Mar 17, 2010

OUR CRUISE: Mexican Riviera

One of the best and most memorable weeks of my life! We had so much fun, I was so grateful for this time with family and for the family who watched all of our kids.
(so forgive all the pictures, and these are just mine, probably more to come)...

Matt & Katie (Ned's sis), Mark & Lindsay, Steve & Amy (Ned's sis), and Ned & I.


The beaches of CABO SAN LUCAS were probably my most favorite beach port.

This is our ship from where we ate lunch, on top of a little restaurant. And with my cheapo camera, isn't it beautiful?

We rented sea doo's and had a BLAST! We saw sea lions right next to us, beautiful water, the iconic cliffs on the tip of Cabo. It was SO beautiful and SO fun!


Puerto Vallarta
This was probably our favorite destination of the three, mainly because we took an excursion to this beautiful little port town (see 1st picture below). It started with a boat ride in the ocean, a Swiss Mercedes army jeep ride, a mule ride, rappelling down waterfalls, jungle bridges and the longest and highest zip-lines in Mexico. It was AWESOME! I will do a separate post on this trip alone.



Mazatlan:
It was really windy the day we were in Mazatlan and so we basically had fun taking crazy taxi's all over town. They blasted their music for us and we danced and sang (I even got in trouble by local military, another story). I have a few videos but I don't know if I want to post them, or if my counterparts would appreciate it. REMEMBER we had no kids...we got a little silly/goofy/crazy...however you want to put it.
We ate yummy food (and got free shrimp from Virgina, remember guys? ha ha ha) and had tasty margarita's!



We also did some shopping and walked through a few markets and found a few interesting things you don't usually see in the US on the streets. It made us all vegetarians for about 1/2 a day.

Cruising:
We enjoyed so much while cruising on the ship! Eating to our hearts content (+10 times more) on delicious food. We had the BEST servers that were so fun, played trivia games with us every night at our table, and sang with and to us. We enjoyed all the entertainment (some GREAT and some not so great shows). Going to the CLUB. Eating at the buffet (cookies, pizza, etc.) at midnight EVERY NIGHT (yes I gained 5lbs!). The Climbing wall, ice skating "tag", diet coke for DAYS, laying by the pool, soaking in the hot tub, dying in the sauna and steam rooms.
The boys acting silly and dressed alike too...


Every night they would take a picture of the couples at the table and then the ladies ALONE. After the 3rd night I said really I don't want a picture by myself I wont ever buy it. So then my husband steps in and says "I'll take her photo"...so then he does his Uncle Rico pose (below) and I loved it so much I BOUGHT it! Sure enough every night after that they took pictures of all the men at our table too.

Eating escargot...

The climbing wall.
Amy and I even got on stage and did some karaoke. Which if anyone has heard me sing knows that is hilarious because I have the WORST voice ever, REALLY! We did Straight Up by Paula Abdul and you can see I even threw a few hot dance moves in there.


PS... Our cruise theme song is posted to the right. LOVE TODAY!

Mar 5, 2010

MY CRUISE

SO EXCITED FOR:
  • all you can eat food
  • basking in the sun
  • 1 on 1 time with my hubby
  • relaxation
  • shopping
  • excursions and shopping
  • and more

WHAT I WILL GREATLY MISS:

Feb 3, 2010

Why does my son love helmets so much?

Hmmm...a little worried he looks TOO "special" if ya know what I mean?






New Years Eve 2009 (Kids Celebration)

So my friend Danielle (SUPER MOM!) always has fun ideas, activities, etc. So she invited us to Rain Forest Cafe for the kids celebration of New Years. They had a buffet line for the kids, a balloon drop, and other cute activities.

But Ella was most excited to be with the other kids, especially her little friend Addison (who is a DOLL)!

Our friends (and old neighbors) the Trasks (both: Mark & Jeanette and Kevin & Hayres) joined us as well! Isn't Troy so cute!


The girls doing cheers with their glass cups.



Feb 1, 2010

New Years Eve 2009 (Adult celebration)

So late on New Years Eve we knew we couldn't do much with the kids, so my mom invited us over so we could just hang out, play Wii, etc. So we invited our close friends the Jones family to join us (they live about 3 minutes from my parents house). My mom ended up going to bed with the kids and we ended up having a blast, acting goofy, playing games in our pj's, and taking these silly NEW YEARS pictures:






MY FAVORITE PICTURE!!!!!




LATE...but not NEVER

Ella and I making our Gingerbread house (and NEVER again)! Messy, ugly, disaster...ha ha ha