A Full Saturday

I've been behind again on blogging, Mom started a blog for her mission and Becky has been blogging lately which has pushed me back to wanting to get caught up.

I started my by getting up and doing laundry, cleaning the kitchen and getting myself ready for the day (I've noticed that with my losing weight and becoming happier with myself that I have a lot more selfies, haha). Lipstick is a new thing for me but it makes a huge difference!

I had seen something a couple of weeks ago on Facebook called Children's Entrepreneur Market. It is a farmers market style thing completely ran by kids (they manage the booths, are supposed to make the sales, use the money, etc.), I thought that it sounded like a cool idea and the event was happening here in Lehi at Thanksgiving Point. I had invited Libbey and the kids but she wasn't feeling up to going so I took Alexia and Sophie. It was super cool, over 150 booths, many of them with things that the kids had made themselves (games, food, slime, magic tricks, bracelets, etc.).  

 This was probably Sophie's favorite booth, they painted her nails!

 It was quite impressive all that they got to do/buy with their $5!

 After the market the girls and I went straight to Ben and Sonia's for Nadia's bridal shower. The girls got to play with Isabel. At one point Isabel came up and sat between Rachel and I and promptly fell asleep.

 After the shower we went home. Libbey said that she needed to go and check on Kiera that she should probably be awake by now. I walked in and found that Kiera was wide awake, sitting up and playing with her shoes. She didn't even notice that I was there taking her picture for a bit but as soon as she did she wanted me to help with her shoe and then get her out.

 We ended the evening by going swimming at the community pool. Kiera was so cute, she would stand at the edge of the pool and throw the diving ring for me to get and bring it back to her so that she would throw it again (talking about it I feel like a dog).

She decided that she was cold and done so I got to do some snuggling with her.

Welcome to Mexico!

(Lucky for us we have several Spanish speakers in the family, which made it easier to get a better deal...I think that, that guy in the purple looks like Erick's Dad from behind)

Day 3 and destination 2 brought us to Ensenada Mexico! When we got off the ship we walked through a building full of little shops (that were already tempting the shopping senses of the girls) and found that they had lots and lots of buses lined up to take us into downtown for $1 or $2. On the way there the guide told us all about the different tours that we could take and how they would charge us cheaper, blah, blah, blah! (though of course it was cheaper then the prices that the ship offered but we still could get it cheaper!) With lots of people (and different nap schedules) it is sometimes hard to decide on what to do, we had heard about a blowhole and decided that is what we would all do. We walked a couple of blocks away from where the bus dropped us off and we found a nice guy that was willing to drive us all out there with his buddy for a very reasonable price.

Shopping looking at the wares

Candy and other yummy treats everywhere!

In case you didn't know Jacob is a big fan of superheroes, when he saw these cool masks/capes I think that it was love at first sight :) He was so happy to get it and there was a bit of a panic when we were getting out of the vans and it could not be found at first.

See all of those red jackets? They were a school group from China and they were on the cruise with us, how cool is that!?

Look at all of that water!

That is some cute kids and an Auntie looking at the water coming up.

Jacob found the perfect spot to watch the water come up, and it came up really high and all landed on him! Everyone wanted to take his picture :D

So good!

One of our two buses that took us the whole way, someone had told us that it wasn't very far but I'm pretty sure that it took us 20-30 minutes to get there.

I do my own kind of planking :)

I knocked on the door but no one answered so I went down on the ground to see if I could see anyone in there and then they opened the door (at about the same time that their neighbor came out--yep I'm a dork!)

Libbey, Sonia, Kyle, and I (Mom's taking the picture)...after naps we went on a walk back into town to see what we could find.

That flag was HUGE!

Dang that's gorgeous!

Dinner time! I loved the fruit, I got some kind of fruit dish at every meal.

The waiters were dancing for us and Jacob wanted to join in so Libbey stood up and danced as well.

Dessert-- this is one reason why I want to go to culinary arts school to learn to make things pretty like this.

We walked in to the theater area to watch a show and they were teaching how to do a dance, immediately that's where Jacob and Libbey went (Libbey is in the white shorts on the right).

Jacob (front and center), he tried but we came in a little late so he was a little behind in learning the dance.

They did a version of minute to win-it this kid was probably 16/17 and he won! He was also from Utah, so it made us laugh when his prize was a bottle of champagne (I heard someone come up and suggest that he could trade it and get a shirt of something).

Our towel friend!