Cabo Cabo Girls Cruise

I was so lucky to be able to take a cruise with my best friends. I went with my Sister in law Laura and her two sisters Holly, Diana and they're mom Karen. Originally it was an all girl cruise. Jan (Craig's mom) was not well enough to come, so the girls ended up bringing they're dad. We were not sure we would be able to go with Jan's situation. She was showing much improvement so we did decide to go. Of course, we plan to take her on another one when she is well enough to go. Craig's dad was going to help with the kids but with Jan getting so ill I actually ended up taking my kids to California to spend the week with my parents. This was an amazing opportunity for the kids to spend some time with them and for me to catch my breath from a very difficult summer. It was so nice of them to watch my kids.


So off I flew from Sacramento to San Diego all by myself where I then met the girls and we took a taxi to the port. It was much easier to travel by myself. i didn't know I could be so efficient with just one.


This Is me saying "Bon Voyage" from San Diego. This was my first Cruise (I say first because I plan to go on several more in my life). What a beautiful place to sail away. I called this post Cabo Cabo because we spent two days in Cabo. 3 days at sea.

Holly Diana

Holly- Diana- Laura- myself

Myself& Laura

We were sailing in this picture. Our hair was all blowing like crazy and we were standing right next to the horn that went off several times. I think we all lost some hearing that day.

Here we are doing our emergency drill. I thought we looked awesome in our flotation devices

Our first night i discovered just how wonderful eating on a cruise can be. You can order several entrees if you want or dessert etc. It's awesomeHolly & I

Laura & Diana

This area is designated for adults only. We took turns getting up early to go save our spots right on the back of the ship. it was awesome to just enjoy the view and read and have some valuable R&R. I do realize we were very spoiled to be able to do this. We spent most of our time here while we were out to sea.



We were extremely hot from laying in the sun so Diana & I decided to hang out in this pool. It was frigid water but still felt good.

Cabo day 1:
Off to the tender boat to take us to Cabo.

Our first day in Cabo we went to the market and bought Lot's of beautiful Jewelry. Then we took a cab over to the "Me" resort to spend the rest of the day there. It was so awesome because we got to hang out and use the facilities for free. They even gave us a section in a cabana.

The water was amazing. I normally do not get in a wade around but I could not resist the temptation

Look at all the cruise ships in the back round

Cabo Day 2:

We all actually got a chance to drive the tender boat. We decided to do a snorkeling tour. We did it through Eagle Divers and our tour guide Joel was so nice.

Snorkeling ended up not working out for me though. I got really sea sick (even with Bonin) from the boat ride out to our location. I also Just hate snorkeling. I thought I would give it one more try but It didn't work out so well. At our first location I swam to the beach to see if I could get my nausea to settle. Then I was too much in the sun so I swam back to the boat. A few min. later a strange lady(not on our tour) hopped on our boat. she said to those of us on the boat"what? You've never seen a boat hitchhiker before?" She sat down and had a bag of stuff she started looking through. I was too sick to laugh but I thought it was crazy. Joel (our tour guide) was Diving with Holly and Diana and our boat driver did not speak any english and could not question her himself. When Joel and the girls surfaced he noticed the lady and started to question her. He was trying to find out where she came from and if she was in some kind of trouble. He didn't want to deny someone in need. She was not giving strait answers and got irritated. She just wanted a free ride back to the docks in Cabo. He told her we were not oging right away. That we were all on a paid snorkeling tour and we were going to another location. She got annoyed and said, "well that was a long swim not to go anywhere." She then hopped in the water and swam away on her back while holding her bag of stuff in the air to avoid it getting wet. This was the funniest thing I have ever seen. It was quite an experience. Then at our next location joel had me dropped to the beach (still sick) and the others finished snorkeling. Poor Laura got stung by a Jellyfish and couldn't snorkel anymore. It was an interesting day. Then we went to the market to get moere jewelry

Sorry for the drowned rat look but we had all been swimming in the ocean. I had to show our picture with Joel though because he was so awesome. This was our Formal night

We had a lot of great dinners. Our Servers name was Gusti and he was so much fun. we got to sit by the window more than once.


This is a photo to show how our steward folded our towels into animals each night.

This picture was taken the night our Server Gusti asked us to dance with him. Laura and I braved it together and it was a lot of fun.

This is Gusti in the middle.

