tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14999836293333437022024-03-06T07:16:00.480+10:00The Globe-trotting Monson'sMonson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-86628342473526379042010-06-30T22:32:00.000+10:002010-06-30T22:32:22.841+10:00LOVE this...<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4c2b385a857fd1bdb767f" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> question: <b><i>Is that okay</i></b>? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." ~Jim Rohn</span></span></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4c2b385a857fd1bdb767f" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></div>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-29867996551718510702010-06-25T23:08:00.000+10:002010-06-25T23:08:23.402+10:00Birthday number 28So today I turned 28 years old. I know this is not a significant birthday. I'm not a new driver, I've had the ability to buy lottery tickets and alcohol for years now, and my car insurance premiums have been lower for some time. Nothing is important or special about being 28, but nonetheless I have been doing a lot of reflecting today.<br />
For the last 7 years I have spent each birthday very depressed. OK not very depressed, but not happy with myself. I don't want to sound ungrateful, I know I have a wonderful life. But you know how you have goals for yourself? Or you thought life would be one way at a certain time... and then it's not that way? That is how I feel on my birthdays.<br />
I'm grateful for my health and for my family and for the comforts that I enjoy in life, but I get very down because I just don't ever feel like I am who I thought I would be. Or, I haven't achieved what I want to have achieved at this point. <br />
When I was a teenager I would think of what I wanted to have achieved by the time I turned 25. I thought I would have a masters degree, be living in some fabulous city like New York or Paris, have a job that I loved, and maybe be thinking about getting married. I know that all sounds so juvenille! The older you get you do realize what is actually important... I mean PARIS... really? <br />
Still with every passing brithday I have felt sad that I have no degree to hang on my wall, or sit in a file in the file cabinet. It has been hard for me to think about not achieving that goal. When I turned 20 my goal was to have an undergrad by the time I turned 30... at 24 that date got moved 40 years of age and the dream of having a masters was no longer in the cards. I refused to believe that it would never happen, but I also was getting more and more sad each that came by with no more progress completed.<br />
But today I turn 28 and I am a full-time college student!!!! OK not right now... but I'm enrolled full time in the fall! I completed goverment earlier this summer, I'll be taking government 2 in July, then full-time starting August 30th! I can't begin to describe the relief I feel to be able to see the finish line. It is still far off, but I have started the race!<br />
Thanks to my wonderful and understanding husband I'm on the road to getting my BSN (Bachelor's in nursing) and then after that I don't know what... PA, NP, CRNA, MSN... maybe something else!!!! I have always told Kelly that I wanted to go back to school and he always told me he supported me wanting to do that. Seven months ago I approached him with a new dream in mind. He listened to me and never once laughed. Even I was suprised at what I was telling him... Me, in the medical feild.... seriously?!? <br />
Kelly listened and took me seriously and when I was done he said "Let's make a plan." I'm so grateful to have a best friend and companion who believes in me and supports me. <br />
We made our plan and now we are "working" that plan. We will be moving back to Houston to continue my schooling, I will work really hard to make good grades and Kelly will play Mr. Mom when he's not flying.<br />
This birthday is not depressing. I'm older and that sucks! I have adult acne and I'm carrying baby weight in unattractive places... but I'm still not sad. For me 28 marks the end of one of my great life's adventures - my life here on Guam; and the beginning of the next great adventure - road to BSN and beyond!<br />
I spent my birthday getting beautiful homemade cards from Liam and Arie. They glued starburst on the cards and then ate the starburst before I could get to them :) Then I opened my present form Kelly and my Mom... my MACBOOK!!!!! I feel like an official student now! Our friends Bear and Erin watched our kids so that Kelly and I could go on a hike and then snorkel. FYI for anyone who wants to know... don't take your Lab snorkeling! Jet was having so much fun swimming next to us she almost drowned us! We gave up on snorkeling after about 10 mintues and swam back to shore with scratches all over our bodies! It was still a fun time with the hubby though. Next we picked up some Indian Food and then ate at home. <br />
So far 28 is great! I'm so thankful to be healthy and to be living on a beautiful island with the man and kids that I love! I'm not much for getting older, but I can't wait to see what I've accomplished when I hit 29.Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-88608646060112887062010-05-26T10:16:00.000+10:002010-05-26T10:16:59.635+10:00The Last FirstSo our sweet little boy <b>Ryder Zachary Monson</b> is one years old!!!!!! His actual birthday was on May 20th, but we didn't have a party for him until a few days later. His real birthday was filled with a doctors appointment, several shots :( and running errands with mom. I know, not the greatest birthday!<br />
So what has Ryder been doing lately.... he goes into a standing position all on his own now, he has taken about 4 steps on his own but he quickly crawls again, he has seven teeth (four on top and three on bottom). He HATES to have diaper changed or to have his clothes changed! He LOVES bath time, especially if it is with his sibs. He says Mama, Dada, Tay Too (thank you), buh buh (bye-bye but never when he's supposed to), and he just started giving really sweet open mouth kisses! Those are my favorite! <br />
Ryder LOVES to be with Liam! He thinks Liam is so funny and he loves to play with him and laugh at him. Arie and Ryder are also developing a relationship, slowly but surely. He loves his Daddy too. He seems to be more comfortable when Daddy holds him; but is favorite person has to be.... ME! I know this phase of his life won't last very long so I'm soaking up every minute of it.<br />
Ryder loves going ot the swimming pool. He loves finally facing forward in the car. He loves to carry around electronics, so we gave him an old remote and many old cell phones. His newest electronic toy is our super old iPod.<br />
Ryder loves to place a toy in each hand and then push those hands along the floor as he crawls. Last night he was crawling around with an iPod in one hand and a remote in the other.<br />
Ryder also loves to sing in the car and always sings when I sing. It is pretty sweet. Ryder also dances a lot. Out of all our kids he loves dancing the most! He also does a lot of low-key head bobbing when he just feels like kickin' back.<br />
We feel so lucky to have Ryder in our home. His first year has gone by so fast, but every minute of it has been amazing. He is such a good baby and he is almost always in a very good mood. He is very patient with all of his family members and never seems to complain no matter how long we are out running errands. His smile is so warm and so sweet and I could just stare at him all day. His eyes are kind and he seems to really look at you like he knows you.<br />
Ryder we love you! Our family could not be complete without you! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET BOY!!!!!!<br />
Here are a list of Ryder's nicknames (we are a nickname family soooo here it goes...):<br />
Ryder Cups<br />
Fred Cupples<br />
Cup Cups <br />
Cuppies<br />
Swamers<br />
Swammie Swumps<br />
Swoots<br />
Cups in a Cups<br />
Ryderson<br />
Chupa Chups (thanks Aunt Jill and the girl in the Hong Kong subway)<br />
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If anyone is like me and HATES running and has never had athletic confidence I <i><b>highly recommend</b></i> this program! It has totally worked for me. Check it out!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-44235933849519770262010-02-18T15:28:00.000+10:002010-02-18T15:28:13.388+10:00Being AccountableI have recently decided to make myself love running. I started a blog to hold myself accountable. I don't expect all of you to check it all the time, but I'm advertising the blog so that I know others know! That way I'll be less likely to quit at my life change!! LOL! So if you are incredibly bored and you want someone to laugh at, feel free to stop on by to <a href="http://www.runalyrun.blogspot.com/">www.runalyrun.blogspot.com!</a><br />
I'll post pics of the kids later!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-28286718145040413312009-11-15T21:13:00.002+10:002009-11-15T22:52:15.297+10:00It has been a LONG time...<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So it has been a very long time since I have updated this thing. It just takes so long to download pictures that I get frustrated and quit!</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well, tonight I'm going to try and keep my cool and give a little update on our family.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everything has been going great around here. Liam is in a a pre-k program and he loves it! He is making some great friends and learning a lot. He doesn't like it when I ask him what he did that day, but he will offer up information willingly if he's left alone. Here a few of the things he has learned:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. all about books - he knows where to find the author and the title page. Before we read any book he quizzes me on where the title page is and who wrote the book.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2. all about making healthy choices - he knows which foods are healthy and which are "junk". He has learned different ways of exercising; like situps, push ups, and a few yoga poses. The other day I cracked open a Diet Rite and Liam said "What is that mom?" I replied "my drink". "MOM! That is junk! It is a soda and it is junk!" He sure did put me in my place! LOL!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. all about emergency vehicles and procedures - his class took a field trip to the airport fire department where they learned all about saving people from airplane fires. Kelly went along on the field trip and the kids were really impressed that he was a pilot. Liam was definitely the COOL kid that day (and I'm sure Kelly's ego was stroked as well). Liam also knows all about STOP, DROP, and ROLL.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4. 9/11 - when I picked Liam up from school on 9/11 he got in the car and was so anxious to tell me something, "MOM! DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11?!?!?!?!" "Yeah Buddy, I do, it was a very sad day." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"THE UNITED STATES WAS ATTACKED!!!! TWO VERY BAD MEN GOT IN A PLANE AND CRASHED IT INTO THE TWIN TOWERS!!!!!" He continued to tell me the details of that horrible day and it was very obvious it affected him. We talked a little bit about our country and how some people in the world don't like how we do things. I also talked to him about the military and all the great things they do. We are in the unique situation to be near 2 large military bases and many of our friends serve this country. It was cool being able to explain our soldiers and their sacrifice, while also giving a familiar face to them. I think it helped him understand things better. I named all of our friends and family who are in the military. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Liam has learned a lot so far this year, but those are the things that stick out to me now. He is also learning a lot socially. He is learning about making friends and dealing when people don't like you. It is a frustrating thing to watch your child learn, but it is necessary and it has been fun to watch him grow and develop and mature. He is also picking up on those annoying things that school age children do: he LOVES to copy us "Liam come here." "<i>Liam come here!</i>" </span></span>, <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">he also talks about tooting and poops all the time, and he loves to burp and then tell me that it was an accident. I'm sure this behavior will not change for the next 35 years. We have also learned that Liam is the class clown. I suspected this about him. When Kelly returned from the school field trip he confirmed that yes indeed Liam is a clown and loves to get a laugh! It hasn't gotten him in too much trouble, but I hope he keeps it in check. I guess he comes from a long line of class clowns (MOM AND JILL!!!!!!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arie is.... well Arie is Arie. She is the girliest girl you will ever come across, but also loves to play anything that Liam loves to play. She must always have at least one purse (usually she carries two), and she wants to where a dress or a skirt anytime she has to wear clothes. Everything is a princess something... princess ninjas, princess cereal, princess shoes, princess carseat, princess swords etc. She cracks us up and drives us crazy all in the same breath. She is definitely in the middle of the terrible twos, but she makes up for it with her dancing and funny remarks. She is a girl who knows what she wants and when she wants it and she doesn't take no for an answer. She is fiercely loyal to her family too, especially Liam. I will be punishing Liam for hitting her and she will say "NO MOMMY! You can't yell at Liam!" or "You CAN'T put Liam in timeout! He doesn't like it!" She never minds her own business and she rarely knows why she is getting mad at everyone. But she will do and say anything to defend her brother! She doesn't really care that much about Ryder yet. She only shows him attention when Liam does. Oh yeah - LIAM LOVES RYDER! Arie loves when I tell her the Princess Diaries. They are stories I make up for her. They always involve the same four characters... Princess Arie, Princess Saryn, Princess Georgie and Prince Braden. I think I've made up 25 stories about those 4 and if I accidentally tell it different than the time before she gets mad. It is such a joy to have our little Princess Lulu, but I'm not gonna lie... I've about run out of steam! My mother cursed me well!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ryder is growing so fast and I hate it! He is coming up on 6 months and I can't believe that in another 6 months he will be a toddler :( He is roly poly and so sweet. He smiles constantly and his laugh is the cutest. He LOVES his big brother and he laughs at anything Liam does or says. He rolls all over the place and he still spits up about 45 million times a day. I'm sure Kelly and I have the permanent stench of spit up, but I don't care! He is so sweet and so wonderful I just can't get enough of him.</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm searching for any sort of special powder that will keep him a baby forever. No luck yet though :(</span><br />
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</span>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-76694262584153433482009-09-01T21:50:00.000+10:002009-09-01T21:50:31.634+10:00Attention Bloggers... I need your help!So has anyone actually published their blog to one of those books yet??? I think they are called "Blurbs" or something...<br />
I was just wondering what people think of the quality, convience, price... everything really.<br />
I've recently decided to do separate journals for my kids through blogger. I've decided it is really the best way for me to document their life. I'm not a scrapbooker, and I hate when my hand cramps up from writing. I thought it would be fun to journal their lives through blogger and then every year I could do one of those blurb books.<br />
But I want to know what people think of that service. Is it quality? Is it easy to figure out? Is there an easier way to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish?<br />
