The blog has been down and I haven't been able to post recently, but here I am! Just wanted to share 2 things as of late....
We celebrated our 15th Anniversary!!!
This past week we took a few days in the middle of the week and headed a few hours to the beach to celebrate our 15th Anniversary!
So many others are also celebrating anniversaries this summer, but with much bigger numbers, making 15 sound like just a bit. However at the same time, I look around me at the marriages that are falling apart and the people we are working with who struggle to make it through the next month together and am so thankful that we have God at our centre. It might sound nice and sweet but it's the truth - without that commitment to God and to each other, the motivation to forgive each other and decide to love would not be there.
We are not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but I am so thankful for Dallas and our marriage. I'm also thankful that we like to have fun together and that as a family we really enjoy being together!
This is only the second time we've gone to the beach as just our family - we usually wait until we have visitors from Canada come or if Mexican friends invite us to go with them - and so we had a bit of trouble when it came to the hotel room.
It seems that five people in one room is just not acceptable, at least if it's a hotel where they care about these things.
We originally were not going to stay at this hotel (which is our family favorite as it has a water slide and an underwater cave) but when Brady decided he would rather go to this particular hotel than have a birthday party later this month in order to be able to spend a little more here...well, we were on board ;)
So we read all the fine print and saw we could pay a tad extra to have 5 people in the room, however when we got there we were informed that this didn't apply to the smallest room at the hotel. We were supposed to pay the difference for a larger room plus pay for an extra person - would have been an additional $500 or so!!! I don't think so!! We showed them the fine print on our reservation and while they insisted that it was a mistake on their website, they had to honor it! phew.
So we had a wonderful 3 days and celebrating our Anniversary with the boys was so great!
I know you can see the loooooove for pictures all 4 of my guys have through these pictures...
Side note: We have been to this same hotel in December/January, when it is FULL of Americans and Canadians. Now that it is summer it was mostly Mexicans there as it's holiday time here. Well, the environment is so different! One major thing we noticed is that there are tons of people in the pool and in the ocean when it's Mexicans there.....it would seem that Americans/Canadians tend to not get in the water and are rather laying on the chairs all around the pool and in front of the ocean. ok ok I know there are exceptions ;) but it was a markable difference.
The boys also went to CAMP
We had heard of a Christian camp close by here so this year all 3 boys went for the first time! They were able to all go the same week which was so great for them, plus Carter invited 2 friends and Logan had 1 friend join him. They loved camp and are eager to go back next year.
We went to visit the camp a month before as we didn't want to be inviting others or recommending it without seeing that it was safe and a good place. It is run by a group of Bible Churches and is well run. They also have a Bible school there at the camp and the counselors are Bible school students that stay for the summer.
So we were happy to have found the camp and happy that our boys enjoyed their time there. This also meant 5 days of interrupted time for Dallas and I, which gave us a lot of time to talk and plan for ministry, for our family, and to spend some time together.
DREAM, SENSES, LIGHT, INSPIRING, WHAT-SPEAKS-TO-YOU, HAPPY, FLY, MUSIC, TASTY, SUPPORT, SPECIAL, PLACE, BREAK, TOMORROW, DESTINATION, BRAND, EVENT, NO, LAUGH, FEED, MIND-BLOWING, FABULOUS, COMPARE, EXCLUSIVE, FUZZY, FRIEND, BATTLE, SIGN, GRATITUDE, SMILE
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