Summer Time Fun!

Summer is such a fun time of year! We have had a packed full summer with lots of fun and adventure. I thought I would kinda catch up and recap our summer journeys so far.

Disneyland in May was so much fun! We accually surprised our neice Melissa for her birthday. Woke her up on a sunday morning and told her we were going to church, when we arrived at the park n fly she was confused as you can see by the photo. She was thrilled and we accually managed to keep the secret from Melissa, "miss know it all" . We rode tons of rides at both parks and even got some pool time in at our nice hotel.




We headed to Las Vegas for Memorial Day weekend. Our office staff attened the anual "Invisalign" summit. We had a fun time! The highlight was the "PIRATE" ball on the last evening. We all dressed up and it was such a fun party. Invisalign always out does themselves and puts on quite the show. We stayed at the new part of the Venitian , The Plazzo. It was Gorgeous. The rooms were amazing and we had a great view from our room of the strip. We also went a night early and stayed in old town. Old town is great fun-we really enjoyed that!




The highlight of our summer was definitly our CRUISE in JUNE! We headed out to Miami and enjoyed the area for two days before boarding the Carnival Valor. While in Miami we went down to "BaySide" a cute ourdoor shopping area right on the beach with alot of fun restraunts. We ate at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Factory. It was so fun! We even went and bought the forest gump dvd after that. We then got on our ship and sailed off into paradise. We went to 3 ports of call. Started with Nassau Bahamas, OUR FAVORTIE! It was so beautiful. We went to the Atlantis resort for the day and went to the waterpark. It was amazing! We also spent some time on the beach. Our next tropical vacation may just be a week at Atlantis! We then visited St. Thomas USVI. It was beautiful as well. We rode a gondola up to "paradise point" and took some great photos of the island from the top. It was relaxing. We walked the shops then just enjoyed our ship for the rest of the day while it was less crowded. Our final stop was St. Maarten. The water there was so gorgeous. We took a water taxi into town and shopped for the day. We just relaxed and had a little beach time. Aaron got a great omega watch! We also really enjoyed our days at sea as well. Our ship had a waterslide and that was so much fun to enjoy. We worked on our tans and just relaxed. It was great!! We met some GREAT friends as well who we enjoyed dinner and the show with each night. Sadly, they live in Pitsburg! We miss them already. They were great and we hit it off. We then stayed one more night in Miami then headed for home sweet home. The trip was amazing..but after 10 days I do have to say..we were ready to get home.






The weekend when we got home we went up to anacortis to my Aunt Linda's home on the water for a family gathering. It is a beautiful home. My cousin Kelli graduated highschool and is off to college so we all got together to celebrate and wish her the best with her future. It was so fun to hang out with my cousins for the day. I love how Marisa and I can always pick up where we left off and we always have so much fun remenising about the good ol' days. We took some cute pics! I was glad we were able to snag a photo with grandpa who is in his 80's. This will be a photo I know I will cherish forever!





We came home for one week then Aaron and I parted for 5 days. Aaron went on a Canada guided fishing trip with my dad. They had alot of fun and brought home tons of yummy Salmon, Halibit and Ling Cod and some Red snapper also. (photos to come soon) While he did that I went to Arizona to meet our new little Neice, Riley!! She is just beautiful. It was so much fun visiting with My sister in law, Violet and Daniel and spending time with riley. She was about 3 weeks old when I was there...so so little and fragile. I held her for hours and just stared! Im so glad I was able to spend time with her when she was so little. I can't wait until October when we all meet up for a Norton Fam vacation to Disneyland! Yay!! Violet is such a good mommy and Daniel a great dad. He even watched Riley for the day so Violet and I could have a "girls day". It was so fun! We got pedicures and went and saw "Mama Mia". My visit with Violet was great. I miss her so much. I feel so blessed that we are not only friends but we get to be sisters to!