Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday to seriously the most amazing dad!

I have no idea where I would be without him.
Oh ya, he is 48 now.
woot woot!

P.s. I love the picture of Olivia and my dad. She has become quite the poser! She smiles for the camera now. Yay Olivia!!

Cancun part 1:

After seriously a wonderful week we are back to the freezing cold rain and snow.
I'm really missing the sun.
Anyway, I have made 3 separate posts that will go into detail and show pictures of this lovely trip.
There is so so much that I want to remember so sorry if it gets boring.

Day 1: May 21, 2011

(At the airport)
We got all packed up the night before since we would be leaving at around 7:00 that next morning. It is a little crazy packing for an 8 month old. I probably packed half her stuff, but better safe than sorry! We parked our cars at a parking lot near the airport and took a shuttle there. We were running a bit behind (very common for my family) but thanks to my medallion flyer dad were able to skip to the front of every line! I get deathly sick on planes so I of course took my Dramamine (the drowsy kind on accident) and decided to give our little Olivia a few drops of benedryl to try and knock her out for the flight. Well about 30 minutes after being on the plane Olivia zonked out for what I thought would be the rest of the flight. Well 1 hour later this hyper child was pretty much bouncing off the walls. Thank you benedryl. Apparently this does not work on my child. The flight was about 4 hours. Not too bad but definitely harder with a baby. After arriving we were able to get to our resort shuttle without much trouble, thanks to my Spanish speaking boy.

The resort was called Sandos, in a city called Playa de Carmen about 45 minutes outside of Cancun. We arrived there around dinner time so eating was pretty much the first thing we did. They had an international/mexican buffet, Italian buffet, and a few other nice restaurants that you had to make reservations in advance for. We thought we would try out the international buffet first. There was so much food to choose from so it was kind of fun knowing that we could eat whatever and however much we wanted.
(I can't believe I am in long sleeves but it was cold on the plane. I am probably drenched in sweat in this picture. The heat was a bit shocking at first.)

Olivia starting right in getting little tastes of all the food.

I can't believe I have a picture of my baby in a public high chair. Seriously gross. But the top part of it was sterilized and wrapped in plastic wrap when we got it so I figured after some serious disinfecting from me she could handle sitting in it. Poor little girl is struggling with some serious sweating as well.

Day 2: May 22, 2011

My two cuties sleeping in after that long day.

So these creatures seriously just roam free around the resort. I guess it's kind of cool but if one of those things came at me I am pretty sure I would burst out bawling.

Relaxing on the beach. Enjoying the sunshine a little too much!
(Bad sunburn in the making...more about that later.)

They have these little mini bars all over the place that have lots of drinks to choose from. Most of them alcoholic but luckily they had these irresistibly amazing smoothies. Our favorites were the pina colada and the Chichen Itza. We seriously had at least 5 throughout the day.

Olivia LOVED them. It was here that she discovered her tongue. She would lick her lips like crazy until you gave her more and then when you did put some in her mouth she would lick it out like a kitty. Very cute.

Me, Emmaline, and Olivia.

Me and Sophia.

Our first of many family photos on this beautiful beach. (That blackish long thing in the black is some sort of thing that helps protect the beach during a hurricane. They are pretty much all along the beach. Well anyway, I totally slipped and fell over one of them haha.)

The wonderful snack bar. It was open 24 hours a day so we could go and get snacks whenever we wanted. We actually usually went here for lunch because they had these amazing nachos. My favorite though was their coconut/vanilla frozen yogurt icecream cone. I seriously had at least 3 a day.

Grandpa and baby. (I seriously love her bikini).

This little doll loved playing with all the beach toys.

Grandma and baby getting ready to go to dinner.

This special dessert was very yummy. It was chocolate mousse in a chocolate bowl with a chocolate square. A lot of chocolate but I could not resist eating half of one. Luckily little Olivia didn't seem to be affected. Looks like I may be reintroducing chocolate to my diet finally.

Looking a bit put out but that is before they saw the wonderful desserts:)

Sophia, me, and Olivia enjoying our Italian dinner. The pizza was amazing.

Love her very blue eyes. Thank you Michael!

