Cruise Vacation

In January, we went on a cruise with all of Jer's family...

We look like this...

We took a family picture, but obviously what was behind us was far more interesting...maybe the guy in the yellow shorts?  Maybe?

Zac tried the waters in Roatan, but was not digging it.  Well you have to try right?

I don't know why, but for some reason I really like the back side of my kid when he is sitting down.  Something about it is soooo darn cute to me.

Jer's dad had a "supposed" underwater camera.  He was able to get this picture of Jer and then a few others of some stingrays and then the camera stopped working.  Underwater....right.... 

For this cruise, I told Jer that I don't care what we do as long as we get to swim with dolphins.  This is something I have ALWAYS wanted to do.  On our prior cruises, we couldn't ever quite part with the money.  This time, no excuses!  I researched it before and found the perfect dolphin swim in Cozumel.  This was soooo much fun and worth every single penny.  We got to pet the dolphins, hold them in our arms like babies, kiss them, and my favorite was when they pushed our feet and when we got pulled with their dorsal fins ("why do you want to talk to snowflake, do you knooow him, does he call you at home.....DO YOU HAVE A DORSAL FIN!"...anybody...no?)

Zac in his life vest.

Seven Months

These pictures are not the best...still cute...but he has had better.  We didn't spend much on them.  He smiles a lot more than these represent.  This was just a bad day, later that afternoon he woke up from his nap with a fever and then had a cold for about a week after that.  So I am guessing at this time he really wasn't feeling all that great.

Teaser

I know...I know...Updates!  You need updates...but I also need time (and sleep for that matter)!

They will come...eventually.  But here are at least some teaser pictures.

This is Zac at 6 months...on a cruise ship. 

Jer wanted to use this picture for his 6 months picture (that is a white mountain dew bottle...don't worry, an empty white mountain dew bottle).

Why no sleep you may ask...

Those 2 little white things in his mouth started it, and it has gone downhill from there.  Along with the teeth came a little bug that gave him diarrea for 2 weeks and now he has a really bad cold.  I haven't had a really good night's sleep for a month.

Zac is officially 7 months now.  I got some 7 month pictures to post when I get them back.

To hold you over for a while..watch this video.

Christmas

 Merry Christmas!!!  Zac's first Christmas!!!

We had a very simple Christmas this year.  Since we had made a few large purchases this year including some larger medical expenses to get little man here, we decided not to buy any presents this year...we almost didn't even get a Christmas tree.  I did get one, but it was only a small 4' tree.

We did put up lights on the house.  It was 80 degrees outside and Jer and Cody did it in shorts and a t-shirt and were worried about getting sunburned!

Christmas eve we went over to our friends house for games and food.  We played a few games and got some really good laughs in.  Unfortunately, now that we are responsible parents, we had to leave around 8:30 to put the kid to bed...as much as we would like to stay, little man gets VERY grumpy when it is time for bed so it really isn't fun for anyone if we make him stay up.

As far as gifts go, I...I mean Santa...did get us something for our stockings.  Jer and I got new slippers and Zac got some bath toys.  Since he is now starting to sit up better, bath time is much more fun and these toys are perfect for chewing on in the tub.

Other than opening our stockings and a few small gifts from family and friends, we just spent the day relaxing.  We went to dinner at a friends house which was very nice to not have to cook.  It is hard to make a good Christmas dinner for just 2 people.  I did make candied yams for the first time ever in my life.  People said they tasted good, I wouldn't know, I don't care for them at all so they just tasted like yams to me.

Rice Cereal

Zac has been eating rice cereal for a while now, but only in a bottle before he goes to bed.  Since he has become increasingly interested in what we are eating, I thought it may be time to try to spoon feed him some rice cereal.  We have only tried a few times...he is not very good at spoon eating yet, he spits most of it out and then rubs it all over his face. We will keep trying.