CRUISE

We were so lucky to go on a Greek Isles cruise with my parents and Paul & Anna. We had a wonderful time and saw some absolutely amazing and beautiful places. Oh, and yes, we ate a lot of amazing food. Here is a tiny glimpse of the places we saw. I'll hopefully get around to making a mor indepth slideshow of our great vacation. And a word of gracious thanks to my sister, Becky and her husband, who so willingly watched our boys so we could go on this relaxing vacation.

One of my favorite things to do in Venice is just adore all the wornout, colorful side-canals with the bridges. Beautiful!! It's even better while eating Pistachio gelato!

The famouse, San Marco Square in Venice. Very Crouded!!!

Gondola ride (my favorite passtime of venice).

MMmmmm Italian pizza!!

Venice, after it DUMPPED rain on us for hours in the morning. We were all drenched! this is taken from Rialto bridge just as it began to clear up. I thought it was adventurous, although we don't look the best in the pictures because our of our damp, stretched out clothes and grose, wet hair.

The island of Corfu, Greece. It has some of the most beautiful veiws (unfortunately I didn't capture any real good ones when we were there to share). This was taken from a Palace there.

Overlooking the bay from Santorini (the Island if Thyre) Greece. This once was the top of a volcano, but now the crater has sunk and there a few small towns on top of this crescent-shaped cliff, and some smaller islands across the bay.

Taken from Santorini, Greece, probably my favorite place we went. It is absolutely beautiful there, atop an island cliff overlooking blue water and stark white buildings. Pretty windy, hot, yet the view was spectacular. I loved walking around small stone "streets" (more like paths) and see white on blue everywhere. It is quite a romantice place, if only we had seen the sun set there and been there in the evening! I loved it there.

Didymus, Turkey. The unfnished palace gave a us a feel of visiting Athens (since we didn't go there). It was so cool to see the work that went into these structures. Caleb's new favorite movie is Hercules, so it was fun to be around all the Greek Mythology and places where much of it took place.

Miletus, Turkey. This is an ancient theatre, not as big as the one in Ephesus, but older. Apparently some real important and neat ideas were announced/discussed here in councils. I couldn't understand our guide very well, so we need to brush up on our history of the place now that we've been there.

This is the Library in Ephesus. Amazing! There are a lot of ruins here to see.


Here in Ephesus, Jon took a seat on some of the oldest public toilets in the world with a plumbing system!


This is a shot from our moving bus of the beautiful Old Town in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This was a fascinating place to see, with a plaza fountain, palaces, monestary, white marble roads, and more in this fort built before Napolean took over. Oh, and the food we ate there was sooooo good.

Cruising around and through Venice.

Caleb's doing T-ball this spring. He likes hiting, running and throwing the ball, but get's so bored in the outfield (don't we all?). I love seeing him run with his little legs and the huge helmet.

At the condo in Midway

Dallin's always got crazy hair.

I built the boys a fort (Dallin's first) and they loved being in there together. (Of course Caleb wouldn't let Dallin leave and pounced on him each time and made him cry)

Dallin turned 1! He had chocolate cake (a first for both) and he LOVED it, as most kids do. He ate so carefully with his fingers. He was a joy to watch and not bad to clean up.

Hanging outside with dad, going on walks and doing yardwork are frequent occurances at our house, now that the weather is good. They all love it!

Tag

So, I figured that all tags should not end with me, so I'll finally do the other tags. I could never top either of my sisters', and these will be short, but here I go:

Three joys:

1- My boys are the joy of my life (all three)
2- Being in the mountains always makes me happy
3- The Gospel of Jesus Christ

Three Fears:

1-Losing one of my boys - Being a mom has definitely given me new and more fears.
2-Losing all of my eye-lashes -I think I've got my dad's hair genes, hence, this truly is my fear!
3-I've got a little aracnyphobia (those of you who know me know I'm not the best speller) - They freak me out no matter how small or big, how few or many, what color or where. I HATE SPIDERS.

Now for 7 things that most people probably don't know about me (this is a hard one):

1- I have a thing for gummy candy's
2- I oppted to forgo the Eiffle Tower for a delicious chocolate crepe (ok, I actually had two, and some ice-cream)!
3- I had 13 teeth pulled and had braces for 7 years, and I still don't have straight teeth.
4- I love to watercolor (really though, I love the end product and not-so-much doing it)
5- In my alternate life I'd love to run a bakery (I like to make baked goods - mostly just because I love to eat them). I have my share of ridiculous, night-time baking stories.
6- I used to love to do crunches (at least 800 a day). All for NOT/naught, after seeing how I carry when pregnant! Now I despise them.
7- I can eat an enitre large pizza if I wanted to. I usually hold back for my image, but especially Jon and my brother Jeff know it's possible.

[Man! Most of those were revolved around food. I'm sure there are lots more interesting these about me that I wouldn't mind sharing, but off the top of my head, this is all I could think of]

Tagged:

Yes, I've been tagged several times and have never done it (sorry). But for this OH NO! tag, it was only one thing, so I thought I'd start off with it. My Oh No moment isn't half as bad as others I've seen (thankfully I haven't had that many YET - I only have one toddler!). This photo is the aftermath a year later; I'm sad I didn't get one in the moment. I was upstairs making pancakes on a typical Saturday morning. Then, Jon and I noticed it was a little quiet (the sign most parents know is trouble). Jon went downstairs to check on Caleb and that's when I heard, "Uhh, HEIDI!!" I knew it was bad after that response! I ran downstairs to find Caleb COVERED with my bright red acrylic paint all over his clothes, the floor and the door. Luckily it was water-based acrylic, so it rinsed out right away from the clothes and off the door. I assumed we were lucky that our basement was (and sadly still is) unfinished, but the paint seeped into the cememt extremely fast and no matter how fast I scrubbed, I couldn't get it all off. I think if it were carpeted, then the paint would've come out easier. Now we get the beauty of red streaks on our basements floor. Thanks Caleb!

I now tag Jesika H., Jamie B., Ashley M. and Michelle N.

Caleb's birthday, and the McQueen cake he ended up wanting (I had a hunch that would happen). I didn't go all out on the cake and make fondant (maybe next year), but instead just made up my own way of doing it. The eyes were droopy, but at least it tasted good (that was the consensous). We stayed in Midway at my parent's condo because that is Caleb's favorite place and he wanted to be there for his birthday. Hey, it's free and easy!

Here are some favorite morning Dallin looks:

He's usually happy happy when he wakes up. Of course there are always the exceptions.

So, I've been lazy and haven't gone out and bought a wire/USB (whatever they're called) to get the pictures off our camera and onto our new computer. The laptop was so much easier! Anyway, now that Spring is finally and hopefully on it's way for real this time, and my boys aren't sick, I'll get out and buy one. Then I'll put some updated pics up. As you can see, I use this mainly to put up photos and not to write, so our site looks neglected. But rest assured, I've been checking all of yours! Our cameras card is full too, so I don't have tons of recent ones either. Soon . . . soon!

Oh, Happy upcoming Easter!