V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!

This week has been absolutely crazy but I finally got around to downloading our vacation pics.  First off I should say that we are apparently not big on recording family memories.  Any time we were really anywhere doing something fun we didn't have the camera.  Like when the boys played with friends and got to feed a giraffe and elephant.  And even just played at the play ground.  Thankfully we got a few good beach and pool shots and attempted some family shots.  Not sure we will ever get one with everyone looking, but we tried.

The view from our room.  Out beyond this was the beach.

Over to the left of the pool was a play ground.  The boys loved it!

The imposing storm on the horizon.  We had a tropical storm later that night--like all through the night--but thankfully by the next morning it was all gone and the sun came out.  I had left our wet beach things out on the balcony.  They didn't dry.  Also, they didn't blow away.  Which is good.

The boys got to build a small sand castle.  I didn't get many pictures cause I was wrestling a very cranky Judah at the time.

A very happy Kirby LOVED the pool time each day!

Bennett too!  He didn't understand why we couldn't live at the hotel, and therefore have a pool in our yard,  forever.

The pool waterfall was really fun. 

And what we loved best of all was that the boys got good an worn out each day.

I desperately wanted to get some good shots of the boys.  This was the result most times.  Goofy faces.

This was the best one.  I don't know why I thought we could get a good shot of a 5, 3 and 1 year old all at the same time.  Sometimes I lose reality.

And even though I really hate full shots of myself, I knew I would want to remember our family from this trip.  So this is our best family shot.  4 out of 5 looking in the general direction of the camera is not too shabby if you ask me.

Next time maybe we should take a professional photographer.  Kari?  Lora?  Anyone interested?  Anyway, we had a nice time.  We learned many things on this vacation, like relaxing is impossible with small children and 5 people crammed into a hotel room.  And it will be soon that we won't be able to all fit in one hotel room.  Stan and I did each get some time on our own to relax (mine was an hour and a half massage, can we say oh yeah?).  Next time we might try teaming up with another family so Stan and I could get a date night--although I should note that some friends that live there offered to watch the boys one night but we really wanted to hang out with them since they live far away and we don't see them often.  It was wonderful to get away and hard to come back knowing we were jumping right into a busy September.  More on that later.

Is it too soon to already start planning our next vacation?