Birthday Bash Weekend!!!!

Well my birthday was this weekend, Saturday July 24th and it was a fun one! It started out on Wednesday when we had my family dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (where else??) :) It was delicious as always and I had a good time with my family both old and new...

Isn't he so cute??? :)

My dad threw me a party on Friday night and it was a blast! He wouldn't tell me what we were doing until the day of and it ended up being really fun...We went to the Dbacks game and sat in the All You Can Eat Suite. It was way cool and everybody loved it!

Andi and I got matching shirts...

I had lots of my favorite people there...

They had hotdogs, chips, soda, popcorn...it was way cool...

My dad and Sharon came up with a fun competition for us...Whoever ate the most hotdogs, a boy and a girl, would win a subway 25 dollar giftcard...guess who won???

It was a very fantastic night...loved it!

The next day was my birthday and I had a great day...we went shopping at the mall with forrest, shalice, daylon and andi and then met my dad for lunch. Later that night we went to my friend Caitlin's birthday party...Her and I were born on the same day and this year she had her party the night of the 24th. We went to a restaurant with all of her family called Trader Vic's in Scottsdale. It was really fun and the atmosphere was so cool!

The next day was Sunday and we had family dinner at my grandma's house. I had the idea to celebrate my cousin Stephen's birthday because he is on his mission and his birthday is four days after mine. I had brought a tape recorder and I recorded family conversations, singing happy birthday to he and I, and we all gave our own personal message. It was really fun! We took some pictures to send to him...We are all really proud of him and we love him so much! You are the best Elder Chapman :)

My little sister Andi is obsessed with all of the cake shows on T.V. and loves to bake. She is so cute, well her and my mom made my birthday cake on Sunday and it was so yummy and totally adorable! This was seriously one of the best birthdays ever and I love that I got to spend it with so many special people. I am seriously lucky! :)

Dbacks game, fireworks and Vegas Baby!

So we went to the diamondbacks game on Saturday night with my fam and some friends and let me tell you it was a TERRIBLE game, but they had fireworks! But you had to stay for the entire game to see the fireworks, so we were pretty bummed because of all games that we would have left early from, this was the one we couldn't. These were the final stats for the game...not good...not good at all

The fireworks were really fun though...

The next day we were off to Las Vegas! We got to our hotel (Planet Hollywood) pretty early and we weren't able to check in quite yet and so we looked around the mall in the hotel and then went and got some lunch at the famous hot dog place called Pink's. It was fun to go there and see all of the celebrity memorabilia and who likes to eat there...

Here is our hotel lobby...just like the movie...we loved it!

We also went to the M&M factory, Coke factory and saw a Beetle's tribute band show. It was pretty fun...we knew most of the songs and we even got moved up front row seats...

Here they are after the show...

Later that day we went to the Bellagio and saw the fountains, and then headed to Margaritaville for dinner. We were seated upstairs right next to the window and it was perfect because there were fireworks shot off on top of Caesars Palace.

The next day we went to Paris and had crepes for breakfast...Yummy!

We went shopping at Caesars Palace, hung out at the pool, and then went to Fremont Street...

We also made tye dye shirts prior to going to Vegas and thought they turned out pretty good :)

We wanted to get those gigantic cups that everyone always carries around Vegas but needed to find a place that would put soda in them instead of alcohol...We finally found a place and the guy laughed at us when we asked for sprite and coke in the cups...it was pretty funny...We liked carrying the drinks around and we had plenty to share! :)

I look like I had something besides coke in my cup...this is not a good picture of me...We found the coolest candy shop called the Sugar Factory. It has yummy shakes and ice cream and the coolest couture lolli pops. They are designed by celebrities and are so delicious and so blinged out.

We also hit up New York  New York to play at the arcade and eat lunch there. Later that night we went to the Venetian to see the Blue Man Group. They were so GOOD! They were hilarious and had some good skits and special effects. It was totally fun and we couldn't believe we hadn't seen it sooner.

The entire time that we were there, I wanted to go and get a frozen hot chocolate from the shop called Serendipity. It was so so so YUMMY but gigantic...I definately shared with everyone and we loved it!

We had to get the famous shot featured in the movie...

We had a really fun trip and did lots of awesome things...Thanks dad and sharon for inviting us and thanks for reading this EXTRA large blog post...haha I will post again soon!

VEGAS!

So this fourth of july weekend....my husband (hehe i have a husband!), sister, friend of my sister, dad and stepmom are going to the one place where you can step up and be a man....and no it is not community college but rather it is LAS VEGAS! Anyone seen "What Happens in Vegas"? It's like one of our fav movies and that was a quote from it...Anyway...we have lots and lots of plans and we can't wait to go...we are staying at Planet Hollywood and are super excited about that and all of our festivities...i will def update when we get back...oh and my baby sister andi just left this morning for washington d.c. for an entire week by herself! it was for a leadership conference called people to people and they get to tour washington d.c. and all of the famous landmarks and i am so jealous! My mom, shalice and i took her to the airport this morning...we told her she better bring us back  albert einstein bobbleheads from the smithsonian :)