SURPRISE…We’re back!

Well, for obvious reasons I didn’t want to post on the blog that we were going to be out of town for an entire week, but now that we are back I can shout it to the world! We just got back on Saturday from beautiful, sunny, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with my Mom, Jon and the Imboden’s. We had the BEST time!! The fun times and memories are countless!! We left on Saturday, October 17th at 8:00 a.m. via a direct flight on Frontier Airlines (THANK GOODNESS!!) Let’s just say that the highlights of our trip are definitely NOT the flights. Seville and Gracyn are NOT fans of the airplane (I think it is mostly the being confined part), but that is okay because the flight is only a little over 3 hours and it was well worth the awesome time we had the rest of the week. All FOUR girls swam pretty much the ENTIRE week. Whether it was the main “loud” pool with all the activities, the kids pool at the sports center, the ocean or the hot tub on our patio they just swam and swam and swam…and surprisingly got along really well the entire week! I have about 300 pics to go through, so I don’t have any of those to add to this post, but I promise they will come….hopefully this week!! I just want to say thank you to my Mom and Jon for making this trip possible. It is their timeshare that we went to and it is such a great place for families! The resort is called Paradise Village and the website is www.paradisevillage.com. Scott and I have been several times in the past and this was Hadley’s third time, but this was the first time we took Seville and the first time we took friends. It was such a great experience to have our friends and our girls’ friends with us…especially since I grew up as an only child and didn’t get to go on vacations with siblings! I must admit that as we left last Saturday I really didn’t think it was going to be a relaxing trip for me, which was fine since I knew we would have fun anyway, but it actually really was. Not in the same way that I relaxed before having kids, but still relaxing all the same. One flight attendant on the plane going down looked at us all like we were crazy and said that she hoped we had a good time. I told her that relaxing was for retirement and parenthood is about making memories, and that is exactly what we did! Plus, we still managed to squeeze in some relaxation while the kids were sleeping or playing together so I say the trip was a smashing success! I want to share more stories, but I will save for those for the pictures, which I can’t wait to post! Have a great week!