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Family Photos

Do I, or do I not have the sweetest kids in the world? Lexi is my most gorgeous darling, and my boys! I mean, ahhh, I am lucky! Love my family. Not the world's greatest pictures, but fun, and glad I have something new to put on the wall!

Vacation Mishaps--Part Four! The Rest

The rest of our vacation we pretty much did nothing because no one felt good enough to. We drove to Vegas and we stayed in a nice resort where there were lots of pools, but let's be honest, who wants to swim when they are burnt? So we went in the evenings, when the sun wasn't shining as much. We also went into the strip once and had lunch, then took the kids into M&M world, or whatever it was called. The drive home took a bit long, Dillan needed lots of bathroom breaks, and "I need food" breaks. Lol Here are some pictures.

 Brett's drink!

 My drink!

 Our favorite pirate!

 Oh the kids were so dang excited to see Sponge Bob!

Vacation Mishaps--Part Three! The Movies and Stuff

The next day we checked out at Anaheim, and left to go back to Vegas. For Christmas my sister gave me a $50 gift card to AMC movie theaters, but since there are NONE by where I live, we decided to use it in California. So, we found a movie time, and headed over. On the way there I got a little dizzy, and felt kind of sick, but I got out of the car and sat down for a minute, and felt fine. We bought our tickets (they were ridiculously priced, $9 for adults $8 for kids, for a matinee price). We got in, got our popcorn and drinks, and sat down. The kids were being little angels. they weren't talking, they were watching the screen. I was amazed. They were good all through the previews. Then the movie started and I picked Derrick up to put him on my lap since the start was a little scary (We were watching X-Men), and I touched his sunburn, so he started crying. People in the theater started yelling at me, and telling me to get the "F" out of the theater. So, I took Derrick out, asked for a refund for our two tickets. They gave me 2 vouchers, and we left. He was almost out of diapers, and there was a Costco right next door, so we headed over to get them.


While at the Costco I also bought the kids all UV protection swim shirts so that we could have a great summer without a repeat of the sunburns. I still wasn't feeling great, but I thought it was just because my sunburn was hurting. Well, while standing in the checkout line I started getting really clammy and light headed. I guess the lady behind me was asking me something about Derrick and I wasn't answering her, and I got really white all of the sudden and just slumped over onto the check out counter. I guess I fainted. The people at Costco took me over to a bench, and brought my cart and Derrick over. They tried to call Brett for me, but his phone was in MY purse. After having my head on my knees for 15 minutes I started feeling fine. They checked me out, and kept asking if I was sure I was okay, then I went out to the car. It took me a while to find it (Brett parked while I was buying tickets), but I got out a water bottle and a bag of cut up watermelon, and after hydrating I started feeling much better. I opened the car windows, put on my iPod and took a nap (derrick watched a movie in the van), while we waited for them to get out of the movie.


The rest of the day I felt sick here and there, got light headed a couple times, and just felt miserable. We think it was heat exhaustion, or whatever that is called where you get all dehydrated and sick because of a bad sunburn. However, we made it back to Vegas without incident, and despite the sunburns, we were ready to have some more fun.


More to come...duhm duhm duhm.

Vacation Mishaps--Part Two! The Beach

The day after the Yankees game we got up early, hit the store for sunscreen and snacks, and headed straight for our favorite place in the world--The Beach!!!

We found parking, sprayed on the sunblock, hauled all of our crap to the beach, and went to go play!

The kids were pretty excited to get there, and start playing. The water was cold, but the kids were excited to find shells and start building what they called "tide pools" where they dug a hole in the sand, and put some shells in it.

 Derrick was stinking cute. He was running all over the place, and LOVED the water, sand, etc. It was hilarious because it was cold, and he was a little nervous, but didn't want to leave the water. He loved "Karwa" and just wanted us to play with him. He threw sand, he sat in the waves, he was so dang cute!

 This is Brett showing how freezing cold he was. Haha. Of course, despite the cold water, he and the boys played and played. We got there before Juli and Rocco and Zeze, but we did not have to wait too long.

Once Juli got there, we had a picnic, and we sat down and talked. I tried to play with Zeze, but she did not want me at all. Haha. I looked at my legs and they were looking kind of red, so I pulled out the sunscreen and resprayed myself and all my kids. Then I put on my jacket because I did not want to get my shoulders burnt because that stinks when you have kids. You can't pick them up, etc. because your shoulders hurt.

Well guess what? My intuition was a good one because we got FRIED. Lexi, who almost never gets burned got so red. Dillan was immensely burned he was blistered before we even got back to the hotel. My legs were roasted! They were so red and swollen, and the next day I started getting sick, nauseated, and was super dehydrated. I did not take pictures of my legs, but I should have. Ouch. 3 days later and they are FINALLY starting to feel a little bit better. Barely. 

 

The best part of the day was just getting to see Juli and her sweet kids. I couldn't believe how grown up Rocco is getting. He is just so big and talking so well! Zeegan was as cute as ever. I loved it. She was funny, her little personality was crazy funny!

More tomorrow...duhm duhm duhm

Our Vacation of Mishaps--Part one! Yankee Game

Okay, so we just got back from a vacation, and some of it was great, and some of it not so much. I decided to break it into parts so I could properly explain why our trip kind of stunk...


First we got on the road kind of LATE. We left our house about 4:30, and headed out. Said our prayer for the road, got headphones plugged in, movies on, etc. Earlier that day we got an oil change, and they suggested we change our serpentine belt (for $75 of course, even though we had a spare belt in the car). Fred said he would do it in 5 minutes if we wanted to stop by his shop on the way. So we did. Only, we did not know this, the belt we had (that was in the car) was the wrong size. So it took closer to three hours to get on, because it took that long to figure out that it was the wrong size. We got in to Vegas at about 2 in the morning, and we were so tired, but we were also dealing with kids who had slept several hours in the car and were HYPER!

The next morning was great because the kids got to go play at the pool and Brett let me sleep in. I made some lunch, and we headed out of Anaheim. Anaheim was pretty fun. We got in about 4:30, and relaxed for a little bit before taking a cab over to Angel's stadium for the game. We wanted to go early for batting practice and stuff. 

If you look, my camera did not do justice to how close we were to CC Sabathia, and Nick Swisher, etc. We were 4 rows up, field seats. Loved them!

 I wore my Yankee's shirt, but Brett did not come prepared, which surprised me! A Yankee game was on his bucket list, so I figured he would wear his jacket and hat! Nope! And we needed jackets, it was FREEZING!

 Look it is Nick Swisher! He was so nice, we would yell his name, and he would totally turn around and wave. It was awesome! I loved seeing Derek Jeter (Derrick's name sake), and A-Rod (Lexi's namesake) for real!

 The Yankees lost the game we went to, and won the other 2 when they played the Angels. Jorge Posada hit a great double during our game, and the guy sitting right next to us got the ball. I asked him if I could get a pic for the blog. He thought it was pretty funny!

 There were two guys behind us that have been friends for like 30 years, one is a big Angel's fan and the other a huge Yankee fan, so it was really fun to listen to them. The people in our area were a lot of fun. We had the old guys take our picture, this was at the end of the game, and we were so cold. haha

That was our Yankee game experience. Karla stayed with the kids in the condo, and did a great job with them. It is so nice to have a great sitter so we could rest assured that everything was good with the kids while we went and played.

If only we knew what would happen the next day... duhm duhm duhm...