Best Vacation Ever--- Greece

I sure wish I would have blogged when we first got home because now it seems so long ago.  It took me a while to edit 1600 pictures and I had to wait on the good ones from my parents.  I'm not going to write a lot in this blog; it'll mainly be pictures so get ready!!!! :) This was by far the most fun vacation we have ever been on.  I'm not sure if it is because Aiden is with us now or what, but we had a blast.  Don't get me wrong, traveling that far with a 16 month old has it's moments but overall he was really great.

Heading to the airport. 

Aiden all strapped in ready to go!  We got this nifty little device so we didn't have to take a car seat.  It was awesome! 

I thought this was funny (looking back).  Aiden didn't sleep the entire 9 hour flight from DFW to London until the last 40 minutes.

We made it! 

 

Athens transit hotel.  We woke up at 3:00 a.m. with a little jet lag so we decided to walk the halls and play in the elevator! :) 

Ferry from Athens to Mykonos 

 The ferry was about 4.5 hours to Mykonos so we had a lot of time to kill.  Aiden LOVED looking at the "wa wa" 

View from our room in Mykonos

Aiden swimming with Nana.  The water was so cold so this was as far as he would go. 

Josh and dad standing in front of our rooms. 

Marcus taking a little nap 

Shopping

Windmills

Marcus and me

Aiden taking an impromptu nap during our shopping trip

Lunch by the water.  Most meals were eaten outside and were full 5 course meals!  The food was awesome!!!

Aiden and Pop by the water.  Aiden could coax anyone to take him to the "wa wa".

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 Bye-bye Mykonos! 

 Hello Santorini 

Sunset from our hotel in Santorini over the caldera

We drove from the port at the bottom of the mountain all the way up to the top. It was very scary!!! 

Shopping in Santorini

We took a gondola down to the shopping at the bottom of the mountain.   

Some people rode donkeys back up... I did not! :)

 Thira, Santorini 

Drinks on the balcony before dinner.   

We visited a monastery there.  It was at the highest point on the island. 

Santorini has many wineries and this is how they grow their grapes, not in rows.  

Aiden is now in the Maui Jim club.  

Anytime we would see Japanese tourist they were holding up the peace sign... dad decided to do the same! 

Black sand beach

 Aiden would not touch the sand or water!  

Skipping rocks

Pop and Aiden took some rocks home with them.

 We visited the largest winery in Santorini.

Oia, Santorini 

 Sunset in Oia

 After the sun went down it was SO cold.  Aiden was a good sport. 

Aiden and Josh heading down to the hotel pool in Santorini

 Bye-bye Santorini!

Ferry from Santorini back to Athens.  Aiden watching a little Mickey Mouse and enjoying his sandwich!

Stadium in Athens

Acropolis behind Marcus 

Visiting the New Acropolis Museum.  Aiden was standing on glass that was placed over some Greek ruins. 

The Erecthion

 Parthenon 

 Last night in Athens

Everywhere we went the Greek people would give Aiden free goodies.  At this shop they gave him a flag and he loved it!  

Waving his flag!!

Aiden wanted to shop too! 

Goodbye Greece!  See you next time! 

Girls time!

I was quite spoiled in April!  I started the month off with a trip to San Francisco with my best friend, Erin.  We spent three nights with no kids, no husband, and no responsibilities!  It was a fabulous weekend.  We did lots of sightseeing, lots of shopping, and LOTS of wine sippin'!  :)

Lombard Street...we walked to it.  

Giants Game!  Erin and I bought some tickets from a guy off the street.  Unfortunately, we were too excited to get into the game that we didn't notice the seats were not together!  Oh well....

People waiting for a home run! 

I have 1000 pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge.  It was so beautiful!

Nicholson Ranch Winery---it was my favorite of the day!

Madonna Winery--- second favorite! 

I ended the month with a girls weekend in Dallas.  I know, I know, I live 25 minutes from Dallas, but this was very different.  Several friends and I spent the weekend celebrating Marci, Pam, and Kristin's 30th birthday by spending Saturday at the Crescent Spa, laying out by the pool, having a nice dinner at Nick and Sam's, and ending the night with lots of dancing!  We followed with brunch Sunday morning just before heading back to reality.   For pictures, via Marci, check out the blog below.  I couldn't figure out how to get the pictures on here directly!

30th Birthday Party

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Easter 2011

Easter was very special this year, mainly because we had a wonderful church to worship at that was OURS.  Normally on Easter, we would either not go to church or go to a church that we had visited before but not this year!!!  We have a church, a home, that we looooove and it was great to have a place to really resonate on the meaning of the day.  After church I made a big lunch and Josh's sister Kim and Justin came over.  They were so sweet and brought Aiden a bunch of Easter goodies.  The Easter bunny also visited him before church so he was very spoiled that day!  Here is a recap of our Easter weekend!

Aiden and I spent Friday decorating cookies.  He didn't understand we had to decorate BEFORE we could eat them! :) 

Figuring it out...

Aiden's finished bunny!

NOW eat! 

Haha, I loved this.  He was definitely in a cookie coma!  

Easter bunny came! 

Bubbles before the egg hunt.

Checking out his goods

We just did an egg hunt in our backyard.  Unfortunately, Aiden missed the neighborhood egg hunt because we were out of town the weekend before.  He still had a great time finding "balls" with Coop!

When he finished finding all the eggs (balls as he would say) Justin and Kim would throw them around the yard again for him to pick up.  This never-ending egg hunt was very entertaining!

He was super pumped about ham for lunch!  He love it all! :)