• Travel & Vacation: Our First Formal Night

    Karlie and Brina all dressed up for our first formal night

    Earlier that day we went swimming, played, and went to the Freeze Frame Ice Show.  Now it was time to get dressed up for our first formal night on the ship.  The girls wore their red dresses for the first formal night on the cruise ship.  They looked so cute!  We took a family picture but I thought you would enjoy some of the snap shots we were able to get while waiting for our family picture.  Everyone looked really nice for dinner that night.

    Our little ladies

    This one cracks me up…..they have obviously spotted someone they know, ha!

    Brina taking a picture of Jake and I

    A snap shot of Jake and I on the trip

    Grandpa and Zach are ready for their picture

    Karlie girl all dressed up

    Nicko looking sharp

    Brina, Nathan and Brandon ready for their pictures

    They look thrilled

    Uncle Josh looking all snazzy too

  • Travel & Vacation: Freeze Frame Ice Show

    Yay for the Freeze Frame Ice Show!

    After some time swimming we all went to the Freeze Frame Ice Show!  It was so neat seeing all the people zooming around so gracefully on the ice.  The girls thought they made it look really easy.  We tried ice skating later that week and it wasn’t as easy as it looked when these guys were flying around!

    Karlie super excited to watch the Freeze Frame Ice Show

    Brandon, Brina, and Jeremy are ready to watch the ice show.  We got really good seats too!

    Karlie thought it was cool they had stars on the ice with the skaters

    All the kids on the edge of their seats watching the show

    One of the couples in the show

    I lost count how many times they switch outfits in this program!

    Brina’s comment…..they make it look so easy

    Now that takes talent

    Amazing

    The Freeze Frame Ice Show was really neat

  • Travel & Vacation: Pool Adventures

    Fun times at the pool

    Our first full day on the cruise we had a full day at sea which was really nice because we got to do a lot of fun activities on the boat.  The kids started the day early (at least our kids did), they were up at 6 am and ready to go!  After eating breakfast with Grandpa and Grandma the kids thought it would be a good time to go for a swim in their pools.  The adults caught up on conversations as the kids went swimming.  They were bouncing from splash zone to pool to hot tub.  Much to our surprise most of the pools on this boat were chlorine, in the past most were salt water.  The kids tended to sit more still when they were in the jacuzzi so I noticed we got more of those pictures, ha!

    One of the kids favorite places to swim.  It was a circular pool with moving water.  The kids loved it.  Brandon, Nathan and Karlie are in this picture.  If you look at the back of the picture you can see the ocean out the ship’s window (the water’s about the same color too).

    Karlie loving the extra time swimming

    Brina, Karlie, Brandon and Nathan getting warmed up in the jacuzzi next to the H2O Splash zone

    Brina having fun

    My nephews Brandon and Nathan.  The girls had a blast hanging out with their cousins for the week!

    Brina and Nathan in the jacuzzi

    And there off to the next great adventure…

    Someone’s tired…Zach did a good job keeping up with the group.  Thankfully he can sleep almost anywhere!

    Nicko playing in the pool!