Ok so it's been a good 3 months since I have updated this thing which officially makes me the worst blogger ever! I don't know why it's been so difficult for me (maybe it's because I wait too long and then have to post the past 3 months at once). Anyway, I will try my hardest to catch up...
First thing first...our Christmas break trips. Todd and I had a wonderful Christmas break. We did NO homework and basically played for 3 weeks straight. We spent our first week in Connecticut visiting the family that I nannied for for 5 years. It was great! The kids are getting so big . Here are some of the pics.
Todd, Nate (6), and Ewan (10) at Applebees. Don't mind the french fry up Nate's nose.
Me, Chloe(6), and Luca (8). We had lunch together before going to play glow-in-the-dark mini golf.
Chloe doing her best Rudolph the Red-nose Reindeer impression.
I drug Todd to the Toys-R-Us in Time Square. Normally it's super fun but I didn't take into account the fact that it was 3 days before Christmas. It was an absolute nightmare. There were hundreds of people there. Anyway, this is us in front of the Lego Statue of Liberty.
I couldn't figure out how to rotate this picture...sorry :)
This is us at the top of Rockerfeller Center. (That's the Empire State Building right next to Todd's head). I had never been up to the top during the winter and now I know why...it was so cold!
Next some pics of our cruise! We had tons of fun and it was great to get to spend time with Heidi and Jason. One funny little story about the trip... We were driving to San Diego the night before our cruise. About 20 miles away from our hotel in California I suddenly had a terrible feeling that we had forgotten something. We had left Todd's passport!!!! After some frantic calls to the cruise line, we were convinced that Todd and I would be waving to Heidi and Jason as they sailed off. It was a pretty tense night. Luckily, Todd's dad was able to figure out a way to get the passport to us on one of the morning flights from Poky to San Diego. It was so stressful because we didn't know for sure that we would be able to go until about 30 minutes before. We were so grateful to be able to go and next time we will check for BOTH of our passports before we leave the house :)
Catalina Island from the ship
Todd and I on the mini golf course on the ship. In case you were wondering, mini golf on a swaying cruise ship isn't the best combination. It was really hard!
Instead of paying for an excursion on Catalina, we hiked up the hill behind the city. This was the view from the top.
This is Jason in Ensenada. We thought he was just playing around but he ended up actually buying that Browns poncho. He definitely made our trip very entertaining.Now it's March and school is back in full swing. I am busy doing clinicals, doing loads of homework, trying to work some, and trying to keep up with church callings. It's been pretty crazy. Todd has been just as busy with school and work and he just started teaching seminary this past week. I don't know why we try and do so many things but hopefully we'll get through these next couple of months and be able to breathe again once school is over. Wish us luck!!
