Long time no post!!

This will be an extremely long post since it has been over a week since my last post... and due to our very busy lives, alot has happened over the past week or so.

Last Friday was mine and Casey's 5 year anniversary. Since we were going to celebrate the following week on a cruise by ourselves, we decided to spend our anniversary with a family date. We started out with our annual visit to Dixie Electric to see Santa.... It was a BIG hit. All the kids were so excited to visit HO HO!!

This was Santa's first year at being "Santa" so he didn't look the part as much but the kids didn't care... all they cared about was he gave out lots of candy!!

After our Santa visit, we headed to Hattiesburg for supper at Raising Canes then our other annual tradition of Lewis Lights. They were beautiful as always!!!

We had a very fun night and ended it by pilling up in our bed and watching a movie. It was our last night to see our babies for several days so of course they got to sleep with us (which means mommy and daddy got very little sleep)!!

We headed out Saturday morning to catch our boat in Mobile. It was a very relaxing vacation and some much needed "US" time for me and Casey. We don't get alot of alone time with 2 kids running around all the time so once every 5 years is fair I think!!

Of course we missed our kids alot more than we expected but thanks to wonderful technology we were able to talk to them almost everyday while on the boat. Anna stayed with Casey's mom (who does not have internet) so we got to talk to Anna the 2 days we were in Mexico. Cayson stayed with my mom so we were able to talk to him every night through skype. We got home Thursday morning about 10:30 and went straight to daycare and school to pick up our babies!! They seemed excited to see us but I think all the gifts we brought them had alot to do with!!

The cruise ship and Mexico was all wonderful!! Hope yall enjoy the pics... there are alot!!

This is what we did the whole time... EAT!! Free food 24 hours!! The 24 hour ice cream cones was definetely the highlight of my trip!!

 This is the lobby of the ship... very beautiful!!

 Ruins in Progresso, Mexico

 Progresso beach

 These are our fabulous dinner friends Rebecca and Nathan.

A little bit out of order but this is the sunset when we left Mobile.

 Headed out for a wild night on the boat.... I say "wild" but we were usually in bed before 12.

 We loved coming back to our room after supper just to see what new towel animal we would have.

 The Carnival Elation in Cozumel

 This is the national park we went snorkeled at.

 I actually snorkeled for the first time in my life. The waters were really rough so I had a little bit of a panic attack when I jumped in. After Casey talked me down for about 10 minutes, I was good to go. It was a beautiful experience... Im glad he talked me in to it!!!

Our great waiter.... Milos!!!

Now we are preparing for Christmas... The kids are already itching to open the presents under the tree so this is going to be a long 2 weeks. Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend and a Merry Christmas.