Cancun

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! We are days behind in our blogging so I am going to attempt in getting us caught up.

In December Zach and I went to Mexico and out of the Country for the first time. We had a blast and we celebrated our 7th year Wedding anniversary! Back in May I won this trip to Mexico while working for the Body Shop at home. I had only won one trip for myself and I was suppose to be roomed up with one of my team mates that won a trip as well. As the Body shop at home announced it was closing in April, I wondered what would come of my trip. As the trip approached in May of 2009 and the out breaks of swine flu we decided to wait to book our trip. The Body shop decided to allow any consultant to pick their time of travel between May and December 2009. As it turns out the team members where scattered and thus placing the idea that Zach should come along so I wouldn't be in Mexico for 5 days alone. most of my closer team mates had won a trip for their husbands so going as the odd girl out didn't seem fun. This was an all inclusive paid trip. That means I didn't have to pay for ANYTHING!! We only had to pay for Zach's plane ticket! We enjoyed fine dinners each night and had wonderful lunches and breakfasts. We even ordered room services a lot just because we could. We stayed at the Beach Palace and the service was amazing. Since I speak a little Spanish we got around the area and hotel pretty good. A lot of the people spoke English with a heavy accent so it was a little easier to try to communicate in their language.
I wasn't sure as we arrived to the Resort if Zach would get all inclusive too. To our surprise they slapped on a wrist band for him and we had an amazing time. I will tell you that all inclusive is the way to vacation.
As we were there we seen lots of fun stuff for the whole family to do. We hope to return but next time we would like to stay for a few weeks. We got to go to the Ancient Ruins of Tulum which are old Mayan civilizations. We would of liked to of done more site seeing but we were happy we did see Tulum. It was right on the coast and the views were breath taking. Since I had to be put on antibiotics before the trip due to the worst cold I have ever had. We did not do the scuba diving like we had planned. We still had an awesome time though and got some needed alone time!

Transformer Birthday #2

Since we were headed down south for Thanksgiving we decided to have another Birthday Party with all our family there. It was fun having all the cousins there and some of my second and third cousins came too. Every year I am amazed with how much planning this stuff takes and how quickly it is over!! You will see Thayne finding the cube once again!!!

A year in pictures post #2

So I'm still teaching myself slowing but surely on these blogs. I made a slide show of Keynan's first year but the slide show just posted as a few pictures. So here is my attempt to put up another one. Keynan's first year went by way to quick but we did capture a lot on video and on film and digital camera's. I'm so glad that I take a lot of pics because time sure flies when you are having fun!! You will notice that some of the photo's Keynan is putting anything including a diaper on his head as a hat. He still will find anything to go on his head as a hat and it is so funny.

Disneyland November 22, 2009

Well to top off the Twins 6th B-day. We took them to Disneyland on their actual Birthday! I had not been to Disneyland in 17 years so I was a little excited too. I was so glad we did it because we all had a blast. My Dad also came with us and our cousins Kristie and Sarah met us at the park. Grandma Anderson and Auntie Bridget watched Keynan so we could play all day!

Thanksgiving 2009!

We had a fun day spent with family. As are immediate family has gotten bigger and has spread their wings we only had about 1/3 of us at Jason and Bridget's this year. We still had an awesome dinner and a blast playing battle of the sexes after desert. To my surprise the boys won. I guess I should call them men but boys sound so fitting since us girls lost.lol

The Switch Witch

Well what is the switch witch if you may ask? I wasn't sure who she was either and I guess she is a girl because she is a Mom up to some pretty cool tricks. Thanks to my innovative friend Holli and her wonderful blog post about the switch witch, I now have officially taken on the Role of the SW!lol
Since we started trick or treating on Thursday you can only imagine how much candy we had. I let the kids munch on the candy for a few days but after that I really needed it to disappear. When you have this much candy having the switch witch around is really handy:)!!


To my surprise when I told the boys that we could leave their buckets of candy outside for the switch witch to come and replace their candy with a prize. They both more then happily arranged their buckets out front and they were really excited to see what they might get instead of having a whole bunch of candy. Later that evening I went out side and made(tried to make) witch sounds. After I ran back around the house the boys kept asking me what the noise was. I said, "I think that might of been the switch witch". Sure enough she left a whole bunch of prizes! (2 soccer balls, writing tablets and some molding clay!)



What was even the best idea yet was using this candy in the boys Birthday Pinata's and yes all this candy filled up two Pinata's!!!

Happy 6th Birthday Thayne & Ayden!

In the beginning of November we had a birthday party for the twins here where we live. We also had a party later in the month with family that I will post soon.
We played a cool Transformers game where the kids had to find the all-spark. It was a really fun game and the kids enjoyed it. Leave it to Zach(such a cool Dad!) to come up with all the extra fun stuff for the kids. I love that I can do all the planning of everything and Zach can take care of all the fun details. My Mom made the cakes and cup cakes. As much as it takes to plan it was all worth it in the end even(because each year while I'm planning I say I'm never going to plan another one,lol). Since we always provide goody bags and other fun stuff for the kids. I started my shopping for the party in June so it doesn't seem like a fortune when I actually throw it. I am savoring these younger years because I know one day the kids will be to big for transformer pinata's but for now we have two 6 year old's that I know for sure will have these memories for a lifetime and of course we will too!



Getting ready to play find the all spark. Thayne was a Decepticon and Ayden was an Autobott, they both chose their own team mates and they were off to find the hidden cube.



Thayne as a Decepticon!!(he didn't want to be a bad Transformer either,lol) I told him a scene in the movie where one of the Decepticon chooses to do good:) Zach drew Autobott and Decepticon logo's on each of the kids masks.




Thayne found the cube!!!!



As you can see Ayden doing the Happy dance that his brother found the cube even though they were on different teams. It took the kids over 20 min. to find the cube. We finally had to tell the kids clues and the last clue was that the cube was hiding around something green. It was really hard to see and I even had a hard time finding where Zach hid it.It was in this fake tree and it was camouflaged well.







It's Pinata Time Baby!! Zach literally climbed about 15 ft to get the rope in the tree to hang the Pinata.




Ayden giving it a good whack!!


Saving the best for last or wait is that cake or presents??!!









Ayden giving Zach a big hug. Later Zach told me that Ayden started to cry because he was so happy about his Birthday Party, he told Zach he appreciated so much that we gave him a party!!! AAHHH!!!




I'm sure it is apparent how happy they are here while I was trying to get one picture with me in it.