Craft It forward

I thought this would be fun, and maybe get my brain out of the pregnant haze :-)

The first three people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It’ll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it’s going to be.
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 3 people who do the same on your blog. The first 3 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!Who’s in?
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Jamaica

Back In October we decided that we were going to take a trip; one last hoorah before being "tied down" with two kids. So we have been trying to find a vacation to go on. We decided to go to New York and were about to book it in January, and then decided it was too cold. So here we are in February, with a week of vacation time and no vacation plans. We even found a babysitter for Max (thanks Grammy, Abuela and Ari :-). We were going to stay local and save some money, but it was cold and rainy for the whole week. So Friday 2/13 was technically the first night of vacation... still no vacation plans. Well we found a crazy deal to Jamaica leaving Sunday night....and we went! Just the TWO of US! It was sunny, beautiful and relaxing!. Here are a bunch of pics of what we did...some days we did nothing too! Oh...they are not all rated G in terms of modesty...being in a foreign land I went with a two piece bikini and a very pregnant belly :-)This is Y/S Falls. There were four different tiers with pools in each.

Brian on the rope swing!

In the waterfall!

Jumping!...I was careful :-)Romance! Here At Rick's was the place to cliff dive and watch a beautiful sunset. Brian is about to jump 35 feet into the water...the photographer (me) missed the actual jump!

Eating the local cuisine.Snorkeling in the reef!Another day lounging at the beach at Margaritaville!

And here we are ready to come home. We spent 5 days in Jamaica and had a wonderful time, but we could NOT WAIT to come home to Max! The vacation doesn't officially end until Tuesday, so we are planning on a Disneyland trip on Monday to spoil Max since we missed him so much. Then we will settle in and prepare for life with two kids... and we thought Jamaica was an adventure!
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We're Back!

Ok, life has been crazy!!!! So I am going to throw a few pictures and a quick timeline to bring us back to the blogging world!Back to 2008, we had a wonderful Christmas! Here is Max standing in front of his "booty"!After New years we went on a 2 day trip to Disneyland to celebrate Brian's 30th B-Day!

Grandma Bell passed away on Jan 17th and the next day we drove out to UT spent a week out there. We brought Brian's brother back down with us for the funeral. While In UT Max and his cousin Ammon were the best of friends and we got to go sledding.We came back on the 23rd and went to the funeral on the 24th. Here is Brian's family all together...it was a beautiful service. After the funeral Brian, Max and I went to a farewell party for my brother Chris who will deploy to Iraq in a few weeks.

*** I don't have pics for it yet, but on Jan 31st we celebrated my grammy's 80th B-day with a huge celebration at the Mandalay Hotel. It was wonderful to have everyone come together, and it was nice to sit back and enjoy the party we have been planning for the past 6 months! Then on Feb.1 I enjoyed a quiet B-day watching the Superbowl, but I guess I should have wished for some better referee calls, and better play by the Cardinals because they lost :-(

And now we are up to speed! Hopefully life will be calm for a little while, but I am sure I will find something to blog about :-)

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