Happy 4th of July

Celebrating the 4th of July is by far one of my favorite times of the year.  We always kick off the festivities with our annual BT block party.  Something I look forward to all year long.  With all the negative going on in the world, it was so refreshing watching all our kids run around freely, adults mingling and fireworks popping.  Our neighborhood is seriously the place I dreamed of raising kids.  A little slice of heaven! 

More frosting and sprinkles than cookie!

 Mase wasn't too sure about the fireworks this year.  Granted we were directly under them so they were extremely loud!

 Every once in awhile he wanted to take a little peek

 After a few hours of firework popping these dads had quite the mess to sweep up.  They have it down to an art though and had it all swept up in minutes!

 J&H were so close to making it in the bath after a long fun night.  They needed a little rest first!

 The next morning we drove out to Great Grandpa Jack's for a little swimming and lunch

 Mase was lovin the holiday weekend just as much as his momma!

This year was a little different, after two days of celebrating at home we packed up and headed down to Dallas.  We celebrated the 4th and Plano before catching our flights for a mini vacay in Cancun!

Tyler and I snuck out for a quick round of golf!  Shot my first birdie!

We went to the Plano 4th of July parade.  Definitely no Edmond parade but it was still fun for the kids.  Candy and firetrucks is all they need to consider a parade successful!

Family Vacay

Nana celebrated her 60th birthday on June 30th which was the perfect excuse to take a little vacation to Playa Mujeres near Cancun.  I searched and searched for the perfect family all inclusive and I was not disappointed.  The kids had the time of their lives.  Such a perfect family vacation and a much needed break from reality with my favorite littles!  They swam and swam and swam.  Our hotel, the Finest, had the perfect beach, tons of pools and the most fun water park for the kids. 

These first pictures are a little out of order but I had to start with the family beach pics!  Love these.

The kids were the best travelers!  Luckily Cancun is such an easy trip from Dallas! 

Bus ride to the hotel!  Never too early for a cervaza!

 All that traveling made for tired kiddos!

 

 

Cheers to making it to the Finest!  The kids were greeted with juice and we were greeted with champagne!

 They mastered ordering drinks at the bar!

Every hotel room calls for some jumping on the bed!

Beach time!  These kids LOVED the beach.  The salt water didn't bother J&H at all.  They were diving under water collecting shells and snorkeling to see the fish.  They all LOVED sand castle making as well.  That is a Nelson favorite at the beach.

 

 

 

The kids also LOVED the hotel water park.  So fun and it was never very crowded. 

 They made the sweetest friends at the kids club!  So fun watching them build these friendships so quickly.

The hotel had fun activities scheduled throughout the day for kids and adults.  Horseback riding on the beach was definitely the kids favorite!

They also loved the pineapple decorating. 

 Sexy Ross led most of the activities and the kids were so smitten with him!  They couldn't get enough of their Mexican daddy (that is what he called himself :))

 

 

 

 

And icecream anytime of the day!

 

 

In the evening we would drop the kids off at the kids club and they would take the kids to dinner and then the kids had a special theatre with shows geared towards them.  They LOVED it and wanted to go back each night to play with their new friends.  Then we would pick them up for music, dancing and the grown up shows.

 

 

 

We loved our little private pool for swimming while Mase was napping or late night swims when the other pools were closed.  Seriously these kids could not get enough of the water!

Such a fun and perfect 4 days in paradise!  I'm ready to do it again.