Never A Dull Moment: September 2008

I don't know why blogging has been such a challenge for me lately...but it has! There have been sooo many neat things to tell you about..and I have been slacking.. So I decided to RECAP..

Let's go back to Summer Vacation! Lord knows I WISH it still were!

This summer we had the opportunity to go on a Mini Vacation to Big Bear...Compliments of my Cooking Sales! Everything was paid for..NICE! We took the kids to a Zoo in Big Bear and even went night bowling till MID-NIGHT!!! My kids can be quite the Party Animals!

We then took our Once a year Family trip! We normally go to Hawaii, but decided to try something different! We even had the honor of having both sets of GrandParents join us!!! We went to Cancun, Mexico!!! It was a nice getaway and the kids LOVE spending time with the grandparents! We of course hung out at the Pools and Beach (so incredibly beautiful!!!), went to see the Mayan Pyramids (El Castillo).. it was unfortunate that you are no longer allowed to climb it~ When I went 12years ago, I was able to climb all the way to the top!(it's challenging) but apparently over the years people began tagging the inside of the pyramid and someone fell off climbing down and DIED! YIKES... but nether the less it was a beautiful sight! We had one small scare while there... we lost Alyssa!!!! It was the WORST 2 minutes of my life... I thought she was with my dad and when I saw him..and NO Alyssa ... I freaked! No one knew where she was.. I went searching for her and heard her screaming and a stranger asking her "where's your mommy?" I grabbed/hugged/and felt like passing out all at once! I have learned my lesson on letting Alyssa walk ... NEVER AGAIN.. she then remained in arms or strapped in the stroller!!!!
Alyssa Trapped!!!

We also went to Xcaret... It's a big park with cave snorkeling and adventures... It probably would of been awesome if we weren't SWEATING our lives away... It was SOOOOO HUMID~ I had to keep pouring water over the kids face to cool them down... Let's just say..I've never been that sticky in my life!!!

The next neat thing we did was go to a Water Park... Kinda like Raging Waters... But, Ben and my Dad got to swim with Dolphins!!! I wanted to, but was banned since I'm Prego! BOO! Instead I spent our waterpark time with the kids in the kiddie area! We still had fun.

My birthday happened to be while on vacation this year... We celebrated by eating out at Ruth's Chris!!! YUMMY! Too bad Dom slept through my entire Bday dinner :(

Lastly, we took a short trip to Vegas in August also... It was my brother Steve's Bday Wknd and my nephews Bday also...(Happy 5th Bday Rhys!!!).. The neatest part was it was no kids!!! I stood up to 4am in the casinos gambling...sadly to say, we came back LOSERS!!! But had a nice time!

Ahhh... Can't wait till next Summer!