Vacation Part Three: Ensenada Cruise

I am not spontaneous. I wish I was, but I'm not. Which is why when we decided to book a cruise with our cousins and friends the day after it was mentioned at my brothers wedding (because we had so much fun!), I was so proud of myself. I knew the eight of us would have a fabulous time and we would have a lot of time to just relax and actually talk without having to cut someone off to chase our kiddos but I didn't know I would have a constant stomachache from laughing so hard the entire weekend. Our 3 day Ensenada cruise was so amazing and was just the start to many vacations to come.

The eight!

Where we parked ourselves for most of the trip...top part of the lido deck with the best "views".

Laughter! I love seeing my husband laugh!
The couples:

Me and my Mr.

Jason and Tabitha

Chris and Courtney

Todd and Shawna

The girls

The boys:

Mr. Elephant

And finally, trying to channel the person to the cruise who brought us all together in the first place, my brother and his awesome smile. Love you brother =)

Vacation Part Two: San Diego

Part two of our va kay was in our favorite place to go as a family...San Diego. Hours of free entertainment (I'm surprised they haven't figured out a way to charge going to the beach), food from all our favorite college spots, and remembering all our favorite stories from Point Loma sharing them with Corbyn. Here's a glance into our week.

We played in the sand.

We filled our buckets with water and sand crabs.
We were buried with Popie and played super Corbyn.
We ate at Pizza Nova on the harbor, yum.
We finally took a picture with mom (I don't think we had taken an alone picture in 3 years, sad)
We learned how to make wishes into a fountain from Uncky Chris.
We tried to dig to China.
We built a sand fort with daddy.
We arrived at the beach every day by 9:30 and parked ourselves there till naptime even eating sand filled sandwiches on our towels.

We were very happy!

Oh San Diego, we love you, see you soon!

Vacation Part One: Lake Arrowhead

A great start to our vacation!

We had long dinners with lots of storytelling

We ate lots of delicious food next to our bestest buddy and even shared our food.
We were entertained by Gammie.
We had lots of time to read.

We dug and dug and dug annnnnd dug for worms (I am a worm finding expert).

We found lots of worms and even got brave enough to hold them.

We enjoyed nappy/snuggle time

We had dance parties on the balcony.
We sat and watched the hugemungous boats on the lake.
We had cousin cuddle time watching Toy Story 3.

We stayed in our jammies till noon.

We rode a chuga chuga choooo choooooo.

We saw amazing fireworks (my bropher took this one).

We celebrated.
We took lessons in posing for pictures from Corbyn.

We had fun with yaya and popie and had one very happy boy!

We had a fabulous time!

To Do List

1) Work--check

2) Stop ignoring the dirty floor--check

3) Drive down to Scottsdale, drive back up to Prescott--check

4) Make a yummy healthy summer dinner (bruschetta chicken from skinnytaste.com)--check

5) Pay bills (blah...can't they just give you a break once and awhile)--check

6) Laundry--check

7) Pack suitcases--check

8) Pack Corbyn's travel packpack--check

9) Pack car (note: though the prius is great on the wallet, it has a mighty tiny trunk)--check

10) Vacation!!!

photo by alice gardens