fun with Mason

One Sunday

Grandma and Grandpa just happened to pop in one sunday after church. They were driving home from a trip to visit Grandma's brother. So we were pleasantly surprised to see them. We had a nice visit and the the girls and I made delicious brownies!

Happy Birthday Jonas!

Sheriff Steve came prepared with handcuffs just in case anyone got too wild!


Jonas had a pudding dirt cake spiderman themed! Yum!


He had fun with all the presents


Me and Lindzi.... she looks so thrilled ;-)


John with 4 of 5 of his girls (Lindzi was off playing and couldn't be bothered for a picture)


Jonas' friends getting ready to get the bad guys!!


"getting" the bad guys


and pinata fun!

Fun with Cousins

We met up with Mason (Brenda's and Nick's) and Ben (Diana's and Darin's) to the treehouse museum. Jonas was at preschool at the time.

Ben and Lindzi playing with the legos

Lindzi, Ben and Mason

Lindzi loves the knights and castle set a lot

Uncle Eric stops in for a quick visit

My brother, Eric took a long weekend trip to Colorado to snowboard and have fun with friends. He stopped at our house on his way back home. He spent the night and the morning with us until he had to take off for home. We had a short but fun visit!

heart cookies

The girls had fun frosting some heart sugar cookies and eating them too!

Her first PB&J!

Lindzi is obsessed with "I can do it myself" so this day she decided she was going to make a Peanut butter and jelly sandwich all by herself.... and she did!

Valentines Day Lip Sync

Brooklyn and Elisabeth did a lip sync at the school's annual Valentine Day lip sync. They performed to Aretha Franklin's R E S P E C T. They did GREAT!!!

I also saw that Kassidy made student of the month!!

and Brooklyn's artwork made the back cover of the school's yearbook!!! Her's is the picture on the left.


And Brookyn's was on the bulletin board for student of the month too. (There is a student from each class on the board by the teacher)


Lindzi took a picture of Kassidy and I


Lindzi and Kassidy


Brooklyn and Elisabeth after they did their lip sync.

the student of the month bulletin board.

Daytona Beach Florida

We only spent one night in Daytona... but it was beautiful there.


This is where we stayed


This is the Sun RISE in the morning...it was breathtaking


We walked along the beach and did some shopping until we had to check out and head for the airport.




John having a snack... jk... we did't see that sign until i looked at the pics haha... i guess cuz the turtles were so adorable...


I didn't know there was a restaurant named after me.. but what's with the ugly bearded guy on the sign... and they added an E on the sign.. hmmm ... Sloppy Jo is a nickname John calls me whenever anything gets spilled on me at like a restaurant or even just eating at home... but his nickname for when he does the same is Messy Marvin :)

Last day on the ship and Daytona Beach

Our view from the balcony 11 stories up..... when we got in to our room in the afternoon, sad to say, but we stayed up there doing all the laundry from the past 10 days.... instead of going down to the beach. But in my defense i was tired and didn't feel like walking around and I did not want to go home with tons of dirty laundry when the condo had a washer and dryer right there. So I did laundry while watching murder mystery shows like dateline, and John watched football on the other tv.... it was actually very relaxing and enjoyable :) We ordered in some chinese and it was great. Plus we got plenty of beach walking and sight seeing the next day.




our bedroom


the lazy river


I thought this was a cute little beach scene... i zoomed in from my balcony...

Cozumel Mexico

We ate some authentic Mexican pork tacos.. they were delicious


part of the town of Cozumel... we shopped and dined and had a laid back day.



ready to dine ...

our penguin towel


coming back to the ship on a bicycle taxi