Lemonade Stand

The girls had been bugging me for awhile to please please do a lemonade stand. They had been conspiring with their friends and we finally relented and planned a day to do it. We decided to do it at a park (pretty sure it's not allowed but we decided to go with the "don't know, don't ask" philosophy) since about two people walk in front of our house per day.

They sold lemonade, brownies, rice krispie treats, and cookies. They sold everything for 50 cents and were sold out in about 2 hours. They were super excited and made almost 20 dollars each. They were the best little advertisers and went up to everyone at the park asking them to buy lemonade. They even passed out fliers at school. I was never the type of kid to want to do something like this but they sure had fun. They did it again two weeks later to raise money for their school's Jog-a-thon and were just as successful.

Good job gals!

Mac's first day of Preschool

Mac was really excited to go to school just like Carly and Anna. He has loved it! A good friend of mine and neighbor has a little preschool at her house just a few doors down. Score! It is every mom's dream! Mac needs to go to preschool and Brad is asleep? No problem! I can't even count the number of times I have had to wake up sleeping babies to pick kids up from school. Besides the awesome closeness, the school is amazing. He came home with a disposable camera the other day to take pictures of his family. It is such a great place!

Brad wanted to be in the pictures too!

The First Day of School

The first day of school was September 1. The girls had a great day!

Anna has Ms. Briggs. Soon-to-be Mrs. Bradshaw.

Carly has Mrs. Davis. They were both excited but a little nervous (they wouldn't look at me in the pictures.) I remember not really liking the first day of school so I can totally understand. Here is to a good year gals!

Carly's Birthday - Part 2

When we got back from Cancun we had a little party for Carly. She chose to go bowling and have rice with soy sauce for dinner. What? A birthday dinner is rice with soy sauce? Whatev... When it is your birthday you get to pick. We had a fun night and Carly had a great birthday. Her uncle Brock nicknamed her 'The Monkey' because ever since she was little she has climbed everywhere. So this year we had a monkey cake.

She even got a birthday strike!

Carly with her new doll Kit.

Goodbye Cancun!

Ahh! It was such an amazing week! It went by really fast but it was so incredible. We left much more relaxed and in love. :) A much needed vacation for us.

Love ya hon - till next time!

Paco's Tacos

We ate at this restaurant so many times it deserved it's own post! It was amazing to say the least. My new favorite fish is grouper (never heard of it before this.) These tacos have lightly battered grouper, avocado, cilantro, lettuce, pico, and this incredible honey mustard sauce. I would go back to Cancun just for these tacos. My mouth is watering just thinking about them. The anticipation is killing him!

Oh and the lime just squirted on just before consumption is just the frosting on the cake.

The chips and salsa were pretty good too. Nothing like the tacos but still pretty good. Till next time Paco!

Ek Balam

Our last stop was at Ek Balam. It was a great place to see more ruins because we got to walk up them. I am sure this symbol means 'a total stud muffin.'

With the Petersens at the top of the Temple.

The Cenote

In between ruin sites we stopped at a cenote (a fresh water sink hole in the jungle for swimming - I had to look that up because I wasn't ever really sure what it was.) It was amazing! The perfect way to cool off. Very Tarzan and Jane.

I could only work up the courage to jump off the ledge once but McKay did it a bunch.

Good times!

Chichen Itza

On our last full day in Cancun we headed out to the ruins. We received a great recommendation from McKay's brother to go with Helaman Tours. It was an amazing experience! Nefi was our tour guide and we knew we hit it out of the park when he pulled up with a BYU hat on. We got the full experience when we were pulled over for no apparent reason by three cops trying to get something from Nephi. Luckily he had his papers all in order so there wasn't any thing to ticket him for. Wow.

Here is McKay at the "Ball" field in Chichen Itza. I kept thinking of Quidditch and Harry Potter, except the winners get killed.

It was very impressive and great to hear an LDS view on the ruins.

Our new BFF's the Petersens. They were so fun to hang out with and it was nice to have another LDS couple with us.

Carly's Birthday - Part 1

Since we were in Cancun for Carly's birthday, everyone pitched in and made it an awesome day for her! Rachel decorated the house so cute and she got lots of phone calls and presents. Our awesome friends and neighbors had a little pool party with cupcakes for her and she got to go out to eat at her favorite restaruant - Souplantation - for dinner. We were sad to be gone on her birthday but she was a champ and loved all the attention from everyone else!