Monday, July 25, 2016

M A Y -- St. George and Vegas Trip

Brad was out of town in Chicago for the week before his marathon! He flew from Chicago to Vegas and Aubrey and I met him there! 

Road Trip!! 

Once we picked Brad up, we headed to Cafe Rio! My favorite, mainly because we don't have one in Bakersfield!
Yummy sweet pork salad!


We headed straight up to St. George! We stayed with the Myers, they were in our ward in Bakersfield. Femi served in the Nursery with Aubrey and Brother Meyers was in the Bishopric when we first moved in! They were so kind to let us stay with them!

Aubrey slept so well at their house! She was tired from the traveling the day before!

We got up fairly early and headed to the temple for Kyle and Taylor's wedding! Kyle is Brad's cousin on his mom's side!
I love this temple! I have memories of being here when my grandparents lived in St. George!
Aubrey was sure to check out the fountain!

We got their pretty early so we walked around the grounds for a little while!

Have I ever mentioned that Aubrey is obsessed with STAIRS! Pretty much whenever she sees them, she has to climb them!

I love this sweet girl!
Such a beautiful day!

The sealing was beautiful and we were so grateful for Kyle's siblings watching Aubrey. It was so nice to attend with Brad and remember our wedding day!

Aubrey was excited to run outside!
Smelling the flowers!

Kisses for Great Grandpa!
Haha his little whiskers tickled her face!

Aubrey found some "Papa Rocks"
And some BUGS!

Looking at pictures of Grandma!

Mr. and Mrs. Hansen!


Taylor was such a Beautiful Bride! Kyle was looking pretty Dapper as well!

Me and Maureen, Heather's Sister!

Cousins! It was the first time we have seen him since before his mission. 

Aubrey getting to see the "Princess!"
Taylor was so sweet with her!

Aubrey was in Heaven!
On our way to take family pictures!

Aubrey playing with her second cousin Holly Lucinda!

Great Grandpa Hill pushing Aubrey!
She was having a BLAST!

Brad Playing with MJ!


Grandpa doing the balancing act! He does it with all the grandkids!

The Hill side of the Family

Brad, Aubrey, Katelyn, Grandpa, Taryn, Holly, Kolton, Conner, Taylee, Maureen, Kyle, Tayler, Tatum, MJ, Tara, Michael, Aundrea, Whitney, Zac, Heidi, Mike, and Daniel
Taylee holding Aubrey!

I love this picture so much!


Aubrey was getting so tired while we were taking pictures. We changed her clothes and loaded up everything and we hadn't even left the temple parking lot before she fell asleep!

Before we left town we stopped by SWIG to get a Dirty Dr. Pepper!

Brad enjoyed their cookies! He was carbo loading for his big race the next morning!

We got to Vegas, checked into our hotel and Aubrey made herself comfy on the bed!

We went to check in for Brad's race to get his race packet!

Woot Woot!!

We then headed out to the airport to go get Mimi! Aubrey was so EXCITED!!
Hugs and kisses!

Brad prepping for the race! 


We had a lot to celebrate this weekend! My Mom's Birthday, Brad's Birthday, Brad's Race, and Mother's Day!
Brad opening his final Birthday Presents! 
New Hat!
And Sunglasses!

Moms turn! 
Our goal was to make her cry! 
Goal accomplished!
We hadn't had a full family picture so I had my friend create one! Liz did such a great job! 

The final product!


We let Brad get to bed and went down to my mom's room for the night! Aubrey took a bath, got new jammies on from Mimi, and we read a new Crocodile book that Mimi got in Florida!

Brad got up super early and I dropped him off at 4:00 am. I went back to the hotel to get ready. 

On the course there was no place to observe since most of it was downhill on Mt. Charleston. We were tracking him and left the hotel when he was close to finish. 
Here he comes! 
We were cheering so loud!

GO BRAD!! 
GO GO GO!!
I ran to the finish to see him cross!


Finisher! He finished his Marathon in 3 hours and 41 minutes! 


He was hurting... 26.2! 

I was so PROUD of him!

Aubrey was a little confused! 

Proud wife!

Brad's Cheerleaders!

Trying to recover with pizza and pumpkin pie!

There was a park nearby that aubrey was happy to check out!

Once Brad recovered a little bit, we went to lunch, did some shopping, took a LONG nap and went to Dinner at Cheese Cake Factory! Once we were full to the max we went to the hotel to go hot tubbing! 



Aubrey trying out her new goggles! 
We love spending time with Mimi!

The next morning we slept in and Brad brought breakfast up for my Mom and I for Mother's Day!

We took our time and got showered and packed up and headed to the Las Vegas Temple. 



It was a beautiful Sunday Morning!


She found some flowers to smell!

Two Temples in one weekend! 

Giving Mimi Flowers!
Kisses!

"I'll go inside someday!"
Love my Momma!
3 generations!
So Pretty!


The grounds were so pretty!


More fountains!



My happy girl!
We went to lunch and had to send Mimi off to the airport! We hate goodbyes! Glad Aubrey was asleep when she had to get out of the car! 

On our way home! Aubrey was obsessed with her goggles and wore them most of the ride home! 

We had a wonderful trip! We were so happy my mom could come down and support Brad! Life is good! 

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