Vacation!!

Me in freeport




The fish caught the day we went ocean fishing




After swimming all day

Later that night

At the queens staircase/Fort Fincastle in Nassau

These towel pets are worth going on a cruise for in itself!

Yay! So even though I wasn't pleased with the whole Airport thing, and I thought about it a lot during my 3 and a half hour flight to Orlando, I was so happy to finally begin our vacation. It has been a tradition of ours it seems to vacation over the Thanksgiving holiday. This year was no execption, besides the fact that we had dinner at our house, and then left 2 hours later. We left my poor mom to clean up and pack our children and take them home with her. My only problem with the timing of our vacation, is of course Black Friday! Haha, we did actually get up early Friday morning and hit a few stores in Denver before our flight. We didn't buy much, but my husband wanted to go to Bass Proshop and try and catch a few deals. Once we landed in Orlando and collected our luggage we breezed through the airport, rented our car and drove to our motel. We thought it was fitting to eat dinner that night at Bahama Breeze, as thats where our final destination would be! We spent one day in Orlando and went Ocean fishing, which I have never done before. It was a great day, calm sea, but no fish for us!!! We had a blast though and were pooped by the time we got back to our motel room. The next morning we got up early, mostly because we were so eager to get on the ship. We are definately cruise people. (This was our 3rd, and our 4th will be in Feb. with the whole family!!) Anyways, we reserved a penthouse suite and got the VIP treatment. If you've cruised before, you know about the lines, and man was I glad to skip them! We waited behind two groups, and we had chairs, and they offered us drinks! So check in was very quick and easy. Once on board we checked things out, Tomas scheduled a hair cut, and I unpacked. Great first day really. It was a short cruise, only a 4 day and we hit Freeport Bahamas, and Nassau. Freeport was kinda drizzily (light rain???) but warm and we shopped and explored the island and beaches. The next day was Nassau, and we did a history of the island/city tour and ended our day with a trip to the Atlantis resort and spent the rest of the day at the water park there, which was awesome! We opted to walk from Paradise Cay back to the ship, which was about 3 miles. But it was beautiful and we had time, there was no need to be stuck in a taxi. We finished off our trip with a day at Kennedy Space Center. I had no idea it was a wild life preserve and we saw sooo many alligators!! Anyways, it was a great vacation, much needed, and I can't wait to go back one day!

Airport Security

Honestly, I don't mind arriving at the airport an hr early just to waiting in a long line, taking my shoes off, dump out the contents of my purse, seperate my lip gloss, hand sanitizer and lotion out into a ziplock back, throw away my bottle of water, nail file and clippers if it really is indeed making me more secure as a fly to my choice of destinations. I don't however, appreciate going through all of that only to find that once I pass through security I can sit down and have a steak at outback steakhouse, with a steak knife. I can also purchase any number of sharp objects or dental floss in the stores. We left for Vacation last week and happened to be flying as there were attacks on mumbia, so the security level was at orange. I believe thats why I was promped to toss my clippers, although last year they passed right through at the same airport, which was Denver International.We arrived at the airport in plenty of time so we did a little browsing and I was very disappointed in our country's attempt to make us feel safe. It seems like a waste of time when we can purchase these items 20 yards from boarding an aircraft. I took these pictures while Tomas picked out a magazine to read on the plane! I just think its interesting and worth looking into. I honestly don't feel any safer than I did before, and I think its a shame that these can still be sold AFTER a security check, yet my family can't walk me to my gate anymore or I can't take a drink through!

These sissors look pretty sharp to me!

I had to toss mine in the trash before passing through security, but I could purchase these after I got through??? HHHMMMM

I watch "how its made" and it says that razors are the sharpest thing, sharper than steak knives!

A Day at the Park

Okay I know we did this back in November. (On the 18th actually. Which was my 4th anniversary, however, Tomas had to work so we (we being me and the girls) spent the day at the park with our friends and then spent a few hours at the mall before we met Tomas for dinner.) Anyways, this is the first time that I have found time to sit down and blog in awhile! I couldn't believe what a great day it was for a park day.

