Playa girls trip:)

I have such a great group of girlfriends from college. We try to get together once a year, and this year we went to Playa Del Carmen. We had a great time and the whole trip was beautiful!!!

We went to a public beach that only the local's knew about, and were pretty much the only one's on the beach-this was near the Mayan ruins in the Caribbean

I love the miracle of the ocean stopping. Think of all the tons of water and sea life, and then God just tells it to stop.

Proverbs 8:29

"When He (God) set forth the sea it's boundary, so that the water would not transgress His command" This very moment God set this wave's boundary!!!! 

Love it:)

We spent the day shopping and having fun

Danielle, Alyson and I decided not to show these guys up...

This was our place where we stayed

Our crazy cab driver that drove us through the heart of Tulum in search of the home of the cab driver of whom we lost Aly's camera!!! A little strange

I was praying at this point!:) He didn't seem to care about driving lanes or speed limits. When he strapped himself in, I got worried about our saftey!

Here is our prom pose!

The Mayan ruins

This is me trying to talk in spanish-3 years in college didn't help~!

This is where we went snorkeling! I spied a sting ray!!!!! awesome

Carson and Kindle's gift. 

Good song...bad dancing!

fun!! we just arrived

1st trip to the ER!

I am really surprised it has taken almost 5 years for this, but last night was our first trip to the ER!! Carson gave us a real scare...

I'll start by saying that I never really like to hear "look mom no hands!" It gets my blood pressure sky high immediately. I think Carson would run across the top of his monkey bars about 10 feet in the air with no hands just to give you an idea about him. He also thinks that the top of the fort is where the playing needs to take place. He stands on top of the highest part of the fort (about 12 feet in the air) as if he has conquered it (in his underwear no less-he wants to currently be Tarzan?). our house backs up to a street and I know drivers get a kick out of this-either that or they are really concerned about what is going on.

Anyhow, when he gets on the bars it's not ok to just hand by hand go across, he is going to go upside down. His head is pointed straight to the ground and I frequently freak out thinking his hands are going to slip off, or accidentally let go and break his neck on the ground. This is DEFINITELY a time when I don't want to hear "look mom no hands!"

Carson came home from school on Monday saying "I accidentally let go." This got my concerns up right away b/c I knew what he was talking about. He had landed on his head (he wouldn't give me a straight answer), and complained about a headache all week. He said his head and neck and back hurt. I usually say "get up you are alright (this is what we heard growing up)." SO... "you're alright Carson" was my reply.

So Thursday he had a bloody nose at the pool, Friday he was screaming his head hurt and asked "do I have a scratch in my nose?" and " There is a bar under my pillow." I took him to the minor emergency and they sent us home saying watch for throwing up. sure enough 1:30am(!) we heard him come into our room and got on our bed holding his head and crying then...he threw up. 2 times. I said "That's it! we are going to the ER."

To make a long story short (too late:), Carson got a CT scan of his head, and thankfully everything was normal! The doctor thinks he either had a response to pain, or he was coming down with a stomach bug that was totally unrelated. He was a great doctor that really seemed to be concerned about Carson's health. He said that he normally doesn't scan kids heads because of the exposure to radiation, but the throwing up concerned him about bleeding in the brain. Praise God for protecting my crazy little man! No major injury. We are so blessed, and this whole ordeal really shows it. Carson could have easily been hurt badly.

Thank the Lord for your wonderfully made kids! No matter how crazy they are! he he