Vacation.

We are less than 24 hours away from embarking on a family adventure to Key West! Excitement is boiling in our household. It's been three years since the five of us took a vacation all on our own. Don't get me wrong, we went to Alaska with family and to Minnesota with family and had a wonderful time, but this one is just us. I can't wait. In order to make Andy's trip a little better, we gave him noise cancellation headphones for Father's Day in order to hang out with four girls for a week.

It was decided that we would be designating a "no electronics" day while on vacation...all phones in a bowl for 24 hours. I'm not sure who will lose in this game...Hannah or Andy. We laughed saying at least Andy's phone makes us money...Hannah's phone just costs us money.

It was a little painful getting the girls out the door this morning for swimming. I accidentally went back to sleep when the alarm went off so they were running late. Elie decided to argue that she was too tired and went back to bed. Hannah was not cool with that. I walked by Elie's room one last time and said, "Elie, if you're too tired tomorrow to go on vacation, no worries, we will just leave you home"... no response... a few minutes later she was down stairs ready to go:) We will definately enjoy the 5:15am break this coming week.

Our culinary adventure will go on next week. Our destination, 90 miles from Cuba.

Happy is.