Friday, August 31, 2007

Cupcake Heaven




Ohhhhhhhh....how we love cupcakes in our house....on any given day we have at least 10 boxes of cupcake mix in our pantry. I must admit I use the boxed kind, since I have limited time for things like cupcake baking!! Of course ,Paris and I are the QUEEN BAKERS in our house! We *HEART* cupcakes............. and a really cool cupcake blog I frequent is: http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/




Wednesday, August 22, 2007

We LOVE the USA!!!

Kids' Program on the ship

Open Sea (kinda scary)


St Peter's Basilica (at the Vatican), where Peter is buried

Robb & I
Pompeii (sad what happened here)

Pompeii (boys)

Paris in Ephesus, Turkey. Where Paul spoke to the Ephesians!

Turkey's Harbor

Us (Greek Isles) at Sunset

Santorini, Greece

Our ship (a view from a hill WAY up!!! Had to take a gondola cable car down!)

Mykonos, Greece. We got no rain...but looks really cloudy huh?

First of 3 formal nights!

The port closest to Rome

Pisa.....we LOVED Pisa....the day was perfect and not crowded at about 9am!


Barcelona Spain. Day after we arrived! Our hotel is on the right side by that tall (Eiffel wannabe) cable car tower.
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***Our family of 37 is SOOOOO happy to be home. We just went on a "Grandparents' 50th Anniversary" trip to Europe. 4 days in Spain (Barcelona), then another 13 days aboard the Brilliance of the Seas cruiseship touring Italy, France, Monaco, Greece & Turkey. 10 stops in 13 days!! It was SOOO fun and TONS of memories! But we are so glad to be home....wow. 23 our family members were on our Delta flight arriving back into Phx, Az and we were almost kissing the ground as we entered Sky Harbor. NOTHING LIKE THE GOOD OLD USA!!! Here is some photos of our adventure!!

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

California Dreaming!!

Sister & I
San Diego Zoo

San Diego Zoo


The beachhouse



Beach house balcony (Encinitas)





Disney's CA Adventure


Disneyland


Dad's 49th Bday!! Homemade Cake and LOTS of family....

Our July CA trip ;) 2007