Firstly, I want to say I'm praying for all of the families that are being, will be or have been affected by Hurricane Issac. I'm the first one to welcome a nice storm from time to time, but I have to say we are blessed to be out of the radar for this Hurricane in Jax. It seems like it is getting pretty intense and I pray for everyone's safety in it's path.
Although, we aren't getting a direct hit, we are being showered with storms. It was extra hard getting up this morning because it was so dark outside and dark and cold and cozy in our room! Praying the rain goes away soon! I have to go see my baby boy at lunch time! :)
It's Monday again and I had a busy, but nice weekend. Got to go for my spa day on Saturday and it was divine! Daneil cooked us a nice dinner and then we had church yesterday, so it was just overall a nice weekend! Here's to a great week!
Liam has found his feet! :) He hasn't made them to his mouth yet, but he is always holding onto them now! When I see him do new things, it just makes me fall in love all over again. Just watching him grow and learn, is such a blessing! I don't want to forget these moments! Thank God for blogging so I can write about them! :)
Today I am supposed to write about my most memorable vacation. I haven't had many "real" vacations in my life. We have had a lot of visits to my parents for a long weekend, or trips to NY to visit Daneil's family...but as far as a vacation, just the two of us, we have had one of those and it is definitely my most memorable.
I was about a week away form being 6 months prego at the time and we went on a Carnival Cruise - Carnival Paradise out of Tampa, FL. It was a 4 night cruise to Cozumel, Mexico! I was nervous to go on a cruise for a few different reasons. One, being that I was 6 months pregnant and in case anything happened, a hospital would be far away. Two, I wasn't sure how I would feel with the motion of the ship. Three, let's face it, when you are pregnant, you really can't do many of the things you normally can, so I wasn't sure I would have fun. I can definitely say, we had a great time and it was nice to finally have a vacation together, just the two of us, before we welcomed Liam into this world.
We started off by driving to Tampa the night before and got a hotel room to spend the night so we could just head to the port the next day. I was super nervous...it was both of our first time cruising and we weren't sure to expect. We were at sea on two of the days and in Cozumel one of the days. Once we got to our room, we saw that our "room guy" was named Baggus. We couldn't stop laughing at the name because they lost one of our bags for a while, so Daneil kept making jokes using the guys name and we were rolling laughing. Each night at dinner we had different servers and the cool thing was all of them were from different places around the world, so it was so cool to experience all of the cultures.
Although, I didn't have many options as far as excursions go, since I was pregnant, we decided to go to a Mexican Cooking class in Cozumel, because well, what pregnant woman doesn't love food? So we were paired up with each other and taught how to cook a delicious Mexican meal. The teacher was hilarious and so much fun. He taught us how to properly wash our hands while singing "La Cucaracha"! We made an appetizer, entree and dessert and decorated each of our dishes. We then went up to a room that overlooked Cozumel beach and we were served the dishes we made. I was shocked at how good mine turned out. I'm still questioning if they switched mine out with their cooking! haha! After we ate, we got to lay on the beach for a couple of hours. Got photographed with a parrot...it was just a great time! By far my highlight of the whole trip!
On the ship we ate lots of good food, (including a couple of late night trips to the 24/7 pizza bar and Ice cream bar), went to a couple of cute shows and the morning we got into Cozumel, we woke up just before sun came out and went to the top of the ship to watch the sun rise as we saw Cozumel on the horizon...it was breathtaking! Holding each other as the cool breeze blew threw our hair and we talked about life and how excited we were to become parents. I felt like I was on top of the world!
I will never forget that amazing vacation and cannot wait to tell Liam about it one day. He has already traveled to Mexico and been on a cruise! It's just the beginning! :) Here are a few of my favorite pictures from our vacation! Can't wait to go on another as just the three of us!
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