spring break laziness, a sweet sixteen, and a photobomber



We just finished up with our Spring Break and this pretty much sums it up:

 

 

 

OVER IT. I am absolutely ready for warmer weather.

 

So, our Spring Break was pretty low key and I didn't hate it. We had a couple of things planned, but we did a whole lot of just hanging around. :-)

 

 

Baseball season officially started back. I asked Maggie if she wanted to play T-ball this year, but she just gave me that "deer in the headlights" look and said no. So, while Levi is at practice, Maggie does a lot of exploring. 

 

 

She asked me if it was okay to "cross the sea" and play on the rocks. Ha! I told her that was fine, but in Indiana we called those creeks. ;-)

 

Easter was early this year and fell on the weekend of our break. I LOVE Easter - loooove it! - but there is one little downfall each year. I sing in the choir at church and we usually have to be there for sound check before the sun wakes up. This means that Eric is in charge of getting the kids ready and in their cute little Easter attire (and no cute Easter morning family picture - eyeroll). As the mom of a little girl, this scares me a little bit. But, I've learned I just have to let it go. One thing is for sure: as Maggie has gotten older, Eric has learned to rock a little girl ponytail with a bow!!

  

 

One special highlight of our week was that our niece turned SIXTEEN! That's just crazy to me because she was a baby at our wedding. And, since I'm only 27, all these numbers just don't add up...

 

Anyways, sweet Megan is 16. So it was time to celebrate! What better way to celebrate than a day of shopping?! We had a fun day together. Found some good deals and Megan learned that we had to keep Maggie reigned in. She likes to shoe shop and love to TOUCH EVERY SINGLE THING in Sephora! She loved hanging with the big girls all day.

 

That evening, we took the whole fam to P.F. Changs. We had a fun time, but joked that my kids are just really small rednecks. Take them to a fancy place to eat and they don't know what to do. They are totally happy with Chick Fil A or McDonald's. Ha! Such a fun experience, though!! Happy Sweet Sixteen, Megan! We love you!

That pretty much wraps up our break! Lots of family time and lots of time just playing outside - perfect! Oh, and I ordered a new hat for our upcoming vacation (did I mention that we are going on a cruise??). It came in the mail and I was so excited! Of course, I took a selfie for the bestie and got photobombed. He was proud of himself.
 

 

One more pic, just because they're cute:

What happens in Mexico...

I feel like I need to start this post out with Adele's song.

 

Hello, it's me.

I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet...

 

It's been a while. A long while. My last post was about Eric's 40th birthday...in May. Oops. Quite a lot has happened since then. If you remember, we were living with my parents after selling our house and waiting to build. That plan went awry...three times, and in September, we bought a house, moved in and life has been happening all the while.

 

Before we moved, though, we had a few fun things happen, one of which was celebrating our 15 year anniversary! 15! That's quite a milestone. Fifteen years of wonderful things, horrible things, love, laughter and life. To celebrate, we grabbed the other half of our Core Four and planned a trip to MEXICO! Eric had never flown outside of the United States, so it was a blast to get to experience this with him!

 

Peace out, America. Hello, Mexico!

 

 

 

After a full day of travel, we finally made it to our destination...an all inclusive resort about an hour south of Cancun. It was beautiful. And hot. We went in July, so you can imagine...

 

 

I could seriously post hundreds of pictures of the gorgeous resort, but I will just keep it to a few of my favorites. You're welcome. ;)

 

We explored the resort for a little while the first evening. Being the young and crazy people we are, we went to bed around 9 o'clock due to sheer exhaustion! Be jealous. You'd think that without our insane, early-rising kids around, we would have slept in and had a lazy morning. No. Sadly we were up around 5:00 in the morning, raring to go! We heard no peeps from our friends sleeping next door, so we grabbed the camera and headed off to catch a Mexico sunrise.   

 



 

It was so beautiful there. Breathtakingly beautiful. The water was such a pretty color of blue and even when you were swimming in the ocean, you could see the ocean floor.

Our trip was so much fun! We spent our days at the beach and pool and our evenings eating at new places. 

 

 

One of the things that cracked us up was the word "tequila". It was used just about as much as the word "hello". ;) We would go to breakfast, sit down barely awake, and wait for the waiter to ask for our drink order. "Orange pineapple juice, please." "With tequila?" "Um, no thank you." I mean, at 8:00 AM? Haha!!

Seriously, the views got old after a while... ;)



This was before dinner out at a great Italian place... 

 

 

One of our favorite days by far was when we got to rent a catamaran to take out. BY OURSELVES. Like, no joke, they let the FOUR of us take a catamaran out into the ocean after only an hour training session. And it was only Eric and Matt at the training session. Later, the guys admitted to us (ON THE CATAMARAN) that Eric thought Matt had been paying attention and Matt was sure that Eric was paying attention. Oh dear.

It was such a great time, though! Minus the few times that we screamed in shear terror because we thought our boat was TIPPING and were surely staring into the face of DEATH, it was pure bliss!
THAT WATER THOUGH...

Oh how I love these people.

Just some fun, random pictures...

 

Eating Japanese...

At our resort, outside the piano bar...

 

A day of shopping... (Eric's face SLAYS me)

 



And a few more around the beach...

 

 

 

Sadly, our trip came to an end. We couldn't have asked or a better vacation together! While waiting at the airport, the first order of business for our return to reality:



 

As we boarded the plane, no one really was ready to leave our fantastic little getaway behind, but we were looking forward to getting home to our babies. Kind of. Kidding! Sort of...

How appropriate...

And once we were home, all was right in our world again. Love.