To good not to share!

In Sept. 2008 my sister got married, and Erik attended the bachelor party. Part of the party included paint ball (such a guy thing!). Here is a picture of Erik, my brother Patrick, and my brother-in-law Pete. They sure look tough! So even though this picture isn't a recent one, I thought it was to good not to share!

Andrea

The cutest kids ever

For all the Holidays, the kids at daycare do little projects to celebrate the specific holiday. For Mother's day and Father's day, it usually involves cute pictures of the kids for each parent. Here is the cute picture that was taken of my kiddos. I love them so much!

AJ

Fun with the neighbors

On Thursday last week the weather was wonderful and we played outside after dinner for more than an hour. The neighbors came over to play and check out our new Wally bean bag toss. The kids had a blast. Luckily there are 4 bean bags and 4 kids, so each one gets one bag. Nifty how that worked out! :) 8 pm came to quickly and it was time for bed for the kids. Erik and I then watched a movie - it was one with Adam Sandler called Bedtime Stories. Very good - I would recommend renting it.

Wally bean bag toss game - you can find it at Marshals

Here are the boys tossing it in - yes they are quite close, but they are thrilled with how often they got it in the little pouches. So if they are happy, I am happy!

Holly decided she needed to confiscate the neighbor's trike and helmet - she rode it up the sidewalk and to our driveway. The helmet kept falling down over her eyes, but she was cute!

Here are all 4 kids standing in the back of Erik's truck. For some reason they love hanging out in there. They were tossing the bean bags from there into Wally, jumping down to get the bean bag, and then climbing back in. I think it tired them out!

The blooming tree

This is the beautiful blooming tree in our front yard. I always love how it looks in the Spring, and it smells fantastic! To bad it doesn't last more than a few weeks before the flowers fall off.

This is my cutie pie Myles in the blooming tree. He loves to climb this tree!

Andrea

Mowing the lawn

This is a cute little video of Erik mowing the lawn last weekend, and Myles following his Daddy around - it was so funny that I had to get it on video!

Here is Myles wearing these funny muffs on his ears - it is hard to hear anything with them on!

Mother's day

Holly waiting for her Chinese food on Mother's day

Last weekend was mother's day and I had a lovely time with my family. I got to sleep in until 7:30 am - Love that! We then hung out and played a bit in the morning. I decided that I really wanted Chinese for lunch. So we headed out for the local Chinese restaurant. The kids were good and always eat well at the Chinese place. Both took naps, and I went to Target by myself. I wandered around for 90 minutes! Yikes! The evening was quiet - we played outside and chatted with the neighbors. Lovely Mother's day!





Andrea

Pony Tail

Holly's hair is now long enough to put into a cute pony tail - I love it!

Andrea

RIP laptop.... RIP

Well, the laptop has finally passed on to a better place. She became terminal about a week or more ago, and then fell into a deep coma. The plug was then pulled.

Until Erik and I get a new laptop (hopefully in one week) I will not be uploading any pictures and most likely will not blog as well. This will be our moment of silence as we morn the loss of our very first laptop.

Any suggestions for a new laptop is greatly appreciated!

Andrea

Our Mexico Adventure

Well, we are back! What a wonderful trip we had - full of fun and rest. I will try to recap the trip along with some of the pictures. First things first - No, we don't have the Swine Flu. :)

Highlights:

1. Warm weather - both a blessing and a curse because we love the warmth, but it takes us a little time to get used to it.

2. Took a sunset boat cruise and actually saw some Whales migrating! It was fantastic!

3. Did some bartering for Mexican trinkets -love that!

4. We played Tequila Volleyball in the pool - don't ask, don't tell

5. Great food - and we gained the weight to prove it!

6. Relaxed, napped, went to bed early.... awesome.

Low lights:

1. Took a water taxi out to Lover's beach, and the boat nearly capsized - bad undertow and it would have been very bad if we had gone overboard! Freaky!

2. Some drunk guy tried to get into our room one morning at 5:00 am - long story short we refused to open the door even when the hotel security and lobby tried to tell us that this was that guy's room.

3. Erik and I didn't feel top notch at times (no, not self inflicted).

4. Swine flu - don't have it, but saw people wearing masks at the airport - freaky!

5. Flight delay on the way home due to bad weather in TX, and instead of arriving in Mpls at 9:45 pm on Monday night, we got in at 2:20 AM - we are tired, to say the least.

Over all, we had a great trip in Cabo Mexico. I would recommend the Riu Santa Fe. Lovely hotel. Cabo is a bit windy, and we actually enjoy the Playa del Carmen area better (on the east coast), but still a great trip! Enjoy the pictures below!

