I don't remember when we bought Luke Combs tickets for this weekend in Las Vegas, but it was probably 6 months ago. Gator wanted to go so I was talking to the boys about it and they wanted to come too. Don't have to ask me twice, I set to planning a weekend away for all of us and it was so fun! We rented a house with a pool, and made some plans and waited for the weekend to come. Life is so busy, but we mostly didn't worry about life this weekend, we just played and had a great time. Owen and Kylee started it off with the some awesome exciting news. I've been sworn to secrecy, but I can write it on here since it is just basically my journal. They are having a baby!! They told us in the most fun way. It was almost midnight Friday and the 4 of them just got into town. Owen & Kylee had brought scratch off tickets for everyone saying they wanted to start the Vegas weekend off with some gambling. None of us even suspected anything at all, we just scratched off our tickets. They all did theirs first, then I did mine and it said "Guess what, we're having a baby". I screamed, we cried, we hugged, it was so much fun, and is so surreal. They are really early, but we are so excited to have this baby in our family. I can't believe I am a grandma.
The whole weekend was fun, but with the news we got Friday, we were all on cloud 9. Saturday morning we woke up and Owen, Kylee, Gator, and I went to the temple to do baptisms. I've been a million times with Gator, but I haven't actually done baptisms myself for over 35 years probably. I love going to the temple with my kids.
We spent the day in the pool. I'm going to admit something totally not like myself, but it felt so good to lay in the pool with the sun on my face. I think I was just really happy to be with my kids, and to be a mom and a grandma. Although I got fried, which doesn't feel the best, it was the perfect day. We just swam and played until it was time to get ready for the concert.
We all showered and put on lots of after sun lotion and got ready to go to the concert. It was at Allegiant Stadium. Kylee and I were last there to watch Owen play football. The concert was insane. I've never been to a stadium concert, and I am not sure I am up to going to another one. My hearing will never be the same. It was so loud and the energy was insane. 71,000 people broke the record for Allegiant Stadium attendance. We had so much fun, and amazingly got out really quick. Most of those 71k people went to party more on The Strip, so we went the opposite way and went back to the house to make grilled cheese sandwiches.
We woke up on Sunday and Owen & Kylee went into town to go to Bass Pro Shop. We met them at The Museum of Illusions. This place would've been really cool, but I honestly think we were all on stimulus overload from the concert the night before. We had fun, but I actually got a little nauseous with all the funky illusions. We stayed for about an hour, then went and walked The Strip. It is much safer during the day then it is at night for sure. Kylee had never been to Vegas (except for the game years ago), so we had to go to M&M world and a couple other shops. We got ice cream and went back to the house to swim, chill, and nap.
Orange is totally Owen's spirit M&M.
I had planned one more activity and this one was really cool. There is a ferris wheel called The High Roller. We walked on some of The Strip (definitely enough of that) and it was a maze to get to the entrance, and once we got there, we had to figure out what to do with Davis's knife that he had on his belt, but once we all got on, it was awesome. It took about 30 minutes to make a full rotation, but at the top we were 550 feet up in the air and could see all of Vegas lit up. It was so cool.
This morning we peeled ourselves out of bed and drove home. Owen and Kylee stopped in Beaver to see Dave & Sheila, Davis, Kin, Gator, and I just drove straight through to get to all the dogs. It was an amazing weekend, I loved it all. It was so fun to be with everyone and just be able to hang out and spend time together. I have to go to bed so I can get up for work in the morning. Just a 4 day week, then it is spring break, and Gator and I are actually going on another road trip to Milford.
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