Reno for Spring Break!

 We had a looooong spring break this year. 9 days. The first few days we took a quick trip to Reno, NV. To visit my brother Drew and Alecia and family and cousin Noah was getting baptized. Greg was still in Amsterdam so we had to wait for him to fly home early first. He picked up a rental van at the airport and drove home to load us up and then we headed out west for our 7 hour drive that took longer. He didn't have much sleep, but surprisingly stayed awake for the drive. I helped drive some, but he was a trooper and did most of it.

The boys always love getting a van for trips. We stopped at the Bonneville Salt Flats to get some pictures and see it. Greg snapped a picture of the fiasco of me trying to get the boys hold their hands at the same height for a picture. It was short and fun.

  8+ hours later... we arrived in Reno. My mom had a Worldmark condo for us (one for the Cam/Amy Williamsen's too)  right downtown. The next morning we walked around the riverwalk and saw parts of Reno. The kids all having fun. Then we drove to the Temple on our way to Drew and Aleica's house in Sparks, NV. It was a chilly day.

 We visited with each other and my mom wanted some pictures of her grandkids with these shirts in their age order. Kinda fun. The Lorenzon boys were all in black, Cam/Amy's kids in red and Drew/Alecia's in the blue.

Alecia's family came into town as well, so there was always a large group of people at their house. The Williamsen side cousins didn't get to "bond" as much as we would have liked, too many other cousins there. Hopefully next time. We rarely get to see Drew's family.

(LtoR. Liam, Jax, Erin, Creed, Jonas, Owen, Noah, Bodie, Reagan, Rafe, Laney, Shelby)
 

That night we were going to hit up a Casino Buffet, but they were more $ than we thought, so we decided to try Hash House A-Go Go. They serve Giant size plates of food. Oh boy, we got a kick out of our food. Creed's ribs, my sage Waffle Chicken and Jax's massive red velvet pancake! Fun time with my mom and the Williamsen's (Cam/Amy).

We walked the happen'n city night life back to the condo. Taking some selfie's. My favorite of the whole trip - the girls in Reno! (me, g-ma April, Erin, and Amy) And my mom got a picture of us taking our family selfie.

On Saturday morning before the baptism we drove the 45min. to go see the famous Lake Tahoe. It did not disappoint. Gosh, it was spectacular. So pretty. It was luckily warmer this day. We stopped at Sand Harbor Beach and touched the very clear water. And the boys threw sticks and rocks in. We drove up around the north end through Incline Village and made a quick stop at a park and took some pictures and the boys threw in the largest pine cones I've ever seen. They were huge! And sharp, a few cuts too. Then we drove on out the California side via Truckee and back to Reno. It was nice little visit. So glad we saw it.

 We enjoyed Noah's baptism and then food back at their house. Amy captured the pic of us all busy on our phones, instead of visiting. Ha! I put a picture of Drew, Alecia, and kids because we were there for them and I didn't get many pictures. So there they are after the baptism. (kids L to R Laney, Noah, Jonas, and Shelby) 

We were really bummed Amy and Karl couldn't come. Their dog Chewey got sick right before so they had to cancel and not come out to Reno. We'll have to wait a little longer to get a new Williamsen family picture taken.

Sunday morning we packed up and left Reno to drive the long drive home. 7 hours isn't too bad. At least this time our computer DVD player was working. Phew! The drive through Nevada was actually quite pretty, and the sky! And then coming down a hill and seeing the Salt Flats and the turquoise water was gorgeous too!

Home sweet home! Now we still had an entire week - 7 days of spring break! Ugh! And it was cold and wet and we didn't have much to do. I did get a stack of movies from the Library. Jax was so mad and sad that Beth dies in Little Women, and Laurie marries Amy?! What the? Stink'n Jo! (he he) They all enjoyed that movie.

-A side note: Jax left his library Harry Potter book in the rental car, and they "lost" it so he had pay a $30 fine at the library! Wowee! I think he learned his lesson.