Graduation

Well the cap and gown are still warm and I'm already blogging about the day. You should be impressed.





What a day! I can hardly believe my boy is GRADUATED! Seems like just yesterday we were doing preschool graduation. The years have flown by. I'm very proud of the man this boy is becoming. Braden, I know you'll go far in this world. You are smart, funny, kind and rather good looking if I do say so myself! Use your heart, your mind, and your spirit in all that you do and there is nothing that you cannot accomplish!


Way to go buddy!

MCT Treasure Island

Brooklynn recently took the opportunity to try out for the Missoula Children's Theater production of Treasure Island. She tried out on Monday, found out she got a part, rehearsed all week from 4-8pm and performed on Friday and Saturday of that same week. It was a crazy busy week and we didn't see much of Brooklynn, but it was an awesome experience and she had a BLAST!

"Big 'Ol Blue the Pirate


The motley crew of pirates and ruffians




The Cast of Treasure Island

Wanna know why...

Wanna know why I don't blog more often? Because it takes so blasted long to upload pictures! Grrr!

Now you see them...now you don't

Braces on...


Braces off! Horray! What a beautiful smile!

Disneyland

So happy to be in Disneyland!


A re-creation of a picture that we took when Braden was about 7 with Uncle Jeff the last time we all went to Disneyland (they are posing like the statue in the background)


So happy!


I'm a Fairy!


With Mr. Toad


Trashin' the Capm


World of Color


Lots of cotton candy and other treats


On the ferris wheel


Jungle Cruise


Fantasyland


Teacups


Ummm...no comment


We had a great time!!

Christmas in Hawaii

(we didn't quite get it, but you get the idea)

So here we are spending Christmas 2010 in Hawaii.
Here's what it looked like Christmas morning


Santa did find us


We made hot chocolate (yes we make hot chocolate even in Hawaii!)


We had a delicious breakfast of fruit, cinnamon rolls, eggs, and sausage


Then we headed to the beach.










This is definitely the way to spend Christmas. I'd do it again, but Brooklynn prefers a more traditional Christmas so we probably won't do it again anytime soon.

Mexican Riviera part 2

So where did we leave off?...Oh yeah, PV and our Dolphin Swim.

So next up was Mazatlan where we went to Stone Island (at least I think that's what it was called). It was an awesome beach with awesome waves for boogie boarding, but not too rough for swimming. We scored a great seat on the beach at one of the restaurant tables where the vendors couldn't come right up to us. They still came as close as they could, but it wasn't too bad.

The walk to the beach


Sitting on the beach having a snack


Josh coming in on the boogie board


Brooklynn, tired but happy.


Some of the crew


Brook and I bought these cute swimsuit coverups from the vendors on the beach.


Brook and Josh Kleven. Aren't they cute? Especially Josh with the flower in his hair.


The next day we were in Cabo San Lucas. This was the prettiest port!

Here's the famous arch from the movie Popeye.


Austin, Braden and Camille


Watching the huge waves at Divorce Beach




We rented jet ski's at went zooming around the bay


The restaurant where we ate lunch. These guys had good food!


So that was our day in Cabo. I wish we would've had more time here. It was very pretty. But we tried to do too much. Next time we'll know.

Leaving Cabo


Other things we did...

Some of us did a little karaoke


We tried to go to dinner in our bathrobes. Yes there is a story there. Apparently this cruise had an inordinate number of people walking around in bathrobes at all times. Since this was our first cruise we didn't know any different, but some of the people we were with mentioned how they had never seen so many people just walking around in robes on any other cruise. So the last night we decided to get in on the "robe" action and we all wore them to dinner. All 20-something of us. It was quite a sight. On our way to dinner we stopped on the dance floor to do some dancing. Everyone thought it was hilarious and lots of people were snapping pictures of us. They wouldn't actually let us into the dining room in our robes though. I guess the dining room had something of a dress code.






Of course we ate tons of food.


Danced on the Lido deck...you'll have to ask the kids to show you the, "one cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, dollar" dance.


I don't know what he's doing here, but it was a funny picture


Other stuff...
Our room


Towel animals and art




Mexican buffet




And that's the end...hahaha



It was such an awesome trip and I can't wait to do it again!