At the beginning of the year, our Bishopric told us of our ward goals for this year and one of them was to plant a garden. It’s been fun to work towards that goal and see how amazing that process is. I can’t wait until we can try some cucumbers, bell peppers, butternut squash, tomatoes and cantaloupe!

Lindsay made an omelet and cinnamon rolls. She didn’t want to eat the omelet, but she sure was excited for those cinnamon rolls!
Stirring her egg with milk.

Adding her olives, ham and cheese.



Rolling out her dough. She was actually really good at this and would turn the dough around so make it more circle-like.


Rubbing the butter and cinnamon sugar on with her fingers.


Finished products!


Logan made pizza roll-ups and chocolate dipped bananas.
His dough was stickier so he had a harder time rolling it out. We ended up having to pull it and work with it by hand. We finally got it.

Tomato sauce. I love his face in this picture.

Putting olives, ham, pepperoni and cheese on his pizza.





Tastes good!

Finished products!

So fun!

I would highly recommend Itty Bitty Ball to those of you with little people, especially boys. It was so fun!

We left on a red eye flight from Salt Lake on Friday, June 4th and got to our hotel in St. Thomas at about 2:00 p.m., after driving in our rental car on the wrong side of the road, which is what they do there. It’s amazing to me how weird that feels. I was constantly thinking we were in the wrong and panicking for split seconds at a time and then remembering we were okay. When we got to our hotel, we took like a half an hour nap and then went down to the beach to take in sight of St. Thomas. It was beautiful! I sometimes get frustrated trying to explain something as beautiful as this because I don’t feel like there are any right words to describe it and give it justice, but I mean look!

BEAUTIFUL! This was our view from our hotel room. Not too bad, right?

On our way to the pool one day, one of these ran right in front of me and scared me to death.



They had some sort of preserve in the middle of this resort and when you walked by it in the morning, you could easily see about 20 of these babies hanging around. I got used to them after a few days and stopped being surprised by them. They would wander all over the resort, even around the pool and pool chairs. Kind of cool!
Okay, here’s some pictures.
The pool with the ocean in the background.

Me getting ready to lounge by the pool and read my book. We did a lot of this and it was heavenly.

The fish that would swim around you in the ocean. Creepy but fun!


Out on a paddle boat.


This is what I did to my ankles on the second day of our trip. I was running up some marble steps, with jagged edges, in my flip flops and tripped and cut the crap out of my ankles. They hurt for the rest of the trip, but I didn’t let that stop me from having fun!

Dinner with Niki and Flavio. We’re lucky that our best friends got to be there with us. I think it made it more fun!

Underwater pictures! This was one of my favorite evenings of the whole trip! (Sorry Niki! I just have to!)








hahaha!


Flavio is the only person I know that can look that normal under water.


I seriously cannot look at these pictures without peeing my pants!


Brandi, Travis and Annie


Jeffy’s boss, Ken

The cute little cake that Sue got me from the restaurant there at the hotel. It was so yummy!

My birthday was amazing! We went out on a catamaran boat, the Lady Lynsey, all day long and went snorkeling, over to the British Virgin Islands to a place called Foxy’s for lunch, lounging on the boat, swimming, and hanging with friends. A person couldn’t ask for more on their birthday!






Paul, Jeff, Flavio, Ken holding Chris. They are all so fun!




They call this Two Butt Beach because it’s only big enough for two butts. I liked it.

This was Foxy. He was singing funny songs on his guitar while we were there, including a song about me and how funny it was that I was holding my flip flops in my hands and that the next time he saw me I’d probably be wearing gloves on my feet.

Foxy’s had all these t-shirts and flags hung up everywhere, so we decided to leave one of our Digishirts there and we all signed it. Pretty cool.

This was a pretty beach we just stopped at to swim called White Bay. It was beautiful as you can see. There was a bar there but we didn’t bother with that.


Yeah, we buried Jeff in the sand.



Birthday dinner at Amigos. It was really, really yummy and a lot of fun!

We went to a carnival one night down at Iggie’s and it was a blast!

A cool sign saying how far away everything is.


One day we went on a kayaking adventure and it was amazing! I could really get into kayaking. It’s hard work but at the same time so relaxing. We saw so many beautiful sights and learned so many things and got to go snorkeling again.


We came to this place where all this dead, washed up coral was and it was amazing. They get hard like rocks but still have the same kind of look as when they’re alive.

A sea star.

We stopped and had lunch at a place where there were hundreds of hermit crabs around. They told us to not throw any of our food away, just to throw it on the ground and the hermit crabs would come running for it, and run they did! It was amazing! They ate everything we had: banana peels, apple cores, lunch meat, Doritos. We only got a picture of one of the crabs, but just imagine hundreds of them. It was so neat!

And what’s a trip in St. Thomas for me without hurting myself again! Right as we left to go on our nature walk, I cut my toe on a branch that was sticking out of the ground. And then later, I ended up cutting it again in the same spot and making it a little bit bigger. I’m so awesome.

On our nature walk. Absolutely beautiful!

Standing inside some super old rocks, like 100 something million years old. They looked like those marble brownies!


Another picture of the marble brownie rocks and my beat up feet.


We went snorkeling twice on this kayaking tour and the second time we saw a ton of fish around a part of a sunken ship. We also saw a sea turtle. It was really neat!


I think he looks like Crush.

We went para-sailing and it was a total blast! We ended up losing our water proof digital camera right after we went para-sailing so we lost the pictures we took of ourselves up in the air, but luckily Niki had her camera and took some pictures of us. It was so much fun!







Before we left, Niki took some great pictures of us. Thanks again Niki for taking these!

The day we left was a Sunday and we were able to go to sacrament meeting there at the branch in St. Thomas. It was in a cute little building on a road called Church Hill. It was literally on Church Hill, a steep hill with churches along both sides of the road. There were probably only 30-40 people there and sacrament ended a half an hour early. I could get used to that. I love that the church is the same no matter where you go!

We had an absolute blast spending that week together and we had some amazing experiences. I can’t wait to get away with you again, Jeffy! I love you so much! Thank you so much Digicert for giving us this wonderful opportunity!

(I totally made a liar out of myself because this post was incredibly LONG!)

My little Logan can say his S’s now.

No more “melling” (smelling). “What that mell?”
No more “niffing” (sniffing). “I can’t mell if I’m not niffing!”
No more “nood” (Snood). “Dwanma, can I play nood?”

I’ve never hated the letter S so much as I do today.

After the Peter Pan production, then each class did a dance on their own and her class danced to “Buttercup”. For the Star song she wore her ballet shoes, and for the Buttercup song she wore her tap shoes. It was all very cute and she loved being up on the stage. She can be really shy sometimes, but when she’s with others I don’t think it’s as hard for her. She looked beautiful in her little yellow costume and she did tell me she felt like a princess. Way to go, Lindsay!