Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Atlantis!

The beginning of April we headed to Paradise Island, Bahamas for a Warning family vacation. It was so fun to have everyone there and to get to soak up the sun in such a fun place. Atlantis is pretty much like combining an amusement park, aquarium, and tropical island, all in one! I absolutely love it! This is a bit of a picture overload, but I am trying to fit it all in one post.
Aquarium pictures (there's pretty much every kind of sea creature you can imagine there and amazing tanks that surround you):

Grace and Graham and the Grouper


These eels look like Ursala's creatures on Little Mermaid...so creepy!

Taking a little rest
Slides (Atlantis has awesome water slides. There's even conveyor belts that take you up to the slide so you never have to leave your tube. Since I was pregnant (like I was last time I went), I couldn't really do much, so Ben had to enjoy all the slides for me. Cute side note: Kyle kept saying he liked the "bunnies". We finally figured out he thought we were saying "rabbits" when we were saying "rapids", and got rabbits confused with bunnies. So cute.):
Leap of Faith: Ben dropping down into a tube in the middle of a shark tank

The Abyss: This is almost a straight drop and most of the slide is pitch black. You end up in this aquarium type thing

Challenger: The boys did this almost every day. I think Ben is racing Brandon in this one

Some of us on the "Crazy River" as Kyle called it. I thoroughly enjoyed being allowed to go on this
Around town (We rode everywhere in a stretch hummer because it was really the best way to fit all of us...we thought we were cool until we realized everyone could see from the windows that we were watching "Spongebob" on the tvs :)
Love Graham's look in this picture

Perfect entertainment for all of the kids

Dinner at Twin Brothers in the Fish Fry


They had all these outfits and instruments laid out for people to use, so of course we took advantage

Ben loving his skirt

Kyle showing Bahama pride

Love Bryce's facial expression
Pool side (We LOVED playing in the water everyday. There was a great kid area we camped out by, we hit up a good majority of the pools and slides, and Ben also got in some snorkeling with my dad and Evan)
Family picture on the kiddy play area

Ben and Graham getting a snack

Grace with a model pose

Uncle Ben and Grace

Dad and Evan
Baby Claire enjoying her vacation

Brandon and Ben

We had great weather almost the entire time...except for this little bout of rain which resulted in our own tent city

Kyle and my little baby catching a nap


Around Atlantis and family pictures (since it is becoming more rare these days to get all of our family together, we made sure to get some pictures of all of us)
Looking at the hammerhead sharks down below

Couldn't leave Atlantis without one of these pictures

The whole Warning family


Camille was nice enough to take some pictures for our little family


27 weeks

All the grand kids (and a future little girl on the way!)

My cute parents who made the entire trip happen
We had a blast being all together. From playing all day in the sun to cards at night, we loved every minute of our trip. THANK YOU SO MUCH MOM AND DAD for such an amazing vacation!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Basketball, Baby Bump, and Brookfield Zoo

    Ben loves playing basketball. Loves it, as in plays with church guys 2-3 times a week, is on a city league, and since he is stake athletic director he got to run youth basketball for the past few months. Recently a guy in the stake put on a 1-day tournament that Ben played in. His team consisted of Bryce (my brother),  Isaac, Pete, and Grant, who are all in our stake and work at Sears. They played awesome and went undefeated and won the whole tournament! The other 4 wives and I enjoyed chatting and cheering our boys on, and luckily Camille got some pictures.
I love this picture of Ben, Graham, and Bryce....just the big boys, hanging out watching basketball



I'm a couple weeks behind on the bump pictures (I'm already 26 weeks), but here's a 23 week photo
Still a lot of decorating to do!

I got to join Camille and some of the girls in her ward for a trip to the zoo. It's always fun going with little kids because everything is so exciting!
We got a few "moos" out of Graham