Sarah and I

When we first got to SD I stopped in Sioux Falls to stay the night with one of my BFF’s..we go way way back….summer of seven gradeLike I said way back but we just wont state how old I am now!!!hehe!! Do any of you have friends where you can go days, even months with out seeing or talking to each other then when you get on the phone you can pick right back up where you left off!!!  That is exactly how it is between us...life gets crazy for both of us and months can go by where we don’t talk but when we call and actually get some time to talk to each other over my screaming kids or hers…its like no time has gone on between us..its like we just seen each other yesterday!!!
{Sarah I know you are going to just love me for putting this picture on here but that’s all I got}

She has a daughter Janai that is the same age as Destiny..all the older girls had a blast playing together!!

The sleepover..I know don’t they look enthused but I think they had fun!!!

She also has a little girl Jude, that is a couple of months older then the twins..I was really nervous as to how I would feel being around her bc I was worried I would be reminded of the baby that I lost bc I would have had the baby the same time around when Jude was born..but I was really ok…I did think about it a little bit but I am at peace with it and my baby will be waiting for me when I get to heaven until then it is safe in the arms of Jesus!  Isnt Jude a little cutie!!! Love her curly hair!!!! She also has a son, Noah that is four but for some reason I have no pictures of him…hmmm!!!!

We decided we would take the kids to the pool…they had a great time..me on the other hand well I was ready to loose my marbles!!  It didn’t go over very well…I had TWO one-half year olds that didn’t have a long nap at all..then to top it off they hate water..so they pretty much stayed on the chair eating chips the whole time… Check out the swimsuit that Avery is wearing..u have to scroll down a little….that swimsuit gave me a headache..it turned into this big thing that really didn’t need to be..You see when we first got to the pool I asked the lifeguard at the front if she could wear this swimsuit and they said since the arm bands were attached to the swimsuit it was ok..so I was standing by a little waterslide waiting for Avery to go down and the lifeguard asks the other lifeguard if they were attached and she said that they were and it was ok..then she walks over to him and says its ok bc she also has down syndrome too.. so at this point right away I ask the lifeguard if it was ok bc it is NOT a big deal I can go and change her swimsuit into a regular one..{I just would rather have her wear this one for obvious reasons bc she is safe with the armbands and the vest around her too…}but he told me that it was ok..so I then went to go sit down with the twins and Brielle was playing around with Avery in the pool.  Pretty soon I see Brielle and Avery coming to me and Brielle says that I have to change Avery bc she cant have that swimsuit on so I go ask the same lifeguard that told me she was ok bc she is standing right in front of me  and she says that the head lifeguard said that it was ok that she wore that swimsuit…so I have to go find the head lifeguard and talk with her..she tells me that she will tell all the lifeguards that it is ok bc under the circumstances it is fine..they usually require a dr.s not but it is fine this time..really????!!!  I could just go change her its not that big of a deal..but she said they would rather have her wear the swimsuit…urghhh….so then I tell the girls to go play with Avery and of course they don’t want to bc they are scared they are going to get yelled at by the lifeguard…So I feel like the entire pool has focused there attention on me, my two crying babies…and Avery bc everyone knows that she has down syndrome and gets to where that swimsuit bc of it.

Ok so this isnt the best picture of them but then the other one wasn’t any better either..so I just picked one…

Destiny going down the waterslide..it took her all day to work up the nerve to go down and then she still wasn’t sure she liked it but then after going down it a couple times she started to like it…

Avery loved going down the slide..she kept going down over and over and over again!!!!

Me with my girls!!!!

Thanks Sarah for a great time in Sioux Falls!!!  WE all had a blast!!!!

Instafriday

joining jeannett at life.rearranged again, linking up my week in review, thanks for iphone pics and instagram!
Here are pictures from our road trip to South Dakota...
We seen a couple of hot air balloons in the sky and the girls thought it was so cool!!!



