St. Patrick's Day Leprechauns

 This year, the kids decided to set traps to catch some leprechauns for St. Patrick's Day. (We've been reading the Fablehaven books and trapping leprechauns happens in the book.) Unfortunately, the leprechauns outsmarted all of their traps. Fortunately, they left them some treasure. 

Pi Day

For the first time we decided to celebrate Pi day (3.14). I made an Oreo pie and everyone loved it! A new tradition is born. 

Grandma Red

Going on our amazing cruises would never be possible without my mom. She willingly comes and spends an entire week with  my kids. They love it so much and I have a feeling she loves it too. I'm so grateful to have such a wonderful mother. 

I had one day to spend with my mom after we got home. I was so glad to get to spend that time with her. 

Cruise Day 7

Day 7 was a day at sea. We spent some time in the morning out on the helicopter pad on the front of the boat. 

We had mentioned that we would love to see dolphins and not minutes later we saw a huge school of dolphins. I pulled my phone out and caught some awesome video. There is a lot of wind noise, but it is just so beautiful to see these animals. 

 We love attending the trivia on the boat and this cruise there was a group of 4 from Minnesota that were always at the table next to us for trivia. We learned they were supposed to have Harry Potter trivia, but had to cancel it for this particular cruise. We asked for their trivia and permission to run it ourselves. Of course, since we were now in charge we made it interesting and the Porters brought out the shocking machine. And of course, that alone wasn't good enough for us and they brought out blindfolds too. So much laughter and so much fun. 

 We never even knew our trivia friend's names. We always just called them "Minnesota". I tied as winner of trivia with one of our Minnesota friends. Accio, gold medal!

Such great fun and such great memories with the very best of friends. Two years is gonna seem like a long time until we get to do it again!

Cruise Day 6

Cruise Day 6 was spent in Cozumel. Ken and I were so excited to tour Chichen Itza. It was a long bus ride to get there and we only had a couple hours once we arrived, but it was well worth it. Such an amazing place. We wished we had days to spend there instead of hours. We both hope to one day get to return and spend some more time enjoying such a wonderful and historically rich place. 

 The stadium was SO fascinating to me. I loved hearing about the games they played and seeing all the symbolism in the art. They told us that the winning team's captain was beheaded, that's one sport I'd hate to make the team!

 The wall of skulls was, of course, one of our favorite sites. And the King Henry Maintenance Massacre tattoo fit right in. 

 After we got off the bus we had to hurry back to the cruise ship. Our bus had been running very late, but luckily we booked through the cruise ship so they had to wait for us. At one point we passed this wall that had cut glass on top and we couldn't help ourselves, we had to take a picture with our tattoo of the day. The other bus passengers thought we were insane....maybe we are. 

 Later that night we had to get a group tattoo picture, Greg's belly button tattoo definitely steals the show.