Mexico we miss you!

Other memories that we are missing while being home:
-the food just being ready when your hungry (that coconut ice-cream has found it's way into my dreams more than once this week)
-the asian al a carte desserts (we went almost every night for appies & fried ice-cream and bananas)
-the mexican salespeople on the beach
-snorkling for seashells and the shelves in the ocean
-climbing the rock covered with baby crabs
-Jared dancing with me on the balcony (My Milk Shake Brings All The Boys To The Yard)
-boogie board races
-winning both RIFAS (bingo) games - scored the girls some sweet piggy banks
-face timing the girls and showing them the ocean, pool
-our romantic curtains blowing into our room, the ocean waves crashing, and the sun shining thru
-Usiel (our Mexican buddy/mop boy)
-all the drinks I could think of served to me by the pool/beach
We missed the girls are were excited to see them! What a fun vacation- we'll miss you Mexico!

Mexico Part II

The girls- I love these girls!!! What a fun weekend we had enjoying the sunshine together!The boys- these guys are crazy and played hard in the waves ALL day long!
Right before the kayaking adventures!
We LOVED the pinada's!!! They were delicious and available anytime of the day! Some of the other drinks we had were: mojitos, mango tangy, & miami vice.

This thing was moving in my hands...ahhh! But they are just so beautiful.
We watched 2 Mexican boys get oysters right out of the ocean and then they were selling them with fresh limes and hot sauce on the beach...I still can't believe that Bryan and Linds LOVED these!!
We went into La Crucecita to do some shopping (it was so helpful having Bryan know fluent Spanish) and then enjoyed an authentic Mexican dinner in the cutest little restaurant that our taxi driver referred us to.
Some of the things that I want to remember from this vacation are:
-how hot we felt when we got off the airplane- there were a few times I was ready to rip my clothes off haha.
-Dr. Stacie helping everyone through their ailments (heat stroke, nausea, diarrhea, head aches)
-the earthquake we woke up to one morning (the lights and beds were shaking)
-having a wave smash us into a road over and over again while trying to get to a private beach with our kayake (we found the coolest white shells there)- I got a bruise on my arm from Jared's paddle and the boat
-late night card games and room service (which room was served the best? worst?)
-the bathroom in the flee market--> lets just say I almost barfed and then used hand sanitizer all over my body to get clean again
-Facetime is the best invention ever!!
-having drinks served to us anywhere on the resort, ALL day long! I miss that service while home. haha
-huge waves...trying body surfing with Lindsey and my top coming off without me knowing (I was only concentrating on getting my breath back! Good thing Jared saved me "tits, tits"! haha so embarrasing)
-sleeping in (does 8:30am count?)
-the feel of the sun on our faces after a long, long winter

Huatulco Mexico April 2011 Part I

We planned a very last minute trip to Mexico and 3 other couples got work off to join us...we were so excited to be surprised by Joostens at the airport! We were so excited for some sunshine.
We had never left the girls for longer than a couple days...this picture is of us after we cried about leaving the girls for a week! haha. We were going to miss them.
This is the resort we stayed at "Dreams Huatulco". It was amazing. Everything was so close...it took us 45 sec to get to the beach from our room, there were 6 pools (3 inifinity) that were all within 5 minutes of each other, 5 al a carte restaurantes, 2 buffets...we had a blast!!!
It was fun to dress up at night and go on dates with Jared...the food was delicious!
We LOVED the ocean...body surfing, boogie boarding, swimming, snorkling, collecting sea shells! The weather was so HOT- at least 35c with 90% humidity everyday!!!

What can you do with an old shirt???

While getting ready for this Mexico trip...I was thinking I needed a little beach bag/purse to carry some essentials; sunscreen, lotion, lip chap, camera, ect. I didn't want to have to buy one and came across this tutorial. I have a lot of old clothes that I've been hanging onto trying to be brave enough to refashion something with them. I think it turned out pretty cute!I also wanted to spruce up a plain old t-shirt. I used this tutorial. I LOVE it! I used an old brown tank top as the material to make the ruffle flowers.
Last, I needed a modest dress for the "night life" in Mexico....but also something that I could wear that was summery and bright for the markets. I am shocked that this turned out so well. Jared really likes this dress and my favorite part is the pockets salvaged from the previous short dress. I loved using 2 pieces of clothing that I wasn't using- to make a cute little number that makes me smile!

The Ocean Blue..We love you!!

This is what Jared and I will be looking at starting next Tuesday!!! We are so excited!!!

I'm 4!!!

I can't believe my baby is 4...and she couldn't be happier. I think she's been waiting for this day to come since she was about 2. haha. She loves that she feels so grown up! What a special little lady she is...we LOVE her! Happy Birthday Miss Elle.



Look at how you've grown over the past 4 years...what a little beauty!

Fairmont 2011

We had so much fun spending an entire week out in Fairmont. We went swimming, skiing, sledding, swimming some more, racquet balled, and ate everything in sight! Almost everyone on the Woolf side could be there so there were plenty of food and fun...lots of cousins to play with and many memories made. We LOVE Fairmont!Elle went skiing for the 2nd time and did really well. She loves to be in control and use the "pizza" with her ski's so she doesn't go too fast. Jared and her went 2 days and she LOVED it!
Sledding Psycho's: they hit trees, scraped faces, and flew off every direction! haha.
Paige is a crazy lady in the water...she never wants to be helped! haha. Her swimming resembles drowning slightly, but she actually does really well. We went swimming at least once a day..these kids LOVED the water!

I loved having a real fire everynight...and having my sisters around for a week!

Love him!!!