Bay is HILARIOUS!

These are a couple iPhone videos from when we were in Mexico at the villa. The faces my child can make are HILARIOUS!





So so funny!

It's all about the Bay!

 My gosh, 10 years old! Hard to believe! I made homemade cinnamon rolls for her birthday breakfast! So yummy!!! (Go try Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon Roll recipe...YUMMERS!)  We didn't have any candles, so we used sparklers! LOL

 Them we made chocolate dipped Oreo cookies for her to take to school the next day. Those things are GOOD too! Very rich though.

 Later that day we went to Red Lobster to celebrate with lunch!

 Mimi and Pa got her a Melody Harp. She really loves this.

 Her birthday party was celebrated the next weekend. It was an ocean theme. I love how it turned out.

 These little birds were made by Jery (with some help by BayLea) using shells we found in Mexico.

 We went to Angelo's to paint pottery first. They worked so hard on their pieces.

 And then home for cake and ice cream! Love the cake.

 Grandma was here for her birthday!

 And so were Mimi and Pa.

 They had cotton candy too...of course. They love that.

Here she is at almost one year old, and at 10! Boy oh boy, what a girl!! Love her very much.

Skiing!

 One beautiful Monday off, I took the kids up skiing for lessons. They got lucky and were the only two in the group. They had a great time, and learned a lot. They are a solid Level III skier, according to Mo, the instructor. They learned to skate backwards, and they learned to ski between the instructors legs, by squatting way down.

 Then the following weekend we all went up skiing. We had a beautiful day. We just paid for the Easy Rider lift tickets, which just takes you on about three easy runs. Jery did VERY well, and I think that skiing finally clicked for him. He fell as he got off the lift a couple times, but after that he became very solid and had a great time.

We all skied too slowly apparently for Breccan because we rarely saw him, except him going up the lift as we skied down, or him going down as we took the lift up!

Mexico -- Puerto Penasco

We had so much fun in Mexico. The drive was a bit long, but the kids get better at dealing with long drives all the time. We enjoy listening to books on CD with them, and even if we don't follow the book closely, they still enjoy it. It seems to work better than movies...which are only an hour and a half long, and then we have to start another one. Plus listening to books is FAR FAR FAR better than watching a movie. We also listened to lots of Stuff You Missed In History Class podcasts. Those are amazing things...high interest subjects, and the kids love it.

 The last pictures on 2013 were taken in Monument Valley on the way towards Mexico. We had to stop on the side of the road and set up the camera and tripod!

 And our first pictures of 2014 were taken in Flagstaff, bright and early on the first day of the New Year!

 I love Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. But I didn't take any pictures of those cool cacti!

 We finally made it to the villa! It's beautiful! Mimi and Pa were excited to see us.

 They made friends right off the bat!

 Yay! The beach!

 The neighbors celebrating the purchasing of a new villa!!

 We went downtown to shop and eat. The kids had a blast down there!

 Breccan took the above photo!

 I love this photo. It's not technically good, but they were sitting there looking at each and visiting and they both were enjoying each other immensely!

 A beautiful sunrise!

 Feeding the seagulls some chips.

 It was warm enough during the day to get a little wet...not full body ocean play, but a little wet! (at least for the kids).

 Our last day there we had to get a few photos with the friends.