Cancun

In July (2011) we took a big week long family vacation to Cancun, Mexico for my cousin's wedding. My whole family went, including sisters & their families, as well as several extended family members. It was a great trip and we stayed at the Cancun Palace, a wonderful all inclusive resort.

View from our room... where we had room service breakfast on the patio almost every morning we were there... Vince got the hang of room service... he would tell us to call the man to bring us food!!

Baby Carmen was a little over 3.5 months old for this trip. She was a trooper and hung out at the pool with us...

(i'm pretty sure we spiked her hair on purpose :)

But her and big brother Vince took their share of naps by the pool!! In the picture below, Vince is asleep with David, Carmen next to them is also asleep, as is my niece Myca in the pink!

We did a fair share of hanging out at the pool... well, at the pool bar...

We did, however, do an excursion to the Mayan ruins in Tulum.

Vince came along but Carmen stayed back at the hotel with Grandma & Grandpa. Vince loved the iguanas, or Anacondas as he called them. He's very into Diego right now, so he was in to the jungle scene.

more pics of the ruins...

it was on a beautiful cliff that overlooked a beach..

Vince and his favorite cousins there...

Vince, aka "Chente!"

The actual wedding and rehearsal dinners were wonderful as well. Unfortunately it rained on the wedding day so it had to be moved indoors.. but that didn't stop the fireworks at the wedding!!!

More pics from the rehearsal/welcome dinner that was on a terrace...

Love how Carmen and Myca are looking at each other!

And some more misc pics...

At the pool bar...

Us at the wedding ceremony..

Selena and I parasailing in a bench with no seatbelt! She kept telling me that if we fell, the impact would kill us. Talk about a relaxing adventure!

and last but not least, Carmen with her Tia and Tio...

Very fun vacation. When we got home, we were ready to go right back. Until next year... Punta Cana??

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!

FTW Children's Museum

We headed to the Fort Worth Museum today and had a bunch of fun learning about Dinosaurs, checking out a 4D movie about the earth, and playing playing and playing in the Children's Museum and various learning centers...

I think David had just as much fun :)

Carmen even had a great time looking at lights and shapes everywhere! Here we are in a kalidescope room!

and Vince loved this little contraption where you put little cone cups in a wind tunnel and watch it fly!

We look forward to many more trips here as we didn't see half of what's there!

Carmen - 2 Months old

Carmen is just about 2 and a half months old. She is growing up and filling out fast. She still has her crazy hair and a lot of it. It's really crazy after a bath. And her hair is the first thing that's always commented on by strangers.

By 2 months, she is able to hold her head up on her own while we are holding her. Although, she moves a lot. She reminds me of either a bobble head or one of those Hawaiian dancers that can be seen on the dashboard of a car. She likes to kick her legs a lot and she loves loves her pacifiers. She coos and smiles at us too. Overall, she is a great, wonderful baby. Rarely crys except for normal things like hunger & tiredness. She is doing much better sleeping at night, normally doing 6 hours which is awesome since Vince didn't reach that milestone until probably 7 or 8 months old! She is very content being left alone and staring at fans and lights. She smiles at the air and is just so very lovable.

Here she is at exactly 2 months old - 5/23/11.

(these are all cell phone pics, not the best quality).

And us during her first swim at Tia Jess's house 6/4/11...

and some more misc from the last couple weeks...

wearing red, white, and blue for Memorial Day..

the next 2 were at 7 weeks old...

One month old cutie

Baby girl Carmen is one month old. She changes everyday and is as sweet as can be. She's such a good baby. She rarely cries. Instead when she's upset, she wimpers like a puppy. This month has really flown by! At one month old, she weighs a whopping 10 pounds! That's 2 pounds more than she was born!

a 1st Easter & Baptisms

Baby Carmen and cousin Baby Myca met for the first time recently. They are 3 months and about 3 pounds apart. This is their first photo together!!

Myca and big brother W were baptised at church on Easter Sunday. David and I are the proud godparents of Mr. W!

But this little one was the star of the show!

While we were dressed in our Easter best, we took a family photo!!

Little girl Carmen slept all day since she was being held by several family members!

She had a costume change midday to show off her clothes.

Grandma had a great time being with both granddaughters...

And Vince had a wonderful time cracking cascarones on our heads! It took him about 5 tries of banging against our heads before they broke but he did it!!

We wish every weekend was a holiday as we had so much fun hanging out with family that came up from Laredo, Selena & fam that came in from STL, and our in town family :).