Once upon a time, Roman and Kellie dated, fell in love, and had a baby!
We did it all backwards!

As I started to grow up and become the person I am today, I never actually knew what I wanted from a relationship and how having a partner meant everything. Once our little girl arrived, it was as though things began to fall into place. We bought a house and worked hard to make it our home. We welcomed another baby two years later and continued to grow towards the same goals in life. We knew we wanted a change and once again, life handed us an amazing opportunity to move to Colorado. We took it as quickly as we could. After six years together, we finally settled down and got married on April 27, 2017. A close friend married us and another friend took our pictures! Thus becoming The Colorado Peeks in a mountain side park, under the sun that quickly turned into snow. It was absolutely perfect.

Possibly the first photo ever taken together.

Roman is my partner.
He is not here to give me 50% or half of any of what he has.
He is in it 100% with me!

Happy one- year wedding anniversary to this man, my husband and best friend!

Wedding Day snow showers.

Cuties.

It is official.

Lovin on my little man.

Smooches.

Ok, now I think it’s beginning to snow…

March 11, 2018 we set off to Florida to head out on a Norwegian Cruise for 12 days through Central America. With our kids!! How fucking crazy are we? As it turns out, very crazy but it was fantastic!

Let’s begin with packing. How does one pack for such a long vacation, so far away with a three year old and a five year old? For me, it’s simple… light. Pack light! Our travel agent set us up for what to expect, also laundry service on the boat if we needed. Phew! Since we were leaving 30º in Colorado and arriving to 75º in Miami, we wore our warm outfits and had our shorts and tanks in our backpacks. Shorts can be worn more than once and thankfully tanks are little enough to roll a weeks worth into a tootsie roll.

Luggage keys tucked away safe.

Kids in one case, parents in the other.

Luggage tags, a must!

All packed!

I have wicked anxiety, traveling with the hellions at midnight to a place I am not super familiar with was nerve wracking. However, a little prep for them and for me paid off. We explained how important it was to stay close to mom and dad, not to wander off and to keep up with their backpacks. Both kids were great at this. They packed one toy, their special blankets, that we call”B” and a snack. Just enough for them to not run a muck through DIA.

The 5 a.m. arrival was tough. We were tired and checked bags took an eternity to retrieve. Our Uber driver down into South Beach was kind and our breakfast was fantastic. We cruised through the beach and discovered Lucas outgrew his flip flops as we were putting them on! Gap to the rescue with some cool new shark flip flops!

Embarkation was long but smooth, thank you baby Jesus for gummy bears, granola bars and silly songs! The hour and a half wait in line to get onto the ship could have been a nightmare for these rugrats. Lucas was the most popular kid in line and made about 500 friends. The state rooms weren’t ready of course so we just cruised the sundeck and waited for the arrival of our in-laws to join!

Yada-yada-yada… it was wonderful. Enjoy some of these photos.

Belize

Panama Canal

The locks into Gatun Lake

Costa Rica Banana Plantation

Costa Rica

Roatan Bay

Little French Key

Honduras

Little French Key

Swinging

Gutamala

Gutamala

Guatamala

Hot Springs

Belize

Belize

Mexico

Costa Maya

Mexico

Parents looking normal.

The cruise deck

This is more like us.

Did I mention there was plenty to drink……?

We had so many great experiences and not enough pictures. We did splurge and utilized the photography on the ship. Free sitting fee and no obligation to buy but damn they looked good, how could we not?! We had Marco and Michael from Perspective Photography Studios follow us around the beach in Belize. Wowza, they captured some candid moments I couldn’t have dreamed of!

Overall, we had such a great time. We look forward to the next family vacation, it just won’t be quite so long….

I’ll totally drop a line in for our travel agent too. Again, she set us up for such a good trip and even spoiled us with a little gift before we set sail. Our Peek Family bag had a few items to help us stay organized, a shoe caddie to hold well our shoes and other large items (sunblock, my flatiron, etc.) for the cabin so there wasn’t clutter all over the place, lanyards to keep hold of our cruise cards and cruise tags for our luggage to be brought up to our room.