Pumpkins, Tinkerbell, and Leaves - Oh My!

Well, fall is officially here (and gone???). We've enjoyed trips to the pumpkin patch...

...had a completely unsuccessful Tinkerbell episode (aka "Halloween")...

...and rounded it all out with some fun in the leaves.

We hope this finds you all happy, healthy, and enjoying the season!

Big News! Big News, I Say!

Milestone

Ha! You thought I meant for one of the kids...didn't you?! Nope, just my car, who has no name, but is kind of like a kid!! I guess it's effectively about halfway through its "useful" life, which isn't so bad considering it's 6 years old (it's a car, people, we're talking about a car!). Let's just hope the batteries last longer than my mom's did - whoops! Only posting this because I had uploaded the photos from my phone already. Updates on the HUMAN children to follow soon! By the way, Catherine might look angelic in this picture, but this was taken the night that she climbed out of her crib for the first time...maybe the "angelic" look was just blurriness from the camera phone...hmmm...food for thought.

Muy mal.

As Trevor likes to say, every vacation has its low point. Ours happens to be the trip to Tulum yesterday...not good. Oh well, hopefully the worse is behind us now. We shall drown our sorrows with massages later this afternoon...that should help. Tulum was beautiful, although by the time we got there, we hardly noticed! We just wanted to be back at our hut on the beach. But we did manage to get some shots of the proliferation of iguanas that live at Tulum. And once we got back to our resort (heaven), we found our room to be decorated for my birthday, complete with a fully filled hot tub! Like I said, heaven...

Hola!

As you might have guessed by the (lack of) posts, we are having a great time! We are especially enjoying breakfast. If the old adage "you are what you eat" is true, I am currently a chocolate croissant with a side of bacon and a mango daiquiri. Trevor is anything topped with salsa verde! Speaking of the bacon, OH MY GOD!! It's manna sent from heaven! I think it's deep-fried and I can't get enough of it! Today we walked to a small "town" about 30 minutes south of our resort. It was a bust. Definitely see the need for an all-inclusive resort while in Cancun... Tomorrow we are headed to Tulum to visit the only Mayan ruin built on a coast. Hope it's fun! We talked to Max today and he asked "What are you doing?" Good question, but the uninteresting answer is "pretty much nothing." And that's just the way I planned it :)))

Wish you were here!

For the next week, we will be deviating from the "Max and Cate Show" and bringing you (periodic) updates on our vacation WOK (WithOut Kids). So far, we LOVE it here, although we're not quite sure yet if we are beach people...that remains to be seen. The people here are lovely and the resort is beautiful. We definitely are happy with our choices. The breakfast this morning was buffet style and the buffet itself spanned 3 large rooms...I think I could eat 10 things a morning for the entire time I am here and not eat the same thing twice! Trevor ate a "mexican" breakfast with fried bananas, some kind of tortilla/egg combo, and melon juice. I stuck with eggs, bacon, chocolate croissants, grapefruit and tangerine juice! Just the "juice bar" was amazing. We staked out a couple of lounges under a hut on the beach and are headed there now. Other than that, we love you all and miss you too! It's fun to be away, but it also makes us realize how much we appreciate all our friends and family.

2 years, 1 month, 13 days (aka...my mommy is so lame!)

Well, Catherine's birthday came and went (and went and went...). January 10th seems like forever ago, but I was just uploading the digital pictures to the computer and thought I'd post some here for you to enjoy. Thank you to all of you who indulged Catherine's love of all things Elmo. I think we're past that phase now and onto bigger and better addictions (read: Dora). Trevor and I decided that we are going to try and MAKE Catherine's cake for her birthday every year. This year's cake turned out quite well, if I do say so myself.