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Thanks for you help!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-84131798096879914232009-07-15T17:54:00.005+10:002009-07-15T18:22:50.153+10:00Ryder where are you?<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">My mom has requested some recent pics of Ryder. But when I got on the computer I realized our most recent ones (which really aren't that many) are not on the computer yet. AND.. I don't know where the cord is to put them on the computer.<br />But I did find these pictures. These were taken 2 days after we got home from Houston. We invited a friend over for dinner that night because he took care of our house for us.<br />Here are Liam and Arie being their usual goofy selves...<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuGz98kuJKdDYHnTf0UNBfieo1wb0j99Z6bp2cGV4G2t_LYA-oFRSNy7OWnhDGlFeI_wMmsWgkZdxl7dWkYi_TSSkaaPSYP4HujY3gN2zEHC8YgIrxtaFonL6lt3PHRuXozUMPyT0wb9Yq/s1600-h/Texas+2009+450.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuGz98kuJKdDYHnTf0UNBfieo1wb0j99Z6bp2cGV4G2t_LYA-oFRSNy7OWnhDGlFeI_wMmsWgkZdxl7dWkYi_TSSkaaPSYP4HujY3gN2zEHC8YgIrxtaFonL6lt3PHRuXozUMPyT0wb9Yq/s400/Texas+2009+450.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358593385088208498" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">And here they are at about 5 pm... I'm not sure if it was jet-lag, or them just trying to get out of eating Panang...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lxjWHDPpzrfjSzrlJAw82on4kK5vvtqN781uMHkRjwWXuuNP0_WH3EWJAJnCguvpQuYIrhGz7iIxhI3h4Yn0dzl7aYRoZGsSBV03xsFA2mUU6_qoffMMpe8DtZecvukVWR7Hwmf-jOKM/s1600-h/Texas+2009+451.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lxjWHDPpzrfjSzrlJAw82on4kK5vvtqN781uMHkRjwWXuuNP0_WH3EWJAJnCguvpQuYIrhGz7iIxhI3h4Yn0dzl7aYRoZGsSBV03xsFA2mUU6_qoffMMpe8DtZecvukVWR7Hwmf-jOKM/s400/Texas+2009+451.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358596840672327682" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-zXB5tG_p1QDIXKyFRPet-Zm3zSUCxADFON1YppA3FbAKtzfX1dWd-FeU9IBi73Zf5dO2Cd0ll2RhErkQweeU8dOmcfz32ZPOrg0GNzuAzBedyd0KqnQJSHDDW5yEy6o42HaKLl3WJBQ/s1600-h/Texas+2009+452.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-zXB5tG_p1QDIXKyFRPet-Zm3zSUCxADFON1YppA3FbAKtzfX1dWd-FeU9IBi73Zf5dO2Cd0ll2RhErkQweeU8dOmcfz32ZPOrg0GNzuAzBedyd0KqnQJSHDDW5yEy6o42HaKLl3WJBQ/s400/Texas+2009+452.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358596836437833474" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0f4X319IRpcMxNgyB35FwrDm1MbFOLsfmQOpscjJAFQd4TmqaYyCcjtm1fGrpF3rwQH4ZeGzSovE0z4u7HzDh1p2OSBchkJ7tZhQA2EQ7L20bEGeD7XxNF_xC3WzXIXwqtYInlfxdbC3M/s1600-h/Texas+2009+453.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0f4X319IRpcMxNgyB35FwrDm1MbFOLsfmQOpscjJAFQd4TmqaYyCcjtm1fGrpF3rwQH4ZeGzSovE0z4u7HzDh1p2OSBchkJ7tZhQA2EQ7L20bEGeD7XxNF_xC3WzXIXwqtYInlfxdbC3M/s400/Texas+2009+453.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358596827899223618" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFTraNn89vdIf54d_3iJ2gO4AQyM8RfhNE0apt6nJkc95LrOv2-89yZU37KHShRrToeLo0vfn3zYOP96frLAHvRyeL8a73MNATFWVzj3SDwdhUmE0uDFelyVwx6NmwB0pM_JKe8mWZbIDJ/s1600-h/Texas+2009+454.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFTraNn89vdIf54d_3iJ2gO4AQyM8RfhNE0apt6nJkc95LrOv2-89yZU37KHShRrToeLo0vfn3zYOP96frLAHvRyeL8a73MNATFWVzj3SDwdhUmE0uDFelyVwx6NmwB0pM_JKe8mWZbIDJ/s400/Texas+2009+454.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358596821529903650" border="0" /></a><br />These are about a month old. I didn't realize that I had dressed all the kids in brown that day. I wanted to take a picture of them and this is what I got! Totally their personalities... well whatever amount of personality Ryder had at the time.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmEeH-ISFyb465pTNfRgbq5cBuGK9Z2SxODggdx3ziAd35AZrCoXfkIZjRpNAWq2nnIWwCQXLZ5quinKgsnXkQNPkAZh1gqa3LWkQ3I0OZngxgFmpRULLZ7M1TX-g9-zuI8PHOpyXd-Fw/s1600-h/Texas+2009+324.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmEeH-ISFyb465pTNfRgbq5cBuGK9Z2SxODggdx3ziAd35AZrCoXfkIZjRpNAWq2nnIWwCQXLZ5quinKgsnXkQNPkAZh1gqa3LWkQ3I0OZngxgFmpRULLZ7M1TX-g9-zuI8PHOpyXd-Fw/s400/Texas+2009+324.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358598444445564946" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoIEszDwkQh2-CJGmOmy3g-bAmsDoRJgwe3f3HgGIJw4t4g_RO9Y_nyD_8HlFcFLMpjL1LFsWNSNMZ2VdonKlWPiExpQBzrQBgNsd0DKTSheK73U2uKamGmD7OnA_n_x_1-o58DoJKa3C/s1600-h/Texas+2009+322.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoIEszDwkQh2-CJGmOmy3g-bAmsDoRJgwe3f3HgGIJw4t4g_RO9Y_nyD_8HlFcFLMpjL1LFsWNSNMZ2VdonKlWPiExpQBzrQBgNsd0DKTSheK73U2uKamGmD7OnA_n_x_1-o58DoJKa3C/s400/Texas+2009+322.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358598435267626866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></span></span>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-75085267429854871562009-06-06T05:00:00.019+10:002009-06-11T03:29:45.435+10:00Ryder Zachary Monson<span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Well here it is... a little bit about our little boy.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I guess I'll start at the beginning of our adventure. For those who don't care about the details of labor, you can just skip down to the pictures. But for our posterity and for those who love L&D specifics read on.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">My doctor agreed to induce me at 39 weeks. We put my name on a waiting list to go in on the 20th if there were beds open; and if that didn't work out I would go in on the 21st for sure. The night of the 19th I about had a nervous breakdown from the great uncomfortableness (is that a word???) of being so pregnant. I knew it wasn't for sure that I would get in the next day, but if I didn't get in I had plans of giving myself an at home c-section! At 5:00 am I got a call from some wonderful person at the hospital saying that if I wanted to come in at 7:00 am I could have my baby!!!! I practically screamed YES! I should've tried to go back to sleep for an hour or so but I was so excited at the thought of not being preggers that I just couldn't sleep. I finished packing my bag and Kelly and I got clothes out for the kids and told Grandma that we were leaving. OFF TO THE HOSPITAL!!!!!!!!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Got there at 7, they took me to a HUGE delivery room, one nurse stuck me three times attempting to get my IV in (<span style="font-family:times new roman;">I couldn't get mad at her, my veins run away from needles</span>), Kathy my main nurse stuck me in another spot and luckily my vein stayed, started me on pitocin by 8 am, contracting by 8:10. The contractions went on becoming more frequent and more severe, then 20 minutes later I could hardly feel them and they were hardly happening! So every 30 mintues Nurse Kathy would come in and up the pitocin.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruQooXMR5IBePvFGk3Z1CN3C15cLUaJmZ2h465TelB88Ww_IhiNSAeO8LjJoItNCRHw6ULEERqIzOU4y_zvUsEz29DN7L-X1-VsLLJ4whl6YghvTdcjTa9Yeo9CTvit_5pUHtdV05Ios/s1600-h/IMG_1629.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343977414696918802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruQooXMR5IBePvFGk3Z1CN3C15cLUaJmZ2h465TelB88Ww_IhiNSAeO8LjJoItNCRHw6ULEERqIzOU4y_zvUsEz29DN7L-X1-VsLLJ4whl6YghvTdcjTa9Yeo9CTvit_5pUHtdV05Ios/s400/IMG_1629.JPG" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_g4Wj4RF1umZQPWW95Qou4jSrkTjYaYjVZo2DQbNTcCMaSGetiMqO4jIk6tU5xOQ7y9PZWfkESbipopxCJO4KRTghEm42StiZ-5BwSFxqn2E3dpWm5tBLV9kRo2TYKUX2yScBLpCh8U/s1600-h/IMG_1630.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343981125240881842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_g4Wj4RF1umZQPWW95Qou4jSrkTjYaYjVZo2DQbNTcCMaSGetiMqO4jIk6tU5xOQ7y9PZWfkESbipopxCJO4KRTghEm42StiZ-5BwSFxqn2E3dpWm5tBLV9kRo2TYKUX2yScBLpCh8U/s400/IMG_1630.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;">This went on for a while. My precious wonderful fabulous sister came to the hospital to hang out with Kelly and I. The only thing I hated about her being there was when she showed up with <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">DONUTS</span> and then she ate them in front of me. I've almost forgiven her.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS60kJH-K5TwMCyfijZ96yDHWGvdsv08GYywiCVnmj-nOD3F5HTQQSXehK3m9b9FDHbUTiEf33e1d9PGGmSo_Dr0xQoXL6uAMOTf2gbvHsfFAkqjT5rlk8GJKLrAuMhxbcIUIwAj0oHfE/s1600-h/IMG_1633.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345498652230540594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS60kJH-K5TwMCyfijZ96yDHWGvdsv08GYywiCVnmj-nOD3F5HTQQSXehK3m9b9FDHbUTiEf33e1d9PGGmSo_Dr0xQoXL6uAMOTf2gbvHsfFAkqjT5rlk8GJKLrAuMhxbcIUIwAj0oHfE/s400/IMG_1633.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Dr. Cantu came in around 12 and said she thought she should break my water and hopefully the labor would go quicker. She broke my water - OUCH!!!! Dr. Cantu then told me that if I wanted an epidural that I should go ahead and request it soon because there was a full house and if I waited too long to request it I may not get it in time. I told her I didn't want the epidural to slow me down and she ensured me that all the newest information said the epi's don't slow anyone down. Since I flew all the way the to Texas for an epidural, I had Nurse Kathy put in the request. Ten mintues later the anesthesiologist came in pushing his cart full of tricks! Normally I would've been so excited to see him. But normally you've been contracting for a while and you are already in pain so you don't mind someone jamming a long needle in your spine. But for me at that moment I wasn't uncomfortable at all; so I wasn't really looking forward to the torture I was about to endure. Aside from the "pressure" he told me I would feel, it really went well.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Minutes later I found myself good and numb unable to move myself from the waist down.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcsBC4hP_bQquUa9JOzOiTm7Ylk-lJmvokj7bl61AxK4epB_Im8gZnk2Fg1FRa13g_cN_kYTYje5dLyW2oqWnFMfUwWHB8dCzvxo1dkrvI7pGyTMDsIPkuvU6xPcHfhQ3C4jPHIBoHRoJq/s1600-h/IMG_1631.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345499128967831218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcsBC4hP_bQquUa9JOzOiTm7Ylk-lJmvokj7bl61AxK4epB_Im8gZnk2Fg1FRa13g_cN_kYTYje5dLyW2oqWnFMfUwWHB8dCzvxo1dkrvI7pGyTMDsIPkuvU6xPcHfhQ3C4jPHIBoHRoJq/s400/IMG_1631.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;">Nurse Kathy came in and told me to lay on my left side and the she would come in 30 minutes later and roll me to my other side. She said that this should help me dilate a little quicker. At that point I was only a two!!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">About an hour later Kathy finally made it back in. She said she would check me before rolling me over to the other side. Shockingly I was a 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From a 2 to a 10 in an hour!!!!!</span> She said she would call the doctor and that if I felt the urge to push to try and ignore it until the doc came in. She was right!!! I almost immediately felt the need to push, I didn't know how I was going to wait. Luckily Dr. Cantu came in and got suited up and the fun began!</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDoCoyEmqoPFMk2H9fuFyzpgrNSTukdXgGMy62_2U2Lq8orfSwxdJ-PujhJrqSHO_sCLPiqwMaq96wyWmLI9H2cQVfgsxPNCCg_1Ju7k4yzXRCczXOPd8JKp6KbUAmgCJIN8apFmByV40/s1600-h/IMG_1636.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345499610687170018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDoCoyEmqoPFMk2H9fuFyzpgrNSTukdXgGMy62_2U2Lq8orfSwxdJ-PujhJrqSHO_sCLPiqwMaq96wyWmLI9H2cQVfgsxPNCCg_1Ju7k4yzXRCczXOPd8JKp6KbUAmgCJIN8apFmByV40/s400/IMG_1636.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">As soon as the stirrups (<span style="font-family:times new roman;">or whatever the awful leg holders are called</span>) came out I looked at Jill. I normally don't like having anyone in the room except for Kelly. But Jill definitely helps me relax and she doesn't get all hyper and emotional, so I decided that I wouldn't kick her out. I did try to warn her quickly of all the awful things she may see and I suggested that she may want to stand by my head or something. She didn't seem too concerned.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Right before I started pushing Dr. Cantu asked all of us what we thought the baby would be. Kelly, me, and Nurse Kathy all said that we thought it was a <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,102,102)">girl</span>.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I started pushing. Between the excitement of finding out the sex of our new baby and the priceless look on Jill's face I have to say that is was the funnest labor I've ever had. The epi was perfect, Jill was hilarious, Nurse Kathy was a dream, Dr. Cantu was AWESOME, and Kelly and I were so nervous. When I knew the baby was out I lifted my head to try and see what I would be raising, and I saw the umbilical cord and then I saw... well... testicles! Dr. Cantu exclaimed <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)">"IT'S A BOY!!!!!!"</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We were so excited to hear those words. We had a new little boy! They put him on my belly while Kelly cut the cord. He looked so big! Well so much bigger than my other kids were. I was staring at his sweet little face saying over and over in my mind "Wow, thats my boy!" and "Yeah I'm not pregnant anymore!!!!"</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGawKs2yNzOlD7UnfDHoSjdWnb-w0pI0uqViNfHlm5JqxFKzwFSYSfGSv3jHdX_EBy4gY0wkcpBPOM43RQRGnFwr7dRcVdgD_peDegPvo5U3jCDhU8KHQdc7rQkh9evRrH1SqbSellh5E8/s1600-h/IMG_1648.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345500609580470130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGawKs2yNzOlD7UnfDHoSjdWnb-w0pI0uqViNfHlm5JqxFKzwFSYSfGSv3jHdX_EBy4gY0wkcpBPOM43RQRGnFwr7dRcVdgD_peDegPvo5U3jCDhU8KHQdc7rQkh9evRrH1SqbSellh5E8/s400/IMG_1648.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmMtmCSLa-Ri33sTPJus_reBO7NbHWcgi4pexCh8lchY4HIcTt9fK0oXcSRpfPlZHjHJJNVPMMQ_ABMX5yXZhe2mkzzvqb0pIlxKDsoFONZo68NHeA_ub-mAxTQG5-k1iy_PZZvHU8AFcz/s1600-h/IMG_1643.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345500604236484946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmMtmCSLa-Ri33sTPJus_reBO7NbHWcgi4pexCh8lchY4HIcTt9fK0oXcSRpfPlZHjHJJNVPMMQ_ABMX5yXZhe2mkzzvqb0pIlxKDsoFONZo68NHeA_ub-mAxTQG5-k1iy_PZZvHU8AFcz/s400/IMG_1643.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-xWnkl9VOurI0AwJ0BLYXbOROONNmQ75Y1nQRFnFdBhoTRK72JiQdiNtP9S24nprHsEZNlqKrViiJBn_jyoLFEOH8y2Ol_84dKdhezE0jfswXCs8hbA7sUSXk58X8UmwtltdytmbEi04O/s1600-h/IMG_1642.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345500601124842082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-xWnkl9VOurI0AwJ0BLYXbOROONNmQ75Y1nQRFnFdBhoTRK72JiQdiNtP9S24nprHsEZNlqKrViiJBn_jyoLFEOH8y2Ol_84dKdhezE0jfswXCs8hbA7sUSXk58X8UmwtltdytmbEi04O/s400/IMG_1642.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">They took him away and cleaned him up and then my mom came in. 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGKvvoXteohRuzOlWXodi5PI9gfd2z9KC-TIMOEwu4Iw4NzDB2MT3QAQLkw9eL02w9bfamldBWRQQ-LCNli5qhAJIRJdQc8N1ALwH32He9p1jba-eDIQhoMSZmXavf6xVpSGHqDLhun1K_/s400/IMG_1695.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">(Sorry that we didn't get pictures of everyone).</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Liam and Arie also had the fun opportunity to add their hand prints to the hospital wall. It is a really cute program the hospital has to include the older siblings of the new babies. The kids get to put the hand prints on the wall with their names and the name of their new baby. Liam did a great job with his hand prints and writing his own name. He then requested that Kelly write the word "<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Batman</span>" next to his hand prints as well. Arie's were slightly more sloppy. But they both had so much fun making their mark on our special occasion.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUo9kRUCnYRovAUSkF6WFbIbATbtptnDbNj3sADsVcRG7IofUna_1xBFPbklX3_PcUGoTi5nW8lYUgJ2mbyv6oqG2ERnV_dtjivnrEQwBg-tFa6CL8OrdPdv_qb2e-O0uzcRQG5e1KfSQM/s1600-h/IMG_1693.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345508792215918066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUo9kRUCnYRovAUSkF6WFbIbATbtptnDbNj3sADsVcRG7IofUna_1xBFPbklX3_PcUGoTi5nW8lYUgJ2mbyv6oqG2ERnV_dtjivnrEQwBg-tFa6CL8OrdPdv_qb2e-O0uzcRQG5e1KfSQM/s400/IMG_1693.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje1W3VWm9-5xt8NTU2IWc_elN_Gcxvj8n7Qp43zl8GDAbN-bBXpSrEHDTFEtHYqgPdtScqKuWOlpR4E63InsqNPfNk3XVac4cSP3sZEgt7GXLqn9kAp-zP3PPOfmAlC64bNfpoVcg57CgN/s1600-h/IMG_1692.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345508786949341346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje1W3VWm9-5xt8NTU2IWc_elN_Gcxvj8n7Qp43zl8GDAbN-bBXpSrEHDTFEtHYqgPdtScqKuWOlpR4E63InsqNPfNk3XVac4cSP3sZEgt7GXLqn9kAp-zP3PPOfmAlC64bNfpoVcg57CgN/s400/IMG_1692.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UsOQMZs1IPtYe8MkSumvZAkM1tF21EgXYZi-vL4Xidc6jrH9ipMIJszeDVo1YTTpw8fL79saT701i1Z0B9kbhAAZAJBBJExcQUcdqg5Un7ZxBRN-EvXBLnhAXGkuYDrCkGDQlo3SwKnj/s1600-h/IMG_1688.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345508778731722658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UsOQMZs1IPtYe8MkSumvZAkM1tF21EgXYZi-vL4Xidc6jrH9ipMIJszeDVo1YTTpw8fL79saT701i1Z0B9kbhAAZAJBBJExcQUcdqg5Un7ZxBRN-EvXBLnhAXGkuYDrCkGDQlo3SwKnj/s400/IMG_1688.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1jmWU_Aoab_p2JUGMliEvSZ6gZHU-I3CqSbfDJb3zOTIKtGDCMJnaGCYn-ByyGncAf1aafH2Bpht20x4ws4OCJma2yB4RgEp2V1qPYAgzrtktapLHjQLmQ4Fyef663gSfyJUwmPemQuJZ/s1600-h/IMG_1690.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345508774559066002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1jmWU_Aoab_p2JUGMliEvSZ6gZHU-I3CqSbfDJb3zOTIKtGDCMJnaGCYn-ByyGncAf1aafH2Bpht20x4ws4OCJma2yB4RgEp2V1qPYAgzrtktapLHjQLmQ4Fyef663gSfyJUwmPemQuJZ/s400/IMG_1690.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So now we had Liam, Arie, and .... well we didn't know. From the beginning of the pregnancy Kelly and I both thought we were having a girl. We never agreed on any boy names and so we gave up discussing them. About a month before I had Ryder I started thinking that it could maybe be a boy. I gave a little bit more thought to boys names. Then the whole week before I delivered I went back to thinking it was a girl. We finally agreed on a girls name and gave up on the boy name thing.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The morning that I delivered, after the hospital called me, Kelly suggested the name Ryder. I don't think he knows why that named popped in his head. We talked about the name about a total of five minutes but then we just didn't bring it up again because we thought we were having a girl.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Well out came a boy with all his parts and we starting to think that Ryder would be the name. When Liam and Arie showed up at the hospital Liam asked what the baby's name would be. We said that maybe it would be Ryder, and from that moment on Liam would tell everyone he had a brother named Baby Ryder. So then we knew... it was Ryder for sure.