Mom and Michael got in to town the evening of June 4th and are staying at our house! They came a week early to be here for Shannon’s wedding. We played Nertz and chatted and had Sunday dinner. And they visited friends and family and then more of the family started coming during the week!
Sunday Dinner Games and Cookie Dough!
Saturday June 5th – we met up with family and friends for the Demolition Derby! They derby was pretty WIMPY to put it nicely. Not many heats or many drivers. Luckily we had good company and pulled some fun out of it.
Rose passed the trophy on to Seans brother in law Enrique and we caught a few fireworks at the end of the night.
Packer ordered this AJR sweatshirt with his birthday money from Grandma R. He just got it in the mail and he loves it. He loves to put his earbuds in and listen to AJR on repeat. He is able to find the edited versions and he has most of us hooked on their music.
Trinkets from Mexico – and Ray and Noah after practicing soccer.
Hot Summer Days
We spent an evening at the park for Ellie’s birthday! and Millie and Tiago and I took our bikes to Harvey park – Cali ran with us and Packer long boarded.
Hanging out at Joel and Megans – with Baby Kit of course!
Soccer Tryout Week is such a roller coaster of emotions. I think I stress more than Cali! She went to Arsenal and Surf and Celtic tryouts and she got offers. She chose to play for Celtic on a Premier 2 team with Anna and Mia and Udine is the assistant coach!!! Hurray!
They started with Red Rover!
Slip N Slide
Nine Square
Swimming
Presents, Cake, and Popsicles
We got home from Mexico just in time to celebrate Tiago! He was a fun present opener and a spoiled little dude: Micromachines! Botbots, Flickin Chickens and SOUR SPRAY!! and then we played with his toys all day.
Fun with the toys and making sure the pool is ready for the party the next day!
Spanking Train!!
Tiago is a smiley and sarcastic 6 year old. He loves to hang with the big kids and he does it well. He likes sports and video games and board games and is very well rounded. He can read but not really good yet. He likes to write notes and clubhouse rules and talk on his walkie talkies. He loves to play with cousins – all ages. And with friends. He loves babies and he still lets me snuggle him and he still tells me that he loves me.
All expenses paid vacation to Cancun with Salesrabbit sales team!!!
We left Thursday morning – the kids last day of school – May 27 – It was so exciting to go on a trip just the two of us! (Now it is Jul 14th when I am writing this so my memories are already fading! I’ll try to do this trip report justice!)
We Made It! To the HOT Hot Mexico!
LOOK AT THIS BEDROOM VIEW! I couldn’t get over it the whole trip – it was amazing to be living at the pool at the beach in the always 80 degrees. Here are some pics of us enjoying the all inclusive resort!
On Friday we took a boat to Isla Mulheres with some work peops and explored the island for the day. It was about 65$ per person to charter the little boat. And we were so excited about the tacos that we ate there for lunch – they were THE BEST. The snorkeling was so so. The beach was an amazingly clear blue and white. And it was lovely to be out on the water.
That night we had a fancy dinner on the beach! Toes in the sand. I had a delicious vegetable curry with chips – most had sea food.
Saturday Sunrise! and our morning crepes…
On Saturday we went on a tour with all of our work group. It was all day long – we went to 2 different ruins: TULUM and then COBA and ended the day at the Cenote!!!
TULUM:
After lunch we got to ride bikes into Coba and see more and different ruins:
And then we got to go swim in one of the CENOTES in COBA! It was down a bunch stairs – maybe 50 and then you swim in the beautiful underground river! IT WAS SO HOT and the water was so refreshing!
It was a long drive home. The small towns reminded me of my time in Brasil. I wonder how it would be to live there for a few years. It looks like such a simple life.
Ben got up early for another beautiful sunrise!
I got up for the crepes and lounging by the pool!
We took a taxi in to town to shop and look for souvenirs and we went down to the beach and heard all of the work people getting giddy about something… they were finding beautiful big sea shells about 5 feet off the shoreline! So we jumped in for an hour or 2 and found a couple of shells to bring home! We had dinner with work people at one of the resort restaurants and went to explore the nightlife:
And then it was May 31 and time for us to pack up and fly home. It was a relaxing and fun trip. So good to spend time with Ben and a good break from being mom. It was nice to get to know some of the work people and nice to explore CanCun!
We got home Late Monday night. The kids were home waiting for us!!! Rose and Ray, Millie and Tiago had stayed at Joel and Megan’s. Benji and Packer stayed at Falabellas. And Cali stayed half at Falabella’s and then the next half at Joel’s. They all were happy to see us but did just fine getting spoiled from aunts and uncles while we were gone.
6th Graders get to walk the halls on their last morning and then come outside where all of the parents are waiting to congratulate them for finishing Elementary school. Only problem was Ben and I were on a plane to Mexico so we sent the boys over to give her this lei and congratulate her. Erica got these pics for me!
Last Day of School!!!
The big kids were done with school! And Manila kids had Field Day all day and sprayed by the firetruck!
That night we got to got to Pizza Pie Cafe to celebrate Lalo and Caitlin graduating!
Packer got all A’s all year!