All in all it was a pretty amazing trip. I missed my family though. The kids also had a great time with they're cousins and grandparents. Thanks girls for a really fun trip!

FOOTBALL-GO BENGALS!!

Well if you really want to know why we are so busy all the time it's football. Andrew joined The Brighton Ute Gremlins this year. It all started in July and goes thru October maybe Nov. if they make the playoffs. I have to say I was very nervous about the whole football commitment at 8 years old. I have to say though that it has been a wonderful experience. Andrew was lucky enough to be selected to play with the best coaches and team a mom could ask for. They have a lot of fun together. Although intense and hectic at times we are loving it. Andrew plays hard and is having a blast learning what teams are all about. We have practice 3 times a week. Then games on saturday We have awesome coaches, team moms, kids and parents. Andrew plays with 8-9 and some 10 year olds. He is one of the youngest on the team but has a lot of heart. He has been playing tight end. He has learned so much already. He is #93. There truly is nothing better than seeing your child happy and working hard and excelling in so many ways.. We are so proud of you Andrew boy! Oh and you look awesome in that uniform!

One of the team dads arranged an awesome meeting with some of the Utah Ute football players. One of them being Louie Sakoda (last years kicker). These kids were over the moon to meet these guys and get they're autographs. What a once in a lifetime experience for them. Here are some pictures of that...

Update for August

August was a busy month for us. My little brother Well I would say Younger brother (not so little, he towers over me) graduated from BYU. Even though I am a full on Ute fan I decided i could go support him in his accomplishments. It was so great my whole family (accept my sister Rebekah and family) were able to come out. We had a busy week while they were here since my Mother in Law was still in the hospital. We managed to spend some time with my family though. Here are some photos of graduation..My mom, beautiful daughter Cali and I Cali, my beautiful niece Lila and I My mom (nina) and Cali
My nephew Davin, My niece gillian and Andrew my handsome son

Me, my mom and Lila
My sweet and loving sister in law Callie and my yopunger brother nathan the graduate

One of the days we all got together in park City. One of my favorite places to hang out. These were taken at the alpine slides. The kids got to ride with cousins and Cali also rode with her Aunt Krista on the roller coaster...

Nina and baby Lila

Nina and Cali

Cali, Lisa and Kea

My Sister in law Laura and I

Andrew, Austin, Davin and Josh (cousins)

Cali and aunt Dida (the kids call her Dida)

Kea and Cali (cousins)

My brother Brian and I

( I think we still look alike)

Austin and Andrew coming down the coaster

It was so awesome seeing everyone. people came all the way from California and tTexas to be here. What a fun time for the kids

Summer concert

I got so behind on blogging this summer so I thought I would catch up a little and back track to mid July. One of my favorite things I did tis summer was the Fray and Jack mannequin concert. I went with "My girls" Laura, Holly, Diana and myself. It was a lot of fun. My friend holly introduced us to the band Jacks mannequin and now they are one of my favs. My favorite song is called Swim off the glass passenger album. It's very inspirational and brings tears to my eyes when i hear it.

We all got matching T-shirts too



Thanks for the concert girls! It was a blast!

My Baby goes to Kindergarten

Well It's official....My baby is in kindergarten. What an exciting time for Cali. She has been so excited for several months to start school. She is anxious to learn and socialize. She is such a fun little girl with so much happiness in her sweet personality. She has a love for life and Is looking forward to learning so much in school this year. I didn't start crying until I was walking to my car without her. I am happy she has come this far in her life but very sad to be loosing my baby to a big girl. I am so Lucky to have her as my daughter. I am so proud of you Cali! Here are some great pics from her first day of school and Ms. Mowers class......

Andrew's first day of 3rd grade

I can hardly believe that summer is officially over and the kids are back in shcool. Andrew started third grade this week. He is turning into such a smart and nice and handsome young man. He was excited to start school to see all of his friends. He said the summer was getting a little boring. I am so glad he has a love for school and learning. We are so proud of him. As for me I will have to help him with book reports every month, cursive handwriting and multiplication. All things I am terrible at and need some refreshing. I guess he and i will be learning together.Andrews third grade teacher is Mrs. Shiffman. The teacher is out sick this week so we havn't met her but I hear great things about all the third grade teachers. Here is our big boy on his big day...

We live close enough to walk to school when the weather is good. Here is our route to school
Andrew Lined up for class

Andrews Best friend Brooks