Well after almost a year, I am back on the blog to finish it up. I decided to try to do the blog until Matthew's first birthday and then call it quits. I just have a hard time finding the time to keep it updated. And, with documenting most of what we do on Facebook, I feel like that is where I will be able to keep things most up to date. Having said that, I'm going to try to do a few last posts of things from late 2015 and early 2016.
In late August 2015, we took our first family vacation just the 5 of us to Corpus Christi...and we had a blast! We went to the beach for about a day and a half and the boys loved it. Joseph loved playing in the water with us, while Andrew was not a fan of the water or waves and preferred to play in the sand most of the time. Matthew did great being the happy go lucky baby he is. We used the tailgate of the minivan for shade for the boys and Matthew spent most of the time sitting in the back of the van in the shade playing with his baby toys.
Then on another day, we did some tourist attractions in town. We went to the Aquarium in Corpus and the boys loved seeing all the fish and critters in the tanks. We ate lunch there and they had a splash pad outside which Joseph and Andrew loved!! It was a nice cool way for the warm afternoon. Also, that day we went to the big aircraft carrier in Corpus. It was full of old airplanes and Joseph and Andrew thought it was fun to climb in them all, and of course push all the buttons. Matthew loved seeing new things too!
I think the highlight of the trip for the boys was staying in a hotel. They had so much fun with it. We stayed at an Embassy Suites and the living room worked out great in giving us room to spread us all out. It was all fine until me and the boys got stuck in the elevator when the power went out! Luckily it was a glass elevator that overlooked the atrium. Michael had gone back to the room for something so the boys and I were just riding the elevator with all our beach bags until he came back. Joseph went into panic mode and was very scared. But the hotel staff saw us and all came running. Luckily the power came back on in a few minutes and the doors opened. So yeah, we chose to take the stairs down just in case.
Another not so pleasant part of the trip was that Matthew got pink eye. Poor little guy. We spent a lot of time finding an urgent care that would see him given that he was younger than a year. But finally we found a place to take him so he could get started on his eye antibiotic drops.
This was really such a fun trip for us and we loved experiencing all these new things with our boys for the first time!
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| Matthew having fun in the back of the van while at the beach |
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| Michael, Joseph and Andrew in the water! |
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| These boys were in heaven playing in all that sand! |
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| At the aquarium |
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| Me and Andrew feeling some starfish |
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| Matthew by the shark tank! |
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| Sea turtles! |
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| Me & Matthew in front of the aircraft carrier |
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| More pics from the beach |
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| Sweet boys |
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| Joseph in one of the airplanes...look at all those buttons! |
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| Pilot Andrew |
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| happy baby! |
