Mexico

Well! We made it. we have been to mexico and back. and we are still alive and loved. and filled with great memories.

mccoy's first plane ride.

day 1.

original flight got canceled. so our new flight left at 545 am from springfield. we headed to spfd tues night then got up bright and early wed am. mccoy got up at 2:30 and i never went back to sleep. waited around to wake kids up til 4am then off to the airport. we were feeling pretty good about getting there early. UNTIL....

they have some sort of problem getting mccoys ticket in the computer. we have it on our papers but the computer does not register it. we are starting to get nervous. the airline guy's hands start to shake when he realizes he cant fix it. the flight is supposed to be taking off right now. mom and dad go ahead and go through security. everyone is scrambling. finally 15min after flight is supposed to leave they got it and tell us to go..we are flying through security..jason gets so flustered he flies through and now i am stuck with all of our bags stroller and 2 kids. haha. all of the airline people are trying to help take lizas shoes off hold mccoy get bags through and put stroller up. liza is freaking. i look up and see my dad sprinting back to security he grabs liza and says the plane is leaving and to run as fast as you can. i am still not through security yet. liza is FREAKING out now and kicking and screaming her head off as my dad is running back to the gate with her. mean time, back at the gate, my mom is bawling crying pleading with the man not to leave her family. he keeps telling her that he has to shut the door.

we all finally get on board. liza and mccoy are both crying and liza is pretty much hyperventilating and is doing the "flopping noodle" where you can barely hold her. the whole plane is looking at us like oh crap.

we get on and things start to calm down. UNTIL.

liza has a HUGE diarrhea. jason is sitting with her in the row in front of me but i am sitting on the window so i cant hop up with mccoy very well. he takes her to the bathroom to change it. he can't shut the door with both of them in there. the poop flies all over him. all over his face clothes, even up his nose. he now starts to yell down the plane to me that he needs help.

the whole plane smells like doo doo. the flight attendant is yelling to not put the diaper in the trash it is toxic waste. jason leaves everything in the bathroom including her pants that are ruined. we go back to get all the goods to take with us back to our seat.. seriously..who knew you had to take your own poop with you??? :)

we get to atlanta safely and head off again. liza was not too awful on the flights after that. but she never slept a wink!

we make it to the hotel. (azul sensatori is the name of it) they greet us with champagne, towels and liza gets a smoothie! she has entered heaven.

this girl loved the beach. she never cared that the sand was all over her or that there was seaweed. she just loved it. she would chase birds, run into the waves, build sand castles...etcetc.

they had these huge beds on the beach that were in these huts. it felt awesome in there. the breeze came in and it was perfect for these kiddos. mccoy took his naps in there and would just chill!

liza was so excited to see uncle chippy and aunt "den" she just loves them.

it seriously took all six adults giving 100% to keep up with liza.

showing aunt jen how she can float!

mccoy snoozin...

aunt jen building sand castles

my happy happy boy.

mccoy could not have been easier on the trip. he was great on the plane and just went with the flow wherever we were...

he would get up around 5 every morning and i would feed him then head out with him in the baby bjorn. he loved this and would squeal with delight. usually i would catch my dad loitering around our room. he gets up at like 4am everyday and then my dad and i would go get coffee and sit around and talk. i would also go walk on the beach with mccoy in the morning. i was in heaven. it was quit. beautiful. i could say my prayers and thank god for his gifts.

liza got to take bubble baths and watch movies while we would get ready. she had it made!

we had a photographer take family pics one night. of course, liza FREAKED. she was not having anything to do with it. i will have to get the disc from my mom so you can see.

so we didn't get any good fam pics that night. also, my camera refused to work the first couple days we were there and then would only work sometimes because of the condensation.

playing with ehr snakes. i got her these snakes and a dinasour figure that she was obsessed with. they went everywhere with us.

i could just eat this guy. he is such a charmer. he loves to give away smiles...

oh ya, forgot to tell you that liza almost drowned. we rescued her.

oh ya, AND mccoy fell out of his stroller onto the marble floor.

liza in the robe from the hotel. feeling pretty special.

this was the most kid friendsly place i have ever seen. they thought of everything. they brought an infant bathtub for mccoy and we could go get toys for them to play with. the pool was 2 feet in front of our room. and the beach was 6 feet the toehr direction. it was so convenient.

they had sand toys, pool toys, a whole kids area with fountains and spray things...they had a my gym area and a doll room where tea parties were set up and doll houses everwhere.

one night at dinner our dvd ran out of batteries and within 60 seconds a man brought over a pink dvd player and put in a movie for liza.

Thank you coco and cricket!!!! we are so grateful for you and all that you do. there is no way we could do it without you. you are a constant teacher. we learn by watching you all.

more than the trip and the wine and the ocean..we are grateful for the time. i am just so so thankful for our time together with my fam! love you all!

this was the only fam pic we took besides teh photographer one. not our best. it is hard to get it all together! :)

liza was great on our flights back BUT we did almost miss our last flight because the computer messed up and kicked us off the last leg of the flight. at this point we had already been at the memphis airport for 3 hours and were boarding and they told us this. once again tehy were holding the whole plane for us to get on. at this point i started to cry because i just had a vision of me sleeping on the floor with my 4 month old and 2 yearl old in some scary memphis hotel.. BUT they get it figured out and we got on! of course by them all of our seats that had been together had been re ticketed and it was a scramble to get it figured out.

we got back to spfd around 10 last night then came home today!

liza took a 3 hour nap today and told us last night that she was ready to sleep in her bed and she was tired. my reply was, finally, after 7 months of not sleeping liza is tired!!!!!!! yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!