home from our cruise!

we flew ryanair to rome italy, then took a cab form rome to civitivacchia!

we are on our way to a 12 day cruise! cant wait!!
my first taxi ride! a 45 minute drive from rome to civitvacchia italy!
.....gee look what i found.. who'da guessed it huh?
BEACH!!! sherry misses the beach, what a beautifully cold beach it was in civitivacchcia

cory found things to interest himself while we waited for boarding time..

having a little fun with the camera...

EVERYONE was exhausted!

Esspecially Cory!

ben and merritt our traveling companions, they were sleepy... we allllll were sleepy..
finally on the boat!! YES!!
the industrial view of civitivacchia
were moving! and sherry and cory changed their clothes! were on our way! yay!
the first day was nothing but open sea! rock climbing mini golfing and sitting by,or in, the pools..

our offical welcome aboard dinner, and the beautiful sunset..
amazing isnt it?
wowness....

Mykenos, Greece! sun, beaches, and squid hanging from people boats..
see?
this is our ship, "the legend of the seas"..big boat,
ONE of the MANY amazing beaches of mykenos..
like the view?

I do... tee hee hee
Cory and Ben, the only ones brave enough to go into the cold water..
..Muscles!! he he
he just couldnt help himself..
i just couldnt help myself... :D

LOVE IT!!!!
Mykenos at night, the boat you see was another royal caribean boat.. same criuse liner, different cruise.
us just before dinner..
day 3, Kusadasi, Turkey! "my friend!"
a beautiful fountain in the middle of the square

a mausque (i cant spell it its a muslim churchy thingy..)
FRESH FISH WE CATCH 'EM YOU BUY 'EM! the little orangie pink one in the corner was still trying to breathe!! it was sad...
i was going to buy this, but i decided not to.. i wish i did!
inside a hotel......i wanna stay in this hotel..
the turkish flag..

Day 4. Rhodes, Greece.
this is how our day started..rainy and wet...sherry was outside for 5 minutes and got soaked from head to toe...she even had an umbrella..

look...a fin whale.... in a castle... why is there a fin whale in a castle?
this is the castle that had the fin whale in it...wierd huh? little tiny castle was a bit of a walk..

this is the entrance to the shopping bizarre...bizarre...he he.
my templar hubby..

rhodes is an OLD city, with beautiful buildings!
mmmmm gelati!!
guess what we found...
ben and merritt in front of the temple of aphrodite..

Cory and I in front of the temple.. Yeah we're smoochen.. get over it..
caslte ruins, when you went inside you could see holes in the walls from cannon fire! it 's awesome!

this explains itself i think..
men and climbing... gotta love it..
Day 5, Limassol , Cyprus
limassol castle, it was a cyprinian holiday so it was closed...
this castle as open though, it's kolosi caslte, one of the castles used by the templars..

kolossi castle... a big square building...

unfortunatly this was the last picture my camera took before taking a tumble down some 1200ish year old stone stairs.. unfortunatley, the aperature on my camera was broked, hopefully sherry can find somewhere that can fx it, but we ended up having to buy a new one on the boat...

Day 6, at sea..

another day spent mini golfing, and swimming..
FOUR!!!!

Day 7, Alexandria (cairo), Egypt......the day sherry's been waiting for..
the pyramids of giza...amazing, awe inspiring..and cory got offered 1500 camels for sherry....gee.... I'm a 15 hundred camel wife, beat that!

so tired, need a break.. nice arm rest huh? actually we were climbing around on some rocks and a guard came up to us and stared talking really fast in arabic, or whatever they were speaking, and we thought we wer in trouble, untill he grabbed merritt, posed her, took our camera, took a picture and showed us what he was doing....ahhhhhh.. now i see..
lots of fun..

i LOVE this! what an amazing time, camels, lots of souvenier shopping, pyramids, oh and
the sphynx..... wow..

i can die happy now.... no wait, still havent seen stone henge..next cruise maybe..

wow!
this is the temple of imohtep.. yes as in the mummy, "imohtep, imohtep."
the step pyramid, the only survivor of the ANCIENT wonders..

the alabaster sphynx.. not as big as it's older brother, but just as amazing..

the statue of ramses 50 feet tall, before it fell.

the detail is pretty amazing for the time period..
a standing statue of ramses..
LOOK A CAMEL!!! TEE HEE HEE, welcome to egypt...

