December 22nd, 2007
Jim's Family Restaurant
American Fork, Utah
Friday, December 28, 2007
Wedding Breakfast
The Wedding Breakfast
December 22nd, 2007
Jim's Family Restaurant
American Fork, Utah
December 22nd, 2007
Jim's Family Restaurant
American Fork, Utah
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Home For Christmas
The Yoho & Klemas Homes At Christmas!
Jack & Janese's Home
Bountiful, Utah
December 23rd, 2007
Jack & Janese's Home
Bountiful, Utah
December 23rd, 2007
Scott Yoho Gets An Early Christmas Gift "SNOWMAN POOP!"
Jack's Early Gift......A Framed Collection of Memorabilia From His Auto Parts Store. A Part Of The Family For 15 Years!!
John & Katie's Home
Loxahatchee, Florida
December 25th, 2007
Christmas Morning!
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Winter Wonderland
Utah Valley
December 22nd & 23rd.
Looking Out The Lobby Window From Our Motel
Mt. Timpanogos Temple
Temple Square
December 22nd & 23rd.
Looking Out The Lobby Window From Our Motel
Mt. Timpanogos Temple
Temple Square
Salt Lake City
Kendra & her dad (I was freezing my tail off!)
Jack & Janese's Home
Kendra & her dad (I was freezing my tail off!)Jack & Janese's Home
Bountiful, Utah
The View From Their Front Doorstep!
The View From Their Front Doorstep!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
WHERE ARE WE !!!
Enchantment Of The Seas Cruise
(Above is a post card photo of the Centrum. Below are two of our photos showing the Centrum's Christmas decorations. )
Ordinarily this would be ok, but from standing in line for tender tickets, being crammed into the line on the staircase, the trip to the dock, and jostling for a cab, it took two and a half hours just to reach the shopping district. Thanks to Don & Deb the wait was bearable. For those of you who do not know them, Don & Deb are our friends from church & their cabin was a couple of doors down from ours.
We managed to cram a lot of shopping into a few short hours and still had time for a nice lunch together at "Pancho's Back Yard". We allowed a lot of extra time getting back to the ship and returned exhausted with sore feet and a lot of gifts. The first seating in the main dining room was a little sparse due to the delays in getting back to the ship.
November 26 - December 1, 2007
A couple of days before sailing, our itinerary was reversed due to an electrical problem on the ship. They said we couldn't go fast enough to reach our ports in time so instead of:
Wednesday - Belize
Thursday - Cozumel
Friday - Key West
We Changed To
Tuesday - Key West
Wednesday - Cozumel
Thursday - Belize
(Above is a post card photo of the Centrum. Below are two of our photos showing the Centrum's Christmas decorations. )
So ok, no big deal. We did some shopping in Key West, on Tuesday, despite the rain. Then we find out ...................... SURPRISE! Since docking space in Cozumel & Belize is reserved well in advance, our last minute schedule change means we will have to be tendered in.
We managed to cram a lot of shopping into a few short hours and still had time for a nice lunch together at "Pancho's Back Yard". We allowed a lot of extra time getting back to the ship and returned exhausted with sore feet and a lot of gifts. The first seating in the main dining room was a little sparse due to the delays in getting back to the ship.
The "My Fair Lady Dining Room" was beautiful and the service was exceptional!
If you look closely at the staircase photo, you will have a difficult time trying to tell which one is Katie & which one is Eliza Doolittle!
We turned in a little early Wednesday night & decided to sleep in the next morning. Thursday we were scheduled to dock in Belize at 8am. We wanted to avoid the crowds and waiting for a tender so we didn't even leave our cabin until around 10am. On the way to breakfast we discovered two things: 1) we were supposed to have docked at 8am & we were running at high speed, & 2) there was no land in sight. We found out that we missed the announcement at 11:30 last night. Three hours (at high speed - I guess they fixed the engine problem) after leaving Cozumel, there was a medical emergency & we had to go back to Cozumel. That left us over 6 hours behind schedule & if we continued back to Belize we would have only had about 2 hours there (plus we had to be tendered ashore). The Captain decided to take us to
Coco Cay in the Bahamas instead! We ran the rest of Wednesday night, all day Thursday & Thursday night at around 22.5 knots (our top speed is 22 knots). Coco Cay is Royal Caribbean's island it leases from the Bahamas. We arrived there around 10am.
Coco Cay is a beautiful place but there is very little to do if you cannot get wet (as in Katie's case). We tried the shopping in their "Straw Market" but everything was 3 times as much as it was in the real "Straw Market" in Nassau.
Our "Midnight Buffet" was beautiful. We took the pictures but passed on the food. It was getting late & at least 1/2 of the passengers were lined up like hungry vultures.
