Thanksgiving this year we spent with Anthony's mother and our dear friends the Liberatores. Since we have no family close we have made our friends family. In the sense we spend holidays and special events with friends. Of course if our parents had the time and money to come spend every special occasion with us they would. Life just doesn't work that way for most of us. Grandma Hoffman flew in and celebrated my birthday with us and Thanksgiving. I had a picture of the birthday celebration, but it got deleted. Sorry.
The Saturday after thanksgiving Anthony and I kissed the kids and Grandma good bye and headed off to Mexico. Anthony had winter meeting with the company. Since we all had to travel to meet. We met in Mexico. Brilliant idea in my opinion. First time I have ever left my babies. And yes it was hard, but got over it the second I spotted the beach. Thankfully we have great friends that watched them the whole week after Grandma left. Knowing my kids were with people I trusted made it easy to let go. The trip was amazing! I went to the spa twice! Laid out in the sun almost everyday and ate great food. Plus we saw all the great friends we have made in the company. Including my friend Tonia. She made the first year living in Arkansas with no family bearable.
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| Arianna at Brendon's Preschool Feast. |
Thanksgiving with the Liberatores
WHY I NEEDED A VACATION!!
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| Found the bathroom and arianna like this after a shower. Yeah that was fun. |
Our Hotel Room in Mexico
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| View from our room. Yes, that is the Ocean. |
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| Private pool on our balcony. |
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| The First day we spent in Mexico was Sunday. We got the opportunity to find a LDS Church near by and attend Sacrament meeting. |
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| Anthony trying on the nacho libre masks. |
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| Amazing Sand Art. |
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| dinner with the Garner |
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| Beautiful Sunset on the Boardwalk. |
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| fun friend that hung out by the pool at the resort. |
Scuba Diving
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| Christmas Tree outside our hotel |
One of the nights most of us on the trip went on a Rhythm of the Excursion. First we took an hour boat ride to an island. Had dinner and enjoyed a great performance.
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| Sunset on the boat ride |
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| swimming with dolphins. It was unbelievable. |
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| Last day and Breakfast with the Hawkins |
WHY I CAME BACK FROM VACATION
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| Love these kids more then words can express |
We had a great time in Mexico enjoying the weather and seeing the sites with great people. Reminded me how blessed I am. We even got to be apart of a robbery. While touring some sites with a member we met at church. Lenny and his wife left their backpack in the car. When we came back to the car it was gone. We were in the middle of nowwhere and had only been gone 5 minutes. Unfortunately they had their passports in the backpack and had to spend the next day getting a temporary one. Lesson I learned... Mexican Prison is not a friendly place. Even on the outside. When the week was over I felt ready see my kids and jump back into life. Good thing because after two days everyone in the family got the stomach flu. We all got over it by the end of the week and are now playing catch up before Christmas.
