Life with the DeLoach's

Monday, June 28, 2010

Not me Monday

I do not use my flat iron to get wrinkles out of my shirts/dresses after I am already dressed & fixing my hair ;)

Sunday, June 27, 2010

My Best Friends Wedding

Congratulations to one of my very good friends that I have known since 5th grade!

The cruise overall we liked, but there were pros & cons. Would we do it again? Yes, but I think I would go with a different cruise line & bigger boat. We didn't get sea sick while on the boat, but we definitely felt the boat a rockin :)

Now by far both of our favorite things about the trip was the two off shore excursions. One day was Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico. Here we took a cooking class where we learned how to make two kinds of salsa, guacamole, and a true Mexican margarita. Then we learned how to Salsa dance. This by far was my favorite memory from the trip!

Our restaurant

Getting ready to make some salsa...yummy

One of the keys -grill your tomatoes, onion & garlic.

We may not have made it as good as the chef, but it sure was close.

Never had better guacamole, it's all in the ingredients.

We're now Master Chef's.
Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures from the Salsa dancing. Everyone was too busy trying to get the steps down to take any pictures ;) We may have mastered the cooking, but I can't say we mastered the salsa dance!

Day two, Cozumel, Mexico. Here we took a tour of the Mayan ruins and then went to a private beach.

The tour guide was great, he was actually Mayan. The mosquitos that ate us alive, not so great.

The view from our beach chairs. Notice at the top of the picture, it's not just an umbrella, it's an actual hut.

We had our lunch brought to our beach chairs where we had the best Mexican meal ever. Ben was actually speechless after his first bite.

Anniversary Cruise

Since the day that Ben and I got married I have told him that other than a nice dinner with just the two of us there is no need for an anniversary gift, until we hit 10 years...then he better go big! I'm not sure why I feel the decade years need a more special touch, but I do and I'm sticking with it :) This year will be 10 years of marriage. Our anniversary isn't until Sept. 2nd, but our first child was actually born on that exact date 3 years into our marriage. Which by the way was the BEST anniversary gift ever! It never fails that our anniversary celebration gets put on hold and in it's place is a birthday party. To fix that Ben and I decided that we would always celebrate our anniversary in June, since our first date was June 13th.

We decided to go with a cruise. Not really knowing what to expect we decided it couldn't be too bad.
Carnival Elation - out of Mobile, AL.

Ocean view room was the way to go, helped not too feel so claustrophobic. I'm not that bad, but to me elevators are the worst. You will find me always taking the stairs if possible. Which helped with not gaining any weight on the cruise - there were 12 floors.

One of my favorites - a different towel animal on the bed each night.

This was the serenity deck, no kids allowed.

Where we enjoyed most of our stay.

Honestly just looking you wouldn't know you were on a boat.

I really thought the pool & slide would be bigger. Not that impressed, but we were on the smallest of the boats. Plus, we didn't go to swim anyway. Like I said we stayed most of our time on the adult only deck.

We had a great time overall. Nice to get away & spend time just us.

Homeless

In a sense Ben & I along with the kids have been homeless since June 12th. Though we have no mortgage payment right now, we do have a place to call home. We are living with Ben's dad & step-mom in Gardendale. They have very graciously opened their home to the 5 of us and we are very thankful.

We are still in the process of trying to get everything together for the house we want to purchase in East Lake. We aren't going to be able to close on July 2nd like we originally thought and as of right now do not have a new closing date set. There are a few things that have come into play that will have to be worked out first. So for now Gardendale is our home. Hopefully by the end of July we will be able to close on a home of our own in the East Lake area.

It's been very nice at the grandparents, kinda like a little vacation....

My daily view

I'm also proud to say that both boys can now swim with no floats! Caden still wears his goggles & snorkel, but that's only because he doesn't like the water in his eyes, nose or mouth. Can't say I really blame him.

It's also nice having a live in babysitter, I think I've already gotten a little spoiled!!

Friday, June 25, 2010

How much stuff do we have?

Since I have a love of organizing it was nice having two weeks to be able to go through all our stuff before I packed it into nice and neat boxes. It truly is amazing how much stuff you accumulate and we had only been in that house 4 years, but now we did add a third child while living there. That's my excuse anyway. I threw away lots, gave away lots, and packed lots more!

We had a great little helper, for about 5 min. anyway.

We ordered two Pods in the hopes to only fill one - didn't happen, good thing we went with the better to be safe than sorry option. One was packed full while the other was semi-full, but we couldn't have managed without it.

It's all empty and clean and ready for the new owners.

Teary eyes? No, just tired, very tired eyes. Why the big smiles? Yup, you guessed it, it's all packed up, it's all moved out and we know vacation is right around the corner.

So where are we now? Keep checkin the blog and I'll keep you updated as best as I can. I actually just found my camera cord to post pic's to my laptop today. We have a long road ahead with the reoccurring question from everyone - where is the....???? have you seen the...??? What box is the.....in???