Spring Break Stay-cation and Other Family Fun

During Spring Break we didn't go out of town like a lot of families do but we had a wonderful stay-cation and had a lot of family fun!

We went bowling as a family while my neighbor watched little Lucy so she could stay healthy :). The girls loved it. Nora did for the first round of games :).

Provo Beach Resort to go on the carousel, eat ice cream and play on the playground is always a must!

We finally got to to eat lunch at Grandpa Bleak's work! I used to do this when I was a little girl every time we had a break in school. Now my girls get to! We love Grandma and Grandpa Bleak.

Cade taking all the neighbor kids on "Wee-hoo" rides :). The girls love going on the Wee-hoo.

Of course we had to spend some time up the canyon. I LOVE being in the mountains! One of my favorite places to be! The girls played with snow (a little chilly still) with their buckets and shovels, had a picnic, put up the hammock and roasting 'smores. Fun fun!

Nora got her pants soaking wet so she got make shift coat pants...and she was NOT a fan...

We went with some friends to the LDS Timpanogos Temple to help us do some sealings for family members. The Tooke's and Anderson's are from Cade's work. We love having great friends to do spiritual things with.

Reese and Emma finished their gymnastics class right before Spring Break. They loved this class and it was fun they could be there at the same time. This next year we are going to do dance again instead of gymnastics and see how it goes.

We visited my cousin Jessica Osborn and had a great time playing there, seeing her animals, and just catching up. I love Jess and Peter. Such incredible people.

We got a bunk cot that the girls were too anxious to try out in their bedroom. Hopefully we'll be able to use in camping soon!

BAHAMAS TRIP!!!

Cade and I were able to go to Atlantis in the Bahamas for a Fishbowl work conference. It was such an amazing trip (with our cute little Lucy Lu)! Cade found out back in January that we would most likely have this opportunity. However, with the unknown of little Lucy, we decided not to go. If she was a really hard baby then it probably wouldn't be the most fun trip. But one week before leaving, Cade said, "you and Lucy should just come. We should make it work!" He did everything he could (including getting expedited passports for Lucy and I) and our next door neighbor Allison watched the older two so we could go on an awesome adventure!

Lucy was a great traveling baby! She slept in our arms great and was awesome for a 8 hour traveling day there and 8 hrs back. It was so cute having a little passport for our 3 month old! World traveler at such a young age :). I'm so glad she is such a good baby so she and I could join Cade on this adventure.

We got to the Bahamas at nighttime so we didn't get to see much on our way to the resort. But when we got inside this was our first view. It was such a cool place! I didn't realize exactly how BIG it was until the next day when I went exploring.

The next morning I woke up to this view. It was so beautiful. Cade was working all day Monday, so Lucy and I went outside to explore the resort. There were pools each filled with different sea creatures such as turtles and sharks. It was so cool! There were many pools you could choose from and a huge children's play area that i couldn't help but think how much the girls would LOVE playing here! The aquarium and shark tanks were really cool. There were two water slides you could go down that went right through the sharks tank. Cade went down the really fast one. I just went down the calm tube one :). The water park itself was so much fun! Cade and i didn't get to go there together until Wednesday when the conference was about wrapping up. 

It was fun being able to see some of what Cade does at these conferences and meet some people he knows from working with them. This conference he got to be one of the presenters during Tuesday morning breakfast. It was great to see him in action! Even though Lucy only allowed me to see the first 10 minutes of the presentation- he did great!

Tuesday morning and a lot of Wednesday was our time to do the beach and water park and spend a lot of time together. It was so much fun to be together. I learned that the beach is really not that easy and exciting with a 3 month old that you are trying to keep out of the sand and sun, but it was still fun.

One of my absolute favorite parts of our entire trip (and really anything I've done in life) was the shallow swimming with dolphins! It was so NEAT and those creatures are such amazing animals! They are smart and kind and so amazing to interact with. Lucy even got to join us- in her baby wet suit and all!

We had such a great time and I am so grateful to Fishbowl for giving us that opportunity. Atlantis was incredible and I kept saying to Cade, "next time we come..." and he kindly reminded me there probably wouldn't be a "next time" so enjoy everything I could. We did and I loved it!