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">And I already wrote about how we got the name Zachary. So now we are blessed to have Ryder Zachary Monson in our home. He is so good and such an easy baby. His disposition reminds me a lot of Liam as a baby. He is very easy going, only cries when we change his diaper. Even at night, he grunts when he's hungry and after he's fed he passes out again. I realize he's only two weeks old, but so far so good.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">A his two week appt he weighed 8 lbs 4.5 ozs. My little boy is already growing up! It makes me so sad.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So Ryder - we want you to know that we love you so much and everyday we love you more and more. I can't even remember what it was like to not have you. We know as parents we are far from perfect, and I'm sure you will be disappointed a million times, but hopefully you will always know how much you are loved. Liam and Arie may pick on you and give you a hard time, but know that one day they will be your best friends. Welcome to our family little guy!</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhdpcW4uvq7OOwUTvwmgXg-0_cKv3covIeXas_yA4DseYQw9gW1kz9KY9-Xy-pG_g0CjTuijtIGLtCniyqCF2g3N2OkpQwwt3AxBHShbVEG6dudXNsjSuPgoZnBz9-0vVO8aaxU23u-9y/s1600-h/IMG_1709.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345509307327157922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhdpcW4uvq7OOwUTvwmgXg-0_cKv3covIeXas_yA4DseYQw9gW1kz9KY9-Xy-pG_g0CjTuijtIGLtCniyqCF2g3N2OkpQwwt3AxBHShbVEG6dudXNsjSuPgoZnBz9-0vVO8aaxU23u-9y/s400/IMG_1709.JPG" border="0" /></a>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-41437437850307450912009-05-22T14:02:00.002+10:002009-05-22T14:08:03.574+10:00WHATS IN A NAME????Ryder Zachary Monson is our newest little guy. Zachary is my brothers name and he is so excited to have his nephew named after him. We were stuck on a middle name not really knowing what to do. Kel went to his parents house to help with the kids in the morning and after he left the birth certificate girl ( no idea what her title is) came by and said she needed the paperwork in as hour. I called Kel and told him that we needed to come up with somethingand quick. A little later Kelly called me and said "What do you think?" We both knew we wanted to use a family name but we haven't really agreed on the family names that we like. I wanted to suggest my brother's name but I didn't want to assume that he should be named after my family. I suggested it nonchalantly and Kel said "Good that is what I was thinking too."<br />So now Uncle Zach has a lot to live up to! :) We love Zach and we know Ryder will love carrying his name.<br />Pictures to come tomorrow.... I PROMISE!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-67394798418185617702009-05-21T13:04:00.002+10:002009-05-21T13:12:01.884+10:00ITS A.....<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family: courier new;">BOY!!!!!!!!! Yes yes we had a healthy robust little boy today. he was born at 3:43 pm, 7 lbs 10 </span><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ozs</span><span style="font-family: courier new;">, 20 3/4 inches long. He has chubby cheeks and meaty hands and he is </span><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">soooooo</span><span style="font-family: courier new;"> sweet. We've also been told by the </span><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">NICU</span><span style="font-family: courier new;"> nurses that he is the loudest in the nursery... why does that not surprise me? </span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">We haven't decided on the full name yet, but we know his first name will be Ryder. We had never thought about this name before, but at 5 am after I got called to go in Kelly suggested it. We were both pretty convinced that we were having a girl so I honestly didn't think about it. But the more and </span><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">more</span><span style="font-family: courier new;"> I said it the more it seemed to be the right name for our newest </span><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Monson</span><span style="font-family: courier new;">. Liam and Arie came up to visit and Liam </span><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">immediately</span><span style="font-family: courier new;"> took to the name Ryder as well. So I think we have a first name. Middle name is another story - we have NO idea what that will be. Hopefully by tomorrow we will have one though.</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Kel</span><span style="font-family: courier new;"> and I are still being lazy </span><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">but as</span><span style="font-family: courier new;"> soon as we put the pics on our computer I will put them on the blog with more details about our big day.</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">All I can say is I'm so happy to have another </span><span style="font-family: courier new;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">sweeet</span><span style="font-family: courier new;"> little baby to love on. And seeing Liam and Arie with him for the first time was a really sweet and priceless moment.</span><br /></span>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-3080124997366884292009-05-20T23:51:00.002+10:002009-05-20T23:53:21.111+10:00in the hospital...Well I'm FINALLY in the hospital!!!!!!! Got a call at 5 this morning telling me they had a bed for me. I've never been so excited to get a call tht early before. Right now I'm just eating ice chips and waitingfor the pitocin to start working its magic.<br /><br />We'll keep you posted.....Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-1914797162959305432009-05-14T01:07:00.002+10:002009-05-14T01:16:53.807+10:00Baby Update...Well as of now I'm scheduled to be induced on the 21st. I didn't really want to be induced this time but right now it sounds <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">soooooooooooo</span> appealing! But to be honest - I think I can <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">induce</span> this labor on my own. Never before with my other pregnancies have I had such a desire to walk, have sex, drink <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">castrol</span> oil, all tricks that supposedly work. Only problem... Kelly is still in GUAM! I want this baby out but I don't want to have the baby without him here. I need him in the delivery room and it would break his heart to miss out on our big surprise. But the minute he gets here I will attempt to get this baby out! In fact I may try walking home from the airport just to see if I can make something happen <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">HAHA</span>!<br />I've been reading online about all the things women experience when they are about to go into labor. I have never experienced these things because I have always been induced and my body never had those "signs" of labor. But I have to say A LOT of those things are happening to me and it is a little freaky. Normally I would be thrilled, but I'm so afraid of having this baby without Kelly. I try to only let myself have 1-2 projects a day. If I do more than that then the contractions start and literally feel like the baby is falling out of me! I tried to talk to Kelly yesterday about all the early labor signs I'm experiencing but once I mentioned the words <em><strong>mucous plug</strong></em> he got mad <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">and</span> wanted to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">immediately</span> end our conversation! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">HAHA</span> It was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">sooooo</span> funny. <br />So Kelly will be here in about 5 days and I will be induced in 8. We'll <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">see</span> how that schedule ends up working out. My doctors <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">appt</span>. is Friday and I will be really interested to see what she says. Maybe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Kel</span> will be able to jump on the plane sooner and we can get this show on the road!<br />Wish us luck!!!!!<br />Only 8 more days till we know if we've been blessed with a HE or a SHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-87996873419340385832009-04-26T00:51:00.002+10:002009-04-26T00:52:48.839+10:00Liam<span style="font-size:130%;">I'm sitting on the couch checking my email (ok really I'm playing Mafia Wars) and Liam comes up, leansup against me, sighs, and says "Ahhh snog flag!"<br /><br />????What????<br /></span>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-89931585517230573972009-04-25T10:55:00.003+10:002009-04-25T11:07:50.598+10:00Soooooo close!Well I'm finally in the 30's... days that is... until I have this baby! I feel like this pregnancy has lasted forever and I'm so ready for it to be over. Everything is going pretty good right now. Sadly <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Kel</span> is in Guam while I deal with my heathen children on my own. Actually Liam has been unusually sweet and easy lately, while Arie is in the throws of the terrible terrible two's! I seriously think I forgot how bad the two's are. I also think she is figuring out that something major is about to happen. She never wants me to be out of her sight and she is always telling me what to do and when to do it. And she is always saying "I'm the baby." It will be interesting to see how she handles the change. Liam seems to be really excited about the new baby. He thinks we are going to have a girl. He is so set on it being a girl that I'm afraid he will be disappointed if it isn't one. Kelly and I of course <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">don't</span> care what it is... I'm <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">just</span> ready to not be pregnant. But if it is a boy, it probably won't have a name for a while. We can't seem to agree on a boy name. My dad has always been really good at predicting the sex of someones baby. I'd say he has only been wrong maybe twice his whole life! Papa predicts girl... we'll see! Some days I think I know and then other days I have no idea. I'm so excited about it being a surprise though! I almost don't even want to know when the baby is born!!! Does that sound dumb. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Ther</span>e is a part of me that wants to wait and find out when I change the first diaper or something. I mean I know the surprise can't go on forever, but it really has been so fun. Even on Christmas morning there is a part of me that doesn't want to open any gifts because I like the anticipation of getting a gift and not knowing what it is. I was NEVER the kid who snooped through their <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">parents</span> closet to find their presents. <br />Well, I'm getting closer so that is good. I hope that the kids and I make it through this next month with out killing each other. I think I hear "I want Daddy!" about 10 times a day already!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-31412712028555630142009-03-07T21:49:00.017+10:002009-03-10T20:48:18.596+10:00Anniversary and Cruise<div> This post is loooong over due. And considering Arie ripped off the "E" key on our computer two nights ago, I don't know if I will finish this post or not. But I will try.</div> Kelly and I recently celebrated our three year anniversary (Feb. 24th). I know three years really isn't that long, but it is the longest I've ever been married :). We actually celebrated our anniversary about 7 weeks ago. We flew to Singapore and went on a four day cruise to Malaysia and Thailand. Being as it was our first cruise we felt it was smart to only do four days - what if we hated being on a boat??? And living so far away from family it is hard to find someone to watch your heathen children for you! We luckily have great friends here who agreed to help out so that we could get away together. Thanks!<br /> We started off flying to Tokyo where we had to race through the airport to make it to our next flight that would get us to Singapore. We made it right before they started boarding! It is always funny to see people running in the airport, but I think it is funnier when one of those people is a pregnant person trying to keep up with her long legged husband! And Japanese people don't do things like run through the airport... they are always way ahead of schedule.<br /> From Tokyo we flew 7 hours down to Singapore. The flight seemed like a breeze! I'm so used to doing a 13 hour flight with two children... 7 hours with Kel was easy! Once we got to Singapore we took a cab to my see my cousin Bryant and his roommate Alex. I hadn't seen Bryant in soooo long and it was really great to spend time with him. We also had so much fun with Alex. She is a blast and her Mandarin skills came in handy when ordering traditional Singaporean fare! We quickly stripped out of our travel clothes and put on something we could sweat in. We weren't going to work out or anything; Singapore is sooooooooooooo hot and humid! A quick change of clothes, and then on to food! Food seems to be the theme when hanging out with Bryant and Alex. It is the theme of my life as well HAHA!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMppKMy-9uh15-OZTpnho-5AKBVaeQRZ-2FlAnRGfVxkS006DADXMa3KZtEhmFgG_1mQeeb9HPU2mBpG64EUF605y7Jfky4ds2jB6O_6FRQ823YbWoKKwuGCLC2MTLt5E5rtC9_KN0ADI/s1600-h/IMG_1092.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310415388311870962" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMppKMy-9uh15-OZTpnho-5AKBVaeQRZ-2FlAnRGfVxkS006DADXMa3KZtEhmFgG_1mQeeb9HPU2mBpG64EUF605y7Jfky4ds2jB6O_6FRQ823YbWoKKwuGCLC2MTLt5E5rtC9_KN0ADI/s400/IMG_1092.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /></a><p align="center"></p><div style="text-align: center;">Ok - you know those moving sidewalks they have in airports? In Singapore they call them travellators! I thought it was funny! I'm random I know!<br /></div><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-CdyVGRl0jatwClLEO09AyaQ3DX-D7WRkmLRrHN9JgyL2aKbmZqYay5wESkDTu2FkSARlReG_NMFcqp4ab_ua3Y1GSr-ii3zloYZ55Wf57LKOaHkb325ceLtJvYiztv1CToxwLKbnKI/s1600-h/IMG_1094.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310416131096226482" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-CdyVGRl0jatwClLEO09AyaQ3DX-D7WRkmLRrHN9JgyL2aKbmZqYay5wESkDTu2FkSARlReG_NMFcqp4ab_ua3Y1GSr-ii3zloYZ55Wf57LKOaHkb325ceLtJvYiztv1CToxwLKbnKI/s400/IMG_1094.JPG" border="0" /></a>Kel in front of the Yu-Kee food house. Doesn't sound very appetizing! </p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ElMseegJoh1k_37JW98j-Gk1jY2mumeKLDbMf5oRCtDb9rC4lVImkX3u8cVcnNUtF7PAEbled-hdPGfIUeiyGFf6nGFFhTy78hjVyidzi9tRNe-Ym36TAALYSr3XkK3KX927c4VgIS4/s1600-h/IMG_1096.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310418235030156738" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ElMseegJoh1k_37JW98j-Gk1jY2mumeKLDbMf5oRCtDb9rC4lVImkX3u8cVcnNUtF7PAEbled-hdPGfIUeiyGFf6nGFFhTy78hjVyidzi9tRNe-Ym36TAALYSr3XkK3KX927c4VgIS4/s400/IMG_1096.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTDboIgYw-5CsvdnM-prRfpJYUK4IY0v1vfB0d21TbgFGJnM05_fdaO_VO6AQqRdJ83Xcuxty6QhsCuGKWV-fZJ19JeZBvIv1VxkXgrZLOL77Ehfq3bddU8T7F5WM_4iHzJ1kpq2rJ5XA/s1600-h/IMG_1095.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310418228555363410" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTDboIgYw-5CsvdnM-prRfpJYUK4IY0v1vfB0d21TbgFGJnM05_fdaO_VO6AQqRdJ83Xcuxty6QhsCuGKWV-fZJ19JeZBvIv1VxkXgrZLOL77Ehfq3bddU8T7F5WM_4iHzJ1kpq2rJ5XA/s400/IMG_1095.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBVshMd9AU1gLFIeu_5uiM4X1XQQ4L2JL8s2iiz4G09LzvapgG_TAcL-F7Iz79dLwsB2ymAj0xOJucWNIkBQRzZmscDnEuH7im-RtuyV_XT8kWf3wB8ril1UKJL3su9Q7swg9JnvBGGhs/s1600-h/IMG_1097.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310418225040707170" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBVshMd9AU1gLFIeu_5uiM4X1XQQ4L2JL8s2iiz4G09LzvapgG_TAcL-F7Iz79dLwsB2ymAj0xOJucWNIkBQRzZmscDnEuH7im-RtuyV_XT8kWf3wB8ril1UKJL3su9Q7swg9JnvBGGhs/s400/IMG_1097.JPG" border="0" /></a> The food in Singapore was soooooooooo good!!! I wish I would've gotten some pics of the delicious traditional Chinese desserts that we had. They were so yummy. Everyone says you gain weight when you go on a cruise but I think we gained all our weight the night before the cruise! Thanks Alex and Bryant!</div> The next day we spent the morning and lunch time with Alex and Bryant. They took us to a shopping mall that had the most amazing food court ever for lunch (here I go again about food). Once again we ordered more then we could actually eat. It was a mix of Dim Sum, Indian, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Singaporean. I think we hit up every vendor!<br /> The ship was right outside the shopping mall at the Port of Singapore. We said our goodbyes and then hopped on the boat!<br /><br /><div align="center">We got to our room...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisFyD-edXEseQK55PSAdezcLkvo59i-dm89yFTGW6LZE7dywl-iPG1QDqMWzzTuHe4jlxiZSgM9aBaSZPsFk5IVIenwtRTIxSIf9XfIDe5RcAiuZYBiutjS5f7hAcaaeEo5imJfvaQWG8/s1600-h/IMG_1098.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310420424244100290" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisFyD-edXEseQK55PSAdezcLkvo59i-dm89yFTGW6LZE7dywl-iPG1QDqMWzzTuHe4jlxiZSgM9aBaSZPsFk5IVIenwtRTIxSIf9XfIDe5RcAiuZYBiutjS5f7hAcaaeEo5imJfvaQWG8/s400/IMG_1098.JPG" border="0" /></a> I know what you are thinking.. yes it was a little too 1960's in there. Don't worry, we had them push our beds together so that our anniversary trip wasn't completely devoid of "action" :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"> We then had to head out with our life jackets to our mustre station. This was our "in case of emergency" drill. Boring but we tried to have fun...