Meema and Grandad helped us move to Las Vegas over Easter weekend. We got to say good bye to Grandpa and visit Funderland one last time on our way out of town. Of course, pony rides are mandatory when we're at Funderland.
The drive was pretty much what you would expect with two preschoolers. We stopped often and drove slow, but the girls were little angels. Here's a video of one of our last stops before we arrived in Las Vegas, it required a total wardrobe change for Jessica.
The girls had Easter baskets and their daddy waiting for them at our new apartment when we arrived on Easter morning. Meema and Grandad also surprised them with Lalaloopsy bubble mermaids.
A couple days after Easter we let the girls play with the makeup they got in their Easter baskets. It got EVERYWHERE, but it was nothing a little goo gone wouldn't clean up. Nonetheless, we are definitely not letting them play with makeup again for a very long time.
They've already got their model poses perfected.
Good part of our new apartment: Two awesome pools!
Bad part of our apartment: It wasn't very clean and it's not the best part of town (but it's not a terrible part either, we're just trying to stay cautious.) I've spent equal time cleaning and unpacking.
I joined two separate mom's groups our first week here. Our first play date was at Centennial Hills park and we had a BLAST.
Here's a video of the splash pad at that park. I've been told that almost every park in Las Vegas has a splash pad. And there seems to be a lot of really fun parks here :), yay for us!
Splash Pad at Centennial Hills Park
This the the fossil sandbox at the Aliante Nature Discovery park.
My favorite park so far is Craig Regional Park. It is like five parks in one, I can't wait to take Joe there to check it out (we discovered it through a play date with one of our mom's groups).
Last Saturday we went to Children's Day at Spring Preserve. It wasn't as cool as it sounded on it's website but the girls had fun on the bumper cars.
The parks are really great but nothing compares to having fun with their daddy. Joe has really opened their little world up to a whole new type of games. He pulls things out of their ears, jumps out of corners to scare them and takes care of those pesky monsters that are always hiding on mommy's head. (I don't know how she came up with it, but Allison tells daddy that I have a monster on my head.) But, seriously, how did we ever get along with out daddy?
We've shown the girls our new home site so they could see what it looks like when you build a house. They've played at the playground across the street from our new home. And, we let them run wild in the model home. I think they are really going to enjoy living in our Las Vegas house. Here's a video from the model home visit.
