Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Back in the swing of things...

The week after our cruise was spent the normal way...school, soccer, playing, with a little "sickness" thrown in for good measure!
The most "pinteresty" her lunches get!  lol!
On Tuesday Ryne woke up not feeling great and actually threw up.  So, I obviously kept her home and she was fine all day!  I don't know if something just didn't sit well on her tummy or what...but I did enjoy the snuggle time and having both my girls home for a relaxing day.  We did lots of reading on the patio!

The rest of the week was back to normal with playtime...




Soccer game...



love our little all star!
And lunch with Ryne!

Friday night we met Pops and GranJan for dinner at a yummy barbecue place.  After dinner we were talking outside the car with the girls inside and this happened...


Silliness!
Saturday was another soccer game!
And Saturday night Ryne and I had a mommy and Ryne night!  We went to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2...it was cute!
Of course my sweet girl held the door open for every last movie goer!
Sunday was church...

and a lovely afternoon walk!


I love our "normal"!  :)

32 random acts of kindness...

To carry on the tradition started last year...this birthday was spent doing a random act of kindness for every year I've been born.  32 - yikes!  I have seriously always hated my birthday, not sure why...maybe therapy would help!  ;)  But this makes it fun and takes the focus off of getting another year older!  ha!  The day wasn't planned as well due to us getting back from the cruise the day before, but it still worked.  Here is a run down of our day with a some pictures of some RAKs.  I wasn't the best at remembering to snap a picture!

After dropping Reese off at school we made a donut run and grabbed 3 dozen mixed donuts for the police department, fire station, and Ryne and Reese's pediatrician.

While at the pediatrician's office, Reese played a little!
Then we went to lunch at Chili's because they were donating ALL their profits of the day to St. Jude.  How perfect is that?!
While there we did another RAK and left a 100% tip for our sweet waitress.

Next we ran inside a couple stores to leave some emergency diaper/wipe baggies.  Am I the only mom who has gone to change a diaper and realize I'm out of diapers?!  We also put change on vending machines.
Then we headed home for Reese to nap.  While she napped I put together stuff for the rest of the day like a treat bag for our USPS lady...
I also got online to donate to 3 sweet friend's awesome causes.  
Team Isabelle
Dura's mission trip
Chapman's adoption auction.

On our way to pick up Ryne we grabbed a sonic drink for her teacher and I paid for the car behind us.  After we got Ryne, I let her hand out treats to any other teachers/coaches outside the school as well as the crossing guard.

Then we headed to Starbucks...I treated myself to a pumpkin spice latte (it is my birthday after all!  lol!) and while there paid for the car behind and picked up some gift cards.
We had left over treat bags so Ryne handed them out to the Starbuck's people!
Then we drove our neighborhood and handed out bottles of water to the construction workers.

Then it was home to get ready for soccer practice.  While there we baked up some muffins and Ryne delivered them to our neighbors.

ring and dash!
Then we took some to a sweet couple that just had a baby in our Life group.
Then I met someone who was buying something from me on the Forney Exchange and just gave it to her.  It was a really cute outfit...one of my favorites so I should get bonus points for that right?!
After practice we dropped off some snacks for a red box renter...
When we got home I got some cards ready to mail...
And finished up some Chemo bags to be dropped off later in the week.
A couple others to round out 32 that I didn't get any pictures of were handing out a ready to be used loyalty card (we love sweet frog), leaving stamps at the post office, $1's in the dollar section of Wal-Mart, returned run-away buggies at Wal-Mart, we left goody bags at the park, and left a scratch off lotto ticket for someone on the gas pump.

It was a very busy but fun day!

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Heading home!

The rest of our cruise was spent on board.  We were so ready to see our girls but we still made the most of the rest of our cruise.  On our last night we had to take pics with some of our favorite peeps.  
Jessie!  He was pretty much a rock star!
Both of these guys are totally at fault for making me gain like 5 lbs!  ha!
Jeremy ran into one of the comedians the last night.  Just June was so funny!
The next morning we were up bright and early and ready to see our girls!  They were pretty excited to see us too!  Reese was asleep when we got home (we made awesome time and were home around 2pm!) but Ryne just hugged me and laid on me and just kept saying she was so glad I was home!  When Reese woke up she was super lovey and I soaked up every second!  We decided that a trip to CEC was in order to celebrate our homecoming.






Jeremy and I had a great trip...but there really is no where like home!

Best stop ever!!

Our last stop was Cozumel.  We have been to Cozumel before but this was such a fun stop!  We started the day super early, which was great because I got to see this...

Once we walked off the ship we got right on a ferry.  Big boats don't make me sick...I may walk into walls, but I don't get sick.  Little ferries are a whole other story!  I could not wait to get off of this 40 minute ride!
Then we got on a bus to go down this bumpy dirt road...
I was SO happy to make it to where we were going and get out in the fresh air!  We stripped down to our swimsuits for a super cold shower before putting on out wet suits, helmets, and shoes.  Then we made a little hike to the cave.
Before we could go in the cave we had to be blessed so we could withstand the gods of the underworld!!
The cave was absolutely breathe taking!  I can't even describe how beautiful it is.  Things like this make it so very obvious that we have a very mighty God who loves us so much that he creates gorgeous things like this!

There were parts that we were walking on dry ground, parts that we were wading, and parts were we were swimming and couldn't even touch the bottom.  Amazing!















After spending close to 2 hours in the cave we made our way out and back down to where we started.  They had lunch set up for everyone to eat before heading back.
our awesome photographer who claims he has never dropped his camera in the water.  :)
our awesome guide who made the day so fun!
We had only a few minutes to walk around before we had to head back to the boat...but we were able to fit in some shopping!

not too shabby for a little point and click!
After getting back on the boat we got ready for another fun dinner and night at the comedy club!  Nyoman was there too...did I already say he was awesome?!