Year end trip!

The end of October we took a trip to North Carolina to visit my sister's. While there, Maddi my niece was baptised. It was fun to see them and have the kids get reacquainted. After spending a few days, we packed up all our stuff to fly down to Florida to go on a cruise. I was packing up and happened to take out our passports and only had 4. I looked at each of them and mine wasn't there. I started bawling and couldn't get out I had left it at home. I had taken a photo copy of it and got side tracked and left it in our printer at home. My calm husband got on his phone and called our friends and had them go into the house and sure enough there it sat. I panicked! Here we had this wonderful vacation planned and was I going to be able to go???? This was a Saturday morning. Our flight to Florida left that afternoon and our ship out of Ft Lauderdale was to leave Sunday morning. After an hour of figuring it all out, we got my passport overnighted to our hotel in Ft Lauderdale. It arrived at Midnight Sunday morning. So $400 and a lot of stress later, I was able to go!!! I can laugh at it now but man, freaked out! Luckly I found it in enough time to get it! We met up with my entire family and they all joined us on the cruise. It was such a blast. It has been over 2 years we have all been together because we all live so far apart.It was so fun and relaxing. It was great not to have to clean up our room, cook and we could use a towel once!

We went to the Princess Cays (private island owned by princess cruise lines), St Maarten, St Thomas, and Grand Turk.
We had to drag the kids kicking and screaming from the beach each day. They were in heaven and is was so great to have all the cousins playing and entertaining each other.

Max loved the sand and ended up eating most of the beach!

We went on a tour of St Thomas and ended up at this incredible beach called Magen's bay.

We celebrated Ellie's 3rd birthday our 2nd day at sea.

My siblings and spouses on a formal night. Carey and Chantel, Nate and I, Mom and Dad, Katelyn, Sharma and Rob.

We were on the cruise for Halloween. We took the kids costumes and the kids club had them go on a parade trick or treating then they ended up at one of the rooms to introduce themselves to everyone