Cruisin'

The beautiful Ruby Princess!
We just returned from a 10 day Caribbean cruise!

It was a last minute thing, we literally packed up in 2 hours and caught a plane headed south!

We dropped Hannah off in Lousiana to play with her cousins for the week. As you can see she didn't miss us too much.
Then we headed to Ft. Lauderdale to catch our ship. However, we missed the ship because we got stuck in a snow "storm" in Memphis, TN. Yes crazy huh! It snowed for about 5 mins then turned into rain but that shut the whole airport down. Ugh don't even get me started...But we were able to fly to St. Thomas (at our own expense) to meet the ship. We made lemonaide out of the lemons we were dealt.

In St. Thomas we stayed at a little B&B called the Galleon House it was a very clean and cute little place! We did a little sight seeing in St. Thomas but is was a pretty populated island so the next morning we hopped a ferry to St. John. We loved that island. Most of it is federal park land so only about 500 people live on the island. We rented a tent and camped at Cinnamon Bay! Check out their website and you can hear what it sounded like at night :) It was so much fun!
Also while in St. John we hiked the Reef Bay trail which was beautiful. Ruins...
Old Sugar Mill

The beach! We had the entire thing to ourselves all day!!!

The next morning we drove around the island in our rented jeep. It is such a beautiful island I can't wait to go back. The beaches are pristine and the water is perfect for swimming & snorkeling. I told Jeremy I wanted to move to that island!! Can't I trade one island for another?? Instead of bears and deer they have wild chickens, donkeys and goats all over the place :) After that we caught the ferry back to St. Thomas and boarded our ship!

The next port of call was St. Kitts where we did the St. Kitts Volcano Hike of a lifetime!

Yes I actually hiked to the top of that mountain, Mt Liamuiga ! It was about 6 miles round-trip with an over 3,700 ft elevation gain! Killer hike but definitely worth it. This was not your everyday cruiseship excursion this was intense, the kind of hiking Jeremy does when he is deer hunting!

This was the trail! You literally are crawling through roots and scrambling over rocks. Quite a hike!Neat trees! It is a cotton silk tree. Their trunks help catch the water! Pretty amazing! At the top looking down into the crater of the volcano! Pretty amazing view from up there! Our guide O'Neil! This guys is 58 years old, has 9 kids and does this killer hike 1-2 times a day!! I think he will live to be over a 100! He was amazing. He set this killer pace but did stop every so often to tell us all about the flora & fauna. He knows his stuff!

Well that is all for now! I will post some more from our trip as I get time!!

Merry Christmas

I know it has been FOREVER since I last updated. For that I apologize. Jeremy & I have both been out of town for work but now we are all home! So now I have time to finally update you with some recent photos!

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and pray God blesses your New Year!

Hannah in front of our Christmas tree!

Hannah & her Daddy-O opening a present on Christmas Eve!

The next couple of pictures are from when Hannah visited Hunter Clause (our friend Hunter pretended to be Santa Clause) during story time at the library. As soon as Hunter walked in the room Hannah ran straight to him, gave him a big hug and said, "Hi Santa Clause." It was really cute, she was not the least bit afraid. She was really excited when he gave her a candy cane! We don't do the whole Santa thing but it was fun! The library also had a fun craft time where the kids made Christmas ornaments

The doll in her hand is her favorite Cinderella doll at the library!

Craft time! Hannah made her first Christmas ornament!

Our friends Sarah (mom), Maya (left) and Sophie (right)!

Hannah & Sophie are about 1.5 months apart and just LOVE each other! Maya & Hannah are so alike they too are best buddies! We are so blessed to have such great friends!

Happy Hannah Turned Two!

Hannah & Daddy already for church! She LOVES to wear dresses and twirl.

Thank you Grandma Rita for this beautiful dress!

We are a little late posting but here are some pictures of our birthday girl! October 6th was the big day!

I can't believe she is already two! In the background is her doll house she got her birthday! Thank you Grandma Sherrie!

She still loves her rabbit, Abby! Abby's favorite snack is bannanas and Hannah LOVES feeding them to her. They are great pals!

I also updated our YouTube with some old & new videos. A couple of them are from wayyyy back in March. Hannah talks a LOT better now!

Daddy's Girl

Back when the sun was shining in Ketchikan we took Hannah camping & fishing!

She LOVED it! It was a LOT of work for me but we sure had a great time! Here are some pictures from the glorious event!

Her first fish! A silver salmon! She was holding the pole when it hit!

Her bait fish she carried around the ENTIRE fishing trip!

Fish blood face!

Trying to get more bait fish!
Playing with her Silver!

More Hannah videos!

I posted some more Hannah videos on my Youtube! So all can get their Hannah fix! She is talking so good now. She can repete pretty much anything you say. Yesterday it was dalmatian! She thought it was cool she could say dal-ma-tion! So she kept saying it over & over again. "Hey Mommy! DalMATion!!!" Super cute! We are so very blessed!

House Updates for Jasen!

Our friend Jasen rarely leaves messages on our blog but

the other day he left one asking to see updates on our house!

So Jasen this post if especially for you!!!

Front of the house - ocean side! Window's on bottom are covered with tyvek for now!

Water tank house & front!

More of the front - ocean side

Side where the water tank use to be. Now is apartment entrance!

Left side of the house - where the apartment/in-laws quarters will be!

Watch for more!!!

House Updates

Here are a couple pictures of our house.

I took these two weeks ago when it was nice. Jeremy has done a lot more since then! He has the 2nd floor & the roof on! It is coming along thankfully! I would post some more picures but I am scared to go outside. It is blowing 50mph and raining!

20 Months of Joy

Hannah is now 20 months old! How did this happen so fast? In 4 short months my little baby will be 2 years old! It seems like just yesterday I was posting her newborn pictures, now here are some of her at 20 months!

Last night Jeremy was working on the roof (pictures to come later). Hannah wanted to play with her dad so she was standing at the door yelling up at him. "Daddy, COME! Daddy COME!." Well he just smiled & waved. So she proceeded to yell, "Daddy COME!!!!" some more. He didn't come. So then she said, "Daddy Listen! Daddy Come!" I almost fell over laughing!
Daddy stopped what he was doing & came!
Hannah still loves her rabbit, I am not sure the rabbit still loves Hannah!