Thanksgiving

Just the typical Thanksgiving in Wyoming

Food

Family

 and a Waterpark?

 Yes, our hotel in Wyoming had its own waterpark and it was FANTASTIC!  We were there every day for at least 3 hours.  We had a great time.  Even if Cooper refused to do the slide, at least Carter loved it!

He was fascinated by his wrinkly fingers and toes :-)

So proud of Grandma AJ for going on the waterslide (even if it was because I bribed her with a recipe).

These are such typical pictures of Grandma AJ, always surrounded by her grandkids.  They love her to death!  She's such a fantastic Grandma! 

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Work, work, play

Where did November go?  Well...

Caleb and his Dad spent nearly 3 weeks on our yard digging trenches, laying pipe, & laying top soil.  

It was A-L-O-T of work but it is now ready for grass.  Yay!

Big, humongo thank you to Randito for all his help! (that's him in the machine)

But we can't forget about the fun we've had too.

Fun date nights with these hulligans!

Daddy/Son ski days 

movie nights, 

& Thanksgiving of course...

but that's a whole 'nother post with a plethora of pictures coming soon!

B-Y-U

Have I mentioned that we like BYU games?

Northstar Cruise

Every year, Caleb's company goes on a cruise and those sales reps that hit the allotted goal get to go.  This year we met some great new friends and spent a lot of time talking, laughing, eating and just enjoying each other's company.  Of the whole cruise, that was my favorite part.  But we did some other cool stuff too ;-)

First night on the cruise out on the deck 

(hence the hair blowing everywhere)

Get ready for a bunch of pictures of just us.  This is probably the most you'll ever see of us on our blog since there were no kids to speak of ;-)

Hanging at the karaoke

2nd Day- Key West

Catamaran and snorkel

The fish were not that exciting, but the water was enjoyable and the catamaran was fun!

(No laughing at our white bodies!  We were in Seattle all summer for goodness sake!)

Dressy Night

(I'd like to add that I forgot a hairbrush and my straightener so my hair was done by hand every day!)

Every year I think these are so cute. 

 My favorite night of the cruise, Halloween!

I just love how into it we all are.  Makes it so much fun!

Pinata & Tootsie Roll.................Little Red Riding Hood & The Big Bad Wolf

 Kelly & Zack from Saved by the bell............Wilma & skinny Fred Flinstone

And there were the escaped convicts too that I never snapped a picture of but can be seen below.

Red & the Wolf won it this year.  It was well deserved considering he spent a good 2 hours gluing his face on and could only slurp soup at dinner.  HA!

3rd Day

Cozumel, Mexico

Just before getting off the boat.  The water is so blue!

A little shopping in the town square

 And the main event, the Ruins of Tulum

 Coolness!  Just wish we would have had time to swim there!!!

 Chillaxin' on the boat, just waiting to arrive in Florida!

I seriously wish we would have documented our nightly dinner & after dinner parties but no pictures were ever taken...sad since that was my favorite part!  I guess we'll just have to remember our cameras next year and do it all over again!

A Daddy and Coop Trip

Coop and Daddy took a very special trip, just the 2 of them shortly after we got back from Seattle.  They headed down to New Mexico to see Great Grandma Alby, Aunt Gretchen & Uncle Kip. I think they had a good time...I know Carter and I did while they were gone :-)

Very artistic picture taken by Caleb.

I think Coop was born to be a photographer, he took this one.

Pumpkins

Yes we carved pumpkins...well, pumpkin.  Just hours before we left on our cruise we fit it in.

ewwww

Coop wanted a scary Frankenstein face...we tried.

Turtle Power

So the original plan was for all of us to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but after making the boys' turtle shells and it taking 3 full days, I nixed the idea for us.  I still think it would be an awesome idea but I ran out of steam.  I'm regretting it now, should have just buckled down and done it, dang it!

At least the boys looked dang cute, right?!

Here's Rafael

(This is about the only time he kept that mask on)

Leonardo in action!

(Best picture I have since he always felt the urge to fight when he had it on)

Side and back view so you can really appreciate it :-)

Now, what to be next year?