So this morning I woke up to Ella saying "it is not fun here, only on our cruise boat is it fun"... so,I thought today would be a good day to blog about our awesome Christmas present and fun trip. We had an amazing time. I feel so blessed to be able to share a week with my family to create life long memories and spend time with friends. For those of you who don't know, we went with my girlfriend from high school, Jenn Griffin and family. We have alot of fun with them. Her 2 older girls match up exactly with Morgan and Brenna, Megan and Ashlyn, and she also has a 4 year old, Addison for Ella. Jensen was great to hang out with her 9 year old daughter McKenna, and Drew is good for whatever. He is such an easy going boy. This is a picture of right when we got on our ship. The "Paradise"...
We started off early, eating ice cream every spare minute!!!
I am not sure who ate the most, but we all got into the action, I am sure Jensen won!! He and Drew had one every spare moment. After breakfast, even. Ending with a late night of pizza and another cone at around 10:30 every night (and you wonder why we gain weight??)
This is our 2nd day on the ship and we were pulling into Catalina Island. Ella had a cone that she had almost finished and I stuck it on the ships railing. Without 10 seconds passing a seagull came out of nowhere and got her cone!! She was absolutely shocked, surprised and excited at such an event...it was awesome. She giggled forever!
This is my cutest family in Catalina Island. It was a tiny little town, very quaint. We had a nice morning walking around and enjoying the sunshine. Flip-flops, and capris were so nice to pull out of the closet in the middle of a cold Utah winter.
My silly boys just goofing off on the island. Jensen could barely make a straight face the entire trip, he is such a clown. We enjoy his personality everyday.
Walking around, Morgan luckily landed upon this handsome young thing....what a cute couple!!
On the ship there was a miniature golf course and one afternood while J.D. and Ella napped (one of his favorite activites) I took the boys. On this particular hole Jensen got a hole-in-one!! It was awesome. I love spending time with my kids when we can be blessed with little to no interruptions, cell phones, friends, or T.V. They are a joy to be around.
My five beautiful kids (I know I am partial) the night of our formal dinner...they can clean up very nicely. We had a nice dinner together wearing "church clothes" , as Jensen would say.
See what I mean, the kid is crazy!! This is only one of a few of him being absolutely nuts!! He and Drew are complete opposites, Drew would never do anything like this and we cannot stop Jensen. He makes us laugh.
One of my very favorite pictures, Ella and her Dad. I don't know if you can quite see the look on her face, but she looks angelic and her eyes are all for daddy. She really loves him alot. She is an amazing part of our family too!
This is the morning we were getting ready to get off of the ship and go into Ensenada, Mexico. Ella woke up with a raging fever. We didn't know it at the time, but ended up seeing the ships doctor and she had strep throat. So fun on vacation!! Once we got the antibiotics, she perked up and ended her vacation just as happy as it started, but for that day, she was pretty pathetic.
My kids all in Mexico!! Sunny and 72 degrees - what more can I say??
Well, as you can see we had a great time. This is only a handful of the nearly 225 pictures that we took in 7 days. Wow. I am so grateful for the time that we got to spend together. We feel blessed everyday for the lives that we lead.
We started off early, eating ice cream every spare minute!!!
I am not sure who ate the most, but we all got into the action, I am sure Jensen won!! He and Drew had one every spare moment. After breakfast, even. Ending with a late night of pizza and another cone at around 10:30 every night (and you wonder why we gain weight??)
This is our 2nd day on the ship and we were pulling into Catalina Island. Ella had a cone that she had almost finished and I stuck it on the ships railing. Without 10 seconds passing a seagull came out of nowhere and got her cone!! She was absolutely shocked, surprised and excited at such an event...it was awesome. She giggled forever!
This is my cutest family in Catalina Island. It was a tiny little town, very quaint. We had a nice morning walking around and enjoying the sunshine. Flip-flops, and capris were so nice to pull out of the closet in the middle of a cold Utah winter.
My silly boys just goofing off on the island. Jensen could barely make a straight face the entire trip, he is such a clown. We enjoy his personality everyday. 
Walking around, Morgan luckily landed upon this handsome young thing....what a cute couple!!
On the ship there was a miniature golf course and one afternood while J.D. and Ella napped (one of his favorite activites) I took the boys. On this particular hole Jensen got a hole-in-one!! It was awesome. I love spending time with my kids when we can be blessed with little to no interruptions, cell phones, friends, or T.V. They are a joy to be around.
My five beautiful kids (I know I am partial) the night of our formal dinner...they can clean up very nicely. We had a nice dinner together wearing "church clothes" , as Jensen would say.
See what I mean, the kid is crazy!! This is only one of a few of him being absolutely nuts!! He and Drew are complete opposites, Drew would never do anything like this and we cannot stop Jensen. He makes us laugh.
One of my very favorite pictures, Ella and her Dad. I don't know if you can quite see the look on her face, but she looks angelic and her eyes are all for daddy. She really loves him alot. She is an amazing part of our family too!
This is the morning we were getting ready to get off of the ship and go into Ensenada, Mexico. Ella woke up with a raging fever. We didn't know it at the time, but ended up seeing the ships doctor and she had strep throat. So fun on vacation!! Once we got the antibiotics, she perked up and ended her vacation just as happy as it started, but for that day, she was pretty pathetic.
My kids all in Mexico!! Sunny and 72 degrees - what more can I say??
Well, as you can see we had a great time. This is only a handful of the nearly 225 pictures that we took in 7 days. Wow. I am so grateful for the time that we got to spend together. We feel blessed everyday for the lives that we lead.
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I love pictures! Looks like you guys had tons of fun! I am a little green with envy. Love Gay and merman! He would be an easy one to please! Haha! You all are so photogenic. It is all talk...but we should really go on a family one sometime when we are all can go. Yahhhh...warm sun!
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