Snow Dayz

We like lazy saturdays at our house. There is always

football being watched and played in the basement so...

when it snowed we were excited to go out and play.

Cheese

Skee has been sick since we got home from our trip,

but he managed to come watch the kids play.

Snow angels by Stockton

It took Berklie a minute to get figure out what to do in

the snow, but after getting knocked down and snow balls

thrown at her she figured it out!!

My cute little snow buddies.

We are Thankful For...

It has been early out all week, due to SEP conferences...

so we decided to do a project.

Some things we are thankful for...

Berklie and her cute little hands.

Easton and his own tracing.

Stockton's handwritting is getting very good. He loves

to write words and spell them out loud.

and Peyton sat forever trying to think of the perfect things.

He is a very thoughful boy.

If you are reading this...we are thankful for you!!

Puerto Rico

Skee and I went on our 1st EVER vacation without the kids...I know,

I know we should have done it years ago, but we didn't.

Thru Skees work we were invited to go on an all expense paid

vacation to Puerto Rico!!

We stayed at the Wyndham hotel. A beautifully landscaped hotel

right next to the beach where we sat by the ocean

ate and partied with 89 couples from Utah.

Oh the beach was amazing, warm and clear...what more could you ask for.

Skee wasn't ready to take off the shirt. He waited till the

last day to get any sun...Not me bring it on!!

Just being us.

We had a blast boogie boarding. Small waves, sand dollars that turned

your feet yellow and the sun. My kind of vacation.

We had such a great time. It was fun being together.

Now if we could only afford to take the whole family there...

Bioluminecense

We were able to sign up for some tours while we

were in Puerto Rico so the 1st one was the kayak to the Bioluminecense.

It was unreal. I was scared to death, but once I learned

that Puerto Rico doesn't have snakes or sharks or

anything that could get me while kayaking in the water I was ok.

Still a little scared.

There has to be 3 things for the Bio to work.

It has to be dark...the darker the better, you have to go thru

a mangrove forest...and it has to be shallow.

The deepest area was around 5 feet so it wasn't the falling in

I was nervous about it was something falling on me...

Me and our tour guide.

I was scared. It was dark and very quiet, the only way

for us to see was a little glow stick hooked to the front and

back of the kayak. We went in a straight line and if anything hit you

you would yell to the people beind you...LOW BRANCH.

Once we made our way thru the mangrove forest we were

there. You can't capture it on cameras because of the flash, but it

was crazy. The fish were glowing as they swam around you.

I am so thankful Skee is confident in kayaking. He did an

awesome job in keeping us away from the edge and getting hit

by any low branches.

This is what we went thru. I am really glad it was dark, because

I don't think I would have done it. Looking at this picture freaks me out.

It was such an neat experience.

Something you have to do at least once.

The water would bead off your arms and legs in a blue light.

Well worth the sore arms the next morning from holding onto

the ore so tight!!

ATV tour

Another tour we went on was an ATV tour

thru the rainforest. Spectacular I might add.

The land was beautiful unlike anything we have ever seen.

Heading off to find mud puddles. The tour guide said

the iguana is one reason the rainforest is becoming extinct,

so if we were to see an iguana...NOT to slow down to hit

it and keep on moving. A little disturbing because he wasn't kidding.

Yes we are HOT!!

Getting daring and wondering to the edge to look around.

We stopped at a river to swim. Man when they say rain forest

they sure mean it. It would be sunny and no clouds one

second and a down pour the next.

Skee was the only daring one to actually swim.

The rest of us watched and told him what to try.

He tried to pull me in, but I think he knew better!!

Jumping off rocks!! The tour guides told him exactly where to

land. The water went from 3 feet in one area to 10.

Glad he judged it right!!

All soaked after the tour. What a great day!!

Our day to Xplore

We wolk up to a Beautiful sunny day and decided to

go explore the beach and everything around it.

I didn't want to climb in the tree area so he took

a picture thru the trees.

The water was like a warm bath.

Trying to find sea shells. We didn't have too great of luck

but we did find a million sand dollars.

We rented a kayak and thought we would see where it took us.

It took us pretty far. The water was so nice and clear, the trees were

so green it was beautiful.

Mister kayak himself. Skee is amazing I never have to

worry about being dumped out. After exploring a never

ending river we spotted an island just out from our hotel.

WHY NOT!!

This is how far away the hotel is from OUR island.

Clear blueish green water.

The weather was awesome. Hardly any big waves to

kayak thru. We made it there in about 20 minutes.

Getting ready to leave out secluded island.

There really was nothing to this island, but it sure was

fun to paddle out and swim around.

Old San Juan

On Sunday we went to Old San Juan to

have a fun dinning experience and had some time

to explore and shop.

Not my favorite city, but fun to say the least.

We went to the old Fort in the center of the city.

It was built in WWII and was amazing.

The view of the ocean from the top of the fort.

Looking thru their secret spying quarters. To see if any

ships are heading their direction.

Another way to spy for boats.

Skee and some cannons.

Me waiting and resting my legs. I didn't realize

that Skee was so into the historical stuff, he was interested

for hours. It was a very amazing building. They had a dungeon

and it truly was a humid, hot death trap.

By one of the doors to enter the fort.

Our entertainment at our restauraunt

Barrachinas. The food was Excellent. So yummy.

Skee even tried something neither of us had ever heard of

and he really liked it. Our waiter was hillarious.

My favorite was the reaction we got when you asked for

anything Virgin...they would say "just a tiny"

NO VIRGIN PLEASE.

Enjoying our VIRGIN Pina Coladas

Hurrican Ida

After having 2 perfect sunny days a Hurricane

decides to hit around the Gulf of Mexico and we got

hit with some heavy winds and waves.

Our Beautiful beach they would grate it every morning.

Skee catching some waves. He soon got bored and became

the underwater photographer for everyone else.

Me after almost drowning.

Skees buddy Ryan catching some nice waves on

the boogie board.

Yeah this is what I almost drowned in!!

After a day of wave jumping and drinking lots

of sea water, we headed with the group to a Gigantic

house in the rain forest for a Farewell Dinner.

It was amazing there were no walls just ceilings so they

could enjoy the rain forest all day everyday.