Cabo!

Wednesday night as soon as we were done with Pinewood Derby, Christian and I drove up to Billings to stay the night so we could catch an early flight to Cabo, Mexico. Christian qualified to attend some meeting there for selling a certain amount of chemical for a company, and lucky for me...they let him bring someone along and he picked me! My mom came and stayed with the kids at our house while we were gone (which was so nice not to have to pack for them too)! We flew out at 6 am to Minneapolis and then to on to San Jose Del Cabo where we got on a bus and drove for about 30 minutes to our resort.

The country side on our way to the resort.

We stayed at the Hyatt Ziva which is an all inclusive resort. It was beautiful and right on the beach!

We had a ground level room which was way fun because we had lounge chairs that sat in some warm water that led to a swimming area for those rooms.

A look at our room from the outside.

 After finding our room and getting settled in, we decided to take a walk on the beach to check it out. The beach was great, but the water was really rough and no one was ever in it. We found out later that they also have sting rays in the area that we stayed, so you didn't want to chance meeting one of them either! That evening, we got ready and attended an outdoor dinner with the other people at the conference. There was a buffet for dinner (that was ok) and a local band that performed. They were actually really good! They sang all sorts of different songs from rock, to country and even a little Blurred Lines which was so funny to hear with a Spanish accent!

There were these mangy looking seagull all over the beach!

Toes in the sand!

Our view down the beach.

The Hibiscus flowers were my favorite and they had them in all sorts of colors. This one made my heart happy!

Friday, Christian had meetings all day (from 8-4). While he was in meetings, I hung out with some other ladies from our area whose husbands were in the meeting also. It was great to have some familiar faces to hang out with!

Some good waves. At night, I could occasionally hear the loud BOOM of the waves crashing in our room. They were pretty impressive!

My view from the beach!

One of the seagulls taking a nap.

 Friday evening, We had another outdoor dinner around the pools. We had a great steak and some fish and a really good (the best dessert we had the whole trip) lime tart for dessert. After dinner, Montgomery Gentry did a private concert for those at the meetings. They sounded just a good in person as they do on the radio! We were actually supposed to have Tyler Farr perform, but he ended up being sick and were able to schedule Montgomery Gentry in his place.

We hung out in our patio area for a while, while we were getting ready for dinner.

The view from our room. We were really close to the bar, which was convenient to run and get drink from when ever we wanted!

Heading out to dinner and the concert.

What was fun about this concert, was that they performed over one of the pools! We were able to go up and stand about 3 rows back from them.

Saturday, we met up with 2 other couples and walked into the little town not far from where we stayed. We searched for souveniers, enjoyed the sights (but not the smells) and had some lunch and Habaneros (which is a place that my mom and dad suggested we eat at).

On our walk into town.

There was a group of kids that came marching military style down the road while we were waiting for the rest of the people in our group.

A view down the street of Cabo.

These masks were everywhere! We had fun picking out some for our boys!

At lunch, Christian ordered octopus tacos and he really liked them! I tried a piece, but the chewieness of them grossed me out!

After walking in town, we came back to the resort and decided to sit on the beach and enjoy the sunshine!

A look down the beach!

I loved to sit and watch the sellers on the beach. There was some imaginary line that they weren't supposed to cross and if they did, the resort security was all over them! They were selling jewelry, wood carvings, hats, shirts, etc.. They were always trying to lure you out to buy their things!

For dinner that night, we ate at a Spanish restaurant in the resort. Christian had lamb chops and I had some paella. After dinner, we walked around and looked at some the things people were selling and then headed to a show where they did different dances from around Mexico.

The mariachi band that was playing by the people selling their things.

One of the dances from Anciet Mexico.

Sunday, most of the people that attended the conference headed back home. We decided to extend an extra day since we were already there. So, we spent most of the day at the beach/pool.

We walked up to a market (kind of like a Wal-Mart) in the afternoon and then came back to the beach. We got ready that evening and then ate at an Italian restaurant (that was better than the Spanish one). I had parmesan crusted fish and Christian had --. We didn't order one of the pizzas because our meal came with an appetizer, main course and also a dessert, but our waitor decided that we needed to try one of the pizzas and brought us one. It was delicious and I'm glad he brought us one!

I tried to capture the sun set, but it wasn't as stellar as I was hoping!

At the Italian restaurant our last night.

