And then they were able to dry off.

We bought a camping trailer and took it camping for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I love to camp and so hopefully we will be able to go more often with it. I guess I am not much of the roughing it camping type. It sure made it easy with the kids. Brayden took this picture of Conner, Porter, and I.

My friend Lisa and I love going to the pool. This time we went to the Roy Aquatic Center with all of our kids. Porter loved it. It has this little area that we could just sit in and enjoy ourselves. Porter thought he was pretty big being able to be in the pool without mom holding on to him the whole time.

This is Ethan, Conner, and Brayden enjoying the water. It was so much fun.

The whole crew of kids.

Conner and Brayden were sword fighting. Next thing we know Porter went and got this little sword and joined in. He was jabbing and everything.

We asked our landlord if we could plant a garden in the big dirt area in our backyard. He said that was fine, but that he had sprayed to kill the weeds and so we had to bring in some of our own dirt. As you can tell the garden isn't very big, we only planted 2 tomato plants, 2 green pepper plants, 2 squash plants and 1 watermellon plant. Conner loves to go out and water it every day. It was such a fun project even though it may not produce a lot of vegetables.

The boys standing by our little garden.

Me and Porter when we were up late one night. Sometimes Porter just doesn't want to go to sleep, so we hang out.

Porter showing off his baby blues.

I tried my hand at cake decorating. Brayden wanted a Superman cake, so I bought a cake pan in the shape of Superman and followed the directions on what to do. Later you'll see Conner's birthday cake. He wanted The Incredible Hulk so I used the same mold. It was so much fun. Maybe one day I won't have to use a mold.

Brayden with his birthday cake. He turned 3 this year. We actually had to leave for our cruise on his birthday, so we had a big birthday party for him the night before we left.

Brayden in his new sunglasses.

Lance and I went on a cruise with our friends Jared and Lisa a few weeks ago. It was so much fun. This is our ship the Carnival Victory.

The view from our ship in Miami. I am a big CSI fan and this looks just like the clips they show throughout CSI Miami.

Here is the bed in our room. I show this because on the cruises website it shows the rooms with 2 twin beds that you can put together. The bed was actually bigger than I thought it was going to be, and very comfy. I slept good. It also may have been that I didn't have my "mother" ears on (always listening to make sure my kids are ok).

They have what they call formal nights on the ship, where you get to get all dressed up and eat dinner with your captain. We didn't get to see him, but we had fun getting dressed up, at least the girls did. This happened to be the last night we ate in the dining room. Our dining room was in the back of the boat and as we got a couple of days into the cruise the water started getting rougher and Lance and I both got sea sick. Being in the dining room rocking back and forth for 1 1/2 hours didn't help. We tried pills, ointment and finally wrist bands to help. We found out that fresh air works the best and so we ended up eating upstairs the rest of the time.

Here is our ship, docked in Puerto Rico. I kept calling it a boat and was corrected over and over.

We docked in old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The streets were all very narrow like this. Quite of few of the streets were made out of brick (the word cobblestone streets comes to mind, but I don't know if that is the right word.)

This wall behind us is a wall that they built to help keep intruders out. When we got up close to it we realized how big the wall really was.