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKNm6COYcFA7f0z5tOsA_vRmjc_o7kQTBu0M3145vHftfbxuTxw_OmOMxD5Jnrvhrxhy6CHf4XfYB56G1AFJK5U_IBj8QrMEO6y5GjiNfTpgxyi_zi__FSMMmmNVHvwogHGNE1M7JS48/s1600-h/IMG_1103.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310421422405915954" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKNm6COYcFA7f0z5tOsA_vRmjc_o7kQTBu0M3145vHftfbxuTxw_OmOMxD5Jnrvhrxhy6CHf4XfYB56G1AFJK5U_IBj8QrMEO6y5GjiNfTpgxyi_zi__FSMMmmNVHvwogHGNE1M7JS48/s400/IMG_1103.JPG" border="0" /></a> I look like I'm having fun... right???<br /></div><br /><div align="left"> Next we said our goodbyes to Singapore and then went exploring our ship "Legend of the Seas".<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoypblCWuJelDGQevFC9dv_l6eY_fuZLp7Id7jtXQA0jespXZCEYb-fE9fY8lXIm54DxYWxJKwop7yP7RU-TVcUtERiMuj7JvtvzmvSdAWml_A7U7UbCQ1VKKZ5zj_9gsrT-lVPJxcuco/s1600-h/IMG_1105.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310422988400870898" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoypblCWuJelDGQevFC9dv_l6eY_fuZLp7Id7jtXQA0jespXZCEYb-fE9fY8lXIm54DxYWxJKwop7yP7RU-TVcUtERiMuj7JvtvzmvSdAWml_A7U7UbCQ1VKKZ5zj_9gsrT-lVPJxcuco/s400/IMG_1105.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7d9WPaK0qbcZwHEfpw8sUU74Xo_hjSozf7hnXBcqZyWungpR0gyi6XpIghzz-cfogAQiaPL6ctd3nmX-_PWPBuQuBdgd3BEt8dlyHQN8L4ZOUOGrLr_6g66Zu1CDRUAuim84nAZLGN-g/s1600-h/IMG_1106.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310422987859967474" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7d9WPaK0qbcZwHEfpw8sUU74Xo_hjSozf7hnXBcqZyWungpR0gyi6XpIghzz-cfogAQiaPL6ctd3nmX-_PWPBuQuBdgd3BEt8dlyHQN8L4ZOUOGrLr_6g66Zu1CDRUAuim84nAZLGN-g/s400/IMG_1106.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO60DvccPzh9af4Exu4__jz1TyEky1qxWGUajMrUF3IfCvb6k2eS6Un7xrdfWvm56nhv-scMcjz-V3Ziz6cCw5rVbuJu1UPoxM9LCabrlr3wwT6UDFtscXaQiKJvbYRC7WljtsIdzuyJs/s1600-h/IMG_1114.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310422977966828050" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO60DvccPzh9af4Exu4__jz1TyEky1qxWGUajMrUF3IfCvb6k2eS6Un7xrdfWvm56nhv-scMcjz-V3Ziz6cCw5rVbuJu1UPoxM9LCabrlr3wwT6UDFtscXaQiKJvbYRC7WljtsIdzuyJs/s400/IMG_1114.JPG" border="0" /></a> That was my first time to play shuffleboard. Kelly was so excited when he saw that they had shuffleboard, so I indulged him. Can you tell my pregnancy hormones made me a little competitive? I look like I want to kill someone!</div><div style="text-align: left;"> This was our first cruise and I have to say I was so impressed! Our boat was the smallest in the Royal Caribbean fleet but I thought it was AMAZING!!!!! I couldn't believe everything that was offered.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> That night we ate dinner and met the people that would be at our table the rest of the cruise. We were told by Royal Caribbean that this particular cruise was geared to the Asian customer. We were excited because we love all types of Asian cuisine, but we were thinking that we would probably be eating with a bunch of people that didn't speak any English. That wouldn't have been a big deal - I can't remember the last time we traveled to a place where people spoke English. We were pleasantly surprised to be sat at a table with a Canadian couple and an Australian couple. Both couples were retired. The Canadians had been visiting their daughter who lived in Perth, and they decided to give her a break and go on this short cruise. The Australian couple were using the cruise a jumping off point to a six month backpacking trip through Malaysia and South Eastern Asia. They were so great and they were a lot of fun to talk to every night.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> After dinner we went to a show with the Canadian couple (behind their back we would refer to them and Mom and Dad). At the show we were introduced to our Cruise Director - the guy who is supposed to make sure everyone is having a good time. He was sooooo cheesy! The whole time I was watching him I kept thinking how much I would love to see my brother Zach do an impression of him. Not only was he cheesy and not very funny, but about 90% of the audience was from somewhere in Asia - his type of humor was totally lost on them. I think Kelly felt bad that no one was laughing at his jokes, because you could always hear Kelly laughing!<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The next morning was our first stop - Port Kelang Malaysia. We decided that since I was preggers we would sign up for the organized tours. We normally don't do things like that, but we only had half of a day there and we didn't want to spend our time walking around aimlessly while my ankles got fatter and fatter. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqI5E4iU_5pOHZRXLG70JOXfwf14b5__ofIJKUs4hO8hYqjXTG8Jb5yE34hB4X46cibpkLnBKaYBo0UyfiX2SvIh9hWPxoNsPNjvf5PrmUjac58Cm_GdT9f46CyO-unHzUJWa74STLndo/s1600-h/IMG_1120.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310428245747825298" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqI5E4iU_5pOHZRXLG70JOXfwf14b5__ofIJKUs4hO8hYqjXTG8Jb5yE34hB4X46cibpkLnBKaYBo0UyfiX2SvIh9hWPxoNsPNjvf5PrmUjac58Cm_GdT9f46CyO-unHzUJWa74STLndo/s400/IMG_1120.JPG" border="0" /></a> Can you tell how tired we were???<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6riRZAeZ78c4novbgqp6hDn6TIrxqJgNQ5nDYtqLLU1d1vLUUoX0LwN1FrAKf-mnvrbRMu4HGbeVEn1M1bkMJ-1IWGNfyI2fJz9iEIWJmXL6GXkdiixul1c3fhlNDb9Py1GWcQ7UOsI/s1600-h/IMG_1122.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310428240915299586" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6riRZAeZ78c4novbgqp6hDn6TIrxqJgNQ5nDYtqLLU1d1vLUUoX0LwN1FrAKf-mnvrbRMu4HGbeVEn1M1bkMJ-1IWGNfyI2fJz9iEIWJmXL6GXkdiixul1c3fhlNDb9Py1GWcQ7UOsI/s400/IMG_1122.JPG" border="0" /></a> Ready to take on Kuala Lumpur!</div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"> First we went to the palace. Well we went outside the palace and looked through the gate at the grounds. Here we are doing our best to annoy the guards...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhL9FwB_W3O6hi_XxMFfsrspwm4YdX2UQw6ghyHRdSjRkrjfBVzJJ9Tv03o0qhz2XZ7cXgjF4RT8YYLbyaIqm3O3txb8euf0suYRUVfH_gCGnQHoX7uJSjjixCQlHlOMKmr9JMRGj8iM/s1600-h/IMG_1124.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310430174736301890" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhL9FwB_W3O6hi_XxMFfsrspwm4YdX2UQw6ghyHRdSjRkrjfBVzJJ9Tv03o0qhz2XZ7cXgjF4RT8YYLbyaIqm3O3txb8euf0suYRUVfH_gCGnQHoX7uJSjjixCQlHlOMKmr9JMRGj8iM/s400/IMG_1124.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div align="left"><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpvVJfwa5-CjfO3_KQv-_EXE3wz6Pfdc_AKMDCIesrhMrB1c7SPIrEgEd8N5ei382Vq8DUmBjKcbhjS2_SiMBgNJtL1XcAyKLv_NNAmdiy6rYX586VuH2DzuoPwgjynCQsdvudWWSOv0/s1600-h/IMG_1123.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310430162872213602" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpvVJfwa5-CjfO3_KQv-_EXE3wz6Pfdc_AKMDCIesrhMrB1c7SPIrEgEd8N5ei382Vq8DUmBjKcbhjS2_SiMBgNJtL1XcAyKLv_NNAmdiy6rYX586VuH2DzuoPwgjynCQsdvudWWSOv0/s400/IMG_1123.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj15zeP_jEcdGNUqxCzq-o8h5OCkAH1MZyYtrRBdosVZaNQyLk2qc6LTVdGhyxFcczb0qvMCYpUNZHB_EFxeZyI-qjBkPJygtMYb8NUZNJ4Kz9xYoqb6bixbBAafL2kkgzZmhxDDA0fDGU/s1600-h/IMG_1125.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px; display: block; height: 300px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310430158152045090" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj15zeP_jEcdGNUqxCzq-o8h5OCkAH1MZyYtrRBdosVZaNQyLk2qc6LTVdGhyxFcczb0qvMCYpUNZHB_EFxeZyI-qjBkPJygtMYb8NUZNJ4Kz9xYoqb6bixbBAafL2kkgzZmhxDDA0fDGU/s400/IMG_1125.JPG" border="0" /></a> Next it was on to Chinatown. It was a lot like every other Chinatown - fake bags and watches produce stands, cheap clothes. We were lucky enough to find a vendor selling peanut pancakes. We thought they sounded interesting and smelled fabulous so we bought just one and walked away. I wish I would've bought ten of them!!!!! They were DELICIOUS! Then it was on to the Petronis Towers.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpjoK5PtiW2Cver4pC-petJYwo7y4gHylDKDClAlapdj3873knIqpA5qeuT4lAxoQiBALEhLnGGTzqaQMploHVJyLHDxazsNrMOMt1yfgGA9CheJuteiuKdfEcY5l1BqFP6gPRFdtkmE/s1600-h/IMG_1142.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpjoK5PtiW2Cver4pC-petJYwo7y4gHylDKDClAlapdj3873knIqpA5qeuT4lAxoQiBALEhLnGGTzqaQMploHVJyLHDxazsNrMOMt1yfgGA9CheJuteiuKdfEcY5l1BqFP6gPRFdtkmE/s400/IMG_1142.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311482283679951906" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-KxPTMVR8sQax-EruH9Xqg4VN9Lqy3mwWIhPMckDPuIOaUs0UoZgfzL8LJ3H-Oj1cWpiDGwVhMh3yvr35zvgIizfAqOPBx2ImqHFArFLmsN0-alsyCbDk_pC9qTcRTHVY74oYE9oTyY/s1600-h/IMG_1145.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-KxPTMVR8sQax-EruH9Xqg4VN9Lqy3mwWIhPMckDPuIOaUs0UoZgfzL8LJ3H-Oj1cWpiDGwVhMh3yvr35zvgIizfAqOPBx2ImqHFArFLmsN0-alsyCbDk_pC9qTcRTHVY74oYE9oTyY/s400/IMG_1145.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311482275446121778" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Lyk0cAUsFlIor3nG_k1gg0LO80GvRwd5DrU7vnXnh-ZsbEPz3Qrn1-XTP-e9YWU17QG9hZGfszP07dU_eGDtrTRV_RQkMp7eUvAU4_HD5tF3jwzOA6LgWE-zU2BJuAbk4zLmUCh9sFk/s1600-h/IMG_1146.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Lyk0cAUsFlIor3nG_k1gg0LO80GvRwd5DrU7vnXnh-ZsbEPz3Qrn1-XTP-e9YWU17QG9hZGfszP07dU_eGDtrTRV_RQkMp7eUvAU4_HD5tF3jwzOA6LgWE-zU2BJuAbk4zLmUCh9sFk/s400/IMG_1146.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311482270425702546" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYqbDDpaV-02jhV37_eVkj9Lt_9XWOuEEtmnRHhh9mP75GCkcHsEM1H_Gk0x6BMwpnBHdEtCltK70WX7l9NCVHF83Ed8Ic5AZu9A-wgjLEn6x7AI6HYESWWfqJsEuiyHtQywceZDy9vBg/s1600-h/IMG_1149.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYqbDDpaV-02jhV37_eVkj9Lt_9XWOuEEtmnRHhh9mP75GCkcHsEM1H_Gk0x6BMwpnBHdEtCltK70WX7l9NCVHF83Ed8Ic5AZu9A-wgjLEn6x7AI6HYESWWfqJsEuiyHtQywceZDy9vBg/s400/IMG_1149.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311482266283614738" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujcee3VvyyOWM2caOuRdWEzHEPyiTrmXNCOCfBxNDcK8Kfxut0zTh5ylAZ1SShwxh8TKbn6LCMHXpdmLSwif93w7H3CNTxIvY-iEsKugSSWXUpGiZOpflMhXwHW9xjq3VZZf-qechRDc/s1600-h/IMG_1154.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujcee3VvyyOWM2caOuRdWEzHEPyiTrmXNCOCfBxNDcK8Kfxut0zTh5ylAZ1SShwxh8TKbn6LCMHXpdmLSwif93w7H3CNTxIvY-iEsKugSSWXUpGiZOpflMhXwHW9xjq3VZZf-qechRDc/s400/IMG_1154.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311482261951261282" border="0" /></a> We walked around the gigantic mall at the Petronis Towers before loading back onto our tour bus. I was pretty tired on the way back to the ship, but I was still lucky enough to hear our tour guide go on and on about how Malaysians are a superior race - especially when compared to Singaporeans. It was pretty funny. Bryant and Alex told me that Malays are always trying to find reasons why they are better than Singaporeans. I think they feel like the ugly step child since Singapore broke off or something. We loved both places!<br /> That night on the boat was the "formal" dinner. Kel didn't wear a tux but he did wear a suit and he looked schnazzy! We were able to chat again with our Canadian mom and dad and then we saw the show afterwards with them as well. It was a 60's British music variety show. It was actually very entertaining and all the songs were great.<br /> The next day we would port at Phuket island Thailand. We didn't arrive there until 2 pm which was GREAT!!!!! Kel and I had signed up to take a Yoga class that morning but instead we slept in until 10:30 then laid in bed and watched Mamma Mia! It was a fabulous morning. We finally pealed ourselves off the bed, rushed to the Indian lunch buffet and then joined our tour group. Once again we decided to go with a tour because we only had about 7 hours and we wanted to get a lot done. It wasn't our first time in Thailand but it was our first time on Phuket. Our ship took us to the beach where the Tsunami hit several years ago. You really couldn't tell anything had happened. Everything was brand new. The beach there was sooooooooo beautiful! The sand was white with glitter in it and the water was so gorgeous. The water in Guam is fabulous as well but we don't have very many sandy beaches here so it was really nice to see. Another lovely part was all the European men laying out in there teeny tiny swimsuits! It would have been less offensive if they were naked!! HAHA!<br />We stopped at a typical tourist trap - Thai gemstone dealer. They brag about the low cost of their Rubies (which they smuggle in from Burma, but no one admits it) and then they are actually the same price if not more than the rubies in the states! We couldn't get out of stopping there - our tour bus took us. But actually it is part of the Thailand experience - if you don't get trapped in <span style="font-style: italic;">one</span> tourist trap then you didn't have a successful vacation. Then we took a bus over to mainland Thailand where we went inside a Buddhist temple that was built in a huge cave! 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I loved it!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxaFWmGNRaHi0gPcLDsbG9klmOKp68ApmQo4Wc1-CjpOzP15N4lZGaNIWSEpV_ynRxvCPXWQtnWyQx6mb3dDqmJa3ecA2Gnw_fRn_LIa4ukFQf0xqwfmfKvXDymPhA2tUQwebx4RKOxg/s1600-h/IMG_1203.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxaFWmGNRaHi0gPcLDsbG9klmOKp68ApmQo4Wc1-CjpOzP15N4lZGaNIWSEpV_ynRxvCPXWQtnWyQx6mb3dDqmJa3ecA2Gnw_fRn_LIa4ukFQf0xqwfmfKvXDymPhA2tUQwebx4RKOxg/s400/IMG_1203.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311490895244909234" border="0" /></a><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwU4OEM7_Ug-1oT1I3ysfuSHdOST0BgZ0atYjrbZiJQRLA12cHChOVakXZ5wUYv95DKhrJWQTMKMFT2IddeQexXXo2ODC0VpDxsX9_Ad-RPz0VsvtVAQAdSKHyvYeBFzV_o_xoPCqrEc/s1600-h/IMG_1207.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwU4OEM7_Ug-1oT1I3ysfuSHdOST0BgZ0atYjrbZiJQRLA12cHChOVakXZ5wUYv95DKhrJWQTMKMFT2IddeQexXXo2ODC0VpDxsX9_Ad-RPz0VsvtVAQAdSKHyvYeBFzV_o_xoPCqrEc/s400/IMG_1207.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311490890536936658" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ieXmQmxPvsxFAl_kN0USEQKOa1PkKEwYoQ5IU8TlPmjvhB5Tt74I43q2F000gBd9pFnnv-7OeIswcVxINgRRcdGAkvKdj3IBCR4rRvBb0TV_XKvl9P7_cgiOdqGCyAgpKx-SyZvQuZU/s1600-h/IMG_1208.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ieXmQmxPvsxFAl_kN0USEQKOa1PkKEwYoQ5IU8TlPmjvhB5Tt74I43q2F000gBd9pFnnv-7OeIswcVxINgRRcdGAkvKdj3IBCR4rRvBb0TV_XKvl9P7_cgiOdqGCyAgpKx-SyZvQuZU/s400/IMG_1208.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311490882527165650" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5BuI3z8-ZHuFBTZcXmTICZpSOpbsw8m4iTZ5CPnzL33sF2-TP3FMIzzTApGKLhuVX6NxQFprHSPMpvRI0le5LCiumyhUu4NnEqXEdKm5uouHliHKC6cnUQJW37h_eJg8ye8j-YuDTkc/s1600-h/IMG_1183.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5BuI3z8-ZHuFBTZcXmTICZpSOpbsw8m4iTZ5CPnzL33sF2-TP3FMIzzTApGKLhuVX6NxQFprHSPMpvRI0le5LCiumyhUu4NnEqXEdKm5uouHliHKC6cnUQJW37h_eJg8ye8j-YuDTkc/s400/IMG_1183.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311490875963706210" border="0" /></a> We got back on the bus and toward the Phang Nga Bay. The Phang Nga Bay is really beautiful. Huge rock islands jut out of the water everywhere. Movies and like The Beach, two different James Bond movies, and Bridget Jones' Diary two were filmed in the Phang Nga Bay. We picked this particular tour because there wasn't a lot of walking involved and we thought it would be relaxing. At the start of it we sort of regreted picking this tour. WE felt like we could've seen more if we did Phuket on our own. Seeing the rock islands and the famous James Bond island was really beauitful though.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ZDbyPvB9LrzQnOoFRVLy-HF3Q1GVfdeutOtgWTPyed_QOO_59j-QnGUnZNhZEGRNVklsgBmdf0XxNomCYtZhGe28m8f0SaR71ys6-NaNZmPMANa2BkStuAgYphqFdXPcTlnV1cgSt8Y/s1600-h/IMG_1247.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ZDbyPvB9LrzQnOoFRVLy-HF3Q1GVfdeutOtgWTPyed_QOO_59j-QnGUnZNhZEGRNVklsgBmdf0XxNomCYtZhGe28m8f0SaR71ys6-NaNZmPMANa2BkStuAgYphqFdXPcTlnV1cgSt8Y/s400/IMG_1247.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311493829502339282" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOWF_vOMvwzVPVDNXYLjhJ6TcHtDydVJE0Rz8xFZbnh78j0EqooVbRybwk0Ra5rKzBnnuU6GWTFT0XTSUh9v5bLUDCKaSTmibHtuxpmyqY-kQILIP_bVG4218fRYo3lzAsSMQpvYJ-qco/s1600-h/IMG_1232.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOWF_vOMvwzVPVDNXYLjhJ6TcHtDydVJE0Rz8xFZbnh78j0EqooVbRybwk0Ra5rKzBnnuU6GWTFT0XTSUh9v5bLUDCKaSTmibHtuxpmyqY-kQILIP_bVG4218fRYo3lzAsSMQpvYJ-qco/s400/IMG_1232.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311493832121196082" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGx4HKC0CTJGwOXiUV4DQRzlG5cU7iXQncBufaPPX_SxPi8H4YwkXXfniG5dzgz4IMlHfLGVpCx7poDhiXIkDWApjL-Gi5I0yVrBuIQ_2BGQG_uYtf5v9_idG5c4kP4Kh9W6MvoZzzSMI/s1600-h/IMG_1224.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGx4HKC0CTJGwOXiUV4DQRzlG5cU7iXQncBufaPPX_SxPi8H4YwkXXfniG5dzgz4IMlHfLGVpCx7poDhiXIkDWApjL-Gi5I0yVrBuIQ_2BGQG_uYtf5v9_idG5c4kP4Kh9W6MvoZzzSMI/s400/IMG_1224.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311493826004024418" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsiGIzLNBTdPtXeFpHr1kx1tOy4wrvOpwbFSKLPPpblouKB2MUTclRcVqSXl0UOfLQVu0IDrQY6UEgZuNwiTUMLqXuYmSo0XqnR5zoPpTsHFb5wp9hh4hdP-BssPRhlnLWOYt1lodOAVU/s1600-h/IMG_1219.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsiGIzLNBTdPtXeFpHr1kx1tOy4wrvOpwbFSKLPPpblouKB2MUTclRcVqSXl0UOfLQVu0IDrQY6UEgZuNwiTUMLqXuYmSo0XqnR5zoPpTsHFb5wp9hh4hdP-BssPRhlnLWOYt1lodOAVU/s400/IMG_1219.