Check out my latest post on the craft blog I share with my mom and sisters. I just posted some pictures of flowers I've done for weddings and my sister Megan's cake. Love doing flowers!!!
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First of all, I am still planning on making out blog private, things have just been crazy. I spent an hour one day typing all the email addresses in etc. and when I went to process it, there was an error which deleted everything I had just done. I haven't been able to make myself try again. If you haven't given me your email address yet, please do.
Kyle and I had the incredible experience of going on a cruise at the beginning of May. If it weren't for our parents and siblings helping out with the kids, we never could have made it work.
We went to the Mexican Riviera. The stops were Cabo and Puerto Vallarta. We were supposed to go to Mazatlan but they canceled it for safety reasons so we had two days in Cabo. I can't even begin to put all the pictures of what we did but here are just a few (out of over 800!!!)
This is us at the beach in Cabo getting ready to Kayak across the ocean over to Lover's Beach. This was SOOO much fun! We also rented snorkel gear. This ended up being one of our favorite activities. Kyle had never been in the ocean before so this was all new to him. There were many new adventures for both of us.
Para-sailing in Cabo...
When it was time to bring us back into the boat, they would slow down so your feet would touch the water. We kicked as hard as we could to splash. I think we went the lowest into the water out of our group.
It is a really long story so I won't go into it (much) but right now there isn't water under Cabo's famous arch. To get to where you could walk under it though was a bit intense. We had to run along side of a cliff which the water went up to, on the pacific ocean side which is very dangerous water. We had to time it just right and run for all we were worth. Kyle proved to me that he could set a state record in short distance sand running... He then proceeded to 'encourage' me from the safe end of our run to go faster. I survived to take this picture:
We watched a sea lion sun bathing by the arch:
FREE ALL YOU CAN EAT ICE CREAM!!! All I can say is Strawberry...YUM!
In Puerto Vallarta we went on a Canopy tour, aka a series of zip lines. There were about 18 different lines going back and forth over a gorge. The longest one was a quarter of a mile. The highest was 750 feet over the river below. It was so awesome. I would definitely recommend this to anyone if you ever get the chance. 
On the bus ride back down the mountain from the canopy tour, the bus driver, apparently with the back half of the buses permission, stopped at a tequila factory. I was bothered that we had been kidnapped and had to waste our time there. Kyle convinced me to walk around a little to cool off. : ) There were a bunch of cages with roosters in them. They were quite beautiful and not your everyday farm animal. I told him maybe they were fighting roosters. He used his spanish (which he enjoyed practicing this trip) to ask some teenage girls who live/work there??? what the roosters were for. Sure enough, they were cock fighting rooster each worth $300 american money. There were quite a few. Stacy and Amy, two of our friends who went, asked the bus driver about some fruit trees. He showed us a lemon tree which was full of green fruit. He decided to prove to us that it was lemon and not lime and found one rip lemon for us to try. It was quite strong!
When we finally got off the bus, we got off downtown to do some souvenir shopping. The little flea market that we walked through was fun. It was really humid and hot there but we enjoyed looking around and exploring.
After walking out of the market and along the boardwalk for about 3 hours, we all finally decided we weren't going to be able to walk all the way back to the dock to our ship so we took a public bus. It was CRAZY! This man was Kyle's buddy on the bus making sure we knew where to get off:
There were two formal dinners on the ship. This is the second one. The food was incredible and I will, for the rest of my life, be craving the 'Choclate Melting Cake' that we had every night. Anyone have a great recipe???
This is at the show the last night waiting to watch our friend Jarom as Garth Brooks in the 'Carnival Legends' show. We were at Karaoke when they started the tryouts for this show. They had some different singing 'legends' that the guest could try out to be int he show. Jarom, with some gentle nudging from his friends decided to go for it. Those tryouts ended up being probably the most entertaining events on the ship. I don't know when I last laughed that hard and honestly, I don't think Kyle has EVER laughed that hard. Not even at his own jokes! ; ) (love you babe!)
It was such a great week to be able to spend time together and see so many beautiful things. A cruise is definitely on our do again someday list. Sorry for so many pictures but it was impossible to pick. I am actually quite proud of my control over how many I put!
My awesome sister who is a photographer is doing a giveaway at Sew Dang Cute. You should definitely go enter. If you don't win, don't worry! Her prices are incredible so you can just schedule a session with her anyway! She gives you a CD with images and a copyright release letter so you can print them how you want. This is perfect for me since I do all my pictures in my Heritage Makers books. I even do canvas prints that are beautiful! I am working right now on my Christmas Card done with the pictures that Meg took this fall. You should definitely check out the giveaway! http://www.sewdangcutecrafts.com/2010/11/meg-hall-photography-giveaway.html
I am not real happy about this but it looks like I am going to have to make our blog private. I have had multiple 'strangers' on my blog lately that we aren't sure who they are. I haven't wanted to go private because I like people being able to see when I update and I liked friends being able to just get on without invites but I am not happy about strangers commenting and looking at pictures of my kids. I think it is really sad to have to do this and had hoped not to but I am really uncomfortable with things that have been happening. Please comment with or email me with you email addresses. I really want to send invites to all who are wanting to see this so PLEASE let me know your addresses. Thanks!
Brynn started dance and is really enjoying it! The beginning of each month is a parent's watch day. The first watch day was highly disappointing because Brynn decided she was to shy to do anything and sat pouting the whole time. I was SOOO sad! This time though I bribed her by telling her I would take a lot of pictures. She asked if I would put them in a book and I told her of course I would! She decided that was a great idea and danced her little heart out so I could see! She was so cute that I couldn't resist posting a BUNCH of pictures of her. Can't get over this adorable girl!
Most of the class time her tongue was sticking out because she was concentrating so hard. She is actually a pretty good little dancer and I can't wait to watch her develop her skills over time!
Last night, Dillan was with me running some quick errands. On the way home, our conversation went like this:
Dillan- "Next Sunday I am going to pay my tithing. Tithing helps build temples. When there are lots of temples it weakens Satan's grass!"
Me (having not noticed he said grass and not grasp!)- "That's right buddy!"
Dillan- "Satan's grass must be yellow, huh mom."
