Bahamas! (Sorry, picture overload!)

So since my last post Kira has graduated from high school and gone on her senior trip... Which we ended up going on with her! We went on a cruise to the Bahamas and had tons of fun! Brandi, Mike, Aunt Shawna, and our friends Danielle and Jesse went on the trip too, along with several other people and graduates from Kanab. We just got back on Thursday! Hunter stayed with Ben's parents for the 1st 3 days that we were gone, then stayed with my parents the last 3 days. They both said that he did really good so that was a relief! We didn't hear that he did good until we got back cuz we weren't about to pay international fees to use our cellphones! I did turn mine on every night just in case there was a problem just so you don't think I totally forgot about Hunter while we were gone. Well here are tons of pics from the cruise:

Our first night in Orlando we stayed in a hotel, outside our hotel were 2 ponds. We thought this sign was kind of funny since my mom had called the night before while we were flying to Florida and told me to watch out for alligators, and then there was a warning about it right on our hotels property!

This is us in front of the pond, it had a cute little deck that went out over the water.

While we were looking at the fish in the water this turtle swam by and all the fish kept following him. He kept sinking down a little bit then swimming back up, we caught a glimpse of his belling and it was bright orange! He also had a pointy nose, considering I've only seen desert turtles and pet store turtles I thought he was pretty cool looking! We also saw tons of different birds around our hotel.

Here we are when we first got on our ship, behind the whale tail there was a splash pad, two water slides, and a hydra tube. They were always packed with people so we only went down the tube once. We also got in the pool once, and while we were in it noticed the people next to us pretty much going at it... disgusting! If you have ever been in a cruise you probably know that the pools are always packed with people, there were some little kids right next to them too. We went to the marriage show and the newlyweds that were on stage admitted to also doing that in the pool, so we didn't ever get in the pool again!

Our first night there they had this laser tag set up. It was pretty much just a big bounce house, which made it really hard to run around in there. I kept falling over, it was still fun though and we were all only 300 points apart from each other. (Left to right: Danielle, me, Jesse, Ben)
The first port we went to was Freeport. We signed up for a fishing excursion. Here is Danielle's first fish, she caught 3!

Ben's fish, it's called a grunt.

So nobody on the ship had been catching anything for a little bit, so the guys running the boat asked if anyone had brought any bananas. We thought it was really weird that they were asking that, so they went on to explain that there is an old superstition that bananas are bad luck when fishing. Jesse had brought bananas on board in case they needed a snack. It was really funny cuz right after they told us about that and we told them that he had brought bananas, he was the very next one to catch a fish.

Here is my fish with it's bait still hanging out of it's mouth, they used squid. In the end Danielle had caught 3, Ben, Jesse, and me all only caught 1. Me and Ben had eaten bananas at breakfast and Jesse had brought some on board, so I guess maybe there is some truth to the banana myth since Danielle hadn't had anything to do with bananas!

This was one of the other people on the excursion, this fish was so weird! It was a sucker fish, but not like the ones at the pet store, this ones suction was on the top of it's head! One of the guys running the boat put the fish upside down on the side of the boat and had the girls husband try to pull the fish off. He couldn't budge it, they had to pry it off with a knife!

Here we are on our formal night.

We wanted a picture of us girls on formal night, but Kira forgot and by the time we found her she had already changed, but here are us girls!

The 2nd day we ported at Nassau, we signed up for a snorkeling excursion that day. We rode on a catamaran to get the snorkeling sight. It was awesome to see the water below you on this net! We had a blast snorkeling, Ben and Jesse found tons of conch shells and a starfish too! They only let you keep the shells if they were pretty big they said that smaller ones were just babies. Jesse had found a big enough one, so they popped the conch out of the shell and cleaned it up for him. Apparently they like to eat conch out there... raw... so they cut it up rinsed it off in the ocean and everybody got to eat it right then and there. Ben said it wasn't too bad, but there was no way I was going to eat something that had been alive 2 seconds ago and hadn't even been cooked!

Here is one of the smaller shells that they had found, which we took on board cuz they said they didn't see anything in it so we could take it too. Later in our room this crab decided to stop hiding! Jesse said he had known there was something in it all along, but since it wasn't a conch Ben ended up throwing it back overboard the next day. I was worried when I woke up to go to the bathroom in the night that it was going to crawl away and I was going to step on it, it never moved though.

