True Story Tuesday and my dancin' husband

True Story Tuesday again over at Once Upon A Miracle.

I'm not sure how much Alex will appreciate me posting this story, however, it's my blog and, honestly, it's just too funny not to tell!

Our first night in Cancun, we walked down to the beach front bar for a few drinks after dinner. After sitting, chatting, and listening to the waves for a while, we started to head back upstairs but we sidetracked by the "game time" going on over by the pool area. We were pulled from the crowd for a couples dancing game.

After a few minutes, though, they made all the women sit down but kept the guys up there.

Then they picked a few guys to pretend to be the women.

Guess who got picked?
(Yes, those are balloons shoved up his shirt!)

Do you think Alex had a good time?
Watch the video to find out!

PSF and the sunrise

One of my favorite beach activities is to watch the sunrise and sunset. I love the beach so much, I just find it refreshing to start the day and end the day right on it.

Every morning we were in Cancun we got up and headed to the beach for the sunrise.

The 6:33 a.m. sunrise.

Yes, we are cool like that and get up early on our vacation.

In Cancun, the sunrises were beautiful. You can see the clouds just on the horizon. Every morning they were there and they stayed there the whole day. They never rolled in and rained.

You'll also notice how rough the tide is. Anyone familiar with the Gulf and Caribbean knows that they are usually relatively calm bodies of water. Waves this big were very unusual. In fact, the red flags were out 3 of our 4 days there.

This might be my favorite sunrise picture I took. It was taken the last morning we were there about 1/2 hour after sunrise. If you look closely you can see the sunbeams radiating out of the clouds onto the ocean, which looks (deceptively) calm. It's such a picture of serenity.

To see more pictures of our trip, click here.

WW - Sunrise in Cancun

Cancun - our trip in photos

We are back from Cancun (obviously)!
And we had a great time!

I have been busy trying to catch up on emails, blogs, etc, so I'm just going to do a summary picture post of our trip.

Here is the view from the resort where we stayed.

I totally love how the housekeepers would make little animals with the towels every day!

Sitting on the beach watching a parasailer go by

We went over to watch the sunset on the Lagoon and got eaten by a shark

Hubs tried to take a picture of us on the beach...he has a hard time smiling and pushing the button. It's that whole multi-tasking thing, yk.

And then some one took a picture for us

The little tiki hut that we lounged under every day just reading, drinking, and listening to the waves.

On the dock by the Lagoon at sunset

Alex was thrilled to discover that the local Hooters had the Auburn game on (along with the UGA game and the USC game). We, of course, had to sit and watch it. We met another Auburn couple in there (also from Atlanta) doing the same thing!

Me and the green gaucho. He was a real guy all painted up green.

We got up early two mornings to watch the sunrise. The sunrise and sunset are one of my favorite aspects of the beach experience.

So, there you go. That was pretty much our trip. Not too exciting, but we didn't go for excitement. We went for some R&R and a lot of togetherness...and that's just what we got!

We had a great time.

And another big THANK YOU to Grammy and Granddaddy...they made our vacation possible!

vacation and swimming

While you are reading this, I am sitting on a beach such as this, sunning myself next to my husband.

We each have one of these.

We are in Cancun for a little belated Anniversary trip while Grammy and Granddaddy watch the children for the weekend. This is our first trip in over 4 years that we've taken without any children (either externally or in utero). We are pumped!

Thank you Grammy and Granddaddy!! I know we will have a great time and I hope you do too!

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I have been wanting to post these pictures for a while, and since I'm out of town, I figured this would be the perfect time.

Jack is a child that loves the water. As long as nothing above his neck gets wet. As you can imagine, teaching him to swim has been quite the challenge. We have been really working with him all summer and given him lessons as well.

I'm proud to say he's now a full fledged swimmer and I have the photos to prove it! Way to go, Jack! He's really grown up in so many ways this year. 5 is just an amazing number for him.

For the record, that's not his beer on the side of the pool!