DAy 8 was spent at sea, not alot to report, just more mini golf, swimming, what not.. and there there was Day 9, Athens Greece....

and the temple of zues..

the mighty temple of zues,,,,or whats left of it..
haydrens arch! wow!!
the capitol building..
big yellow capitol building...

some pillars inside the capitol biulding, merrit and sherry couldnt help but pose!!

dionysis's theater!!

"oh ceasar!!" sitting in a chair from the 1st century..

kissing in athens...yeah baby...
..oh we're supposed to go thata way..

one view from the trail.... amazing..

after the hour hike, we fianlly reach the acropolis!

the ruins! amazing!
the vestile virgins... these unfortuantly are not the originals, they took the originals and put them away for safe keeping and replaced them with exact replica's

psshhhhh...girls...

wow the parthenon....

you can see zues's temple in between our heads...cool huh?

walking back down..

Day 10 at sea...again... more mini golf more swimming..

abeautiful sunset, and then a show before dinner
this magician was HILLARIOUS! and he was LDS too! awesome huh??
what better dinner to have on a formal night, then lobster tails??? oh yummy!!
these are our dinner friends, from left to right, the hubbies,: Marco, Cory, Ben, and Aaron, bottom row, the Wives, : Amy, Sherry Merrit and Sarah.

i spent FOREVER on my hair..
these were our waiters, armando, from the phillipenes, and maricio, fromm cancun!!

DAy 11 Naples Italy...

and Pompeii,
Mnt. Vesuvius... it blew it's top in 79 AD completely burying the entire city of pompei..

one of the many victims
a pregnant victim.. this was soooooo sad...
yes not even the dogs could escape..
a beautifully decorated wall, i want one of these in my house..
the ruins of pompei..

pillars in the sky,, a good shot by cory..
a ruined temple..

the hard ash has slowly worn off this poor man, and you can see his skull and teeth sticking out.. this made the bodies a little more real.. adn even more sad..

look cory's behind a 1900 year old bar!
an empty alley way, and back to the boat for a good night sleep before..

Day 12 ROME!!!!! actually it was back to port, and then a cab drive to rome, we thought we'd wander the city before we took our flight home..
and what better thing is there to do in rome, then eat pizza across the street from the coloseum?

a beautiful arch, behind the coloseum..


and cory just had to touch.....

next stop the vatican! :)

the pillars surrounding the vatican..

a cool statue on a bridge that has the roman legion SPQR thingy on it.. cory got a kick out of it..


the cool fountain in a roundabout, looking for the airport...

we got home to find all was well, our girls were sleeping (and since it was 2 am when we walking in the door, i was a bit greatful for that.) the trip was amazing and i would advise anyone who gets a chance to go on a cruise to go for it, the experience was amazing! and it's definatley something we will never forget!

well we finally had a day that was warm and sunny! tuesday the 1st of april hit a high of 64!!! and today, being wednesday hit a hig of 50.......so it's chillyish today. but at least we got a break from the cold yesterday, im not at all ready to give it up! anyways i woke up on tuesday to the sound of noise... as usual, and got a surprise from nikoy who'd had her room cleaned to the point it was almost ready to vacuum! so i helped her finnish and as a reward we rode our bikes to the play gorund down the road.. we had so much fun riding bikes, i didnt ride my bike because well i dont got one.. :) and anyways, if i did have one, who'd hold the camera?
Kaylee got so excited when she saw the playground she abandoned her bike and ran for it! all the way down the hill, thankfully there were no trips, or bonks and very minimal bruising...
nikoy was content to ride her bike all the way down the trail, off roading is fun!!once on the play ground it was non-stop fun! esspescially for mommy who had to run every where to keep Kaylee from jumping off of everything... she's such a little dare devil! it's frightening!

Kaylee loves the slide! her favorite is the big twisty slide, though, she hasnt quite figured out how to stay sitting..
gotta turn around... almost...
AWESOME!!! yay she did it! like i said, minimal briusing... nikoys an old pro by now.... :)
we also enjoy driving the cars.. (thankfully the biulders of this palyground "forgot" to add wheels and an engine....)