After snorkeling we ended up renting some scooters and drove around the island, we went and found a beach, where Jesse knocked a coconut off a tree, it broke open so he drank the milk out of it. I think the locals thought we were pretty amusing since me and Danielle were worried the whole time that we were going to get in trouble and kept trying to get the boys back on the scooters. We also got to drive up to the Atlantis resort, that's where we are in the pic you can see a water fountain behind us. For those of you who don't know the Atlantis resort is where Holiday in the Sun (a Mary Kate and Ashley movie) was filmed, which was part of the reason they choice that cruise to go on.


I always have to put pics of Hunter cuz he is just too cute. Two weeks before the cruise we took Hunter fishing to Panguitch lake. None of us caught a thing! It was a bummer I really wanted him to get to see a fish, but I think he still had fun. We got him a Lightning McQueen fishing pole that he played with for quite a while!

I don't have a clue what he was doing, but thought he was pulling a way funny face so had to take a picture!

I LOVE his smile!! There were tons of bugs everywhere while we were fishing. In all these pics you can see black spots in the sky, and that thing on Hunters eyebrow is a bug too! It was so gross! I staying in my sweatshirt with hood snug the whole time! Hunter didn't even seem to hardly notice!

He's so funny, he was sitting there feeding Ben jerky for quite a while! This pic you can see the most bugs, there are tons in the sky.

Well all in all it's been a pretty fun couple of weeks! We are definitely happy to be home and get to be with Hunter again! It was a nice break, but I think we will wait quite a while before we leave him for that long again!

What Women Want Expo

This weekend all the Ewell girls (Chelsee is pretty much an Ewell girl) went to the What Women Want Expo in St. George. It was SO much fun!! We all found several really cute things, most of us ended up getting a hat and several of them got a bunch of jewelry. We also got tons of free stuff! It was awesome! We all ended up getting a colored hair extension put in and got glittery eyeliner on. I'm glad I waited to get my eyeliner done til the end of the day cuz it drove me crazy but it was fun anyways! Here our some pics of the day:

From left to right: Joslyn (red extension and goldish-pink eyeliner), Chelsee (blue extension and green eyeliner), Sheena (3 pink extensions and bronze eyeliner), Dixie (burgundy extension and dark blue eyeliner) and me (red extension and light blue eyeliner)

I picked this color cuz it looked pretty light in the jar and it looked like it had a little bit of green with the blue flecks, so I thought it would match the green of my shirt and the blue of my eyes... when she mixed it up it got WAY brighter! Mine ended up being the brightest of everyones and I was the one who really didn't necessarily want the eyeliner. So for those of you who don't know, I HATE glitter! I still haven't been able to get it all off a day later, I keep finding a couple stragglers that just won't come off! I've washed my face 3 times and scrubbed it with a rag! I think glitter is really pretty but I just hate how it gets stuck everywhere, I couldn't be the only one without glittery eyes when we went to dinner though.

So I have had red highlights in my hair before but never this red! I kind of like it though. When we were first getting them put in I thought it was just like a clip in one that you could take in and out as you wanted, but found out while getting it in that it's an actual extension so unless I go at it with pliers it's going to be there for a while! The best part is that I finally got blond highlights put back in my hair on Wednesday so I'm sure most people that see me are going to think I dyed the red streak since all the blond is new too!

Hunter is obsessed with watching Cars lately, so her he is with dad watching the movie. So cute! Yes he is in his PJ's this was right after breakfast today, and of course he already had shoes on!

You can't lay down anywhere near Hunter without him eventually climbing on you! Even if he's still watching the movie!

Good Vibrations

After all that work getting our internet up and running we ended up getting a virus on it last weekend... I'm thinking I must be sending bad vibes into the world right now or something. I went grocery shopping today and when I got home I only had a few minutes to drop off the groceries and change my clothes so that I could rush Hunter to the babysitter and me to work. And of course when I opened that back of our jeep one of the bags fell out and 2 of the bottles of gatorade broke open and emptied out onto the garage floor. Of course it just added to the oil footprint stains so I just left it and straddled the mess while I emptied the rest of the groceries into the house. Once they were all in the house and the fridge stuff put away I decided to give Hunter a gogurt since he hadn't eaten his lunch very well. He's getting so old he thinks he has to do everything on his own so he grabbed the gogurt from me and of course a big glob squirted onto his shirt. I was already frustrated about the gatorade so I kind of growled at him and it embarrassed him or something cuz then he like panicked and rubbed it into his shirt super fast! So then I had to change his shirt, but he did decide that it was ok to let me feed him the rest of the gogurt. Then after I dropped Hunter off I went to pull into work and I almost got hit by a car that was trying to pull onto the road I was pulling off of, luckily I reacted fast enough and hit my breaks (and just for the record I did have my blinker on!) Our compartment in the center consoles lid is broken so when I hit the breaks that fell forward and put me in neutral, and being in panic mode it took me a little bit to realize why it wasn't doing anything when I was pushing the gas, but I did figure it out in time to get out of the intersection so no other cars could try to hit me.

