Mexico 2008

We just got back from Mexico last week and so I have finally recovered and can post once again. This is how our trip started - what was suppose to take only 4 hours took 7. Thank goodness Mitch and his family were with us and helped us pass the three hour wait. There was a really bad accident ahead of us and so all of us got stuck, Randy was 10 cars behind the accident and had to wait 5 hours.Here we are trying to figure out a new game while we waited.
We did get to the beach safely and here are the first few pictures. It was so sweet to watch Cassidy pull her little wagon full of beach toys.

I think when ever we go to the beach we have a picture like this. Patrick just loves laying in the water and there is always someone on his back. Where am I? Of course behind the camera trying to get a tan.
My Mom wanted all the kids to take a picture while we were there. So Patrick snapped a few from the side. Do you see Cassidy's little pose? All of the pictures have here doing this sexy pose. What are we going to do when she is 16?

While we we there we went to the Aquarium, if you can call it that. It was probably about 1000 square feet of old fish tanks with a chain link fence around a poor sea lion. To quote Patrick, "If only the animal activist knew about this!"Behind Patrick you can see the fish tanks. He is looking in a big water barrel where they had other bigger fish.
This is where they kept the sea turtles.
And here is the sea lion. My brother Randy paid money to go in its cage and feed it. Kalley is standing by me and wants me to write that she was scared of it, she thought it was freaky.
On the floor they had a couple little tide pool things. So the kids got to touch sea cucumbers, anemone, and see hermit crabs.

Here is Kalley holding a sea cucumber with my brother Mitchel and her cousin Jolie (A'Lisa's daughter).
Here is my Mom trying to convince Lexy to touch something. The rest of my girls don't have a problem with that.

This is Patrick and Lexy enjoying authentic Mexican churros at the Mud Mall.

The kids had fun finding these tiny snails crawling in the ocean.

Here is my girls with my two oldest nieces Kelsey and Sydney. They had fun making a sand castle for the tiny snails.
But of course when you are at the beach nothing is as fun as a swimming pool. My kids were bothered that I made them go down to the beach. All they wanted to do was swim in the pools. Cassidy tried on her first set of floaties, and loved to float in the deep part.

At the resort they have face painting. The girls had this done when we were there in 2004 and so they couldn't wait to do it again.
Here are just some fun beach pictures.

Like mother like daughter! It was fun for us to wake up every morning and take a walk on the beach with Lexy and look for sea shells. My Mom also loves to do the same thing, so we would all walk together.
Here is Patrick and Cassidy with the Mayan Palace behind them. You can't tell but Cassidy was holding herself because she needed to go to the bathroom. Without fail we would walk all the way out to the beach (and you can see how far that is) and I would have to turn around and walk Cassidy back to the bathroom. It was such a far walk that by the time we got to the bathroom she had usually already had accidents - and it wasn't the clean kind.
Here she is posing, after the potty break, of course!
Cassidy loves her Grandpa more then anything . Here they are hanging out on the beach together.


Part of the fun for the guys was flying the huge kite that Mitch brought. Here is Randy having his turn with Patrick and Mitch waiting for theirs. It was so windy - or either the kite was so big- that they were sore the next day after having to hang on.

Randy and Mitch's family stayed out another place since there wasn't any other rooms at the Mayan Palace. So we would take turn driving the 30 minutes to their place every other day. Here is Kalley with Mitchel's boy Cobe. They were finding a bunch of tiny hermit crabs and snails.
The last night we got fireworks and set some off . The girls loved the sparklers the most, since they didn't make any noise.


I just need to thank my Mom and Dad for the wonderful memories. It was a great experience for the kids to spend time with there cousins and get to know their aunts and uncles a little better.