Mexican Rivera Cruise 2011

I was able to go on a wonderful 7 day cruise this year with my amazing family. This year was a little different, the whole family came! :) For Christmas we all got offered a 7 day cruise as long as we paid for our flight. We had a great time. We visited Cabo San Lucas twice and Puerto Vallarta. Here are some pictures from the trip!
On our way to the ship.... on the ship
Our first formal night on the ship... :) I bought that dress two nights before at Ross.Our first night out at the comedy club.

Our first day in Cabo - We started off by taking a taxi boat around to see some sights and then getting dropped off at a beach to hang out for a couple hours.
Kayli, Valerie and I - Hanging out on the beach in Cabo

Me, Kayli and Valerie hanging out on the beach. That's Carter doing some paddling in the water.

That night at dinner. :)

Kayli & I goofing off at the comedy club.

This is our second day in Cabo. We started the day off by splitting up in groups. Randy, Cindy, Carter and Skylar went deep sea fishing, while Kayli, Me, Blake, Valerie and Bronx had fun exploring Cabo. We started off at the Dolphin Encounter. We watch people feed them and play with them and swim with them! We weren't able to take any pictures but still had a good time. After the encounter we walked around until we found a place to have some lunch. Here we are above having lunch together. The food was really good and so was the atmosphere. :)

Yes - That is a real baby lion. After lunch we walked around, did a lot of sight seeing and shopping. They had a small booth with a baby lion. For $25.00 three people could hold the lion and take pictures. Kinda cool huh! Above is Kayli and I at the Cabo Wabo Cantina. Its a famous restaurant owned by a famous guy....Sammy Hagar of Van Halen.

The next day we were in Puarto Vellarta. Here we are getting all geared up to do the zip line canopy tours. This was mine and Kayli's second time doing something like this but Blake, Val's and Skylar's first. This tour was so much fun!!

Some fun pictures during the tour.

After the tour we had some fun in the city. Here is me and Bronx at the monkey place where Skylar and Kayli held and fed a monkey. The man above is name Jorge and he paints pictures but in a very unique way. He only uses his fingers. He is so talented and paints such beautiful pictures.

Me and Kayli

Our last formal dining. The whole family! We had some really great waiters and of course we had to get a picture with them. Please excuse the face that I am very red. :)

Randy & Cindy - Three of the ladies. Again excuse that I am red - Actually pink.The rest of the cruise we all just had a great time with each other. We laid out, played games, went to shows and Kayli and I slept like we hadn't for weeks! I am so grateful and blessed to have all of these people in my life. Thank you guys! Love you all!

Saying goodbye....

The Wheat family had a German exchange student staying with them for three weeks. They had this planned way before the idea of me living with them had come up and the day she came was the day I moved in :) Her name is Nadja. She is 16 and now just like a sister to us all!! While here in Utah; Nadja got to site see, experiance the LDS Church (she is catholic) have three sisters, ride and drive a four wheeler, get glitter toes, a night in Park City and totally loved from a great family! It was so hard to have her leave when she did, she is missed so much!! She was such a sweet and very funny girl! Here are a few pictures from her being here.

Hot tubing in Park City, relaxing at the Sand Dunes, Hanging out at the Dunes...

So a quick story, Lisa made German pancakes for breakfast one day because Nadja was here and when Lisa told her that's what they were Nadja started to laugh and said this is not German pancakes so.... one day Nadja made us real German pancakes and they were oh so good! Very different from ours :) Anyways.... so she has never had american pancakes so the night before she had to leave we all went out at 10:30 to Village in to get american pancakes and have one last get together with her. Here are some pictures from that....

Happy Birthday Michaela

My little sister Michaela turned 19! To celebrate we went to Park City overnight. Michaela invited our cousin Jessica, Maddi (one of the girls I live with) and Nadja who is a foreign exchange student from Germany staying with us. We stayed at Randy & Cindy's Deer Valley home. The girls loved it!! Nadja has really enjoyed the mountains, so to be right there in it was amazing for her. For dinner we went to Main Street Pizza & Noodle Co. then home to hot tub and watch a movie and in the morning everyone slept in, ate breakfast then of course we went to the Tanger Outlet Mall to do some SHOPPING!! :)



Here we are out to dinner. I did Nadja and Maddi's makeup.... I thought it looked really good, they even have fake eyelashes on! :)Jessica and Michaela in the hot tub....

Weekend in Meeker

My little sister Michaela, our little Chihuahua Maddixx and I went to Meeker, CO to visit with our oldest sister Brandy, her two kidlits and our mother. We left really late Friday night and ended up getting caught in a really bad snow storm. The storm was the long stretch from Heber City to Vernal... It wasn't fun at all.

After our scary and very long drive we finally made it to the small town of Meeker around 12:30am. I was so tired and also really anxious to get out of my car!

Saturday my sister Brandy had to work so my mom, Michaela, Ashlynn, Maddixx and I decided to head to a town called Craig about an hour from Meeker. My nephew Austin didn't want to come so he stayed with his friends and we had a nice little girls right, beside Maddixx. When we got to Craig we got lunch and then we took a tour around the town. I liked Craig a lot more than Meeker. There is seriously NOTHING to do in Meeker. Craig is a lot bigger and had much more to do. Craig is a small town but not nearly as small as Meeker. We headed back to my sisters and spent the rest of the night watching movies and hanging out. It was good to see my mom and nephew. Michaela and I both hadn't seen them in a while. It was a nice short trip and our drive back to Utah was very smooth.

Conference 2011

I attended the Sunday session of General Conference this year. It was my first time and pretty cool. I went with a good family, the Wheats. Here are a few pictures of me with Abbi, Maddi and Lucy. :)