Friday, August 2, 2013

Hill Country Vacation - Part 2

The second half of our trip was spent just the 4 of us in San Antonio. We spent 2 days at Sea World, and the rest of the time enjoying the amenities at the resort that we stayed at.

Carter enjoyed all the little kid rides. Can you find him below? And Eric's there too, with a blue hat on :)
Riding with Mommy
Ella was over the moon about the carousel. She requested a "purple one" every time.

Time to see Shamu
Very excited!


Taking a look at the dolphins, or "golphins" as Ella would say
Carter loved everything about the aquarium
Here he is making his shark face.... haha!
  Day 2 at Sea World started with carousel rides. LOTS and lots of carousel rides. :/


Carter was excited to meet Franklin

But he was most excited about riding Journey to Atlantis. Eric said he was a little nervous at first, but handled it like a champ, and of course, came off the ride saying how awesome it was! And the best part was that there was literally no line, so we were able to ride several times!

Eric and Carter in the back row.
Carter and Mommy in the back row.
Taking a break from the ride to get splashed
And they got to ride in the front row the last time.
After that excitement, we headed over to the Sesame Street water park area. The kids had fun, but it was crowded so they were good with about 30-40 minutes of playtime before they were ready to move on.





Later that evening we all enjoyed the lazy river back at our hotel.

 

More fun in the pool with Daddy!



Last night there, this little babe was exhausted. Couldn't resist this cute shot of her lounging before bed. I'd have to say though that this would definitely be the best way to end a wonderful family vacation! Our kids are still talking about all the fun we had. I'm so grateful for the time with family, but as always, we were all happy to be back home, too! :)

Monday, July 29, 2013

Hill Country Vacation - Part 1

We had a wonderful vacation last week in the beautiful Texas hill country. First, a 3 day weekend at a great lake house in Austin with my parents and brothers. Lots of fun family time!! We enjoyed every minute of the great house and pool, and a day on the boat.




They started a noodle war.
Carter (and everyone else) had so much fun jumping and sliding into the pool! It was about 10 feet at it's deepest point, and he was not at all scared of the fact that he was no where near being able to touch. He even attempted to dive down and touch the very bottom. Got close, but not quite. So proud of my little swimming fishy!
We spent Friday out on the lake in a pontoon boat. Lots of fun!!







This is the only picture take on the 4 of us the whole trip. :/ 
Guess it'll do.
 


This little girl loved the wind blowing through her hair, obviously!
Carter took driving the boat very seriously.







:)


Going after dive sticks.
Ready, set.....
GO!
He really must've jumped from here at least 1,000 times!
Okay, time for a little family jump sesh. These cracked me up!! You wouldn't know, but Carter did jump in between us in this first picture, he just made it down a little quicker. ;)
Trying again, got all 3 of us. Funny faces!

On Sunday we headed to San Antonio, just the 4 of us, to enjoy a few days at Sea World and the wonderful, family friendly hotel we stayed at. More pics of that portion of our trip coming soon! :)

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Girls' Trip to Florida

Just wanted to post a few pictures from our girls' trip to Florida this past weekend! Please excuse the quality, they're all cell phone pics :)

We had a lot of fun laying out on the beach, shopping, and eating lots of yummy food! Thanks to the husbands and grandparents that helped make this weekend possible for us! We had tons of fun!!

Just landed and headed straight to the beach :)
 Heading out to dinner the first night.... we had some seriously yummy Thai food!
 Shopping on Los Olas Blvd.
Quick stop at the beach before our catamaran trip.
Just heading out of the marina
And doing a little bit of laying out. :)
 Floating in the water off the catamaran
 
 Getting caught in the rain on the beach on Saturday.
 Dinner out at a great pizza place on Saturday night. 
Take 2 :)
 And then afterwards, enjoying some music at a local piano bar.
 Cute shot of the 3 of us, but looks like we got photobombed :/
Me & Laura

Fun trip with only one casualty - my cell phone :(
[it rode away in a taxi cab never to return....]
 And I know we were all very happy to get home to our babies!! :)