Weekly Post

We got home from our vacation around 11pm on Monday night.  So we just tried to survive a full day of work and school on Tuesday.

Wednesday night we did fun activities for at church for Young Womens and Young Mens.  Cup cake wars for the girls and basketball for the boys.

Thursday night was a busy night with gymnastics and soccer.

Friday afternoon Shawn and I checked the boys out of school early and headed up skiing.  This was the first time Shawn and I have been skiing in the past 15 years.  We had a lot of fun.  Ethan kept wanting us to go down all the black diamonds (black diamonds in Wisconsin are NOT black diamonds in Utah).  Cole worked on his snowboarding.  This was his first time not in a lesson and he did a great job.  Ethan dropped both skis off the lift and one pole.  It was funny, but he wasn't having very good luck.

Untitled from Jenn Reese on Vimeo.

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Liv went home with a friend Friday after school.  She had a blast playing and ended up going swimming at the YMCA also.  This is her after she got home resting with the dog!

Saturday morning Ethan had three basketball games.  He won two out of three.  Two of the games even went into overtime, they were intense.  

Cole and his cheering squad!

Liv was bored, so she played with my phone and I ended up with these beautiful pictures.

Trip Video

Here is a little video of some of the trip highlights!

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Old Pictures

I found these pictures on an old Instagram post the other day.  They are just way too cute not to repost.  My kids were so little :)

More Vacation Pics

We started the next morning of the vacation with early morning paddle board yoga.  The kids had fun!  We did some relaxing and the kids played volleyball.

We carried on with drinking lots of fun drinks while swimming in the pool.

The boys played beach games, while Liv did handstands on the beach.

After lunch we hopped on a glass bottom catamaran and went out for a fun snorkeling cruise.

The kids rode up high on the top level.

We got all suited up to jump into the ocean.

After swimming in the open ocean for a while we swam over to a caged area.  Inside the cage were sharks and stingrays.  Yes, we swam right in (Actually, Ethan kind of freaked out at first, but eventually followed).  We held the stingrays and swam around for a while.  

After swimming back to the boat I noticed Shawn's face was pale white and he was leaning over the side.  The waves of the ocean really affected him while snorkeling and he was sea sick :(  It took him a while to recover!

We stopped at another beach on the snorkeling cruise and were able to get out and swim around with the kids.

Then we drove back to the resort and cleaned up and had a nice dinner with the kids.

The next morning we got up early and Liv and I played tennis, while the boys played basketball.  It was hot and humid so we didn't last long :)

We spent the rest of the day in the pool.  The kids played lots of volleyball, and more beach games with the staff and other guests.  

They had fresh fruit kabob stands every day that we loved.

That afternoon we went to the activity center where we played foosball, archery, mini golf, jenga, pool and other games.

We had a nice dinner, and then went back for a little evening pool and ping pong.

I loved how the resort had beautiful lights in the evening.  There was a fun music and show every night and lots of things to do.

Our last morning was spent at the pool.  

Then we spent a long day of traveling home.  The kids were exhausted!