The Nolden Family

We got to celebrate Grandpa Searles’ 80th Birthday with him over Memorial Day weekend. Lucky for us, the party was at a (really cool) park in Las Vegas. All of the Searles clan was there and we ate, played games and got to dress Grandma and Grandpa up a little bit (see the video at [...]

Memorial Day weekend was wonderful in Las Vegas! The temps were only in the 70s! We went out to The Valley of Fire, about 45 minutes North of Las Vegas, and enjoyed the beautiful weather, climbing on the rocks & hiking around. Cody drove down from BYU for the weekend and brought his girlfriend Michelle [...]

We celebrated Mikayla’s Birthday a couple of days early so that Dad could be there to enjoy it too. After pizza, cake and presents we went over to a friend’s house to swim. I think Mikayla had a great day! Above: Mikayla blowing out the candles Above: Mikayla and her cake. Above: Mikayla and her [...]

I got to go with Ashley on her 3rd Grade field trip to the Springs Preserve here in Las Vegas. It was a lot of fun. We learned a lot about water conservation, recycling, local plants and animals, etc. There were beautiful new facilities plus tons of cool landscaping and lots of trails. I had [...]

We had a blast ice blocking at a park in Vegas in early May. It was nice and toasty outside, so the ice got melty and plenty slick. Above: Liz, PJ, Frank & Mikayla do the Train. Above: Liz after the ride. Above: Another Train…the only way to go….except Ashley kept losing her block and [...]

We had been wanting to see Danny Gans for a long time. He is an impressionist that has been named “Entertainer of the Year” in Vegas for several years running. We finally got to go at the end of April. It was a great show! We lucked out and some guy’s wife didn’t want to [...]

We had a cool opportunity to take the whole family to see a show on “The Strip” for $5 each (it was a “locals” thing)…so we took it. Liz had other “high-schoolish” things to do, but the rest of us (including Cousin Lisa) went and had a lot of fun. We saw “V – The [...]

PJ had his nose surgery at the end of April. He was pretty nervous (but still being very brave) as they got him ready to go into surgery….but the “happy” medicine they gave him right before he went in helped calm the nerves quite a bit…he doesn’t remember anything that happened after he got that…and [...]