Living in Vegas

Living life in Las Vegas

We now live in Nevada and have the drivers licenses to prove it. We moved into the condo in North Las Vegas with Justin as our room mate. He's pretty easy to live with and he brings home pizza from work. ;) We spent a while getting settled and then had some fun.

Adding a Pumpkin to the Patch

Kayaking with our early Christmas presents from Mom and Dad

Sadie rode with Aaron because Kodi was too afraid

Justin

Me and Kodi

She was pretty anxious and kept jumping in and out of the water

Finally getting it

Crunching on some sticks

Sadie Girl

Aaron and Kodi making it work

We practiced tipping them and Justin and Aaron tried to treat them like paddle boards by standing up.

They could never last long. It was crazy to be swimming in November! 

We went hiking and found an arch just above our house

18 weeks

We chased down the sunset

I was the slow one

Justy

The Strip

On top of the world

The whole Vegas Valley

The valley in day

Temple

We also checked out the Wetlands

We saw tons of ducks the ponds

A quick Lake Mead walk about

Getting Fatter

Baby Announcement

 Announcing Baby Gifford

Melissa helped us announce our pregnancy to the world. She took our pictures out by Grafton where we had just run our 5k race. I couldn't believe how beautiful it was out there. Thanks Melissa!

Kodi and Sadie helped us announce

Adding two feet to the family

15 weeks

They get to be big sisters!

Home

Home!

Moving was such a pain in the butt. We had 9 bags, 2 kennels, and 1 oversized box full of Aaron's specialized mountain bike. Mind you we only had 2 people to carry things-one who could only lift 20 pounds or lighter because of pregnancy. Once we had gotten everything checked in I felt like we could relax a little. It was so much better to fly home than to drive. Justin came and picked us up in Dad's truck so everything fit just fine. It was fun to go home for a few weeks and see family and friends before we moved to Vegas. 

Selfies

The Beards

Our new car. It's a 2012 Ford Escape. :)

Puppies at Sheep's Bridge

Raccoon critter feet

Dad signed us up for the Butch Cassidy 5k because I was supposed to be running a marathon the same day and couldn't train while pregnant. I was feeling pretty down about it, but this 5k was so much fun. They made it a poker run, had prizes, and the course was beautiful.

Dad running in a trial run the week before

Starting out

We finished at the same time

Mom ran too! This was her running the last little bit in.

Our Poker Hand. We weren't winners.

We both placed! I got first and Dad got third in our age groups.

Shooting with Randy and Melissa

Justin, Becky, Matt, Aaron, and I all went and saw the play Wicked on it's last day in Las Vegas. 

We were up really high

All of us before it started

The play was wonderful! It was about the Wicked witch of the West when she was younger, but played into the Wizard of Oz quite a bit. It was really good.