Freaky Bunny!

I just looked at my blog for the first time in a long time and thought to myself, "Wow, that is one scary looking Easter bunny!" The photo was taken during our spring break trip in Las Vegas and southern Utah. I have lots more photos, but not as much time as I'd like to post them. We did have a great trip--learned that Vegas is a hard place to take kids. We just wanted to be somewhere warm and not too far away. But its hard to avoid sin in the sin city--even the streets are littered with photos you don't want your 12 year old looking at. As we walked down the strip, Pete reminded the boys to keep their eyes up off the road. Mitch said, "its so hard!" Jake was just plain mad at us. I commented that it wasn't like Disneyland and Mitch said, "Its nothing like Disneyland." We did have some great times though. We went to the Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay. Jake did all of the scary rides at the top of the Stratosphere, while the rest of us looked on in sheer admiration (also glad that it wasn't us looking so green). We stayed at an amazing Marriott resort--The Grand Chateau, just a block off the strip. We also saw the Cirque de Soleil show called Mystere. Pete's parents were able to come and stay with us, so it was fun for the kids to spend some time with their grandparents. I think the biggest highlight of all was visiting Byron and Joan in Springdale, where the kids got to buy an ostrich egg and then blow the insides out to make scrambled eggs. I couldn't stomach it, but the kids thought they were great! They all took turns taking the ostrich egg and feathers for show-n-tell at school. Pete had to fly home a day early, so I drove back with the kids the next afternoon. On the way home, I stopped to visit my good friend Amy, who recently relocated to Fillmore, Utah. As I was talking to her on my cell phone, getting directions to her farm, I hit a skunk--a rather large, extremely smelly skunk! It is now mid-May, and 10 car washes later, you can still smell a faint whiff of skunk. At least I can laugh at that.