Yeah, hi.  I’m gonna be off the blogs for a lil while, as I travel to FLORIDA  baby!!! I am so excited for the first family vacation since I was pregnant with Taj. Taj is almost 6 now. That’s a long time now to take a family vacay. We did go to Vegas in Nov. 2007, but Kelsea and Karlea weren’t with us. But they are now!! I’m so ready to chill at the beach, not babysit other people’s kids and have A LOT of time with my husband. I really feel after all the court crap from this year, we REALLY deserve this trip.

THANK YOU to my parents. Without them this trip would not be possible. We’ve spent our “vacation fund” about 4 different times paying for a freakin’ lawyer in Canada, so money is tight. My parents have a timeshare condo in Florida so we don’t have to pay for boarding.  And the condo has a  kitchen which saves us a ton on money. And then Florida has the beach- which is free. So, basically we are paying for groceries and gas. THANK YOU Mom and Dad. I’m ready to be away from reality for a little while.

We spend a lot of time at the pool. If Sei is off during the day, he takes the kids. If he’s working, I take them after the kids I babysit are gone. Livie LOVES the water. She has no fear. Taj was the same way. He was full blown swimming with no floaties or help last summer when he was 4. Well, Livie is very independent and competitive so she’s been swimming sans floaties this month- at age 3. Impressive? Yes. Scary? Yes. Now she wants to go to the pool without her floaties. Yeah… that’s not gonna happen. Not this summer. I still get nervous with Taj because he loves to swim underwater picking up dive sticks, but everytime he disappears to find them I get nervous because I can’t see him. It’s kinda funny because I want my kids to know how to swim, but makes me nervous once they know how. Am I weird? Yeah, don’t answer that.

I don’t know about y’all, but I LOVE the summer. I LOVE the heat. Right now Uprinting is wanting to find the best summer photo out there. They are offering $250 in prize money and (yes, there’s more!!) a free 16×20″ Gallery Wrapped Canvas Print!

I love Uprinting. They are a sponsor of this blog and of my Eazy Mealz blog. They are also the company that provided my awesome 16 x 20 print of Seiuli that I won a while back. It’s perfect!  UPrinting.com is a leading online provider of business cards, color brochures and mailing postcards.

This pic is one of my absolute favorite. We took it last summer. We’re going to be taking more awesome pics on our vacation in July, but this one…. Wow, I love my kiddos… all 7 of them.