A Few More Pictures

I just wanted to add a couple of more pictures of the beach and ship.
We missed all of you on the cruise, so next year lets plan on all together. Maybe for my retirement party.

Criusin' and Relaxin' in the Sun

We had a great time on the Carribean Princess. It is a sister to the Grand Princess, a huge ship. It had 3150 passengers. We had three sea days and stops in St. Martin, St. Thomas and Princess Cays on the island of Eluthrea.

It was fun to get away and be warm. Our favorite part was the spa. We went into the steam rooms and warm tables everyday and had massages one day. They did a facial as part of the massage special. I thought that was kind of goofy. I like the hot stone massage best.

The food was good, we ate plenty of it, but we did walk over a mile every day on deck. The Princess ships have a huge movie screen on deck showing movies day and night, that was fun. I won trivea three times. Basically we just had a relaxing time. In St. Thomas we went to Megan's bay, which is beautiful and had a relaxing day on the private island.

We had so much fun we put a deposit down on another cruise. The next cruise will make us elite princess members. Maybe the next cruise will be the mediterranean.

Now we are back to the cold and snow. It snowed yesterday again and more in store for tonight. So much for global warming this year.

Snow Snow Go Away

Well, winter really has hit us. Yesterday it snowed lightly most of the day. After we got the ice off our driveway we've been trying to keep it clear. Yesterday we shovelled three times.

Last night we had 8 inches of snow and just got it all off. The driveway is shrinking however. The snow keeps getting higher on the banks and encroaching on the driveway.

Mom is busy panicking about her first night as shift coordinator at the temple. Lots of call already about workers cancelling for tonight.

My shovelling pal Gavin had a sleep over last night and is waiting to play some games, so got to run.

We Had a Merry Christmas

We had a great Christmas. There was lots of snow for sledding and shoveling. There we tons of presents under the tree. The best part was having David and Tara and the girls, DaNae and Ben and Ella, and Dori and Brent, Gavin and Grace staying with us.

We got a family Wii which was a hit and played lots of other games. We swam at the indoor water park, went to movies, jump and bounce and the kids museum. I have bruises and ball marks from playing racquetball with David, but we had great fun. It was really sad to see David and his family leave for SLC yesterday.

Here are some pictures of Christmas Eve dinner,the tree and baby grace, and the kids waiting on the stairs to open presents. I'll try to put in a video clip of sledding.

Slumber Party at Grandma's House

Saturday night Dorianne and Brent went out to dinner with friends, so we asked Gavin over for a Polar Express slumber party. Gavin and I started by making a snap together ginger bread house. It was cool and easy to do. Gavin liked gluing on the little pieces best. Then we watched the polar express movie on our new 52" LCD TV. We had popcorn and snacks and lots of fun. Gavin's little bed is now down in the basement and he wouldn't sleep down there, so guess he was in bed with us. He woke us up in the middle of the night and it took us awhile to get him back to sleep. This morning we went in the hot tub, had pancakes for breakfast and then went to church together. He really likes to hang with the old folks. I only with some of the other grandchildren were around so they could hang with us too. Gettin' ready for Christmas.

Snow has Melted

We had some big snow storms last week and Saturday and Sunday, but the weather warmed up and the Chinook winds have melted it all. Today it was in the 50's. They say more snow is coming. I just hope it is not more rain.

We're getting ready for Christmas. Debbie is getting all the packages ready. She is getting the last of them in the mail tomorrow.

Last night for family home evening we went to the stake center on 29th to the Christmas Creche exhibit. Every year the get more displays and more beautiful nativity sets. This year they had a children's room and Gavin had fun coloring a nativity set, doing a cutout and attaching clothes pins to them. It was cute. Then we all had our picture taken. It was a good evening, but Gavin left his picture in the restaurant where we ate dinner later and wanted to go back to get it. Luckily Brent took pictures and can print another one off.

Looking forward to the holidays. I'll take some pictures of our tree and the Christmas lights.

Last Day in Paradise

Last day in Puerto Vallarta, we are leaving tonight. We had a fun Thanksgiving. We went into town and ate our traditional Thanksgiving dinner at PiPi's. Then we walked down the Malecon. They were having a big mass in the amplitheater, complete with a large mariachi band. Great music. Then we went across the street to the plaza and they had folk dancers performing there. It was pretty entertaining.

Ben and DaNae and Ella left this afternoon. It was sad to leave them. Ella is such a doll and a happy baby. Mom and I are alone again for the day. So we are going to la playa for a siesta before we head to the airport. Que le vaya bien.