Finally Home

Well they made it back Monday afternoon. It wasnt an easy trip back but they were all troopers thats for sure...Sooo glad to see there faces! Hope all is well and Happy Easter! Hope everyone has a good weekend.

I dont know what to title this?

Well a couple of things...first of all I had Amber & Cody blog spot on my blog and today I happen to look at it and thought to myself who are they???? Ooops wrong blog spot of some other Amber and Cody. Oh my word I feel like I am loooooosssing it!

Landan, myself, Shaun, Jessy and Trevor all went to Las Vegas for the Conexpo(Very large equipment expo) We took Landans plane but before we left Billings the right engine starter went out so we had it replaced and off we went. All was well had a good time in Vegas. We enjoyed ourselves for the most part. Then we went to leave Vegas...I dont know if any of you have ever imagined what it would be like to get stuck there and have no way out or try to get out and every time you try something goes wrong and prevents you from leaving...I have never had that happen to me any where in my life. I figure well you board a plane and you leave or you rent a car and drive away. Sounds easy....well Im here to tell you its not! I probably never will understand until the here after. I think we were being watched over but at the same time we really wanted to go home. We were number 2 in line for take off and we were all ready to go home expect Jes and I thought we could use a day at the spa, but none the less we were going home and we were glad to be. So Landan makes his final call into tower and the mic gets stuck (which means everyone can hear us, tower, other pilots etc) and we know its stuck so we remain quiet and then we see the GPS start flashing and the electronics crap out! So Landan and I are shuffling things around he whips the plane around and aborts take off, Shaun and Jessy sitting in the back wondering what the heck is going on?? We finally get tower back and we end up parking it and needing electronics looked at. Long story short we sit in Vegas for another 2 days (jessy and I go to spa) yippie we wanted to stay all day but they guys kept calling us... SOOO we thought we will send Jessy and Shaun home via another airline they go to the airport and there flight is delayed 5 hours. Mind you its due to leave at 8:30pm and then the flight is delayed 5 hours....they have a 1 yr old with them. So I say forget it come back to the hotel. So Then we think rent a car and drive to Provo for them so they dont have to wait around for us and the airplane...I call the rental place.... yes you can take the car out of state...Jessy and Shaun start driving and call to set it up they are taking the car out of state and get a NO you cant take the car out of state...ok so book another flight...oh no they have tripled in price and so have the hotel rooms...oh dont forget Landan forgot some of his clothes at the other hotel and now is commando...same with Shaun. Well by this time and day I have to get home because I have 3 kids who need me...Josie had dance competition and let me tell you she has worked her butt off for this and I really need to be there or she would never forgive me...so I get a one way home and here I am writing this to tell you Shaun, Jessy, Trevor and Landan are all stuck in Utah. Thats as far as they have made it due to weather. But they are visiting with friends and family and I hope all is well for them. I still dont know when they will make it home. Maybe in the Spring?? It was suppose to be a four day trip and is going on 8 days tomorrow...Jessy keeps telling herself well it could be worse "could be stuck in Sidney" as Shaun and Landan roll there eyes. I will update with some pictures and let you know when they make it home safely...oh to top it off they might have to re-route to Tulsa OK because Landan has a job he needs to see on Wed. Have fun in Oklahoma! OH MY WORD!!! Its never gonna end.
Oh PS Josie took first in her duo and received 3 ruby's for her other dances! I'll download pict. later....

Found some more pict to add

These are some more random pictures I just wanted to share...I should have some more new pictures on a different subject this weekend. Shaun and Jessy are coming to billings to go to the Red Lodge Winter Festival. It should be very fun. The guys have built a vessel to race down the mountain...so I'll try and capture some fun photos. Meanwhile...hope all is well with you all.

The Story of Disney Magic

In January we had the best time on our Disney Magic Cruise. Wow the service was Awsome and the R & R came at a great time. It was snowing and freeeezing when we left. Sooo we left out of Cape Canveral on a Saturday morning and we cruized for 2 days at sea. Josie ate until she couldn't move and the kids played all day at the pools or there were endless activities they offered. The first night on the ship Leilani went to "The Stack" for teens only and she didnt get back until 1 a.m. I could hardly stay awake. We arrived in St. Marteen two days later and stayed there all day and collected sea shells and swam...wonderful Day! St Marteen is half Dutch and French its split right through the middle North and South. We were on the Dutch side.(south)

The day we went to St. Thomas there was a pirate theme nite on the ship. The entertainment was incredible, there was always something to do. In St. Thomas we went to Blackbeard Castle. We took a shore excursion the Screaming Eagle. That was a blast. Speed boat that would go full boar and he would yank it in reverse....we were soaked!!! So fun. There are 400 stores and 395 of them are jewelry I swear. haha

Then we traveled another whole day at sea to get to Castaway Cay. Landan sailed a couple times that day, went on a bike ride, snorkeled, ate, layed out. Oh man it was just heavenly. We were gone 8 days it was a wonderful trip and I highly recommend it to anyone with kids at any age. Or if no kids I'd still go.

