PARTY!

Well, Dan and I were invited to his bosses 60th birthday party. So we got all gussied up and went to New York last night!!

Here we are leaving our house, yes Dan is wearing a tux, last time he wore one was for our wedding!! We rode a shuttle bus that was chartered for the party, it took us from the corporate office to downtown. The party was on the top floor of the St. Regis Hotel!

Here we are on the top floor "mingling" before dinner, if you look to the far right of the picture, all those trees are central park!

Here is the other pilot that Dan works with, Torrey and his wife Barbara. They flew in from Canada to party with us!

And Rob, the mechanic on the airplane, and his wife Laurie! They braved the shuttle bus with us!

We were all siting together at table eight, we ate in the ball room and there was dancing in between our 4 course meal (I counted dessert as one course even though there were 5 desserts)!!!
Here is our table marker and our menu for the evening!!
Here is a shot of the ballroom, it was beautifully decorated in blue, my favorite!
Here was one of my desserts, VERY yummy! It is "Almond Tuile Filled with Fresh Berries and Miniature Fruit Sorbets", the sorbet was frozen in shapes of fruit with little plastic leaves and stems! Too cute!

We sang happy birthday and danced a bit and then said farewell and jumped on the shuttle bus as it began to rain! The whole ride home (3 hours instead of 1.5) we watched the lightning crashing, and dropped into bed at 4am!!

We also got a little goody bag on our way out, I love the flower arrangement they tied to the bag, it was a little bag that looks like a Dr.'s bag with some of his products and one of his books, so I guess I'll see what he has to say, and maybe I will look fabulously younger too!

* I purposely did not mention Dan's bosses name as I do not think it is appropriate on the Internet, so those of you who know please do not post it! :) Thanks!

Monday, our last full day!

Not too many pictures today, I took a million on this day but they are all the beach, my kids on the beach, and the sunset... so I'll just show you a couple! :)

Beautiful Fern!!

Curious Riley!
Sweet Jake!
Here was our view from dinner Monday night, right on the beach!!
I took a million shots of the sunset trying to get a great one, these couple came out well!

This is what I will watch everyday I am snowed in this winter, I love the sound. Now if I could only import the smell! :)

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I am going to load the fun pictures from Dan's and my night out last night so come back later!! :)

Sunday!

Unfortunately there is no ward or branch on the island, so we could not go to church. Weird to be in a place without the church! :) So we had a relaxing day by the beach! Riley was interested when we told him Dan and I had gone kayaking, so we got a kayak again, here is Dan and Riley out having fun!
Aren't they cute!!
Jake had to be coaxed a little but he had a great time, I think he enjoyed it even more than Riley!
Fern was super grumpy, but I tried to get a shot of her on it anyway! :)
Here is Dan and I recreating our trip, don't worry we did not leave the kids and paddle away!
Look how clear the water is! That shell was probably in 6 inches of water!
Then the three of them went out for a while!
After the beach we had to stall a bit as the maid was still trying to get all the sand out of our room! There was always tons, now I know why my Grandma was so insistent on hosing us off before we came into the house! :)
So Riley discovered he could get himself into the tree, he was very proud!


When Fern wanted to get up Riley was super big brother and lifted her up there!!
Then I helped Jake and I got a too cute picture of my monkeys!!
I just thought this was too sweet of Fern!
Like the cool lizard we found on the way to dinner!!
Before dinner we got all gussied up and had family pictures taken on the beach by one of the photographers at the resort! It was our big splurge!

On our way to dinner we decided to watch the Sesame Street stage show, Fern really likes them. Here is Fern waving bye to Zoey at the end. This is as close as she willingly gets! :)

Two more days to show you, Plus a couple extras! Then we will be back to regular life, kind of! :)

Friday & Saturday in the Caribbean!

Back to vacation pictures! I told you all I took a lot of pictures, and this is the abbreviated version!! :) Friday was pirate day at the kids camps so we got up and headed off to drop the kids off! Here is Fern all ready to go!
So Dan and I had a little alone time, what's that you ask? Yea we are still trying to figure that out! :) We walked down the beach to a little area where some of the "belongers" sell things. We got caught in a big down pour, so by the time we got back to the resort we were completely drenched like we had gone swimming in our clothes!!
When I went to get Fern this is what I found! Too sweet, so I let her stay and sleep for a bit. The boys kept asking where Fern was! :) After we played for a bit and fed the kids dinner we took them back to their camps...
And went out to dinner!!! Fancy, fancy!! We went to an Oriental restaurant where they cook your food on the grill in the table. They made a special tofu/veggie dish for me! YUMMMMM!!

That was the end of Friday night, when we picked Riley up he was dressed like a pirate! I forgot my camera but there is supposedly a picture on his disposable camera so we will see when we get those back! :)
Saturday we headed out early to the beach and spent all morning there! We took a beak to go to a "family tie-dye" activity, too bad I did not bring shirts for Dan and I. But here are the kids shirts, Riley's is the one on top with all the red, Jake's on the right with the blue in the middle, and Fern's on bottom with mostly purple and a little pink (yes Riley's red and Fern's pink are the same color but don't mention that to ether of them)!!!
After tie-dying we grabbed a couple pizzas and headed back to our little cabana! After a little more swimming this was what Fern was up for. What better place to nap, plus then we could all stay and play longer instead of Dan or I sitting in the room (getting eaten by mosquito's, I got 16 bites)!!
Here's what the boys did with their time! Me, well I swam and then just relaxed on the lounge chair!
After the beach we got cleaned up and went to dinner, then we walked back down to the beach for the sunset! Look at my sweets!!
Riley's getting pretty good with the camera! (yes I know mom, sit up. Oh well!)
The kids were excited to see the familiar moon, I guess we just take it for granted. It made Fern's night!! :)

Just a few more to go! :)

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

To Dan...
And Daddy...
And Dad...
And Ryan!!

Happy Father's Day, we love you all!!

Just Another Day at the Beach!

On our way to the beach... again!
My sweet water babes!

When ever Jake looked up Riley looked down, and vice versa!
Sweet Fern loved playing in the sand and...
Standing in the water! Look how clear the water is, it was amazing!!

It was sunny there on the beach, but over off the coast we could see a little rain storm and see it raining off in the water. That was always one of my favorite things to see at my Grandma's, it raining out at sea but not there on the shore!
Can you see the cute little sand hand on Dan's shoulder?! Too cute!!
Beautiful girl!
I painted her finger and toe nails for the trip, and my toe nails too!
Lots of fun!!

Fern is just happy to play in the sand, until huge gigantic waves pound her! :)

Jake LOVED his duck feet!

Here they are in action!
The view from my lounging place!
The other view, Fern was cold (it was really hot), and the sun was sunny so here she is wrapped up with two towels with her sunhat and mine on! :)
Why does Dad build sand castles? So the kids can jump on them of course! I may never understand these boys!
There were TONS of lizards around the resort, here is one on our balcony!

There is still more to come!!!