Meet The Vegas Family

This blog was originally started because a co-worker of mine suggested my husband, Travis, start his own blog. Apparently his dry sense of humor and often blatant honesty is humorous and heart warming all at the same time. Who knew....? But as most of you will know Travis has neither the drive or the desire to maintain his own blog. He would rather spend his time fishing, working on his truck, hunting coyotes, or watching Axe Men on TV. (on a side note, when did cutting down trees become PC again? Really? Aren't we suppose to be going green?) So I have decide to become the scribe for our family and post our daily, or weekly adventurous and add as much of Trav's humor as I can.

Our daughter Madeline, aka Mad, Aka Maddie, Aka The Mad One, Aka The Mad.....she will be known as all of those names going forward, just a warning, will probably be the primary focus of this blog. She is currently 14 months and starting to enter into the terrible twos. We always knew she was advanced so it makes sense that she would enter this stage about 10 months early. But, for the most part The Mad is a pretty easy going laid back child. She is our first and only child right now and if it were up to me we would keep it that way. But ever since the show Parenthood started airing Trav thinks have 4 kids would be the greatest thing ever. I guess he imagines they are going to grow up and be like the Braverman kids. I picture them growing up and living with us until they are 30. But so far we have been blessed with a VERY easy baby. She has never been sick, never had diaper rash, started sleeping through the night at 3 months, currently sleeps no less than 12 hours and takes 2 big naps during the day. Seriously we somehow were blessed with an almost perfect baby. I am pretty sure she is going to run away as a teenager.....

No family would be complete without 2 big, hairy, stinky, maingy mutts, as Trav's lovely refers to them. Fisher and Tucker, aka Fish and Tuck, round out our Vegas family. Fisher is 4 and we have been trying to teach him to shake for 3.5 years now. We are to the point where we know he understands the command he just lacks the energy or the desire to perform. I can't blame him...why perform when you know you're going to get a treat anyway. Tucker on the other hand has an overwhelming desire to please. He is 2 and a mammas boy, or wuss, depending on who you talk to. Tuck would rather spend the day in the house with me and the baby, where as Fisher would rather sweat to death in the 110 Vegas heat with Travis then step foot in the house. (We aren't sure how smart Fisher really is but we love him anyway.) But they complete our family. Both dogs love Mad and are the sweetest kindest animals on the planet. They roll with the punches, which is a necessity with our family, and occassionally tolerate Travis picking them up and carrying the around like babies. (They both weight over 75 Lbs)

So that is our Vegas family in a nut shell. Stay tuned for more adventures from Sin City!

Love, Erin