Vacation Time and Easter

We are back from our vacation and we had a wonderful time!  We missed the kids, of course, but it was so nice to be able to get away together for our vacation as we celebrated our 10th anniversary.  We were able to spend a couple days in Florida with Uncle Larry and Aunt Carol and then we took a 7 day cruise down to the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands.  We had nice warm weather and calm seas!

I always like to get a round or two of golf in with Larry

This is the car we rented in Florida.  The reason I am including this in our pictures is because we bought one that looks exactly like this when we got back to Minnesota.  We had been getting killed at the pump by our Ford Explorer ever since we made it our only vehicle.  We did the math and realized that we would save money by buying a fuel efficient vehicle like this.  It is a 2012 Chevrolet Sonic and we are loving it so far.  

Here's our ship!  It is huge!

Enjoying a beautiful sunset on a beautiful ship with my beautiful wife!

Beautiful view of the Atlantis Resort from our room

There was a lot of fun things to do on the ship like mini-golf

Zip line

Flow rider

Rock wall.  That's me at the top ringing the bell

I tried the stand-up flow rider.  Shannon said she was going to try to get a picture of me as soon as the guy let go of my hand....

She wasn't quick enough

We got to meet Puss in Boots

When we arrived at St. Thomas we saw a bunch of these guys hanging out on the rocks

We got to swim in the ocean at St. John

St. Maarten's.  The water around these islands was incredibly clear and beautiful.

It was great to get away but it was so wonderful to be able to come home and see our kids again.  Here they are on Easter Sunday morning getting ready for church.

Ava liked her gloves

Of course they enjoyed getting candy too!

We took like 4 or 5 pictures of our family at this time and in every picture Jack is looking in a different direction.  He gets distracted easily!