Seven nights Eight Days

We set sail two weeks ago on the Mariner of the Sea...on the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines...one of the fanciest ships we have been on to date...

Always a favorite to get the towel animal in the room!

We learned something quite amazing while at one of our ports in Mazatlan: they don't own lawn mowers, they use hedge trimmers...ahhh, no wonder they seek to come to America so badly, I would too...it takes all fricken' day to cut one patch of grass...Now Baker can't complain!!

In Puerto Viarta we did an incredible excursion!!! We attempted to do one while in Kuai, Hawaii...well, we DID, but it was so LAME that you can't really call what we did, "Doing it" because it was really just paying $$$ to slide down a 10 foot rope. Anyway, I digress...we went on a canopy zip line that was soooo A-MAZING I didn't want it to end. It was 4 1/2 hours and we were in the jungles/rain forest of Mexico. It rained and the bugs were everywhere but it was great. Never have I been so happy to be eaten alive by bugs. You were not allowed to take pictures because they SOLD them to you for $69.00 a piece, but hey...the memory is priceless right. Here is a lame picture of some guy, could have well been in our group, we had some "interesting" individuals with us but this is what we did and we were so super high and the zip line were so long you get the idea... Another A-MAZING surprise was after one dinner we came back to the cabin and I found this...usually this is my doing but not this time...We were on this trip to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary...Mike had the room all decorated and had chocolate dipped strawberry's waiting for us! So thoughtful. I LOVE him!! He so good to me and I am so IN LOVE with him...more now than I was 15 years ago...possible? YES!

We had a fabulous time...enjoyed our time alone...missed the boy, but can say, we had fun with out them :D...sorry boys! Next time!!

I {HEART} Memory Lane

I decided to do a little "spring cleaning" in the HOT summer heat of 111 degrees...I went through all the boys files and got caught up looking at old pictures...I {HEART} old photos!! Is it bad that my boys crack me up? They seem to always keep a smile of my face!! Maybe it's the stories behind them, that just can't be told, maybe it's just me, but what ever it is...they make me LAUGH!!

This was a super hot day in May, May 20th to be exact...my anniversary! Mike was home sick, super sick, so I took the boys to the zoo. There was an office party for Mike's work and so I ventured off by my self. Baker was unable to get the spider tattoo off his head for school on that following Monday and so we had to put a major band-aid on his head...(Ummm, who told you NO tattoos Baker? Yep, that would be ME!, But do they listen, NOPE!)My sweet "O"...I love him to pieces...always will...

And NO, he was NOT the fattest of our babies...that was Crate!

Curious how I get the towel to stay on my head the boys found it funny to do the same!! Ya think we need some more girls in the house?

This is about as mean as Baker can get and he's not even mad...

I ADORE this picture...

Baby face...Now a "Youthman" I cherish his sweet smile

Jealous of those Baby Blues...I thank the Eliason's for them each day!!

As my "Papa" would say, "Cute but dumb"...

Years and Years it took for Crate to loose the masks...now I miss them...