More Cruise Pictures

Delaney and Gavin on the rock climbing wall.

Liam with some things he won at the Adventure Ocean kids program.

A day excursion to Ocho Rios, Jamaica.

We went swimming with the stingrays while we were at Grand Cayman Island. Gavin is holding one and he even gave it a kiss.

We're back in business!
I guess you just wait 2 months and then Blogger decides to work again. Well this was my test photo. This was our first day on the cruise and we managed to get all the kids to sit and take a photo for us. Grandma Joni bought the cute outfits. From the left: Nikolai, Liam, Delaney, Anneliese, Aleksei, Caedmon, Gavin and Caleb. We had such a great time, the kids are still asking if we could go back on the cruise ship. They liked being served at meals and having their room picked up and beds turned down. They especially liked going to the kids club and playing the special cruise ship game, "Gaga ball".

Well, you might have noticed that their are no pictures with our last post. I haven't quite figured out what the problem is, but Blogger is having issues. I'll try to get it up and running soon.

Cruising in the Caribbean
We've been planning since last Christmas, and our family cruise has finally come..and gone. We're sad it's over, but we'll share some of our photos with you. When I say "family cruise", I mean the entire Rippee side of our family... all 17 of us! Traveling with 8 kids, 6 of them age 4 and under is all the things you can imagine, but we did manage to have a lot of fun. We visited Ocho Rios, Jamaica, swam with the stingrays at Grand Cayman Island, and relaxed on the beach in Cozumel, Mexico.

Caedmon's First Birthday

Plans had to be postponed for Caedmon and Keira's party after he came down with the stomach flu. But we did manage to get together and celebrate anyways!

My baby's going to preschool!

Liam's been looking forward to going to preschool for a long time now. What could be better than going with your "best buddy", Conner. Of course in true Liam spirit, he changed his mind at the last minute. There were a few tears, ok well, there were a lot of tears, but when we picked him up he was all smiles(as you can see in the pictures). He was trying to tell me about a song he learned. He said there were crocodiles that ate monkeys. Pretty cool stuff. Can he just stay 3 forever?

You can't separate a man from his Curious George.