Mexico

We have been planning this trip to Mexico with my extended family for a year and a half. It was such a fun trip, but pretty tiring with 4 kids to take care of at the beach and traveling. We flew to Phoenix Saturday night and were so blessed to have Daniel's cousin welcome us into their home even though they had a housefull already. Thanks Jason and Debbie! Sunday we met up with the rest of the family at a Walmart in Phoenix, they had been driving since 5:00 in the morning. It was pretty cool and rained quite a bit in Phoenix that day, but by the time we reached Rocky Point it had cleared out. Both Daniel and I have been there a couple of times. The last time we went was when I was pregnant with Nora. The place actually hadn't changed as much as I was afraid it had. It helped, of course, that we went so early in the year so there were very few people around. The first day we got there we went exploring the rock pools down the beach.

 

This is Myka with the first critters that we found, tiny little sea snails that were easy to spot if you just stopped and looked.

 

Myka and Senna getting friendly with the water

 

Nora and Savannah being silly girls.

 

Kyla and Mommy

 

Spencer, Senna, Myka, Kyla, Mommy, Mormor, Kirsten, Grandpa Frank, Nora, and Savannah. There were so many creatures in these pools, but mostly hermit crabs. I decided the crabs must have a prettiest shell contest because it seemed like all the prettiest shellls were inhabited. Sometimes we found this out when they were trying to walk off our porch and back to the ocean. I am not sure how long my Dad knelt in front of that pool but he had fun watching conches, shrimp, fish, hermit crabs, etc. right in that one spot.

 

Myka was excited for the opportunity to cover herself in mud.

 

Right in front of our houses was this sand bar that appeared when the tide went out. It was a lot of fun to wade across and comb the beach. We found a lot of sand dollars out there.

 

Kyla found this dead seahorse. Isn't it awesome! O.K. more slimy and nasty but we decided to see what happened if we let it dry. It dried nicely and now she has a great souvenir.

 

Daniel found this cool conch shell that was inhabited with quite an aggressive critter. It kept reaching out with it's foot? and trying to get Daniel to let it go.

 

On Tuesday we went in town to go shopping and see the local culture. Myka went and found this hat by herself and tried it.

 

We decided that Nora looked good in blue, so she decided to try on all the blue things she could find.

 

Daniel, Eli, Kyla, Mom, LeAira, Nora, Spencer, Myka, Kirsten, Matt, Savannah, Mormor, Grandpa, and Alis (everyone else was eating ice cream). There was a nice area by the edge of the ocean that had a nice look out, boardwalk, and sculptures.

 

This shrimp riding seaman was one of the great statues. Kyla, Eli, Nora, Savannah, Myka, & Senna.

 

Another statue - Spencer, Senna, Savannah, Nora, Kyla, and Myka.

 

Our own little beach bum. Eli with his crazy hair had fun sitting on the architecture. Do you see the silhouette of a person on the edge of this picture, with the hat and glasses. That is Grandma Cynthia. We were so lucky to have her come with us on this trip. She was such an amazing help. She did all of our shopping for us the day before and helped out so much making the meals, watching kids, cleaning up, etc, etc, etc. Thanks for coming with us Grandma. I wish I had more pictures of you on the beach though! Seems like she was always scouring the beach somewhere when we took shots of everyone.

 

I don't think that we got the best picture of this but it was cool how they had the balls on top and then the statue of the seagulls below that were right on the horizon.