It has been a pretty busy summer and we have enjoyed it soooo much! So many things happened that I will try my best to keep it short and yet, include everything although, that might not really happen because I love to share too many details, but let's give it a try.
So after all of our kids' parties we were secretly getting ready for our long trip to Dallas! We wanted to surprise our family because we knew they wanted to see the kiddos and we really wanted to see them so we thought we would give them a nice surprise. We had this planned since the beginning of May and let me just say that it's hard keeping a secret, but it's do-able. My dad had been visiting us every so often so when we told him that we wanted to spend a couple of weeks down in Dallas he agreed to make another trip to pick us up and take us to Dallas, but before that he took us to Atlantic city. It took us a while to drive out there, but once we got to the hotel we put on our bathing suits and went to the beach. The girls played a little in the water, Adan didn't like it, and then we walked the board walk, went to the fair and played some games, Jahvel and my dad took a helicopter ride and later had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. The following day we spent all day on the board walk and went to a really cool mall, saw a water fountain show, ate and at night saw the fireworks off the beach. They were really cool and the kids enjoyed it. We then made the drive back home. The next day we made our long surprise drive to Dallas in dad's 18 wheeler. The girls were so excited and we practically watched movies and slept all the way. We did stop to have our meals and the kids were actually really good. Adan would sleep in his car seat for a while and then he would play on the bed with his sisters. What a fun experience for them! When we finally arrived around noonish we stayed at the taller and I really wanted to see the family, but a surprise party for Andres had already been planned for that evening. I must say he was genuinely surprised and I think it went pretty well. There was food, cake and even a pinata! The following day I surprised grandma. I called her and pretended like I was in Philly and told her that I wanted mole the next time I saw her and she said she would make me some and then we rang her doorbell and surprised her. Begue wasn't home so we hid and when Begua sent him to their room for her "medicine" we surprised him, too. We planned to get the rest of the family together by inviting them over for lunch with the excuse that Andres got a raise and lunch was on him. When they started to arrive we hid in Braulio's room and stayed there until everyone arrived and then we did face time and said hi to everyone and later came out of the room and surprised them all. We spent 2 fun weeks with the family doing all sorts of things like shopping, swimming, garage saling, picking up my mom at the airport, GNO at the Gaylord, outlets, movies, baby shower, 50th anniversary at Texas Land and Cattle, a surprise birthday party for me at Chuck E. Cheese from my day, and a birthday breakfast on my last day with mom, bro and sis in law! I got to fly back home, but boy was it tough with the kids. My flight got delayed and then changed to a direct flight, but delayed again because of a thunderstorm and when I finally got to the philly airport at night, my luggage was missing! I got it delivered the following day. We then drove the next day to the Hill Cumorah pageant in New York with the kiddos and camped out in the car after it was over. We also spent some time in Philly going to historic places before moving away. What a great summer this turned out to be. I really needed a vacation like this one.
Almost 2 weeks later I flew with the kiddos again! Our vacay was not over yet, we were going to spend about 2 weeks with mom in St. George! But I really don't want to fly solo with kids again. This time we left early in the morning and again my flight got delayed and the kids were not that well behaved especially Adan who was just all squirmy and loud. I had to take the kids to the restroom and change Adan's diaper in a small confined space during some turbulence... not fun!! When we arrived they had taken my stroller with the rest of the luggage and so I had to use a wheelchair to put all of our carry on and later the kids sat on top of all that. We spent some quality time with Begue, Begua and mom. We went to watch Aladdin at Tuacahn with the kiddos, which was way fun!! We got to visit my in laws and spend some time with them. We also did some shopping, swimming and garage saling while we were there. Adan actually learned to walk at mom's house!! Jahvel finally arrived and we spent a couple of days there before heading to our new home in Idaho Falls.
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