Crashboat Beach

Scott had to do some work in Aguadilla for a couple days, so after Josh left, he wanted the kids and I to come out and see him.  The hotel they were staying at had a really cool pool with water slides and fountains.  The kids had a great time playing while Scott was working.

The kids always think it's exciting to stay in a hotel room.

The next morning we went out to Crashboat.  It was awesome.  The water was so smooth.  The snorkeling was really good for seeing fish that day.  One guy was out there spearfishing.  I watched him for a while to see if he would get anything, but the big fish here too deep for him to get.  I didn't see any shells to collect, but I did score a pair of sunglasses off the bottom!

He's getting pretty brave when it comes to water.  He did this a couple times.

Scott going to jump

Getting ready

In he goes.  He said it was really hard to get back onto the dock from there.  Somebody put a sheet with knots in it to climb up.  He said it was awkward to climb.

Elsa and her "O" face.  She was doing it a lot for a while there.  It cracks me up.

Playing catch up- Elsa's birthday

It's been so long since I blogged.  I have a lot to catch up on.  Firtst off, Elsa had a birthday!  My friend Ann and I have little girls really close together so we decided to do a combined birthday party for them.  Ann did most of it and I kinda just showed up. She did an awesome job planning and the kids all had such a good time.

Party time!!!

Goofy faces.

Brinlee loves Elsa.  She always wants to take care of her. 

Lovely Ladies! Jackie, Miranda, Heather and Amy.

Ann made the girls each a cake for them to dive into.  Katherine was WAY into it.  Elsa really was not.  It was weird.  SHe didn't want to get into it at all. 

I love the face plant into the cake.

Chillin' by the pool

Gina's working on her tan

Josh Visits and the Beach Apartment

So we moved out of of our house.  It was weird and sad and awesome at the same time.  We stayed our last month in Isla Verde right on the beach.  While we were there my cousin Josh came for a visit.  We loved having him there with us.  It was nice because it forced us to get out and do awesome things one last time.  We love Josh.  He's awesome.

Here's our apartment.  It was literally right on the beach.  It was sooooo much cooler than our house was.  If I had known how much nicer it could have been we might have thought about moving from Dorado at some point.  It was really fun to sit on the balcony and watch people (you all know I'm a people watcher) It did have it's drawbacks though.  Every Sunday was ridiculously noisy.  People love to party on Sundays.

Here's the view.  Awesome.

While Josh was with us we did fun stuff.  We rented a boat and drove it around the ocean.  We tried to find snorkeling spots, but didn't find much.  It was fun to scoot around and jump out of the boat into the ocean.

Elsa annoying Rhys. 

It was really shallow and calm so we could take the kids out and let them swim around.

There's a random swim area off one of the islands that we swam in.  Josh had fun doing backflips off the dock. 

We took a trip out to Vieques.  We tried to get to Culebra but all the ferries were full.  It was good though because I hadn't been out the Vieques yet.  Definitely not as cool at Culebra.  I was somewhat disapointed  in it, but I'm still glad we got to go.

On our way!  I'm kind of a dork.  I've accepted this. 

So we're hanging out by the beach grilling.  We found a bunch of conch shells and decided to cook them on the grill (to kill the critter inside, and you don't want to do in in your house cause they stiiiiinnnkk!!)

Our shells are cooking away in the blue tub.  It was Sunday so it was a crazy party on the beach.  We had a good time.

Dinner on the beach.

Rhys loves Josh.  Josh is introducing Rhys to the wonderful world of YouTube.  He was sad when Josh left.  We were glad he came!

Rhys and Brenner wrastle

Tagged by Megan: Eleven

I've been tagged!!

Rules

Post 11 random things about you, along with a picture.
Answer the 11 random questions you've been tagged to do.
Make up your own 11 random questions and tag others.

This picture makes me chuckle.

Ok, so here we go,
Eleven random things about me:

1. I really love Minicoopers. One day I will have one. My dream for a long time was to have a Minicooper with a sun roof and have a great dane who would poke his head out the top and we would drive around. Right now I have the great dane but no Minicooper. Sigh...

2.I am a Diet Coke-aholic. I love it.

3. I miss being able to have a lazy Sunday and watch Pride and Prejudice with my sisters. The 6 hour version with Collin Firth. We would usually start it at the 4 hour mark just because we like the last half the best. Scott doesn't appreciate P&P like my sisters do.

4. I love to bake and make yummy things, but I don't have to eat everything I make. Usually a batch of cookies ends up in the freezer and it takes us a month to eat them all.

5. I think it's weird when random Puerto Ricans come up to me and my kids and say "Que Bello, or Que Bella!!" It's pretty much because they are blonde and they don't see a lot of them here. I secretly love it though. I love my kids and I think they are cute too. It's going to be an adjustment for me when we get back to the states and random Americans aren't saying how cute they are all the time.

6. I like to paint my fingernails and toenails black, but I'm not gothic or punk or weird. I just like it.

7. I'm ridiculously afraid of getting a paper cut on my eyeball.

8. I like to collect salt and pepper shakers.

9. I also wanted to get a motorcycle with a side car for my great dane. I would get it a pair of goggles to wear while we cruised.

10. I have to shower with the shower curtain open. One reason is so I can hear the kids and the other reason is that Scott likes to either scare me in the shower or pour cold water over me. Now I just keep it open so he can't sneak up on me.

11. I got a tattoo of a butterfly on my back on me 18th birthday. I kept it a secret from my parents for over a year, and when I told my Dad he looked like he was going to cry. That was worse than him yelling at me.

So here are the questions sent by Megan:

1. If you had one month of free airline travel, where would you go? Humm, I think I would go to Australia. Then I would go to Greenland to visit the hot springs. Or is it Iceland with the hot springs? I don't know, but I would find out which one it was, and go there. Or both. I would go to both. Then I would go to Belgium and get a waffle. I love a good waffle.