Love,

Andrea & Erik

Our taxi driver made a pit stop at this convenience store so that we could get snacks and drinks as we headed to our hotel. In Mexico, passengers can drink beer while the driver is driving.... so we did!

Here is the interior pool at our resort - there was a total of 4 pools, one interior and three that overlooked the ocean. Awesome!

This is the stretch of beach by our hotel. We never laid out on these loungers because it was hot. Plus you really couldn't swim in the ocean at this area. So we spent out time at the pools.

Here is one of the swim up bars at a pool that we hung out at. It seemed to have a younger crowd here. I have never seen so many tattoos in my life!

This is me on Wednesday I believe. We went down to check out the sand and the people selling various Mexican trinkets/junk. I ended up buying a brown cowboy hat. I got a good deal!

Erik looking hot! This is the same day -Wednesday - and we were trying to get a bunch of pictures of the hotel, beach, etc....

Erik and I took a water taxi out to Lover's Beach. He gave us a little water tour and we saw fish, sea lions, boaters, people snorkeling, etc... It was totally awesome until.... he tried to get us in close to the beach to hop off. The under tow was super strong and it sucked the water back out before he was ready. The boat dropped and we hit the ground and tipped. We took on a ton of water. Both Erik and I almost went overboard. Not cool. But all is well.

So here is Erik helping to scoop the water out of the boat. Some other guy hopped on from a different boat with a water pump to suck out the water. But until then, Erik and the driver spent about 5 minutes bucketing water out.

Here is a picture of Lover's Beach. This is where the water taxi was taking us. It was beautiful!

On the other side of Lover's Beach is a different beach. It is called Divorced Beach. We checked it out. There was this great wave crashing up on the beach and it made for great pictures. We'll just ignore the name of the beach.

Me on the same rock. It was really pretty on this side of the beach!

Last picture of Lover's Beach. It was neat to hang out here and watch the boats. You can see the huge Cruise ship that was docked in the bay on this day. A regular occurrence but with a different boat each day.

On Saturday we went for a Sunset Cruise. A 3 hour tour. (yes, those jokes were told!) It was amazing! They started here in the bay of the Marina. This wasn't the ship, but I forgot to get a picture of it. It was much larger and awesome!

As our sunset tour started, we went past the famous Stone Arch. This is to the left of Lover's Beach. Great Pictures!

Here we are on the sunset cruise. We sat next to a really nice couple from Denver. The weather was perfect!

Yes... that is 2 drinks in my hand. But the more shocking fact is the one in my right hand is a margarita. Yuck. I got it down to the last 1/4 and gave it to Erik. I don't like Tequila.

The BEST part of the cruise was seeing a mommy and baby whale. This is the very end of the whale migration season, so we didn't think we would see any. It was AMAZING! I tried to get pictures, but they didn't really turn out. The tiny dark spot in the middle of the water is the whale (hump back whale).

There was another cruise going on for this group on the pirate boat. It looked fun!

Here is a self portrait of us. It was windy, as you can see from my hair whipping all around!

This is one of a million amazing sunset pictures from the boat. Fantastic!

After the cruise, we went into town and had chips and salsa (along with beer!) at this popular bar. We were there to early for it to be hopping with people (we left at 9:30 pm), but it was still fun! We hung there with the couple from Denver.

I got talked into learning how to Salsa dance. I have learned that I am NOT talented when it comes to dancing. I was the worst one out there. But it was funny!

Hard to see the faces, but on our last day (Sunday) we hung out with this interesting couple at the hotel. They are from Missouri. We ended up playing Tequila Volleyball in the water, and then water polo. It was fun, but tiring.

On Thursday night, Erik had booked us to eat at one of the hotel's restaurants. The only one open was the Mexican one. We didn't mind! So we both got these great fajitas - mine was all beef, and Erik had beef, chicken, and shrimp. It was very good!

We then had these guys come over and play music for us. They said they would play something romantic! It was nice, but I forgot that they play for tips. Oh well - good thing the hubby had some money!

Me ordering a drink at the bar - at this point I think I was into drinking something called a Blue Ocean. Or was it the Corona's..... I'm not sure.

This picture is for you Billy! Doesn't Erik look so cool?

Okay - here is the last one. I thought I would end on a cute one of us!

Mexico here we come!

Sorry to continue blogging about Mexico, but.........

It's here!!!!!!!! Our flight leaves in a matter of hours. On Monday 4/20 our flight leaves at 5:35 am. The Taxi is coming to get us at 3 am....... ugh. Hope I sleep on the flight! It was hard leaving the kids this evening. Both Erik and I were teary eyed as we drove away from them. They will be missed!

Enjoy your week everyone! I know we will!

Andrea