From MIMI to MOMMY!: June 2012

Well, as most of my readers know, I haven't been blogging as much lately. I am doing some private blogging while going through some interesting phases of our lives. I have chose to only blog to myself for the next couple of months until I am ready to share what I have to say. Sometimes it is okay to hold things in and ponder on them for awhile.
I did realize I forgot to talk about our Mexico trip. We did go to Mexico for a week at the end of May. This was a very special vacation for Derek and I. We have not been on a "real" vacation since we got married 5 years ago. The last five years we spent on saving money for a baby and then losing it all over again when things failed. After our last failed attempt (via adoption this time), we decided it was time to spend a week by ourselves and enjoy life a little more. This is what lead us to Mexico.
When we went to Mexico we spent the first two days just hanging out in the area we were staying in. We did a little exploring and spent most of our days on the beach. We have never had a beach vacation before so this was amazing for us to experience together. On the third whole day we were there we made plans to go to an Island and swim with dolphins. We did go all out and order the delux package so we could do all inclusive. This allowed us to spend lots of time in the water playing and swimming with the dolphins, swim around great white sharks, and swim in an area with stingrays. Don't worry, it was all very safe!
The fourth day we decided to spend the whole day at a water park. This was absolutely fun! We got all inclusive there so we spent the day swimming, eating, and lounging. For those of you who know us well, you probably wonder how I got Derek in the water since he can't swim.. He did an amazing job swimming in the 20 foot deep water since he had a life jacket on. I was soo impressed at his lack of fear as he has never really gone in water the almost 9 years we have been together. As for the water park, he was daring and enjoying himself as well... No saving needed!
The last full day there was literally spent on the beach. We went to lunch and dinner, but the rest of the time we made sure to see as much as the Gulf as we possibly could. It was the hottest day we were there, but the breeze made you take a nice soothing nap. We ended our last night off with a lovely dinner at a Taco Hut on a marina. This was the first place we ate when we arrived and we loved it so much we wanted to end with that same meal. The nachos were freshly amazing and not greasy like a lot of the food we had there.
As much fun as a vacation was, we were so ready to head home on Sunday. We were ready for fresh food and a plain old sandwich. We spent the next week not eating much at all. We were soo full of greasy food that we couldn't think of eating anymore.

That was the basics of your vacation. It was a wonderful adventure together with no outside contact (literally it seemed impossible to contact anyone) we very much needed it!