Friday, July 20, 2012

Arizon-aahh Day 1

OMG. OMG. OMG. 

There actually aren't enough OMGs available to explain the blissful Arizona vacation Rachel and I endulged in for 4 glorious days and nights.

Our fabulous, fantastic husbands chilled (chilled...ha!) with the kids and we snuck away to the Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale.  OMG.

We arrived in our room and oohed and ahhed over the mountain and pool view.  OMG.


Then we saw the sticker on the door: "To prevent any unwanted desert critters please keep the door securely closed" with a picture of a scorpion.  Umm...I don't think we're in PA anymore.


We grabbed our suits & margarhitas and headed down to the pool.  This was the view.  OMG.



Rachel discovered that the best way to hang in the Arizona summer sun is to sit in the pool with a towel behind our heads.  OMG.


When we got to the resort our doorman drove us to our room in a golf cart (OMG!) and recommended a local legend for dinner called the Tee Pee.  We ended the night with fajitas and (more) margarhitas and were in bed by 8 pm.


OMG.

Monday, July 09, 2012

Happy Birthday America

We have 3 annual 4th of July traditions:

  1. Early swim party at Aunt Taffy's house
  2. Later block party with the neighborhood peeps
  3. Pass out from complete and total exhaustion combined with heat stroke and a beer buzz (the buzz is for the grown-ups, not the kids, duh.)


Ryan and Cole in the tie die shirts and bandanas they made with their nanny Colleen.  For the record, they styled themselves.

In my defense - have you jumped off a diving board lately?  Honestly it's really scary.  Much higher than it looks.


Chilling with Ryan in the shallow end

Are you picking up on a theme here?  Mom hanging on something that floats...it was one of those aaahhhh afternoons

Ry diving off the board...obviously much braver than his old mom.

We left Doylestown early to get back to WC in time for the block party.  Charlie and Dean immediately found their way into the chocolate s'mores cake, yet maintained their innocence with these angel faces.




Dean going in for the hug.

We're starting to rack up a lot of holiday traditions - both big and small - and I really appreciate the ones like these.  And not just because of the beer buzz (this cold heart of mine has a spot for family and friends, too.)

Hope y'all had a great 4th making your own family traditions.

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Swimming...And More Swimming...Then Even More Swimming...

I predict that by the end of the summer my faithful blog readers (all 2 of you) will  be sick of seeing Ry dive into the pool and swim a freestyle lap.  But I can't help it!  It's still so adorbs to me.

So in this Saturday's meet Ry was placed in Heat 4 with one other swimmer, thus assuring him to place either first or second. I left that part of the story out, so when he got out of the pool and found out he came in second, he was thrilled to pieces.



The next day we went back to the pool to chill with the fam.  Something kicked into Ryan's brain and *BAM* - just like that he learned how to dive.  


You'll note from this video that Cole is also learning how to dive...sorta.  I'd say his form is a little off, but he'll do anything to follow in the footsteps of his big bro.  I love the way he loves Ry.  

Sigh.  Life is good.