CrUiSeN'

Last week we went with Wayne's family on a Royal Caribbean cruise! All of the adults went in the family (besides Brad and Amber. He is a 3rd yr. medical student. We missed them!) The cruise was amazing...except for the BUMMER weather. The only days we saw the sun, were the days we got on and off the ship in Florida!... besides that we had a GREAT time and enjoyed our time together so much!! (Thank you Deanne, Kristy, Suzanna, and Tia for helping with my kids!!!) Here is a re-cap..
Fort Lauderdale, FL.
This was our hotel in Florida. We spent one night there. Here we are in the Lobby before boarding the ship!

OUR ROOM on the ship!

EVACUATION DRILL

FOOD

this is what we spent most of the time doing!

HANGING OUT ON THE DECK!

Katie and i

FORMAL NIGHTit was fun for all of us girls to spend time getting ready for formal night together... thanks to april, everyone had their hair done so cute!

the waiters in our dining area!

all the girls! (we missed you Amber)... i guess i missed the memo to wear black!

all the boy (men~)

Mom and Pop

COZUMEL

this is about all we did in Cozumel. it is supposed to be one of the best snorkling places in the world, but because of the weather, all water excursions were cancelled! it was sad to not even be able to get in the water at all! we just did a little souvenier (sp?) shopping and got back on the boat!!

SPA

we LOVED our time at the spa getting massages!

CARDS

JUST THE TWO OF US

it was so fun to spend a week with Layton! he is so much fun!

BELIZE

We didn't spend much time in the city of Belize. When we got there, we got on a bus for 2 HOURS! It was a miserable trip, but when we got to the rainforest.. it was all worth it!

our group! we had so much fun! we had 5 ziplines and two repels!

love this picture of Sam! :)

me ziplining through the canopy of the Belize rainforest!! Beautiful!

CREATIONS

GAME NIGHT

this is probably the most animated you will see wayne!

got to love Katie's corn rows and footed pjs!!! :)

the girls...

the boys....

LAST NIGHT

Our waiter, Jacob, was awesome! He was from Hondorus

Brian, Katie, Me, Wayne

BREAKFAST

Our last morning, as we were docked in Florida... THERE's the SUN!

POOL DECK

We did not spend ANY time here.. just one afternoon in a different part of the ship in the jacuzzi!

We were sad and happy for the trip to come to an end... sad because we had so much fun eating and spending time with family and the ship was amazing! ... happy because we were ready to come home to be with our girls!!! it was so good to see them! Also my mom went into the hospital again while we were gone, so I was anxious to check on her! She is improving more each day! Thanks for the concern!

Our Christmas Celebrations....

I have been slacking BIG TIME! (at everything) I have felt like crap and my mom has been in the hospital (you can read about that below) so here is my attempt at updating December....

These events are in order of last to first... So if you want to scroll down and start at the bottom of the post, then the pictures would be in order!

We came home to SNOW! My sister in law told us while we were gone that there was a snow storm. My girls were so sad to miss it.. but luckily there was a LITTLE left! :)

LAYTON CHRISTMAS

We went to Wayne's parents on Christmas afternoon. We love being with that side of the family too. I am glad my girls can still develope friendship with their Layton cousins, even though we don't live close. We had a gift exchange and awesome dinner!

MOM IN HOSPITAL!!!

This has been the worst part of our Christmas! My mom spent Christmas in the hospital. We took her a mini Christmas tree, and presents and got to spend lots of visits with her, but it was (and is) a scary experience. She went in on Monday (before Christmas) with blood clots. They admitted her and found that she had already had some break off to her lungs, but luckily they were small! The hospital started her on blood thinners immediately (the same ones I'm taking for my pregnancy right now.) After about 5 days my mom's stomach started to swell (like she was 8 mon. pregnant).. they realized she was bleeding internally. We were SO worried to say the least. She was taken to Scottsdale Hospital where they put a filter in her lunts to protect a blood clot from killing her and now they are draining her stomach. She is home now, but not out of the woods. SHe has gone through SO much and been such a trooper. It is also great to see my dad step up and take such good care of her. This experience has made me realize how much I need and love my mom. She's amazing and she is normally the one taking care of everyone. Please keep her in your prayers... SIDE NOTE: we got to talk to my brother Levi on his mission (it was so great), but we had to tell him mom was in the hospital, so he was able to talk to her there.
CHRISTMAS EVE

Here are my cute girlies in their cute jammies...

and here is what Maci was doing while the other girls were asleep. She had a late nap and was so hyper. Luckily she didn't know what we were doing!

CHRISTMAS MORNING

We started Christmas morning with eating an orange (a tradition my parents did with us.. that I hated, but I make my kids do it too! :)

Haylee made this cutting board at school and gave it to us for Christmas. Yes, that is a black eye that Wayne has, it's from basketball, I promise! Haylee's favorite gifts.. her cd player for her room and her small pink camera!

Maci's favorite present: baby ALLY

Hanna's favorite presents: Bike, Troy and Gabriella barbie that sing

I love Christmas morning!

Grandpa and Travis came over Christmas morning to see what we got from Santa. Her is Haylee and Grandpa playing a game that Phil made for us!

VISITING GRANDMA BERTA

Wayne's grandma Layton is now in a home with about 5 other elderly people and we were able to go visit her and her friends and sing some Christmas songs to them. She is an amazing woman. I love this picture of Grandma Berta and Wayne

All the girls singing "Jingle Bells"

CELEBRATING WITH FRIENDS!

Maci was SO excited to have her favorite... G-U-M (she always spells it out now, because that is what her sisters do to try and be sneaky and she caught on!)

The Farnsworths are some of our closest friends (they are more like family) from Chandler. We always celebreat holidays with them.. This year they spoiled us again!

All of the presents given by the Farnsworths are always wrapped perfect too! I hate to tear in to them!
HANNA'S PRESCHOOL PROGRAM

Thanks Grandpa for coming to support us!

This program is always so great too! I was so proud of Hanna doing her part!
SANTA

We took the cute Lopeman girls with us to the school for cookies, hot cocoa, and SANTA... It was the first year all of my girls were excited to see him!

Haylee's School Program!

The primary school program is always awesome. This year was the same! I forgot my camera, so thanks to my friend, Amber, I have some pictures of Haylee. She did so great!