Southern Caribbean Cruise

Island tour of St. Lucia

First try of coconut water-- nasty!!

Ready to be home and see the kiddos!

Gonna miss these 3 amigos!

Every night at dinner it got better and better! We all celebrated our birthdays and laughed the night away! I pretty much had 3 desserts every night.. Made some really great life long friends! At our table was Mary,Linda, Juan Carlos, gary&shirley( not pictured), Efron, Jorge, and jake and I !

Went to the beach and snorkeled. Saw all sorts of fishes, turtles, and a sunken ship wreck! 

Last stop in Barbados! 

More of sugar beach.. I hope this is what my heaven looks like!

The most beautiful place I have ever seen! SUGAR BEACH 

Went to this waterfall in st. Lucia!

Rented a vehicle and took a tour of the island! This was one of my favorite places! Although the roads were so windy and I was so car sick it was worth the drive!

St. Lucia

Pineapple plant... Did you know the plants only good for 1 pineapple then its worthless and it takes 14 months to grow!

Nasty coconut water I talked bout below;)

Took a tour of the island in st. Thomas.. Saw lots of neat buildings and drank nasty coconut water, and saw how pineapples and bananas are grown..  

Heshee and Werner Berger got married! This was a pretty big deal and not to mention he is the oldest man to climb mt. Everest in the west! Such awesome and loving people!

On our walk back to the boat in st. Marten

Beach at st. Marten 

St. Marten ... Went to the beach and laid out and swam.. FYI - saw lots of topless saggy women! Not a pretty site! My body got fried and I drank lots of salty, ocean water... Barf!

Formal wear night

 

First stop.. St.croix.. Mostly did interviews today and went and visited the slavery museum ! Went to the beach and swam in the bath like water... It was beautiful! 

Easter

This year for Easter we were fun haters and just stayed home! It was hard being away from both our families festivities but it was also fun to stay home and enjoy the weekend here. On Saturday we went to navy Monroe's birthday party and they had an egg hunt there and pais was loving gettin the eggs and seeing what was in them 💰🍬🍭🐰. When we got home from there then we colored eggs and then she went on another hunt in our house to find her basket. She was so happy! She got a dump truck and net from nanna and pappa Dyreng and the some chalk, bubbles, necklace,chalk holder, new dress and shoes, and a wiggle car that hasn't arrived yet😢 Briggs got a book, new church shirt, toys for the beach and yard, and a hat from nanna and pappa. They both looked so cute in there new outfits for church!
On Sunday we went over to my Hoyt cousins house and had a nice Easter dinner there. We took grandma knott with us and she is just the greatest! It's been such a blessing living so close to her and being able to help her out with anything and really just get to know her better before its to late.. Hope everyone had a happy, enjoyable Easter !

Springtime

We have been loving this weather lately! It's so nice to have all the snow melted and to be able to work on our yard finally! I love doin yard work and I can't wait to get everything done...

Briggs man is 7 months old today! Time has passed by so quickly with him👎 but I am loving every second of this stage though.. He is the HAPPIEST baby ever! His smile literally melts me every time and I feel so so blessed to be his momma.. He has been eatin solids for about a month now and was skeptical at first but he loves it now.. His favorites are sweet potatoes, corn, peas, applesauce, and peaches. Bananas .... Not so much! He loves to be outside and entertains himself really well! He rolls around everywhere on the floor and it amazes me how fast he can roll from one place to the other.. I still get soooo many compliments on his eyes and lips.. His hair is really starting to fill in and is coming in quite blonde... The end of the summer he will most likely be a toe head.. He loves his sister to no end and gets the biggest smile and giggle when ever he sees her.. They are already the best of friends .. He takes good naps and sleeps for the majority of the night and only wakes up once to eat. I am still nursing him but just in the morning and at night and sometimes during the day mostly to get him down for his nap.. Love him so much!

As for miss pais.. Oh man I love this stage to.. Even though her whining and throwing fits get very old, jake and I are always laughin at her. She does and says some of the funniest things lately😜 she loves the movie pitch perfect.. Just the singing parts and she knows a lot of the dancing parts and songs.. So glad I have a million videos of her doin it. I started potty training today and its goin so so... Will see if she can really stick with it prof we will have to wait til she is a little older.. Maybe Briggs will be potty trained before her haha and he will to ably talk before her also lol.. She says more and more everyday and I know it's just a matter of time. She has been giving me lots of tight hugs lately and I love it.. She is so sweet and I love it when she gives me these big cheesy grins ... Both her and Briggs are growing up before our very eyes! We love them both so much and can't think of a more perfect place to be at in our Lives then where we are!

Trip to Arizona

Mckell had several days off so she invited me to get away from freezing utah and head to the warmness of surprise,az to visit Jennie and her family. I was a little worried at first cause I have never been on a trip that long with both kids ... I put myself to the test and before I knew it we were on our way... The kids did great but it helped that we left at 4 am so they would sleep a lot of the way! They really did great though... We got there bout noon on a Thursday and it was so nice to let pais loose outside to play where it was warm! We had so much fun goin to the park, feeding ducks, spring training game, celebrating mason and mckells birthdays, basketball games, piano recitals, trampoline place, and just enjoying Jennie's home and playing outside riding bikes . Jennie is always such a great hostess and its always so hard to leave a nice warm vacation like that but it was good to get back home to jake!

