My Favorite Vacations

Since people are probably in the midst of planning weddings for the summer, I thought I would share 5 of my favorite vacations we've taken. Granted all of our vacations are my favorite but these my favorite right now.

Our honeymoon. The whole thing was amazing, it was 2.5 weeks of island hoping, 8 hotel rooms in 20 days, but Bora Bora was my absolute favorite place we stayed. The view from our over the water hut. One day I'll recap this for you and give you tips to traveling to French Polynesia

We spent a lot of time at the pool

Horse back riding, you know the usual.

For our first anniversary we went to Barbados, so much fun!

Submarine tour

Our East Coat Road Trip we went from Washington DC to Vermont and back in 2 weeks. With a few stops along the way.

Our best friend through the whole trip

We were actually going to see my cousin graduated from Dartmouth and decided to visit some friends in DC as well and might as well go to New York cause it's on the way right?

Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, awesome show!

Our trip to Europe. We went to Rome, Florence, Cinque Terra, and Switzerland. It was such an awesome trip with some amazing friends (those same friends who live in DC)!

If you look closely you can see all of our coins mid air (although Mr.'s is barely leaving his hand)

Spanish Steps

A trip to Rome wouldn't be complete without seeing the Pope, so cool how close we were to him. It was pouring rain, so instead of having it outside they did it in St. Peter's. Loved it.

Onto Florence

Of the 2000 pictures that we took of this trip, this is one of the ONLY ones that Mr. is smiling and not closing his eyes, seriously. And it's because we found this market with the best cappuccino ever.

Bike Riding through Tuscany, amazing.

Next up Cinque Terra...by far our favorite part. We stayed in the "fourth" town, I wish we had just one more day here, but we only gave ourselves one day to explore.

Onto Switzerland

Cause everyone who goes to Switzerland goes to an Alanis Morrisette concert right? They had this outdoor festival and she was the headliner...crazy right. No one speaks a lick of English but they all knew every word to her songs.

The view from our hotel room...yep every town there has their own castle. Cool right?

 It was supposed to be a big group of people who went up to Yosemite, but in the end it was just me and Mr. it was great spending time together and hiking lots.

The time that Curtis and I hiked this guy, also known as Half Dome:

We took this picture the day before when we went for a drive, we couldn't believe we were going to hike that!

Yep it was raining when we started on our journey

At Nevada falls, most people turn around cause the hard part is after this, but we felt great and wanted to keep going.

We kept seeing these signs. We'd run into some rangers and they would tell us that we should turn around that the Half Dome is probably wet and it's super dangerous to climb up when it's wet. But we kept on going. Figuring lets at least get to where we really can't go any further.

We're getting closer!

We finally make it and have to take the cables...I don't know if I can do this!

Yep we climbed up that!

We made it! Remember that little point jetting out in the first picture? Yep that's where we are standing!

What made this trip so amazing was that usually there are hundreds of people hiking this and you can sometimes wait hours to get up the cables...but us, there were about 10 people there because most people did even start the hike because of the rain. We took the longer less steep way back to camp...

We made it! Still smiling and ready for some dinner!

There you have it, 5 of my favorite vacations.

What are your favorite vacations?

 Linking up with: Erika, Andrea, and Narci for Friday Favorites,  September Farm and The Farmer's Wife for Oh Hey, Friday, 
April, Darci, Natasha and Christina for Five on Friday  

Outfit Perfection + Some Randoms

Mr is not so good at taking my picture inside...we're going to have to work on that. Somehow he made my head look huge...although I'm sort of wondering if my head really is that big...hmmm?? Anyway, this is my favorite combo, leggings, tunic, tall boots. Perfection in my book.

Big head...I think he was just standing too close, next time I'll have him stand farther away...so happy that it is staying lighter a little later.

Random Stuff:

 Yesterday Baby Fox had to go to the doctors for a routine check up. 

In case you wanted to know, he's 34 pounds and 39.8 inches

They told me that he would have no shots so that's what I told him and then when they got there, he had to get two shots...

Don't worry he got the special treatment last night, ice cream before dinner.

Last night Baby Fox was doing his usual bedtime delay tactics, so I thought I would take a bedtime picture, might as well fuel the fire a bit.

I might have been tickling him at the time to get that smile

Hope you're having a great Wednesday. Work is crazy, so I appologize for not being able to visit all of your blogs. I miss being able to read them all, everyday. Silly work getting in the way.

Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy, Tucker Up , Shopping my Closet and Molly and Carly for Let it Shine

Mother In Law Brought the Rain with Her

Another weekend come and gone, it went too fast! Doesn't it always? Mr.'s Mom came for a really quick visit, it was nice to see her. We haven't seen her since May, so it's been a while.

This is Thursday night while getting ready for dinner, Mini Fox wanted at the table, but the chair was pushed in. She thought this would work...then quickly realized...

That when she went to sit up, it didn't work.

She she just laid back down...then got off.

Friday night after dinner I said, hey we haven't gotten all of us in a picture recently, this is what I got.

close enough, we're all there

Mr. was playing "horse" with his legs, the kids loved it.

That's not drool, she's messy with her cups.

Saturday morning, cartoons and snuggles. Mama's head is the perfect pillow apparently.

Followed some pancakes

The kids ate all of these...we were shocked!

Mr. and Baby Fox went to pick up Grandma from the airport. She must have brought the rain with her from Seattle, because it rained the entire time she was here...so we really didn't do much, just stayed at home and ate. Lol, what else was there to do?

Baby Fox did convinced Grandma to take him to Yogurtland.

That little girl in the back with the green shirt on, had the cutest furry boots on, I wanted to steal them off her feet!

While the kids napped, Grandma and I went and got our nails done, it was so nice, I haven't done that in a long time.

We got matching nail colors, but I forgot to take a picture of that.

Saturday night Grandma's sister met up with us for some dinner.

Baby Fox did not want his picture taken. Also I need longer arms.

Sunday morning, Starbucks run, we don't own a coffee maker, crazy right?

cute girl

Grandma bought the kids the Little People Klip Klop Princess Stable so we broke that out and was playing with it all day. Baby Fox decided that the 5 princesses were his "kids". He took the castle on the left (part of a different toy), and that was his carrying case for the "kids.

Baby Fox decided that he was going on day vacation...he's all packed up and ready to go.

And then told Mr. to watch the "kids" and to wake them up at 1 to give them a bath (he even gave Mr. a bath tub)

In case you wanted to know, Baby Fox got "home" before the "kids" woke up

The best thing happened yesterday too, okay maybe not the best thing, but it was a nice surprise, I was going through the freezer trying to find some pork tenderloin, but instead of that I found some ribs, so we got ribs for dinner. Yay for good surprises! Mr. took his mom back to the airport during naptime, yep it was a quick trip.

We ended the night with some hallway running.

How was your weekend? Friday is my day off, looking forward to a 3 day weekend!

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather for Mommy Moments, Bella & Lisa for Weekend Link-up,  Meg for Mingle Monday and Erin for Weekend Snapshot