Thanksgiving Cruise

We just returned from our eight day Caribbean cruise. We made port in three different countries. First was Colon, Panama, Limon, Costa Rica and last was Belize city,Belize. Very fun and adventurous especially since we were brave enough to take our two kids. Kemarie had a blast. The cruise provided activities for kids her age from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Dane was a little more work, but he still had fun most of the time. My mom and all my siblings and spouses came as well. It was fun to be with the whole family,but very tiring as well. I am an early to bed person and my mom and sisters like to burn the midnight oil, so needless to say I am exhausted. I hope everyone else had a wonderful Thanksgiving and gained as much weight as I did on my cruise(jk). Here are some pictures to get a little taste of our vacation.


I caught her sitting in the splits a lot in the pool. Kemarie in the kiddie pool. We spent a lot of time there.
This is Dane and his cruise girlfriend Isabelle. He realy thought she was something. He followed her around the pool for a while.
Dane's favorite thing to eat on the cruise was ice cream cones.

All the kids just love thier Uncle Kenny. This is Dane and Zeke with Kenny.This is the whole gang at the Panama Canal. It was cool,but not my favorite thing we did. it takes a long time for anything to really happen. At least I can say I saw it.A picture of the panama Canal in operation. A very slow process. It will cost a ship 100,000 to 300,000 dollars to go through the canal. A ship will wait 24-48 hours in the harbour before they are called to go through the canal.At the pool again. Kemarie has stolen aunt Lauries hat and we took a few pictures.Dane was not very sure of the ocean, but he was having a blast in the sand. he ate it and loved putting it in his diaper. Eventually we had to take the diaper off. That was a fun mess to clean.Kemarie on the other hand prefered the oceanhands down. She wanted to go out really far. My brother said when he took her out she said, "Let go Kenny I paddle fast." She thought she should do it all alone. She cried when daddy Kenny and Brandon went swimming as far as they could. She wanted to go.Our cute little Cabana on the beach. My sister Jessie decided to keep all our bags safe. There werequite a few locals scout out our stuff.This is our server from India. We did a little cha-cha one night and he pickedup the two little boys and danced with them. The boys were a little leary.This is in Costa Rica preparing for their famous zipline. You fly through the trees on a thick cable. All the ladies looking hot as can ever. What a ride!! If you ever make it to Costa Ricalyou have to try ziplines. These are our guides and everyone who ziplined. A little preview of the midnight buffet that cruises aref amous for. I have no pictures of the actual buffet because between this time and that night my kids found the camera and hid it. It was not found until the second to the last day of the cruise.Mommy and Dane just hanging out at the port in Panama.

No Entry is complete with out Kemarie's picture taking
Here are her pictures on the cruise.She liked her shadow. She said,"mommy I see shadow."Great Grandma Bench.Mom and Dad at the pool.

Lucky

Lucky loves to be with the kids and has been such a good dog, besides his shedding and not understanding what personal space is.

Outside fun

Kemarie and Dane both love playing on our little play ground in the front yard.

Kemarie's strange places

If you saw earlier posts Kemarie has a really funny place on the counter she likes to eat her lunch. See a post in October. Well once again I caught her sitting in the windowsill with a stuffed bear singing songs to it.

Happy Birthday Dane

Dane turned one on November 4th. I can not believe how fast this year has gone. My mom and sisters and Tyson's parents came out it was fun to have family there. I am embarrassed to say I do not have any pictures of his actual birthday on my camera, because I was running around like crazy. My mom and mom in law have pictures (I will try and post them at some point). we had a bunch of people over for pizza dinner and cake. We tried to do a Cars theme because Dane loves to play with toy cars on the floor. ( It is strange to me to see how different a little boy and girl are even though they are so young) The cake was adorable and so were all eight of the children under five tearing the presents open and tearing my house apart.
I did however capture this adorable video of him a week ago. He was completely infatuated with the water and was trying to hold on to it like a solid object. Then he decided to start drinking it and he was surprised by getting water in his nose. Kids are such a crack up.

Kemaries Photography 101

Do we really need to see everything in a picture? Kemarie loves taking pictures.

Look at her artistic look on everyday items. How impressive.

Upcomong photographer

Kemarie loves to take pictures. I love digital cameras because you can let her take all she wants and erase them, but I had to save a few for memory sake.

Getting Around

Dane has discovered his favorite way to get around is to find an object and push it around. He will push a chair, stool, potty chair, whatever is closest and push it around the floor. He has taken a step by himself, but this seems to be his transportation of choice so who knows when he will be brave enough to walk solo.

eating Lunch

This is one Kemaries favorite places to eat her lunch ,snack or anything. She will sit on one of the storage canisters and put her plate on one and her cup on another. what a crack up.

I am a Child of God

Kemarie has recently started learning the words to I am a child of God (a church song). The chorus is suppose to say "Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way". Kemarie's version is "teach me, hide me, help mommy find the way." I keep telling her she has to help me find the way if she is going to sing about it. I love how kids learn songs or sayings and manipulate it to what they think they are hearing.

October

it is finally October. I am so excited to get ready for Halloween, and wear warm clothes for the winter ahead. I love eating soup and Chili.
Just yesterday we were at church and Kemarie turned to me and Tyson and said "This is not church, this is princess castle. I think we got a few things mixed up somewhere. Dane just took his first step this week. I think the fact that there is a girl (Kylie) in our ward who is younger but walks,and it has given Dane a little more confidence.
Tyson and I have just begun a new work out regime and it is really fun. We are trying to get realy sexy for our cruise we are taking in November. It is fun time we spend together and get hot bodies at the same time(hopefully). we are not doing the food plan 100%, but who really does. I think when I physically write down that I am doing it I will be more successful.

Halloween Pics

Here are the kids getting geared up for Halloween. One of my best friends came out for a couple weeks and we wanted to carry on our tradition of themed pictures for Halloween. We had 6 kids under the age of five. Can you imagine anyone being able to take a picture and get everyone looking? Well amazingly we got a couple. Jon the photographer took so many pictures. Super cute. Here are a few of them. One of the only ways we could keep the kids in one place and not crying was by stuffing candy in their mouths the whole time. the other two mothers(Elisa and Tammy) designated me as the clown to keep the kids happy and looking, and I think Elisa and Tammy were more entertained then any of the children.

Thomas the Tank Engine

This is when the fam went to see Thomas the Tank Engine. He came to Utah this summer. Kemarie was excited when Thomas would blow his whistle.

Welcome

Hi everyone. I was suppose to start this blog a long time ago, but was slightly lazy. It took my friend Elisa coming out to Utah to visit to actually get it started. I am hoping to make my posts a more regular occurance to keep all you out there updated on what we are up to. We live in utah. Tyson is working for a construction company as a engineer. We live in a beautiful house that was built in 1892. We have two children. Kemarie and Dane. As you can tell one of Kemarie's favorite things to do is entertain her brother( the other favorite is torturing him).