Cancun/July 2011 - family pictures

As part of our recent Cancun vacation, every room had $1500 worth in credits that you could use on tours, the spa, golf, beach dinners, & pictures! So we got a lot of family pictures done... within our own little family of 4 and our bigger family of 13!!! Here are some of our favorites!

Our handsome son and beautiful daughter... Oh boy are we are blessed!

Some of us together...
And all 13 of us! Our family keeps growing!

One with just the ladies... big and small

and the 5 grandkids..

with their grandparents.. (I was making funny faces at Vince so he could smile, & he was making them back! Carmen is falling asleep here)

and my parents with their favorite (or loudest) grandchild!

Within our own small family we tried for beach pictures.... it was way to bright and hot that only David and I were able to get a few in... with squinted eyes...

as you can see, we tried to get the kids in some which didn't work at all!!!

Carmen was so hot and fell asleep and Vince couldn't keep his eyes open so someone gave him some big sunglasses!! That is when we took the party inside for pics! At least we tried!

4th of July

For the 4th, we mainly stayed in and packed for our upcoming trip for Cancun... in the evening, we did take the kids to watch fireworks. Vince got bored after 5 minutes and Carmen slept through them... but David and I enjoyed them.


Back at the house we did our own fireworks and sparklers! David's a big kid and loves showing Vince different (harmless) fireworks at home. We did one train/firework that we thought was no big deal and it was very very loud! I wanted to run inside as I thought we were waking up the neighborhood!