Halloween 2009

Here are my cute little monsters! Black cat, green monster, and a witch.

Taylee looked way too grown up with her make-up on! I am worried :-) Bryns :-)

Ward Party

We took the kids to our ward Halloween Party. They got to try cotton candy, got their faces painted, received LOTS of candy, and played tons of games. Too say the least, they had a blast!
This was Brynlee's first time doing a cake walk. I told her that she needed to walk on the pictures and then stop when the music stopped. I have NEVER seen her concentrate so hard as she did trying to stay on those pictures.

Taylee also did the cake walk, but she was a pro and looked up to get her picture taken :-)

Paxton enjoyed the party too :-). He's such a party animal!

Taylee found the golfing game and didn't want to leave.

Brynlee played the wack-a-scout game (which is exactly what it sounds like), but she was too busy laughing to really hit any of the young men.

Pumpkin Patch

I think the Red Barn is becoming a family tradition for our family. A couple weeks ago we took the kids there for Family Home Evening. They each got to pick out a couple pumpkins (of course Bryns kept picking ones that were bigger than she was), wander through the little corn/straw bale maze, and then they were able to ride around the field on a little train.

Taylee loved the maze. She made it through as fast as she could and then she came back and helped Brynlee. She is such a good big sister!
Brynlee was so cute and kept getting lost, but she just continued to smile until Taylee found her and helped her to the end.

Riding on the train

They loved the train ride. I have to admit though that I was freaking out the entire time. There were no side rails and I truly thought that Brynlee was going to fall out the side. I was very grateful when they returned to the barn :-)

Just Cute

Brynlee is with her cousin Asher. They were born only a day apart and are the best of friends. They are so much a like it is like they are twins. And if you sit them next to each other and look at their eyes, they have the EXACT eye color as each other.

Caribbean Cruise

We are back! It has been such a long time since I blogged, but I have a very good reason why I was slacking... I was in the nice, hot, beautiful 90 degreee Caribbean :-) heehee
We had such a great time! We cruised out of Puerto Rico to Aruba, Curacaou, Dominica, and St Thomas. It was perfect with four days in ports and two days at sea doing nothing. In fact, I think I enjoyed the vacation a bit too much because I gained 6 pounds in a week! Oh well, those virgin pina-coladas and extra desserts were SOOOO worth it.
Here are some highlights from our trip....

Stupid Things We Did
-we almost missed our flight from Atlanta to San Juan because we FELL ASLEEP! Our flight out of Salt Lake was at midnight and we were so tired. We got to Atlanta and had a couple hours so we snuggled into our chairs. I woke to Sean poking me. I looked around at what had been a full terminal to see no one else around. We looked over at the boarding gate to see the sign flashing "Final Boarding" and the two Delta people watching us. Whoops!
-I fell asleep while laying out on the deck the first day. It wouldn't have been a bad thing except I had my big-honkin sunglasses on. Let's just say I had raccoon eyes for a couple days til I could even out the color.
-The tour in Curacou was horrible!! The tour guide barely spoke English and told us about Social Security for 20 minutes. Plus, we ended up at a liquor factory where everybody got completely drunk...
-Sean playing in the game "The Quest." I have been sworn to secrecy, but lets just say that on our last cruise he was hypnotized and did quite the Michael Jackson impersonation. Being hypnotized was NOTHING compared to "The Quest," but you'll have to ask him yourself because there are some images that as a wife you just want to forget...
-While snorkeling in Aruba, Sean used an SPF 50 spray. The spray did not mist like we thought. Instead it simply left crisscross lines acrossed his back. He has quite an interesting sunburn :-)

Fun Things We Did
-snorkeling in Aruba. The boat that we road to the snorkeling places was built in 1905. We got to snorkel over a sunken WWII German ship called the Antilla. And then we got to swing out over the ocean on ropes from the ship. It was so much fun but salt water is AWFUL! Bleh!
-Murder Mystery onboard the cruise ship. Some of the acting was pretty bad, but it was a lot of fun even though both of us got the murderer wrong. Oh well.
-Hato Caves in Curacao (this was the only good part of the HORRIBLE tour). Here are some pics.

Can you see the pirate face?

If I look a bit frenzied it is because there were a bunch of little bats (about the size of mice) flying around us. Yuck.

-River Rafting through the rainforest of Dominica. It was beautiful and SO much fun.

-Going through a little bit of Old San Juan. There was a fort that was built in the 1600s that I could have spent an entire day at. The old city had a European feeling to it with the cobbled roads and the colonial architecture. I will definitely be going back to San Juan!

-Laying out, listening to "The Hunger Games," drinking my virgin pina-colada :-)

Here are some random pics and when I find our other camera I will add in more pictures:-)

Sean and Paxton

Paxton is such a cutie! He is always laughing and smiling at everything and everybody. He spent the last week with my parents while Sean and I were on vacation. My mom said that she didn't even get a chance to hold him during church because all of the ladies wanted him. He just laughed and "talked" with everybody.
Here are some cute pics of Paxton and his daddy just playing. He is a little daddy's boy:-)

Happy Birthday Taylee (cont!)

I just found more pictures from Taylee's birthday and I had to add them in. She had so much fun.