Happening Hills

Friday, December 10, 2010

Coco Cay Bahamas

Our first stop was Coco Cay Bahamas. The beach was beautiful, white sand, blue water, and the perfect temperature for hanging out on the beach and relaxing. We got Sadie to play in the sand, at first she was a little unsure of it and then she joined in on the fun!

While on Coco Cay my cousin Alyssa found this cool shell… to her surprise inside lived a hermit crab! YIKES! It was fun to watch everyone “play” with the shell/crab. I was a little freaked out by the creature so I stayed a safe distance away =0)

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Cruise!

We just got back from an exciting trip! We went on a cruise and then spent a couple of days at Disney World and Universal Studios. 11 months ago when we began planning this trip it seemed like it was so far away, when the time arrived for us to start packing it was surreal. We had an awesome time, this is one of our top favorite trips. We had so much fun! 14 people, 8 days on board a floating city, 3 days in Orlando, lots of fun, laughs and 1000 pictures later (no I didn't take all of this pictures but all of us together took all of those pics)!

For now I will blog about all of the fun things we did onboard the ship... This trip is going to take up a ton of posts and blog space =0) We were able to cruise with Royal Caribbean on one of their biggest ships, Freedom of the Seas. On this boat there was so much to do! We had a rock climbing wall, flow rider, splash park for Sadie, pools, hot tubs, ice skating, and casino.

Jake and Sadie admiring the boat. We watched a ton of semi trucks drive up to the boat and load TONS of cargo onto the ship. Made me think about all of the food and fun that was awaiting us!

Here is some of the group hanging out on the top deck of the ship watching everyone on the flow rider. This was one of the biggest hits on board. There was always a line of people waiting for a turn.

Dodgeball Competition.

Kiddie Splash Park

Pool area

So I spent way to much money on Bingo. We went to one game and I was one away from wining $4500!!!! So I spent more money again.... and.... welp... didn't win but it was sure fun playing!

Monday, December 6, 2010

I'm still alive, PROMISE!

WOW I haven't posted anything in over a month! REALLY?!? Well my absence must show you a little of how my life has been lately =) Chaotic to say the least. For the past 6 weeks straight we have either had friends and family in town visiting or we have been out of town! We haven't had a weekend to ourselves. It has been a ton of fun visiting and catching up with everyone. We still have 4 more weeks of visitors and then I don't know what we are going to do. It will be weird not having people around! So as soon as I get a minute to myself I will begin posting about our BIG family vacation!!! Here is a teaser picture for your enjoyment =0)

Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween!

We carried on our tradition this year and carved some spooky pumpkins. Jake's Dad was in town so he joined in and carved along with us!

Bruce had this cool lazar app on his phone that helped him carve his pumpkin. =0)

Kelsie's Pumpkin

Bruce's Pumpkin

Jake's Pumpkin

Along with the carving we had a two Halloween Parties to attend. One was with our church, and the other was at Jakes work. It was nice with Sadie being so little to take her to the parties were they had trick-or-treating. Then we didn't have to take her out into the cold on Halloween night. She got lots of goodies and was fun to watch.

I don't want this on Mom!

Sadie and Grandpa

Sadie was so cute with the trick-or-treating. Jake's work was the first experience for her, at the beginning she just watched the first person put the candy in her bag. At the second door she politely took one piece of candy from the bowl and placed it in her bag. Then by the third door she had the trick or treating thing down she was grabbing as much candy as she could, stuffing it into her bag. We left with lots of candy and one happy little girl!