This is Kevin and Kali's idea of helping me with dinner. They so helpful.

This kid asked for yarn and stacking cups for Christmas. When he sat on Santa's Lap at the mall he asked for peace on earth. What a kid.

Kaden didn't get the drums he wanted, but I think he made out pretty good.

Merry Christmas everyone!!! We had a great Christmas, a little more quiet than we are use to but still great. We had Kevin's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Judy over for Christmas dinner. No snow, so it didn't feel very Christmas like. I'm not complaining though. The day after Christmas we went to a pond and had a picnic and fed the ducks. I hope everyone had a great Christmas, miss you tons.

"some times when you are older you wear stretchy pants just for fun."

East Carolina University "GO PIRATES"

Kali asked me if I would braid her hair, I was thrilled that she was actually letting me do her hair. I said do you want one braid or two, she said I want all the braids all over my head with the beads on the ends so they will click when I shake my head.

Kali or should I say Kaliniqua or Kalinaynay or maybe Kaliwanda. Sorry if this isn't politically correct.

From our new home to yours we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Till next time.

Sorry for the mess, this is the FROG ( Finished Room Over Garage) It the kids play room so it will probaly be a mess. Along with one more full bath upstairs thats it.

Kaden's bed and the boy's desk. We have big plans for this room too. The boys want a baseball room, I'm not sure what it going to happen. I'm up for any ideas if you have any

Tanner's side of the room

The boys room is huge, this is Kaden half

Another view of Kali's room. Thats the walkin closet through that door. She thinks that is pretty cool.

Kali's room if you could guess. It is very white but we have plans to make it cute. With bead board and paint

This is the hallway at the top of the stairs. It seemed like a waste of space so we made the it the kids office

another view of the living room. And the stockings were hung by the chimney with care.
We still haven't hung any shelves or pictures yet. Maybe one day

Before we go upstairs, here are a few more views of the livingroom. Through the doorway is the kitchen and through the next doorway is the pantry and laundry and through the door is the garage.

The half bath. I finally have a nice clean bathroom without toothpaste on the sink, and towel on the floor for guest to use, to bad we have no guests.

Mine and Kevin's bedroom. Small but bigger than ours in Utah

The kitchen

The dinning room. We plan on painting

This is the entry way, and the living room

Farewell for now, Maybe in a few days I will have my house put together enough to take pictures of the inside for you all. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Love the Roarks

It was the end of the day, back on the ship. We had an awesome time in Jamaica.

Another look out point, thats our boat.

After the falls our driver took us up to Fern Gully it was a steep, curvy road up the mountainside through a rain forest it was beautiful. At the top you get this great view of the mountains. The farthest mountain back behind us is where Bob Marley is buried.

We could take our camera with us, so after we climbed the whole thing we went back to the viewing decks and took pictures. Yes Kali is sad and mad, when we were about 3/4 of the way through Kali was in front of me I slipped and landed right on her. She got a little scrached up but she was ok.

Do you see the falls back there

This is by Dunn's River Falls were we climbed 900 feet up a water fall. This by far is one of the funnest things I have ever done

This is what made the whole trip worth it Ocho Rios, Jamaica

Not only did Kevin get his 15 minutes of fame he also got a ship on a stick. A trophy of the cruise boat. WOW!!!

To make up for missing our stop they planned a lot of activities. One being Fear Factor. Kevin was chosen to go up and we knew he would win. After passing an orange and diving for golf balls and holding his breath, he and this other lucky guy got to eat 9 slices of lemons and limes including the rinds, and pasta with coleslaw covered in tobascco sauce, and washed it down with worchestosire sauce.

After a scheduled 2 days at sea, we were finally at our second stop Cayman Islands. Can you see it back there, no, oh thats ok we didn't see it either it was to stormy and we couldn't get off. Yet another fun filled day at sea.

Now we are back on the boat for some more swimming, and eating

Ohh arn't we cute

The one and only souvenir we ended up getting if you can believe it, And yes, now we regret it.

Sorry a little out of order I just saw some more Costa Maya pictures I wanted to add.

After our fun filled day in Mexico we had two more fun filled days on the boat. We did some more eating and some more swimming.

If you couldn't tell this is me, Kaden and Kevin I think

After a few hours of playing in the sand and kayaking we took a snorkeling excursion. With a storm blowing in the water was choppy, but we had a good time, all except for Kali who liked snorkeling until she had to go in the water.

Relaxing in the one of two days of sun we had.

First stop was Costa Maya, Mexico. We went to a private beach called non other than Tequila Beach. It was neat we got all the drinks and nacho's a person could handle.

We were enjoying ourselves on the ship, we a day at sea the first day. This was in the morning, notice the kids have already been swimming, Kevin is on his second breakfast and Kali has an icecream in her hand. How fun is that!

The first night they had a welcome to the boat party for the kids at camp carnival, the kids had a great time but refused to go to the camp the rest of the trip. To bad for me and Kevin

After a total of another 900 miles we made to to Miami and set sail November 19.

We made a quick stop at Daytona Beach, it was a little chilly but that didn't stop the kids, all 4 of the from having fun

We all had a great time at Universal.