Well,you've reached the end of the 1st post. Get ready cause there are 2 more with some very cute pictures I think.

Cancun part 2:

Day 3: May 23, 2011

Off to the beautiful beach

Apparently this crocodile was found swimming along in the ocean right by where we swim. It somehow escaped from some zoo haha. They evacuated the waters to get this little guy out. I am glad that we weren't quite down there yet cause if I would have been in the water when they said to evacuate I would have completely freaked because the first thing that would have come to my mind would have been shark. And if you know me at all you know that one of my greatest fears is sharks.
(My family was down there during this interesting spotting so they took this picture.)

My boy and I.

Going for a swim together.

Me and my baby girl.

Grandpa, Grandma, and baby.

So in the last post I talked about how I think I enjoyed the sunshine a little too much, well if you look at my legs you will see why. I completely scalded them. Seriously I have never had a sunburn like this. I was so focused on putting sunscreen on Olivia constantly that I forgot about putting it on my legs. Thank goodness I remembered my face. Anyway, my legs were so sore I could hardly move for a couple days. Luckily some good did come of the redness and intense pain...tanness, yay!

There's the tongue!

So there is this little river that goes through the resort that is full of these turtles. We seriously stopped to watch them every time we passed the river. Mostly cause Michael is a bit obsessed. Pretty sure we will be having one of these as a pet in our later days.

Swimming in the pool.

Totally loving the water in her new floaty.

Nap time at the pool!

The family enjoying our smoothies in the pool.

About to get dunked. Thank you Michael for saving me. Not.

Floating on the little's floaties.

Love her.

Thanks to Michael and my mom Sophia and I were able to enjoy our own little special dinner at the Italian buffet. The waiter was a bit interesting and by interesting I mean a 50 year old man trying to hit on Sophia haha. Towards the end of the dinner I looked out the window and saw Michael walking towards the restaurant holding a screaming Olivia. She was in a full fledge scream as he walked through the restaurant and the second he handed her to me she immediately stopped. Little stinker but I really can't help but think it's a bit cute. I am glad she likes me. (The most:))

This crazy baby loves pulling hair and eating hair. Kind of interesting. So here she is attacking Sophia.

Generally I would say that Olivia has a pretty soft touch but she definitely has a vicious side that I think she gets from both her mom and dad.

Day 4: May 24, 2011

Another relaxing day at the pool.

These little creepers were all along the pathways. Seriously look how scary that face is.

My hot boy and cute girl chillin at the snack bar.

So one of the many activities you can do at the resort is Kayaking. I of course was not about to get in one of those unstable things for 2 reasons both of course involving sharks. #1: I was terrified of it flipping over in a wave and being under the water upside down and then having a shark come bite my head off. #2: I didn't want a shark to come up and tip it over and then eat me. This may sound silly but I am dead serious. I stayed far away from those things. However, my boy of course was quite excited about it. He went with my brothers and dad who ended up going in after a few minutes. (They apparently don't have the nice arm muscles like my boy.) Sophia originally was not planning on going in one...I think I freaked her out, but when she saw Michael out there all alone she decided she would go out.

In her cute puffler life jacket. She definitely wasn't a fan of it. But she still looked cute in it.

I love her little chunker leg just resting on the side. She did that quite a bit.

Eating at the Argentine restaurant. It was really good. Michael made friends with the waiter pretty quickly. They talked throughout the dinner. He apparently expressed a lot of interest in learning English and was asking Michael how he learned Spanish so quickly. The conversation ended of course with Michael a bit emotional because talking to him reminded him a lot of his mission.
So my dad came up with this little competition for the boys to see who could say or get someone to say La vida es fresca (Life is good) the most. Michael decided that it was time for him to take complete control of the competition. So while talking to his friend he apparently told him to get as many of the other waiters as he could and have them all come over and say La vida es fresca to my dad. So sure enough a few minutes later 7-8 guys came over and said it. So that pretty much wrapped up that competition. For those who know my boy know that losing is not an option for him nor do those that live with him want it to be an option. I think it is best for all parties if he wins. So yay Michael!

Olivia sporting her cute sunglasses, thanks to her Grandma Mickelson!

The family after dinner!

One more post to come soon!