Getting ready to drive through a mountain...a tunnel




A stop at a rest area to stretch our legs




Our candy stash...a necessity..lol!!!


St Louis arch


Avery being entertained by Signing time!!! (where she has learned all of her signs from)



A necessity when u travel that far with five kids!!!:)


Ahh sleeping babies..very nice


We found this neat little park to stop at and have a picnic there and just stretch our legs







The girls feed there left over fries to the geese



Check all the goose poop on the concrete it was everywhere I couldn't believe it


The girls collected feathers so they could write in ink with them


Our destination:)) we made it!!! Wooohoooo!!!!

Where I've been...

Sorry I haven't posted in a long time but I took a long road trip to SD with my girls to go see family....I packed us all up and headed out for a very long twenty two hour drive...with no hubby bc he had to stay back and work



So we just got back home this week so Im trying to unwind/ unpack all that fun stuff...yuck!! I think that is always the worst part of vacationing is coming home...
We all had a AWESOME time and I'm really glad that we went...so look for pictures to come:)))

Our trip to Cancun!!!

Ok so I am finally getting around to posting our pictures from our trip but it has been pretty crazy around here lately..so sorry it has taken me so long to get them up…Our trip was pretty eventful to say the least…We left on a Thursday and we left our airport early we ended up taking off from our airport about two ours later so when we arrived at Atlanta we had ten minutes to get to our flight so we ran  flew across that airport as fast as we possibly could…{note to self I need to get into shape} So when we arrived at the gate it was 7:00..and guess what time the flight left..7:00 but do you think they let us on the plane {even thought it was still sitting at the gate bc we could see it…} NOPE they had already closed the cabin door ten minutes ago…WHAT??!!!! and guess what the next flight they could book us on was the next day at noon… I was livid…well that is kind of a understatement…Just my luck would have it..of course things couldn’t go smoothly for us…why would they ever??!!!  So then it starts down pooring and you cant even see out the airport windows..{our luggage was outside in this too just an important tidbit more to come about that later in the story!!!} so they tell us since the plane was delayed due to weather they cant reimburse us for the motel. So it was up to us to find a motel for the night..ummm hello that was an adventure just in that..we couldn’t even find the way out of the airport..we were both frustrated and really bummed..so we go out the airport to find the hotel shuttles where you have about thirty different pictures to look at and judge which motel you would like to stay at..We picked what we thought looked like a really nice motel…HA!! Let me just say that pictures are sooooooooooooo misleading!!!!!!!!  THe motel we ended up at was the crappiest motel ever..they didn’t even have continental breakfast..This was the view from our room…Isnt it lovely??? All night we heard planes taking off and landing..it was so loud and to top it of Atlanta had some major storms that night and it thundered and lightened all night and even rattled our room a few occasions..and apparently the switch board phone must of got struck by lightening bc our phone rang at four o’clock in the morning.. and then again at eight o’clock in the morning at which I finally called down to the office to ask them what was up with the phone calls and that’s what they told me that they were having a few glitches in the phones…lovely!!!! So since the motel was so nice to give us a wake up call at eight we figured we might as well get ready {pretty much put the same clothes back on and finger comb through the hair and  finger brush our teeth} and head to the airport where we would have better luck finding some breakfast..so that is what we did..
The guy last night that booked us on our flights told us that there was going to be two flights before us and right now they were booked full but we could come to the gate early and try to get on stand by! So since we were at the airport early we decided to give it a try..the first flight we got at the gate right as we were getting ready to leave and she said it was full so we asked her about the next flight and she told us it was full too…so we were going to find a starbucks or something and Jared thought we should walk down to that other gate that the next flight was leaving from and see if there were any open seats so that is what we did..we walked up to the desk and asked if we could get on this flight stand by and the lady said sure thing not a problem at all!!!!  Um hello???? I was glad Jared had that idea  so it put us on an earlier flight to Cancun..and she said that our luggage wont be on the flight but it will most likely be on the flight that we were supposed to be on..I said that was fine!! So  we land in Cancun and make it through immigration line and all that good stuff and then we have to go file a claim with our luggage bc of course its not there…the guy told us our luggage was not going to come until the seven o’clock flight and so it would get there around nine and then they would deliver it to our resort around ten or eleven…of course it is!!!  So when we got to your resort we went to the shop there and bought ourselves a swimsuit each and sunblock..wanna know how much it was????  $1850 pesos..around $160 US dollars..our sunblock alone was $30!!!!!  I so did not want to get any of it..but we would of wasted the whole day pretty much doing nothing at the resort and since we were only there for a few days I figured we better!! We stayed at the Omni Resort…it was so nice..I would totally recommend it to anyone..the food was awesome..the service was awesome…this was the view from our room…

