Monday, January 30, 2012

Cruising with Mickey!

Disney knows how to Cruise! We walked on the ship and were greeted by the staff saying into the microphone, "Welcome Maxwell family" and we walk through a line of staff clapping and welcoming us. The girls were always called princesses and we would give "Hi 4's" to people wearing a Mickey glove. We went up on deck for the sail off party. We danced and sang and party rocked. The cruise director told the kids to scream because they get all you can eat ice cream-we screamed, then he told us to scream because we get all you can drink soda-Greg screamed. He told us there were shows and swimming and eating and everything! Oh, it was heaven.

I loved the dinners each night when we had great discussions and laughter about the days events and life.


Medano Beach in Cabo. We walked there from the port only 20 min. On the way Greg thought of a great way to boggle the minds of all the "sales guys", every few feet there is someone asking us in heavily accented english to buy this, go here, go there. Greg taught the girls to say, "No hable ingles." It was hilarious how they responded. My favorite was a guy who jumped back and laughed so hard then in spanish rattled off "oh you speak spanish so do I! Where do you want to go? I can take you......."
We rented kayaks (after I haggled it was only$25 for 2. Haggling is my favorite. Not Greg's he gets very uncomfortable. In PV he didn't want to jip the lady from her week of rice and beans so he told me "I am giving her $20 so she can eat for a week." I found out later another lady on our ship got the same dresses $15)
Kayaking was so fun. Seals followed us and we found a private beach and hung out there for a while.
The other day at Cabo we took a taxi to Chilleno Beach. It was beautiful. The snorkeling was awesome. Port adventures brought people here to snorkel. Hayley and Brooke tried snorkeling. Brooke thought she saw a fish and later told us it was probably a piece of trash. Hayley went all the way out and saw millions of fish in the deep water.
In Puerto Vallarta this "statue" scared Brooke so bad.

Restaurant with a nice view in PV.


The girl's first taxi ride. We got to see "Mexico" and see daddy in action speaking Spanish like a native.

Tendering from the ship.


Awesome family activities at night. This was a game show "So you think you know your family" Hayley and Daddy were chosen to be the contestants. There was Karaoke, dance parties and movies every night along with the Shows.





The kids activity rooms always had something fun going on. This night was "girls chill". They put on makeup, nail polish, colored a pillowcase, made bracelets and watched a movie. They loved playing foursquare with a huge ball, baking cookies, making a volcano, playing on the wii and being teased by the counselors.


Brooke made some friends and played in the pool for hours.


We loved relaxing with no worries, or little boys.


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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Play hard Sleep hard

Another nice day in the winter! We went to the library and played at the park in January, like we lived in Cali or something!



Seb played so hard he fell asleep in his highchair while he was eating his lunch.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year!!!!




Wild and Wacky Maxwell Party! We danced and sang and ran around outside to bring on the New Year. Earlier that day we went to Gmas and played games and had a yummy brunch.

Friday, December 30, 2011

No Snow? Let's go hiking!

It was in the 50's so we decided to go up the mountain by our house. Linc loves hiking mainly bc he loves throwing rocks down the mountain to "get the mean animals". I am grateful for all the days we can get before the snow and cold trap us indoors.....

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Good Friends, Cousins and Dinosaurs

We got to spend some time with Smith cousins at "Jump on it". We had so much fun flipping jumping and going crazy!

Sus was in town so we met up with her at the Dinosaur museum. It was great to hang out with her and her kids. I feel so close to her even though we don't see each other very often.
Lincoln could play in that sand and water for many many hours. He LOVED that place.


Sus came over later that week and we took the kids swimming at the rec center. Later that night we tried to catch Julie in Clinton and ended up seeing her for 10 minutes at her house. I love being with my girls! We then went to dinner and talked for hours.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas

Christmas Eve was celebrated in the day so that families could do their own thing at night. We went to Gma's and had waffles, played burn the house down and acted out the nativity.

Lincoln fell asleep during the nativity. I loved having him snuggle, those days are few!






We had a nice evening just our little family. We watched Joy to the world, read a Christmas story and had a yummy dinner. Daddy made ribs and mashed potatoes and some bubbly! The kids opened their PJ's and Batman was in full gear the rest of the night.



We told the kids they couldn't wake us up until 7am and we put a sheet over the door so they couldn't peek. I woke up at 6 and was so excited (and I remembered I forgot something).


Cami, the event planner was here for a few days. We had Cafe Rio, went to movies hung out at Gma's and went bowling.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Week of 12/17

We had to go see Santa, thanks to Dick's we didn't have to go far.

Hayley did a wonderful job at her piano recital. She loves Julia, her teacher and she's learning to love piano.



Lincoln sang with his preschool class at a care center. He loves Miss Staci and tells me often that he thinks she is pretty.

We went to Sizzler this week and Lincoln fell asleep in the car so we had a quiet dinner while he took a nap.