Vegas Baby!

Finally Harry is going to Vegas! TC turned 40 February 3rd of this year so we joined them in Vegas that weekend to celebrate. We arrived on Thursday afternoon and stayed at the Venetian! What a beautiful hotel with all the best of everything.
After some ramen at a asian restaurant we changed clothes to head down the strip. We found a bar in the Cosmopolitian hotel and camped there for a while trying all there fancy drinks on the menu for probably 13 dollars a pop but oh well TC only turns 40 once. Then we headed out to the Ice Bar with some of there friends and enjoyed our 20minutes with gloves and down coats that were provided. Just what people from Illinois want to do when they go someplace warmer on vacation, head to an ice bar made of ice and wear coats again. Anyway it was fun and you can only stay in there for so long sitting on ice seats, enough is enough. We headed back to the Cosmopolitian for more fancy drinks and then eventually home for bed around 3ish Vegas time after celebrating the early hours of TC's birthday.

Summer of swimming

Wow summer started with first dive in the pool and we haven't been able to come up for air til mid July! The girls were so happy to see there pool friends again at swim team. Sydney is on the swim team at Mt. Hawley Country Club and swims 5 days a week from 10-11. Julia is on pre-team and swims monday and wednesday from 12:00-12:30. With Tennis from 9-10 before swimming it makes for some long days at the pool some days. Sydney has also done a couple of soccer camps and tons of swim meets so it has kept us busy. The girls are loving summer and we have read 2 books together. The Hundred Dresses, a book I read about that every little girl should read, I found it a very interesting book and plan to read it every summer to them til they refuse, it will be interesting to see how there views and what they understand of the book changes. The next book we picked up was Tales of a fourth grade nothing by Judy Blume. This book made Sydney laugh out loud. We are going to the library to see if we can find another book in the series today. We went on a week long trip to Saugatuck, Michigan. That will be another post but it was lots of fun.