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311493824181190018" border="0" /></a> Everything we saw was really beautiful, but we just wanted to get back to Phuket in time to get a Thai massage before we had to be on the ship. Little did I know that the coolest part was just about to come! Well as I write this I realize what a nerd I am... We stopped at this village that was built entirely over the water. 200 years ago 30 Indonesian fisherman decided to settle on one of the rock islands. The only usable land space on the island they used to build a mosque. Everything else was built on stilts over the water. 200 years later they are a poplulation of 1200 or so. It was really incredible to see. It wasn't particularly beautiful in fact it was horrendously smelly in a lot of parts; but to see an entire population living this way was really incredible. We pretty much had to walk through other peoples houses to get to certain parts of the village. The grade school there was very small with a wooden basketball court built over the water. There were a few restaraunts, a small clinic, and lots of booths selling seashell crafts. The village used to rely only on fishing as a source of income; but ever since James Bond was filmed close by they rely on tourists stopping through for extra cash. The children were all filthy, but so precious! At one point a lady threw her monkey on me, demanded that Kelly take a picture of it, then demanded money! IT was so funny. We just felt bad because we only had like two baht to give (about 25 cents). There is only one other village in the world like this one and it is in Brunei. Maybe it doesnt sound interesting to anyone else, but it I thought it was fascinating. I'm so glad we chose the tour that was chose just so I could get a glimpse into a lifestyle that I had no idea existed. It was amazing.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRm0KMg6RDXlI2aQ4z0ovifZAyKPvYnG29i6cQEgUs6iAGcIqYcHY0eXRyEB0eIZmSwUwtRoUDMkqE-YC6IC2FhFkIYfz6_qu_uRUwJrQZ_7qH0Nfj8n4eHw7VbUpoIFMtqSQvqiaKgsc/s1600-h/IMG_1254.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRm0KMg6RDXlI2aQ4z0ovifZAyKPvYnG29i6cQEgUs6iAGcIqYcHY0eXRyEB0eIZmSwUwtRoUDMkqE-YC6IC2FhFkIYfz6_qu_uRUwJrQZ_7qH0Nfj8n4eHw7VbUpoIFMtqSQvqiaKgsc/s400/IMG_1254.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311498449736341986" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIJZUq58LYpa1oWSIv0bU_IVverTXmL2tVYdbi5Q1e1t6CnED4x0wbO0XyAsjS8iyTq-bREUDKexLRd938xS_QtvL2EjD5L1OrHFgXl4ctASkv7M_JFoP1_qCEWFAnjhOEqkmD_YVWNqM/s1600-h/IMG_1255.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIJZUq58LYpa1oWSIv0bU_IVverTXmL2tVYdbi5Q1e1t6CnED4x0wbO0XyAsjS8iyTq-bREUDKexLRd938xS_QtvL2EjD5L1OrHFgXl4ctASkv7M_JFoP1_qCEWFAnjhOEqkmD_YVWNqM/s400/IMG_1255.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311498445816939474" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IgrSO2pekICNiJ9Mg-QjVg-0dR8GpUyCGYrunE2GGYIGzbR6kh47xR5aB-l-D48WYo4HSWhWqR7TAQ6yuSr2wKq04xa-sDeV_EVJ3NDg3NuKRXjwFj_6ov-Y_QV4ro_oDYZmhhAYyi4/s1600-h/IMG_1256.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IgrSO2pekICNiJ9Mg-QjVg-0dR8GpUyCGYrunE2GGYIGzbR6kh47xR5aB-l-D48WYo4HSWhWqR7TAQ6yuSr2wKq04xa-sDeV_EVJ3NDg3NuKRXjwFj_6ov-Y_QV4ro_oDYZmhhAYyi4/s400/IMG_1256.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311498436393267634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTBcdvTTPORts_4u4bmwQK_nROhEIvZZrvj0Umha_28fuNe-tvtAogqG-rCbF1Yu1PA8SjiXzQ3x3mUdgXgzMeFhXcsT9GN5DYjS19ouBWYt3wFMQMTa1hNSm__wve_QzXiR_t1cZY5fc/s1600-h/IMG_1258.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTBcdvTTPORts_4u4bmwQK_nROhEIvZZrvj0Umha_28fuNe-tvtAogqG-rCbF1Yu1PA8SjiXzQ3x3mUdgXgzMeFhXcsT9GN5DYjS19ouBWYt3wFMQMTa1hNSm__wve_QzXiR_t1cZY5fc/s400/IMG_1258.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311498426267090050" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh69wswIrZaT3tgkRcZqNXIyVpyHGvLiP6vyHH24du2XxlmnGSFkLPF11osXpPnEMYgCQJoboPMbSCOvjBPC5v3ixo0DxefzynW_BGLnqgd0TYIPqrzJ5W7fC3d0fmQCkKAGmVsWzCti9k/s1600-h/IMG_1251.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh69wswIrZaT3tgkRcZqNXIyVpyHGvLiP6vyHH24du2XxlmnGSFkLPF11osXpPnEMYgCQJoboPMbSCOvjBPC5v3ixo0DxefzynW_BGLnqgd0TYIPqrzJ5W7fC3d0fmQCkKAGmVsWzCti9k/s400/IMG_1251.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311498416032307346" border="0" /></a> Once we got back on dry land we ate a yummy Thai buffet then we sat on a very long bus ride back to the beach where we waited to be taken back to the ship. We weren't hungry but we did make it to the show that night and we spent a little more time with Canadian mom and dad.<br />The last day was just sailing. It was so relaxing! We spent most of the day laying by the pool and soaking up some rays. There were lots of activites on the ship; like a male beauty pageant (I laughed so hard I cried), and Harry Hudini like magic show, and lots of music and dancing. I accidentally got a little too much sun but other than that the day was fabulous.<br /> We docked the next morning early in Singapore. We made our way over to Alex's and Bryant's place and got mentally prepared for another day of stuffing our faces ( I love those two). Singapore was really neat that day because it was the Friday before Chinese New Year and the whole city was being decorated. We ate in China town and did some shopping for the kids. Later that night we went to Arab street looking for some middle eastern/mediterranean food. We passed by the mosque during evening prayer and you could hear the prayer out on the streets. It was so beautiful, I wanted to go inside the mosque and join them... but then I remembered that I'm a girl and they would kick me out immediatly. OH WELL! We found a yummy Turkish restaraunt where we all attempted to gain another 5 pounds. Thanks Bryant and Alex again for the good times and extra pounds! I want to travel with them soon, but I will have to do my best to become anorexic the month before!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyw5_HySURsu0mr-lnWnXBDj6gcJazF3CG_76v-BjHPfUgVxeU1FqJdtrehg1NvcyhATb2IkP06-jipWQ0dBGGwHigxhraHhkyvzTUJA3qJrUz1H5VyxW2L88YLOkd5UyK-Z5cyrpWMas/s1600-h/IMG_1266.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyw5_HySURsu0mr-lnWnXBDj6gcJazF3CG_76v-BjHPfUgVxeU1FqJdtrehg1NvcyhATb2IkP06-jipWQ0dBGGwHigxhraHhkyvzTUJA3qJrUz1H5VyxW2L88YLOkd5UyK-Z5cyrpWMas/s400/IMG_1266.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311502228179048594" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmJyAm3AovMTFx1C3Gj61XFJxZJtZxYJFUDofDmCvRMnUAnA9GWxKXgoB7Z3UrXVTxFOI_-H304t_FfRaRbkxJrs2bpxtdSr06_0nWyi8kL1QxTL-iNiNjUh9GwRBjZWdMd_H_7Ms8Yc/s1600-h/IMG_1265.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmJyAm3AovMTFx1C3Gj61XFJxZJtZxYJFUDofDmCvRMnUAnA9GWxKXgoB7Z3UrXVTxFOI_-H304t_FfRaRbkxJrs2bpxtdSr06_0nWyi8kL1QxTL-iNiNjUh9GwRBjZWdMd_H_7Ms8Yc/s400/IMG_1265.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311502221399393858" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEAf8690rnEcsriNeCwWlyWCYNtvYXqke5Z4KCrji_SHDsnuyFcbCj3FaXsu1rs7_XSWBOtskAkVYaDzGwT7nOTrTvIH6tTuKGMWbHZ6A_cjO6GRbd665Rmln4acJMeoWoFIRDl14-88/s1600-h/IMG_1260.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEAf8690rnEcsriNeCwWlyWCYNtvYXqke5Z4KCrji_SHDsnuyFcbCj3FaXsu1rs7_XSWBOtskAkVYaDzGwT7nOTrTvIH6tTuKGMWbHZ6A_cjO6GRbd665Rmln4acJMeoWoFIRDl14-88/s400/IMG_1260.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311502212806782754" border="0" /></a>We made it back to Guam and back to our kids. We loved having time for just Kelly and I, but we were so excited to see Liam and Arie again we could hardly stand it! Liam immediatly started asking about presents, and Arie was so excited to see us she couldn't stop laughing for like 30 minutes.<br />Our actual anniversary date here on Guam was much more low-key. I decided to make some of Kel'l favorite things and do a little picnic. I cut up some veggies and made some homemade hummus, boiled some shrimp and made a cocktail sauce (70% horseradish, 30% cocktail sauce), some yummy eggnoodles (don't ask me why he loves them but he does) and some yummy lime perrier (that was more for me!). We dropped our kids off at a friends house, drove our Guam Bomb (our ghetto ride) to Agana Bay, opened up the back and had a picnic watching the sunset. Guam sunsets are some of the best in the world; in fact we know a couple that moved here 40 years ago because they heard Guam had the best sunsets. It was our most laid back anniversary but we both agreed it was our favorite one. We ended up renting some movies at Blockbuster and going to be early! I love you Kelly!<br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-48632696156180463652009-02-18T15:23:00.001+10:002009-02-18T15:25:51.148+10:00HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!So everyday I look at the little baby counter, on the right of this blog, and see how many days I have left!! And FINALLY I'm under 100 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know the baby probably won't come on the exact due date - but I don't care. I'm so happy!!!!!!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-73955514167770635342009-01-30T23:08:00.002+10:002009-01-30T23:27:55.660+10:00Why Why!!!!!!!!I don't know why I do the things I do...<br />Both of my kids need hair cuts - bad. I know some of you are thinking "THANK GOODNESS SHE IS GOING TO CUT LIAM'S HAIR!" Well.. no I'm not. I will cut it but it will stay on the longer side. He has such great thick hair and he looks so cute with a surfer/island look. But I admit right now it is CRAZY long!!! I want to get it trimmed but the last time I took him to someone on Guam they totally hacked it! She told me it would look like <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Zac</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Efron</span> (High School Musical - he is so cute!) and she did a HORRIBLE job! So now if I ever want it cut I just take him to my guy in Houston. I do think it is a little crazy to pay for haircuts for little kids, especially boys, but I really am going for a look with Liam and I don't want someone to make him look stupid! Besides I only cut his hair about twice a year, so I'm really not spending that much money. And my mom is so desperate for me to cut his hair she usually offers to pay for it. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">HAHA</span>! Kelly keeps trying to convince Liam to "cut your hair to look like Daddy". And while I do think my husband is very handsome... well... he and Liam have totally different hair! I am not just going to let Kelly whack it all off! I'm standing firm on this one. Liam has the rest of his life to have a straight-laced look... why start now???<br />Well after all that ranting that is not why I'm writing this. This is actually about Arie. She has been needing a trim as well. She's never had a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">hair</span>cut really... 1/4 of an inch here, 1/4 of an inch there. And once we had someone trim her bangs. I haven't wanted to cut her hair because she has fabulous little ringlets in the back and I know if I cut her hair they will be gone. But the problem is that the hair that grows <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">from t</span>he top of her head has no curl - it is completely straight! So her hair looks a little ratty. Or to use the phrase my family uses - it is a little "cat-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">sucky</span>". Well after I bathed the kids tonight I decided I would try and trim her hair when she got out of the tub. It was a mistake <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">for</span> several reasons. One - because Kelly is flying and I didn't have anyone to make sure she kept her head still. What <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">should've</span> taken 10 minutes took 25! Second - I'm REALLY bad at cutting hair. Cutting hair really is a talent. I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">hear</span> parents say all the time that <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">they</span> cut their kids hair and sometimes I'm thinking "yep y<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">ou</span> can <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">definitely</span> tell!" Other people, even though they aren't professionals, do an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">ok</span> job. I'm NOT one of those people. When I put her to bed her hair was still half wet so I have no idea what it really looks like, but I'm nervous to see it in the morning. I'm nervous that the little tendrils will be gone forever, and that my last minute ambition of putting fringe around her face was the stupidest decision of my life! When it comes to my own hair I'm pretty much fearless. My attitude is that hair grows back, nothing is permanent. I love to experiment and have totally different looks (I don't really have that opportunity on Guam though). But when it comes to my kids hair I'm <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">definitely</span> freaking out!!!! I cut about two inches off of Arie's hair which is actually a good amount of hair! I'll take pics in the morning and hopefully it won't be as bad as I'm thinking it is. Doing hair is NOT my calling in life!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-2544470954443523762009-01-04T19:13:00.010+10:002009-01-04T22:41:14.647+10:00A LOT of catching up to do.....<div><div><div><div> <span style="font-family:arial;">So it has been <strong><em>FOREVER</em></strong> since my last post on here. Its not that we've had incredibly boring lives lately it is just that I haven't had the patience to sit down and catch up on everything. I think the date on my last post was November 8th,, so I will try to go through our latest pictures and update everyone on our lives. This may seem really random with no thought behind it - but there is too much to cover for there to be any organization.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"> Kelly had his 34th birthday on November 12th. He and I had gone out to eat a few days before at this awesome local seafood restaurant called Proa to celebrate. Kel also had the opportunity to celebrate in Texas with family because he had some training to do. I don't have any recent pictures of Kel to put up here - I say <em>recent </em>because Kelly has lost 25 pounds!!!!!! He and a friend started a weight loss challenge together complete with a contract and everything. Kelly has been very motivated and has done a great job. I always think he looks good but he looks <em><strong>really good</strong></em> now! :) Because I don't have a picture of Kelly that shows off his new slender physique I will pay homage to him by listing my favorite things about him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">1. <strong>He doesn't take life or himself too seriously</strong> - Kel and I can act completely ridiculous together and laugh hysterically together and I love that about him. He isn't afraid to act stupid or goofy and he loves to try and embarrass me. Sometimes it works - but even then I'm grateful that he is like that.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">2. <strong>He loves food especially my food!</strong> HAHA! I would be so depressed to be married to a boring and unadventurous eater. Kel will try anything and he usually loves it all. He also always goes on and on about the things I make. Maybe he is easily impressed, but I'll take the positive feedback anytime!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">3. There is a saying that says <strong>"You can tell who a man really is by the way he treats his mother."</strong> Well I think they wrote that saying because of Kelly. He loves his Mom!!!! Not only does he love her but he is always willing to do anything for her. Now that we live far away he doesn't get to do things for her very often, but we when we lived in Texas (and when we visit), we pretty much have to be in an impossible situation for him to not drop everything to help her out. When we were dating and his Dad was in Iraq he would always tell me that he felt it was his responsibility to look after her and do things for her so that she wouldn't ever need anything. And now Kelly puts all that same energy and love into my Mom as well. He is always willing to help out and do anything that she needs, even before she asks for it. It is the running joke in our family that Kelly is my Mom's favorite kid. My mom says it isn't a joke because he really is her favorite.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">4. <strong>He always goes out of his way to make sure everyone around him is comfortable and happy</strong> - if we are ever in a social setting he makes sure he talks to everyone and makes sure that those who don't really have anyone to talk to are included. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">5. <strong>He is a PEACEMAKER</strong> - believe it or not it took me a while to appreciate this quality in him. Being a true peacemaker is a wonderful quality to have, but I often noticed that in his efforts to keep the peace in relationships in his life (family, work, friends) his feelings often got over looked. It takes a patient person and very loving person to be willing to always put aside their own feelings for the feelings of those around him.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">6. <strong>He is very handy</strong> - he can pretty much do anything! He loves to fix things and he can usually learn to fix anything even if he hasn't seen it before. He says that I'm easily impressed, but he really is very handy to have around. My mom told me I had to marry him after he fixed my Uncle Craig's boat once. But he really has a nack for understanding how things work.