Comparison Pictures

I was going through old pictures the other day to see if Logan looked more like Paige or Lucas. I can't decide which one he looks more like.  He has some of the same features as Paige and some the same as Lucas. I think Lucas and Logan have the same chin and cheeks, but Logan and Paige have the same nose and Lucas's is different. I think they definitely all have their own look, but at the same time could totally be triplets.

One thing is for sure, though, Logan definitely looks more like me than Ryan.  Maybe it's just me, but I think he's like a little copy of me.

Another thing I found when going through Lucas baby pictures is that he totally made the same face that Logan does.  I had completely forgotten that Lucas used to do this, and now Logan does it all the time too.  It must be genetic or something.  Or maybe just a baby thing.

So fun to look back and all the fun pictures I've taken. I love pictures!

Happy Birthday Paige!!

We had a fun low-key day for Paige's birthday.  Ryan got off work early and we just opened presents and had cupcakes.  Lucas had so much fun helping me wrap the presents.  She got a backpack for one of her presents and we thought it would be fun to put some wrapped presents inside the backpack and then wrap it.

Here she is ready to open presents.

She had so much fun opening them.  She really loved all the stuff she got too.  I made her matching dresses for her and her Bitty Baby, just dress up dresses so they're not that fancy, but she was pretty excited about it.  She was pretty excited about her backpack from grandma and grandpa George too.

 She blew out her candles like a champ, and then proceeded to eat just the frosting off the top.  She's so cute!

Disneyland

Now I'm going to play catch up on all the May posts that I haven't had time to get to with how busy this month has been.  We got passes to Disneyland last May, so we decided to take one last trip before our passes expired.  We pretty much did all the same stuff we've done every other time we've gone to Disneyland, so I won't post too many photos and bore you with the exact same shots as my last Disneyland post.

Lucas has been such a great traveler lately.  Paige on the other hand is getting to the point that she needs to be entertained and does not want to sit still for more than 30 minutes, so she's a little trickier.  These photos were taken about 3 minutes in so there were smiles all around.

First stop every time we go to LA - Cafe Rio!!  Who has time to take photos before you've eaten.  Here's my completely empty tin.

 First day at Disneyland, Paige is all ready to go.

 Of course we had to get a picture in front of the castle.  And of course we only took one picture and Paige's eyes are closed and my hair looks funky.  Oh well...

 Happy girl!

 And sleeping girl.  I got a lot of these photos.  She never slept for long, but she took at least a short nap every day we were there.

 And then of course the kids passed out as soon as they hit their beds.  We wore them out!

 The kids loved the carousel and we rode it quite a few times.

They also loved the toy story ride and the lines were so short we got to ride it a couple times too.  Paige liked the glasses best of all.

 Another favorite was the hotel pool.  We went almost every day to cool off after a hot day in the park.

Another cooling off favorite was Dole Pineapple whips.

My parents came down and went with us one of the days we were there. It was nice to have someone else to help out with the kids, even though I couldn't really run off and go on any of the big kid rides.

 Although I did go on splash mountain, and it was fantastic.

I'm not sure how I always make my mouth look so huge in these pictures.  At least my face wasn't covered in this one, although I did cover up my mom's...sorry.

We've been to Disneyland quite a few times now and I've always wanted to try a turkey leg and we never have.  Well this time we got one.  It was gigantic, but we all dug in and it was AMAZING!

Here's a few more random photos of our trip.

Paige was in love with Pooh Bear on this trip.  She was really getting into the characters.  I thought she'd be afraid of them.

And one last photo of the kids playing in the pack n play at the hotel.

We really enjoyed having passes to Disneyland for a year.  Now we're going to take a few cheaper vacations till our kids get a little older and can really enjoy it.  Plus also I'd really like to be able to ride some rides and it's hard when I'm pregnant half the time.

Anniversary Trip to Mexico

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures from our Mexico trip.  In case you were completely unaware of us even going to Mexico, Ryan and I went to Puerto Vallarta for our anniversary this year.  My parents came and stayed at our house and watched Lucas and Paige and we were baby free the whole trip!  We had such a good time!  The first day we were there we went on a boat ride out to Marieta Islands.  The islands are a national park and they have a lot of cool bird species and stuff to look at.  We got to go snorkeling and kayaking while we were there.  There was this really cool beach but you had to snorkel through a cave to get to it so we didn't get to take our camera, but here we are on the boat.

We went to the grocery store and got juice and pastries, so we had a yummy breakfast on our balcony every morning.  It was such a pretty view, and so relaxing listening to the waves.

On our actual anniversary we went zip-lining.  This was really cool, we had a blast.

Here we are racing.  I'm on the left and Ryan's on the right.  Ryan won, but only cause he's heavier than me, I didn't try to slow myself down once on any of these.  They even had to weigh me down on the last really long one to make sure I would make it the whole way.  Apparently I need to eat more before we try zip-lining again.

We also did some repelling.

And some off road racing.

That night we went to this dinner show on a really pretty beach.  The show was pretty cool and the dinner was delicious.  The view was beautiful, I wish it had been lighter outside so we could appreciate it more.  We were at a private table for two right next to the ocean.  Too bad you can't really tell.

We did manage to get a bit of a picture of what our view looked like.

The next day we took a tour of the city.  They had a lot of cool statues along the boardwalk.

And we stopped and saw the cathedral.

And we drove up the coast a bit to see some sights.

There was this cool area with pools and small waterfalls flowing over smooth stones.  It reminded me a lot of Johnson's Shut-ins in Missouri.

After all the exploring and adventures we'd had, we decided to spend some time relaxing in the hotel pool.

 

And watch the sun set.

We had an awesome view of the sunset from our room every night too.

The last day we were there, we got massages in the hotel spa and then we got to swim in the pools and hot tubs they had.  And we got to drink yummy dragon fruit juice.

We also got breakfast at the beach side cafe.  I got used to relaxing meals with incredible views.

There was an open bar on a lot of the tours we did.  I always ordered virgin pina coladas.  The people were always super confused when we specified without alcohol.  They thought we were nuts!  The last day we got some drinks while we were waiting for our taxi back to the hotel.  I got one last pina colada.  I might have to start making these at home.

Also while waiting for our taxi we saw this iguana climbing up the side of our hotel.  You can't really tell from the picture but it was huge!  It was at least 4 feet long.  Not that I'm really scared of lizards, but that thing is just climbing up the side right underneath someone's balcony.  What if you were sitting on your balcony and than thing just came up to visit?  I'm glad I saw this on the last day we were there. 

It was so nice to get away, but it was nice to get home to our babies again.  We sure did miss those little guys.