The Cruise

Ok, don't friek out! But yes, I am blogging!  Chad & I went on a cruise back in March, and it seems so long ago now, we already want to go again.  So I was looking at the pictures and thought maybe I should share them, then maybe it will feel like we just went :)

 This was our cruise ship, it was Norweigen

 St. Maarten, our favorite stop

 I had to have my hair braided, 1st stop.  It makes it so much easier the rest of the trip

 Taxis in St. Maarten

How some of them sale their wears

 In honor of Swamp People we had to stop at the Everglades National Park so get in some gator action, what you can't see is that guy has an alligator tattoo all up his arm

 Alligators are very lazy animals, unlike how they are portrayed on TV

They had an ice bar on the cruise ship where they served drinks (even non-alcoholic) in an ice cup, you couldn't stay in there for longer than 1/2 hr, and you had to wear parkas and sit on ice benches.  Something with the humitidity, this pic was obviously before the hair braiding.

 Just like the rumors we'd heard, the room attendants made animals out of towels. And of course you could buy the DVD on How-To make them for 1/2 a million dollars

 A little bowling on the ship, which was hilarious. We weren't even drunk like 1/2 of them and it was still hard to do while the floor was moving.

 Snorkel trip on St. Thomas

This is the 'mall' at St. Thomas, the best little restaraunt was down here 

 Ahhh....the bahamas.....

Miami

Random Pictures/Year in Review

My 1st sewing project in a long time, turned out cute though

Chase loves it when Bridger gets to watch cartoons with him, and Bridger just loves being held & snuggled

Can't tell by the look on his face, but he does love having a bath.

Big brother helping give Bridger his 1st bath

Bridger hanging out on moms bed

1st camping trip with Bridger, he's under there somewhere

His letters in his room, makes me want to re-do Chase's

Happy Halloween!

What you can't see is Chase is wearing his swimsuit

Climbing grandpa's tree

One of the benefits of having Dr. appts in Utah so often, was being able to go to the cabin a lot more than we normally do. Chase loves shooting his BB gun, and if you ask, he will tell you its his gun that his daddy used to use when he was a wittle kid

Preschool end of year program, I won't say graduation because he still has another year

Momma bird laid 4 eggs in our wreath this spring, yes on our front door

Playing T-ball this year, he said his favorite part was hanging out in the dugout. Once he comes out of his little "shell" he is quite social

Soccer

All my huntin boys

Daddy & Chase with dad's cool turkey

We are constantly playing cowboy

Bridger's Baby Blessing

The man of the hour :) I think he looks sooo much like Chad.

Our new little family picture, corn stalks & apple trees make for a great background!

I wanted a picture like this since Bridger was born. I love how Chase put his finger over his brother's hand, he is already protective.

I didn't love that Chad was wearing his watch, but loved Bridger's hand perfectly holding mine

Grandpa always loves pictures with his grandkids, this was at the end of the photo shoot and they were running out of patience.

Wright side of the family

Marrott side of the family

Loving on his brother, what he does best!

Hard for 4 year olds to keep their eyes closed unless they are sleeping

Cousins lovin on their new baby cousin

Best buds, remind me why we live so far apart??

Bridger Wright Marrott

Bridger Wright Marrott

Born July 22, 2011

7 lbs 2 oz

The super proud and loving big brother

Happy #4 Mr. Chase

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY CHASE

Chase had a wonderful birthday that seemed to last a week rather than a day (that is kind of my unwritten rule...) We are sooo happy & grateful Chase chose to come to our family & don't know what we would do without his sweet personality in our home. He is so caring & loving, & melts my heart every time he smiles. I tell him almost every day I'm going to quit feeding him so he will STOP growing up on me! :) But he promises he will still love me when he gets older...can I get that in writing with blood?

Chase wanted to have his birthday party with his cousins in Utah at Pirate Island. He was counting down they days to his birthday & the days until his party...he was surrounded by loved ones that share his same taste in rip off games for cheap crap. But they all had lots of tickets and won plenty of prizes so I guess it was a hit!

Don't ask me how long this took to make, but Uncle Shaun & I must sure love this little birthday boy to spend all day decorating something that would be devoured in 10 mins. He was so excited and all the cousins playing in & out of the house all day were pretty excited to help eat his cake & share this special day with our little Chase :) And yes, it was homemade and we were very proud of it :)

Chase got to pick where he got to go to dinner...besides McDonalds he loves to go to the popcorn place (wingers) and had a free kids meal for his birthday. When they asked him if he wanted them to bring out the hat & sing & do the whole song & dance he immediately nodded....he was so excited until a few minutes later he & his dad both had severe remorse when they heard them start singing & clapping from the kitchen. He didn't want to wear the hat (how many people have worn that nasty thing anyway) and he basically hid behind ME the whole song. Atleast I got to eat the free dessert :)

We had a few friends over to celebrate by decorating cupcakes

The birthday hat they get to wear at school

How can you play baseball without a mitt mom? Because I'm waiting to give it to you for your birthday. We signed him up for T-ball recently and he was hoping he could play that day. For months whenever you asked Chase what he wanted for his birthday he would say, "a new piggy bank" What 4 yr old puts that 1st on his wishlist??

It was Chase's special "Day to Shine" at school so I of course hung out with him the whole day. He got to bring his favorite treat (chocolate chip cookies) his favorite toy (Bakugans, which btw was an early bday present from cousins), his favorite book (Jack's House), pictures of his family & a special pet, which of course he had to bring Buster & he was of course a hit! :)

How could it be a bad day when his face started out like this? And yes it was 6:00 a.m. before Dad left for work. He really really really didn't want to wait any longer until he opened his presents :)

For Aunt Trish

Chase may be the only one that LOVES to watch this, but if you can't tell we were playing Catch Phrase & he just had to be a part of it...