Merry Christmas!!!

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Little America....Brunch

My family has a Christmas Tradition of going to Little America for Brunch.  Can I just say how super yummy this is.  I love that our family does this.  The kids were even able to visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus (they needed to make sure they were still on the nice list...there have been some doubts haha).  Here are some pictures.

Cora's Very First Dance Concert

Everyone knows how excited I was to have Cora start dance.  I just love that sort of thing.  Cora has been loving her dance class.  She is always so excited to go and runs right in.  The dance rehearsal was the night before the concert.  Cora got up there and was so excited.  So......I thought we would have no issues the night of the performance.  I was wrong.  Cora started acting clingy right before it was to start.  I ended up having to go back stage with her because she would not go back by herself.  I was not sure if she was even going to do it when the time came.  Luckily she did go, a little reluctant, but still.  I was so happy.  I see a long future of dance haha!!

Disney Cruise 2011....Day 7

So our last day on the boat was a Sea Day.  It is kind of sad because you know that you are getting off the boat early the next morning.  There were a lot of fun things going on on the boat.  My main thing I wanted to do that day was take Cora to see the princesses.

Cora loved seeing all of the princesses and getting them to sign her book.

The boys also got to spend some more time at the Oceaneer Club and Oceaneer Lab which they begged to do the entire trip.  I did not take any pictures of this but here is a couple from the website.

We also did some of the adult activities during the day.....

After a kind of low key day we had dinner.  At dinner they did a show on different nationalities.  That was fun to see. Then we headed to the farwell show....After the show ended it was back to the rooms to pack up.....So Sad.

We loved our Vacation!!!!

Disney Cruise 2011....Day 6

Cabo San Lucas
     So today was our 2nd day at Cabo.  Our plan was to go over to Lover's Beach....which is right by Lands End.  We spent the day swimming, snorkeling (didn't get any pictures....Thad took pictures of all of us and then when we got back to land he realized the camera was off while taking the pictures...Hello???), and playing in the sand.

Because we were at Lover's Beach we thought it was a must to walk over and check out Divorce Beach.  I don't know why it is called Divorce Beach it should be called Widows Beach....Because if you swim there you die.  They have tons and tons of signs saying not to swim at this beach (because of a bad undercurrent)....

Ciara and I kept daring each other to go further down into the water to take a picture....In where we knew we weren't suppose to haha.  So we were posing for the pictures then got nervous and ran...Thad was taking the picture and thought it was hilarious.  Here is the picture along with all the signs warning against getting in the water.

It was a great day of fun in the sun.....Now for Pirate Night.

 Our littlest pirate (Cora) slept through most of dinner and the pirate celebrations in the dining room.  Later that night they had a pirate show up on the top deck and then launched fireworks. 

Probably my favorite day......Magical!!

Disney Cruise 2011...Day 5

Cabo San Lucas
We spent two days in Cabo and I absolutely loved both of them.  On this first day we got off and headed to the really nice beach resorts.  We had the plan of hanging out on the beach and jet skiing.  We rented three wave runners that could fit three people on each.  They were huge.  It was surprising how much Cora loved the wave runners she thought they were great.  Casen also loved them, especially when he was driving.  Jace didn't really care for the wave runners.  He just wanted to be at the beach and swimming.  Jace was crazy when it came to swimming in the ocean.  He would swim clear out to the way deep water.  We all had to keep up with Jace haha.  All three kids had life jackets on.  I was not about to have one of my kids drowned in Mexico.
Here are some pictures from Day 1 In Cabo:

After we played at the beach for a while my Mom, Ciara, Casen, and I decided we wanted to ride on the banana.  It was way way fun.  The banana was a double so you could sit on either side or in the middle.  The guy driving the boat was pretty crazy so about 5 minutes into the ride.....all four of us were in the middle.  I can not believe we do not have any pictures of this.  Sad.  This is something we will definitely do again.