Para los americanos, "Las Vegas" significado "The Meadows" en ingles.
At the start of November, Mom, Dad, Brian, Megan & Hayden traveled from the great NW to Vegas, and Abes, Rach & Kai, Brock & I, made the trek down to meet up with the current Las Vegas crew.
What for?! We love spending time together AND Maraea Papaea had a dive meet, so we all got to cheer her on Saturday morning! She did a great job. She's had a fantastic season and has more still to look forward to! She places 3rd on the medium-height (3 m?) and 1st on the spring board again Colorado State. That's my sis!
The cousins love spending time together. They are so cute when they hug. Madi and Kai are both such sweet girls.
The whole crew, minus Brock, got to cheer on Maea (he was on the plane at the time). The little ones all did so well, and it was so much fun to support auntie Maea together!
These shoes...
made S-man the #1 stylish UNLV diving fan! He's already a crowd pleaser.
He also currently holds the #1 handsome and favorite Skeen grandson! Watch out!
I love my lil sis. Okay, so she's not so little, and she could whoop me on the board any day... unless I challenged her to a swan-diving contest.
This man had to miss out on the dive meet, but he sure made his presence know on the golf course!
Brock and I had never been "real" golfing before, so this was quite the treat. We both have learning to do, but Dad was so patient and taught us some tricks. I have a lot more practice ahead than Brock does, but we hope we can take some lessons down the road so we can improve before we play with Pops again.
Abes and Rach, Dad and Kev were tons of fun to spend the afternoon with. They are excellent teachers and golfers.
In the evening, we all went to the Bellagio and watched the water fountain show twice. This was such a sweet show! It was my favorite part of Vegas. We didn't see much else, but I am happy with just this.
For a late night dinner, the whole crew was treated by Pops and Mom at Four Kegs. They heard about it a while ago on Food Network as one of the best "dives." It was tastey. I don't think anyone left disappointed... more than satisfied :)
We all stayed at a condo for the weekend, and Dad's favorite part was the hot tub, of course.
Kai had so much fun playing with grampa in the warm water!
Madi was a tease, and Pops got dunked by her.
To redeem himself from being dunked by a toddler, Pops showed off his huge muscles to Brock and I. Wow.
What a great weekend! The nieces and nephew are all growing up so fast, and they are ever so darling and handsome. They have great parents, I have friends for sibling, we have incredible and fun parents, and we had a great time together. It was too short, as it always seems.
Thanks goes to Pops and Mom for bringing us all together and building memories as a family. We love you (and Joey)!
