Vacation~Cruise 2016~random pictures

This guy slept like a champ every night. He was worn out! I think he also loved the fact that he was sleeping between Reese and Sam so he felt like he was at home in our bed.

FOOD...

They were so cute taking pictures of the cruise ship from our hotel balcony.

Family Hug Train...

Ah! Relaxing for a minute or two...

The kids loved having so much family around...

They also loved getting their pictures taken every single night. They really took some cute pictures but we didn't buy a single one.

Reese got to spend the night in Leah's room twice during the week. I think she would have done it every night if Leah wasn't staying out later than us.

We loved every minute with these guys! So glad we got to spend time with them all week.

More shirts made by Gigi...

I'm on a boat!

Movie night...Pool night...Pizza night...Kids win!

Vacation~Cruise 2016~Part 4

Thursday we tendered in to Grand Cayman. We walked around this very commercialized area for a little while and then went shopping. We hadn't bought the kids any souvenirs so we decided to buy shirts for everyone that day. We had lunch at Margaritaville with my parents and Leah.

There was a slide at the restaurant that the kids had a blast on. They did this over and over and over.

That night was another formal night so we decided to get some pictures of every one.

After dinner we had to bribe our kids to go to the kids club for a little while. Once we finally got them there, Lance and I hung out with my parents, Becca, Tommy and Leah for a bit playing cards while they waited for a comedy show. We weren't going to be able to stay for the whole show because the kids club was going to close before it was over. So once it was about to start, we went and met Tricia and Nathan in the casino. I played the slots with $10 and lost that about as fast as I could hit the buttons.

Friday was our last day on the boat and it was a day at sea. They had a Cat in the Hat breakfast. You had to make reservations for this so it was just the five of us and my parents. It was pretty cute.

After breakfast we took the kids to the pool for a little while and then sent them to the kids club for a couple of hours while we relaxed with everyone else. We picked them up at 3:00 and then went to play bingo. While we were waiting they did a salsa dancing lesson on the stage and these crazy monkeys were the first ones up there. There were three rounds of Bingo. Sam was saying he didn't feel good so after the second round I took all three boys back to our room to relax and watch a movie. While they watched the movie I started packing up our things. Once bingo was over, Lance, Reese, Tricia, and Nathan came back to our room shouting that Nathan had won the biggest round of the night. I didn't believe them at first but finally realized they were not kidding. And it was not chump change!! I was so bummed we left too early! The boys would have been so excited!

That night we decided to skip dinner in the dining room and just eat pizza. It was Friday of course so pizza and a movie was on my kids radar. Luckily they were showing Zootopia by the pool that night so the kids did a little night swimming and watched a movie at the same time.

Saturday morning we were up bright and early ready to head home. We waited at the airport for a little while and then it was time to board. There were 11 of us from our family on our flight home. Once we were back at our car, it was like nothing had ever happened. Vacation is so funny that way. We were back in our routine and ready to start life back at home again.

Vacation~Cruise 2016~Part 3

Ah! Mahogany Bay, Isla Roatan, Honduras. We woke up on Wednesday morning, pulled back the curtain and I woke everyone up with a shout of how beautiful it was outside of our balcony. These pictures can't even do justice to what we saw that morning. We didn't have any excursions planned this day and we really didn't even know what to expect. We put the kids in their bathing suits but we just put clothes on. 

When we walked off the boat, we walked in to this beautiful shopping area that we didn't even explore. We decided to walk over to this beach area thinking we were going to have to pay to go to the beach but when we made it over we realized it was free.

We saw these trees in Belize the day before and they are called Flamboyant Trees. This one was not nearly as gorgeous as the one we saw in Belize but we had to take a picture with it since we had our camera.

Along the walking path to the beach the kids found this huge hammock to lay in.

We could have ridden this chair lift over to the beach but it was $14 per person and we figured our boots were made for walking. We would have missed some beautiful sites if we hadn't walked.

We ran in to my grandparents and aunt and uncle on our way over to the beach. They had explored earlier than we did and were headed back to the ship.

Leah hung out with us again for a little while.

Let's zoom out of these pictures for a second...the kids weren't quite tall enough so Leah was a good sport and gave them a lift.

This beach was much busier than in Cozumel but the water was still just as beautiful. Once we were out there, Lance decided to go back to the boat and get our swim suits so we could play with the kids.

After playing in the water for a little while, we worked up an appetite and headed in to Fat Tuesdays for lunch.

We had so much fun this day!

I mean...how special...ha!

After lunch we played in the water for a little while longer and then it was back to the boat to get ready for dinner once again.

 I had to try and snap some pictures of our view but like I said earlier...these just don't do it any justice.

Once we were ready for dinner, Tricia and I took the kids to the arcade while the daddy's played in the casino. They could have stayed in there all day.

The kids were wild at dinner every night. Luckily we had a really sweet head waitress, that made heart eyes at them every night. I'm not sure our waiter felt the same way about our kids but Viktoria was so sweet.

That night's show was Family Game Night. There is a show on TV by the same name. It is all Hasbro games that are life-size and families compete while playing these games. Reese had been looking forward to this night for months once we read about it online.

Well, this is how we all felt about it...

Hayes slept through the whole show and we were all shortly behind him.