So I have decided that I must be sending bad vibes or something cuz disasters keep happening!! Today is the end though, I'm going to start sending good vibes everywhere so there will be awesome and exciting things to post about soon!!

I guess one really cute thing was that Hunter went pee on the toilet today! It was so cute, he happened to wander in while Ben was going to the bathroom and decided he wanted to try so started tugging on his diaper. We sat him on the toilet and he just looked at us like we were crazy. Then I remembered someone telling me to pour water on him, and it worked great. Hunter thought it was pretty cool and wanting me to pour more and and he kept trying really hard to push more out. It was so funny!! Leave it to my cute little monster to brighten my day!!

Here are some day brightening pics:

I came out of the bathroom from getting ready and Hunter had got up to the computer and managed to get a help screen up, ours doesn't have the paperclip, it has a dog... I'm sure you can tell he thought that dog was pretty cool, he even kissed him!

He has finally decided that some movies are really fun to watch (pretty much just Cars)... for about a half hour. And for some reason he has decided that it is really fun to cart his Bumbo around everywhere. Here he is watching Cars on our bed, he's a cowboy today!

He never liked this seat when he was a baby, but for some reason anytime he is in his room he turns the vibration and music on and has to sit in it for a few minutes. He totally doesn't fit we just have it here for somewhere to put it! Also those jammies are "THE" jammies, this is the middle of the day and he does have actual clothes on underneath but when I took his jammies of he had a come apart and wanted them back on, so I put them back on over his clothes hoping he would let me take them off later... Later finally came when it was night and Ben took them off right before dinner! He has since then pulled them out of the dirty clothes hamper and insisted on wearing them again! So funny! I just love him!

Oil

Oh wow... yesterday was fun....or not. Ben was gone with a friend so me and Hunter were just hanging out last night. I decided to make a frozen pizza for dinner, it's quick and easy and sadly enough I could totally eat frozen pizza every day! Hunter was getting kind of tired and grumpy so I opened the garage door and let him go out there and play, he has a thing with cars and could stay out there all day just trying to open the car doors. I was inside cleaning the kitchen counters which is just a few steps away from our garage door which I had open so I could hear him. I looked on the oven timer and there was about 2 min left so I decided I better get Hunter inside, I turn towards the garage and there he is just coming inside. When I see him I start laughing so hard cuz he has a bucket on his head and is running into the walls. My laughter stopped pretty quick when I took the bucket off his head and this is what I found:


Apparently Ben uses this bucket when changing the oil in the car, and last time he cleaned it out you can tell not all of it came out. Hunter was crying only because I was making him hold still for the pic, he didn't care at all the oil was all over him. I started to take his shirt off then of course had to take a quick picture, so sorry it's so fuzzy these were all on my phone since I was in a hurry to get him cleaned.


Here he is in the bath... now he finally was realizing that the oil was not so fun. I ended up having to use dish soap to really get it off of him, and by the end of the bath the water was brown.


Here is my tub afterwards. The toy phone ended up getting thrown away since it was so stinky. And I promise my tubs actual color is white. After his bath I just left him in his diaper and we went and ate our now cold pizza. While he was finishing his pizza I cleaned the tub to sparkling white again. But I could tell I hadn't gotten it all out of his hair, so after dinner he went in the bath again (by this time Ben had gotten home and gave him his second bath), which ended up leaving another brown ring around my tub... definitely not as bad as the first time though.


So I had cleaned up all his little greasy foot prints on my floor while he was eating, then this morning when we headed to church I noticed my wall where he had bumped into it. Luckily I have some good cleaner that took it off pretty easy.


I had originally thought that the bucket had been by the stairs into the house until I went to get into the car to go to church. Here our some cute little footprints (he had white socks on that are now brown.)


Following the trail of footprints I found where he had originally been with the oil. Notice he decided it needed to go on the wall too, probably similar thoughts were going through his head as when he decided to write on my walls with pen wall I was in the shower... in 4 different places.

This picture I had to put just to remind everyone of how cute and blond he really is. He looks so innocent... who would have every thought he had it in him.

Internet...is it really worth it???

