Dawn’s Summer Vacation 2017

Round 4 – Some mish mash photos from our Summer vacation! enjoy

Funny, silly, scary photos we took of ourselves!! Our Niece Kendra, our nephew Kaleb, my sister in law Julie, my brother in law Duane and Gary and I!

Who doesn’t like cute doggie photos? Isis. These are my niece Sarah and her husband Bobby’s dogs..such love a bugs!

These are my sister in law Julie’s dogs…love her Boston Terriers and her Lab! Such sweeties!!

Our niece Rebekkah and nephew Domenick all grown up!

4th of July dessert I made!! Love seeing the American Flag on top of a mountain!

Beautiful scenery just outside of Las Vegas coming in from Arizona…

Round 3 – Here we go with Round 3 vacation photos! After our friends Wedding in Vegas, we stayed in Vegas to get some time in with our family that lives there!

One of our favorite places to eat at Red Rock Casino is Hearthstone Kitchen and Cellar..it’s so dang cute! Love the décor, and their breakfast is amazing!

This is our nephew Domenick with his niece Abby, who is our great niece! She is the daughter of our niece Sarah, Domenick’s sister!

We switched hotels to Green Valley Hotel Casino, we had our wedding reception there in 2004, so this place has special meaning for us so we wanted to stay there a few nights during vaca since we were in Vegas!

Holy shit!! This was our Hotel room, actually Suite! It was 2000 sq ft, had 3 bathrooms, a dining room, a bar and a piano!! Lol! This room cost us the same price as what they charge for their standard size room! We know someone who works there so they gave us that deal!!

Our niece Abby and I spent the day poolside, I got us a Cabana, so we had somewhere nice to keep cool kick back relax and watch tv when we weren’t in the pool! It was a great day!

We ordered room service for dinner and our niece wanted pancakes, French fries and cookies for dinner so that’s exactly what we ordered for her!!

So pretty at night out by the pool area at the Hotel

Our niece Abby loves the game Friday Night at Freddy’s and this is one of the characters from the game in stuffed animal form, so cute!

Round 2 –

Producer Kristen got married the first Saturday of our vacation. I happily agreed to make her and her now hubby a small cake just for them and their favorite cookies of mine that I make, brown sugar cookies. The cake they wanted was a vanilla cake with vanilla frosting, they love the one I make so of course I made it! One of my mixers has the cake batter the other has the frosting.

Cake and Cookies I made for them! I did this the Friday of our vacation, day before her wedding, then dropped it all off at her Mom’s and then I headed for a trip we already had planned to go to Vegas.

Vegas airport bitches!! My hubby was already in Vegas, I met him there that Friday night..my flight got in at like midnight and the airport was still busy in Vegas..well duh it is Vegas!

It was about 1 am on Friday when we finally got to the room from the airport. We stayed for a few days at Red Rock Hotel/Casino not on the strip the way we like it!

View from our room Saturday morning.. we stayed in the room all day sleeping and relaxing it was amazing!!

Loved this view every time we got off the elevator from our room…on our way to our close family friends wedding!

They got married at Trump Hotel…Valet card for Trump valet wasn’t your typical paper ticket it was plastic like a card..

Their wedding ceremony was so beautiful , it was on the roof top outside and surprisingly it wasn’t too hot!

My super cute shoes I wore to the wedding!

Such a great view from the top of Trump Hotel..

Of course there is a Trump store in Trump hotel! I thought we would see anti Trump protestors!! Nope just your typical Vegas drunks!

Round 1 –

This was by far one of the most relaxing vacations my husband and I have had in awhile!

While being a relaxing vacation it was also at the same time a vacation that tested my emotional and spiritual growth in a good way. Long time listeners know that I’ve had a strained relationship with my Mother. It’s taken many many years and the Grace of God to heal our relationship and we are finally in a really good place. So that’s one of the things Gary and I did over vacation is go and visit my Mom in the small town she lives in in Arizona after too many years to count that I haven’t seen her.

I feel very blessed to have this relationship with my Mom, before it was too late. She is not doing so good and has to be taken care of round the clock. I want to respect her privacy with what she has specifically but I’m just so happy that for now I have my Mom. Here are a couple of photos of her from our visit.