I'm retarded!

This post is dedicated to my sweet, loving, precious, onery, loud-mouthed 2 yr old daughter, Kathryn aka as Kater or WildKat to us!

So, yesterday we decided to take the kids to dinner and the movies. We always go to the $2 movie when we have to take Kater with us and yesterday we HAD to. Well, she has vocal skills that would give a 5 yr old a run for their money and she doesn't know how to be quiet! So, we get our tickets for Hotel for Dogs, thinking the dogs would keep her entertained, yeah right! Well, there are only 3 or 4 other families which is good for me and I turn to the people behind us and apologize to them to begin with telling them I know she will be bad and I am sorry. She said not to worry they have a 2 1/2 yr old too and she would be bad also, yeah right she fell asleep, I wish I could get so lucky.

The movie starts and she likes it! YES! We are in luck after all. Oh, wait she runs off BAREFOOT, a little gross! She runs back! Daddy grabs her and entertains her for a little while. She wants mommy, LOUDLY! She sits with me and informs me she wants to go sit in the van to which I reply NO, we have to see what happens with the dogs! She gives up and lays down in my lap. I look down at her and she is looking up at me and I am thinking oh she is so sweet and she hollars every so loudly, YOU RETARDED MOMMY!

Busy spring

We are always super busy durring spring time. I am NOT complaining by any means! I love it. We have baseball/tball, soccer, end of school festivities with PTO and the kids classes, Relay for Life. Oh it is great to be full and blessed!

Last night we went to Relay for Life to honor my 16 yr survivor that I am honored to call my husband and best friend! We left there to watch the greatest soccer player of all time, my very cool 6 yr old son, and from there to a birthday party for his best friend. Where we stayed an hour late outside talking to friends how wonderful is that???

Today we cleaned while my 2 yr old tormented her brothers and told me NO! It rained so soccer is cancelled for today, bummer, but we are going to Lowe's to look at things for the house should we decide to stay here, who knows at this point. I got this one cleaned up for the most part though! Ahhhhh the busy life of a Soccer Mom!

Final Day

Day 4 is starting off with a photo shoot down by the beach and such. I hope they get some great pics. We are waiting on breakfast right now. French toast!! Then this after noon we are supposed to go snorkeling. I hope the clouds go away by then. I am so excited for that!! Well, I will catch you up later! No photo shoot, pooh, stupid rain! It sucks! We sat around doing much of nothing when Bryan finally talked me into sitting on the beach rain or no rain. We came up to the room and changed and got everything ready to go down and found us some chairs. I got all layed out and guess what???? The SUN came out!!!!!!!!!!!! It was WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!! It came and went for 2 hours! Well, about 1230 we went to Bayside buffet for lunch and it was super yum! The birds wouldn’t stay away though lol it was a little comical! We went down to get our flippers and mine were to big and Bryan’s were to small. They had nothing smaller for me (go figure) and nothing in between for Bryan so he opted for to small, at least those don’t fall off! We got on the boat with the clouds and we didn’t go far litterally! We went close enough we could still see the resort lol! We saw some awesome coral though, wonderful fish, beautiful things! There was this light blue fish that reminded me of Bryan’s eyes I got a great picture and Bryan loved the fire coral. They tell you not to touch the coral cause it could hurt, burn, scratch you. When we got in the water it took me a long time to adjust cause of the waves but I soon got there and was going at it like a semi-pro. We got tons of pics not all great not all bad either! We headed back after 30 short minutes. I didn’t want to go back but the locals in charge were COLD, really guys? Well, once back it started to guess what, rain! Again! So we opted for a NAP!!!!! I was stone cold out when the loudest music came on through the walls. I can’t even hear and it was loud! Bryan said it was the locals next to the hotel and shut the sliding doors to the balcony and it mostly went away and I was out again! We got up about 430 and started getting ready for the cocktail party in the concerige lounge! It is kind of nice being a VIP. We had some great hour de vours and punch, we played a few games and we payed the bill. After that we left and went to dinner at Tuscanini’s. The food there was totally authentic and fabulous! I had calamari, and fettichuni alfredo, I am in love now! Two waiters were fighting over keeping my drink full, I loved it and Bryan was a little ticked cause he was getting neglected! I reminded him that sometimes it is nice to have what others covet and he agreed but he still wanted more wine! I got it taken care of! After cheesecake for dessert we came back to the room to change so we could go for the local band and well it sucked, a big one and guess what no moonlit stroll cause, it is raining! We are back in the hotel room, mostly packed, I showered, and Bryan took pics of the wet bar and me journaling in my night shirt, those should be nice lol! Well, it is about bed time to maybe tomorrow the sun will be out and we can enjoy the beach before we leave. What a great vacation, I am missing the kids badly though!