We have finally gotten internet at our house! It has been a huge pain, first they came to set it up at the beginning of the month and we found out that for some odd reason when all our other electrical wires were run our one for internet wasn't. So Ben ended up having to dig a trench so they could come lay the wire... when the first guy came to lay the wire he apparently put in someone else's trench. I think he thought we were just building our house or something, we have a neighbor building a house right now so I'm guessing they probably got the wire in one of their trenches. Luckily when the other guy came to turn the connection on he had wire on his truck and laid it at the same time. After that we still couldn't get the internet to work inside... after me struggling to figure it out I finally sucked up my pride and called technical support. It turned out we bought the wrong kind of modem, which we can't find the receipt to so they won't let us return or exchange it...bummer! Last night we went and bought the right kind of modem.... and it still wouldn't work, so I ended up having to call technical support again! Which was a total waste of time, after being on the phone doing a bunch of stuff to my computer for 45 minutes the tech told me our computer was broken and I needed to take it in. His reasoning for it was that our IP address wasn't showing up, which I was really mad about because it had showed up the day before when we had the wrong modem, after 45 min I was too annoyed to argue so just said thanks and I would get it fixed. I was telling Ben about it and told him that I thought there was a problem with our ethernet connection cuz on the 1st modem I couldn't get it to work with that I had to do the USB. He of course stated the obvious solution... to hook the new one up with the USB. Since it didn't come with a USB cable I hadn't even noticed the new one had that option! So this morning I took the USB cable from the 1st modem and used it to hook up this one... and wouldn't you know it it worked!!!! So in the end after several hours of frustration and buying a $65.00 modem just to use the USB cable out of it's box since no one would take it back, we finally have internet! It better be worth it!! Now that we finally have internet at home I hope to keep this more up to date, I have some really cute pics of Hunter that I have been wanting to post, so look for those in the future... today I think I need a rest from the computer!

Still the Same!

So we are pretty much doing all the same things, not much has changed, Hunter just keeps getting bigger and bigger it's crazy!! I did just get a newish calling today, I was already called to nursery but they just released Bro Mangum who was in charge of nursery and they had me replace him. It's kind of exciting I'm guessing that means that I will be staying in nursery for a while, which I'm excited about... Lessons are just so much easier in nursery and you get to play with toys and have snacks!! Since the new year all the kids still in nursery are so little that the couple of them that can talk you can barely understand so we are lucky if lesson time lasts 5 minutes!! It's so fun!

This weekend my parents, Brandi and me went up to watch Kira dance at state dance competition. She did awesome! They took 3rd overall! We wanted to do something special for her since it's her senior year, so we thought flowers would be a good idea... But flowers wilt so fast that we decided to make our own flowers! Here they are:

They are the best flowers every! There are 2 shirts, a dance hat, flip flop slippers, suckers, and several bracelets to hold it all together!! They didn't look like flowers as much as we had hoped but they were still pretty cute!


We got some stickers in the mail which I'm sure just about everybody did, but they ended up entertaining Hunter for so long, it was awesome! He first was putting them on another paper until I put one on his forehead and I guess he thought that was what he was supposed to do with them cuz then he just kept putting more and more on! This is after several fell off, at one point he even had a couple over his eye! It was hilarious!

Her are the crazy kids! Every Wednesday I get to go help Brandi by watching her kids while she helps in her older two boys classes at school. Hunter loves being over there and loves all her kids! They are so good to him too! He is pretty much just part of the family over there since Brandi watches Hunter quite often for me when I go to work, (He also gets to go over to Jaylene's, Joslyn's and Morgan's quite often too. I don't know what I would do with out all of you helping me so much!!)

Still no internet!!

Well we still don't have the internet, but it has been so long since I have posted that I decided I better used my in-laws interenet cause Hunter is getting HUGE!! Nothing much in our life's have changed, we are both still working and trying to be parents. We are both playing softball and they happen to be on the same night this season so we usually spend our entire thursday night at the fields, but we both love it!! I am back on the schedule at work which has been fun, it is a lot funner to work with the other girls than to be there by myself, and I'm still just part time so I still get to be with Hunter most of the morning. Now that hunting season is around Ben has gotten a few more deer to mount so that's good! Well enough about me and Ben, the real star of the show is Hunter!! He now has 8 teeth, and is right on track with his weight and height!! He still isn't walking but it's not slowing him down at all!! Here's the proof:

Here his is inside one of our cupboards!!

Here he is in the shelf part of our table.

In the fridge!!!

On his birthday with his new car!

And just being a cheeseball!!