Cancun

Even though fall is upon us, our tans are still fully intact (truth be told, mine always is :).  We recently enjoyed one more beach trip to round out the season.  This past week, we went to Cancun, Mexico to the beautiful waters of the Caribbean!  We met my parents down there and had the best time vacationing together!  Here are some pictures of our 3rd and final beach trip for the year. :)  

Nana and Eli, reunited at last!

Not sure which one is sillier :)

Elijah with his Nana and Papa, although he didn't get the memo to smile in this picture

After we returned from Florida, I reasoned that the normal drawer where I kept his bathing suits didn't make sense and moved them to a "better" spot.  Sure enough, I forgot where I put them and couldn't find them before we left.  When we went to Walmart for groceries, we found this little wetsuit/floaty that worked great.  My favorite part is that it makes him look a little bit like Mr. Incredible. :)

Mr. Incredible and Nana

Helping the Sea Turtles to hatch!

I got one!

Nana with the little baby turtle

Papa digging up more turtles

And finally Ethan helping them out.  The mounds have about a hundred eggs in them, so there were plenty to go around.

We dug up the baby turtles in the morning, but they didn't release them into the water until evening to protect them from the birds and other predators.  This was quite the experience.  They told us to return at 6pm to release the baby turtles, only to find out that it wasn't yet dark at 6 pm.  We waited around for a while and they explained to us that it was very important to turn of all camera flashes or "the turtles will be blind" and not to step on the turtles or "they will die."  Then the guy told us that we would wait "10 minutes for the night, or maybe more."  I don't know why, but we found this quite humorous, maybe because of the way things were phrased.  Finally, it was the "perfect time" and we released the turtles into the sea.  This was a pretty neat experience and I feel like I learned a lot more about sea turtles.

Elijah LOVED playing with Papa on his IPAD.  He learned all kinds of fun games and got pretty good at naming the animals and shapes on some of the preschool apps that Papa loaded special for him...we are sure he is a genius! :)

"No time for pics, Papa, let's play!"

The beach...no, that water is not photoshopped!

Our umbrella and beach chairs

The water was just unbelievably gorgeous the whole time we were there.  We couldn't seem to take it in and were in a continual state of awe of how beautiful it was.

View from the pool...not too bad :)

Our balcony.  We had a "lock off room" with my parents where we could open our doors and make it one big room.  This was absolutely the perfect set up.  They had a big room with a full kitchen and large patio, so we spent most of our room time over there.  It was especially nice that Eli was able to nap in our room, while we enjoyed hanging out on the balcony on my parents' side.

Another shot of the view from the balcony...never gets old

A view of the resort from our balcony

So beautiful, and the pictures hardly do it justice!

"Sweet, Dad's glasses!"

"Do you put them on like this?"

"Sunglasses, diaper, I'm ready for some more beach!"

Mr. Incredible on the beach

Our little Aggie, soaking up playtime on the beach

Daddy and Eli playing in the sand

"Here you go, Daddy, check this out."

Love these boys!

What I was doing during Daddy/Eli play time...ahhhh

We found this giant chess board and brought Elijah down to check it out.  We weren't sure what he would think about it, but he loved it.  As soon as he saw it, he ran over and began moving each of the pieces around and off the board.  It was quite the workout for our little guy since the pieces were almost as big as him.

Check.

From Nana's iphone

Eli loved time with his Nana and Papa.  We got back on Saturday and he is still talks about Nana and Papa all day long.  We can't wait for ya'll to come visit soon!

At the airport, we had lunch at Bubba Gumps.  Here is Forrest...I mean Ethan...waiting for our table.

The popcorn shrimp kids meal.  I thought it was so cute the way they put it in the boat.  They were delicious too and Eli enjoyed his first shrimp experience!