Winter Get-a-way

Before this trip the longest I had ever left Ben was for about 4 hours. I couldn't even get excited for the trip because it made me sick to think about leaving Ben. Well thank goodness to my AMAZING sister Hayley who took Ben for almost the whole time. This was right before we left. I went and put him to bed at Danny's parents and cried. I did pretty good until about Thursday of the trip.

Rock climbing in the Gulf of Mexico!
Roatan, Honduras - this was such a beautiful place. This was probably my favorite stop of the trip.

A little snorkeling, it was great and right off the beach


Cave Tubing in Belize. We were a little nervous when we got off the ship in Belize, it's kind of a dump. Well we took a tour about an hour outside the port up to the mountains. It was beautiful. We went through the jungle and up to a river. It took us through these amazing caves. It was a really great experience and I'm glad we got out of the port.

Cozumel was a little disappointing. We were planning on going scuba diving but when we got off the ship it was really windy and a red flag day so they canceled all the dive trips. It was a little heart breaking to look at that turquoise water and not get in. We ended up having a nice relaxing day at the beach sitting in hammocks. I guess we will just have to go back. (Last time we went to Cozumel I had just found out I was pregnant so I couldn't dive, I think I'm cursed to not dive here)
Enjoying a great dinner,Danny hated the dress up nights. He kept saying don't they know I'm on vacation!
Hard to say good bye to that, but I had a pretty cute little kid waiting for me at home!

ELDER JT is home!

Elder JT is home! I made shirts for all the kids, so when he came down the stairs they were all standing there. Little Ella has a "T" on but she was sleeping. Sarah's family made it by about 30 seconds. We had to leave Logan at 5 am to get down in time. The roads were the worst I have have seen them, but we were all there!
The whole family! What a wonderful day!
I wish I had a picture of my mom when Jeffrey started coming down the stairs, (I have it on the video camera) she went nuts, she stared screaming and jumping up and down.

It didn't take long for all the kids to recruit Jeffrey into help them build their legos. He's the best Uncle ever. We are already feeling the blessing of having him back home again. He has such an incredible spirit. I can't believe want an amazing kid he is. Being around him makes me want to try harder and make some real New Year's resolutions to really improve my spiritual self.I can't wait for him to move back up to Logan next week to start school. I'm excited to have a good babysitter for Ben! When Jeffrey meet Ben he said, it felt like he already knew him and forgot that he hadn't actually ever seen him. He fits right in!
Jeffrey we love you so much and are so happy that you severed an honorable mission and have set such a great example to all your nieces and nephews!

Merry Christmas!

I made this little construction apron for Ben with Dave's construction logo on it! It is stinkin cute!
Santa really spoiled Will and Drew this year, they got a go cart! Oh wait was is Will and Drew or Josh that got spoiled, I don't know who was more excited
We went over to Hayley's for Christmas breakfast and Ben spotted Santa's left over cookies by the fire place and helped himself
A BIKE! This has to be one of the best Christmas mornings I can remember. Ben was so excited to see that bike sitting there. Every time we go to the store we always have to go over to the toy department and let him ride around so we were so excited to actually have one of our own.
Gingerbread house! I think this might have been more mean than fun for Ben, he wanted to eat all the candy and I wouldn't let him. Now its sitting on the counter and he keeps trying to get it. He's like 'hey mom there is candy sitting right there and you want let me eat it'
My mom took all the grandkids and mom's on teh Polar Express up in Heber City. Ben thought it was great to go on the train and especially liked looking out the window at all the lights.
Ben wasn't a huge fan of Santa. I think it was a mixture of being exhausted and a little scared
Pretty cute group of kids! Thanks mom for the memories!