Keep Calm and Go To Cayman

 This has been the year of travel and it's only February!!!  

Chad and I had the most amazing vacation.  With Chad's company that he works for he was able to qualify for "Presidents Club" which meant an all expense paid vacation for him and I to the Cayman Islands.  Oh my heck, it was the best.  It was pretty close to perfect.  I believe that couples need time together.  Without their children.  Giving them a chance to rekindle and reconnect.  I also believe that it shows the children what being in love is, that their parents love and respect each other and that they enjoy each other's company throughout their marriage. Plus when the children are gone and moved away it's nice to know that we have so many memories, so much in common and continue to be so in love.  Granted not everyone or even very many people get the chance to spend time together like we have on a dream vacation and for that I am grateful and feel very blessed.  

 The day we got to Grand Cayman.  

The men of Infusionsoft hanging out in the Carribean Ocean.  It was the most beautiful water I have ever seen.  It was turquoise blue, clean, clear with no waves, no sea weed, no rocks just amazing.  

 The people of Infusionsoft are great.  We had a fantastic time hanging out, laughing, visiting and eating with them.  We made some great friends on this trip, seriously feeling so blessed! 

 We ate at this place called the Sunshine Grill ...Oh My Heck!  Some of the best food ever. They had what they call a "Sunshine Scramble" which consisted of fried onions, mushrooms, zucchini, french fries and sweet potato fries.  And their burgers and tacos were out of this world good.  Seriously salivating just thinking of it.

Justin, Jane, Gina, Hal, Cassie, Chad, Caitlin and Cody

Could it get any better?  Sitting Ocean Side, sipping fruity drinks?  I think not!!

On wednesday night Infusionsoft invited everyone to a fabulous dinner on the beach.  It was AWESOME!  Loved getting dressed up to hang out with my handsome husband and the people of Infusionsoft.  

It was a dream, so perfect.

Gina Halladay, one of my favorite people, kept us laughing all week long.  

Chad, Jeff and Cherie

Dinner was our choice of either Lobster and Steak or Chicken and Salmon.  I ate the Lobster and Steak...YUM!  And there is something about eating it next to the ocean, sitting on a white sand beach that even made it taste that much better!

 Amy, Cassie, Hilary, Andee and Cherie

After the dinner a few of the couples went inside the lobby and enjoyed music played on the guitar by Garrett Miles and Scott Martineau.  People were singing along and having a great time. I enjoyed hanging out with the other wives. 

 The next day was AWESOME!!!  I got to fulfill my dream of going Scuba Diving in the Caymans.  What a great experience, I am hooked!  Can't wait to do it again!!

We had a fantastic trip. The memories I will reflect on my entire life. The new friends we made will be friends for our lifetime. I am so blessed and grateful for this.  But I was also grateful to return to my sweet family.  Before we left Cayman I told Chad, "Lets bring all of the kids back here in 5 years...Make it happen!"  Ha ha, no pressure.

Disneyland

 Chad works for a great company. Earlier in the year (2012) his team set a goal and the reward if they acheived that goal was for the families to get to go to Disneyland all expense paid. They reached their goal.  

We got to stay at the Grand California hotel and do Disneyland for 3 days...SWEET!

 We ran into some friend while we were there.  The McBees from our Ward and the DuPaixs. That was way fun for my kids to ride some of the rides with their buddies!

 One of my dreams as a kid was to experience a character breakfast.  I finally got to experience and see the magic of it through the eyes of my kids.  They LOVED it!!! I suggest everyone do this at least once, it's expensive but worth it!

 (The characters were "sweet" on grandma)

 Poor Max fell asleep during dinner all three nights.  He never did get to eat dinner the entire time we were there.  He must have a clear conscience! (that's what grandpa would have said)

 Cars Land was AWESOME!! So fun and so worth the wait. 

The last night we were there a friend of Chad's met up with us and insisted on taking our family out to dinner.  We went to the ESPN Zone.  It was awesome.  My kids were in heaven.  All in all a fantastic trip.  So grateful for Infusionsoft and them providing this awesome vacation for our family!!

Twinners X 2

Happy Happy 2nd Birthday to Chayce and Chandler!!  So grateful these two little monkeys joined our family and constantly keep us on our toes.  Sure love you guys!!

Max turns 6

Happy Happy 6th Birthday to Max!!

We sure love this kid and his 

funny, quarky ways.

ALOHA

 January 1st I got the opportunity to go to HAWAII!! YES HAWAII!!  Chad had traveled a lot the past year and so we had miles saved up. So when my friend Lisa asked me if I wasnted to got to Hawaii with her to drop off her daughter at BYU I had Chad's full support and I went.  We did it so cheap, it was awesome. What was even better was getting to connect with a best friend of mine from highschool, who I hadn't seen in 15 years!!!  Talena heard that we were looking for one more person to join our trip and she contacted me and WAHLA!!  Hawaii for a week. Me, Lisa, Laura and Talena set off for our all girl adventure.

 Laura, Me, Lisa

 Talena, Me, Lisa

We stopped by the Dole plantation and Talena and I shared a "Dole Whip", YUM!

 We went to Waimaia Falls.  It was raining and believe it or not it was pretty cold.  Lisa and I were the only Brave ones to swim to the Waterfall.  It was awesome!!!

 Did I mention that it rained?  It rained and rained and rained!!  It probably rained 90% of our trip.  But who cares we were in HAWAII!!

 We stopped at a favorite Shave Ice place called Matsumotos. It was YUMMY!!

We went on a fantastic Hike that over looked the ocean.  It was awesome, so fun and felt great to get some exercise.  Since winter has come to Utah, the exercise has kind of been non existant. 

 We met a fabulous lady named Auntie Fia. Who got us into the PCC for cheap as well as helped Lisa's daughter Callie feel a little more comfortable with BYU. 

  We tried so many times to make it to the beach.  As soon as we would set up our stuff the rain would come. But who cares we were in HAWAII!

Monday night we went to a BYUH Basketball game.  We had a blast cheering them on.  (We didn't stand out or anything, 4 white women amongst all of the Ethnic young students).

Then it was time to say our goodbye's to Callie.  She was nervous, scared and anxious.  We decorated her room for her before we left.  

Talena and I were lucky enough to get to sit by each other on the plane ride home.  It was so fun catching up on the last 15 years.  So grateful for a good husband who made this all possible and took care of things at home while I was away.