Just before David left on his mission we took some family pictures...everyone looks great but I think little Jada stole the show!
The day after Christmas Ken and I found out we were having a baby! It was a surprise to us but we couldn't be happier. Before we told anyone my sister Amanda called to tell us she was pregnant again! Somehow I still kept the secret for a few more weeks until our first appointment. When we finally told our families we were thrilled to find out that my other sister Emily was also pregnant with her fourth! Needless to say my whole family was on the phone for hours that night...everyone had to call everyone! We also figured out we were all due about the same time...and scheduled all three ultrasounds for April 1st and 2nd. Ken and I are having boy and I'm due Aug 30th. Amanda and Shannon are having a girl (after having one boy) and she's due Sept 1st. Emily and James are a having a boy!!!! after having 3 girls. She's due about a week before us. My mom still isn't sure how she's supposed to be in 3 states at the same time. Good luck mom!
Here is the classic "I'm having a alien baby" picture.
But this is my favorite. He looks so cute.
After the ultrasound I had to go shopping.
Opening the call...Atlanta, Georgia!!
I think Ken was giving David some final words of advice before he went in the MTC.
MTC
Formal Dinner
No one told us it would be ridiculously windy on the top decks of the boat. It was hard to walk around sometimes and it made miniature golf almost impossible. But I still won.
The upper deck. Pools...hot tubs.
Inside the boat.
Theater
Inside the boat.
Our room
Sports court on the upper deck. Ken played in Apex's basketball and dodgeball tournaments here for a few nights of the cruise.
Rock climbing wall
Our first port of call...Jamaica.
One of the most popular things to do here was visit a pretty amazing waterfall. It empties right into the ocean and you can start at the bottom and hike up the waterfall.
Jamaica
Ken and a friend decided to hike the waterfall.
Ken hiked the whole thing barefoot.
Our boat
Second port of call...Grand Caymen. We took a small boat to a place called "Stingray City". After a 30 minute ride out in the ocean you reach a sandbar. The water gets about waist to chest deep and is so clear. It was beautiful...then you see the HUGE stingrays. It was very cool but a little unnerving.
That's a stingray and we were standing around in the water with tons of these things swimming around us.
All of the tour guides would just grab them out of the water and toss them around so everyone could take pictures. Apparently so many people have been coming here for so long that they are pretty tame and just want to be fed. But I always worry about the one new stingray to the group that doesn't know how things work. After a few pictures I kept my distance.
I've never been a big fan of snorkeling. One gulp of salt water in my snorkel and I'm done. I don't care that much about fish. But Ken had never done it so we tried for a while. I think I saw one fish. Mostly it was just nice to swim around in that water for a while.
7 mile Beach, Grand Caymen
In Grand Caymen it was too shallow for our ship to dock near land. So we had to load on these smaller boats that took us to land and back to the ship.
These desserts look fancy but they were pretty disappointing.
Our friend Noah randomly happened to be on our cruise.
When we got back to Florida we got to spend most of a day in Fort Lauderdale...which we loved. It was rainy when we got there but cleared up enough for us to play at the beach.