Life as of Late

Hello Blogging world! If there still is anymore! Its been bout a month since I have posted so here are a few of my favorite pics taken lately that i just cant forget about!

Life is a little crazy these days! Some days I am grateful if I can get my teeth brushed;) I feel like I can never get on top of things but I wouldnt trade my life for anything right now...Briggs and Pais are both at such fun ages so here is a little bout them that I most certainly dont wanna forget!

Briggs (almost 6 months)-- i am so in love with this baby boy of mine! i love my relationship that i have with him...not goin to lie but this boy LOVES HIS MAMA! When jake is holdin him and I'm walkin around coming in and out of the room he will just stare me down and watch my every move..i love it! He makes me feel like a million bucks! He is such a happy, pleasant baby..His smile just kills me...There is something bout his eyes and his lips that are unforgettable . He loves to be held but he is also good to just lay on the floor and play. He is really big into grabbing anything and everything in his reach. He can roll over really good from his stomach to back but hasnt quite mastered the back to belly yet. Its so funny having a second kid cause with Pais I was always excited for the next steps in her young life..but Im just enjoying Briggs instead of wishing away the days...Im in no hurry for him to sit up or crawl..but I will admit I was pretty excited to start solids with him. He absolutely hates it and I dont know what to do,,just feed him a little bit so he starts to like it and get use to it. As far as the night he goes to bed about 9- 9:30 and wakes up at 5 to eat then goes back to sleep until bout 8-9.. He loves to sleep in his belly which I know is a huge No No but he hates sleepin on his back so I just watch him like a hawk! His first little months of life were really hard.. its kinda a blur to me to be honest but he is so much better at night and I literally think Zantac saved my life and marriage haha..Briggs is soooooo much better having given it to him.. What would we do without modern medicine.. I will never know! Also.. briggs HATES his car seat! Which is soooo different from Pais.. the second we put her in she would sleep.. the whole way.. whether it be 1 hour of 7 hours! That unfortunately is not the case with Briggs.. the second we put him in he screams..I think he is gettin a slight little better but not much..but you think with as much driving as we do he would just buck up and take it like a man.. nope so sometimes he just has to cry.. its good for them right? I love my little buddy so much.. When Pais was around this age we were gettin ready to leave for a cruise... i can not imagine leaving him for that long now.. I thought it was suppose to get easier to leave your kids the more kids you have but thats not the case for me.. and maybe its because I nurse him and I didnt with pais so I don't know..crazy I tell ya!

Paisley ( 2 years + 4 months)
  Oh boy do I love this girl.. Yes we butt heads most of the time but I love her to pieces and cant imagine one second of my life without her in it... Jake and I are constantly laughing at the things shes doin and we know it will only get funnier from here on out. She is talkin a lot but most the time we have no idea what she is saying.. I have stressed out a lot over not being able to understand her cause alot of kids her age are sayin full on sentences but everyone tells me that she will wake up one day and I will wish that it didn't happen so fast.. They say that they are observing right now and they literally will just start talkin so I am not goin to worry anymore..She is starting to look and act alot more like me now (as I am told).. not sure if that is a good or bad thing. She loves to dance and sing.. tease.. tickle.. all of the above. She loves her daddy and when he leaves for work she will walk around the house saying "jake"....lookin for him and its the cutest thing ever!  In the morning we will be layin in bed and she will come skip/runnin into our bedroom and just gives us the biggest hugs ever.. When Im up before her (which almost never happens) she will run to me and give me one of those hugs where she wraps her whole arms around my neck like twice and I LOVE IT! also makes me feel like a million bucks. Man does this girl have a love for sweets.... anywhere we go she can sniff out sugar and crayons like I have never seen before.. for awhile there I had a really hard time with the stage she was in cause I feel like she didn't understand why she couldnt have more cookies and what not but she is starting to understand and things are alot better. I have really been wantin to potty train her but I just havent bitten the bullet yet.. whats the hurry right? haha My goal is before summer cause my parents said at Christmas that they are goin to take potty trained kids and up for a few days to the cabin so thats my goal so she can go:) She helps out alot with briggs and when she sees his bottle or blanket or toy she will stop what she is doin and run it over to him.. melts my heart! She has also been playin "Peek a boo" with him and that also makes me melt! They will laugh with each other in the car and entertain each other which I just love. They already have such a special bond!

As for us-- I am just busy tryin to keep these kids alive and have a nice, warm meal for jake when he gets home from work.. Those are my duties right now! I have been busy doin projects galore for the house and it feels so good to get them done. Jake has been so busy at work these days and has some exciting things coming his way. He got promoted to be the art director for the US and if things go really good then he will be in charge of all the other countries that the company is in also.. He is seriously the perfect person for it.. He is such a hard worker and is constantly thinking about the next project at work..I love the people he works with and they all get along so good and are all great, real members of the church! We are loving our new ward and house but not so much the snow.. we have got dumped on this year and the lake effect doesnt help us at all but I guess we better get use to it:) Also we just got called to teach the 4 year olds in primary. We switch with another couple so we still get to go to RS and Sunday school every other Sunday..and we have a small primary so we only have 2 girls and they are as cute as can be.. World Peace!