cousins

This is the only picture where Abbie is actually sitting still!

Fall pics

Fall at Grama's

After coming home from Cancun, Abbie and I flew home to Prince George to stay at Grama's house for 2 weeks. All the leaves have fallen and Abbie loves to play in the big pile of leaves. Abbie had trouble wearing pants and socks...she wasn't use to it!

Our View

We just got back from a 2 week vacation in Cancun, Mexico. It was a lot of fun! My parents and my sister came with her family...we had three joining rooms. We pretty much did everything you can do: Chichen Itza, Xcaret, Tulum, Playa Del Carmen, Cozmel, the market, scooters, fishing, and snorkelling. Spencer tried to go deep sea fishing, but it didn't take him long before he was keeled over the boat throwing up his breakfast...they had to make an emergency stop to let him off the boat! Spencer also went scuba diving to Cozmel and said that it was amazing experience. Driving the scooters around was a crazy experience because mexican drivers are nuts! We even got stopped by the mexican police and Richard had to pay them off! One dinner Spencer decided that he wanted to try some authentic mexican food and he ordered something on the menu...he asked the waiter what it was and he couldn't translate, but pointed to the stomach area of a cow?! When we got back to the hotel we googled it and it was cow intestines! Gross. It was a great trip and it really sucked to come home.

Kissing underwater...no kids down here!

swimming underwater

Me...

Tulum

We took the kids to Tulum for the day at it was a big adventure...no paths for the strollers and super hot! We also experienced the worst bathroom that I have ever seen!

Pina Coladas in the pool

Every day we would order pina coladas at the pool side...Abbie loved them!

Thanksgiving

For our thanksgiving dinner we went to Mocambo's, a lobster steak house on the ocean. There was a live band playing and the girls danced.

The "Girls"

The girls and Grama ready to go out for dinner. The girls were dressed up in their matching dresses that we got them in Chichen Itza.

Tulum Beach

We set up camp at a beautiful beach in Tulum...the girls got sand everywhere! Jen tried to read something in the little time that the kids kept themselves occupied. The boys were out snorkelling.

Buliding sandcastles

Abbie and her cousin Faith were inseparatable...after a couple of days not liking the sand, they started to love it.

BOB

Spencer and Richard went under water in these devices...sorta like scuba but not, it was called BOB

Jeep ride to Chichen Itza

Gladiator

Chichen Itza

Forest by ruins

Driving thru a little mexcan city on our huge detour back to our hotel.

Our pool was right on the ocean and it had a gorgeous view.

pool fun

abbie loved the pool...she was fearless jumping right into the pool even if no one was there to catch her.

Dad, Richard, Spence and I spent a day in Xcaret. We went snorkelling thru the underground rivers.

Spencer in some ruins in Xcaret

Sea Turtles in Xcaret

We spent the day at a beautiful beach in Tulum

Abbie climbing a palm tree

Our pool

abbie stealing some pina colada from her daddy. This was thanksgiving, we went for dinner to Mocambo's a steak and lobster house on the beach.

Playa Del Carmen

The marketplace catching the ferry to Cozumel

jen and I on the ferry...the waves were really rough and Jen was freaking out and Spence was grateful he took gravol.

The classic one hand shot taken at the San Fransico Beach club on Cozumel. Jen, Richard, Spence and I took the ferry over for a day trip...it rained so hard when we first got there that we were soaked and all the streets were flooded. But, it was still warm out.

Blow Hole

This was in Cozumel, the waves were crazy that day and the water was spitting out the blow holes.

Family Pic

Smoochey Woochey

A little romance on the family vacation

The whole gang

This was taken at our hotel out front: My Parents, my sister Jen, her husband Richard, their kids Faith and Nathan and us.

What a view!

Sitting on the beach chairs

Beautiful Girl

Playing in the sand

Abbie like playing in the sand but she didn't like sitting in it, so she had to always be on my knee getting sand all over me.

Getting Buried

Jen buried spencer and I in the sand and let Abbie torture us while we couldn't do anything.

Abbie played hard and ate a lot of sand! She had sand in her poo...not that everyone wants to know that.

Family Shot

On our last day on the beach we took a lot of pictures of us on the beach. Abbie loved to walk in the water with us.

Sexy Shot

Spencer was putting the moves on the shower...

Last night in Cancun

On our last night in Cancun we went out to an authentic mexican restaurant called La Hacienda Montero. There was a live mariachi band playing and we enjoyed our last fresh squeezed lemonade, pina coladas, and fresh chips and salsa.