was scheduled to leave super early in the morning and we were going to head straight from the airport to Lego Land!  

Around 4:00 am I got a call from JetBlue telling me that our flight information had changed and to contact them for further details.  Once I called them they informed me that the flight had been canceled completely because of mechanical problems and that they couldn't get all three of us on another flight until Saturday.  The only other option I had was to refund me the cost of my flights.  The tears started flowing as I thought about how to tell my kids this disappointing news.  Thankfully, I have the sweetest, cutest, best kids in the world.  When I explained the story to them Kylee quickly responded with, "why don't we just drive?" and Cannon said "Yeah, lets just drive."  They didn't care at all that we had to spend 13 hours in the car now instead of 2 hours in an airplane.  

Since we were already up to get ready to catch our flight, we just got in the car and left.  

We loved watching the sun rise up over the mountains.  

We cranked the tunes and played games and really enjoyed ourselves.  

When this song came up on the playlist, Kylee said it should be the theme of our vacation.  I thought that was such a cute thing to say.  It doesn't matter what happens..we are going to make it Nothing but a Good Time.  :)  

We made great time and made it all the way to Vegas before noon.  We stopped for some lunch and I asked Siri to take me to the nearest park.  Being in Vegas, I was a little nervous about where she might take me.  

But she took us to an awesome park not far from the freeway.  

We stretched our legs and got out some energy and then got back on the road.  

At one point I looked in my rear view mirror to see both kids like this.  They were watching movies on their ipads and the glare of the sun was too much for them.  It made me laugh.  

We got to our hotel and we were very happy to get out of the car.  

Even though it was a very long drive, these two didn't complain ONCE.  

They made it so fun and the drive went by super quick. 

We got in our swimsuits and hit the pool. 

Then we went to find some dinner and watched the sunset by the ocean. 

It was a great first day of vacation.  

Jenn Turns 40

Jenn is so extremely special to me.  

She is kind, thoughtful, amazing, strong, and all around awesome. 

I am so thankful to have her in my life. 

When we got an invitation to her 40th birthday weekend get-a-way we knew we had to clear our schedule to be with her.  

Bryan surprised Jenn with a huge and awesome cabin in Heber. 

The place was gigantic! It had everything you could ever want.

An awesome pool, air hockey, ping pong, foos ball, pool table, hot tub, bounce house, and snowy hills.  

 We had 3 days of wonderful company and nothing but fun.

I really can't say enough about how much I love Jenn and how much fun this weekend was.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENN!!!

New Year - New York

Me and my best buddies took a quick weekend trip to NYC just after the new year.  It was fun to see the ball dropped in time square and the HAPPY NEW YEAR! sign still up.  There is something about NYC that is super liberating and fun to me.  It will always be a favorite place to visit. 

The whole reason we took the trip was to see Alfie Boe in Les Mis.  He is by far the most amazing Jean Valjean there has ever been and we couldn't wait to see him perform.  

The weather wasn't the best while were were there, with it being cold and rainy, but we still had a fantastic time.  

Sadly, the cold, rainy weather must have made Alfie Boe sick...because he was unable to perform both nights we were there.  :(  

We made the best of the situation and really enjoyed seeing Chicago instead.  

Another great musical and the girl who played Roxie Hart was awesome.  I loved every second of it.  

We also enjoyed a night at the LOL Comedy club as well as awesome food and fun.  

It was a quick but awesome trip.