Cox Family Reunion in Las Vegas!

My mom's side of the family has a family reunion every 2 years and each time a different one of the the 10 kids in my mom's family is in charge of it.  This year my Uncle Stephen and Aunt Rebecca were in charge of it.  They were living in Las Vegas (they moved the week after we all left) and they wanted everyone to come to them for the reunion.  So that's exactly what we did!

Our first day of the reunion, July 8th, we had a day at Lake Mead.  Uncles Brian and Doug brought their boats, Uncle Dean brought a jet ski and we rented one other jet ski.  It was so much fun!

Sadie, Sydnee and Maggie

It was so hot outside, being in the water was the only way to keep cool.

Poor Maggie was sweating so bad she couldn't even get comfortable enough to take a good nap.

So she just chilled here for a while.  We called it her "rest" time because it didn't actually turn into nap time.

We got a bit of a bonus going to Vegas for the reunion, because not only did we get to be with my mom's whole side of the family, Spencer's brother, Dave, and his family live in Vegas.  So that night we met up with them and went out to ice cream together.  

Maggie was absolutely in love with Stephanie here.  They had so much fun together!

This video is classic Maggie.  She will laugh at any little kid who gives her the time of day.

Going back to the hotel and resting that night was so nice.  We were exhausted. 

Here's Maggie resting with Sydnee and Mary Jane

Our rest on Friday night was super important because we had a date with the Las Vegas Strip Saturday morning.  We had about 3 or 4 hours to see everything we wanted to see that day.  Neither Spencer nor I had ever been to the strip before, so we set out with Maggie's stroller and started walking.

This is the Bellagio conservatory gardens or something like that.  I don't remember exactly what they call it, but it was really cool.

The flowers and basically everything were gorgeous

I especially liked these parrots

As we walked out of the Bellagio to go to the front and watch the fountains, we had the perfect photo op to get a picture of the Eiffel Tower.  Never thought I'd get one of those in my lifetime :) 

Bellagio Fountains.  AWESOME!

After hitting all the Bellagio stuff we went walking down the strip to find ourselves the M&M store.  On our way we ran into this.  There is a full on motor cycle coming out of this sign.  I was pretty much in awe.

After a lot of stopping and sight seeing plus a little lunch at PF Chang's, we finally got to the only other place we knew we HAD to see.  The M&M store!

Can you believe all these M&M's!?  I thought I was in heaven!

We went and saw the 3D movie there.  These glasses were quite attractive.

After that, Sadie and Sydnee joined us and we went to town taking some fun pictures with all the M&M gear around us.

Here's my sweet family looking out on the strip.

We got a great picture with Yellow here.  Maggie was a little weirded to see a big yellow M&M walking around.

As we left M&M World there were a whole slew of characters out for people to take pictures with.  Sadie just HAD to get a picture of Bumblebee and Spider Man.

By this time we needed to get going, but in order for us to get back to the shuttle we still had a really long walk ahead of us.  We had a little over 30 minutes and we literally booked it the whole way.  Suddenly it started raining REALLY hard - all while we were still trying to book it to the shuttle.  We had not choice but to keep going and just let ourselves get soaked.  Maggie was in the stroller and we were trying really hard not to get her wet - but she was not a happy child.  She also hadn't really eaten since we'd gotten there, so it just wasn't a good situation to begin with.  But when we finally made it - just before our shuttle left - it felt good to sit down and relax a little.  I also got to feed Maggie - so she was happy too.

This is what we looked like after arriving at the hotel.

Yeah, we were pretty wet :)

That night was the last night of the reunion and we had so much fun with everyone there.  We played some great games and had some wonderful food.  It seemed really short when we got right down to it, but it felt like we accomplished/got to do a lot while we were there, so it was really nice to get to go home and relax for a little while after all this.