Mexico 2

We spent 4 days and 3 nights in Mexico this time.  It was a nice relaxing trip.  Our kids were so good and we didn't have any drama.  The place we rented had a main house with two identical master suites.  Cali and Joey. and Fiona shared one room with Willie in their bathroom, and we took the other room with Henry on a mat on the floor and Theo in our bathroom.  Behind the main house was a guest house with two identical rooms and two bathrooms.  ( I have pictures somewhere...ahahhh).  The big kids all stayed out there and weren't allowed to come out until 8:30.  It was great.  

 I love the ocean.

 How heavenly is this...we were always the only people out there...for miles. 

 Pretty CC

 My Happy place.  Reading with the ocean breeze.  Here I am outside the sliding door of our bedroom. 

View from my bed!

 One morning we were outside eating breakfast and we saw like six DOLPHINS!!!!! If you look closely you can see them.  I almost started crying I was so happy. 

 Our kids booked it down there for a closer look (they are standing on the sandbar)

 Theo was so sad it was so hard to get down to the beach. 

Theo was always trying to get down to the beach!

 lunch outside (NACHOS and FANTA)

 One night when the tide was out super far we ran around looking for crabs.  We found so so many.  (HEnry has been having nightmares of crabs ever since.)

 We also went digging for sand dollars and found 26 live sand dollars in one night. 

 dinner of nuggets for the kids.  (it was great this funny table fit all 10 kids)

 Little WIllie Mays in Paradise. 

 Me and Willie because he isn't in hardly any pictures.

Mexico

We haven't had a computer here at the house for about a year now.  That is the main reason that my blog isn't updated very often.  However....Cortney just had to get a new faster computer for work and he brought his other computer home.  NowI will be able to post more....and there are a lot of pictures on Cortney's computer that I have never seen.  

So these are some of the pictures from our AMAZING trip to Rocky Point Mexico back in April. I am still missing tons but I figure I better still get these up there before I forget for even longer. 

The house we rented was right on the beach...it had a sand bar right in front too.  So everyday as the tide would come in and out there would be a shallow spot where the kids could play.  They loved it. 

 Here you can see me and Gigi and Carolina out on the sandbar.  

Gigi and CC

 All the kids and Joey out there.  We would have to carry the little ones out there because it would be over their head everywhere else. 

 As the tide would continue to go out the sandbar would become a little island. 

 Ty skipping rocks. 

 Handsome Oli. 

 Cali and I would sit for hours in this little tent.  HEAVEN on Earth I tell you.  I love this beach. 

 Theo is awesome.  A couple of weeks ago he had his front tooth pulled...these pictures really made me miss his tooth. 

 CUTIE. 

 I spent a lot of time reading.  Plus look at these amazing ceilings. 

 Long days at the beach makes for tired babies. 

 I love how if you look hard you can see me. 

 Both dads spent a lot of time doing this.  Luckily the place had great internet so they could work. 

 the 3 Musketeers. 

 Henry was ticked when I showed him this.  So mad. 

 Look at this amazing place to eat dinner.  THe house we stayed at was SOOO beautiful, but not fancy which was perfect for us.  The outdoors was perfect. 

 Sunset on the beach (the tide comes in and out twice a day...and it is a very dramatic tide)

Arizona part 1

Today I was telling my mom I wanted a steam mop...and she told me my dad just bought a steam mop and he loves it.  It made me laugh that he and I are both looking at steam mops on amazon.  Made me think about where I come from.  I really am grateful for my parents...grateful to be like them.

We headed to Arizona to visit my parents for spring break again this year.  This was our third year in a row.  It has been REALLY nice to have somewhere warm to go during the cold spring. It really was the perfect weather there the whole time.

I am going to start my vacation posts with the pictures from Arizona that are on my phone.  Cortney took tons of pictures but they are all on his computer.  Hopefully he will put them in dropbox for me sometime...

We left Orem around 7:15. This was our first trip with henry being potty trained.  It made for more stops than we are used to.  I started driving this time.  I haven't ever driven.  I just was always scared after the car accident that I was in with Kristy driving years ago.  I am starting to realize now though that time goes by faster when you are driving and you don't have to help the kids.  Sounds like a win win to me. hahaa.  Henry started screaming he needed to go to the bathroom at cove fort.  I pulled into a gas station and took everyone in.  About five minutes after we were back on the road Henry had to go again VERY VERY bad.

 Poor guy had to go number 2, twice on the side of the road.  

Good times. 

So many boys. 

Cortney did this most of the time I was driving.  We switched a little after vegas. 

Blue Halo had its very first tradeshow the two days before we left.  HE WAS EXHAUSTED. 

We had a pretty great drive and took one small wrong turn as we were almost there.  We finally made it and were so happy to be at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  Jason and KaeLynn were already there and that made the trip SO awesome.  Our kids LOVE each other. 

We slept great that night (my parents beds are so comfy)...but the kids were up SOOO early and in the pool by 7:30.

 My parents heated the pool up really warm. 

I love this picture of Rob relaxing by the fountain. 

KaeLynn's daughter Abby just might be the awesomest person ever.  She is so sweet and funny. 

A lot of people in the hot tub.  The pool is way bigger I don't know why everyone was in the little part. Funny though. 

 My grandma lives there with my parents.  I love seeing her.  She wasn't too happy about me taking a picture of her. 

One of the nights we were there Keith and Vicki took a couple of us to dinner for Danny's birthday.  It was a lot of fun and delicious food.  KaeLynn and I got this HUGE rootbeer float.  YUM. 

I didn't put make up on once during our vacation.  It was nice.  I was RELAXED the whole time.  We hung out and swam tons.  The kids played and played.

Wednesday morning we left to Mexico.  It's so so close we couldn't resist and Cortney was dying to get try his Blue Halo stuff in SALT water.