Pretty Dresses!

For those that know me well, I totally love getting dressed up for a country girl. I am a sucker for heels and any excuse to wear them is perfect. I have a feeling that I am rubbing off on the little princess as well. She can be a country girl and go outside and play and get as dirty as can be, but when it is time to dress up, she too loves to wear pretty dresses. Cheyenne and I loved getting dressed up for our evening dinners. Not to be biased or anything, but we were by far the best dressed girls in the early dinning room and from what I could tell, also the late dinning room as well. (As a side note for those of you that have not been on a cruise, you do not have to go to the level that we did if you do not want to). Any way, here Cheyenne and I are are waiting for the dinning room to open.
Cheyenne singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" while waiting the ten minutes for the dinning room to open. And in the next picture we were singing and dancing. She was very popular with the other guests on board.



This picture was taken by one of the photographers on board the ship. It reminds me of one of my senior pictures, where I too had a rose and was told to hold it. Though for Cheyenne, the picture taking is natural, because she did not have to be told what to do, she just jumped up in front of the camera and started posing. Maybe we have a future model on our hands! All I know is that Daddy is now scared and has informed me that she will never be allowed to date!

This one too was taken by one of Carnival's photographers.


Cheyenne in her Princess Belle dress.


The family pictures on "Elegant Night" of the cruise. I had such a hard time deciding on what pictures to buy. We took between 40 to 50 pictures that night and there was no way that I could buy them all (though I really REALLY wanted to).



Elegant night was also my birthday, so it was great that we all got to dress up and take pictures on my birthday. What a wonderful way to spend the day. Jay also bought me a gorgeous bouquet of roses that was delivered to our room. Jay and Cheyenne then surprised me with a new swimsuit that I liked in the gift shop and a pair of tanzanite earrings. Yes, I was definitely spoiled this year!

Even though this is not a very good picture of us, please take note that Cat too was able to participate in Elegant night. He was dressed in a tux for the evening.

Cheyenne and I dancing in the disco bar.

The Princess and her Mom!

The band that you see on her arm was required by the ship for safety reasons. It had what muster station that you were assigned to and also had a bar code that could be scanned to see what family and what stateroom the child belonged to. This was in case she got lost or if she was at Camp Carnival and an emergency happened, then the camp staff knew where to take her.

More Vacation Pics

A very tired little girl at the airport waiting for a plain to take us home.

These were the nice ladies that Cheyenne loved to play with at Camp Carnival. She could not wait to be able to go up to deck 10 and play with them. She made lots of things at camp as well as made many new friends. As we were debarking on Saturday Morning, two other little girls hollered her name and came running up to her wanting good-bye hugs. It was really sweet.


Cheyenne walking down the hallway from our room heading to dinner in another one of her pretty dresses. She was beyond a doubt the best dressed little girl there. Other people on the ship loved seeing her pretty dresses and asked her many times if they could take her picture. We heard more OOHS and AAH'S than you can count.

This is a picture of our lunch on Friday. She wanted to spend the morning at Camp Carnival and while there, she had her face painted. Also in the picture is the monkey that she got on board the ship from the gift shop.

Swimming on Lido Deck.




Morning Breakfast outside. Not sure what daddy is trying to tell her.

This is a picture of the Carnival Freedom leaving Jamaica. It to was at Jamaica the same day as us and left about an hour before we did.

Jamaica as seen from our balcany. We spent the day walking around town, and did not get many pictures of Jamaica.


Cheyenne enjoying one of the many ice cream cones. Gotta love a 24 hour ice cream machine!

Enjoying Lunch while at Jamaica, after a full morning of shopping.

Cheyenne and daddy posing before we got off the ship at Jamaica.

Vacation

Here is the first set of pictures from our cruise. I will download more on Tuesday night or sometime later this week.


The picture below is a picture of the tenders that took us from the ship to the shore at Grand Cayman.

Grand Cayman from our balcony room. This is the picture of the beach were we spent the day playing.

Our ship as it was waiting for us to play in Grand Cayman. The ship in the background was also a Carnival ship, there was a total of three cruise ships in port at Grand Cayman that day.

Jay and Cheyenne swimming in the ocean.

A picture of the three ships from the beach. Our ship was the middle one.

Of course we had to write her name in the sand!

Cheyenne and I building a sand castle.


Just a picture of where we spent the day in Grand Cayman.

Cheyenne and I having a snack and waiting for the bus to take us to the Beach.

Cheyenne and I in our pretty yellow dresses. This was our elegant night. Cheyenne was definitely the center of attention. People kept stopping us and taking her picture. I have never heard so many oohs and aahhs. We have many more pictures of us in our pretty dresses that I will put up later.


The first day at sea, Cheyenne learned how to mini golf. She had a blast up there. The mini golf was on the very top deck, deck 11, so it was a little windy, but that did not stop us. She continued to ask to play every day.

We arrived in Miami the day before the cruise left. This is a blurry picture of Cheyenne and daddy watching TV and relaxing in the motel. They were both eating snacks too.

These are only a few of the many pictures that we took. I will upload some more as I have time. There will be pictures of Jamaica and more from the elegant night coming for sure, as well as the pictures from our many times swimming on Lido Deck.

Pumpkin Time

It is Halloween time and that means it is time to carve pumpkins. Cheyenne got to pick her own pumpkin out of the pumpkin patch a couple weeks ago and so we finally carved them tonight.

"Now which ears to I pick for my puppy?"

Cheyenne and daddy making a puppy face.

Cheyenne and Daddy's side of the pumpkin.

She had so much fun, she wanted to do another one, so this time mommy got to help.

Cheyenne and Mommies finished masterpiece.

Now time for the BIG pumpkin!

"Daddy what are you doing?"

Winter Swimming

Cheyenne absolutely loves to swim. We have been able to continue our weekly swimming even though the weather has started to turn cold. We go to Hesston, where a motel lets the public swim in their pool for $1.50. She can even take her "fish" with her. Sorry that the fish is not in any of the pictures, but it is her floaty.

State Fair '09 Continued

Here are some more pictures from the State Fair yesterday. Cheyenne was able to ride this ride alone, and boy was she excited.

Who can resist the mud puddles at a state fair?

The car ride home.

State Fair '09

We spent the day at the state fair. Cheyenne ABSOLUTELY LOVED it this year! We are all tired tonight to say the least. We did everything that was humanly possible. She got to ride rides, got a pink glitter tattoo, went to the petting zoo, saw a bunch of animals, won a teddy bear at the carnival, and many more fun things.

Here is a picture of her froggy tattoo. The picture below it is when she was getting it done.

Here Cheyenne and I are riding the elephant ride. She loved the rides and did not want to get off them.

It is hard to see, but that is Daddy (in gray t-shirt) and Cheyenne (in pink) at the very top of the slide.

I have more pictures to put on the website, but for some reason it will not let me right now. I have tried five different times and it keeps telling me bad request. I will try again tomorrow to post the rest of the pictures.