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">7. <strong>He is always willing to tell me when I'm right and he's wrong</strong> - ok ladies who wouldn't want that?!?! He doesn't tell me I'm right just to please me - believe me I've been wrong many times and he doesn't pretend I'm right to get me to shut up. But I have to say, being with someone who is not afraid to admit when they are wrong - and better yet admit when I'm right - is very refreshing! I need to work on that skill myself ;)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">8. <strong>He loves adventure</strong> - I don't really want him to love some of the adventurous things that he loves; motorcycles, spear fishing at night, driving race cars. But I am really grateful that he has a love for life and a love to discover new things. He and I share a lot of the same passions and we really want to pass those things on to our children. He isn't afraid to do anything, and he is always encouraging me when I do get scared. I've tried things that I thought I would never try because of him. He won't settle on having a boring life, he wants to see the world our heavenly Father has created and he wants to show those things to our kids. A lot of people dread the thought of their kids leaving home. I know I will miss our kids greatly when we our empty nesters, but I also can't wait to have even more adventures when it is just the two of us.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">9. <strong>He is an AWESOME father</strong> - Liam and Arie absolutely LOVE being with Kelly. He has so much fun with them and they have so much with him. He somehow got them to love brushing their teeth, they think it is party time at night when it is time to brush their teeth. He not only plays with them and makes sure they are well provided for; but he isn't afraid to show them affection and he really wants to teach them how to be good children and responsible adults.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">10. <strong>He loves his Heavenly Father and his Savior Jesus Christ</strong> - because he loves them so much he chooses to honor his Priesthood and the temple covenants he has made. Kelly isn't a perfect person or anything, but he knows what is right and wrong, he knows what his Father in heaven expects out of him, he knows how to live his life to be an example for his children to follow, he knows the real meaning of integrity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"> Kelly would probably be uncomfortable knowing I put all of this on our public blog for everyone to read. But he really is all of those things. It is those things and thousands of others that make me love and respect him more and more everyday. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"> Ok - Thanksgiving!!! We had the opportunity to meet my Mom in Hawaii for the week of Thanksgiving. Kelly's schedule ended up getting messed up at the last minute, so he didn't get to spend as much time with as he would've liked but the trip was still very fun. We didn't tell the kids that we were going to Hawaii to see Momo, because my Mom really wanted to surprise them. When I got off the plane in Oahu I kept telling the kids to look around to see if they saw anything special. When Liam saw Momo he took off running and screaming towards her. In true Arie fashion, Arie followed behind doing the same thing, only she had no idea why she was screaming. Liam jumped up to hug Momo and Arie hung back a little startled by the commotion. The trip was fun and we did a lot of fun things together. Best part of it was I didn't have to make anything on Thanksgiving and we didn't have to do any cleaning. Worst part was Kelly wasn't there and we weren't around a lot of family. 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkGEOGN3is9FoxqW2f7JMm_jRk_uUExJhSyDuJwfUh05gnOyfq_0qumq9PhjY9zna_RbOiOMSDzsQx_l85PS9Suv8hcNS1wm2lSKF0PoqgQSzC8HF27uiTS5vglXNh4WQCfa0fukO8KVs/s400/IMG_0982.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSVt2XzEzLbQQSM58o-ff0KRz9gR-2bZ4cTJYchI0FzprMEhvrDr_KlTtCCUdm4fDt03xC0PcE7E6BygStn246dUbXbqmCxcaMWP-wxCvtzlWodaBqsV68NYhq_mwT09Z33x6DSt1T4QE/s1600-h/IMG_0980.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287387773888422866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSVt2XzEzLbQQSM58o-ff0KRz9gR-2bZ4cTJYchI0FzprMEhvrDr_KlTtCCUdm4fDt03xC0PcE7E6BygStn246dUbXbqmCxcaMWP-wxCvtzlWodaBqsV68NYhq_mwT09Z33x6DSt1T4QE/s400/IMG_0980.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:arial;">Hawaii was a lot of fun. The weather was AMAZING!!!! The beaches were beautiful (including the surfers on those beaches - right Mom!). We sent Momo off to Kona so she could work and we took off back to Guam. Normally when we go to Hawaii we fly on the direct flight between Guam and Hawaii on a 767, but this time we decided we would fly with Dad! When the 737 (Kel's plane) goes to Hawaii it takes a unique route that has been labeled the Island Hopper. You basically hit several islands in between Guam and Hawaii picking up passengers and cargo along the way. It is a very long day, 6 stops in all, but I really wanted to experience that with Kelly as one of the pilots. Flying as a non-rev on the Hopper can be tricky because they will throw you off fast if they need to put more cargo on board. Being thrown off and stuck on these islands isn't exactly what you want to happen, but I decided I'd chance it anyway. Kelly's family friend, Dennis James, called the Island Hopper the "last bastion of really great flying in the world". The pilots out here consider it the only time that they really get to do their jobs. There are short run ways that leave you no room for error, and most of the airports are so tiny they look like little shacks. It is sort of the Wild West of flying. And most of these islands are so small and so remote it is a really cool chance to see them. Our first stop was Majuro just a tiny atoll about half way between Oahu and Guam. I wanted to get off the plane and take lots of pictures but the weather wasn't so great and.... </span></div></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwYTuWOsZLv6YFjtlfr1qzyxhQBfFeJ-8_xJnQfCOq9Bx0xyTfbnUosNLcA2NnePXJfgvO_kUsB2KVty7oVTAk9_lKFTZSpfPxOMdWijpa8ff3eg46k-jNEu_6GXVsnxya3tfuB1vr3BA/s1600-h/IMG_0986.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287391176384895234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwYTuWOsZLv6YFjtlfr1qzyxhQBfFeJ-8_xJnQfCOq9Bx0xyTfbnUosNLcA2NnePXJfgvO_kUsB2KVty7oVTAk9_lKFTZSpfPxOMdWijpa8ff3eg46k-jNEu_6GXVsnxya3tfuB1vr3BA/s400/IMG_0986.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM56KRSdqtu-GL5eiT7JPymc0QOOShzmJ3mAXHi7-tk1bWF1XhD6hd3yiH3KvunxcDTyIs0k8qFImMZEP5NmcJKdwMV31BxxALSHrjS2g781TOjg1MSlBu9cSDVQVBDUQ7nbds9Cq3Aoc/s1600-h/IMG_0985.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287391164003612322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM56KRSdqtu-GL5eiT7JPymc0QOOShzmJ3mAXHi7-tk1bWF1XhD6hd3yiH3KvunxcDTyIs0k8qFImMZEP5NmcJKdwMV31BxxALSHrjS2g781TOjg1MSlBu9cSDVQVBDUQ7nbds9Cq3Aoc/s400/IMG_0985.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> ... these two were out cold!<br /> Our next stop was Kwajalien. Kwaj is actually an Army base and they wouldn't let us off of the plane because the whole island is a restricted area. But the kids still had a lot of fun...</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3FsZQ-wuAln4AQ1wzrQtzvfhrgWEnTT03fiNQ5eibmG4nruopkSlniSaNiXzOjStooSkYmBFOkzW35ZMcXXQlHSTgpzg1xHQZe_qGhnzR4eneqHWSmn0PtTVV4oTeQl8-2q5jH99CcQU/s1600-h/IMG_0992.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287392983872895746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3FsZQ-wuAln4AQ1wzrQtzvfhrgWEnTT03fiNQ5eibmG4nruopkSlniSaNiXzOjStooSkYmBFOkzW35ZMcXXQlHSTgpzg1xHQZe_qGhnzR4eneqHWSmn0PtTVV4oTeQl8-2q5jH99CcQU/s400/IMG_0992.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-93hmQ6vdxcIq4dOuTivFwEGq9e6R6j1D_zyauZWC2jyVazRfYukrh1S9Ox7eWvTki3-Lv4FNxhROityb-kdH9cdpsmp97qGrW7OCW9PlkXoen3W3psJlGzz57DlvJthecdoURmSMS5E/s1600-h/IMG_0991.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287392966687154338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-93hmQ6vdxcIq4dOuTivFwEGq9e6R6j1D_zyauZWC2jyVazRfYukrh1S9Ox7eWvTki3-Lv4FNxhROityb-kdH9cdpsmp97qGrW7OCW9PlkXoen3W3psJlGzz57DlvJthecdoURmSMS5E/s400/IMG_0991.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PnYF6AnM6aJ76TytVDTdlw5H-Ki-ISgvEvLtNGA1H7aNpAep1Jm7M9k619hHpm3OPm6o8YEtINwc2dT5FqoBr4i_KEjTgFsbnZ4_L8AkpTdz-OY-PCc7uF_6EzUCeyS4QHeLPbqOBX8/s1600-h/IMG_0990.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287392961281001954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PnYF6AnM6aJ76TytVDTdlw5H-Ki-ISgvEvLtNGA1H7aNpAep1Jm7M9k619hHpm3OPm6o8YEtINwc2dT5FqoBr4i_KEjTgFsbnZ4_L8AkpTdz-OY-PCc7uF_6EzUCeyS4QHeLPbqOBX8/s400/IMG_0990.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaQHt7k1z3lALBIEhLVelOJ7FTR4LTPsU0B0uor0FIKqB2kmY6hdbBGmdbHvExBoGTeP8uydMyeYET12TNat4BmvtvE9dC53RC-SKO9pc3eEELdY259Dphfa-sweZb0CEW3NdmNwAZp0/s1600-h/IMG_0988.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287392953788647282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaQHt7k1z3lALBIEhLVelOJ7FTR4LTPsU0B0uor0FIKqB2kmY6hdbBGmdbHvExBoGTeP8uydMyeYET12TNat4BmvtvE9dC53RC-SKO9pc3eEELdY259Dphfa-sweZb0CEW3NdmNwAZp0/s400/IMG_0988.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:arial;">They got to push all kinds of buttons and pretend to fly. Kelly definitely has one of those "Cool Dad" jobs that will be impressive for a long time.<br /> Next stop was Kosrae. Kosrae is very tiny and very remote. Supposedly there is great diving there and people go there to connect back with nature. I loved going into the tiny airport here because you could tell that flying was still a big deal to the locals. The locals that got on the plane had on their best dresses and had tons of fragrant flowers in their hair. It made the plane smell great! Kosrae is also known for a certain citrus fruit that can only be found there. You can by a bag of 20 for about $2 from some of the locals at the terminal. They are small, green, and taste sort of like a tangerine only better. The thing is you have to finish all of them before you get to your next stop - agriculture laws or something. Another cool thing about doing the island hopper was that on those tiny islands airport security is really no big deal. The kids could run all over the runway while we had our layovers and they could really get up close to Daddy's "office".</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLhInX6lPOiam7sKKOyTuTynDTHBjP6GE-92WAYpaOkcvCznoR8ruyiQe1FScDj28WYiQh1WzJZ1bWepOO52PVroSMzhC6CXcAXN-k3BbPsXn-wi8jsS9ZUKILKQhcFpmSY5H2p_HcWAE/s1600-h/IMG_0999.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287395775111549474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLhInX6lPOiam7sKKOyTuTynDTHBjP6GE-92WAYpaOkcvCznoR8ruyiQe1FScDj28WYiQh1WzJZ1bWepOO52PVroSMzhC6CXcAXN-k3BbPsXn-wi8jsS9ZUKILKQhcFpmSY5H2p_HcWAE/s400/IMG_0999.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAC9z1TnZ0kb4OlcsqBhYP0sYClk2xjcVG5EdccON6oDZXLOmUeD55TPMX-OcRN51eRVHj9XrDLCVE_kWgr0hWynM9DYJPCCoOerDSeZlX8H7dRa5Fgnw1qagxNFr0CkEpc-ObadKXGfc/s1600-h/IMG_0996.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287395767292144514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAC9z1TnZ0kb4OlcsqBhYP0sYClk2xjcVG5EdccON6oDZXLOmUeD55TPMX-OcRN51eRVHj9XrDLCVE_kWgr0hWynM9DYJPCCoOerDSeZlX8H7dRa5Fgnw1qagxNFr0CkEpc-ObadKXGfc/s400/IMG_0996.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnDfFVZtOzHCK9G3SJVnvkNGJQXxZ1jgqneaw4FSb_u20h0FmOh0Mb2NNs8wC3i8HbY0NXfR5L_ozcvq919YtWhyJIkKdSkTrkEZvRlqfCZud7WFWhDYuY2xA8MHiNPzTRUkDSmYqfVQ/s1600-h/IMG_0994.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287395755996721362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnDfFVZtOzHCK9G3SJVnvkNGJQXxZ1jgqneaw4FSb_u20h0FmOh0Mb2NNs8wC3i8HbY0NXfR5L_ozcvq919YtWhyJIkKdSkTrkEZvRlqfCZud7WFWhDYuY2xA8MHiNPzTRUkDSmYqfVQ/s400/IMG_0994.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /> <span style="font-family:arial;">Next was Pohnpei, also very small, remote and beautiful. Also a very short runway!!! Not that long ago a Japanese plane went off the end of it into the ocean! But those continental pilots are too well trained for a mistake like that... especially a certain FO Monson! His landings are perfection! After Pohnpei we were on to Chuuk. Chuuk was pretty. I really want to go back there too for the diving. After Chuuk we were finally home. Considering how extremely long the day was the kids did very well and had a lot of fun. It was really fun being on the plane with Kel while he was flying too.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"> After Thanksgiving it was time to get ready Christmas and to plan Arie's birthday party! Arie turned 2 on the 9th on December. We had to do a party for her because last year we hardly even celebrated her birthday - her FIRST birthday - we are horrible parents! The morning of her birthday we did b-day pancakes with a candle and we sang to her. Then for her party we had some kids over and we decorated sugar cookies. Arie got lots of great presents too.<br /></span></div></div><div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Ncjd2JAlGK69VF27UodCODQiU6TElazR2ioPL8swDPvfcdv-jVmQP42s-r3QMOJxQB-WAufUz93rwUF2MT4z6OV9hVhgurQqKPoapHdjeN7dF9YjfAL1Y3tRCmbi_sEs5RpHNa9rvFw/s1600-h/IMG_1029.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287399198857206306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Ncjd2JAlGK69VF27UodCODQiU6TElazR2ioPL8swDPvfcdv-jVmQP42s-r3QMOJxQB-WAufUz93rwUF2MT4z6OV9hVhgurQqKPoapHdjeN7dF9YjfAL1Y3tRCmbi_sEs5RpHNa9rvFw/s400/IMG_1029.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2IpQpVLYAWxT_n2f38HgLuUmZ5b18QJjKUXmeDW620wycc1y8clcfj1-EoFkhqPqm8ucnsxcxx7-gJ4WA4TZ4jAlErodbTcLM-lEyVEDMiGKskx1Mct5u_oI5toQncDweyS-OXgydqk/s1600-h/IMG_1028.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287399187292049026" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNETxxTtMtZa-k02sNVOOCMV98CUpbR7znTGqIR7T1vwCl-J2NaIgs8h19PuvnHCeMfIM22fMwz89K2TQTlsjJbOrO0KDHDIY8HFkEcqD7EXPes72VOL1ah5BGTaurd6I4nCsFwRj62JA/s400/IMG_1040.JPG" border="0" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-family:arial;">It is hard for me to believe that Arie is already 2! She has brought so much joy to our family and I'm so grateful to have her as a daughter. Although I'm sad that she is growing so fast it is also so much fun, because the older she gets the more fun she has with her brother. Liam and Arie are quite the two-some! They bicker a lot and fight over toys, but they also have so much fun together. Arie worships her brother and he really does love her so much too. Listening to them play or watching them from around the corner are my two favorite activities. They crack me up! I'm so grateful for my brother and sister, and they truly are the two people I'd choose to be around anytime. I pray that Liam and Arie will have that some bond someday. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"> As most of you know Kelly and I are expecting baby number 3! We are really excited and we feel really blessed to be able to have another sweet baby in our home. We have decided this time around that we want to be surprised and not find out the sex of the baby. I thought my personality would NEVER let me do that, but I have to say it is so much fun! Kel thinks it is a girl, and if I had to guess I'd say a girl too. But what is weird is when I refer to the baby I always say "he" and I had a dream that I had the baby and it was a boy. Who knows!?! All I know, is I love the whole surprise thing. How many great surprises do you get in life anyway? I know, I know, it is a surprise if you find out at 20 weeks or at 40 weeks. But I can't wait for the doctor to say "It's a...."! It will be awesome.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"> Well this may be the longest post in the history of blogger. I actually have a lot of videos that I need to post as well, but those take forever!!!! and I don't have the patience tonight! So i hope everyone is doing great and I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and holiday season. OH YEAH!!!!!!! I'll post about Christmas later! HAHA!</span></div></div>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-78169199120844302362008-11-06T08:59:00.002+10:002008-11-06T09:18:43.046+10:00Election 2008Well another Presidential Election is over. I'm sure many of you are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">disappointed</span> by the results while some are very excited. I myself wasn't thrilled about either one of the prospects. Our new President - President Obama! While I don't agree with him on a lot of things, I have to say I'm so excited to see our nations first black president! I have had chills watching all the celebrations on <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">TV</span> for him. No matter how this election went history was going to be made, and it was really exciting to see which way it would go. I have to admit that although I wouldn't have voted for Obama, I'm so excited to see our country in a place where we will elect a black president.<br /> I have always struggled with racism. Not struggled in the sense where I have felt like a racist!!! FAR FROM IT! I am APPALLED by any sort of racism and ignorance. It disgusts me the same way that sexual abuse and abuse of animals and children disgusts me. I have a really ha<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">rd</span> time being around people who make racist comments or who are close minded to the fact that we really are all the same. I hope all of those people have their <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">feet</span> in their mouths now. Of course those people will be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">the</span> first to say when he messes up that it is because he is black. BOO on those people!