Bahamas Trip

So for Steve working so hard last year and bringing his team from last place to first place in the region they were awarded with an 5 day paid trip to the Bahamas to stay at the Atlantis Resort... WOOO HOOO!!!
 My husband is so awesome.. They all worked really hard for this.. My husband even got the Apex award which is the highest award you can receive within the company. It is for 1st place District Business Manager for the entire company in the entire region or U.S  It was quite an honor.

And what was even cooler is that most of his team that he manages made the top reps for the company as well so we all got to go together as a team and that rarely happens and we probably wont ever see that happen again so it was a very awesome trip..

One of the first things we did on the island was the Dolphin Cay where we got to swim with the dolphins. This was something I have wanted to do my whole life.. I absolutely love love love dolphins.. I was even going to go into marine biology so I could study them and work with them.. However I didn't want to move away to go to school so here I am just dreaming about the what ifs.. I probably would have never ended up with Steve though so it was meant to be..

Smooching with the Dolphins..

It was so fun we would get on these boogie boards and flex our feet and the dolphin would swim up behind us and put the tip of his nose on the bottom of our foot and push us through the water.. They would get going so fast it was such a blast...

Here is the view from our rooms balcony.. Awesome isn't it?

Our room..

In the distance a disney cruise ship that is docked.. A diffrent Cruiseship came in every morning.

Atlantis...  One of the towers anyways..

Beautiful sunsets...

Awards night.

This is Steve's team that got to go with us.. There were 3 I think that did not make it with us..

This is Steve accepting his Apex Cup.. It is really big and heavy..

His team accepting their awards.

One of the many beautiful gardens around the resort.

In one of the pools were these beautiful creatures.

and some of these...

Puffer Fish.

These were some of the gorgeous chandeliers in the Casino's of Atlantis. All hand blown.

There was a turtle bay too..

They had some hammerheads too.

And some of the saw tooth sharks too.. Not sure the technical name my son could tell you but they look like a chain saw blade.

And some great whites.

More of the Cove.

Here is a better picture of all the Atlantis buildings. Throughout these diffrent building there is also little rapid rides and water slides too they were so fun but not really area we could have our camera so no pictures..  They have a lazy river ride that I think we spent most of our time just laying on big tubes and floating the river and soaking up the sun.. It was so perfect.... While there I of course had a massage and facial at the spa.. It was heavenly..

I am so bummed we did not have more pictures of some of the things we did.. We just were having so much fun and kept forgetting our camera..  There was a marina where all the million dollar boats would come and dock their boats to come stroll the shopping strips and restaurants at night. it was so fun to walk around and see all the fancy boats. the night life was amazing.  We also were able to get a couple dive's in while there and we have a disk with video but no picts to post. :((

We were able to dive one of the sunken ships from the james bond movies. We got to see some great spotted eagle rays and an octopus and tons of tropical fish.. We did a 100 ft dive which is our biggest depth dive yet..  lots of fun.. There is nothing like being under the water with the sea life..

Stay tuned lots more summer activities to catch up on....

Nauvoo 2011 Trip

Wow So I got some major catching up to do... Here it is already Fall turning October in a few days and the last I posted it was just turning Spring.. What a slacker... This summer was so busy so I am going to start off with our Nauvoo Trip where we had a little family reunion with Steve's brothers... Sister Amy was at home ready to have a baby any day.. We missed her but this would have not been a good trip for someone in her condition.  So we stayed in this home that had 4 queen beds and a bunk house which had 2 sets of bunk beds.. And 2 bathrooms. There was 20 of us... Needless to say it was a bit crazy having only 2 bathrooms and we had kids sleeping on the floors everywhere..But it was fun none the less...




One of the days we were there we decided to do a little handcart trek.. Little did we know how crazy it was going to be.. It had rained really hard and blew really bad the night before so things were really muddy and we had to cross little rivers several times... Here are a few of the fun spots we had to trek through.




This was one of the better ones...  Sorry but my pictures did not load in the order I wanted them too so you will have to go go with it....

Steve and I posing in front of the Joseph Smith and Brigham Young statues.

Steve's brother Rich and his family in front of the Nauvoo temple.

More rigorous trails.

Waiting to go on the carriage ride through nauvoo.

All the cousins.

Kim and I..

Logan

Logan's shoe got stuck in the mud..

Steve's youngest brother Matt and his family.

We had to stop to move the turtle out of the road...

Our OX.. what team work.

Our crazy group...

Some of the trees we got to hike through on the trek.

Ran into a few obstacles on the path.. There were some tree's down due to the high winds the night before.

allie and Sara were troopers they pulled the cart most of the way...

Talk about steep..

One of the night shows (Sunset by the Mississippi)  Kids had a great time..

My handsome nephew..

At one of the shows (Anna Amanda Amelia Applebe) Logan's favorite show..

Also on this vacation was Logan's 7th Birthday.. It was nice she got to spend it with family and cousins... However she was still dissapointed in not having a friend birthday.. It's hard when your birthday falls in the summer...

The boy's playing with fire again..They cant get together without having a fire to play in..

Jessie's horse cake.. Aunt Chan did a great job decorating it..

she finally got an American girl doll..

The kids broke the tree swing so Steve had to climb it to re attach the ropes. It was very high and he was a bit nervous coming down.

We had beautiful sunsets there..

So after Nauvoo Matt Steve's youngest brother and his family came back to our house to stay with us for a few days and help us with a few things that needed done.. It was so nice to have them stay with us... Well while we were out taking care of the lawn Steve decided to stick his hand under the lawn mower while it was still running.. Luckily he had a good pair of working gloves on and just his tips went in.. He was so extremely lucky to still have his fingers.. Because of the force of the blade hitting his finger's the blood blew out the tips of his fingers causing little lacerations,  but other then that and a small cut through the nail and some bad bruising he was very lucky... However because they are on the tips of the fingers where all the nerves are he was in a whole lot of pain..  Thank heavens Matt is a doctor and was there when it happened and was able to help with the situation..

Well that was our Nauvoo trip.. Lot's more to come of our summer.. Lot's to catch up on....