Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Day at Sea day 2

Sunday 2/17 was our first day at sea.  Dad and I started it off with a nice work out.  I did my run and then the cycle class.  Dad did the weights...
 Then we got the kids and explored the ship some more and then had lunch.

 we played mini golf..

 Watched a fun clue show...
 Loved our towel animal...

 The kids did the kid place for a little bit.  They didn't like the kid place as much as they liked it on our last cruise.  We also attempted some swimming that afternoon but it was kind of cold.
That night was our first formal night...


 Carter loved the chicken nuggets and got 2 orders of those very night!
 Dad loved all the meat and fish! He would order a few meals to enjoy...
 I had steak and lobster which was amazing!


 Aubrey's and I's nails...
 That night we went to the fun show and then the kids had a party at the kid place while dad and I went to a comedy show.  What a fun day on the ship!!!

Mexican Riviera Cruise Day 1

When we noticed that this year the kids got president's week off again we thought why not plan a vacation!! We had did the trail run on a short cruise last year to make sure the kids could handle the boat and they did so great we decided to plan a 7 night cruise to the Mexican Riviera.  We were so excited to escape the rainy winter time for some nice sunshine.  It felt very weird packing shorts and swim suits while we were having inch after inch of rain storms at home.  
Our vacation technically started on Friday 2/15.  I was so busy packing and getting the dogs off with my parents that day.  Then as soon as Spencer got off work we all jumped in the car and started driving so we could make sure we were over the grapevine before another big snow storm was coming in.  We made it to our hotel around 11pm that night.  
Saturday 2/16 we got up, got ready and headed to the port.... 

 We were on the Carnival Splendor ship.  It was amazing!! We have been so use to doing the small cruises on the Imagination and Inspiration so it was a treat to get to explore a new ship.  The arcade was 10 times bigger so we had fun playing in there many of the days.
 There were also so many more pools!! They even had a basketball court.  The spa was 2 stories tall! It was just so much bigger and so much fun to check out.

 That night we had a yummy dinner and got to do some night swimming...
 How fun to watch a movie while you are swimming.  They even had fresh popped pop corn!
and we're off to Mexico....

February Fun before our Vacation

February had already been so much fun with all the birthday celebrations but we had lots more fun in the weeks leading up to our vacation..
I'm loving my spin class that I go to 3 to 4 times a week...
February newsletter I made...

 Friday 2/8 the New Lego Movie came out and we were excited to go opening night...

 The very tall Carter...
 Lots of basketball all February!
 Sunday February 10th we had Aubrey's family birthday party up in Modesto at John's Incredible Pizza.  It was our family of four, Nana, Papa, Titi, and Gaga....
They were so sweet to get her lots of flamingo things since they knew she loves them! 


We got a fun family game as our table prize.

 How cute is this sweatshirt!?!! Aubrey is in love with it!

 We sure love our family!!
 After dinner we had lots of fun game time...

 and a couple of rides...



 Nana and Titi made cookies n cream cupcakes that were very yummy!

 Carter won the jack pot on the monkey swing game..
 Then we got to exchange our tickets for prizes...
Aubrey could not wait to wear her new sweatshirt...
 A super nice young women in our ward gave Aubrey a bunch of new american girl doll clothes...
 Family game night...
 Time to get Valentines ready...

 and their boxes...

 Wednesday 2/13 Aubrey and I got to go get our nails all done for our big vacation...
 Valentine's day....



 I got to go help in Carter's class I came up with a fun little craft for them..
 I made heart sandwiches for their lunches..
 In the afternoon I got to help get stiff ready for Aubrey's class to make Valentine bags...
 We had fun after school looking at all the treats...

 and dinner at Five Guys...
Then it was time to pack for Mexico!!!
Up next Vacation Day 1...