<br /> I do have a concern though that the history books won't be fair and balanced to Mr. Obama. He is such a media darling that no matter what he does, bad or good, they are going to LOVE him. Like I said I don't agree with all of his policies and ideas - but for me this post is not about that. I am really just so excited to see our country here in this place. I'm so excited that I'm alive to see something like this. I'm so h<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">appy</span> that my children will see him as president, even if he does mess up. Hopefully it will make it harder for them to learn any sort of ignorance and judgement towards a persons race.<br /> Racism is disgusting. It comes from fear, ignorance and insecurity. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Those</span> are three qualities <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">that I</span> can hopefully keep my kids away from. It is obvious that everyone in the nation wanted a change. I know that Obama wasn't the change that everyone wanted. I don't want a lot of the changes he says he wants either. But I do love the change of the face of this nation! We have always been told to pray for our leaders - lets continues to do that! We should pray for them whether we agree with them or not. We should pray for their safety and for their strength and health. Our country has taken a huge step forward in some ways. I hope he does a good job. I know I won't agree with him every step of the way but I hope he is good for this nation, because we really need something good right now.Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-17713645767307251592008-11-04T14:20:00.002+10:002008-11-04T14:27:03.428+10:00Photo Tag!<div>Thanks Marie - this one does sound fun! What you have to do is go into your picture files and upload the fourth photo in your fourth folder and the sixth photo in the sixth folder. Now.. lets see what those are....</div><br /><p>><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGukcdrzFLYymgYDkrXUvrcu-CzXUnZeoxWXTHTk6r9o1CIBimLGO6vxGxad8f-4vRBqT4zUwdivRLl-q4n689AjlqJC9m-ycFE32sOGHGKvasPwxwQNV2GJbmWheXslEkB1daMQWTQtA/s1600-h/IMG_0484.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264653497390165666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGukcdrzFLYymgYDkrXUvrcu-CzXUnZeoxWXTHTk6r9o1CIBimLGO6vxGxad8f-4vRBqT4zUwdivRLl-q4n689AjlqJC9m-ycFE32sOGHGKvasPwxwQNV2GJbmWheXslEkB1daMQWTQtA/s400/IMG_0484.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQwYS1_e5-J4Lq9Et4D2Uy0tofCrlxCiKuysFEV-dajJ2D3dK4_synI6bn8eWvaSMWSVA1K34qNab3lM4Z91PewUse-vk4fNEn0CyPr45Pb_usZ5wa1xsu4dIY2RBNys_iOqPTTi4yYU/s1600-h/IMG_0555.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264653501524588002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQwYS1_e5-J4Lq9Et4D2Uy0tofCrlxCiKuysFEV-dajJ2D3dK4_synI6bn8eWvaSMWSVA1K34qNab3lM4Z91PewUse-vk4fNEn0CyPr45Pb_usZ5wa1xsu4dIY2RBNys_iOqPTTi4yYU/s400/IMG_0555.JPG" border="0" /></a> HAHAHAHA Marie you are in one of them!!! The first one is of our primary party, and the next one is under the water when Kel and I went diving!</p><p>I'm tagging... Ashley, Alli, Stacy, and Kristi!<br /><br /></p>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-89530366964157609562008-11-01T10:03:00.015+10:002008-11-01T11:44:21.942+10:00Halloween 2008So it has been a looooooooong time since I've updated this thing - and right now I'm only going to talk about Halloween. Maybe I'll update more later.<br /><br />Halloween this year was definitly the most fun so far. Liam really understood the holiday and has been super pumped about it for a while now. And if Liam is excited about something you can bet that Arie is also. This year we knew Liam would go as Batman. He has had a Batman obsession fo quite some time know and we knew without a doubt that is who he would be. Arie would've been Batman too if we would've let her, but Liam really wanted her to be a princess. When we went to the costume store we immediately found Liam's Batman costume but we had a harder time finding a princess for Arie. We had to settle on Tinkerbell - but I think it fit her personality perfectly!!!<br /><br />A week ago we crashed a Halloween party at our old church. It was really fun to see old friends and it was fun for the kids to get to wear their costumes before the big day. Halloween day was also full of fun activities. Liam's school had a Halloween parade and then a carnival afterwards. And then last night we went to our old neighborhood where there was a big bounce house and a trunk-or-treat. It was really fun to hang out with our old neighbors and having a trunk-or-treat with people you know made it feel a lot safer.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6TXW8isRRpGayIMbq-gRS-_zReRM4rQbwfNJSWsUOzPG85OyrK-XwmJhhjoKN6onDgXxV16q1iTyhB3EREo-VgepNxNMDyvtTAhHJbDGL-kok_O_sHW0HPcmw4seDboQXPeUSftKmpv8/s1600-h/IMG_0832.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263475565931837394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6TXW8isRRpGayIMbq-gRS-_zReRM4rQbwfNJSWsUOzPG85OyrK-XwmJhhjoKN6onDgXxV16q1iTyhB3EREo-VgepNxNMDyvtTAhHJbDGL-kok_O_sHW0HPcmw4seDboQXPeUSftKmpv8/s400/IMG_0832.JPG" border="0" /></a> That is Liam all dressed up on the way to his school's Halloween party. He's on the phone with Mo-Mo telling her all about how cool he is!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV02OwTF35JRsF8ydaukj9bdUIjYy9S6Ym4_O7LivUfpJclHJdL49fZZmBBP7FS9OgW6q2H_afixiMtBx1nN0mdD2Uu2LAOlgW5vepg9Wj-H9r5QrIY1voEByiYxajsGK6AC8w__sIGyg/s1600-h/IMG_0833.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263476131378250018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV02OwTF35JRsF8ydaukj9bdUIjYy9S6Ym4_O7LivUfpJclHJdL49fZZmBBP7FS9OgW6q2H_afixiMtBx1nN0mdD2Uu2LAOlgW5vepg9Wj-H9r5QrIY1voEByiYxajsGK6AC8w__sIGyg/s400/IMG_0833.JPG" border="0" /></a> Here is Arie also anticipating the party at Liam's school. she just LOVES any chance she gets to be with Liam!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1966udWj2DshE5yxbUK-d1aLrVq2OYVWVSOdh1rwF7BxcXIoDWmmVYrMp5BlfYOEwPpF1x5Rn0NSFz4T-00l4xmiye_UrSZnCzGDYXa46F3dNbtO2utby6OqV_HUDoPm8cqzCfy3V44/s1600-h/IMG_0834.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263476885284551154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1966udWj2DshE5yxbUK-d1aLrVq2OYVWVSOdh1rwF7BxcXIoDWmmVYrMp5BlfYOEwPpF1x5Rn0NSFz4T-00l4xmiye_UrSZnCzGDYXa46F3dNbtO2utby6OqV_HUDoPm8cqzCfy3V44/s400/IMG_0834.JPG" border="0" /></a>Liam's got his bag and he is ready to go!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBrsCz_mQWd3zu6tZgFUJG2WRX3cj79z7g08HBFCEiGjt4i_m6DOt13EjdpxHf5WHbUNQs0PG20srbfcjhg1Hf7O-BDPcNtoNx7L0hu72yUDMxNmsPjn3pWVxG2aLlG-UWMB3wQwWF5e4/s1600-h/IMG_0842.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263477923496406386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBrsCz_mQWd3zu6tZgFUJG2WRX3cj79z7g08HBFCEiGjt4i_m6DOt13EjdpxHf5WHbUNQs0PG20srbfcjhg1Hf7O-BDPcNtoNx7L0hu72yUDMxNmsPjn3pWVxG2aLlG-UWMB3wQwWF5e4/s400/IMG_0842.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5gGufuveYfUleeZ7hQVqt__nDMPmGdcpoL0HbjplMS0GJ5aOrVGL6xSH7tIzzlttmgosYknJ7XOseUayfngxL3t2_v-tkyLiycTeg8VZYZA-SlgcHnastlhG6qIW8bYmZzZ9PN2469ho/s1600-h/IMG_0838.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263477914066219602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5gGufuveYfUleeZ7hQVqt__nDMPmGdcpoL0HbjplMS0GJ5aOrVGL6xSH7tIzzlttmgosYknJ7XOseUayfngxL3t2_v-tkyLiycTeg8VZYZA-SlgcHnastlhG6qIW8bYmZzZ9PN2469ho/s400/IMG_0838.JPG" border="0" /></a> You can tell in those pictures he always has to look in an upward direction or his mask would slide down. Liam NEVER broke character the whole time - he even spoke in a totally different voice.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguZm8Ujg1ErkewltxFtQNbB8oqqiMFXmVlYOnMvi3fp51tLDFQsW8W7jgudzFqUQlbGFtbZDRNiLNjP0igUqlnAZitic2cVrFPuTTUEHPJfNOICGWAUvWiTNDtouyuwGEmtrKcy8rNE3Y/s1600-h/IMG_0839.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263480169083849554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguZm8Ujg1ErkewltxFtQNbB8oqqiMFXmVlYOnMvi3fp51tLDFQsW8W7jgudzFqUQlbGFtbZDRNiLNjP0igUqlnAZitic2cVrFPuTTUEHPJfNOICGWAUvWiTNDtouyuwGEmtrKcy8rNE3Y/s400/IMG_0839.JPG" border="0" /></a> Here is Arie trying to steal from the other kids cubbies. She looks sweet, but never trust her :) The next few are pictures of Liam's class. There were so many cute kids and it was really fun to finally put faces to the names that Liam is always talking about. And it was nice to meet their parents as well.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0RdyBefda3m9T7D55ogJmiu4T3438gmJbfdJh0Znopvo5oUZyI9bJYvsK-52AsiyfA9PKnlQudIueR7nhXKYWa71xOdOpvtVLhtPexwEFPqYDYrvtuXHXJ71whbKvm7ozq6onsB8NrWI/s1600-h/IMG_0854.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263484435341254994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0RdyBefda3m9T7D55ogJmiu4T3438gmJbfdJh0Znopvo5oUZyI9bJYvsK-52AsiyfA9PKnlQudIueR7nhXKYWa71xOdOpvtVLhtPexwEFPqYDYrvtuXHXJ71whbKvm7ozq6onsB8NrWI/s400/IMG_0854.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibzBHHrS8s_O5PBnUiSXHbG-vH16FplNXWe-3ciUFDdQ0Pl_K4QGq_OSDrf2trnqtbniiRdbREWdauBol-j7ngd5HmG_Xwe2LCoX7PE8Yzw_hOqwKyO2JCSX57gBgCfwsWIdI2sGE_-wM/s1600-h/IMG_0852.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263484427684030418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibzBHHrS8s_O5PBnUiSXHbG-vH16FplNXWe-3ciUFDdQ0Pl_K4QGq_OSDrf2trnqtbniiRdbREWdauBol-j7ngd5HmG_Xwe2LCoX7PE8Yzw_hOqwKyO2JCSX57gBgCfwsWIdI2sGE_-wM/s400/IMG_0852.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWRQ9UvE8FficWuQRr2_dRI2nXEvFjBEB96qT1UmxqnHZBSAXah8P69MQOaAgUFe9uLXX6MFa0dCalo_2W-Paa4UjAem5Pdi2PJdSOALDD4uY4mRp36OeuA8mfK2zi_1SYXTAtl3X6sM0/s1600-h/IMG_0850.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263484425966311986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWRQ9UvE8FficWuQRr2_dRI2nXEvFjBEB96qT1UmxqnHZBSAXah8P69MQOaAgUFe9uLXX6MFa0dCalo_2W-Paa4UjAem5Pdi2PJdSOALDD4uY4mRp36OeuA8mfK2zi_1SYXTAtl3X6sM0/s400/IMG_0850.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgliPC5JlRg6BNqUgHjMSNQ09bIiUjonSd6qh2TKFmvzjjvM9iWy-eOYdkopoA0ZrnrC0yKpRFRBRgUfuhWEOrIqCHzL2cA7WcSxsAOgJx6KSDML0b4GjI4FFP4SbBYXnZj73BybCvNUi4/s1600-h/IMG_0847.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263484421509578146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgliPC5JlRg6BNqUgHjMSNQ09bIiUjonSd6qh2TKFmvzjjvM9iWy-eOYdkopoA0ZrnrC0yKpRFRBRgUfuhWEOrIqCHzL2cA7WcSxsAOgJx6KSDML0b4GjI4FFP4SbBYXnZj73BybCvNUi4/s400/IMG_0847.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhK9j5GgPzYFv1MMQu55Y61AMb4iwT1tFfx5vW-apqOPRdBuoEX3H__EX4Tkks3X5tsu72Yov3dGSDQzlBoMG7THwbxegMUNdndO2ClhqrtvvnidML_GIUQEgJ-AbsJuezLQWXLjOyok/s1600-h/IMG_0840.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263484411263007826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhK9j5GgPzYFv1MMQu55Y61AMb4iwT1tFfx5vW-apqOPRdBuoEX3H__EX4Tkks3X5tsu72Yov3dGSDQzlBoMG7THwbxegMUNdndO2ClhqrtvvnidML_GIUQEgJ-AbsJuezLQWXLjOyok/s400/IMG_0840.JPG" border="0" /></a> Arie was on sensory overoad the whole time we were there. She got into everything and was basically being her sweet destructive self. We finally just decided that she couldn't be trusted and that she had to be held. She didnt' really care for that idea...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi160L0ewkp_-5R4m2TGgQV1you6SlJdk00uqmBA8WKiIxbN_aFTaXTkb_wF6hmDYvSNFCiAlqaQmaPdIZj2lG7cAH32RjA4Szde2h8WD8FDdx1w5bl8YfR8bpHG8PdHWzDFkavzs-9f1s/s1600-h/IMG_0849.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263485322154128994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi160L0ewkp_-5R4m2TGgQV1you6SlJdk00uqmBA8WKiIxbN_aFTaXTkb_wF6hmDYvSNFCiAlqaQmaPdIZj2lG7cAH32RjA4Szde2h8WD8FDdx1w5bl8YfR8bpHG8PdHWzDFkavzs-9f1s/s400/IMG_0849.JPG" border="0" /></a> After lots of picture taking in the classroom the kids finally got have their parade. They paraded out of the school to the Ace hardware that backs up to the school. The employees at Ace handed candy out to the kids as they walked through the parking lot and through the store.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFU83I7XXzUo1sxXkd9gtaS63b5MGdCBXqWecjQNyxJoLc3X1JN-OB8TfAxV0c9wTbJoQ2zXJ7ChiZotQcQoznS3qZ7pNz7omo-Nygf8TcdBqqmFnl2gFPX_o6NBdpYbC12hcbhmqSRik/s1600-h/IMG_0863.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263487935635836050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFU83I7XXzUo1sxXkd9gtaS63b5MGdCBXqWecjQNyxJoLc3X1JN-OB8TfAxV0c9wTbJoQ2zXJ7ChiZotQcQoznS3qZ7pNz7omo-Nygf8TcdBqqmFnl2gFPX_o6NBdpYbC12hcbhmqSRik/s400/IMG_0863.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvVwGxRcbJGvg62CJBSIb2UW45-gRPsqrKgS607biXy_kxnikpJAsfPB9z-BEKMhFvzs4fXnpilY6Ew22lsAy2d5gayXIa6quN2aUEJS3BkXtWGK-HqzdtrWs1GdW5fdkzpWOvLmY5hr4/s1600-h/IMG_0862.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263487927405635538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvVwGxRcbJGvg62CJBSIb2UW45-gRPsqrKgS607biXy_kxnikpJAsfPB9z-BEKMhFvzs4fXnpilY6Ew22lsAy2d5gayXIa6quN2aUEJS3BkXtWGK-HqzdtrWs1GdW5fdkzpWOvLmY5hr4/s400/IMG_0862.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5G7EtaWpBfWAzTrf1mCGXTirnO9TRWMjqn5oMZBTd6DfziUMmiFlvVYATQmuswBunMnukLrR68GvKtYTcENwNcD5b0ORQI_6BEZ9FDBJ2P71MMnziuEpLzWvgB2QEoELGwhS5Z7GuCGI/s1600-h/IMG_0861.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263487914558469730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5G7EtaWpBfWAzTrf1mCGXTirnO9TRWMjqn5oMZBTd6DfziUMmiFlvVYATQmuswBunMnukLrR68GvKtYTcENwNcD5b0ORQI_6BEZ9FDBJ2P71MMnziuEpLzWvgB2QEoELGwhS5Z7GuCGI/s400/IMG_0861.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp7vTFkHtVVZMcaUq57ELSAZdRda0HWf6kllo7fM-SVYfE8tXIMJ1UU4_n2UVSB4UN4rvDw9UjHxhe-g50WZj6et6lgxZ5pFbGxCmvaf-KgnjqGTPjEhH4o0Zk_eti3WhzEvvs78rmFH8/s1600-h/IMG_0856.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263487913403817346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp7vTFkHtVVZMcaUq57ELSAZdRda0HWf6kllo7fM-SVYfE8tXIMJ1UU4_n2UVSB4UN4rvDw9UjHxhe-g50WZj6et6lgxZ5pFbGxCmvaf-KgnjqGTPjEhH4o0Zk_eti3WhzEvvs78rmFH8/s400/IMG_0856.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSuyYHIUF-_Nk1dNB6HGL4NwGKM5Os8xDzPeqMBfo7QEpIvKa48WZMbL3dG3oeI9bdEJw-PfzODonp6QbjRnQVb5YIeaSagKSKYEwYWyq_m_Tk7vawd1K0CZ25VgasxZyaXdBgyiuETg/s1600-h/IMG_0855.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263487904839802850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSuyYHIUF-_Nk1dNB6HGL4NwGKM5Os8xDzPeqMBfo7QEpIvKa48WZMbL3dG3oeI9bdEJw-PfzODonp6QbjRnQVb5YIeaSagKSKYEwYWyq_m_Tk7vawd1K0CZ25VgasxZyaXdBgyiuETg/s400/IMG_0855.JPG" border="0" /></a> After the parade we went back to the school for carnival. There were lots of fun games, bounce houses, and they were raffeling off a Wii. Sadly we didn't win the Wii - oh well there is always next year. There was a lunch for everyone - the traditional Guam favorites of red rice, kelaguen and long grain rice noodles. YUM YUM!!!!! A few days before Halloween Liam realized that Kel and I didnt' have costumes. Well this upset him and became obsessed with us getting outfits of our own. We gave in and we all went to the Halloween store together. I looked for the cheapest one that would cover up my recent weight gain - I went as Bruce Lee the Dragon Ninja. Kel on the other hand had a very important role this Halloween. Liam was going as Batman so what else could Kelly be but.......... ROBIN!!!!!!!!!! They were the perfect crime fighting duo! Liam thought it was pretty much the coolest thing that ever happened. I have to say kel is such a good sport because his costume was soooooo HOT! He kept it on for well over an hour - which is way better that I would've done. Anyway - here we are at our friends Halloween party...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerqwP48dGSTXMnR_YdY2yardXG43VNzLEc0SWcahQ-TMZFfTLztvgqMDbi0taZGpvJKMP_1rNRmBuranuD9seuKGQ-VrL2aYPgTSPtOvq7hQaoPpX7RJxI8nMbFORKapQyk20fV4km9k/s1600-h/IMG_0885.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263491281052374146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerqwP48dGSTXMnR_YdY2yardXG43VNzLEc0SWcahQ-TMZFfTLztvgqMDbi0taZGpvJKMP_1rNRmBuranuD9seuKGQ-VrL2aYPgTSPtOvq7hQaoPpX7RJxI8nMbFORKapQyk20fV4km9k/s400/IMG_0885.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkGn6Ft-iODhP9f-3dFN_V4YQh3mynawPu5eo9f8QTR74DHxy2qK3Vw1NfWcfipWUzS-nFQMZdaxy2BMfZVVu4UiNTP244OEkukWtK7i3N4MdyOMjRtI6fCUj862zromAB4bzdftUpm4/s1600-h/IMG_0884.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263491275875858994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkGn6Ft-iODhP9f-3dFN_V4YQh3mynawPu5eo9f8QTR74DHxy2qK3Vw1NfWcfipWUzS-nFQMZdaxy2BMfZVVu4UiNTP244OEkukWtK7i3N4MdyOMjRtI6fCUj862zromAB4bzdftUpm4/s400/IMG_0884.JPG" border="0" /></a> Check out the super hero stance! Oh man!!!! Those two were hilarious! Once we got to the party we hardly saw Batman again. He spent most of the time in the bounce house. I on the other hand spent time following Arie around making sure she didn't steak other peoples candy and food. Our friends have one of those yellow and red cars - you know the kind for toddlers that look sort of cartoonish. Well Arie LOVES these! She hogged the car the whole night. At one point she got out and when she returned back to the car she saw that another little boy had gotten in the car. Arie stared at him for a while with a very angry face and then went up to the car, opened the door and tried pulling the boy out by his head!!!! The car became her obsession that night and she soon realized that her wings made it very inconvenient when getting in and out of the car. So she went from this <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6NYAhQy6vBa398G-ytOGOoLhagZkwGU0INONhkIebVK7mNnwjz1gQ6AGj66J52uwbHXcrVjbbfvVyKczYIhRcIH5Sj-vsh9IkQRQr0WZPci7-lU-XuSFeUTyo3eobGbBOKG-RoHZC3Gw/s1600-h/IMG_0889.