Cruisin' on the Ocean

Here are a few pictures from Craig and Kelli's cruise to Catalina & EnsenadaOn Catalina Island with a view of the "Elation" behind us

(it's way bigger than it looks! It held 2,000 guests plus another 1,000 crew!)

Our stateroom was in the back of the boat on the floor right below all the restaurants! We had a great view out of our window.

Here is Craig eating Sushi on board the cruise ship. Food is available 24 hours a day and it's an all you can eat type thing! Craig is a sushi lover, Kelli is not, but Craig had Kelli get a plateful so HE could eat that too!

In Ensanada, we went horseback riding way out in the country with beautiful views of the bay and surrounding land. Here's Kelli on "Nobelito" who turned out to have a little bit of a temper and liked to nip the other horses behinds and kick them! Craig's horse was named "Dos Equiz" after the beer!

The movie "The Pirates of the Caribbean" and 2 sequels were filmed in Ensenada and The Black Pearl is permanently docked there. This is a picture of it out of our bus window--pretty awesome!

Back home to San Diego rounding Coronado Point where there was a beautiful sunset.

Some other cruise highlights were that neither one of us got seasick!! We bought a new bottle of motion sickness pills and didn't even have to open it! No chumming the ocean this time!

To Mexico for Spring Break!

See this ship at the top of this page?? Well, Craig and Kelli are going on a cruise to Catalina and Ensenada and are going to be on a ship just like that!!! (Well, hopefully a little bigger!) We will post some pictures when we come back from our relaxing adventure without any children! Before we go, we have to go to the store and get Craig some Dramamine cause when we were in Kauai on a small boat, Craig got seasick and hurled his lunch into a little white bucket that the "helpers on board" chummed into the ocean---gross!! We didn't see any sharks though, so they must not be too hot on human hurl!! It's the blood they crave, I guess. Maybe this time, if he's medicated, Craig won't be apt to get seasick and chum the ocean! . . .to be continued. . .

A Stinking Experience

(This is Cocoa and the chair she sleeps in before her skunk experience!) Now, both of them are outside!
Cocoa (our dog) had a run-in with a skunk the other night and got sprayed straight in the face!!!!! We smelled the skunk smell outside and didn’t realize it had gotten her before we let her in the house so. . . . . .THE WHOLE HOUSE SMELLS LIKE SKUNK NOW!! We didn’t realize it till the morning and she had already slept on one of the chairs in the family room all night. Once we realized the odor wasn’t going away and was coming from her, we quickly put her and the chair outside. I sprayed them down with a recipe we found on the internet for skunk odor—50/50 mix of white vinegar and water and set out a crockpot of apple cider vinegar on high for 2 days. The vinegar masked the skunk stench but made the whole house smell like we were dying Easter Eggs! The odor was still lingering so I bought some extra strength Febreze and sprayed that on the chair and gave Cocoa a bath in another internet recipe—1 quart of peroxide, ¼ cup baking soda and 2 tbsp dishsoap. She still stinks! I asked the vet what they use and they sold me a bottle of “Skunk Out” and I used that on her too—poor dumb dog. Her head still smells where she took the brunt of the spray, so I think she will just have to be an outside dog until the stench totally goes away! Good thing the weather is getting warmer so she won’t freeze at night! That is a raunchy smell—I can’t get it out of my nose!!! Weston must think the smell is coming from him because he keeps using more and more AXE body spray on himself!!!

A Snow Day In St. David???

Yep, it snowed enough in St. David for the schools to close and call it the first official SNOW DAY since we can't remember when!! Of course, it was mostly all melted by noon, but the kids sure had fun playing in it and having a snowball fight! They even had "nature-made" snowcones with syrup flavors leftover from summer on them! We also saw a few dirty, stickery snowmen around town too!

This series of pictures is of Weston and Rob. They were acting like they could touch the ceiling and I guess they did cause they cheated and started from the ottoman! 22 or 12, boys are all at the same age mentally!!!

Happy 52nd Birthday to Craig wayyyy back on January 18th of this year! This is a rather mild/calm shot of him with his birthday cake. I WAS going to put in a pic of Craig with his finger stuck up his nose, but he said he'd get even with me if I did!! I'm not that brave!

6 down, 5 to go!!

Cami and Rob got married on January 2nd in the Mesa, AZ LDS temple. It was a beautiful day and they are a darling couple. Here are a few photos from that day. Above is our family picture minus Justin cause he had to earn a living that day!

The Jones and Hansen girls give Rob a boost on his wedding day!

Camille gets one too! These are all 9 of our beautiful daughters.

Here are the "Ladies in Waiting"** Kelli was the flower holder and Natalie was the train holder and both were the dress straighteners! Craig was the photographer!

Here's the happy couple!

(It looks like Rob is gonna suck Camille's cheek right off!!)

Gettin' ready for Christmas 2008

Here is Elise modeling!

















Natalie and Weston got ahold of the camera again!!!!! Pretty scary looking!!












Natsky and her best bud posing




















A beautiful December Arizona Sky!

Merry Christmas to all!!

Here is an official engagement picture of Rob and Camille. We only have 6 weeks left to get ready for their wedding!!!!!













Our latest family news is that Sister Bethany Hansen returned from a successful mission to the Detroit, Michigan mission 6/4/07 to 11/19/08.
On the flight home, since she left out of Detroit and had a layover in Chicago and it was 28 degrees when she left, she wore lots of warm clothing AND a pair of fuzzy lined boots. When she flew into Tucson, it was 86 degrees and she began to sweat!!! We teased her that she didn't remember what AZ Novembers are like!! When she got home, she immediately got into her suitcase and changed her shirt and shoes to something a little more cooler! She is home and doing well and will be living in St. David and working in Tucson for the time being. She reports on her mission on 11/30/08 at 2 pm and all who want to come are invited!