Our yearly Adult's only vacation with the Hill's was a Cruise to the Eastern Caribbean!!!

Our Ship - Freedom of the Sea's - Royal Caribbean



Inside the ship! Our rooms are the 1st and 2nd windows on the right. The disco ball separates our windows :-)



The Adult pool! We spent most of the days at sea sitting right here on these bar stools :-D Tanning of course!



Ahhh....Yes....we definitely enjoyed an afternoon nap in the hammock at Cococay Beach! What can i say we were exhausted from all the floating on our raft we did in the ocean. After all there's a much stronger current in the ocean than any of us are used to on the lake ;-)

 

One of the formal night dinners. Check out the view we had from our table every night! It's beautiful as long as you don't watch the waves if you have motion sickness!



St. Thomas......boooo it POURED ALL day long! Not just rain but poured rain! Made for a very cold and interesting journey on a 65ft catamaran boat to snorkel.



We made the best of St. Thomas even with the rain though and ended our day at Senior Frogs!



MUCH sunnier day at St. Maarten!



St. Maarten had the most beautiful blue water!!



Lunch in our own little hut right on the beach :-)



Check out the size of that Iguana on the beach!



A drink straight out of the coconut



Clayton rock climbing on the ship. My picture
is of the skinnier section in the front.



We all made it to the top!! Ben, Lindsey and I all went at the
same time so unfortunately we have no pictures of Ben
since we only had Clayton to take pictures.



Lindsey making her way up her very first rock wall!



The kids at the pool with Papa while we were on our trip. I heard they spent 6 HOURS at the pool on Saturday!!! Broken into 2 different trips but WOW that's a lot of swimming! I bet these little fish were loving it!!

 

WIPED out after 6 hrs of swimming, pizza and then chilling with Grandma's drink. Apparently he's even too tired to drink it ;-)



Noah crashed in Papa's bed :-D Both the kids slept till 8am Sunday morning!! Who are these kids??? Mine never sleep that late!

 We can't THANK our parents enough for taking MANY days and nights out of their week to take such good care (completely SPOILED) Haley and Noah while we were gone for 8 nights!!! This is no small effort by any means and would have never been possible with out our amazing parents!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!! We LOVE you guys so much! The kids can't stop talking about ALL the fun they had while we were gone! Noah got so used to sleeping in everyone elses bed that when we got home yesterday I mentioned watching a movie (with the thought in mind that it would be on the couch like we normally do) but he immediately ran upstairs jumped in OUR bed, covered himself and was ready for his movie :-D Crazy kid! I quickly reminded him that at our house we all sleep in our own beds! I gave in a little though and we did ALL watch a movie together in bed first! Who could resist?

Happy Father's Day!!!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to ALL these wonderful Dad's in our lives!!!! God has truly blessed us with some amazing men in our lives and we couldn't love them more!!



The kids made Daddy a Father's Day breakfast to enjoy while eating outside together ;-)



Family Beach Trip to Hilton Head!!!

SOOOO much fun!!! I think we were all completely exhausted by the end of this vacation but what a wonderful week with the family at the beach!! We can't wait to go back.....hopefully next year ;-) (That's a hint to my parents :-D) Noah cried the night before we left saying he didn't want to go home, he wanted to stay at the beach house! Thankfully the next morning I was able to bribe him out of bed by telling him he could go see Papa and Grandma! Haha works every time! By the time we got close to ATL and started to hit traffic Clayton was basically the one crying saying he wanted to go back to the beach :-) He said...."You didn't see any traffic in Hilton Head did you??"



On our way to the beach!! Traveling is so tough

for these kids in the technology age.....




Happy road trip kiddo


  



We made it! Met up with the full gang (minus Jared, Tonia and Connor) for lunch! Coolest restaurant ever!! This kept the kids entertained the entire time we were there which was about 3 hrs! Not to mention watching all the boats being put in and out of the ocean!

 

Thanks Aunt Miss for all the cool beach buckets for all the kids!!! HUGE hit and no fighting!   

Renting bikes for the week was one of the BEST ideas the family had! It worked out perfectly! The kids never felt like we were shoving them back in the car and it provided them and us entertainment and the ability to enjoy the fabulous weather we had!!!



Football on the beach with Uncle Gary!



They caught a jellyfish in that bucket!



The biking team on our way to lunch at Mellow Mushroom! I was behind the camera as usual ;-)



Cousin time! Madi's posing for the camera :)



The Cousin Gang! All 7 Grand babies! We are missing Riley and Reganne to get the full picture of the 9 Grandchildren but this is pretty close!



Nothing better than snow cones in the pool :-)



Lunch at the Harbor!



Who wouldn't be excited?!?

Serious family volley ball tournament!! SOOO much fun!!



Another beautiful bike ride!




So sweet!



They loved their seats behind the bike!



Mimi and some of her girls!



On our way to go shopping!



Ice Cream w/ Mimi and Grandpa!



Madi and Melissa at the lighthouse!




Hitting the waves



Pool train



All the kiddos taking care of Madi



Dolphin watching!



Dolphin watching with the gang!




There were so excited about the real Pirate ship!



I think the kids liked this hot tub just as much as the adults did! They didn't get to enjoy our nightly adventures out by the hot tub each night with our bottles of wine though!! Some crazy times and events out there...HA!

Not many babies can say at 9 weeks old they
had their feet in the ocean water but this little
beach bum is just like her parents and made it
happen!



Peyton's first time with her feet in the ocean!!
Love the look on her face....."are having fun
yet Mommy?" I want to go back to the sand!





One of MANY MANY evening trips on our bikes to the ice cream shops! I think we hit up every single ice cream shop in Hilton Head. Hey....we were trying to determine which one was our favorite and how could we judge if we didn't test them all out?!?!



On of MANY awesome sand castles with
a moat all the way around it for the kids to
jump in and Noah could play with his boat!