Mexico!!!

Is it possible to have the best vacation ever twice in one year???  Because I'm pretty sure it happened to me and Alan.

We spent 5 days here....

with 7 of our other friends...and it was wonderful!  I can't wait to go on another trip like this.  If you have never been somewhere all inclusive.....start planning!  It's definitely the way to go! We stayed at the Grand Sunset Princess in Playa Del Carmen...

Thursday evening we drove to Atl and got a hotel.  That night we all went out to eat at my favorite place....

then we made a quick trip to Wal-Mart and then headed back to our hotel.

Friday morning, we had to be up early to get to the airport.  Our flight left at 9:50 so we got there around 7:00.  Brandon, Alan, and Brit had never flown and most of the group had never been out of the country so I was expecting some issues.  However, everything went great. We flew from Atl to Miami and then to Cancun.  I have no clue what time we got to our resort, but we checked it, and immediately got in the pool.  We had a pool side room so we literally walked out of our room and we were in the pool.

It was one of the best things about our vacation.  We were there about......5 minutes before everyone was headed to the swim up bar to get drinks.

Right off the bat, we met some random, fun people at the pool.  One girl had lived in Memphis for a while.  None of us had eaten much during the day.  We were starving and drunk tipsy when we went to dinner at the buffet.  Pretty sure most of us went with soaking wet hair and in a horrible outfit.  Joanna and I actually left dinner a little early and went back to the room.

Saturday, we got up and went to the beach, played in the pool, and Brandon, Alan, and I went exploring...

Supporting my Vols!!!

That night we had reservations at one of the Mexican restaurants at the resort

The Girls

 Supporting the Vols again...

 The group...

Brandon got a bit drunk prior to dinner and at least 2 different table moved away from us because he was being so loud.  We were all entertained/embarrassed.  It was pretty funny though.  He kept yelling that he liked Taco Bell better and that there was bat shit on his plate!  Definitely glad there was noone around we knew.

 This is him pissing relieving himself in the bushes...right outside of the restaurant.  I still can't believe we didn't get kicked out of the resort this night

 Jo and Margaux taking him back to his room.

 @ the disco club

 New friends from Missouri who is also a RN!

 Tara...AKA girl who lived in Memphis

The infamous jelly fish shot.

to be continued....

Most Relaxing Vaca EVER

Alan and I just got home from our vacation.  We had a great time and it was SO relaxing.  Usually I pack my vacations full of things to do but I this time I wanted to RELAX.  So I hadn't planned anything.  Alan was convinced that we would be going, going, going once we got there, but he was WRONG.

We got to the resort around 3 p.m. on Sunday and I was pleasantly surprised.  We stayed here...

 The place was really nice!  We checked in and headed up to our room.  We had an ocean view with a balcony.  I LOVE being right on the ocean.  It makes everything super convenient.  Everyone at the resort was super nice and I just kept waiting for something to go wrong (it never did.)  They had valet parking which you had to use.  I wasn't really crazy about that, I'd rather just park our own car and walk, but whatever.  We had a little mini fridge that they re-stocked daily with drinks and a drawer that they re-stocked with snacks. 


Sunday evening was spent relaxing in the room until we walked down the street to get something to eat.  We ate at some random place just a short walk from our room.  I ordered loaded nachos and there were amazing!  I also ordered a drink but it was awful!  I honestly don't remember what we did each day but every day we went to the beach, sat in our little chairs with our feet in the water, and I read a book!  It was so wonderful!  I read....

while we were there and I loved all 3 of them...

We did some shopping one evening, but got there too late and so we went back the next day.  We visited two of the Harley stores in town, walked down the beach at night, went to my favorite restaurant ever TGI Friday's, and tried another restaurant which was a local favorite!

That's about it!  I never knew relaxing could be so nice! 

I can't wait to do it again!!!

 The pool...

Dinner our 1st night...

 I think this was when we 1st got there...hence the no makeup lool

 My favorite wine...Blackberry from Del Monico winery

Recap!

Thursday after I got off of work, I went to the house and napped for a bit before Nicole, Logan, Brit, Tess, and Amber came up and we went to the lake.  Brandon and Alan met us down there!  We spent most of our time pulling Logan on the tube!  Tubing is his favorite!  It was nice to spend time with them!  Tess and Amber left pretty early.  That evening the boys went to town to get us pizza for dinner!  Nicole and Logan spent the night with us!

The weather was crappy on Friday so we ran do town Friday morning to get some things done and take Logan to get his hair cut!  Nicole decided to go home early because she wasn't feeling well!  Logan rode to town with Alan to buy his jeep and I took a nap!  I really don't remember what we did the rest of the day, but I do know that we took the jeep down to the creek that night and Josh and Brandon spent the night!

