Happy Birthday Grandma Ina Mae

Happy Birthday Bri

We love you!!!!! Hope you have a great day!

Halloween

Halloween was a blast. We had a lot of awesome visitors. (Bri and Kirsten) And we also got to see Tiff and Kaisen. GOOD TIMES!!!! The kids got to be 2 things for Halloween (lucky mom) For school the got to be what they wanted to be when they grow up.Brayd was a professional motor trials rider and Tyler was a mom,then for the trick-or -treat part Brayd was a Zombie and Tyler was a Vampire.

What cute kids!!!!!

Look at this little guy........have you ever seen anything so cute?
I didn't think so!!

Bri, Porter,Kaisen, and Tyler
I have such a good looking family



The scary kids!!!!!



Tyler and her Aunt Kirsten
(we sure love it when she comes to visit!!!!!!!)

F.H.E 10/27/08

This was a fun night! The kids decided to do carmel apples instead of cookies or cup cakes for our neighbor hood treats. They LOVED it (and the apples weren't half bad either) getting ready to dip the apples
decorating with candies and chocolate. Yummy!!!!

Some of the finished product

Now time to enjoy!!! Kind of hard without teeth :)

What a great night.

We are Home!!!

We had so much fun , but I have to admit it is GOOD to be home!!!! We have been home for 2 days and I have my laundry and blogging finished. So now it is really good to be home( Bri the blog thing is for you I know you were waiting for it :) I am always so grateful to be able so spend time with my family and to come and go in safety. Though it is hard to have my kids and Trav go back to work and school........... I get SPOILED when we go on vacation!!!

This is at the Port of Call

the entrance to where the ships load and unload

This was the FUN customs line.

The FBI,and Immigration were all over the place , so it was full of nice happy helpful people who loved kids. NOT !!!!!

The first look at our ship

you could feel the excitement in the air

As we are taking off from Long Beach

on the lido deck

This is a better look at the ship as Riley was driving us back from Catalina

It is a lot bigger than it looks

What we did on the ship.

I just wanted to post a few random pictures of what we did on the ship, but it would take pages and pages to do it individually . So I did it with slide show .( You can put your mouse on the picture and it will tell you a little about what you are looking at.)We hope you enjoy, I know we sure did!!!!!

Catalina Island !!!

Isn't this beautiful?!?! Catalina has a lot of cool things to see and do; however you just don't have a lot of time to do it in.(5.5 hours) So since Trav and I have been here before, and the kids REALLY wanted to go snorkeling , that is what we did most of the time. We spent a few hours in the morning shopping and looking for a good place to snorkel. (that is also kid friendly) We finally found a beautiful spot with a nice beach and bathrooms close by:) (with Tyler around it is all ways a good idea to know where one is close!!!) We all had a blast!!!!We are in a little boat headed for Catalina. Just like the one you see coming toward us in the picture.

(It is to shallow for the ship to dock there so we have to take little boats to shore, it takes about 5 mins or so)

We all sat in the back of the boat ,because they said you get a little wet!!!!

(and of course the kids were all over that)

The boys are going to try out the water for us

cold!!!!

Brayden was a little nervous so he rode piggy back on Trav's back for a few mins first.

(anyone who has been in the ocean knows how intimidating the under toe can be ex specially when you are in the deep water!!!!)

Awe, there you go Brayden. There were a lot of cool fish and things for them to look at. It was so much fun. They did this for hours and hours. Time flies when your having fun !!!!