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263493201947169410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6NYAhQy6vBa398G-ytOGOoLhagZkwGU0INONhkIebVK7mNnwjz1gQ6AGj66J52uwbHXcrVjbbfvVyKczYIhRcIH5Sj-vsh9IkQRQr0WZPci7-lU-XuSFeUTyo3eobGbBOKG-RoHZC3Gw/s400/IMG_0889.JPG" border="0" /></a>...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjv2eLUYewAeCexl_gSAfnbw89xN-KURspZ9ierhwOPm43Q1GxO4zrvDl8Nxr75P6KiiXROGUtIS2zp8frxPkdiG-NwmqTBJTIbACtFlrrY_lTknEluOmwn3I6MV3cfUHnGXfZmtSto4/s1600-h/IMG_0891.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263493207351401858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjv2eLUYewAeCexl_gSAfnbw89xN-KURspZ9ierhwOPm43Q1GxO4zrvDl8Nxr75P6KiiXROGUtIS2zp8frxPkdiG-NwmqTBJTIbACtFlrrY_lTknEluOmwn3I6MV3cfUHnGXfZmtSto4/s400/IMG_0891.JPG" border="0" /></a> to that!!!!!!!!! Once we started trick or treating Liam came back into the picture. I sat and handed out candy, while Arie sat in the back of the car with me and ate everything that I wasn't handing out.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4GxmvHSTn1wLvD5ez3GsGmiiAN-awaTR6fWqhwBOGvFz03-SawxiAGE89YX2l6SWVwbU4mmXRjm6MhJBqbtqSDTOlMZZXLubSH2rSXRHyEs6a1juIvVo_5eQF6nYqnF4ZC8Pm4G1q_s/s1600-h/IMG_0894.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263494927542529330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4GxmvHSTn1wLvD5ez3GsGmiiAN-awaTR6fWqhwBOGvFz03-SawxiAGE89YX2l6SWVwbU4mmXRjm6MhJBqbtqSDTOlMZZXLubSH2rSXRHyEs6a1juIvVo_5eQF6nYqnF4ZC8Pm4G1q_s/s400/IMG_0894.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUWLVgYkUshk023MXSvzyAyNaQEo8uJL0XEHHSjdHjmIGfcNCV7ltzTZQjyUAtqmVpOq-rZN1HpzyL3RR1ON0ceWZbDNghjO1m9AnmswBXktdqyvbZnGXZAMoTBkgZBP9uLfTLJpJJUbQ/s1600-h/IMG_0897.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263494915373715698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUWLVgYkUshk023MXSvzyAyNaQEo8uJL0XEHHSjdHjmIGfcNCV7ltzTZQjyUAtqmVpOq-rZN1HpzyL3RR1ON0ceWZbDNghjO1m9AnmswBXktdqyvbZnGXZAMoTBkgZBP9uLfTLJpJJUbQ/s400/IMG_0897.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeLJ86tM3aAgTabEErGT6SOxEUyGGA5Vys4Ybil6sT7dY7tXM7yTp_LHm-mAthqCvCnPkObQwYSBt1g8jJMUFqJdDgw5UbwvR50rd3K20hHdJnXFcVsumbMJjpdtpO9D6wSYbqoSz5bM8/s1600-h/IMG_0895.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263494908072295186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeLJ86tM3aAgTabEErGT6SOxEUyGGA5Vys4Ybil6sT7dY7tXM7yTp_LHm-mAthqCvCnPkObQwYSBt1g8jJMUFqJdDgw5UbwvR50rd3K20hHdJnXFcVsumbMJjpdtpO9D6wSYbqoSz5bM8/s400/IMG_0895.JPG" border="0" /></a> After the party we went home and spent an hour or so waiting for Arie to come down off of her sugar high. Once we put her to bed Liam stayed up with Kel and I while we watched Young Frankenstein. Liam loved it!Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-37986479469961098862008-09-06T20:31:00.000+10:002008-09-07T22:03:38.482+10:00So funny - so true - not a G rating!<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,153,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Kel and I have been tossing around the idea of adding to our already hyperactive family. We know we want another little one - but when it came down to actually really trying to make that happen I got cold feet. I do want to still have another baby, but I also feel like... I'm young still, we have so much to do right now that isn't very much fun when your preggers, I hate being pregnant, and well I hate being pregnant. So we have gone back and forth recently on this issue. Our conversations are "Yes,now is a good time" to "Lets wait a few more months" to "Whatever happens happens" to "Lets wait a few more months". While we continue to battle with this issue, i would like to share some videos that have left me laughing sooooooooo hard! I'm sure anyone can relate to these, please enjoy!<br /><br />http://www.runawaybox.com/video.php?vid=396<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU<br /><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU"><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,153,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,153,255)"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /></span></span>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-17233958113803389772008-08-16T20:09:00.000+10:002008-08-18T10:29:46.884+10:00Update on nothing really important...<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So I started a new job recently. I don't think it will qualify as a "second income" anytime soon though. I only work about once a week! I got a job at a local furniture store... hmmm I just can't break away from the family biz! I really like the job though. I've been around furniture and interior design all my life so it I felt like it would be a good fit. It is a totally different ballgame from my Mom's store though. By the way - if you haven't been to my Mom's store - Eklektik Interiors - you are missing out!!!! It is so beautiful and very unique. This store on the other hand is very basic. For all of you people from Houston -- I'd relate it to a Gallery Furniture, but set up nicer. Extremely affordable basics. Some of the stuff has some style to it though. I really just got the job so that I could get out of the house once a week and save my sanity. GASP!!!! WHAT?!?!??!?!?!? A good mother - especially a good Mormon mother - would <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">never</span> utter those words! Well guess what? I meant it! I love my kids and feel fortunate to stay at home with them - but sometimes I've got to break free! Kel has been super Dad when I'm a work. Last week I got home he and the kids had just gotten back from the beach (something I'd never do alone!). Liam came running up to me telling me how much fun he had and how Daddy is the best Daddy, when I noticed Liam was running with a 16oz bottle of STRAWBERRY FANTA in his hands!!!!!!! No wonder they like Kelly more than me! Kelly just looked at me like "you weren't supposed to see that". Oh well! I thought I'd post some pictures of the goofy kids. When Daddy is around they just goof off and get dirty.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNYEiYfxuRFhmLYMepKjuRWac9meFfFYuJ-g4UPmw2iZqizULSIdLVW2sr8kwFj80fnWS1UJIRZe7KAAqV7c5DWAkQnOWZYIz7yDgBpS5kW6LWVJO6zbC03pl2sYUiZG5bJrcOA6Z4G74/s1600-h/IMG_0576.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNYEiYfxuRFhmLYMepKjuRWac9meFfFYuJ-g4UPmw2iZqizULSIdLVW2sr8kwFj80fnWS1UJIRZe7KAAqV7c5DWAkQnOWZYIz7yDgBpS5kW6LWVJO6zbC03pl2sYUiZG5bJrcOA6Z4G74/s400/IMG_0576.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235060755486307474" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqGADjuPEdhhOGNb6jjug4en0395obddAHo0hbVldvEi234Q4ofRhCVaBRPMtW83utVfNVFD-EzjbvugbeTVsOqLpHLVqXauuTly4rM38K8BSAOSpvDqKtDFXB2zSWCYNiG0TJtAO3mwo/s1600-h/IMG_0578.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqGADjuPEdhhOGNb6jjug4en0395obddAHo0hbVldvEi234Q4ofRhCVaBRPMtW83utVfNVFD-EzjbvugbeTVsOqLpHLVqXauuTly4rM38K8BSAOSpvDqKtDFXB2zSWCYNiG0TJtAO3mwo/s400/IMG_0578.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235060763957441634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXp5ZXLaBlSYp4kUiFvK38Cd6jpjDSqrnoHx4XF4RfHHzfUBo-KULWalTwSeUl4bolFrEORzXGHx-xQAuL_r21My78gF8GiVACcrp6qbZlEqBVLYKbbsWnpySxShbWmRoV1wGS0gjWzNQ/s1600-h/IMG_0582.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXp5ZXLaBlSYp4kUiFvK38Cd6jpjDSqrnoHx4XF4RfHHzfUBo-KULWalTwSeUl4bolFrEORzXGHx-xQAuL_r21My78gF8GiVACcrp6qbZlEqBVLYKbbsWnpySxShbWmRoV1wGS0gjWzNQ/s400/IMG_0582.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235060769504585346" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkliD2ciBM0viqMFKzdw1TCHGQyD0qPb66MV1Ik-v6ycAAHRtnyErhgSQh7FxB5XIX3UP1sVKdhhPZ8GWoHMvVOFZFfheA7EpnAB4XmUgz1n14bux_Tqcas4Wd7TCTwvCML1GuTlBJ5kA/s1600-h/IMG_0585.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkliD2ciBM0viqMFKzdw1TCHGQyD0qPb66MV1Ik-v6ycAAHRtnyErhgSQh7FxB5XIX3UP1sVKdhhPZ8GWoHMvVOFZFfheA7EpnAB4XmUgz1n14bux_Tqcas4Wd7TCTwvCML1GuTlBJ5kA/s400/IMG_0585.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235060771666037042" border="0" /></a>We've been trying to do better about getting the kids super sweet moments on video. They both love to sing so we decided tonight that we would try and capture there lovely voices live. Liam, of course performed perfectly. Arie on the other hand... basically with Arie, if she knows you want something from her there is no way you are going to get it.<br /></span></span></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwbWTYc9utT74SRwhfHbxM2TtFJwO-eWpxz9UqGZAHsgqjNL9oAG7uAXN8Z3iBvW1MhMSRn_4pvOkbeAw4hug' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwRUZaXW0NxUHy2JVBwWUeXtYRGUJ3tQJZAA-rKE1v7-waPT8CiCFOfalF78h7Rpk0erhIvG5U8WE9ud33Pnw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1499983629333343702.post-28076387667437606732008-08-07T16:59:00.000+10:002008-08-07T18:24:57.544+10:00Unda tha Sea!<span style="font-family:courier new;color:#99ffff;">(just to warn you I had a little trouble at the end of this post with my videos - they didn't get put in the right place - OH WELL!)</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#99ffff;">Kelly and I took off on our first diving adventure together yesterday. We went out on a boat with a group of locals who dive every Wednesday together. We went to two different spots on the South end of the island by the harbor. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!<br /><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Kel</span> and Dave have been diving to pretty much the best dice locations in the world - so to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Kel</span> the diving was a little boring. But for me it was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">soooooo</span> much fun. It was my first dive since getting my <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">certification</span>. I loved it so much that I think I want to get my Advanced <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Open water</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Certification</span> (that just means I can dive to deeper depths and do more challenging things).<br /><br /><br />We recently got under-water housing for our camera and yesterday was our first day using it - so basically the pics didn't turn out that great. But I'll put up the pics anyway so you guys can see some of the things that we saw!<br /><br /><br />Our first dive there wasn't a lot of coral and it really wasn't very pretty - but we did see an eel! He was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">sooo</span> cool - he <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">just</span> stuck his head out of his hole and checked us out. But sadly we didn't bring the camera down on the first dive. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Kel</span> hadn't been under the water in about five years and it was my first official dive - so we decided to not bring the camera and of course we saw an eel and couldn't document it.<br /><br /><br />here are p<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">ics</span> of our second dive which was much prettier. The only thing that sucked was that it was really overcast, so the colors weren't that <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">visible</span>.. but you can get the idea.<br /></span><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMw4F47l1KE6TxhZkvXjHAfhqxyA4xImoSWQNhjfnyNU4-a873znQMAH_91qQi5yldZmvzw8JD0nce0tTo-GzUpQJrD6vqlJNw7Iyf0b84dkvXowsxqqTDgackYwDRCFRJEqUG67JmV0M/s1600-h/IMG_0561.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231671073334922082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMw4F47l1KE6TxhZkvXjHAfhqxyA4xImoSWQNhjfnyNU4-a873znQMAH_91qQi5yldZmvzw8JD0nce0tTo-GzUpQJrD6vqlJNw7Iyf0b84dkvXowsxqqTDgackYwDRCFRJEqUG67JmV0M/s400/IMG_0561.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjowK2tdQrFV0LcJe9jQxSQ3JQXChrxdHLCDSdPb433eLsKa_dle_8Wr_8jnv7yJTWgTUn6dsOmg8Ni6YxB2oSUS38rRZceZlxE_ezbSeebWq0P0muTA4xEVzNtRlAp-PV0lQkEs0cHUCk/s1600-h/IMG_0556.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231671072918088834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjowK2tdQrFV0LcJe9jQxSQ3JQXChrxdHLCDSdPb433eLsKa_dle_8Wr_8jnv7yJTWgTUn6dsOmg8Ni6YxB2oSUS38rRZceZlxE_ezbSeebWq0P0muTA4xEVzNtRlAp-PV0lQkEs0cHUCk/s400/IMG_0556.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP5fmtL-QGxqqsNN6a2NuRg3zEkcPlohazABn1F5wkUFDCCTjdSeomMmq0DfcL0CtoOiE0QrfKuLKkHowncc0ueY0Nt3ziX4wOXjTiikhDbpn41Qk03yqYg91Of3g0fNc0mrKQPc6mV-g/s1600-h/IMG_0559.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231671076851395346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP5fmtL-QGxqqsNN6a2NuRg3zEkcPlohazABn1F5wkUFDCCTjdSeomMmq0DfcL0CtoOiE0QrfKuLKkHowncc0ueY0Nt3ziX4wOXjTiikhDbpn41Qk03yqYg91Of3g0fNc0mrKQPc6mV-g/s400/IMG_0559.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNz1V0e4HBvmNfHTVrPKPBRQIpNo8N1_ZrhDu4MhAY568f35sbPuodjBthRyigNu-0YQfXmEkzjGjAWc7E53tackPNIbm-p2Ye3lxRh1DHcLY8WTfSbsPHf19vJperxKtVgy19Btn1eP8/s1600-h/IMG_0560.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231671080313062210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNz1V0e4HBvmNfHTVrPKPBRQIpNo8N1_ZrhDu4MhAY568f35sbPuodjBthRyigNu-0YQfXmEkzjGjAWc7E53tackPNIbm-p2Ye3lxRh1DHcLY8WTfSbsPHf19vJperxKtVgy19Btn1eP8/s400/IMG_0560.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-RPRNjbxE9abtLTMDSZ5A6GfGaNc0iALOW2iBSO25zGl0oA9DqXkkrRdSzAr6fFAgQa7KBNWW8eaMTB5EsaDs9uhUiMFGm1rhWumOKyKcHiE2IhTDMQ3lFvPqt2K-AYVOIefEZoXKEZk/s1600-h/IMG_0564.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231671086385256706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-RPRNjbxE9abtLTMDSZ5A6GfGaNc0iALOW2iBSO25zGl0oA9DqXkkrRdSzAr6fFAgQa7KBNWW8eaMTB5EsaDs9uhUiMFGm1rhWumOKyKcHiE2IhTDMQ3lFvPqt2K-AYVOIefEZoXKEZk/s400/IMG_0564.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#ccffff;">This next pic is of a flat worm. These little guys are famous around the Marianas and they come in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">hundreds</span> of different color combinations and patterns - some of them glow at night!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinglWRHpUD57TGHpXWTtH-jQfI__g-N5ws4b2hjs5D5w18kBt4nBXbmqZ6O50Ckg5nMSfmtkUsnyE7_w9zLtc0W63Pn1XqmzQnfeeUSiIHJZ-hHRWwSVCGkEAN_6cupX6QDUPlP2SyzIg/s1600-h/IMG_0563.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231671915518117218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinglWRHpUD57TGHpXWTtH-jQfI__g-N5ws4b2hjs5D5w18kBt4nBXbmqZ6O50Ckg5nMSfmtkUsnyE7_w9zLtc0W63Pn1XqmzQnfeeUSiIHJZ-hHRWwSVCGkEAN_6cupX6QDUPlP2SyzIg/s400/IMG_0563.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtTg4JAZKXNjRmr0VaxixAO3TQotbwP95TE9rh_zAZJHPCDylwhy9aMwB2UAOQmtri2KjRMo2Trxkf7rD_-m9Hh-vZOMWrw05Gv6KcHY3MeTvZS1tQOQrxzWTnq_sOh7q51pXDHN8np0/s1600-h/IMG_0558.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231673760108472850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtTg4JAZKXNjRmr0VaxixAO3TQotbwP95TE9rh_zAZJHPCDylwhy9aMwB2UAOQmtri2KjRMo2Trxkf7rD_-m9Hh-vZOMWrw05Gv6KcHY3MeTvZS1tQOQrxzWTnq_sOh7q51pXDHN8np0/s400/IMG_0558.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGPjWNv89dZNSMl4Z-nfh0ZWg3gCAMIccco14UyzLDY5dLBhbGov78jh7Vfs5U57n-hKmwEpAdTn0XMsgR7jOdgIc6t125kYY4_HdBsqu0BxP2Q24YLXbrnyty7cMiANaGWVpq5M5y3k/s1600-h/IMG_0568.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231673762985788578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGPjWNv89dZNSMl4Z-nfh0ZWg3gCAMIccco14UyzLDY5dLBhbGov78jh7Vfs5U57n-hKmwEpAdTn0XMsgR7jOdgIc6t125kYY4_HdBsqu0BxP2Q24YLXbrnyty7cMiANaGWVpq5M5y3k/s400/IMG_0568.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIM78s4ZUZhrsUZVNSWs9AIFZLnRhT5C6ugV0vvSRFc8_ARhWi-kSrftayMVarixJoHRQ4KAZ_lw5xVWJI6eAOI9BxFdrdDVzq1Ij3dR680x_SbeEB9ayWDZP1YWnq_DmPuJJzpi90r8/s1600-h/IMG_0571.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231673766487863250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIM78s4ZUZhrsUZVNSWs9AIFZLnRhT5C6ugV0vvSRFc8_ARhWi-kSrftayMVarixJoHRQ4KAZ_lw5xVWJI6eAOI9BxFdrdDVzq1Ij3dR680x_SbeEB9ayWDZP1YWnq_DmPuJJzpi90r8/s400/IMG_0571.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#99ffff;">I'm going to try to put up some of our videos but we'll see if it works!<br /></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dztPM4EefZWAT6tU_vGwY99l4MeNLQHhJWsjhwkS8wWIpNc0BXuhDGjzZkk_aMysVB4l761L7Oi6WgIyo-SiA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#99ffff;">We also had the opportunity to see a submarine. The sub came into the harbor where we were about to dive. It caused quite the commotion for some reason - coast guard boats went over to check it out and everything. We couldn't dive until it left. Here are some pics as it passed by us leaving the harbor.<br /></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuUC463StSywP9ItuH62XC1LXqGGphXgZgP9QNHNh1k4znUHhhNoCFAhY-XW1f1of-zgMAmhBFIzIrpGB91DmrI3LqZNboyL8xLkoK-qIoRNw3jAVgU6AznIIqbpIsXikdg4npZMkBGc/s1600-h/IMG_0550.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231683862365066594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuUC463StSywP9ItuH62XC1LXqGGphXgZgP9QNHNh1k4znUHhhNoCFAhY-XW1f1of-zgMAmhBFIzIrpGB91DmrI3LqZNboyL8xLkoK-qIoRNw3jAVgU6AznIIqbpIsXikdg4npZMkBGc/s400/IMG_0550.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixecOB7DZZedBrGUDchj_wQogqjnyPqmiqs9ZEE_18bV1JX_BVis-k3aSQDcJCrH6hLDJpNlN7kZZBAm7qWdeAYGwln-74Lq9bJ0UNMMe_9l6FDEOIt_15JxhT9u_D_Fj_odH6roRysH8/s1600-h/IMG_0552.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231683864444338738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixecOB7DZZedBrGUDchj_wQogqjnyPqmiqs9ZEE_18bV1JX_BVis-k3aSQDcJCrH6hLDJpNlN7kZZBAm7qWdeAYGwln-74Lq9bJ0UNMMe_9l6FDEOIt_15JxhT9u_D_Fj_odH6roRysH8/s400/IMG_0552.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:courier new;color:#99ffff;"> If you look at the top you can see the guys standing on the sub - that gives you an idea of just how big those things are! </span></p><p><br /><br /><br /> </p>Monson Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00299710952769950000noreply@blogger.com10