Why I love my family

Because last night for no reason whatsoever, we decided to set up daddy's father's day gift of a new tent and have a camp out right in our backyard with smores, scary (silly) stories, flashlights, hotdogs, a beer and all at about 9 o'clock last night after baths. Why? - you may ask - well I ask right back - why the heck not! It was a nice night, we haven't been camping yet this year, we have a big tent now, and the kids asked. Aaron came home from school and found us outside, set down his bag and joined right in without even a sideways glance. I strung my alarm clock out by an extension cord and we were all set. I feel so refreshed today from it. It was so calming and waking up to the sounds of the outside this morning was wonderful.

And this is why my family is the perfect family for me!

Finally, some pictures of Mexico

Here are some of our pictures from Mexico. We also have more that our neighbors took, but I'm still waiting to get those.

Here are some other fun people we met while there. This was a hilarious night - purely entertaining.

This was us trying to catch the sunrise one day, but missed it by a few minutes. We did end up making it the next day in time (Cheri has those pictures).

Cheri and I used our spa credit for hour long massages. We spent the 45 minutes before in the steam room and sauna - it was wonderful.

This is Aaron and I skimming the water while we were parasailing.

Aaron, my brother Allen, sister in law Ashley, and me
This is a pretty good representation of how I wish I could spend everyday. This is pretty much my perfect day. Lying on the beach, book in hand. Now just insert drink in hand and the kids playing in the sand, and it would be perfect.

So relaxing.

This picture was taken as soon as we got there.

Early in the morning on the shuttle to the airport.

This trip really reiterated that we would make fabulous rich people!!!!

It doesn't even feel like I went on vacation, how can that be, it has only been 2 days. Oh wait, never mind, the tightness of the clothes - even my shoes - is the constant reminder that I ate too much and had too many fatty drinks. Ughhhh. I don't have pictures because my brother has my camera. We met up to go parasailing together on our last day there. Their camera had broken while on vacation, so I told them to just take ours to use for the rest of vacation and bring it back to me when they are up this way in a week. They get home today, so hopefully sometime tomorrow they will send the pictures through. Maybe I just need to see it to believe it and the good memories will come flooding back. I promise I'll give a play by play of the vacation with pics soon. Since we have been back I've been in such a horrible mood. Well, when I'm at work and school. At home, I'm fine. Last night it stormed really good and Mackenzie and Turner were scared so we all cuddled up on the couch together to fall asleep. It was such a good feeling. I hope they still climb in to bed with me when they are teenagers when a storm scares them!

Hola

For anyone who doesn´t belive in God, I challenge you to come here and leave with the same opinion....because I think I found Heaven!!!! Now if only I could find a way to have my kids shipped to me here......

Ariba Ariba

That is Mexican right. Anyways, i could care less because tomorrow at this very time I am going to be on the plane to MEXICO!!! I can't even begin to express how stinkin excited i am. Everything today is "tomorrow at this time I'll be....." My dad is coming up tonight and taking us out to dinner so tonight will go quickly. Then I'm going to lay in bed with my babies until they go to sleep, because we will be gone by the time they wake up tomorrow. I had a 10 pg paper and a presentation last night at school - which kept me busy and makes the vacation even more needed. Plus my baby sis was in the hospital all weekend up here in StL, so I spent lots of time up there. (She is home and all fine right now!)
I just can't really believe we are going on this trip. All from a simple conversation with our neighbors over dinner while the kids were at a church babysitting night. Scott and Cheri are going to be the perfect couple to travel with. They are just as laid back and fun as we are....well ALMOST. I mean Aaron and i are the coolest cats on the block! LOL See can you tell in my writing I'm just giddy with excitement. I absolutely cannot wait to have endless uninterrupted time with Aaron. This is going to be like a second honeymoon!!!! ahhhhh...naps...frozen drinks....swim up bar.... Oh and did I tell you all, by complete luck - not planned - my brother and his wife get in to Cancun tomorrow too and it looks like their hotel is literally right next door to ours! How cool huh. I think we are going to try to hook up with them and do some para sailing one day.
Oh and we are NOT taking our computer, or cells, so you'll have to wait until we get back to get updates. If there were an extreme emergency - the website of the resort is on the blog and I'm sure they could track us down. Check back next week for the picture overload!

Sears Photos

Here are our pictures that we got done this weekend. I was so happy with them. These are all the ones we ended up getting. LOVE the brick wall effect. Austin thought it would be fun to run around the whole time, and if you look at the full album of pictures, Turner was being a clown! So needless to say - coming out of it all with these pictures was a pure shot of luck. Oh, and after we were done with all the family/kids ones - I asked the guy to take a couple of me and Aaron and am so glad that we did. These will replace the engagement picture I have in our room. It is nice every once in a while to have the physical reminder that we are more than a family, more than just a mom and dad, that it all started with just the two of us, and that we have to keep the two of us strong and separate every once in a while as the foundation to this family.

Memorial Day Weekend

Austin and Madison
This kid LOVES some corn on the cob!

My little Rascals.

Really, I just can't get over how handsome this little guy is.

Family self-portrait at the ballgame

Mommy and Kenzie self-portrait

Turner in heaven - dreaming of the day he will be out there

Just stinkin cute!

We had a great extended weekend. I wish every weekend was a 3 day weekend - it was great. Saturday morning everyone woke up in a fabulous mood ready to find out what our "surprise" was. The kids were ecstatic about going to the baseball game. This place is so much better than going to a game downtown. I mean - bounce houses and playsets and LOTs of room to sit, lounge and roam - made for one easy (and pretty cheap) day being outside. When we got home we filled up the kids swimming pool and Aaron and I practiced tanning in the sun. We don't much more time till Mexico, so practice we must! We decided to continue practicing with a frozen Margarita and relaxing on the patio with neighbors. We made Smores with all the kids and had a great relaxing night.

Sunday we didn't end up doing much. I had to run a few errands to the stores and that took up most of the day - well with the well planned nap in the middle of the day. Again - practicing for Mexico!

Yesterday we went and got family pictures taken. They turned out GREAT. I can't wait to share, I'm just waiting for them to be available online.

In between all that fun, I had a lot of school stuff that I got done and kept the house in pretty decent shape. Oh and i got Aaron signed up to run a 5K with me in July when his parents are here, so we both did 3 miles each day this weekend. I can't wait for a good early morning run on the beach while I watch the sun rise......