New Year's

Happy New Year again, can you believe the first month of 2009 is already over! This year we celebrated on the strip

right across from Mandalay Bay

cousins from San Jose came to celebrate with us

Jay and I toasted with mini wine bottles

since the deguzman-chau family were in town...we took them to the new Palazzo Hotel

where we saw a new show "the living garden"...Jaylin was a little freaked out by them, she calls them the "white ladies"

then to eat one of our favorite places, Yard House...Jaylin and Angelo, the middle children

Jayson and Maddie...the babies...Jay's sister's three kids are about the same age as our kids but opposite, she has two boys and a girl

Jayme and Marcus the oldests...these two are best cousins, they pretty much grew up together in their baby/toddler years

The day after New Year's we got to stay one free night at the Red Rock resort in Summerlin, Las Vegas...we've eaten and gone swimming here before, but it was our first time to stay the night...

the view from our room was great!

We ate buffet and the kids played at Kids Quest, an indoor play area for kids that is filled with all kinds of stuff like dress up/kareoke, dolls, kitchen, obstacle course, slides, etc...parents drop the kids off and you pay by the hour...it's totally safe :)

Thanks for hooking it up again Lola!