Cabo - Lazy Days at the Resort

We had so much fun just relaxing at the resort! Every day we would wake up and have breakfast and then either hit to pool or the beach. The kids alternated naps for most of the afternoons, so our days were pretty chill until about 5:00. We occasionally hit up water aerobics at 12:00, and tried to join in "The Lazy Game" every day (which Jason won on our last day there!). We joked we were at adult day camp!

 Both kids loved to swim up to the bar! OK, we all loved the swim up bar. Who are we kidding??

  Lily didn't really love playing IN the pool. She did like playing around the pool with her cups, but mostly she just wanted to hang on the towel, eat snacks, and read books.

Did I mention snacks??

We had some poolside entertainment! "Great white shark, swimming in the waaaaater."

There was a gorgeous beach! Once we turned away all the vendors trying to sell us hats, jewelry, excursions, etc, it was a pretty nice place to hang out. Lily wouldn't actually go near the water after The Big Wave Incident, and she refused to touch the sand. She preferred cuddling with Daddy in the beach chairs.

We did make many trips down to the beach just to visit the horses who staged at the foot of the stairs for horseback rides.

  

Dawn and I enjoyed unlimited access to our children and beautiful light and husbands who can't say no to many many many photographs. :)

Photo credit: Jason!

 This was us every afternoon! It's a rough life.

Lily liked hanging in the hotel room and jumping on the giant king sized bed!

This was right before she left a huge pen streak across the white duvet cover. Oops!

In late afternoon we dressed for dinner. The buffet rotated themes each night, but there were also two restaurants to choose from: an upscale restaurant and an asian fushion.

Love this collage of these two cuties reading a romantic Brown Bear Brown Bear by the fire pit. Also, they are almost exactly a year different in age, but surprisingly not that different in height...

 Lily perfected a cheesy grin for the camera while we were on this trip, highly encouraged by Dawn. Here's collage of the new look! Haha.

 It was so nice to have these long, relaxing days to enjoy being with our kiddos. Lily is so hilarious right now, and learning new things all the time. She learned to say "hola!" to every person we passed, and liked saying "OH YEAH!" with Daddy, just liked the announcer at the pool. She sang songs and told us stories. It was easy to eat with no prep and no clean up, and lots of options that kept everybody happy. We had nothing to do but be on Lily's schedule, and suited us all just fine! It was actually relaxing, not like other vacations where we came home feeling like we needed a vacation to recover from our vacation! Not that Monday wasn't still a rough transistion...

Cabo - Travel Days

We went to Cabo!! We were those crazy Spring Breakers in Mexico, except we had toddlers. It was awesome. I think I need to break this up into a couple of posts, so here is Part 1: Travel Days.

There are mostly iPhone photos.

This was Lily when we went to wake her up at 4 in the morning. We felt bad, except not that bad because she wakes us up every morning.

 She loves riding on the suitcase! Here we are waiting for the shuttle to the airport.

 She was said to see our suitcases go at luggage check, but she was pretty good about riding in her carseat through the airport. We even got to take the train!

 Our airplane!

 

 Lily settled right in with sunglasses and a good book. Lily was a great traveler. We had a layover in SFO, and then she slept from take off to touch down all the way to Cabo!

 Our traveling buddies arrived! Hooray, we are off to Cabo with the Abbotts!

Elliott was very entertained by the window shades. Love this pic (not iPhone, haha).

 Once we landed in Cabo we recovered lost gate check items, rounded up most of our gear (Jason's bag wouldn't appear until the next day), waited 90 minutes or so to get through customs (at least we got actual stamps in our passports!), totally got tricked by the timeshare salesmen that everyone warned us not to get tricked by, and finally we were in Mexico! Luckily, they have a bar right at the curb of the airport. By the time we made it there we needed it!

 And then we made it to our hotel! Melia Cabo Real. First stop: check out the pool and some wildlife. We made it!

Black and Whites

Leaving a friend's birthday party.

Merry-Go-Round in B&W.

KK and Lily swing in the late spring sun. (iphone)

Apparently I'm on a kick.

The Quad is in Bloom!

We spent the morning on the Quad at UW this morning. Today couldn't have been more perfect. 100% bloom, very few fallen petals, perfect weather, and the students are out on Spring Break. Hooray! Plus we got to meet up with some fellow Husky fans who have a little one only a few months older than Lily.

Bonus shot! We took this yesterday after a walk along the river at Lowell Riverside Park. Old school merry-go-round!

Fun at the Arboretum

We braved a tiny break in the rain last Saturday to meet our friend in the Arboretum!

 These two cuties loved the playground!

 We can't stop taking pictures of our kids on these benches. We were in the arboretum almost one year ago exactly with Kristina! And remember these shots that Dawn took for us when Kenley was 1?

 We were so excited to see cherry blossoms! Spring will come eventually! We can't wait for the quad to bloom at UW.

 We got some from fun family shots!

Lily really liked going up and down these stairs...

 ...and in and out of these doors.

It's warm inside!