Bon voyage

Alligator Farm

Baby Alligator
Air Boat ride through the Everglades

Petting a snake at the farm

This is the only alligator he wanted to get close to.

I don't blame him!

Fruit Stand

Can you tell Sawyer didn't care to be there

Our room on the ship

Awesome towel animals

Grand Turk

Grand Turk

More animals

San Jaun, Pureto Rico

SJ

St. Thomas, Coral World

Half Moon, Cay

Back to FL and leaving the next day

So my sweet husband has been surfing the net for like two or three months to try and find our family an amazing cruise at a great price. I have really been dragging my feet because I am scared. Scared of the huge ocean, flying and all the little things in a trip that could go wrong. After we booked our cruise I started to get way excited and really couldn't wait to go.

We chose to go with Holland American and go to the Carribean. We were gone for ten days and visited many islands. We visited Grand Turk, San Jaun, St. Thomas, and Half Moon Cay. We hadso much fun and made so many great memories. We flew into Ft.Laurdale and stayed there for a day and a half. While we were there we went to an alligator farm, a huge fruit market and packed for the next day.

The alligator farm was fun. Sawyer was NOT excited to go visit alligators and I can't say I blamed him. He had so much anxiety about the whole trip, alligators, sharks and getting back home. I don't know where he got that from.;) Once we were at the farm he calmed down and had a blast! We got to hold baby alligators and pet a snake. We even took an airboat ride through the Everglades.

The next day we took the rental car back. The whole ride there Sawyer was complaining that his belly was hurting. After we returned the car we got on the bus so it could take us to the port and that is when it happened, Sawyer man threw up. Good thing I had a plastic bag with us and we got it all in there. So we got off the bus and the men who loaded our luggage had to unload it again and they weren't to happy about it. So there we were sitting outside the rental car place wondering if we were going to be able to get on the ship or not and of course wondering what kind of bug Sawyer had. Sawyer then announced he felt better and he looked better too. So we got on the bus again and headed for the port. We were almost done with check in when Sawyer got sick again, good thing we still had some bags. Some how no one in that huge warehouse saw what was going on and they let us on th ship! We found our cabin and Sawyer slept for two hours awoke and felt and looked better. I think he got car sick.

The whole trip was amazing and it is yet another lesson they I should support my hubby more in the new things he want to do. So take a look and see how much fun we had!

YW Camp

All I can say about camp is WOW!
No really it was great and I really got to know the girls a lot better. Two years doing girls camp has been a blast. This years theme was Value University. To Learn, To Do, To Be. (Stake Camp)We were Divine Nature all dressed in blue! A few of us celebrated our birthdays at camp and that was fun. Tom and the kids surprised us with a huge birthday cake and ice cream on Wednesday afternoon. He is such a wonderful man! Five whole days at camp was a long time. A long time for new girls to be away from their families, a long time for me to be away from my family. Tom was gone to Scout camp the same week I was gone so we really had to rely on family to watch our kids. I can't say it enough how grateful I am for my family! Thank you all!!!!!

Camp was great and Tiffany did an amazing job holding everything together! (She is like Super Woman) I learned a lot and felt very blessed to be part of the YW lives for a week. My testimony keeps strengthening and girls camp was a great place to practice sharing it. We have made many notes already about next year.

No training wheels!

Sawyer was not sure if he really wanted to take his training wheels off yet or not! His Dad talked him into it. After taking them off once and putting them back on and then off once more he decided he could do it. At first he couldn't take off by himself and before we knew it he was zooming all around! Good job Sawyer we are proud of you! A big thanks to Dad too!

Pet store

Finding Nemo Why is that doggy in the window? His friends that rode with us.

Sawyer loves his class field trips. He doesn't complain like Sydnee did about me joining him either. He was pretty excited for his friends to ride in his car. They loved the pet store and could have touched every animal if the store keeper would have let them. My little guy is growing up fast!

Slow!

I am so slow! I have so much to journal about! Look down there is a few new posts but they are old!(Meaning it is taking me forever to get with the show.) I really will catch up some time!


Funny thing!
Sawyer and I both wanted chinese food after Sydnee's game one night and when we got there, they asked what we wanted to drink. Tom said Dr. P and Sawyer continued to say " I want a little, tiny, ity, bity cup of Dr. P too." WE just laughed and said you only get water sorry! Then when she came back to take our order Sawyer told her he "wanted a burrito"! Funny kid we are at chinese not Mexican!