Bezoski Family Adventures

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Snorkeling!

Well, we finally got our 35 mm film back! So here are some pictures from our cruise when Brady and I went snorkeling:

PRINCESS CAYS

A HUGE jellyfish we spotted (rather close to the shore for my liking!)

A HUGE school of these little fish surrounded us and followed us all over.

I tried to steer clear of these fish - their snouts looked pokey!

A rock fish (hard to see - he disguises well!)

ROATAN, HONDURAS

Nothing is ever simple. We are remodeling our 2 upstairs bathrooms (need the room for our expanding family!). Well, since we are going to have the drywall guy here, we thought we would finally get rid of all the popcorn crap on the ceilings once and for all. Easier said than done! We have all had to move our bedrooms downstairs. All 3 bedrooms upstairs have been completely emptied out and the furniture strewn throughout the rest of the house. Bleh! But it will be nice to finally have it done!

This is a picture of where Brady scraped the ceiling in the living room. You can see the contrast between a nice, clean ceiling and the popcorn crap!

Brady tore down the outside wall of the bathrooms. You can see right into our old master bathroom from the living room!

When we moved Gibson's bookcase out of his room, we found this! I thought it was a big pile of mold or something. Turns out that it was a dead bird! A few months ago, Brady said that Gibson's room stunk, but we could never find the source. This was it! Poor bird. I'm sure a cat dragged it in the house and it got behind the bookcase and it crawled underneath and died.

Happy 40th Anniversary, Mom & Dad!

Amazing - together 40 years! Wow! That must mean that I'M getting old!

For my parent's anniversary, the whole family got together at Courtney & Daryl's house. Here's Carter, Gibson & Lukas eating their dinner.

Here's my dad, Brookie, Lukas, Gibson, Carter & Daryl.

All of the kids with mom and dad.

Brady and I

A toast to our parents!

Silly Milo! He looks like he's trying to whistle! What a cutie!

We also celebrated Paige's 2nd birthday that night. I can't believe she's 2!

Lukas liked the dollhouse almost as much as Paige did!

Here's a great video of Milo laughing and giggling!

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Rest in Peace, Russell

I feel so sad that Russell (my cousin) suffered so much. I know that he has finally found peace and happiness.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?n=russell-holden-davis&pid=140923708

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Our Caribbean Cruise - Mar/Feb 2010!

What an anticipated vacation! We always escape in February from the cold, dreary Utah winter. But this trip was extra special. With the twins on the way, we knew it would probably be our last "big" trip for a few years. I was finally over my morning sickness and very much looking forward to a warm, relaxing vacation! And it was everything we anticipated and wanted. We had a WONDERFUL time. Our ship, the Crown Princess, was the nicest ship we have ever been on. The food was wonderful and I (and everyone else) ate to our heart's content! The babies loved all the fresh fruit (especially the watermelon). The weather was perfect; we just had a fabulous time! Why does it have to end???

We always carry our bathing suits onto the ship in our hand luggage so we can immediately hit the pools and hottubs (it can take hours for your luggage to get delivered to your room). How wonderful it was to get into a bathing suit after months of winter!

Brady and I on formal night.

On formal night, they had a champagne waterfall and invited the ladies to come and help pour the champagne! Too bad I couldn't drink any of it!

Brady and Gibson swimming in the pool (1 of 6!). I was sitting on the deck watching a movie - there's a huge movie screen outdoors above the swimming pool. What a fun ship!

Gibson in the kid's area. It's about 10:00 at night and they were relaxing and watching a movie.
He absolutely LOVES the kid's area. They do so many fun activities: Pizza parties, crafts, pajama parties, face painting, Spongebob day, etc.

On a side note - we sailed out of Ft. Lauderdale - home of the Oasis of the Seas. It's the world's largest cruise ship that just set sail in December. It's HUGE!!!!!

Grand Cayman

Our first, and most favorite stop, was Grand Cayman. Next to Arches National Park, I think it is one of the most beautiful places on earth! There's nowhere else where the water is so blue and the sand so white. The sand is smooth and the beach is perfect! We went to the public beach area of 7-mile beach and just had a blast. It was SO hot that day and there was no wind. Even after religiously applying sunscreen all day, we all got really sunburned (it was Gibson's first).

The waves here are awesome to play in!

Gibson kept trying to build a sand castle - but the waves kept coming up higher and higher!

Gibson and I in paradise!

Playing in the ocean with dad!

Gibson loving life in the water! Look how beautiful it is!!!

Gibson and I playing in the ocean - riding the waves!

Gibson made a "sand angel"

Gibson and Brady dug a really deep hole - maybe if Gibson had stayed in there all day he wouldn't have gotten sunburned so bad!

Gibson posing with a pirate. There are a lot of fun stores in Grand Cayman - it's where we did most of our shopping on the trip.

Brady's not the best cameraman - but here's Gibson and I riding the waves! One minute you could touch bottom, and the next you were 4 feet higher! SO FUN!!!!

This video gives you a small idea of how much Gibson loves playing in the ocean!

Roatan, Honduras

My most anticipated stop was Roatan, Honduras. It's a new stop - the cruise line just started stopping there about 6 months ago (instead of Jamaica). I had heard that the beach was one of the best in the world with some of the best snorkeling. But it was actually our least favorite beach of the trip. And with such big waves, it was hard to snorkel. Brady and I did do some awesome snorkeling and saw incredible stuff, but we couldn't get over the large reef to the deeper part of the ocean, because of the large waves.

The island was pretty, though. Very green. But very poverty-stricken. I called it the "poor-man's Mexico". We had a long cab ride to the beach and saw a lot of the island - most of it very poor.

Mahogany Bay is very nice - it's new and was built just for the cruise ship that stop here. It's also deceiving because it is nothing like the rest of the island.

Our ship - the Crown Princess.

There were so many beautiful flowers in bloom - a sight for sore eyes!

As always, Gibson is as happy as a clam just playing in the sand and ocean all day!

Brady and Gibson playing catch with a coconut. Here's a video of the same:

Cozumel!

Our third stop was Cozumel, Mexico. Gibson was very excited for this stop because he loves Mexico (especially the junk trinkets you can buy from vendors). Fortunately, it was a beautiful, sunny day. But, unfortunately, it was windy. So while our plan had been to take a tour out to sanddollar bar and do some snorkeling, we couldn't. No boats were in the water that day at all.
But we went down to the southern end of the island to Albertos. It was a great beach - the best seashell searching of the trip!

Me - relaxing on the beach in the sun. Does it get any better?

Gibson and I sharing a VIRGIN margarita. :)

Having our usual Mexican beach lunch of quesedillas and nachos. The food on the west coast is better, though (maybe because I always have a bucket of beers to go with it).