2. If you could be the creator and CEO of your own company, what would your company be? I would like to make candy, because everyone loves candy.

3. If you were known for one obvious character trait, what do you think it would be? I think my siblings would say my forgetfulness. It's kind of a joke that I don't remember a lot of things from my childhood. They have to tell me stories of things we did when we were little cause I don't remember some things.
That, and my awesomeness, of course.

4. If you had to be a teacher for the rest of your life, what subject and grade would you want to teach and why? Astronomy. I love the stars and there are a lot of things that I would like to learn about them. I think it would be awesome to know all the constellations and the science of stars and universes and all that cool stuff.

5. What is your bedtime routine? Do you read, listen to music, kick the covers off, use ten blankets?
I start by changing my clothes, and turn on the A/C in our room to start it cooling down. Then I wash my face, take meds, brush teeth, then I wash my feet. They get really dirty walking around without shoes all day. After I check on the kids I get in bed. Even though we have to sleep with the air on, I still like to be under a blanket. I just like the weight of it on me. Then Scott and I say prayers together and I will either read or go to sleep. It depends on how late it is. Writing that just made me want to go to bed,

6. What is your biggest fear? Having something horrible happen to my kids. I don't want to go into a lot of detail into that because it just stresses me out.

7. How much money would someone have to pay you to catch and eat a spider? What about to eat someones toe jam? Or their ear wax? Gross! I might eat a spider because Andrew Zimmern from Bizzare Foods does it all the time, but you would still have to pay me A LOT. Like thousands of dollars.
The price on the toe jam or earwax depends on how much there is, and who it came from. It would still be a lot of money though.

8. If you could be amazing at one sport and on your way to compete at the 2012 Olympics, what sport would you pick? I've always liked the diving. I think it looks cool and I think they are brave from jumping off such high stuff.

9. If you could live anyone elses life for one month, fully experiencing their daily joys, sorrows, successes, and failures, whose life would you choose? I don't know. Somebody rich though. Maybe like a rich celebrity's child. I wouldn't want to do it for a lifetime, but I could do it for a month. Just long enough to get tired of living in an awesome house and not having to do much work. It would be like a month long vacation.

10. Suppose you owned a large home in the country with a large circular drive. If you could place any one thing in the center of that circle to greet your guests as they approached your home, what would it be? Humm... It would have to be a huge naked statue. Something to just throw people off. A fountain would be to obvious.

11. If you could avoid one household chore for the rest of your life, what would it be? Scott is wonderful and does the dishes most nights. If I cook he does the dishes. I do not miss doing them. I would like it if Scott would be around for the rest of my life to do the dishes for me.

Alrighty, here are my questions:

1. If you could have your choice of any candy at the candy store, what would you choose?
2. What's your favorite movie?
3. What is your morning routine?
4 What's your first memory?
5. If you could spend a week anywhere in the U.S. where would you go?
6. If you're married, what made you want to marry your spouse?

7. What's a pet peeve?
8. Most awesome childhood memory?
9. Thing you got in the biggest trouble for as a kid?
10. What's your favorite thing to listen to?
11. If you could have any pet, what would you have?

I tag Megan, Sarah, Tiffannee, Beckki, Aunt Cheryl, and Carrie!

Again, here are your rules:
Post 11 random things about you, along with a picture.
Answer the 11 random questions you've been tagged to do.
Make up your own 11 random questions and tag others.

My 11 on 11

11 pictures over 11 hours on the 11th of the month.

Carrie Andelin does 10 pictures on the 10th. Ya'll should check out her blog the.boonie.life. She's so cute. (Yes Carrie, you're way cute, and I check your blog religiously!) So I was inspired to do a Puerto Rican version today. Enjoy!

We spent our Saturday bummin' around at home. It was nice and chill.

8:36 am. Breakfast!!! Animal shapes for Rhys and normal squares for me.

9:25 am. Practicing acrobatics. He's doing flips and jumping on the couch from the coffee table.

10:10 am. Having the rest of breakfast for a snack.

10:53 am. Bring on the sunscreen! Two pools, a slip and slide, buckets, and a water gun. Elsa loved her little pool (see video on previous post)!

11:46 am. Still going strong! Rhys is showing us his jumping into the pool skills. It was really funny. He counts himself down before he runs. He says, "one, two, six, seven, gooo!!!"

1:15 pm. Snack time. Although he had lunch about 30 minutes before, he's ready for a snack, and that's what he wants.

2:28 pm. Kids are in nap time. I found this cute felt headband kit at Capri the other day so I put it together. Looks pretty cute on the ball, right?

3:34 pm. Rhys and I take a walk toward the mailbox to look for some lizards. The neighbors orchids are blooming and beautiful.

4:00 pm. Elsa is awake from her nap and I try on the headband I just made and realize it looks ridiculous. I think she realizes how silly it looks on her and wants it off ASAP. It was still fun making it though, and maybe I can do something with it to make it look less silly.

5:52 pm. Showing off her first forehead bruise. Scott was watching her and she faceplanted off the couch onto the tile. He felt really bad.
When she was just learning to scoot around she fell off the bed on my watch. Scott teases me about it still. While I'm not glad she got hurt at least now he can't give me crap for the bed incident anymore. Now we're even!

6:42 pm. Taking an evening stroll. It's so nice here in the winter. It's still not oppressively hot and you can actually go outside and play without getting heatstroke. The evenings are so nice. It's really nice to take the kids and the dog for a walk before bed to kinda wind down.

Hope you enjoyed my 11 on 11!! Seriously, check out Carrie's blog and her 10 at 10. It's always so cute.

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