Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving I am especially grateful for two things. One, is the gospel. I am so grateful for it in my life and the knowledge it gives me. Over the past year and a half I have lost my Grandpa, Great Grandma, and my friend Rachael, all people I miss and love dearly. I am so grateful to know that this mortal life is not then end. I don't know what I would do without this gospel in my life, it is because of the gospel and the knowledge I have that has helped me get through so many hard times in my life.

Second, I am grateful for memories. There have been so many wonderful memories made with my family growing up as a child, and so many memories I have from BYU-I. I just wish I could remember everything!!! But unfortunately memories fade through out time.

Well as many of you know, I got to spend this last week with my ENTIRE family and Grandma in the Caribbean, and I enjoyed every second of it!!!

Saturday: We boarded the ship and left port at 5pm
Sunday: Was a day at sea
Monday: Missed our Port and Turks and Kaicos because of bad weather, so it was another day at sea.
Tuesday:Spent the day in San Juan touring the old forts there
Wednesday: Went Scuba Diving in St. Thomas
Thursday: Day at Sea
Friday: Had a fun day on Holland America's private Island Half Moon Cay, it's part of the Bahamas, spent the day swimming in crystal clear water looking for sand dollars and sea shells, played some basketball and beach volleyball!
Saturday: Arrived back in Fort Lauderdale and arrived home in Atlanta at 10pm

Oh what a wonderful week it was! Here are some pictures, I don't have too many, my Mom has more, so be checking her blog out for more updates.

First Formal Night
Bugs!

Getting ready for some Name that Tune with DJ Glen

We visited some old Spanish forts in San Juan

Pool Games, Me and Ryan's team won!! ...of course

Kyle and Casey's team lost

Ryan, Kyle and Casey participated in the sexy leg contest, Ryan's friend won.

There they are sturtin' their stuff

Ryan, Kyle and Casey

We met Ryan on the Cruise, he just returned for his mission 2 months ago from Baltimore, and well...what can I say, we hung out till the wee hours of the morning every night...we had a lot of fun!

Me and Ryan's Team...who won! Got free drinks too! (smoothies)

There goes Kyle

and here I go

This was our Synchronized swimming routine that we came up with in 2 mins.

On our way to Half Moon Cay

Here are our 2 hundred and 80 some odd dam dollars!

San Juan

San Juan

Bugs and Grandpa

Bugs and Grandma

Second Formal Night was on Thanksgiving, Ryan joined us for dinner

Bugs likes to clap, she's really good at it, and it's so cute.

Ummm...just a random picture of me and Katie

There she is clapping again

Me and Ryan on Half Moon Cay in line for lunch And me and Momma

Great-Grandma and Bugs

I wish I could stay here for ever!!!

I had never played beach volleyball till last week, and it was so much fun!

Ya that's right, we're hott

I am pretty sure there's a lot more than 9 plates there...

Between Casey and Dad they ordered 7 deserts in one night

Baked Alaska, it was really good

So Ryan ordered a Salad, and this is what he got, a half of a tomato with stuff growing out of it...

Me and Ryan matched, and totally didn't plan it

These are the T-Shirts and Sweat Shirts we got with our dam dollars...

Isn't she so cute

So the last night me Ryan and Casey went out to the front of the boat at like 12am, and we were in the middle of the caribbean, it was pitch black, and I have never seen so many stars in my entire life, it was increadible. And to top that off we saw a dozen or more shooting stars, either shoting stars happen more often than we think, or it was just a really good night to see them.