Serrano Family News: November 2008

Sunday, November 30, 2008

vegas pics

JR and the kids in front of the Christmas tree at the Mandalay Bay Hotel Marcus is pouting because he just broke an ornament on the tree.

Marcus in front of the aquarium in the lobby

Kids pretending to be dolphins at the dolphin habitat

The only picture of both of the kids smiling and looking at the camera out of 100 I took this weekend.

Marcus picking his nose in the dolphin habitat

JR and the kids in front of the lions at the mirage

Jailyn in front of the white tiger cage

one of the dolphins doing a flip ! I just thought this was a cool pic!

The kids at the Belagio Atrium

Kids pretending they are scarecrows at the Belagio Atrium

Jailyn at the MGM before the Jonas Brothers concert

Jailyn and I at the concert practicing our self photography!!!

So I know it's been awhile but there hasn't been too much going on so I didn't really have much to write about! This weekend however we made our 1st family trip to Vegas. This was the longest car trip we've ever taken with both of the kids together. They did pretty good I packed them each a backpack with snacks and toys and coloring books and crayons and we used our car trays so they could eat and play without us having to pull over. The ride there was relatively smooth all things considered. The reason for our trip was the Jonas Brothers concert that Jailyn got 2 tickets to as a birthday present from JR and I. The concert was on Saturday night so we drove out on Friday morning. We didn't do much that first night we got in about 3pm we relaxed, ate dinner and hung out in the room. The next day we went to the Mirage and saw the dolphin and lion habitat. That was fun the dolphins are cool and you can get soo close which the kids thought was cool. After that we went to the Belagio to say hi to JR's aunt and we went top the Atrium to take pictures that place is soo cool it was all set up for fall. That night was the concert at the MGM. Jailyn and I went to the concert and JR and Marcus went to the M&M factory and the tournament show at the Excalibur. The concert was LOUD and LOONG!!! It started at 8 pm and we didn't get out until 11:20pm. All the screaming tweens and some (surprisingly) screaming adults really wore on my nerves but Jailyn had a good time so it was worth it! Vegas with kids is definitely a different experience. More expensive I think than if we had gone by ourselves that's for sure. I think the amount we spent on souvenirs outweighs the amount we would have spent with more free time to gamble. Still a fun trip overall and I'm glad to be home!! I'll post pics in a little bit.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Jailyn's 7th Birthday party

Well this year we wanted to do something a little low key with only a few friends and since the rule at school is if you invite 1 kid from class you have to invite all 20 of them we decided school friends were out!!! So instead we invited all the girls from Jailyn's soccer team and a few close friends. We went to shakey's because Jailyn loves their fried chicken!! The girls had a good time playing arcade games and running around being silly!!! She had a great time and I didn't have to do much work!! It was a good day and she got all kinds of things that she really wanted! I unfortunately forgot to take pictures until the very end so we don't have that many!!

Jailyn opening her secret journal from Auntie Bonnie

Reading her own birthday card!! She's getting so big!!!

Showing off one of her presents!!!

She was soo funny she had all the girls surrounding her while she was opening presents but she would tell them to get out of the way so she could pose for pictures with her presents!!! That's my little ham she just loves the camera!!! Take care everyone!! Love Ya!!!

Halloween 2008

Well our Halloween was good this year!! We have a little tradition that we started with some friends 3 years ago. Our friend Chelsea's birthday is on Halloween so for every year they get together at her house and have pizza, go trick or treating and have cake. So for the last 3 years our family and some other friends have joined them and all the kids and adults hang out and go trick or treating together. We have a good time especially since Halloween was on Friday this year so we didn't have to rush to get the kids in bed for school the next day. Jailyn was Elphaba (the wicked witch of the west) from Wicked, and Marcus was Spider man. They looked really cute!!! They got WAAAAY too much candy but they had fun!! Hope you enjoy the pics!!!