Christmas in Las Vegas was great. Staci, Eric and seven month old Wesley arrived on December 24th, as did my brother Lance from St. George. We had a lovely and loving time together.

Saturday, December 26th, Lana, Porter, Tatum, Dane, and baby Crew arrived from Mesa, though they were delayed arriving due to increased security over the Hoover Dam. Then the fun began with two babies and two young children playing with all our "toys." Monday December we drove to the MGM hotel to park and walked the strip to the M&M store (highly over-rated and heavily congested with people), and to the Belliagio Hotel just in time for the 5:00 show of the fountains with Frank Sinatra's voice booming through the thousands of speakers. Steve took this photo with his iPhone.

After a stop at the Boulder Station buffet and eating wonderful food, we continued to have great fun together the next few days, including Steve taking the dads and two older kids on an airplane ride and the girls and I and the nursing babies drove 51 miles to Primm, NV to the huge outlet mall for some bargain shopping. Clark, Guinevere, Ben and Cassius arrived on Wednesday, Dec 30th, and on the 31st, the one and only time all three babies were together and happy, Steve took these pictures with his iPhone. Far left is Crew, 8 months and cutting four teeth; middle is Cassius, four months old and no teeth yet; and right is Wesley, 7 1/2 months old and cutting his first two teeth.

The more "mobile" boys were always studying Cassius. Too cute!

Wesley was so gentle with his "touching" the other boys. Crew smiles all the time.

Are they fighting over their own fingers? Certainly the fascination over hands.

More cuteness!

Staci and family left on Friday, January 1st at 8:30 a.m. to return to Provo, Lana and family left at 10:30 a.m. to return to Mesa (again with an hour delay at the dam security check), and Guinevere and her two boys left on Sunday morning to go visit her family. We have Clark here for a trade show. And my mother and sister Lucy and her son Mark drove from Oregon on Saturday, December 2nd for a few days. Lucy and Mark returned home but my mother gets to stay until the end of the month. Our Vegas temperatures are warmer than Weiser, ID. We are having fun together.

My counsel for this post: Spending time with family is so important. Enjoy your time with your family.