A Perfect Ending to a Perfect Weekend!

Saturday night, Tim and I got to go on a date night!  It started around 2:30 when we dropped the kids off at the sitter and headed to Carrabbas for an early dinner!  Then we headed to the Nickelback/Busch concert!  Live music is one of our favorite things to do/enjoy!

Then on Sunday evening, we took the kids to the beach for a little afternoon fun!  We had so much fun and all three kids loved playing in the water!  The temperature was PERFECT!

Hudson swimming!

Daddy and the kids in the water!

Enjoying some "sitting up time" on the beach!

Brylee playing in the sand and Darbie swimming!

My sweet perfect family!

A Much Needed Vacation!

Tim and I got away for a week, thanks to Nana and Papa for keeping the kids!  We got to do our favorite thing, which is cruising!  We left out of New Orleans, which was a first for us.  It was a much needed vacation and time to just refresh!  We spent a lot of time napping, laying out by the pool, and of course eating!  We even got a couple of massages!  Here are some pictures!

Our first stop was Cozumel, Mexico.  This is one of our favorite places to visit.  We've been there several times and it is one of the cities we visited 13 years ago =)  This time, we did a little shopping and then we went horseback riding!  We had a blast and it was something that wasn't like us!  After riding we had some amazing tacos cooked fresh!  Although they were very delicious, we were a little nervous because it looked like they were served on meat trays. (the Styrofoam trays that you buy meat from at the grocery store) 

Tim drinking Mexican beer.

 My love!

 Our ship.

 These are the horses we rode.

 This is what we rode in to and from the ship LOL

The view from the side of the road =)  Breath taking!

One of our formal nights!

Our next stop was Caymen Islands.  Our excursion got canceled because of the weather, so we just walked around and enjoyed the local scenery!

 This was a local selling fresh coconuts.... He would slice it to where you could drink the milk and then he would cut it open so you could eat it!  We had two of them and they were DELICIOUS!!!

Just enjoying our time together!

We so badly wanted to take these home with us!

Fried conch!  yes, snail...and it was sooo yummy!!!

Tim drinking Caymen beer.

 
Enjoying some time on the ship

Our  dinner guests!  We loved sitting with them each night!  They were a family...Parents, their daughter, and her family!  They were fabulous people =)

Our next stop was Jamaica!  It wasn't what we expected.  Way dirtier than I ever thought, but we loved being there!  We went to Dunn's River Falls and we bobsledded... it was a lot of fun!

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Our kids would have loved this tree!

This is an almond tree!

The view of the water from up in a sky lift!

  Enjoying some nature and scenery in a sky lift!

Tim getting ready to bobsled!

Tim with Jamaican beer.

A local was selling fresh fruit and it was AMAZING!!!

We had an amazing time and it was so nice to get away with the love of my life!

not so good at this blogging

When I started this blog, I intended on doing it at least weekly, to keep my family up to date with our life.  Sadly, that hasn't happened.  I always have good intentions, and then life happens.  So now I have over 2 months to get you caught up on =(  Let's go back to the beginning of June.

Hudson turns 6 MONTHS!!!  Where has the last six gone???

 Hudson weighed 17.5 pounds (77%) and was 28 in long (92%)  He is such a happy and loving little man!

 Brylee had her 3 year check up that same week and weighed 33 pounds (73%) and was 41 in long....and off the charts in percentile!

Brylee had her first dance recital and she was a star!  She LOVED every minute of it and did amazing!  She loved getting dressed up.  She loved putting on lipstick at a place other than home.  And, she loved dancing and having an audience!

Then June 14th, Darbie graduated from 5th grade!  Our baby is going to middle school!!!

She also got the presidential award, which we were very proud of!

Darbie and one of her favorite teachers, Mrs. Kilmurray.

Immediately after Darbie's graduation, the kids and I headed out for Alabama.  Yes, I ventured an 11 hour road trip with three kids and have to say that everything went perfectly UNTIL  two hours before being in my parents driveway.  Right around Chattanooga we stopped to get gas and dinner.  I got Hudson out of his car seat to change him, got gas, and got Burger King.  We got back on the interstate and immediately Hudson started grunting, which meant he was pooping and Brylee started complaining of her stomach hurting.  As I was pulling off the road for a rest stop to change Hudson 2 miles later, Brylee started throwing up and didnt stop the rest of the trip.  It made for a long last two hours to say the least.  It was a mom's worst nightmare...especially a mom who doesnt "do" throw up........but we made it...and Burger King is darkly crossed off of our options of fast food!