Disney Magic

Heres what is was like the morning we left.

UGGGG

And here is where we went....AAAHHHHH!

Disney Magic

Josie had her hair braided it took 2.5 hours and took me 10 hours to undo.

Crazee Josie!! Bonnie (a women pirate) was quit the pirate.

This picture makes me laugh! This is at Blackbeard's Castle in St. Marteen.

It was a beautiful Day in St. Marteen.

Well this is kinda funny. I was shooting for a pict of the landscape and look at those two heads poking up.

Disney Magic

There was a pirate evening one night. It was so fun.

This island is coming around to tourist but its still working on it. Beautiful place though.

Josie loved the idea that there was food and ice cream at any moment she wanted it. So she always had food in her hands. I so wish I chould tell her to go to deck 9 if you hungry Josie.

Disney Magic

Landan went sailing twice this day! This is Disney's private island Castaway Cay. Wonderful!!!

At dinner each nite we had these two guys doing everything for a whole week..Wow! To bad I couldnt of brought them home to....be me.

Landan and I took a nice peaceful bike ride on Castaway Cay. Aaahhh

Cruizzzzeeeen!

Landan was trying to figure out how this plane got here and how he can get his here.

Little Ones

Dakota and Trevor trying to grab Landan...This was over Thanksgiving. We had snow then and havent had any since.

My cute and adorable nieces Bridget and Annie Grace. Annie is such a good reader already in the first grade. We had christmas with them in Idaho Falls and then went on into California for Shea & Meg's wedding. It was a quick trip but sooo fun and wonderful to see family.

Random pictures

These cute hats came from a good friend in Cali...Thanks Diana & Katherine!

OOOHH sorry blurry but this is Landan with his nephew Camden..What a sweet sweet Boy!

Josie with her adorable cousin Dakota.

Leilani, Kylie and Josie all dressed up for Uncle Shea and Auntie Meg's Wedding Reception.

Snow!

We flew up to Jackson Hole WY on Friday excepting to fly home on Sunday but surprise a winter storm blew in. So we thought we would drive home but nooo the passes closed and chains were required going the other way. So darn it we had to stay another day. It was a fun relaxing get away. The snow was gone on Monday so we had to come back to reality. What a beautiful place. We are so blessed to live in such a wonderful place. Looks like a winter wonderland.

Jackson Hole WY

We went to a museum and the kids dressed up.

Costumes were a little small but they were adorable.
Then we took them swimming to tucker them out. Some how all they ended up doing was staying up late and wanting to sleep in. Oh well. It was soo fun.

They even did some ice skating...they did really good and had a lot of fun.

Meet Gourdie

Josie got to bring Gourdie home from school. Someone in her class came up with this thing and she had to take care of over the weekend.

So we had to take her to Jackson Hole with us. She took up a lot of space in the plane. She kept falling out of places we put her. Isnt she cute though.
The kids took my camera and took a photo shoot with her.

Leilani & Olive

Olive is a tall horse as you can see...She was wired this day and needed to be rode before Lani got on her. But they did great! G-ma Cheney has been there when Lani has rode and thinks Lani has found her nich...country Ralph Lauren kinda girl.

Lani Riding Olive

Well this video does not do justice...it was from my phone & sent to email not soo clear...anyhoo Leilani loves riding and she is starting to jump poles. Yicks but shes a natural at it.

Snow is Coming!

Beautiful!

This is in Yellowstone Park.

Leilani & Josie ( we had to turn their mic's to mute so we couldn't hear them making bunches of noise they thought sounded so cool in the mics:)

AAhhh watch the skies or instruments! AHH

Framed

Josie posed for a half hour for the artwalk show.

My little Pumkins

Fall Festival...the kids painted pumkins on Sat.

Cute...pumkins!

Sleepn on the tramp

The Kids decided to sleep outside a couple of weeks ago and all they did was giggle all night long...slept a little but up at the butt crack of dawn jumping and laughing again....ran in the house to get warm at 5am and watch a movie only to run back outside jump some more and make sure the neighbors were awake this time....then back inside to crash right before Landan & made breakfast while they slept. So Fun!

Cant see them but they were there all nite long....giggly