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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Viva Las Vegas!

Well, my noble and faithful readers I apologize for the very lengthy delay in posts. I must admit, sometimes I'm just too tired. I know that is a poor excuse, but I LOVE to sleep. Since I just don't get enough of it, I take advantage when I can. The reason for this post is to tell you about our recent trip to Las Vegas! Jason and I have not traveled together in 6 years!! This past weekend we took a little weekend trip (Thur - Sunday) to go to Las Vegas. I had never been, but Jason had. Oh how I loved "the Vegas!" We walked, and walked, and shopped, and shopped, and saw some great shows. We enjoyed some fantastic buffets and dinners, and all in all just enjoyed each others company. It's nice to get one on one time with your partner whenever you can, especially when you have children. We stayed at the brand new Aria hotel, behind the Bellagio. When we walked into our room after check in the curtains drew back and music began to play! It was fantastic! Jason wanted to make sure I got to see everything, and let me tell ya, we walked our booties off! I can say that my favorite hotel was the Venetian! It was so beautiful, and there was some fantastic shopping to be done there! One of the shows we got to see was Le Reve at the Wynn. We sat in the very front row! It was so good!!! I would definitely recommend it to anyone going to Vegas! After the show we stayed around the Wynn and sat at a piano bar until 2am! I can't even remember the last time I stayed up that late! Sleeping in was great, even though the 2 hour time change was tough getting used to. On our last night Jason took me to Freemont street. I really, really enjoyed that. We did some people watching, and boy oh boy are there some interesting folks out there late at night! (Made me really thankful for what I have back home.) I can say the the amount of homeless people I saw just broke my heart. Something else that I still can't stop thinking about was all the young mothers I saw walking around late at night pushing their babies in strollers. I felt so bad for those poor, sweet babies. I just felt like they ought to be home and in bed. Like I said though, I came back very thankful for my family and the roof over my head.

On a different note, I recently celebrated my one year anniversary with Schneider Logistics. It's so crazy to me that it has been one year already. I was very fortunate, and was only unemployed for one month. I've learned a lot this past year, especially the importance of family. I'm so thankful that, as of very recently, I get to leave work at 4pm now. That puts me home almost one hour sooner every night, which means more time with Jaxon during the week. Being home at night is VERY important to me. My mother had to work two jobs when I was growing up, and I rarely got to see her during the week. I am very fortunate and blessed with my current circumstances, and I definitely don't take them for granted.