Argh Matee!

I am not sure words can describe Pirates Cove. Actually I don't even think pictures can describe how amazing this resort is, but I will post lots anyway! Tyler and I got to take the kids to this house/resort for a quick 3 day getaway in November. This place is in Boulder City, right outside of Las Vegas. My brother Rob knows the owner of this amazing place and was lucky enough to rent it out at cost! Which is pretty amazing since it normally goes for 10,000 a NIGHT and they only rent it out to big corporations or friends and family. Yes 1 guy owns this entire resort. There are 5 different houses, 3 pools, 2 slides, 3 hot tubs and and lots of fun to be had! Each house is completely self sufficient with its own kitchen and washer and dryer and everything you need! Before I get to what we did I have to post pictures of the RESORT! I took over 300 pictures so of course I only posted enough so you can get a glimpse of this place.

The water! Did I mention the little kid pool was 92 degrees, heavenly!

Our house, there was a hot tub on the roof!

Just a small glimspe of all the detail this guy has everywhere.

Now to what we did! Well we didn't have to leave this place even once!!! We pretty much did everything at the pool. Well when we first got there we took a tour. I am pretty sure we still haven't seen every room becuase this place was huge! Than after our tour we headed to the pool and pretty much didn't leave it unless we were eating or sleeping. 3 days of swimming swimming and more swimming. This was heaven to our family!

There was lots of jumping at Pirates Cove. Tyler was first jumping off a 53 foot mass! Than Aspen jumped off a 10 foot waterfall without even thinking twice. Than the wuss of the family, me, took 20 minutes to jump off the first mass, which was probably 15 feet. Yes I was scared to death and I have never jumped off anything that high in my life. But I DID IT!!! I was so proud of myself. Tyler and Aspen had many jumps, but I only did it once :)

Of course he jumped anyway :)

The view looking down from where Tyler jumped
Cade jumping
We also had a blast going down the slides! Aspen loved both the big slide and the little slide, but the little slide was by far her favorite. By the end of the trip she would walk up there all be herself and ride down it all by herself. When the kids went to sleep Tyler and I went back swimming with some friends. We did lots of trains down the big slide and got some pretty bad whiplash. But it was so worth it. Tyler and a friend also tried surfing down the slide! The first night we were surprised when everyone in our group went to bed early so Tyler and I went up and relaxed in the hot tub.

Me and KaiaAspen by herself

Kylee on the big slide

There were 20 other families there, including my brothers and some other friends I know. Here are some other fun pictures I took while we there.

Baby Kiri only 2 weeks old!

If you can't tell this was the perfect trip! I wish I could even describe how beautiful and amazing this place is, but I think you just have to experience it. A friend of ours had just recently been to Disneyland and they brought there kids to pirates cove, when they were leaving their kids said, "this place is better than Disneyland"! I hope that explains it and if you ever get a chance to go TAKE IT!

27 is a great number

Tyler turned 27 on Halloween! Yes yes I am just getting to blogging about it. Everyone always asks, does Tyler like a holiday birthday and my answer is most definitely YES! He loves it. He loves Halloween and so it is only fitting to have his birthday on that holiday. I think he also likes it because since its on a holiday we spread out his birth"day" into a birth"week".

We started out his birthday with our traditional Tucanos birthday dinner. I must say I love the food there, but its probably a good thing we only eat there once a year becuase I stuff myself silly. And Aspen must have loved it to becuase she probably ate just as much as me. Luckily she is still not 3 yet and she was free, but I am pretty sure they should have charged us for her!

Than on Saturday I made Tyler his birthday cake. He loves chocolate cake and although I can't make desserts look pretty they always taste good! Aspen had fun blowing out the candles with daddy. She sure is a big helper :)Sunday came by very fast. And I say this becuase Tyler wanted to show off our new house to all of our family and have a special b-day dinner with everyone over! So that meant I had 2 weeks to un-pack my house and make it look presentable, all while planning Tyler's birthday and Halloween with 2 kids! But it made me get it done, ill have to post pictures of our new house later. So on Tylers actually birthday both our families came over for soup and dessert. I made potato soup which is a tradition in Tyler's family for Halloween. Than he got yet another favorite dessert, cheesecake!

Yes this is what Janei'a looks like after only 1 week of having a baby!

Here are a few things I love about Tyler.

• He always calls me pretty lady and more important he makes me feel pretty.
• Whenever he walks in the house he comes straight to me and gives me a kiss.
• He always takes out the trash.
• He would rather spend time with me and the kids than anyone else. He never needs quiet time or time to hang out with the guys. He wants to always be moving or doing something.
• He loves to always have a project going.
  
• He is a perfectionist and will continue to do something until he gets it right. Which of course I do not like while he is doing it, but after he is done I love it becuase its perfect!
• Whenever he says a project will take 30 minutes I know to plan on at least 1 1/2 hours.
• He is always the first to help others around the house or with their cars and he actually enjoys it.
• He never complains and always makes the best of every situation.
• He smiles with his eyes and lets be honest he is just plain hot!
  

Happy 27th birthday Tyler!

Fall Fun

I think I am almost caught up on blogging. Yipee! I lost my camera so I don't have any pictures from Sept, but luckily I didn't lose very many pictures and on the upside I got a new camera!!! I got the panasonic lumix dmc-fz40. Its a hybird between a nice slr and a point and shoot and I love it. The zoom on the camera is amazing and I love the hd video camera on it. But back to my fun fall!

We started off fall going to Corn Bellys with the Spencers and it was so much fun. It was really cold that night, but that didn't stop us from having fun. We did everything there was to do there and than we did our favorites again and again. I think Aspen's favorite thing was the big bouncy ball. She did not want to leave that. Here are a bunch of pictures from that night.
Than we made yummy Halloween cookies that we shared with some family and lets be honest we ate lots of them to! I was so happy Sarah could join in the fun with us.Kids make Halloween so much more fun. Aspen and Danny went to 2 trunk or treats plus got to go trick or treating. I am glad we got to go to 2 trunk or treats before Halloween because of course it was raining on Saturday. Aspen was Padme and Danny was Yoda from Star Wars. For one of the trunk of treats I kind of dressed up as Leia.
On Saturday Tyler's parents came over to see the kids and go trick-or-treating with them. Rain and all we still went out around our neighborhood to a few houses. Than Aspen said she was to cold and didn't want anymore candy so we went inside. In all honesty Aspen forgot all about her candy the next day! She rarely eats candy, but if she could pick she would eat a sucker.

Than it was off to Grandma and Grandpa's Sperrys house. It was so much fun to get all the kids together, and even more fun trying to get a good group picture of them :) Cade was Anakin, Kylee was ballerina, Kaia was wonder women and Michael was a dragon. So cute.