{"id":1418,"date":"2010-11-24T21:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T05:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2010-11-24T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T05:25:02","slug":"getting-away-from-it-all-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/getting-away-from-it-all-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Away From It All (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the unbelievable generosity of some amazing people we were able to “get away” from everything for 2 days and 2 nights. It was so needed and so perfect for us.<\/p>\n

We made plans to take the kids to the Super 8 in Aldergrove<\/a>. They have a fabulous pool and water slide in the hotel. And that made this particular hotel so SO perfect for us. Our kids are the hugest water bugs that you’ve ever seen and we knew that they would love to go somewhere and swim as much as they could for a few days. It sounded like the perfect get away and in hind sight, it was! It was absolutely perfect!<\/p>\n

We sent the kids off to school on Monday morning while we tried to get a few things done around the house and to ready ourselves to head out later that afternoon. Jon’s parents were up for “getting away from it all” and so they decided to join us.<\/p>\n

At dinner time, we met up with Jon’s parents and we went for dinner and then headed out to the hotel. We got there, unpacked and took the kids down to the pool. We swam for over an hour and then headed up to bed. The next morning we got up and hit the complimentary breakfast. This hotel had the most amazing breakfast. Everyone enjoyed themselves and as soon as they finished breakfast, the kids wanted to head back to the pool.<\/p>\n

\"Relaxin<\/a><\/center>
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Jon and Siah relaxing’ at breakfast<\/center><\/p>\n

Xani and Geli were over the 12 year old age limit and so they headed into the pool – just the two of them<\/em> – but the boys had to wait until I was able to take them into the pool. They were pretty patient through.<\/p>\n

\"SO<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Judah got in some good cuddles with Nana. <\/p>\n

\"Cuddles<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

After we finished a couple of hours of swimming, we headed up to our room to dry off and just relax.<\/p>\n

We had picked up some fake mustaches before we headed to the hotel and in light of the whole “Movember<\/a>” deal….we decided to try them out. I realize it’s not quite the same, but we had a lot of fun…<\/p>\n

\"Even<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Judah looked quite sweet in his “stach…..<\/p>\n

\"Loving<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Jeremy was throwing out his best Rico Suave vibe……<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Me and mah boy….rocking our ‘staches…..<\/p>\n

\"Rocking<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Geli rocks the teeny, tiny mustache…<\/p>\n

\"Siah's<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

While Siah sends out a little grey action….<\/p>\n

\"Sibling<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Xani just ended up looking a little strange…<\/p>\n

\"Even<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

We even convinced Nana to get in on the mustache loving…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

And finally….here are my men. Looking so, SO sweet!<\/p>\n

\"Playing\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Looooooooong after the rest of us got tired of the mustaches….Jeremy carried on. He is SO cute.<\/p>\n

Judah did pretty good in the hotel. He was happy and easy going. He did have some rough nights. And that meant that I had some pretty rough nights….which ultimately……SUCKED. But other than that….he was amazing.<\/p>\n

\"Playing<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Xani and Nana pulled out the puzzles. We do love to do some puzzles.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

After a bit, we headed for lunch….<\/p>\n

\"Enjoying<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Siah LOVES his ketchup. Basically, the fries are a tool to get the ketchup into his mouth.<\/p>\n

\"Giggles\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

We had lots of laughs and giggles and after lunch, we headed back to the hotel for more swimming……..<\/p>\n

(stay tuned for part 2<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the unbelievable generosity of some amazing people we were able to “get away” from everything for 2 days and 2 nights. It was so needed and so perfect for us. We made plans to take the kids to the Super 8 in Aldergrove. They have a fabulous pool and water slide in the … Continue reading “Getting Away From It All (part 1)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,9,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-special-days","category-thankfulness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}