Mexican Riviera Cruise!!!

We're home! We had so much fun, but we missed Mantha and were really glad to see her when we got home.
We ate the most wonderful food everyday and slept in (and through the night :)). Benj almost died at lovers beach (in Cabo) well actually at divorce beach-just opposite of lovers where you're not allowed to swim cause the waves are huge and very dangerous. So, the rest of the trip he kept talking about life-insurance. :)
We went to this really nice hotel at one of the ports and it has this amazing pool and cliffs to jump and slides, well Benj and his co-workers had a splash contest and he won!! Pretty proud.
Eclipse (his company that took us) also took two massage therapists on the cruise and we signed up for massages throughout the week, Benj got 'deep tissue' and 'structural' I just got a 'feel good' one. Notice the pain in his face. :)

How can I leave this cute thing!

Grandma Sandi is so cute with Mantha. Lucky for us, cause she gets to watch her for 7 days and 7 nights while we are on our cruise! I hope she will be ok, (my Mom that is, I'm sure Mantha will have a blast!)

Mantha loves to ride on her horse, but won't ride on this cute tiggr we got at kid to kid.

1st Sucker

We avoided giving Mantha sugar for quite a while (as per doctors orders) but she is tolerating things so well that we slowly give her little bits here and there and she seems to be fine.

This is her first sucker, she likes them...I think.

Indiana

I took Samantha out to visit G'ma and G'pa Corey on their mission in Indiana last week. Flying was hard without Ben, but once we got there we had so much fun! We stayed in the mission home and toured around the area, went shopping, watched General Conference, watched Ben's brother's football game (he's a wide receiver for Texas A&M), and ate lots of yummy food. :)













Eating homemade cheesecake w/ Gma. Messy!













Grandpa taught Sam how to do 'muscles'!



Aunt Marisha came
to Indiana too.










Getting psyched for
Mike's football game!










President Mantha!









Mantha LOVES purses! We took this one with us and she carried it around the whole time and tells anyone she see "Buh-bah" (bye-bye). It has some toys in it including an old cell phone, fake Credit Cards, cars, ect. Grandpa Corey thought this was very amusing and would ask her if she was going shopping.











Cousins came to visit! Yea, entertainment!

Welcome

Hi Everybody, thanks for visiting. I have been wanting to do this for a long time, mostly to show y'all how cute Samantha is. :)
I have tried to go back and include this summer, so click through those if you want, I know, lots of pictures :) enjoy.

Messy

We were told by the G.I. doctors in charge of Samantha that she would be on her IV's for at least a year and she would never be able to eat any sugar or fruit. Well, because of how well Samantha's gut is adapting, she was able to get off her IV's after only 5 months and we slowly introduced food into her diet. We had several more months of rough times in and out of the hospital for different things but her gut continues to adapt and things get better and better. Now look at her.

She likes to get into the millions of blackberries
every time I go out to pick.

This is in our yard also, peach season......yummy!

This is her 1st birthday cake, I know, not very cute, but she loved it!
I wasn't really allowed to give her frosting but I did and she was fine.