Part 3 (and final one) of the Cruise out to Sea

Here we are waiting for the shuttle to take us to the airport!! We made it back.
Here we are waiting for the ship to dock. I don't think Kenzie realized this picture would be on my blog, sorry Kenzie!!
This is the last night at dinner in the Wind Song dining room. Dax was laughing and I had to get it on camera. Our server was so cute, he took the kids around with him when they dance in the middle of your dinner service. Tayson and Victoria thought it was awesome!!
Here is Tayson coming off of the big slide. He is so skinny he wouldn't make it to the end on his bum!! We had so much fun on the boat and we would go again, just not out of Galveston Texas. Thanks to everyone who looked at all my pictures and once again thanks to Randy and Valerie for taking us, we love you guys!

Part 2 of the Cruise Out to Sea

Okay backwards again, but here it goes anyway. Here is Aunt Wendy entertaining the children. She is so good with them, thanks Aunt Wendy for being awesome. And a side note, she looks awesome to she has lost a ton of weight and I think she looks fabulous!!
Brad and Kenzie enjoying the sunshine on the last full day on the boat.
Tayson and grandpa in the hot tub. They were the only ones in the hot tub. It took Tayson thirty minutes before he got all the way in!
Here is a fun towel animal. We got a swan (funny story below), dog, elephant and frog.
This one of the three waterslides they had on the ship. Tayson went down the very big one the most and we spent most of our time on the slides.
Here is my handsome husband posing by the ocean.
Okay, we forgot to tell Tayson about towel animals and so on Monday night after dinner we came back and found this. We let him in the room and were in the hall talking when he ran back out and said there is something scary in our room. Me and Brice walk in the find the swan. Although to me it looks like a rattle snake, we had a good laugh. After that we went and found out who makes the towel animals and asked for a dog or a bunny.
This was dinner on formal night. Gramby did not realize I was taking her picture.

Cruise Out To Sea!!

These are backwards, but who cares!! Here we are sitting by the freezing cold pool. I wore that green jacket everyday, but you know me I am cold where ever I go!!
This was formal night and Tayson did not like getting dressed up!
I ordered myself a non-alcoholic drink and I bought the monkey to. It was a mango smoothie and it was awesome.
Casey pretending to throw Weston in the pool! Dax and Victoria were having a great time in the COLD water.
Tayson and Brice mini golfing the first day on the ship. Tayson mini golfed six times or more before we left the boat!!
This is Webster Texas water tower at the nearby park. This was our "shore excursion". Next time we go to Webster we are going to stay on the boat.
Here is Brice trying to get you to think we went to Paris!! I bet you are all fooled, right?
They had a park while we waited for our boat to come in and the kids had so much fun, we went to the park twice!!
The whole trip Tayson wanted to be with his grandpa. This was before all the fun started.
Here we are ready to go on an adventure!! We did have lots of fun on the ship and I can't say thanks enough to Randy and Valerie for taking us!!

This Never Happens!!

Here a few pics. This one of me and Brice is us on the boat before we set sail. And the pic below is before we got on the boat. More pics to come!!! Enjoy.

Let me explain that title a little bit. On Feb. 19th we were headed to Texas to board a cruise ship with all of Brice's family. We left Ember home and Brad and Kenzie left Brinlee home to. We all got there sometime on Friday and then on Sat. we went to board our ship. Everything was going fine until we realized we needed a passport or a copy of a birth cert. to get on the ship. Well no one had these things except for Sarah and Casey. We spent the next 3 and a half hours calling home getting someone to find them and fax them. If only Carnival had those requirements in bold letters, it would not have happened to us. Our ship did not come in by then so we thought we were doing good, only to realize that is was the beginning of two long days of trying to get on the ship. The fog was so dense that the ship could not come in on Sat., so we had to find a hotel on Sat. and come back on Sunday and hope it had come in. We had small blessings throughout this process and even though it was not the cruise we had hoped for, we did have fun on the ship. We finally boarded the ship at midnight on Sunday, which really is Monday morning now. We did not set sail until Monday at noon. So you guessed it right, we did not get to go to any ports. It was called three fun days at sea. They had a water slide, mini golf, hot tubs, pool, shows, comedian and lots of other stuff to do. We just would have liked to go to Mexico and let Tayson and the other kids play in the ocean. We understood the fog was not Carnival's fault, but they way they handled the situation was their fault. We did enjoy each others company and we got to see Brice's two brothers that live out of state. It was definitely a vacation to remeber. Thanks to Randy and Valerie for taking us and even though it was not was we expected, we sure had an adventure!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I am truly blessed to have three Valentines. Ember does not know what is going on, but Tayson sure did. He had fun at his party at school and giving away his Valentine's. I love you Brice, thanks for being such a great dad and husband! I hope everyone as a great day!

Very First Ponytail

Here is Ember with her first ponytail!! Her hair is so crazy that is goes past her eyes. It is way curly, which I love, but very frizzy. Poor girl got the same hair as her mom!!

Happy Birthday!!

Well everyone I turned the big 3-0 on January 21st, 2011. And the only picture I have of the big day is this birthday cake that is almost gone, pretty sad, huh?!! My mom and Brice did get everyone together and they had a surprise birthday party for me at the Ogden Pizzeria. Thanks to everyone who came and to my mom and Brice for getting everyone there. That was on Friday, so on Saturday Brice's parents watched to kids and we went to Applebee's and then Brice took me ice skating. It was sooo much fun!! Turning thirty isn't to bad, here's to the thirties, bring them on!!
Here is a picture of my mom and Ember on my mom's birthday January 20th. That's right are birthdays are one right after the other!!