Belize!

Belize was absolutely amazing! I don't even know if I can capture our vacation with words. But I'll try...with a picture overloaded, story filled post! ;) There a lot of things that I want to remember about this vacation!

We dropped off Bryson at Grandma and Papa's and the next morning met my mom and headed to the airport for the 2.5 hr flight to Belize.

While we were waiting, we saw John Cena (a wrestler). I had no idea who he was, but after Michael told me, I had to take a picture of him for a few of my boys at school who LOVE wrestling. (They screamed like girls when I showed them the picture!!)

Dad and Steph (who had just spent the previous week in Honduras on a medical mission trip) met us at the itty bitty airport in Belize to take a "puddle jumper" 12 seater to Ambergris Caye, where we were staying for the week.

I was told to co-pilot the plane. Well, more like just sit up there and not touch a thing! What a view!!

We watched tons of golfcarts and tractors go by while we waited for our luggage

Our resort was so nice. Since we went in the off season, we basically had the entire resort to ourselves. We saw 2 or 3 other families, but that was it!

We walked a mile up the beach to "The Store" and bought a 5 gallon jug of water and a few groceries. The strong boys took turns carrying it back to the hotel :) We actually went through 2 5-gallon jugs in the 4.5 days we were there. Water loving family for sure!

We took out the hobiecat and kayaks- so fun!

Dad taught Michael how to sail the HobieCat; he loved it :)

We saw a sting ray when we were in the kayaks

The first day, we went out on a 2 tank dive right outside of our hotel to the reef. The divemaster was woried because the water was ROUGH. I thought the boat was going to roll over several times. It was just the 4 of us and the divemaster on these 2 dives, another perk to the off season.

We spent a lot of time relaxing on the beach, drinking yummy drinks, eating way too much delicious food, and spending time together.

Ambergris Caye (the island we stayed on) doesn'thave roads, so if you want to go anywhere, you go by water taxi. It was really fun and different. Although, when we went to dinner a few miles up the island, we had to wait on the dock for a few minutes and it was sooo windy. We tried to save our curls, but there was absolutely no point to that! :) Ha!

We had SOO much fun!! I still have a few more pictures to add, and the best of all, a whole post devoted all te diving the Blue Hole! :) There was a lady that took pictures of us while diving and said she would email them to me, so I can't wait to get those!! Coming shortly!

Soaking up Bryson!!

Belize stories and pictures will be coming shortly!! I have to get some of the pictures from my mom and sister's camera to add to my massive pile so the posts will be complete. :)

But, today has been all about soaking in Bryson. I took the day off today so  I could spend time with him. I have hugged and kissed him no less than 236 times today. I missed him SO much!!

We played a lot at the park!

Then, we had a family fun night when Dady got home! There's a place in Frisco that has THE best little arcade for kids. It is SO much fun! We took Bryson a few months ago and then again tonight and he always has so much fun! Bowling and basketball are the biggest hits for that little man :)

We are both soo glad to be back with our little man!!

Belize

We are having SUCH an amazing, relaxing time in Belize!

It is beautiful, the weather is perfect and we literally have the entire resort to ourselves!

We went on a 2 tank dive yesterday and my dad, Steph, Michael and I were all by ourselves with the dive master. It's quite amazing!

We're chilling today beach-side and then going into 'town' tonight!!

Then, Blue Hole tomorrow!! If you watch The Bachelor, they went to The Blue Hole 2 weeks ago and went snorkeling. It's one of the top 3 places in the world to dive!!! Sooo excited!!

Ok, Putting the phone down to disconnect from the world again :)

Puzzle Time!

We just dropped off B at the grandparents for the week and we're in full force shove-everything-into-the-luggage-bag-and-don't-forget-a-thing mode. :)

I always have to take tons of video of Mr. B before we go anywhere so I can watch it when we're gone.

He is just always so happy and fun and I love this cute little video of him and his daddy playing with puzzles :)

 

Ok....back to packing!! :)

A Night In Italy

On Saturday, several couples from our ABF got together for a murder mystery. It was SO much fun! It was a masquerade themed night that took place in St. Mark's Library in Venice.

We had our character scripts emailed to us and we were prepped and ready to go!

I was  "a ditsy over the top, yet friendly professional shopper to the stars and BFFs with all of today's hottest celebrities."

Michael was a "high demand personal trainer to all of today's hotest celebrities, but had a shady past"

Some of the other couples at the masquerade

It was so so much fun! We were all focused on finding out who the killer was :)

Neither of us guessed the murderer correctly, but I did win the prize for "most in- character" for the night! (I guess playing a ditz isn't really that hard for me!? haha!)

All of the ladies

and gentlemen

Bryson stayed home with Mimi and had THE best time. When I walked into his room the next morning, he saw me, got a serious face and then seriously said, "no mommy. Mimi come back play boodozer (bulldozer)"  Ha! Thanks a lot, little man! :) So glad he had such a fun night!

Date Night- February

We had our February date night last night. We kinda used it as an early Valentine Date as well. :)

It couldn't have come at a better time, because Michael has been working craaazy hard for the past month or so and hasn't even been getting home until 10 or 11 at night...which is long after my bedtime, so I haven't seen him at all lately. Thank goodness for a night out where we could talk  and spend time together. :)

Ray and Alicia came over and watched Bryson for the night. Bryson LOVED playing with them!! They are the first non-family (even though they really are basically family to us!!) members to watch Bryson.

I borrowed a few of her pictures, but here is her blog if you want to see other adorable pictures of their night. :)  They are so good with him!

Bryson woke up this morning and saw Alicia'a Gatorade bottle on the sofa and picked it up and looked around and said, "A-yi-ya dink? Oh no where A-yi-ya go? Ray??" Don't worry, I assured him we'd see them very soon :)

Michael and I decided to keep it low key this month because we have some exciting dates planned for the next few months!! We went to Down town McKinney and had dinner at Sauce on the Square. Delicious. It was so nice to sit and linger with a glass of wine and just sit and talk and tell stories of our crazy lives. 

Afterwards, We walked around the square and window shopped a little and then went to Landon Winery and did a little wine tasting. They were amazing. My favorite of the night was only a mere $70 a bottle... chump change, right? ;) Ha

awwwful pictures, but we didn't want to be obvious with the totally cheesy pictures of us holding a glass of wine. blah

We ended our night with some gelato at Paciugo. Yummm!

I love Michael so much and I love our date nights!! I am already looking forward to March :)