Las Vegas Tournament for Conner

Conner's team traveled to the Las Vegas Premier Invitational.  We didn't finish great, 4th in our bracket, but we had fun anyway.  The girls stayed home, so it was just me & my 3 guys.  

 Conner's coach is pretty intense, with every single day planned out.  We had a practice, tactical meeting, morning calisthenics in the hotel pool.  Jared has photos of Conner actually playing.  It was hot down there!  But I had a nice relief from my allergies.  Our last game was the best, where we tied the team that won the whole thing.  The boys played great that game!

 Killing time in the hotel....

 We took the boys on Saturday night to a couple hotels on the strip.  It's too bad Vegas is so nasty, because some sights are pretty neat!  We wanted to take the boys to the Bellagio, then we found a Chili's to eat at where Ashton was glad to catch one of the NCAA games.

Jared & Jersh vacation

This is the year of 40's for the "Smargman" adults (that's the family name we've given ourselves). Jared, Seth & Monica all turn 40.  

Not me, I'll be 36 =].  

We decided to celebrate Seth's 40th we would take a trip out to see them in California.  This was only the 2nd time Jared & I have ever been on a plane together, our first being our honeymoon.  And it was our first trip without kids.  We went Thursday to Sunday and we had a GREAT time.

 We went to a popular Mexican restaurant on the beach in Newport called Javier's

We did one day at Disneyland and California Adventure.  We are usually there when it is really busy with holiday crowds, so it was a lot of fun to just walk on the rides.  I think the longest we waited was 25 minutes for Midway Mania, where we decided to do Boys vs. Girls....Monica & I kicked their butt.  I love that ride!

 We even did breakfast with the characters

 Beach stop in Encinitas

Saturday we went down to San Diego, then over the big bridge to Coronado.  We then decided to go see the border.  I took a screenshot to send to the kids.  We're the blue dot. We had so much fun!