Friday, January 30, 2009

The Rest of It

Here's some pictures from the rest of our break.  We were able to spend New Years Eve at Dave and Tiffany's (some of our good friends) and meet their new baby, Melia.  Keith and Dave did a lot of this.......
And I got to visit with Tiff and do a lot of this........
Sarah wouldn't let me touch her until I was holding her baby sister, then she just crawled right up on my lap.  They are such sweet girls!  We didn't manage to get a picture with everyone else who stopped by, but it was good to see some more of our friends!

We were also able to go to Jackson Hole, Wyoming with Keith's parents and Keith and I went skiing one day.  I'm lacking all but a handful of skills when it comes to skiing, but we still had a fun time and Keith is an excellent teacher.   




I had my goggles on in all of the pictures we took and I just laughed at myself afterwards.  Check out the goggle cheeks!  I didn't realize it until afterwards, but I'm like that in all of the pictures from that day!  Ha ha ha.  What a dork!
My wonderful in-laws!  It snowed most of the time we were in Jackson and everything was beautiful and white!  (Driving the pass was a lot of NO fun though!)

The day after we got back from Jackson, we drove up to Idaho Falls and met our friends Cort and Kimi Leavitt for dinner at Wingers! (Our Favorite!)  Cort is 2 semesters ahead of Keith in school and they left the island in August, so it was awesome to see them again and do a little catch up!  Isn't Kimi so cute pregnant?
And last but not least, we flew out just a few hours after the newly weds flew in from their honeymoon, so we were able to visit with them, look at their pictures from Disneyland, and say good bye to them at 
 airport.  

We gave our best smiles for the camera man, who thought it was cute to keep taking picture after picture, regardless of what we were doing.

We had such a fun time being able to visit with everyone and we are sorry for those of you that we missed!  

Monday, January 26, 2009

Tobin and Whitney's Wedding

While we were home, my younger and only sister Whitney got married.  I was so happy that the timing worked out and we were home for it!  (not that I would have missed it, but cutting out an extra $1,000 trip is always nice)  It was, as I think all weddings are, crazy and a bit hectic, but everything turned out beautifully!  We are so excited to have Tobin in the family now!

They were married and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple for eternity on January 2nd.  The reception was the next evening in Pocatello and it was beautiful!  Here are some pictures (in random order)  Some are better than others, but it's all I've got!







While we were in Salt Lake we were also able to get together with some of our friends from Ross and go out to Dinner.  It was such a fun time!     We are so sad that half of the group is in the Bahamas for school now though-----want to come back to Dominica guys?  Please?

Monday, January 19, 2009

Christmas

The week of Christmas was a great one.We had Christmas Eve dinner at my Grandpa and Grandma Cornwalls house (which to me, is a little piece of heaven set right in Inkom Idaho).  The food was great but the company was even more amazing.

But, since Christmas was almost a month ago, I won't go into to details, but here are some pictures!
Sterling, demonstrating one of the many uses for the scarf Sarah made for him for Christmas.
Sarah, Tobin, Whit, and Becky on Christmas morning
Grandpa Cornwall with baby Cloe on Christmas Eve
 Christmas Eve

This is pretty much what Becky and Sarah did.  I guess when you have talent like theirs, you gotta use it!

Tobin and his dolly.   :)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Keep Those Arms Open Blogging World

Well blogging world, I'm back.  After a one month absence, I am back.  Sorry to everyone who's comments, blogs, etc.  I am just barely getting to! Don't worry though blogging world, if you'll keep your arms open, I'm willing to jump back into them.......full force!


I'll start with the first few days of our WONDERFUL vacation home!  Well, I'll actually start by telling you that it was AMAZING!  I couldn't stop hugging my Mom and Sister when I first got home.  Anyway, after a flight on a too small airplane from Dominica to San Juan, Puerto Rico, then from PR to Tampa, one loooooong night of trying to sleep on the floor in the freezing cold Tampa airport,

and then a flight from Tampa to Dallas the next day, then Dallas to Salt lake,

 and a 3 1/2 hour car ride from Salt Lake to Pocatello, Idaho.........we made it home!  There was quite the snowfall to welcome us home


 and we couldn't have been happier to see it!
We spent the first weekend just catching up with our families and doing things like going to Lava Hot Springs

and my Mom and I attended a bridal shower for Whitney
 The first few days back were amazing and I told Keith that even if we had traveled for 2 days just to have those few days at home with our families, it would have been worth it!