Even more Bahamas

So happy in water!
Becca discovered life jackets on this tripBeautiful flower on Rose Island

Smashing sand castles on Rose Island
Getting water for cool castles

Racing slides, that's Kat and Sadie at the top, digital time screen on the bottom left so you know for sure who won . . .




Kat beat Sadie by just a little bit, the bigger you are the faster you go in general . . .

Kathryn and Garrett playing in the waves

Kathryn running from the waves

Tessa and Garrett posing

On the ferry ride to Rose Island where we played on the beach. The kids playing in a street band.

Kat and Gilly,

Sea Turtles

This is Garrett's first trip down the Leap of Faith. It's actually a great shot, because when you zoom in, you can see his mouth wide open in a terrified scream.

See, So funny! Especially with the photo below . . .

it's over and he is totally psyched that HE DID IT!!!

Gregg and I haven't posed for a photo for awhile - Kat did a good job of catching us and making us sit for one. Gregg doesn't like it, almost made me delete it . . .

Rob took this one of all the kids. The colorful buildings in the background are the rooms we stayed in - Harborside VillageRob Sanville got this nice photo of Kathryn on the Lazy River ride - so much fun! Go to the Atlantis website if you are curious, it shows some great photos and videos of all the fun things to do there - we really had a blast.

Lounging by the pool in the wind. A few of the days were really chilly -

especially compared to two years ago. The kids still talk about it.

Rebecca asked us a few days ago, "If I eat all my food can we go to the Bahamas after dinner?"

Becca is four

Our birthday girl with the brother she loves and his cool marshmallow gun and dad's helmets . . .Later, we get ready for her birthday, Garrett lights the candlesRebecca opens all her presents while we eat her birthday dinner (she just couldn't eat or wait, so no photos of that). Then she poses with balloon strings and birthday tiara,

She contemplates her wish . . .
Blows out the candles in one blow, then says,

"I didn't wish for anything because I already got every present I wanted."

Thanks Grandmas, Grandpas, siblings, and friends!!!!!

She wanted a cake with "little strawberries that don't have any green stuff on them and green frosting." I wasn't quite sure what that meant - so this is what she got. She liked it I think, but she still asks me for the cake with the little strawberries for her OTHER birthday!

Bahamas 2010

It's too good to be true, but we were able to go on another tropical vacation with our whole family and our good friends the Sanvilles. A warm welcome at the airport - there is always music in the background in the Bahamas. It's hard not to be happy with that in the background, it even makes waiting in customs lines tolerable. Wouldn't be a bad idea for our DMV's.The big news this time was the older kids braving the leap of faith "a 60-foot near vertical plunge into a transparent tube through a shark tank" from the postcard Kathryn displays in her room. Garrett kept going back - and went down 10 times!!!!

Time at the beach at Rose IslandSo happy together! Alaina is proudly displaying her first chapter book that she started on the plane, read while out of the water all week, and finished on the plane ride home.

Rebecca and her friend LeeAnne -

who graciously played with her in the pool while I sat in the shade :)