Bahamas

 

The end the January Dean and I went on vacation.  It was so nice.  We have done weekend getaways but it has been a long time since we took a real vacation. 

 

We flew to Orlando Florida on a Sunday to board our cruise on Monday morning.  We had an interesting drive with our "Physicist/Chemist" Egyptian driver from Orlando to Port Canaveral. He guy talked so much, I didn't get to talk to Dean for the whole 45 minute drive.

 

We got on the ship around 11:00 and immediately began eating.  After lunch we were able to get into our room.  We decided to get a room with a balcony this time and we loved it. We left Florida late that afternoon.

 

 

 

 

Our first stop was the island of Coco Cay in the Bahamas.

 

This was our favorite place. The morning was beautiful.

 

Barefoot Beach

 

 

 

We reserved a little spot to be lazy.

 

But first our adventure.

 

 

 

 

PARASAILING!

After getting off the ship in the morning we walked around the island to find the little Cabanaette we reserved.  We then headed off to our Parasail adventure.  We got on a little ski boat with three other couples and the two parasail workers and rode out into the ocean. 

It was so beautiful! We were the 2nd couple to go up.  We strapped on a harness, sat on the back deck of the boat and the parasail took us up. It was a little scary for me.  Dean had done it once before. He also thought it would be fun to scare me and started to swing us. I will not record the string of threats that escaped my mouth to get him to stop. They told us we went 200 ft up.  While on our ride I saw a sting ray. One of the other couples saw a shark.

 

The Next day we spent in Nassau. We decided to to a tour of the Atlantis resort.

Baby Manta Ray

After Nassau we had a day out at Sea.  Dean climbed the rock wall and we did some reading by the pool.  It was a very relaxing day.

 

 

Friday we got off the ship and headed to Universal Orlando.

 

Hogwarts

The Incredible Hulk roller coaster

Dean and his favorite superhero.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter

 

 

On the Move

February, 15th Ms. Charlotte Marie started crawling. She had been scooting and army crawling for a while. She enjoys getting into things.  She has yet to go too far. She is excited to find a newspaper or the TV console left open so she can then pull everything out of it. 

She also will pull herself up to whatever is close by; couches, chairs, play table. Some of her skills also include clapping, signing "more" and shaking her head "no."

Charlotte is 9 months and weighs 17lbs and might be the cutest baby on the planet. 

Christmas

Great Grand kids with Dock & Coleen 

Decorating cookies for Santa

New pajamas on Christmas Eve

Carter said his favorite gift is his ninja suit

Made by Grandma Dori

Dean wants his next play car to be a VW

New ipad for Grandma

Birthday Catch Up

Abby turned 8 this year.  We had her party at Skywalk. We had a blast. 

 

 

Carter's birthday

 

I was feeling like a really bad mom.  I was searching my pictures to try and remember what we did for Carter's birthday.  Then I remembered.  May 20, 2012 I was in the ER passing kidney stones.  Sorry Carter, I'll make up for it next year. 

 

Grant is 3!