Welcome to Sint Maarten!
Well Travis and I decided that this year we were going on a vacation without our children. And of course Travis had not problem with leaving the behind but me on the other hand it did take some convincing but I did it. Even though I missed them terriably it was good to get away for a little while and remember what it is to just enjoy the time with my husband alone for a change without any kids.
Well we left for St. Maarten on July 10th and returned home on July 17th 2009. We went with some frinds of ours Joe and Melinda Atkin and there 8 month old baby Sienna.
We had a lot of fun exploring the island. And just for your information we drove around the intire island in one day. It is not very big. Half of the island is owned by the French and the other half is owned by the Dutch. We stayed on the French side but drove all over the island. The beaches were amazing and so pretty it is hard to describe. I think that my favorite time was just walking down on the beach in the dark and listening to the sound of the waves crashing in the ocean. Travis and Joe did some snorkeling and they went on a fishing trip that they did not enjoy very much, mainley because they didn't catch a dang thing.(Guess I should have gone with them to show how it was done.) We found a few little places that were tucked away and ate some great food. Man do they have some good Chinnese Food. We also ate at this little place called The Jerk Grill and Bar. Holly cow was it hot. Travis said that it was so spicy for him that his lips were numb. Pretty funny. It was some really good food though. We just mainly took it easy. Getting up when we wanted to and going to bed when we wanted to. Its nice not to have anything planned and just taking it easy and slow. Melinda and I did alot of shopping. Well as much shopping as we could talk the guys into,but hey they were pretty good sports every where that we dragged them. Every place that we went the people were so nice. I wouldn't mind coming back to St Maarten some time and hey we may even just bring the kids, well see. Well even though it is good to finally be home and getting things back to normal it is sad that it is all over. On St Maartin everyone talks about how cool there beaches are and come to find out that almost all of the beaches on the island are clothing optional! One thing that I do not understand is that all of the people that we saw that did the clothing option theme was the people that should be wearing the clothes! It was pretty funny. Good thing we dont get to see that very often. Well anyway we had an awsome time and hopefully we get to go back some day.
Mckenzie
Austin being the Goalie, Which he is really good at!!
Austin
Travis got this deer tonight. There were only a few times that I didn't go with him and he just had to shoot this deer without me. Pretty cool. Yeah Yeah Yeah I know his is bigger then mine.
My deer on the other hand,I shot last night. Boy what a keeper!!! I had been passing up all of these little bucks all hunt and I thought since it was getting to the end of the hunt that I was going to lower my standards and shoot BAMBI...Heck I don't care how big he is I am just proud of myself for killing him with my BOW. If you look really really really close on the left side it is a two point. HaHaHa.
Well we finally decided that we really needed to update our family picture. Since the last time that we had one done was before we got pregant with Kennadi. Yeah I know it has been forever. So for the last 2 years I have been telling Travis that we need to go up the mountian and take a picture of the family. Well... I got a new digital camera when we went on our trip to St. Maartin, so we took the tri-pod with the camera up Parowan canyon and took some pictures. The family one turned out really cute and I also took some of the kids and they turned out pretty cute too. It was actually pretty fun setting the timer and then running for your life before it goes off. I think that this might just turn out to be a family tradition. I Guess that we will have to see when I get them back and see how they really turned out.
Hollie and her kids Bailey and Tristan came to the party and she also brought over Joni's two kids Kaleb and Hailey.
Justin and Lisa and grandma Val came over and you see Travis there in the back
Kenzie opening her presents!!
This year we had Mckenzie and Austin's "Family Party" the saime time. It's hard this time of year to get family over to Parowan 2 weeks apart with the bow hunt this coming weekend and school starting the following week. As you can see Austin and Kenzie got some cool stuff. We had alot of family come. Its nice to finally have a home that will hold both sides of our family.
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do we really have an 11 year old. Where has the time gone? This year for Mckenzie's friend birthday party I took 3 of her friends to the movies and we all saw "G-Force in 3D. Then we went to Maggie Moos for some ice cream. In these pictures they are wearing the ever so stylish glasses from the movies and eating there ice cream and being silly as girls normaly are. 
This picture is kind of fuzzy. Mckenzie and Kennadi are playing with the sparklers and having a fun time.
Kayson and Austin with the NOISEY rooster. If that poor rooster only knew what was going to happen NEXT!
