Crazy Crawl

I just witnessed McKenna "crawl" for the first time. I thought it was funny and just too cute not to share. Sorry about the poor video quality. But hey, what do you expect from a cell phone!

Alllison is 3!!!

So I know it's a little late, but our big girl turned 3 last month. Side note - before we had McKenna we used to always call Allison 'baby.' But in preparation for having a new baby we told her that she wasn't a baby anymore, she was going to be a big sister and she was a big girl. So now if we slip and call her baby, she corrects us and says, "I'm not a baby, I'm a big girl!" Anyhoo - Because TJ and I were out of town on our cruise, Grandma Cindy took Allison to go see Disney on Ice. She had a blast with Grandma and her "best friend" Anondi. Then when we got back from our vacation we had some cake and ice cream and let her open her presents.

Spitting, I mean blowing out the candles

Wow! Somebody call the fire department

Gee thanks, I love it.

My very own camera! Now I can stop playing with Mommy and Daddy's all the time.

The new Tinkerbell movie, woo hoo!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG GIRL. WE LOVE YOU!!!!

Cruising

Wow! I can't believe it's already been a month since we went on our cruise to Mexico. We had a blast! The weather was 85-90 degrees the days we were in Mexico. We made stops in Cabo, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Unfortunately TJ and I weren't very good about taking our camera out with us so we will have to get some pictures from his 2 cousins that went with us.

Here's TJ shouting AY! AY! AY! while in a tequila shop

The tequila shop was up at the top of the mountains where we did our zip lining tour in Puerto Vallarta. We took a scary bus ride up some winding dirt roads to the top of the mountain and the rode on zip lines several hundred feet above the trees and streams below. The bus ride really was the scariest part because when we passed another car going down the mountain, you could literally put your hand out the window and touch the other car. We also went around bends in the road that left us just a few inches from the edge of the cliff. I was a little nervous for the zip lining, but after the first mini run which they nicknamed "the baby" we had a blast.

In Cabo we went on a sea kayaking tour that was just plain miserable. We got there late and missed all of the instruction so we got a 5 second quickie lesson on how to paddle (seriously, it was really on ly 5 seconds as the tour guide was getting in his kayak to lead the rest of the group) TJ and I got the last available kayak which happened to be a 3 person kayak so it was bigger than anyone else's. That made it a whole lot harder to steer and rather than going in a straight line, we zigzagged from point a to point b. We didn't even get half way to our destination when TJ decided he'd had enough (apparently I was splashing him in the face - oops!) So we ended up getting a tow by the safety boat. TJ and the other 2 guys went snorkling off the island we had kayaked to and then it was time to paddle back. Needless to say, the return trip was not any better.

Overall though, our trip was a ton of fun. In Mazatlan we went in to town and hit a couple of huge flea markets. We both got some fake Oakley sunglasses for $5 a pair. We ate a ton of great food on the ship and did a lot of lounging around. Definitely a fun trip and I would recommend a cruise to anyone looking for a good vacation.