Our Trip To JaMaiCa!!

We were able to go to Jamaica this last week, and had a blast! I took tons of pictures but tried to narrow it down to my favorites. We stayed at a Sandals All Inclusive Resort in Negril.

Enjoying the beautiful sunset

Snorkeling

We took a cruise out to Ricks Cafe one evening. When we got there they gave us life jackets and let us swim over to the Cliffs at Ricks Cafe to do some Cliff Jumping. Here is Bryan giving it a try. I don't remember how many feet from the water it was, but it was pretty high up there. Our tour guides told us that many people have broken legs and arms doing this, so I of course did not try it. Bryan did it once, then called it good!

Ricks Cafe

One of the CJ's (Crazy Jamaican) on the boat. If you ever need to liven up a party, invite a Jamaican. They are Hilarious! They had us cracking up constantly. Great great people with awesome sense of humors.

One day we did the Zipline Canopy Tour. This was probably Bryan and I's favorite tour that we did. It consisted of about 20 different ziplines. They have platforms built in trees and you zipline from one tree to another. It was gorgeous and a ton of fun.

Our tour guide was telling us that there is nothing dangerous in the Jamaican forrests, but we found many of these spiders hanging above our heads. They are not poisonous, but nonetheless are pretty darn creepy.

This as at the Dolphin Cove. They had some different reptiles to check out.

Dolphin Cove

We got to swim with the dolphins, which also was a once in a lifetime experience! It was so much fun. Dolphins are like dogs. They love to play and love to be touched and loved. We got to ride on their bellies for a short time, dance with them, sing with them and give them kisses. This picture is not of me unfortunately. They would not let us take our camera in the water and get our own pictures. They wanted to charge you to buy theirs for a ridiculous price, so we didn't buy any. Call it a boycott if you will! Now I am regretting it though!

These are some friends that we met at the resort.
Bryan, I, Robbi, Robert, Mark and Margo

Tory, Bryan and Josh at Margaritaville

We were able to meet up with our friends Josh and Virginia while we were there. We planned our trip, then they planned a trip out there to get married. We had no idea each other was going and found out that we picked resorts that were 5 minutes from each other, and our vacations overlapped by a day! We thought it was pretty funny how that worked out! We got a taxi and went to Margaritaville, Ricks Cafe , and did some shopping.
Above is Me, Bryan, Virginia, Josh, Tory, and Hilda

Ricks Cafe

My view from my lawn chair..........ahhhh

This is an idea of what the "stores" look like there. I did not realize how much poverty was there, and it really opened my eyes to how lucky we are to live in the U.S. The day that we got there and drove from the airport to our hotel, I was wondering what I got myself into! It was a little bit scary driving past armed guards with machine guns in their hands! We saw many people bathing in the ocean, and many very small shacks that held large families with no electricity or running water. I think I saw 1 park the whole time I was there. It really made me think how lucky we are to raise our children in pretty safe communities and my heart ached for those children who have nothing. The thing that really surprised me is that even though these people are very poor, they have hearts of gold and are such amazing people.
We had such a great experience and are so glad we got the chance to go. Thanks to our Wonderful parents who took our kids! They had so much fun and it made it easier on us to know that they were safe and keeping busy! It is good to be home again and to be able to give my kids lots and lots of kisses.

Jack Jack's 4th Birthday

My nephew Jack Jack

Bryans brother and his family are passing through for a couple weeks moving from Puerte Rico to San Fransisco. Luckily Jacks birthday was while he was here so we could celebrate!

Grammy planned a fun Transformers Party for him. She did a balance beam over the pool and gave squirt guns to the kids.

Hailey had an absolute ball with her squirt gun

Here she is squirting daddy. No one was safe! She walked up to everyone there, if she knew them or not, and would squirt....then giggle and giggle.....it was so cute!

The pinata

The best part was at the end when Carter and Jack pulled Grammy in the pool. It took them some determination to get her in there, but they got er' down!

ahhhhh.................Silly Brothers
(Side note: They don't usually hold each other close and sit on each others lap........just in case anyone was worried!)

Friday Fun Day

Hailey's Funny Face

My mom, Eryn and I took the kids to Classic Skating on Friday. We have never been there, and I'm glad we went because there was lots of fun things to do! Here's the kids taking a break and making funny faces.

Carter and Kai's Funny Face

You can tell that the kids were having fun, with all the sweat dripping off their faces!

Hailey in the "Pirates Cove"

Hailey on the Bouncies

We took the kids' scooters so they could ride them on the rink. The whole time I was cringing, watching how close the kids get to crashing into each other. They had a ball, and luckily we escaped with no broken bones!

Our 4th Of July Weekend

We had a weekend full of celebrating! We started by checking out the Cruise-In Car Show. Carter liked this Tonka Monster Truck.

There was also a "Batmobile" there

The kiddos had to try out a snow cone.


Then we headed over to my brothers house to swim in their pool. After a few minutes of getting used to the water, Hailey had a ball.

Here is Bryan getting his butt whooped by Nic and Ty.

Sunday Bryan and Jill came over to BBQ and do fireworks

Monday we went to check out the Hyrum Parade and Carnival. The kids got lots of candy and had a good time. Hope everyone had a great 4th!

Father's Day

I am so blessed with wonderful father's in my life. My dad who has always been there for my brothers and I no matter what we are doing, big or small. My dad and father-in-law both adore our kids and we couldn't ask for better grandpa's for our kids! And last my fun fun husband who is the best daddy ever! My favorite thing in the world is to hear Bryan being silly while playing with the kids and hearing them giggle and giggle. He makes their lives so fun and I don't know what I would do without him!

For my gifts to Bryan this year I thought of some things that I have "owed" him for quite awhile. A few years ago I found this Plastic Thumb thing in Bryans junk drawer in his dresser. I didn't realize what it was and threw it away. BIG MISTAKE! He was really upset with me because it was his "magic thumb" and his dad had given it to him a long time ago. OOPS! So many years later, I finally remembered to look online and order him a new one. Here he is, showing the kids his magic trick. I also got him a broom for sweeping the driveway. When we first got married I ran ours over and broke off the top of the handle. The poor guy has been using the broken broom since then, and killing his back in the process because the handle was too short!

Carter helped me make breakfast for Bryan in the morning and made sure that Daddy felt loved. He's such a sweetheart. All morning long he was saying "This is the best day ever" and " This is my favorite holiday!" What a cutie!

Later in the day we took Bryans dad out for lunch, then later went to my parents house for dinner.
Thanks Dads for being Great!

Saturday Fun

I ran another 5K this week. I got 1 minute faster on my time which surprised me because the course was a lot hillier. Bryan was a bad picture taker this time, I am the little ant way back there!

After my morning run we went up Providence Canyon with my brother, Jill and Breanna. I love the waterfall up there. Its covered in moss and just beautiful.
Above: Uncle Bryan and Hailey

Hailey, me, Jill, Breanna, and Carter

After our little hike we went to lunch at Texas Roadhouse, then off to Providence Days to let the kids play some games and ride some rides!

The Dino Museum

I had Carter write down 5 things that he wanted to do this summer. The first on his list was to visit the Dinosaur Museum. I took him to the one at Thanksgiving Point and met up with my friend Amy and her cute kiddos.

All the kiddos getting their wiggles out! Jacob, Hailey, Emily and Carter
My friends little boy Jacob was so cute. At first he was afraid to go inside, but after awhile he warmed up, and they all had so much fun. Thanks Amy for meeting up with us!

Watching the little fishies.