Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter Sabbath

I love Easter Sabbath.  It was a bit busy & rushed in the morning (I wanted to sleep in AND fix special breakfast AND dress special AND be on time!).  We had a beautiful Easter cantata ceremony for the church service.  Uncle Robb came to visit for the weekend.  We had a fabulous lunch at one of our favorite restaurants downtown.  And we spent time with family.

I am so blessed.










Saturday, April 23, 2011

Spring Break Cruise 2011

Each year for our Christmas gift from my parents we take a trip.  This year we decided on a cruise.  Royal Carribean- Liberty of the Seas.  And for the first time we had to go during spring break so the kids wouldn't miss school.

It was the BEST!  We went down to Florida a few days before the cruise to spend some time with Grandma & Grandpa (they live in the Everglades for 4 months during the winter).

Six days spent on the boat and we stopped in Belize, Costa Maya and Cozumel.  Our favorite things were the beach, the characters on the ship (it was a Pixar films featured ship- so Shrek & Madagascar characters were on the ship with us!), the food, games on the ship, waiters, room service, not lifting a finger for a whole week and the sun!  It was a perfect week!

We love airplanes.



 Billie's Swamp (Everglades).  They re-captured this croc while we were there!  It escaped 8 years ago!

Airboat ride.


 Our Swamp buggy.

Grandma LOVES games.  We had a fun time playing UNO attack.  Parker was the funniest loser ever!

Our family.  Blessed to spend some quality time together.

Waiting to get on the ship!

Walking the plank!

Our boat was spectacular!

Bye Bye Miami!

Life doesn't get much better.

Instead of watching the character show Jackson & Daddy were watching a heli circling the ship leaving Miami.

Fancy dinner every night!  The kids got used to ordering a five course meal!

Jackson suited up to rock climb

Parker or Addi snapped this shot!



Yea!!

LOVED the towel characters!


Belize.  Perfection.


Puss.

Character breakfast= chocolate on everything!





Our ship is the HUGE one!

Our transportation around Costa Maya.



Costa Maya= fish tacos on the beach.  A-MAZING!

bad coloring but love the picture.


Boxing... until we got told they had to be 16 years old.

bye bye blissful cruise.

our cool SW plane on the way home.  have i mentioned we're REALLY into planes?!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Gratitude.

I have started a journey.  It began a few weeks ago when I started this book study.  The book is called One Thousand Gifts and it challenges you to create a thankful list (of 1000 gifts) of your own.  So, I have started my list.  I will  blog every once in a while (my goal is once per week) about a few of my grateful things.  They are extremely random.  I have so many obvious things to be thankful for.  I love to think of the not-so-obvious things in my life.  And to find gratitude in the smallest of things.

Here we go:



A tough girl.  That can play with 4 older boys for hours.

Living in the semi-country on 3 acres where my kids can explore and have a creek and dirt and sticks.

Game night.  

Sunshine on a cool, crisp winter day.  Spring it coming!

Cooking in my big kitchen.  

Christian music.  I never knew there were such amazing christian artist.

Co-op dinners w/ sister (and neighbor).