Visiting all of our kids!

We headed to St. George thursday April 1. Donny picked me up in Salt Lake after the General YW leadership training meeting. We met Kim for lunch in Provo and had a great visit with her, then drove the rest of the way. Stayed with Mandy and Cam thurs. night. Kelle came over for awhile too. We went to Tag's preschool easter egg hunt to say hi to Miss Lori and ended up staying the whole time visiting with Bruce, Kalli and Lacy. It was fun to catch up on things and play with the kids. Then Donny and I drove to Vegas to stay at the condo for the rest of Easter/conference weekend. McKelle, Markie, and Jessica came down after a school dance, saturday night and stayed till sunday. It was a little cool but we got some good sun rays. Oh, and the worst thing ever is that we forgot our camera. Who does that? Therefore no pictures of any of this. Kelle did bring her camera so she has a few.
Anywhoo get home sunday night. I work a full week and little miss Emma Kate decides to come four weeks early and is born April 6th. It was so awesome cuz I was training at the Logan hospital for my job and so I was there!!! She is sooo little and petite, you just forget. We were so thrilled and glad that everything was ok and they came home the next day. On thursday night Kim and Blair drove to logan to see the baby and Donny and I went over to. Fun visiting with eveyone.

Kim and Blair look pretty natural don't you think!! So excited for them! Mandy is next in line though with a boy!




We flew to California Friday night, April 6th to spend a week with Jason, Claudia and kids. I have been craving fish and chips at Ventura Harbor soooo bad! I was super excited to go for lunch on Saturday. It was yummy as ever! Then we walked along the beach a bit.


We got up Sunday and went to sacrament meeting and then headed for Indio. This is a picture of the condo there. We love it. It was so green and flowers everywhere. The roses were huge and smelled so good. Wasn't quite as hot as we would have liked but I won't complain.





Claudia had found out about this place called Paramount Ranch. A western town(where they filmed Dr. Quinn medicine woman) where you can take awesome pictures. So we took their family picture and a ton of others.



We went to Zuma Beach afterwards! A little windy and cool but it was just great to walk in the sand and listen to the waves. The kids loved chasing the seagulls and we had to keep telling them to come back to us.



We flew home thurs. April 15 and picked up Maddie and Tag at Marions. We are going to watch them while they work on getting the Logan house back in shape. They stayed till Sunday. Oh and Saturday we had a shower for Jocelyn and baby Emma. So in about a 2 weeks span we spent time with all of our kids all the way from Logan,St. George, Vegas, and California. And did I say we even bought a new car in the middle of all of this. Wow

CRUISIN' IN THE CARIBBEAN!

We flew to Puerto Rico on Sat. Feb. 6, 2010. We changed planes in Dallas and just as we were getting on the plane,I turned around and Curt and Lisa were right behind us!! We didn't know we were on the same flight. So that was pretty cool. We spent the night right downtown Old San Juan and the next day toured the sites. It was quite a shock for us to be in 85 degree weather but I wasn't complaining at all!!



Watching the superbowl on the seaside theatre!

St. Thomas was our first island and we took advantage of a beautiful beach with white sand. Donny and I snorkeled a little and saw some pretty fish.


We loved the card trick guy on the ship. His name was Matteos Ramous and he was pretty entertaining. UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!

The next island was Dominica!! We swam in cold water through Titou Gorge to a waterfall. Our guide (Kelvin) lifted us up the falls and then we jumped over the falls. I still can't believe I did that! It was so fun. Then he took us to Trafalga Falls and we sat in some natural hot springs and then in some cold pools at the bottom of the falls. Kelvin taught us a lot about the island.

One of the formal nights!

Barbados- We went out on a 57'catamaran and snorkeled two different places. First at a shipwreck and the reef. Our guides fed the fish so there were a ton swimming all around us but unfortunately the water wasn't very clear so you couldn't see the shipwreck or the reef. We were so exhausted by the time we got back on the boat because the waves were huge!! Then we got to snorkel with the turtles. That was so cool. That time I jumped off the boat instead of climbing down the steps. I was so brave haha! They fed us the most delicious lunch on the boat and then cranked up the music and danced for us.




Happy Birthday Donny and Curt!! We celebrated by going down 11 ziplines in St. Lucia.



This is St. Lucia!

After we got done on the ziplines,we had the cab drop us off at the market to shop before we got back on the ship. This guy showed us how he makes his baskets and made Lisa and I angel fish. I had a weak moment and ended up buying a basket from him! Then we went over to the fruit market and had all kinds of fresh fruit! I wish I had some coconut right now. It was so good!!

Lisa made birthday hats out of the Carnival Caper for Donny and Curt.

Today was a beach day on the island of St. Kitts. We went to South Frigatte Beach which was so beautiful. We got lots of sea shells and then we went shopping at the little shops at the port.

I LOVE this picture! Donny and I snorkeled at the very point of the rock in the center of the picture. We saw fish and an eel.

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Our last island was St. Maartin and we were going to have another beach day and see the airplanes fly over us and land but there were 12' swells in the ocean and they didn't feel it was safe for us to get off the ship. So we headed back out for a day at sea.

We are back in Puerto Rico.Oh, I am so sad to leave!

We planned this cruise over a year ago with Curt and Lisa. Who would have ever thought how perfect the timing would be for us! I can't think of a better way than this to just getaway and RELAX! Although, we were on the go a lot!!!

A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE ...

Ada and Boston on Christmas Eve. They were so blasted cute that night! It was fun having kids here for Christmas eve again.

How many puzzles did we start? and how many did we finish? Silly kids!

McKelle was so excited to make a ginger bread house. It was so fun having her here for almost 2 weeks!

Who says miracles don't happen? Jason and Claudia are known for showing up unexpected or early. Well, I had just talked to Claudia about packing for the trip and trying to get it done early so it wouldn't be so crazy right before. It was sunday and I thought Brandon and Kim and Blair might come over for dinner. We came home from church and Brody's car was in the driveway, we came in looking for him and Nollie and I heard a baby's voice (sort of)and we walked down the hall and there was Jason,Claudia,Ada, and Boston on my bed. I had a book in my hand and I just covered my face and cried. I didn't even rush to go hug them. I really was in shock! Donny just couldn't believe it. Turns out the whole family was in on it, even McKelle. And I guess they were trying to get Mandy to get in on the Christmas miracle too. We had the rest of the family here Christmas day to Sunday. I agree with Ada who said "This is the best Christmas Ever!!! We really had so much fun with our family all here. My house seemed a little small at times but we worked it out. We had gotten snow a couple days before Christmas and Jason's family got to spend some time playing out in it. They loved it!!