Thanksgiving in Iowa

So, I've got a few post to catch up on...here we go.

We got to spend some time with the Cavanaugh clan in West Des Moines, IA for Thanksgiving and had a great time!!! We saw New Moon opening night, saw the Blindside, shopped at our favorite grocery store, HyVee and visited the local gym where I tried a Spin class for the first time. Between Spin class and my father-in-laws stairs my legs were like jello all week! Here's a few photos from our time in WDM.

11/19/09

Loren, Kaye, Kate and I in front of Bella's truck at the New Moon premiere. We saw the midnight showing and I did find it a bit difficult to stay awake because the movie theatre was warm and we'd been up for just about 24 hours.

I love the Chipmunks. My favorite is Theodore. The cute lifesize posters were in the theatre lobby. I could resist snapping their photo.

11/20/09
The amazing cookies at HyVee.

My hubby waiting at Maid Rite for our sandwiches.

Maid Rite sign...they have unbelievable loose meat sandwiches. I'm wishing we had them here in Phoenix.

Yummy time!

Thanksgiving football with John, Nelson, Murphy and Gabby. It was very cold out so there wasn't alot of time spent outside.

My hubby throwing the football.

John tackling Murphy...they had fun despite the cold temps.

More football

11/27/09

Major shopping day!

Here's Miss Murphy sipping a hot chocolate sample from Godiva Chocolate.

Uncle Joe and Murphy at Jordan Creek mall.

Me and Miss Murphy.

Uncle Joe and Nelson

Nelson attempting the upside down smile.

Vacation withdrawals

Can you believe it's already March 1st? February just flew by us. We are enjoying some nice warm weather but tomorrow it's going to be 90 degrees - WTF? Oh, how we wish we were still on the cruise ship visiting the beautiful caribbean ports and on that note here some more pics that Josie recently shared with me.

Beautiful Magens Bay

Kate, Loren, Josie with Joe and I in the background. At the ships midnight buffet party.

The lovebirds

All of us at dinner

I wish we were still this tan!

Loren, Josie, Louie, John and Kate right before one of the formal dinners

Josie and I in our bridal party t-shirts.

The gals. Darn! My eyes were closed.

Another beautiful view of Magens Bay.

St. Lucia ~ Our Fourth Port of Call

We spent our time in St. Lucia walking around the local shops on the hunt for a new hat for Joe(see pic below). We also spent the afternoon with mom hanging out at the beach. It was a nice relaxing day. The ship had a special midnight buffet with all kinds of decorated watermelons, ice sculptures and chocolate delights.

Welcome to St. Lucia!

Time for us to head to the beach.

St. Lucia beach


More of the beach

Hanging out at the beach.


The honeymooners!

Sunset before dinner

My hubbie behind the wheel.

Me, taking control of the wheel. Lord help the passengers!

Our family and friends in the Spooner Bar playing TV Trivia.

The midnight buffet out on the pool deck. It was a special presentation with live music and dancing.

More of the midnight buffet

Joe enjoying his beer.

Kate and Loren with their new souvenier glowing glasses- pretty!

Joe and I out at the pool deck enjoying the festivities.

Our nightly towel animal. We got a cow!