Cruise Day 2-Key West, FL

We were only in Key West for a half a day. We went snorkeling on some reef that is supposedly great and wonderful and "The third largest reef in the Americas" or something like that. Anyway, it was fun, but didn't seem all that spectacular. It wasn't colorful or anything like we thought it would be. We didn't even see any turtles. But it was a nice day and fun to be in the ocean. My mom got soooo sick on the snorkel excursion and was confined to her bed the rest of the day and night. Oh, sad! And it was New Years! We celebrated the New Year in the middle of the ship with several hundred screaming drunk people. Fun! Actually it was pretty fun. Had we been at home, we probably wouldn't have even stayed up to celebrate. Did I mention my dad is handicapped?

Cruise Day 3-Cozumel

Day3-Cozumel! Cozumel was beautiful. The weather was great. We went to the Tulum Mayan Ruins on the mainland-which pretty much took all day. It was really neat, but I wished we could have gone swimming and laid out since it was such a nice day. The ruins were right on some cliffs above the ocean and it was so pretty. Everyone should see some ruins. They are neat. Our tour guide-ok, so I can't remember his name-anyway he was really funny and knew a lot about the ruins. It was very interesting. I am doing such a mom pose in the second picture-Ahhh!

Cruise Day 4-evening

After dinner, we went out on the upper deck and it was so windy, those words don't even show you how windy it was. We almost got blown off the ship. Maybe I can post a video. We will see. Anyway, here are some pics of me, Sam, and Wes in the wind.

Our Cruise Day 4-Grand Cayman

Day 4-We stopped in Grand Cayman. This was going to be the funnest place I thought--and then then storm moved in. It was so windy, the captain told us we only had 2 hours on the island, thus we had to cancel our way fun excursion to Sting Ray City. After mosy-ing around for a couple hours we headed back to the ship only to wait in line to get on a tender back to the ship for 5 hours. Yes, we waited in line for 5 hours at which point they decided the waves were too big to load people. So they bused everyone-hundreds of people-to the other side of the island and the ship cruised around the island to pick us up on the other side. It was soooo much fun! We loved every minute of it! Hardy har har!

Our Cruise Day 5

We were supposed to go to Jamaica today, but it was so windy that the swells were "too big" so we couldn't stop-or so they say. It was really sad, but it was worth it--they credited a whopping $4.16 back to our account for not stopping in Jamaica. Wahoo! We just relaxed all day, and ate a lot. You know, the usual on a cruise. This is our waiter, Louis, and his wife, Jade from Trinidad. She was our assistant waiter. They were really nice. The next day-day 6, we didn't stop anywhere, just relaxed, ate and read books. I don't think we took any pics.

Fun in the Snow!

These pics were actually taken about a month before Christmas. London and Jackson loved playing in the snow. They had a great time!

New Camera and Cruise!

Well, we finally bought a new camera right before Christmas. So as soon as I get a spare minute( which probably won't be till next week) I will post some Christmas pics. We spent Christmas in Springville with just our little family and it was actually very nice. We had a very nice relaxing Christmas. Now we are headed to the Caribbean for some sun and relaxation. Yay!

London's Tongue

Well, I haven't posted in a while since our camera has been broken. We are just going to buy a new one since the repairs will cost way too much. Hopefully we will have it by Christmas. So I thought I'd post these pics of London's Tongue. She sticks out her tongue at everyone and everything and is enthralled with other's tongues as well. She has a very long tongue like her mommy.

Elf!

Since I can't post any pics, here is a little shindig from our family to yours.
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1285535322

Camera broken

London 7 months!
Jackson eating whipcream only-no pie-on Thanksgiving

Sadly, yes, our camera is broken. It might just be the battery, but we will have to see. So I guess I won't be posting any more pics for a while until we figure out what is wrong with it and get it fixed. Anyway, London started pulling herself up to standing position today and sadly I cannot even take a picture of it. It snowed a bit a few days ago and Jackson loves getting all his snow clothes on, goggles included and going outside to play in the snow. Wes and Jackson built a huge snowman and Jackson loves going out to see it everyday...except today I guess he decided he didn't like it because he and his friend Caleb tried to destroy it...oh well, they had fun doing it. And I didn't get a picture of that either.

Burning Ring of Fire

Ok, so here it is...the famous Jackson singing his rendition of a famous song...one he always likes to share in nursery at church. Yes, at church. This was taken in May, 07.

Thanksgiving Day!

We had a great Thanksgiving at our clubhouse with most of the Nye Family and a part of the Wood Family. We had tons of food, fun and swimming and games. After we had stuffed ourselves, Jackson, Sadie, and Conner were swimming that evening and all the brothers walked into the pool area with their big coats on which Paul had given them as Christmas gifts. Andy wanted to push Wes into the pool so they both started wrestling. Wes put up a good fight, but Andy is just stronger and bigger so just about when Wes was about to go in, an older lady in the pool got out and walked up to them and started yelling at them telling us and them that they were a bad example to the kids, that our family was disgusting and stupid and that we had problems. Well, we didn't like that so we started arguing back that we were just having a little fun, and there was a little brawl involved. Wes' dad took a picture of the lady and she slapped his camera away and pushed him. Then Andy got up in her face. It was pretty funny. Anyway, she said she was going to turn us all in and wanted our names, which no one would give out, so finally she figured out our names were Welker, and she came up to me and said, "It's Welker, isn't it? I am going to turn you in." I just smiled at her and said, "Yep, it is." The lady is in the second picture in the water next to Conner just as she was about to get out of the pool and intervene in our fun.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jackson and London in Christmas Jammies
Getting our Christmas Tree
Cousins! Sadie, Jackson, Conner swimming on Thanksgiving Day.
They Boys in their new Christmas Coats
Conner giving a ride to the little cousins, Max, Jackson, Dillon, Bailey

London Discovers Sand

This is my first video clip I’ve ever posted so hopefully it works out. London loved playing in the sand. At the very end of the video, she goes head first into the sand (unfortunately I stopped recording at that exact moment. Hey, how was I supposed to know she would do that?). And then of course like babies do, she opened her mouth and stuck her tongue out into it. It was in her eyes, nose, and mouth, and she didn’t even cry. I think she enjoyed discovering the texture of it. It really is too bad I missed filming the defining point of the moment.

Hiking in St. George

London's first hiking trip. She had it easy!
Our friends, Adam and Jaclyn-Adam is a UPS driver too.
We went on a little hike near Snow Canyon. My parents named this rock Elephant Rock beacuse it looks like elephant skin. Jackson and Wes had a great time climbing up a sandhill and London loved playing in the sand till she went headfirst into it.

Happy Halloween!

The Dragon and The Lion
Jackson with his friends, chicken, and TMNT Raphael
Trick or Treat!

London-6month old!

Here are London's 6-month old pictures and Jackson and London looking

very sophisticated.

Posting!

Ok, so I had a long stretch of not posting anything, so now I am in a posting frenzy trying to catch up and put some of our favorite pics from our outings from the last month or so, so I guess that is why you will be seeing a lot of pics!

More Big Cottonwood get-together

Uncle Dave holding London. He wouldn't put her down

the whole evening. He even asked if he could take her

home. I told him he could take her for the weekend if he

took Jackson too...ha ha

The Nye's doing what they do best: making a fire and cooking food.

Jackson always has to do what Max does, or wear his clothes the same. He wouldn't let me put his hood on until Max did. And he only wanted to have his jacket zipped if Max did. Thank goodness they have the same coat, only in different colors!