As Promised...

We recently took a family vacation to the Dominican Republic with Marty's side of the family to celebrate his parents 30th wedding anniversary (which actually took place this past Sept. 1st) . I promised my dear friend Rebecca that I would post pictures of said trip on my blog site, not just facebook as she has not yet succumbed to the addiction. So, here it is - our trip in all its rainy glory :). That's right folks, it literally rained (or looked like it might rain any minute) 6.5 out of 7 days of our trip. We all came back ALMOST as white as we left and Joshua, despite all my hopes of getting lovely pictures of him and I swimming together for the first time, barely touched the water all week (he DID get a photo with his feet in the very murky looking ocean). Nevertheless, the trip was a LOT of fun and it was still nice to be able to walk around in shorts and tee-shirts all week instead of our heavy winter coats and sweaters! Joshua very much enjoyed being in less "stuff" all week and he did AMAZING on the air plane! I think he cried for only about 2 minutes the entire time we flew... such a load of my back!! I was SO worried about how he would do!

So as I said, here are a few photos to capture the fun that was had:

Joshua on his first plane ride - he did WONDERFULLY!

Me and my little man - ready for some sun! (or so we thought :))

Aly & Esther - best of cousins! :)

Joshua enjoying the lovely towel art by the maid...

My smiley little guy

I think I'm supposed to eat this.... no?

Cutie pie

Cousins

Staring contest with Daddy

Lounging in the sun...

hello!

Our tour guide - he loved Joshua (he had a son about the same age) and sang a song about him being a "porker"

Vacationing is tough work...

All too common a site...


Grandma keeping her grand-daughter dry!

Some mommy time at dinner

Precious moments :)

Testing out the ocean waters!


Sunshine!! (on our last day!!)

Aly & Grandma!