They had three pools you could sit by..and you never had to worry about finding a chair there was always plenty of chairs which was nice..

This was our room…it has a nice little balcony too… {if you were wondering why the double beds well it was an extra $50 dollars a night just for a king bed and well im kind of cheap like that and didn’t think it was necessary..good thing my hubby is kind of cheap too bc he said dbl beds are just fine!!}

This is the view of our resort from the ocean…


This bird is a mexican bird..they were so fun to watch and they are so smart and very tricky…they would watch the waiter take the plate to the dirty pan and then sneak in and get some food from it..and they were constantly shooing them away but they were everywhere…one came right in and stole my pineapple from my drink while I was laying in chair..little stinker!!!

You will have to forgive me in my undershirt..I spilled on my tank top..I suppose that would happen after wearing it two days in a row and I didn’t have anything to change into…

So we did finally get our luggage..it was Friday night  Saturday morning at three in the morning the concerge desk calls our room to tell us our luggage got there..so they delivered it right away..and I just kind of plopped it on the bed and went back to bed..well then the next morning I went to open our luggage and it was all wet!!  Yes EVERYTHING and it STUNK!!!  That wet musty smell from when you leave your clothes in the wash machine to long..that is what they smelled like..a few things were even moldy!!  It was from when they left our luggage out in the rain at the airport..that is the only thing we can figure out..so anyways.. I asked what they could do but since everything is washable they wont reimburse us for anything!!!  Just lovely..really??!!
We spent a lot of our time just relaxing by the ocean or the pool..the ocean it was everything I hoped it would be…ha!!  It was blue blue water and white sandy beaches!!!! 

 
We actually went parasailing one day too but I am going to put that on a different post…so look for that to come I would say soon but Im not sure how long it will be…lol!
We got our pictures done our last night we were there and I just seen them for the first time the other day and they were some that actually turned out really nice..it is so hard to get Jared to smile at all for a camera so I am so thrilled that we got some of him smiling..but after we snappped a few of us in front of the ocean I just wish we could of got some of us together on my camera too.


We had so much fun on our much needed getaway…Its kind of like you don’t really know how much you need it until you actually do it...Sometimes  you just need that time as a couple ..and we have not had that time in a very long time. It has been one thing after another medically with Avery lately and then I had the twin pregnancy  where I was pretty much on the couch most of the time and very uncomfortable {I'm sure my hubby don’t want to go back into time and relive that…lol!!!} and then the twins came and we haven't had a breather since anybody with twins knows exactly what I am talking about!!! I would have been happy with just a quick little getaway to Myrtle Beach or somewhere close but everything just kind of fell into place and everything worked out so we could splurge a little on us!! We have never been to Cancun and we had stopped off at Cozumel on a cruise many, many years ago and we both really like Cozumel so we decided to give Cancun a whirl…we had heard that some people have not enjoyed there trip to Cancun but I think we can both say that we truly both enjoyed Cancun…
So good-bye to Cancun for now..who knows maybe we will be back but then we kind of like to go to new places instead of going back to what we know is good:0..we are just kind of like that!!!