Spring Break Family Vacation

I’ve been feeling the need to spend as much family time together as possible. Time is just flying and my kids refuse to stop growing. What better way than to strand them on a boat in the middle of the ocean for 5 days. 🤣 My teenagers were in heaven eating endless amounts of food and frozen yogurt 24/7. Mason lost his room key card only 3 times this trip 🙄. We enjoyed some beach time, took a water taxi out to the iconic archway at Lands End in Cabo, got some whale watching and dolphin playtime. April LOVED all the shows and basically everything except the food. As predicted she ate hamburger patties, French fries, and ice cream all week. 🤣 One evening at dinner they even ordered gluten free french toast for her. Poor Callie woke up Tuesday morning (her BIRTHDAY!) and ran to puke on the balcony! 😬 Thank goodness for Dramamine. Carnival had amazing service and good kind employees. They did such a great job catering to our picky eating and food intolerances. Something I stress about EVERY time we travel.

Probably my favorite “moment” the whole trip I was laying on the bed waiting for dinner time and Callie fresh out of the shower started doing her hair. The cruise ship hair dryers were kinda terrible. She turned and asked Ron to blow dry her hair. I was pleasantly surprised she didn’t ask me but I just sat back and enjoyed the view. What a beautiful picture/moment. April came and asked for help with her hair right after. I married a good man.  

Callie is 12

I can't believe my Callie girl is 12. She is feisty, hard working, animal loving, kind, thoughtful, smart, athletic, organized, coordinated, adventurous, STILL a daddy's girl and a good friend to all. She loves music. Whenever I can't find her around the house I immediately look out the back door and usually find her swinging with her headphones on and singing to her music. She often listens to youth albums from the church website and I LOVE listening with her in the car because she knows every word. Callie is currently serving as second counselor in the YW 12-14 yr old class. I am so proud of her.

For her birthday party we planned a SPA night. They treated each other to pedicures, facials and we painted rocks. This was a little crazy but really fun. Callie has a really good group of friends and we had a to of fun.