Only on Monday: September Catch-up

So when we left in August we were still on our cruise!!!!

This is the boat we were on. We didn't know this when we booked the cruise but it is the oldest boat in the fleet. When we walked on board it felt very outdated and we were worried about what we have gotten ourselves into. But by dinner we were more at ease and enjoying ourselves. We just had to get used to being on a boat!! Yes, our room was small but we were on a boat! The food was awesome. We could eat all day if we wanted to. I liked the fact that you could eat dessert first if you wanted to and I did a few times :) The dessert were not awesome and I find that odd... They had shows, games, and karaoke at night and we just laid out and relaxed during the day.

The first place our cruise stopped was Progresso Mexico. It was real Mexico and was interesting to see how they lived. Most people did Mayan Ruin Excursions so we did too. We enjoyed checking things out both concluded that the Mayans were pretty crazy people.

There was a cool Cenote Pool which is a spanish way of saying "sink" hole. Our guide told us it was clean and locals come on the weekend to swim in it so we decided to cool off. I lost my favorite sunglasses in that sink hole and I think they sunk right to the bottom of the ocean because I never found them :( It was refreshing but I guess we'll never know how clean it really was.

When we were walking back to our ship we noticed the thousands of jellyfish that we all around the ship. It was so crazy to see sooooo many jellyfish. I wonder why they like the boat so much!

Of course the animal towels were adorable!

Here we are before dinner one night in the hotels center lobby

Us eating dinner with some of our new friends. We were so lucky to find nice people to eat dinner with every night. The couple on the right, Matt and Carrie, are both nurses

The kids stayed with N's parents for half the time and my mom and dan half the time. They had so much fun. J said to me the other day. Mom I don't like VA I want to go back to Grandpa's house in Texas. Then he told me he wanted Freebirds. Me too J Me too! Grandpa and kids

Kids with GranDan and Nana

Yep pretty much sums it up :)

Being silly in the airport. Did you know that if you are military you don't have to pay for bags on airlines. Even for the rest of us...while we were on vacation! Cool huh?

First day of school breakfast. I don't think she ate any of it

Ready to go. Piggy aka Hamlet came to school this day. She kept him in her backpack and I think it helped her feel more at home. There is a moth on her shirt. See it?

The kids and the secret service

ugh. I miss this girl now that she is gone all day

ugh. he misses her too. LOTS. We were talking when we went to bed tonight and he told me the favorite part of his day was when Sissy came home and they played monster (g) in the back yard. A game she created, where G is the monster and they run and scream when he finds them. Then they go on adventures all over the yard to try and hide from him. They were having a great time. Mondays are good days because she has half days which means lots of play time.

G buddy love

Daddy love. She has finally started to talk about her day but gets frustrated when I ask her and then Daddy asks her so lately she wants me to wait until Daddy gets home so she only has to tell us one time:) She's a multi-tasker!

A week after school started for C, J got to go too! He was soooo excited and soooo ready. Every time C went last year he asked if he could go to school too. Nope sorry J. Preschool in VA is like another car payment. Sorry bud, you'll have to wait! So this year he started. He ran in class the first day and has never looked back. I have to follow him in and find him to say goodbye to him. His teachers are amazing and we feel blessed to be at his preschool. He still wants to go every day but seems content when I tell him he goes on Wednesdays and Fridays :)

"I'm three mom"

Wait for me Jacob, I am supposed to walk you into class

Right at home

A friend at N's work gave us some tickets to see the redskins. It was fun to be able to go to a real football game. The tickets were incredible up on club level where they have couches and big screen tvs outside the stands. Restaurants instead of snack bars. Pretty cool experience. They were playing the Texans that day so we cheered quietly for our texas team :)