Oliver with his youngest 1st cousin - Cole

The waiters and waitress put on a New Years Eve

show for us.

Oliver with his buddy - our waiter

Oliver with his 1st cousins

Happy New Year's Eve on the cruise ship!

On the bus

The view from the boat

Our driver

Hmmmm! Yup, since the beginning of this year, I have been horrible at blogging. It just hasn't been my main priority. But since I know I have friends and family that like to see how we are doing I am going to try to do better the rest of the year.

So should I finish posting the rest of our cruise in January. - Well, why not! - So the first stop was Haiti. The cruise line Royal America owns a island off of Haiti so we stopped there. Since I started to get sick that (unfortunately I was sick most of the cruise) day, I did not get off on that stop.

The second stop the next day was Jamaica, maan! :) We (All of Ethan's immediate family) rented a van and went to a park that had great waterfalls and then we got a fun, craaazy ride around some of the mountainous parts of Jamaica on a one-and-a-half lane road at what felt like a 100 miles per hour.

The ship was leaving the harbor.

For the first day we had to do an emergency life jacket test.

Oliver looked so adorable!

Oliver loved the towel animals on

our bed.

Oliver & Grandma

Oliver was very curious about his

younger cousin

Some of our scrumptious food

Our nephew Trevin got to ride in a

clown train during the ice skating show!

My niece Avire

Ethan's cousins and Grandma & Grandpa

Our table - We sat with Ethan's grandparents,

his Mom & Dad, his Aunt & Uncle and his

brother Elliot & wife Amanda

The Anderson Cruise - The first few days

We got on the ship on Sunday afternoon and sailed on the ocean blue for a few days before we made any stops.

Our 2nd Day at Disney World - Epcot

I do not have as many photos from our second day at Disney World. Part of that might be because Eric and Lori were very sweet and volunteered to watch Oliver while Ethan and I went on several rides by ourselves. It was so much fun to spend the time at Disney World with family. We hope that it will work out to do it again.

Our First Day at Disney World. We woke up

early and spent the day at the Animal Kingdom Park.

Oliver with Uncle Eric. Uncle Eric & Aunt Lori

got Oliver his very own set of Mickey Mouse ears

with his name stiched on the back.

Aunt Lori so graciously watched Oliver, so

that Ethan and I could both go on the water

ride. hmmm! I found out why Lori didn't mind

not going. We ended up looking like drowned

rats. - Remind me to double check Lori's motives

when she is so quick to get out of something! :)

Oliver with his cousins

Next we went on the animal safari ride. It was really
neat. They set it up so it felt like you were really out
in the wild. You could not see bars our cages around
the animals.

Even tho' the animal safari ride was very bumpy,

Oliver fell asleep.

Playing with the dirt and rocks

while waiting for a ride.

Oliver's first experience with a disney character was

Jimney Cricket.

The cousins went swimming at the hotel after the

long day at Disney World.

Yes, we are still alive and kicking!!

Well, this year has barely started and we are having our share of challenges. - As pretty much everyone is right now. We started out the year with a family (Anderson) Cruise. --So now matter how tough this year gets we started it out in style! :)
I feel that we haven't talked to so many of you, and I apologize. We have our friends and family in our thoughts and prayers and we hope all of you are doing well in this gift and struggle called... life.
Wow! Now that I have started this, our first blog entry for this year, out so seriously, I will first add photos from our trip to Disney World and our Caribbean cruise from the 25th of December to the sixth of January.