Hi Ho Hi Ho its back to St. Vincent we go!

Well my 6 month visit home came and went....sigh.....but I am happy to report that we made it back in one piece and Katelyn was actually pretty good with all the flying it takes to get here, for those of you who don't know she is a MENACE! Love her to the moon and back but man is she a busy little girl!

Gearing up to come back was almost as eventful as coming the first time around...we packed and unpacked and repacked and finally gave up! We had some serious issues with motivation as far as booking our flight but the harder part was committing to a day to come back! LOL we were planning on flying out last Friday but then that changed to Saturday which thanks to our local high school baseball team quickly changed to Sunday!

So after a full day of baseball on Saturday we were up bright and early Sunday...2:30a.m. early and let me tell you what I was ready to change the flight to Monday! We got all of our stuff loaded and made it to the airport with plenty of time to spare we got checked-in said our goodbyes and headed through security.....oh airport security how I loath thee.....totally grateful for all that they do to keep everyone safe but with kids it can be a nightmare! NOT THIS TRIP! We were selected for the new speedy security check thingy they are doing now.....so so nice with the kids! You don't have to take off any clothing or shoes just empty your pockets and put everything on the belt and hand them Kate's bottle! We zipped right through and were done in no time! Then comes the delay....I just knew the morning couldn't be that smooth our flight was delayed 30 min from SLC so we would only have enough time to grab something to eat while on the next flight and get to our next gate!  Now as stupid as this sounds having to choose your last meal in the United States for the Next 7 months can be hard...Kohl saw a Wendy's right by our gate and was sold he was having Chicken Nuggets no one was going to sway that decision Jacob and I were a little harder to sell so we walked down to the last food court where we ate the time before and had of course Panda! I savored every bite of that meal on the flight to Trinidad before I fell into a coma!

4 hours later I wake up and look over at Jacob and say "how long have I been asleep?" his response...."uh the whole flight"....well now wonder why it went by so fast! We had an awesome tail wind going for us so we were about an hour ahead of schedule, so I had an hour to fill out our customs paperwork and get everything in order to clear immigration which I have done twice already so it has become pretty easy.

Finally we land in Trinidad and to my surprise when I walk off the plane I can breath! The humidity isn't nearly as bad as what I had geared myself up for in fact my hair stayed pretty straight! We get through immigration but not before the immigration officer tells us we are "crazy Americans" for spending the night in the airport with the two kids we just laughed and said we have done it before  she was flabbergasted it was pretty funny!

Immigration done! Customs here we come! Hey look at that nothing to claim....just keep walking right through! We find us a cozy spot in the food court and get ready for the long night ahead of us we talked to our families and watched a couple of movies and I just had to have me a chicken patty from the coffee shop....seriously love those things beef ones are better but the chicken was good too!

We finally migrate to the check-in desks about 3 am and wait for it to open, so what do I do?... Join the kids and fall asleep....I swear all I have done in the last 24 hours is eat, sleep and fly.....I was so tired and they keep in -45 degrees in the Trinidad airport so you would think that would keep me awake NOPE fell right to sleep!

Finally time to check-in and the bag checker guy is slower that cold tar running up hill in winter and he is opening EVERY single bag and checking it...not to mention he weighs maybe 95lbs soaking wet with every article of clothing on that he owns and rocks in his pockets that he found on his way to work that morning ....so its taking every ounce of energy to lift the bags up on to the table from this guy I am not even joking Kohl could take this guy with one arm tired behind his back and one leg off the  ground. As we are waiting for our turn all I can think about is what happens when someone gets mad at this guy and  starts to argue with him???  Well finally our turn and I tell him "I can lift it for you" he says "it be fine" okay man its all you 30 seconds later he finally gets the bag on the table searches it and slides/drops it as he is lifting it down off the table...he sees I have 3 more very large suitcases behind me and says "just go ahead"....bahahahah it was pretty funny made my morning.

Finally we are boarding our last flight of the trip and it is a beautiful morning you could see all the Grenadine Islands really clear the whole way to St. Vincent. We land and head in to Immigration which takes an hour and then customs they let us right through. We get in a taxi and head for home we get our luggage in the house and Jacob is getting ready to go to school and the kids are half asleep on the bed watching a movie I am about to join them when I hear a holler from the front porch...Jacob beats me to it and its the Elders they have an investigator who has possibly broke his foot and wants to know if Jacob can look at it....Welcome back to St. Vincent!

Yep....really bad at these updates

So...here we are ready for another blog update! its only been 3+ months!!

After my parents left St. Vincent it took us a week or so for us to get back into the swing of things, we got back to our somewhat regular routine and planned at lot beach days and oh ya getting ready to leave for UTAH!

We had pretty much made the decision that the kids and I were going to be returning to Utah for Jacobs sister Allynne's wedding the beginning of November. We had to wait out Jacobs school schedule to see if he was going to be able to come with us. In order to make the  weeks we had go by fast we intended to spend as much time at the beach as we could....well the lovely unpredictable Caribbean weather rained on our parade....literally buckets and buckets for 6 weeks almost every day we had rain Kohl was so unhappy he wanted to go snorkeling before we left to come back to Utah, which was really sad for Jacob and I as well cause he finally had something he WANTED  to do in St. Vincent and he couldn't go!

Well we got the word that Jacob was going to have a test week the week following Allynne's wedding so we knew there was no way he could miss 3 days of school leading up to a test...so my fate was sealed! I was going to be making the trip ALONE with the 2 babes. I was terrified! If you haven't read my blog post about flying to St.Vincent  now would be a good time to do that so you can more fully understand just exactly how I feel about flying!

We continued to pass the days with activities in the house and I think we did manage to make it to the pool one time before we were supposed to leave but we got poured on so we were only there about a hour. Hey we made it to water before we left though!!

Packing.....Packing oh for the love I HATE packing I would rather have a root canal done through my left nostril on the right side of my mouth than pack! You getting a clear picture here?? Okay just thought I should check! Packing with kids is like wiping before you poop....totally unproductive! I put something in the bag and they pull it out, I put something else in and walk into the other room and when I come back all the clothes are out and Kohl has zipped Kate up in the suitcase....LOL I love my crazy life! I  was able to finally get us all packed up to go i just finally waited for everyone to go to bed!

Well the day of our scheduled flight was here and we were super excited to get going but i was begining to realize what i was about to do with just my self and the two kids......but i will save the rest of this story for another post!

Until next time.....