Tomorrow we are headed to Washington D.C. for John's brother Michael's wedding. We are looking forward to seeing all of John's family, and meeting his bride-to-be Natalie. (John has already met her, but I haven't.) I think we are also going to have some time to visit the sights in D.C. It will be my 3rd trip of the month, and John's 5th! It has been one crazy month.
Our Indiana trip went really well, and Makenna did great with her Grandparents. I think I had a harder time than she did. I cried the night before we left while I was rocking and singing to Makenna, and then again in the morning when John and I were driving to the airport. Eventually I got it together, and was able to keep my emotions in check the rest of the weekend. I think that the trip was a success, as I find myself not dreading moving to Bloomington like I was. I wouldn't say that I'm excited about it, but not dreading it is a step in the right direction. The Indiana Business school has a really great and very active Partners Club. John has been telling me that Indiana is ranked #2 in the nation (behind BYU of course)for family-friendly schools. I do think that that Bloomington will be a good place for our family, and I am looking forward to living in a townhouse instead of an apartment. Baby steps.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Navarre Beach Florida
John, Makenna, and I were lucky enough to spend the past week in beautiful, sunny Florida with my family. My whole family (12 adults & 7 kids) stayed in a big house right on the beach. We had such a fun time hanging out with my family, and playing on the beach. Makenna absolutely LOVED being around her 6 cousins. She mostly ran around with her older cousins and wanted to do whatever they were doing, whether that was jumping on the beds or wrestling with their uncle Morgan, she just joined right in. She acted more like a 3 year old than a 16 month old on this trip.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to get a new camera before we left on the trip, (maybe for my birthday in May) but that didn't stop me from taking tons of pictures with my old camera.
One of our favorite parts of the trip was playing at the beach, which we did almost everyday. John went boogie boarding, I played in the waves and found sea shells, and Makenna mostly played in the sand (she loved looking at the water and the waves, but was not about to get in).
Here is part of our group playing at the beach. (Notice that there is no one else around.) That is one thing that I love about Navarre; it is very much off the beaten path. We pretty much had the beach to ourselves, which we loved.
One morning, we all went to the Gulfarium, where we saw 2 dolphin shows, and a sea lion show. Makenna loved watching the dolphins perform their tricks, and kept asking for more.
We also saw lots of other sea creatures at the Gulfarium including fish, sharks, sting rays, and tropical penguins.
This was just a fun picture of John and Makenna playing on the deck.
On Easter Sunday, we decided to take some family pictures on the beach. We waited until after dinner, and it was really windy, but it was also a lot of fun. Here is the whole group.
And here is our little family.
Our guys pyramid (minus Matt)
After all of the pictures, we had an Easter egg hunt for all of the kids on the beach. Each child had a different color egg to find. Makenna actually had a lot of fun finding her eggs and trying to open all of her candy. I think she even ate a few sandy jelly beans before we could get them inside to wash them off.
Finally on Easter Sunday, we also celebrated John's 28th birthday, which was actually on Tuesday the 14th, but since that was the day that we travelled home, we decided to celebrate early.
In other news, John has officially accepted his offer to get his MBA at Indiana University (which means he has also said no to BYU, and Texas). John and I are leaving first thing in the morning to go to Indiana for their admitted students weekend. Today has been filled with unpacking, doing laundry, cleaning the house, and repacking. We are leaving Makenna here with my parents. I am a little nervous about leaving Makenna for 3 nights, (mostly because I am going to miss her) but the weekend isn't really set up in a way that would make it easy to bring a child, so I think it will be better to leave her here. Hopefully John and I will find a really cool place to live for the next two years, and more importantly, hopefully I will learn to like Bloomington during the weekend...wish me luck!
Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to get a new camera before we left on the trip, (maybe for my birthday in May) but that didn't stop me from taking tons of pictures with my old camera.
One of our favorite parts of the trip was playing at the beach, which we did almost everyday. John went boogie boarding, I played in the waves and found sea shells, and Makenna mostly played in the sand (she loved looking at the water and the waves, but was not about to get in).
Here is part of our group playing at the beach. (Notice that there is no one else around.) That is one thing that I love about Navarre; it is very much off the beaten path. We pretty much had the beach to ourselves, which we loved.
One morning, we all went to the Gulfarium, where we saw 2 dolphin shows, and a sea lion show. Makenna loved watching the dolphins perform their tricks, and kept asking for more.
We also saw lots of other sea creatures at the Gulfarium including fish, sharks, sting rays, and tropical penguins.
This was just a fun picture of John and Makenna playing on the deck.
On Easter Sunday, we decided to take some family pictures on the beach. We waited until after dinner, and it was really windy, but it was also a lot of fun. Here is the whole group.
And here is our little family.
Our guys pyramid (minus Matt)
After all of the pictures, we had an Easter egg hunt for all of the kids on the beach. Each child had a different color egg to find. Makenna actually had a lot of fun finding her eggs and trying to open all of her candy. I think she even ate a few sandy jelly beans before we could get them inside to wash them off.
Finally on Easter Sunday, we also celebrated John's 28th birthday, which was actually on Tuesday the 14th, but since that was the day that we travelled home, we decided to celebrate early.
In other news, John has officially accepted his offer to get his MBA at Indiana University (which means he has also said no to BYU, and Texas). John and I are leaving first thing in the morning to go to Indiana for their admitted students weekend. Today has been filled with unpacking, doing laundry, cleaning the house, and repacking. We are leaving Makenna here with my parents. I am a little nervous about leaving Makenna for 3 nights, (mostly because I am going to miss her) but the weekend isn't really set up in a way that would make it easy to bring a child, so I think it will be better to leave her here. Hopefully John and I will find a really cool place to live for the next two years, and more importantly, hopefully I will learn to like Bloomington during the weekend...wish me luck!
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