We had so much fun at the park we cant wait till saturday! it's suposed to be warm again and this time daddy can come with us!

we love the swings... ok, i love the swings, i stick them both in a swing and la-ta-da! all i have to do is stand there and give a push every now and then... beats chasing Kaylee away from the firemans pole...

Nikoy found her elephant! Now what little girl can go out and ride an elephant whenever she wants?? honestly.... Kaylee enjoys the hedgehog, it's kinda pokie, but she still enjoys it!
then it was time for the merry go round, I had to chase a spider away from it first but that was ok, it didnt get to close, and thankfully, unlike the last spider i screamed and ran away from, this one didnt chase me....
after the park we decided to go see the signs of spring, the little tree in front of our biulding is blossoming! and the girls wanted to go see the blossoms! Nikoy got so excited watching the tree, she saw some bees! bees make honey and nikoy LOVES her some honey!

Kaylee wasnt very fond of the bees.. she preffered to get back on her bike and go play..
so that was our day at the park, hopefully we'll get to go again, we've been pretty busy lately..doing what im not sure, but the week has FLOWN by!i swear it was wednesday yesterday.... and well now it is wednesday, and it's already april!!! where's february and march go? oy.. i love it when i cant keep up with the time...and date.... oy.. anywho.. all is well on our end! i hope all is well on yours! we love you all and miss you so much! everyone be safe! enjoy the pictures! and TAKE LUCK!!......he he he..

happy hunting!

so yesterday was Easter! and how much fun that was! we went to Ben and Merritt finches house and had some delicious brisket!!! oh...it was so good, my compliments to the Merritt who made it.. :)... any who. after the dinner we put the girls into Nikoys best friend, Aryka (Erika for those who get confused easily..:) ) room, and we hid about 60 eggs around the living and dinning room, we had enough eggs that the girls each found about 20!!

Kaylee had so much fun! she had to have daddy help a little bit, but for the most part she found the eggs all by herself, all daddy had to do was remind her to put the eggs in the bag....

during the egg hunt, Rulon, an adorable little 10 month old sat and ate Oreos.....gotta love the Oreos.....

as the egg hunt ended we all sat to count our eggs, whew,,,what a haul!!


after the egg hunt they got to make the excitement last by learning they have Easter baskets to find too! so they searched and to their amazement, right behind the curtains, were all three baskets! they had so much fun rustling through their baskets!

well after the fun and excitement we all sat and watched Sherry's Easter basket treat, which was the movie enchanted! despite his dislike for it Cory still got it for her!! ain't he sweet? any who. that was our Easter, we hope you enjoyed yours as much as we enjoyed ours!! oh and on a different subject, we went and watched the movie "Horton hears a who" starring the hysterical Jim Carrey and it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! i highly recommend it! fun for the whole family!! he he he.....long live Jim....happy Easter and much love! from Nikoy, Cory, Kaylee, and Sherry




and Ben, Aryka, Merritt and Rulon Finch...
enjoy your eggs, and chocolate and treats...

we love you all!take some time to play!!!! :) he he he..(thank you grammy and grampa for the fun Easter games!!)

sherry's rantin and ravin...

does anyone happen to know of a way to shorten legs? seriously, do you have any idea how hard it is to find long enough pants if your taller then 5'5"? 2 inches.. i seriously only need two inches longer and they'd fit fine!!!! but no!! you cant find sweats or yoga pants or lounge pants with an inseam longer then 33 inches... impossible.. and the few that are, are crushed velvet, or so baggy they could be used as parachutes!! or super skinny tight, or white... i don't wear white pants.....its sooooooo irritating! AAAARRRGGGGHH. oh my favorite is when you finally find a pair of really cute lounge pants, that fit great, and cover your ankles....you wear them, and your daughter wipes her nose on them.. or spills ketchup on them....or smears her chocolaty fingers across them, so you wash them, and just because you've become overly paranoid, you even air dry them, then you put them on... and they've still shrunk!!! either that or I'm still a growing girl...in which case SOMEONE SHOOT ME!...i giggle because while searching online all the stores seem to think that a 33 inch inseam is tall.......I've decided, i have a sewing machine, i hate sewing, but I'm going to have to cope.. because making my own pants is going to be the only way to make them fit....anyone have any cute patterns? oh mommy, i know you do....:)