January Update

After we got back from our vacation life resumed as normal.  Lets be honest though in the fact that January is a slow slow month. I definitely feel the holiday let down. But there was some fun to keep us going. Including watching this one play basketball! He improved so much this year, and would get quite a few rebounds!

Shooting a foul shot

 Steam night at school

 Logan still dressed like a pirate and liked to be called Blackbeard.

 Celebrating a friends 40th!

 Chick-fil-a night with face painting!

 Carson and Tanner passed their green belt test and are now green belt stripe!

 Bunco's January theme night: Roaring 20's.  Perfect 

 and two of Brad's baby: his bike and car.

Brad went to Alaska for business but also got in some skiing.  It was freezing however! Skiing in 6 degree weather!  The north slope on the mountain -40.  You have to really love skiing to endure that kind of weather!

 Showing off the ice in his beard.

 But when he got home it was date night!

 Sure do love him!

Disney Cruise: Day 5 & 6

I guess the last few days at sea as we sailed back to Texas I didn't take very many pictures.  We were mostly at the pool, kids club, and playing games.  We took advantage of all the fun our ship had to offer!

On Disney Cruises people decorate their doors so you can easily find which one is yours.  Our family had really gotten into the new Mandalorian show (baby yoda) and so we did a Star Wars theme.

 Here's Carson playing a family feud

 Tanner playing a magic eight ball game:

 I finally got to do a game adults vs. kids and I nailed it!

 We also learned some magic tricks.  

Logan got his face painted in the kids club

 Our show that night was the Disney Broadway production of Frozen.  My boys who are not Frozen fans, were not looking forward to it, but it was absolutely amazing!! It even snowed! It was just as high quality if you saw it in NYC.  The boys even admitted that it was Awesome.

For our last dinner in Tiana's palace it was Mardi gras night!!  Beads were given, there was a parade and dance party. And of course a great jazz band.  It was fun!  Oh and I also have to say, we were seated with another family for our dinners (thats how cruises work), they were from Midland Texas and they were awesome.  3 kids just like us.  Two boys the same ages as our older 2 and a 2 year old girl.  We all got along great!

 The last day at sea was like a farewell to the characters.  I tried to get the boys up early to see Captain Hook, we missed him at Pirate night and Logan really wanted to see him, but not enough to get out of bed.  It was a lot of late nights and sleeping in!  So I got up and went to see one of my favorite Disney Princess while everyone else slept.

 Later that morning they had a Jack Jack (Incredibles Movie) diaper race with the crawling babies.  It was pretty funny.

 Logan was very anxious knowing that Daisy was the only Mickey and friends character that we hadn't seen.  And so he paused his swimming to be able to go and see her.  The other boys didn't care as much.

That night our show was one of the best shows of the trip!  They performed a Disney Dream which highlighted a lot of favorite Disney songs about following your dreams. Our last night for dinner was at the restaurant that we hadn't been to yet since Brad and I went instead to the adult only one.  It was called Tritons (after the Little Mermaid) but it was nothing special, and there was no wow factor like the other two had. However that night they had lobster tail and because Disney always goes above and beyond, they even let Brad have 2 helpings 😉

After Dinner they had a farewell dance party with all our favorite characters:  It was so fun!

 And then if you didn't get a chance to take a picture with your favorite character, you could.

It was hard to leave!! We loved spending time together as a family and enjoying being pampered on the ship.  And it was so nice having it in Galveston!  Right in our own backyard.  The morning we left we had breakfast, grabbed our things, and made it home by 10 a.m.

I'm so glad we had this opportunity to go!  It was a fun family vacation!

Disney Cruise: Grand Cayman

Our day in the Grand Cayman didn't go as planned.  We were planning on going snorkeling with the stingrays and starfish, but due to the high waves it got canceled.  So instead we went to Grand Caymans infamous 7 mile beach.  We were disappointed, but the beach was gorgeous and the waves really were huge so the kids had a blast playing in them.  Although a few times the waves got so big it scared this momma's heart!  

We did get some snorkeling gear for the boys to try.  I think we saw one fish.

Such a beautiful day!

relaxing in the shade.  

this rooster just walking around like he owned the place, which to be fair he probably did.

see how big that wave is?  And this was later in the day, earlier the waves were way bigger! We really had a fun time.  The sand was amazing and the water picture perfect.  I personally preferred Grand Cayman over Cozumel. 

But really look at how blue that water is!  

That night was pirate night!! Everyone is encouraged to dress like a pirate, and the cruise even provides everyone with a pirate bandana.  The boys loved dressing up as a pirate.  Logan had so much fun that he has been a pirate for the last month and a half straight.  He would wear his bandana everyday to preschool.  Even now (2 months later) he sometimes gets mad at me if I don't call him Blackbeard (his pirate name).  It's pretty cute.

Family Game night!  Playing a pirate version of spin the wheel.

Dinner was once again at Animators Palate. Logan was loving his dinner! 😂 

This night we got to draw a cartoon character on our placemats and later that night they came alive up on the screen dancing with Mickey Mouse.  My cartoon is the purple on the far right.

After dinner we got to go on the top deck for the pirate show/fireworks. 

Disney is the only cruise line allowed to do fireworks!  As always Disney knows how to put on a good show!

Before we called it a night after a long day (except Carson who stayed up late playing at the tween club) I had to get a picture of all of us in our matching pirate costumes!

showing off our pirate faces: