Simply Cindy

We made a trip to Florida last week to visit Dan’s family and to celebrate his birthday in a special way (more on that later). Many hours spent in the car means, among many other things, stops for Happy Meals. The boys received some sort of Ice Age toy. After a little while I hear such a manly voice from the backseat. It gave me a good giggle. There are just some things born in a boy, I suppose.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

I could not have asked for a better Daddy for my children!

Happy Father’s Day, Dan!! We love you!!!!

Thought I would share a few confessions today. No judging allowed! 

• I always seem to get sucked into this show.

  
  I don’t know what it is. I was never a 90210 fan, but for some crazy reason I enjoy this show.

   

• I say crap entirely too much. The other day D3 was getting out the car and totally fell out the car and said “Oh, crap!” It’s become clear to me that I need to stop, because he said it again yesterday when he fell off of his bike. It sounds really bad coming out of a 6 year old mouth, so I guess this 31 year old should nix the word from the vocabulary.
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• I have been having an allergy problem or something with my eye and my contacts feel like splinters in my eye. It is really driving me crazy. Well, someone who will not be named- but he is 2 and lives in my house- broke my glasses a while back and I haven’t gotten them fixed. So, out of desperation yesterday I taped the arm back on my glasses until I can get them to the eye doctor to get fixed. I have only been wearing them around the house- no worries. J
  
  And I may or may not have run to the mailbox real quick with them on earlier and our new neighbor may or may not have stopped me in the yard to talk while I looked like someone off of Revenge of the Nerds.
• The corner of our den looks like this
  

  And the breakfast nook looks like this
  
  Yet I’m writing a silly blog post. J Guess I should go finish unpacking…. Does it ever end?!

*pic courtesy of flickr

It seems like an eternity since we went our cruise! Life has been so crazy since we got back- hence the lack of posts or words when I do post! We’ve closed on our house, painted several rooms, moved all of our stuff in and have been unpacking lots of boxes, D3 started t-ball, Dan got commissioned as a Probationary Elder… and that is only the major stuff. 

After we found out D3 was okay (that story is here), we were able to relax and had an awesome cruise. It might not have been an exciting vacation for some, but for us- right now- it was perfect. Lots of sleeping and doing what we wanted when we wanted.

Our first and favorite stop was Key West. It is so pretty there and has such a cool vibe. We walked down to the southernmost point and browsed shops the whole way down and back.

We had the camera on some sort of funky setting when we took the pic of the southernmost point, but I had to include it. We tried some awesome Key Lime Pie for lunch. We were still full from breakfast- you never go hungry on a cruise! We walked around and enjoyed ourselves, but we were ready to head back here:

We loved our little “date nights” each night. Getting dressed up, eating a fancy dinner and then going to a show. I have no pictures to prove this, though. Can you believe that?!?! Not the first picture of us together.

Day 3 we went to Cozumel, Mexico. It was c-r-aaaa-zy. We were the first ship back to Cozumel since the swine flu pandemic. They went all out. There were dancers and guy juggling machetes, a mariachi band and the president of Mexico came out. There was a ton of media out as well. Here are some pics from our room.

We took a taxi down to the shops to look around and I honestly didn’t enjoy that very much. There were people standing in every store yelling at us to come in and offering us free things. I just really don’t like that sort of thing. It didn’t bother Dan, but I got my fill pretty quickly. I did hunt down the Del Sol store to get the kids t-shirts. The shirts are black and white and change to color when out in the sun. D3 loved his.

The next couple of days were spent in Belize and then cruising. I’ll recap those later… try not to hold your breath for those. I’m going to enjoy reading these recaps in the future, it was such a fun time and totally out of our typical day.

Off to unpack more boxes…

*Little people on a mission….

*Little Elmo underwear peaking over little madras….

*Dirty little flip flop toes….

*Yummy Frostys….

*Little (extremely messy!) icecream smiles….

We’ve been crazy busy this past week!  Here is just a glimpse of the week through pictures:

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*courtesy of google images
**courtesy of awfumc.org

We’re back!! We had an awesome time on our cruise. We wanted a really restful vacation after Dan’s 3 years in seminary and we got it. We slept in each morning and took naps each afternoons- two things you don’t always get to do with little ones at home. It was a great trip and started out with some drama.

D3 started getting a headache as we were about to leave last Sunday. Then he started screaming with it and crying and was really having a heck of a time. We were all convinced he had a migraine (and I was convinced it was stressed induced, because he was somewhat stressing himself about the trip). He was sensitive to light, so he wore his sunglasses and got into the car with Nana and Papa and headed to the lake while Dan and I got in the car and headed to Atlanta. I thought D3 would start feeling better after Motrin and a nap. Well, he took a nap in the car and then threw up a couple of times. They all made it to the lake where D3 went to play with his little friend and then went inside and voluntarily took a nap. Well, in his little world that’s not good. He’s not a napper. My parents let him nap and then gave him more Motrin and he ended up throwing up a couple more times. All the while not taking off his sunglasses, because they were somewhat helping his headache.

So, Dan and I were in Atlanta because we were flying out the next morning and we were worried about our boy and wondering if we would make it to the cruise or not. We decided to go ahead and fly to Ft. Lauderdale and call my parents when we got there to see how D3 was doing.

So, we landed in Ft. Lauderdale about 8:00 am central and call my parents. They were on their way to the Urgent Care, because D3 woke up and still had a headache (and was still in the sunglasses, by the way L). So, while we sat and waited on the bus to take us to the ship (we had a two hour wait) we waited to hear how D3 was doing. At this point I was still not convinced that I was going on a cruise. We finally get a call from my mom as we were about to board the bus to head to the boat. D3 was starting to feel better and he had mono. Evidently stomach aches (which he had) and headaches are symptoms and there is not much that you can do for it. He was to rest (ha!) and drink plenty of liquids and no horseplay.

As we were boarding the boat, I found out that he actually took his sunglasses off (after wearing them for almost 24 hours) and was eating a big lunch and playing. This made me feel so much better that I was off on vacation while my poor kid was sick back home. I knew my parents were taking good care of him, but I still couldn’t get over that fact that we finally decided to take a big vacation away from the kids and D3 gets sicker than he has probably ever been.

I’m so thankful that he started feeling better so quickly and we were able to talk to him before we set out on the cruise. I was finally able to relax and get excited about the fact that I was going to be on a cruise for 5 days!!

While the boys were having an awesome time.

But more on all that later…

One:  So, first of all- Kris won American Idol. Woot! Adam is super talented and I think he will do well, but I loved Kris’ humble ways and his music style. I love that the first thing he said was he thought Adam should have won.
My fav. song that he did:

Two:  D3 graduated Kindergarten. Maybe I should have listed this first… you can see where my mind is- ha! He had a great time singing his songs (he is such a performer!). He chose Logan’s for lunch after the ceremony and when we got there he informed the waitress that he had just graduated Kindergarten. He is so shy after all. She thought that was great, so he got a free dessert. The kid knows how to work it.

 

Now he’s on summer break, so let’s all pray for a summer with more getting along and having fun than ‘he’s touching me! He’s in my room!’

Three:  We are up to our eyeballs in packing! We’re packing for both our cruise not far away now! —–>

And for our move. We close the Monday after we get back! So, needless to say, our house looks like a hurricane has hit. I hate the disheveled look of a house when you’re moving. There is random stuff everywhere. But, we are super excited about our summer of big events!