Christian told me this pic looked too much like a senior picture pose.

Our view at dinner.

Monday, we got up and had breakfast fairly early at the buffet. It was still chilly, so we decided to take a walk down the beach the opposite direction we went the first day. We were able to spot some whales in the ocean and looked for some shells to take back. Most of the shells we found were tiny, but one of the ladies that was selling hats gave us a handful to take back home!

The waves were really large and loud on our walk! They were beautiful to watch! Here's the making of a wave from start to finish!

We sat at the beach for about an hour and then headed back to our room to pack up and get ready to catch our plane. We left the resort around 12. We flew from Cabo to Minneapolis and then got into Billings around 11:30. We ended up getting home around 1:30. It was a great extended weekend get away for us, but I was happy to be back home to see my boys and hear about their adventures while we were gone. They got to go spend 2 nights in Powell at grandma Foulger's house over the weekend. They ate pizza, swam at the aquatic center, went to church with grandpa and grandma, had roll-ups and waffles for breakfast and got prizes (along with lots of other goodies). We I asked them what their favorite parts were, they said swimming and watching movies with grandma! Grandma even took care of Travis's 100th day project and had a roast, potatoes and carrots ready for me to just stick in the crock pot Tuesday so I wouldn't have to worry about going to the store to get something for dinner!

Landon sure had fun with is mask and cape while his brothers were at school!

 A whole lot of awesomeness!

Pinewood Derby 2016

Carson completed his last pinewood derby car and race last week. He found the design he wanted on-line and had it all drawn on his block of wood and ready to go when Christian got home from some week long meetings. They went to Michael Hendershot's shop and used his saw to cut it all out. Carson worked on sanding and painting and sanding and painting. I think we did like 10 coats of paint this year! He thought it would be fun to design his car after Grandpa Foulger's camero. I think it turned out pretty good. Besides cutting the car backwards (I didn't know there was a right and wrong end to be the front when he drew it on), and the graphite sticking to the paint, we didn't have any major problems.

Christian helping Carson put some graphite on the wheels!

All ready for race day!

 This year, we had weigh-ins the night before like we did last year. It sure makes things move a lot faster this way! Wednesday was the official race day. They boys had lots of fun racing their cars and were all such good sports! All the scouts races each other and we had a double elimination bracket. Carson ended up getting like 7th place (he thinks). He was happy with his car's performance!

His first race...and he won!

Jack W., Jared M., Carson, Jacob B., Riley J. and Parker A. watching the race.

Ready to race!

Carson looking a little nervous about his race!

This was a super close race and after 3 runnings, he ended up winning it!

Christian was our car runner this year. He picked up the cars at the end and brought them back to the top where Brother Collins started them.

All our scouts!

Each scout went home with an award. Carson got the award for the only legal car since he had a license plate on the back of his (just like his grandpa's car)!

New Years

Our New Year's was prettg low-key this year. New Year's Eve, we went and spend the day over with Grandma Foulger while Christian went chucker hunting with some friends. Right before we left that evening, we made our dough for Oliebollen to eat the next day for breakfast. Grandma Asay was having a party at her house so we ran there and had dinner and hung out for a while. We left around 10:30 and by the time everyone got ready for bed, it was close to midnight so we let the kids stay up so they could ring in the new year...well, except Christian, who fell asleep!

Christian's hunting photos. He is pretty sure the pictures on the left is of a mountain lion print!

Carson was a great help making the dough for Oliebollen!

Ringing in the New Year in mom and dad's bed!

 New Year's day, we got up and cooked our Oliebollen and had it for breakfast. Christian and Carson went out and helped grandpa Asay check out some cows that had died during the night.

The Oliebollen assembly line!

That afternoon, we gave Christian his birthday presents that included a tv mount to hang the tv up in our room. We decided to put that up and when we were done, we decided to make a trip over to Cody for some Millstone pizza for Christian's birthday dinner. We picked grandma and grandpa Foulger up on our way. After dinner, we went to Dairy Queen for birthday dessert.

January 2nd brought our 12th wedding anniversary. We counted our dinner the night before as our celebration since we are going to Cabo at the end of the month! We went out and shot guns for a few hours and visited with grandma and grandpa Asay.

While we were grandma Asay's, Travis found an album that had pictures from our wedding day. What babies we were!

Jacob throwing some clay pigeons for Christian.