Our Weekend Trip to Deep Creek Lake, Maryland

July 2011

Our good friends the Betterelli's and us took a weekend trip to Deep Creek Lake, Maryland.  We rented a little cottage in the woods right across from the lake.

We had a perfect weekend!  

I found Marshall asleep under this coffee table!  He left his bed and dragged in his pillow and blankets.

We spent a lot of time in the hot tub!!

Riley striking a pose!

Then we had a full two days at the beach!!

Marshall relaxing!!

My kids and Riley in the big chair!

Marshall being a goof, of course!!

Notice how we are all posing so nice for this picture....... and then there is Marshall with his "knuckle bams" as he calls them.

Coby and I

The kids loved feeding the ducks.

The girls posing on our last day

We even took a hike to Swallow Falls

We had such a relaxing and fun time.  The kids all had so much fun, and we spent it with good people!

Peace and love.......

Vacation Part 8, The Last Stop, Florida Central Zoo

We got off the boat in the morning and had 8 hours to spare before our train left, so we decided to go to the Florida Central Zoo.

At the zoo they had a Bungee trampoline jump, the kids loved it!

My free spirit!

Marshall's turn!

Marshall was belly laughing so hard, that we were all laughing.

The Florida Zoo was so beautiful!

Marshall Man striking a pose!

This is was the last stop of our vacation!  It was perfect in every way.  We bonded and relaxed as a family and the kids traveled and behaved so well.  Russ and I are so lucky to have these wonderful kids.  We had the most amazing time, and I will never forget it.  I am so lucky to have these wonderful people in my life, it's all I need.  Russ and the kids I love you so much!

Peace and love.......

Vacation Part 6, Princess Meet and Greet, water slides and more!

 This day was another full day at sea.  We had a meet and greet planned for Jaylee to meet the princesses!

She loved it!  After the princess gathering we headed to the upper deck to spend some time in the pool.  Jaylee discovered the water slide, and we couldn't keep her off of it!  Poor Marshall was still too small to go on the water slide.

Marshall being cute at dinner!

The kids and their friend Ollie that they met on the ship.

Peace and love......

Vacation Part 5, Mexico and Pirate Night

 We woke up in Cozumel Mexico!

 We found this little park that was lined with all of these statue animals.  The kids insisted on sitting on EVERY single one!

 The coast and the water was beautiful!

 Jaylee got a case of the sillys!!

 My husband the ham bone!

 The ocean was so incredibly blue.

Passed out from partying in Mexico all day!

We got back to the ship and rested.  Then it was time to get the kids dressed up for Pirates of the Caribbean Night.

Stitch was the highlight of the night.  He loved Marshall.  He kept tickling him and chasing him around.  Marshall tickled him back and he fell over.  When we walked away, he chased after us and played peek a boo with the kids from behind a pole.

Marshall's turn to be silly!

This was by far the best towel animal we had!  It took the kids a few minutes to find it.  At first they were all bummed, thinking there wasn't going to be one, and then they saw it!  It was so neat, we left it hanging there the whole next day.

Again, we had a wonderful, perfect day!  The kids were pretty tired from two days of exploring off of the ship in a row.  Then being up past 10 at night for the Pirate deck party and fireworks.  I was so impressed at so well behaved they were.  They travel so well.

More to come tomorrow.....

Peace and love......