Did you ever see a little girl love corn this much??

Me Neither!

August edition: What to do with a toddler?

Toddlers are very busy little people. I don't know how you mommies do it! Jocelyn is the type of child who loves to do small motor things. She isn't quite as all over the place as some other babes I know. But we still have to do activities to keep her occupied.

This is what we've done lately. She is very good at helping come up with things:

aug. 13: she figured this out on her own and loved it!


aug 14: Help mommy and daddy make muffins


aug 14: play peek-a-boo with their feet (again figured this out herself.)


aug 15: Go to zoo (post for another day... hopefully)

aug 24: Helped mommy make brownies and lick spatula clean. Side note: She is actually a very good helped. I scoop out the ingredient and she dumps it into the bowl without spilling. Also, she loves to help cook.


aug 25: Go to Thanksgiving Point Farm (post for another day...)

aug 29: Teeter totter with dad and mom



aug 30: Color with wash off markers that actually wash off the highchair a lot easier than the skin... notice the arm. (please ignore my lovely drawings. ha)


PS: This may or may not just be a way for me to brag about my cutie and the fun we have.

Lovin' the SHOES

One of her newest favorite things to do is wear my shoes. She thinks it's so funny! They look pretty good on her huh?!

Cruisin Belize and a Day at Sea

Thursday (may 21) we went to Belize. This was another port that we tendered at and they told us we weren't allowed to leave the port area and explore the island because it was dangerous. So... we booked another excursion! This time it was snorkeling in the 2nd biggest barrier reef second only to the great barrier reef in Australia. Pretty cool huh?! Most of the pictures for this were taken with underwater cameras so I'll add those once we get them developed. Here we are suited up for snorkeling. These vests made it so we didn't have to really swim. They pretty much made us float, but are alot smaller than a life jacket. I was really glad to have them since we ended up swimming around for over an hour without anywhere to take a break.

Casey and I have both never snorkeled before and it was amazing! It was like being in Finding Nemo! Or a huge aquarium! I definitely want to do it again! At first I felt like I was going to hyperventilate or something because I wasn't used to breathing through the tube thing and not at all through my nose, but it ended up being super easy. We saw so many fish and coral. We saw one fish that was like 5 feet long and ugly. The guy in our group said it was probably a barracuda. The other fish we saw were all really bright colors- blues, greens, yellows, purple. This is after we finished snorkeling. You can still see the lines from my goggles. And again- super clear, turquoise blue water!! I was loving it and stayed in the water as long as possible.

After snorkeling they took us back to a little beach for a few minutes before going back to the ship. It was beautiful. Belize had the most turquoise looking water that we saw the whole trip. Check out this beach... palm trees with hammocks, white sand, warm beautiful water! It was heaven!

Heading back to the ship after our day at Belize.

Our towel animal of the day

The next day was a Day at Sea. We tried the specialty drinks for the first time. They were so good! It's a good thing that we didn't have them until the 2nd to last day because we would have spent a lot of money on these yummies! This one was a mango/raspberry daiquiri.

That night it was elegant evening again. This is us with our table group. We felt really lucky to get such a great table! These people were all so fun to be with! A few nights after dinner we went to shows or lounges together. We asked them questions about drinking and they asked us questions about being "Mormon". They couldn't believe how fast we got married (9 months after first date). haha- It was pretty entertaining.

After dinner drinking a miami vice (strawberry daiquiri and pina colada). Oooh... so good!

Towel animal of the day: snake. "You know they love you when they make you a snake. I could make a snake- role the towel up, put on sunglasses, and ta-da."

Cruisin Isla Roatan

Isla Roatan is an island town of Honduras. It was like a jungle! It is so green and the plants are all huge. This picture is from the top of the ship before we got off for the day.

These people were playing the drums and dancing around to welcome all the tourists (us!)

We had another excursion planned through the cruise line. We went to a park called Gumbalimba nature park. We took a tour to see plants that are found in Honduras. This is a cashew tree. The cashew is on the end of the red cashew fruit.

We thought this palm tree was cool.

See what I mean by jungle! This is us crossing a rope bridge.

Across the bridge was the bird sanctuary. There were tons of parrots flying all over.

Next up was monkeys! I know it seems like we went on a petting zoo cruise- turtles, stingrays, parrots, monkeys! It was super fun though. You just don't see animals like that around Utah so we had to take advantage. The monkeys would just jump from person to person. One of them kept stealing people's sunglasses and trying to put them on his face. It was so funny. They are pretty smart little animals.

After Gumbalimba park I was feeling sad about not actually having gone to a beach yet to swim so Casey took pitty on me and we payed a taxi to take us to the beach for the 1 1/2 hours we had left on the island. He took us to this beach where we were pretty much the only ones there. The tide was coming in so it made the water kind of mucky but it was still a beach! I was so happy that Casey took me I decided to write it in the sand. He really does love me. Casey isn't a big fan of swimming in the ocean. He hates the salt water. So I swam around by myself for a while.

Casey loves to play in the sand though so we made a sea turtle out of sand in remembrance of Grand Cayman the day before.

Then we took some beautiful pictures of us in the ocean and kissed on the cute swinging chairs. It was so perfect.

After dinner that night I still wasn't sick of pictures. I tried to take some cute ones of us but when Casey has had way too many pictures in a day this is how they turn out.