They went down the slide together. Such sweet girls!

Ryleigh really enjoys the slides, while Kaedynce is my swing girl!

Tiera and her little man Jerikei

My kids were the only ones with their jackets on, and they ditched those pretty quick because it was so nice.

All in all, it was a really great day, and we made up for missing our anniversary together with a great vacation!!!

Christmas Time

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Updates

So for some reason or another, it turns out....brace yourself, I am NOT so good at this blogging business. I want to be. I really do. But everytime I get a second to sit down and jot a few thoughts or happenings, someone needs me for something, or we are late for being somewhere. Honestly, I don't know how anyone finds the time for this. Plus I still do not have this figured out. I was so accustome to myspace that this just seems like a foreign concept to me, and a lot of my friends do both. Also, I have no idea how to find people on here. Everyone says, oh yeah I have a blog...well, I can't find anyone. Anyways, now for my updates, which are basically not much. We spent today with some friends, had yummy blt's at my house and then went to Herbergers to attempt fundraising for Ry's dance team. We are selling the $5 coupons for community day. Turns out so is every other organization in this town! I also found it odd that the majority of our buyers turned out to be young guys. Yeah thats right, most all of the older women passed up the opportunity to support our dance team, while the guys were the only ones we could even get to slow down to listen to our pitch and buy a coupon. It was always the most unlikely person who bought one. Guess, it teaches us not to judge the book by its cover. ah, see here i am writing at one am and my little one decided to wake up!!! LOL, I will try to get back on tomorrow and post some halloween pictures. Which is what I got on to do in the first place

Halloween Festivities

We spent Sunday cramming every Halloween activity in that we could! First thing in the morning Tomas helped the girls make a haunted gingerbread house that turned out super cute, and then we got ready and headed out to the pumpkin patch, which I intend on adding photos later. Then we had a late lunch at Red Robin which is the girls favorite place to eat. Not only because they get balloons, but because I always give in to their plees of having chocolate milkshakes with their meals. That is a very rare treat for them and because of that they would usually rather go eat there than at the nasty chuck E cheese when they have their choice! After that we came home and Tomas busied himself occupying Kaedynce while Ryleigh and I worked on her pretty foam haunted house for her friends Halloween party. I was shocked by how long it took us girls to assemble it, and was thankful for all of Ryleighs efforts. She worked on it diligentely for about 2 hours before she gave up. When I was putting the finishing touches on she said, "surprise mommy! I came back to help you." So she added bits and pieces of 'spiderweb' and we snapped a quick picture of our finished product. Tomas even admitted that it was a (in his own words) 'pretty cool haunted house'. It turned out to be a great craft for Ryleigh. But now I know a 3 year old has her limits on how long something like that remains fun! Afterwards it was time for a fall sort of dinner of spaghetti squash and garlic breadsticks. By the time I cleaned that up, and the children, it was time for bed and we werent able to carve our pumpkins until the next morning before Tomas left for work. Today we also made a batch of sugar cookies to take and frost at the Halloween party. Which did I mention I am so thankful to Tiera for having it. My girls are super excited to go!

Wyoming Weekend

We spent Tomas' last week off in Wyoming. We had a really great time seeing everybody! The girls, me, my sister and little Ko man went to Green River and had lunch with my great friend Kristi and went to see her new house!! Then over to Jenna's salon to chop my hair and add a little color before vacaction. And a quick visit with my uncles and Felicia Hafner. All the while Tomas spent the days chopping wood with my dad, which he claims he enjoyed. Not my idea of a fun time, but he seems to really like it. On friday we got to enjoy a little high school football, and Ryleigh thought Nick was a celebrity everytime they announced his name. He is the qb and a pretty good one at that! It was senior night so his parents along with his son got to go out on the field with him. As it turns out the football game is pretty much all the pics that I have!! We also went to the PAC for a Halloween Party for the kids which included a few bump and jumps, games, and cookie decorating. The girls had a great time! All in all the trip was too short, but it was very nice to see everyone again!!