Saturday morning, we went to town to get stuff to do arts and craft.  We made play dough, bouncy balls (which was a fail), a painting, and a knit ball!  Logan loves to do stuff like that!  The boys spent the evening outside shooting bows and I actually cooked dinner!  After that, Logan, Alan, Brandon, Josh, and me went riding back roads in the jeep!  Nicole and Michael got there late that night!  We had a house full, JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT!

 Logan fixing to jump...

 Arts and Crafts

Time to go riding... 

Sunday, the boys got up and went to play golf.  Nicole, Logan, and I stayed at the house.  We rented Soul Surfer another movie on lifetime!  It was nice to get to spend time with the two of them, but I wish the weather would have been better because I felt like I did nothing all weekend!

Monday, I went to lay out with Jo at her house for a bit and then went to the house to spend some time with Logan.  We played in the pool, then I met Tess at the walking track and ran, then ran to Nicole's to see the baby!  He's up to 16 lbs and the prettiest little boy ever!  Tuesday morning I took Logan to his 1st day of 1st grade : (

I can't believe how fast he is growing up!  It makes me so sad.  I have mentioned before that he loves music, just like I do.  So I usually let him pick the songs of pick songs that I know he likes when we are in the car together.  That morning he requested Jason Aldean's Hicktown and Alan Jackson's Don't Rock the Jukebox....he's got pretty good taste!  We also listened to Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams and Country Boy by Alan Jackson because he also loves both of those!  After I dropped him off I went straight home and Brit and Jo came over!  We had a wine/craft day!  It was lots of fun.  Wednesday we went shopping!  I bought....

and lots more!  Although, the sunglasses Alan is paying me back for as part of my birthday present.  I also bought a Tennessee sweatshirt at VS, a new shirt at express, a new fedora hat, and some other goodies.  We also went to 

except it was the Nashville store, where I spent too much money!

Back to work Thur-Saturday!

But I'm really hopping the weather will be nice Sunday, because I am dying for a day on the lake

Birthday Weekend!

I turned 25 this weekend, sad I know.

Good news is I had a great weekend.  I slept 3 hours after I got off of work Friday morning, then Margaux, Brittany, and Brandon came over and we went to the lake.  No one was out so we had great water.  Margaux learned to ride and is probably addicted to wakeboarding just like the rest of us!  We had a great time relaxing!  That evening we cooked out.  The 5 of us were there, plus Thad, Blake, Catie-from work, Jo, Noah, Josh, and Jake.  Alan and Brandon cooked and it was delish!  They also made me a cake and managed to get all 25 candles lit, it was cute!  They ended up playing wiffle ball for quite a while, I was running on very little sleep, so I just watched.  It was pretty entertaining.  I think everyone left around 1 am and then I got in the bed.

Blowing out candles on my cake Alan and Brandon made!

 Singing Happy B-Day

Yummy Food

I had wanted to leave early for the lake Saturday morning, but decided to sleep in instead!  Brit and Thad met us later on at Huddle House, we ate and then went back to the house for a bit to watch a movie.  I'm not sure what the movie was, I was working on Maddy's picutres the whole time.

 After it went off, we went to the lake.  We had pretty good water since it was later in the evening.  I finally figured out how to switch!  We stayed till around 8pm.  My favorite time to be on the lake is late in the evening when everyone else is gone!  We had planned on going out to dinner, but I really just wanted to hang out at home with Alan, so that's what we did.  We tried to watch "Unknown" but both fell asleep.

Sunday morning, Nicole, Michael, and Logan came up.  We had breakfast and then went back to the lake for a bit.  We did the usual.  Nicole, Michael, and Logan all tried to wakeboard.  I'm really hoping Logan gets it figured out soon because I know he will love it.  I ended up clearing the wake and actually landing at 70 foot so I was super excited about that...Happy Birthday to me!  Logan tubed for quite a while, that's his favorite thing and this year he is much braver than he was last year!  We ran into a guy Alan used to work with a talked to them for a while.  After the lake, the boys went to play golf and Nicole and I played a couple of games of Monopoly, the Cars 2 version, with Logan and then we all napped.

Later, Logan, Alan, and I went to Chili's to eat for my birthday!  After that we took him over to Josh and Jake's to see Jake's snake.  He was scared of it at first, but ended up holding it and now he says he wants a pet snake.  I told him, that's one thing he probably won't be able to talk his parent's into!

We spent this morning relaxing and then went to town to do some shopping for school clothes!  This is the 1st year I've actually let him pick out some of his own clothing.  He could care less about jeans but he did pick out his shirts.  We also got Nicole a Brighton charm bracelet for her birthday.  I let him pick out which bracelet to get for her and he also picked her out a charm.

I'm not sure why he picked a frog, but that's what he wanted, so I let him get it.  Some of his other choices were a mouse, an airplane, and a fish!  We also got her an "S" for Sissy and because her last name will start with a "S" after she gets married and I got her one that says sister!  We are going to give it to her tomorrow!