All in all, it was a great cruise. The ship was beautiful, the service was exceptional and the food (my favorite part) was beyond compare (they even had "Warm Chocolate Cake" one night). The Captain did the best he could in a tough situation. We enjoyed dinner each night with Don & Deb and they put up with me (even when I ate the escargot)
Coco Cay in the Bahamas instead! We ran the rest of Wednesday night, all day Thursday & Thursday night at around 22.5 knots (our top speed is 22 knots). Coco Cay is Royal Caribbean's island it leases from the Bahamas. We arrived there around 10am.
Coco Cay is a beautiful place but there is very little to do if you cannot get wet (as in Katie's case). We tried the shopping in their "Straw Market" but everything was 3 times as much as it was in the real "Straw Market" in Nassau.
Our "Midnight Buffet" was beautiful. We took the pictures but passed on the food. It was getting late & at least 1/2 of the passengers were lined up like hungry vultures.
All in all, it was a great cruise. The ship was beautiful, the service was exceptional and the food (my favorite part) was beyond compare (they even had "Warm Chocolate Cake" one night). The Captain did the best he could in a tough situation. We enjoyed dinner each night with Don & Deb and they put up with me (even when I ate the escargot)Tuesday, November 20, 2007
A FITTING THANKSGIVING TESTIMONY
I (Katie) don't author most of these blog posts, but the past few weeks have been monumental! I was diagnosed with "well-differentiated endometrial adenocarcinoma." In other words, the most common uterine cancer. (Sorry, I have no pictures to post here. Be glad!) I was sure I'd caught it as soon as humanly possible, so when my OB/Gyn asked if I wanted to discuss a hysterectomy with my husband and family, I thought, "Why? It must be done, and the sooner the better!" The doctor remarked, "You certainly are taking this well." I had no tears, just a goal.
So we scheduled it for seven days later (Nov. 9th). My thinking was to get this junk out of me. My doctor's plan was to give me enough post-surgery recuperation time which would better ensure that John & I could go on the cruise John'd been planning since February! So, after a couple days of running around for pre-op "musts," such as chest x-ray, bloodwork, CT scan, etc., then a couple of days back at work (VERY supportive co-workers! I love 'em all!), I started the required pre-op "starvation/let's clean you out" diet.
The surgery went very well, and I've been healing well, too. The pathology report came back negative; they'd gotten all the cancer. No more treatment is necessary. The doctor said, "Take that cruise!" And I've been obeying his directives regarding rest, casually walking around my neighborhood, and NOT DOING ANY HOUSEWORK!!!!!! The latter has been SO difficult! Right.
Here's what I've learned:
Tons of people love and care about me.
Tons of people have been praying for my welfare.
Tons of people are willing to give of their time (and culinary skills) to help out John & me.
I have tons more faith than I'd realized. My testimony of the fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is so internalized, that the only thing I really feared when hearing the "C" word, was that I might not live to see my grandchildren, hold them, read to them, play with them. But there is also HOPE, and I prayed with great hope that the Lord would permit me to remain on earth to experience the blessing of grandkids. And the still, small voice through all of this, told me that I would be fine.
So, thank you, everyone who prayed, thought, visited, emailed, drove me places, cooked, sent cards or flowers, asked about me, etc., etc. And thank you, Heavenly Father, for these people, for this beautiful earth you've made just for us, and for keeping me here on it (hopefully, for a good long time!!!!) HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!!!
So we scheduled it for seven days later (Nov. 9th). My thinking was to get this junk out of me. My doctor's plan was to give me enough post-surgery recuperation time which would better ensure that John & I could go on the cruise John'd been planning since February! So, after a couple days of running around for pre-op "musts," such as chest x-ray, bloodwork, CT scan, etc., then a couple of days back at work (VERY supportive co-workers! I love 'em all!), I started the required pre-op "starvation/let's clean you out" diet.
The surgery went very well, and I've been healing well, too. The pathology report came back negative; they'd gotten all the cancer. No more treatment is necessary. The doctor said, "Take that cruise!" And I've been obeying his directives regarding rest, casually walking around my neighborhood, and NOT DOING ANY HOUSEWORK!!!!!! The latter has been SO difficult! Right.
Here's what I've learned:
Tons of people love and care about me.
Tons of people have been praying for my welfare.
Tons of people are willing to give of their time (and culinary skills) to help out John & me.
I have tons more faith than I'd realized. My testimony of the fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is so internalized, that the only thing I really feared when hearing the "C" word, was that I might not live to see my grandchildren, hold them, read to them, play with them. But there is also HOPE, and I prayed with great hope that the Lord would permit me to remain on earth to experience the blessing of grandkids. And the still, small voice through all of this, told me that I would be fine.
So, thank you, everyone who prayed, thought, visited, emailed, drove me places, cooked, sent cards or flowers, asked about me, etc., etc. And thank you, Heavenly Father, for these people, for this beautiful earth you've made just for us, and for keeping me here on it (hopefully, for a good long time!!!!) HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!!!
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