More Pics of Day 3

Day three, it is going to fast!!! We got up to a beautiful morning sun! We had breakfast on the balcony, super yummy yet again! We were motivated and got dressed, went to the conceriage room to book snorkeling for tomorrow afternoon! Then we stopped by the shop and got some dramamine for Bryan for the boat trip. We both took some just in case! We strolled down to the beach to meet Charlie for the tour. There were about 8 or 9 other couples going too! We divided into 2 groups and took 2 boats. We sat in the back of boat with another couple and a guide. He was cool, Lydel and Albert. We took off and got HOSED down! The water was soooooooooooo salty and COLD! Brrr! My lips hurt from the wind and salt! We saw Mick Jagger and George Foreman’s lake houses, the oil refinery- it is HUGE- several other resorts, the Piton’s, different fishing marina’s, Casteries (the capital city), Margot (a town), The love hole we drove through, the states we call it the tunnel of love! So sweet! So we stopped to snorkel. I had to get adjustable flippers cause my feet are so small, it was so funny. I didn’t want to admit I wore kid size shoes so I lied and said a 5 well nothing fit so I got adjustable, what can I say I am special lol! Well, we got in the water and I stuck my face in, WHOA! Take two ok, this time it worked and I just swam and swam around looking at different fish, coral and rock, everything was so pretty. I wanted to stay all day long! We saw a sea turtle too thanks to Bryan. He was pointing out stuff everywhere! We held hands under the water, and swam together it was great! Time to get out and get back on the boat, it didn’t take long and we were at Souilferies, it means something about sulpher in french. We got on a taxi and went to the volcano, you just drive right in the middle. It hasn’t errupted since 17??. So we were safe, you could SMELL the sulfur it was GROSS but it cleared my sinus’s if only for while we were there. We bought the wildKat 2 dresses I can’t wait to see her in them! So pretty! The back on the Taxi to Charlie’s Aunt Martha’s resteraunt, super yummy local food, chicken, rice, some kind of potatoe, beans, fish, so yummy! I could have eaten all day! But, they wouldn’t let us so we used the washhouse (restroom) and got back in the Taxi to go to the waterfall. It was wonderful it rained while we were there but it was beautiful. I got the boys some rocks from the waterfall. We stood in front of it for a picture then we walked in the healing waters. I don’t feel healed?? Oh, well it was super cold and fun none the less. We got Kason a cup made from Bamboo with the Piton mountains painted on it. The Piton’s were formed from the Lava of the volcano! The tour was over and we sailed on back! It was a great ride. We came to the room so I could I was hungry! Now, it is off to beach for some more r and r! Well, it rained so I told Bryan I was gonna go take a nap and boy did I!! It felt great, then we got up and we went to Barefoot by the Sea to eat, it was so good! Then another moonlit stroll and Bryan wanted to check out what was going on in the Paladium so we stopped by to see and I am glad we did we saw some dancers, a fashion show, drummers, more dancers, and everyone performed at least twice well this one set of dancers they came for the finale to get some people to dance with them and they snatched up Bryan and he went and danced and looked like he was having a blast yeah!! I got wonderful pictures. I had WAY to much champagne. We came back to the room and well, I slept good last night, hehe.

Happy Mother's Day

Day 2, rain! Beautiful rain though. We ate breakfast on the balcony while watching the rain and the ocean waves, it is wonderful! We have the sliding doors open to hear the ocean it is great, nice and cool and we are going to look into a spa day for today! Oh the spa was so great I fell in love, but before that we went the Ole’ English Pub and had some super yummy food. I drank some Piton beer and it was good too!!!! The a walk in the ocean wow it is always so nice. I wrote my name in the sand and I wrote I “heart” Bryan! They got washed away but just the same I will remember it. Then the spa we had Cynthia and another girl come in and massage us head to toe. My hands and forearms were my highlight. I also loved the head but I didn’t enjoy my feet at much! All was blissful though! My skin was silky smooth then on to the HOT jacuzzi bath! OHHHHHHHH it was great with grapes, watermelon, pineapple and champagne! We drank the WHOLE bottle and I loved it! It was hot and bubble and relaxing! I think I could have moved in and not minded. After that we came to the room and changed and went to the pool side bar, awesome! Drinks is the water who could ask for more? I had a sea/bay breeze and a purple grande, well I had to 2 purple grandes but who is counting? We moved to the hot tub when Bryan discovered the key was in his shorts pocket so we had to stop by the concierge room to get another made. Tonight is dinner, piano bar and chocolate something! I can’t wait then tomorrow is the tour! Until, next time, Brooke! So we ate at the Bayside restaurant, super yum!!! I loved it! Then a walk on the beach, drinks at the bar and listened to a local band and a chocolate buffet!!!!! WOW what an amazing day, what will tomorrow bring?

My Saint Lucian Journal

Day one, Customs, not to bad really, we had to fill out a paper and they stamped our passport and we were off. Taxi ride-1 ½ hours! WOW it was something. The guy, Cow, seriously, insisted on reciting poetry, Shakespeare and his own! Not bad really but still I was not into it. The drive made me see how little some people have and why he kept calling us “wealthy” Americans. I guess blessings come in many different ways cause we don’t the beauty they do here but they don’t realize that and just have trash everywhere!! It is sad really! They seem very jealous. We got the hotel/resort and got to go to the concierge room AWESOME, they explained everything to us and are there to help us out no matter what we need! It is great! We stopped and got a drink and walked in the sand. Bryan couldn't wait to get in the ocean and swim but called the kids instead. We made our way to the ocean finally only to be stopped by someone selling tours that interested Bryan so another hold up. I couldn’t take it anymore and had to put my feet in, at this point they were very tired. So Bryan set us up with a tour for Wed. It includes seeing an active volcano, hot springs that can sure anything from a mosquito bite to arthritis, maybe it will help my fluid filled ear, snorkeling, lunch, the highest waterfall on the island and some more. I am super excited and I hope I get sunburned. We had dinner at a beach front BBQ while we listened to some locals play their drums it was awesome, but I forgot my camera, then we took a walk on the beach while the waves came up and covered our feet it was everything I thought it would be. Well, I was exhausted so we can back to the room and prepared for bed.

Gearing up to go!

Tomorrow is the big day!!! We are leaving about 3 ish we hope! I got the Twilight and Fireproof movie for my birthday! We are gonna watch Twilight now and just chill!