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Literally, 5 minutes…after the sunset. I love the imperfections as I think it illustrates the chaos of those moments. He went from firing on all cylinders to flat on his back in less than 5 minutes. Kids 
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These images and video were all taken with my mom’s little underwater point and shoot Olympus or our GoPro. It killed me to not be able to bring ‘the big camera’ there, but it really made no sense as there was a good chance it would hit a rock and crack the lens port. So, we made the decision to capture it this way…the humidity was INSANE and left moisture on the lenses of both cameras which resulted in very few images 
but, we have proof that we were there at least! An unreal experience riding a tube through a cave system. You have to see it to Belize it
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*photo credit goes to Gimme Some Oven. Mine didn’t look nearly as nice as this
We recently made a sort of pledge. It was born out of Bob’s obsession with a new app called ‘Mint’ for his phone. It tracks all of our spending. A couple months of doing that and we realized one big thing…we are wasting a tonne of money eating out.
I used to like to cook…before I worked…but, as I got busy with my career and the kids got busy with activities, cooking went to the bottom of the priority list. We have noticed the affect on our pocketbook and our waistlines. So…we are going to try to eat in more often. I’ll share some of my new recipes here. Being a social media crazy person, I find most of my recipes on Pinterest. Some of them work well…and some, not so much. Today, we made this Chicken, Bacon, Avocado Chopped Salad from Gimme Some Oven. It was FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC…Being huge fans of both bacon and avocados helps for sure, but this is going to be a new go to favourite…give it a try Just a note that we used goat’s cheese instead of blue cheese(no one here really likes blue cheese)…it worked well. And, we added the Dijon Mustard which is listed as optional. Jack LOVED it and has decided it should be called ‘Bacon Salad’…
~ Dana
PS–I know that I haven’t shared much from Belize. I promise that there is more to come.
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I would say that most of our images from Belize are underwater…Most are while out snorkelling, but this one is in our pool. Last day without some sort of travel…
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Learning about coconuts today. When Robert Pugh is your dad, life is a science lesson
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This is the space where the image of Jack leaning against a palm tree with the words ‘no loitering’ written on it would be…
This is the space where I would post the image of Georgia feeding a spider monkey a pb&j sandwich…
Yup. Corrupted card. On holiday. It hardly seems fair. I have learned a valuable lesson though. First, I am getting an SD card to go in the SD slot of my 5D Mark III to act as a backup to my CF card. Just in case. Why I have never done this is beyond me…
Second…how valuable are these photographs? After all, they are really just of us on holiday…normal touristy stuff. Us at Lamanai…us at Caye Caulker…we had the discussion. Is it worth sending it to a card recovery company(after multiple failed attempts with consumer level card recovery software)? The answer is yes. I think it will cost about $500 to get them off of there(if they even can)…and the truth is, I’m going to spend what it takes to try. Made me stop and think about the importance of the images I take. Memories are good…and we’ll remember these things…and, my mom was there with her camera capturing some of it as well so it’s not like there are NO photographs of it. But, we value these images of our family time together. And, I know that in years to come…the kids will as well.
Hopefully, one day, I can post those photos for you…as well as the ones of the local boys eating the custard apples on a run down bridge before they jumped into the crocodile infested river. Crossing my fingers…
~ Dana
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