Friday, August 28, 2015

Bye to Hayley and Summer Vacation

So.. lots to update. Hannah, our new au pair from Brazil, started on August 3rd. She came just in time to shadow Hayley for a short period before Hayley left us!!  Hayley officially moved back to San Antonio on August 14th. And then we left for vacation the next day (which was also the day I got back from being in California for a week for board meetings). To add to the madness, we returned from vacation on Saturday night, hosted a part for Henry's class on Sunday and the boys started school on Monday. Crazy times!

Back to vacation - we had such a good time. We went back to the same resort we stayed at last year. Hannah joined us this year and it ended up being a great opportunity for her to bond with the boys (while also giving Matt and I some time to ourselves).

On the way to the airport:


 Waiting for the flight







Henry's first time in his own seat: 

We were greeted by Nick characters when we arrived at the resort: 






Tired from the travels (I wish I could sleep this sound): 

Awww.. so relaxing

Every night the resort has a kid's show and then a regular show. This was the first night's dance party with the characters from Nickelodeon 






 



























































Matt got called up on stage for the magic show:










Playing at the kid's waterpark




 Lunch on the beach












 Iguana at the pizza restaurant - eating dropped pepperoni..









Later that night, we were walking to the Mexican restaurant for dinner. We saw a rather large iguana outside the restaurant and stopped to look at it. Henry was in front of me and Hannah and holding an apple. He dropped a piece of the apple and the damn thing went for it.  I thought he was going for Henry and literally screamed loud enough the entire resort stopped to look at us. Those things are fast. We spent the rest of the weekend getting Henry to listen by telling him an iguana was behind him!!

Sandcastles at the beach





Games in the teen club (where we spent a lot of time because David was obsessed with the pool table and video game systems) 







One night the show consisted of opera like singers.. which was pretty funny...




















We went to pet the dolphins and spend a day at Wet-N-Wild 











Family treasure hunt... we didn't win, but it was fun. 















The resort had a night where the kids got to release baby turtles into the sea ..





















Lobster.. nothing more to say!! 





































































We went on a  snorkel trip.. because David really thought he could do it. Turns out, little hard to hold on to the ring and enjoy snorkeling. We did about 10-15 mins, then spent the rest of the time on the boat.




David bummed that he could not snorkel...





Attempt at family photo:
















more lobster












monkey see, monkey do 

















































































And we are back home...


Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Dentist, Broken Arm and Potty training



The boys got a good report from the dentist.. .Henry wanted to have his check-up all by himself, especially after seeing David do so...



We went to visit Grandma Gill and found these pics in her photo album.. look how young we look:


And this is a picture of Brandin at 3... figure out where Henry got his looks from:

Random dinner out at the kids new fav - Chips



Sunday nap.. 


The cute outfit that MiMar got Henry for his B-day.







The BROKEN ARM incident. So David broke his arm at gymnastics class and got to experience his second ride in an ambulance. So glad we got the high deductible insurance this year on the thought that we already dealt with all the kids emergencies (asthma, Henry's NICU stay, etc.)... we were sure this would be a quiet year.  







I got a new car and it is AWESOME. Not a great picture.. this was me showing Matt that I was parking away from everyone to keep it nice and pretty and new


Got milk...




Henry eating salad..




Henry starting yelling at me to come in the restroom and told me he missed... not a great way to start the morning. 

 
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