McKayla's POV:
I slowly managed to roll out of bed as Ryan's alarm blared. Ryan sleepily reaches over and turns it off. We finally made it to an off week and you know what that means, it means, vacation, and I couldn't be more excited. It was a time to relax with friends and family and forget about work and the kids with school since this week was their break. Costa Rica was always our destination when it came to an off week. But not only was this a vacation, but Erin and Jason were also getting married in Costa Rica too!
As Ryan tries to wake himself up, I go and wake up the kids so they had time to get ready. I left Briella alone since she was the grumpiest when she got woken up early.
"We'll be there in an hour. Yeah, see you soon." Ryan says tiredly ending a phone call. Ryan and I weren't really early morning people, so we quietly went about our business. I threw my hair up in a messy bun, then changed into some athletic shorts and one of Ry's Penske sweatshirts.
"Why do you look better in that sweatshirt than me?" Ryan questions in his raspy morning voice.
"Cause I'm pregnant?" I shrugged.
"So what you're saying is that I need to get pregnant to make that sweatshirt work?" Ryan questioned making me laugh, which was a rare occurrence especially at four o'clock in the morning. He grabs our suitcases and rolls them downstairs. After I finished getting ready, I went and helped the kids with getting ready and last-minute packing.
"Thank you sweetie, you're so thoughtful," I say as I see Peyton putting together bags of cereal and granola bars for everyone. "Noah, Summerlyn can you bring your bags down so dad can put them in the car?" I called out.
"Is there anything else I can do mom?" Peyton asks.
"Can you take Lucy over to Mrs. Johnson's house? Have dad watch you when you go." I replied. Our neighbor down the road, kindly offered to dog-sit Lucy while we were away this week.
I run upstairs and carefully picked up Briella, trying not to wake her. Luckily I got her down to the car no problem. I buckled her in and grabbed the rest of our stuff inside.
||Costa Rica||
"This is life." I sighed sitting down with the Costa Rican sun beaming down on my skin.
"Agreed." Lennox chuckles. "Girls are taking pictures down at the beach. You wanna come?" She asks holding up her camera. I nod and walked down to the breathtaking beach.
Lennox has been trying out photography as a side job, and she's fantastic at it. She wants to open a photography business by the end of the year. We ended up taking pictures for an hour until Carson decided to crash our photoshoot.
"Dinner is prepared," Carson announces. We all headed up to the house and enjoyed a delicious meal mom and Lisa made for all of us. I pile food onto my plate and go sit down next to Ryan, who had Briella on his lap.
"Hi mommy." She says sweetly.
"Hi honey, did you have fun in the pool with Uncle Carson?"
"Yes." She smiles.
"Hungry much?" Ryan tries not to laugh with his mouth full of food.
"That is such an old joke." Chase rolls his eyes taking a seat next to me. I nod and looked over at Ryan trying so hard to contain his laughter.
"We got three pregnant ladies in the room be careful," Carson says. "Blaney fighting three pregnant ladies, sorry to say that will not end well for you."
After everyone finishes, some of the kids go back into the swimming pool being watched by the guys. Amanda and Lennox go through all the photos we took down at the beach. Erin, Emma (Conley/Blaney) help me pick out new clothing for Whit and Kay's and discussed some projects we'd been working on for a while.
