cruise!!!

About a month ago i called jacki one night and asked if she wanted to go on a cruise with me...she said 'sure' and 2 days later we booked a cruise to catalina and encinada. Our goal was to relax, have fun and not do much of anything. We definitely did all that. And mostly laughed so hard we cried. This first one is of us in the airport in Pheonix on a layover, it was 8am and we'd already been awake for 4 hours....long day.
The second day was a "fun day at sea". And indeed it was a fun day at sea. It was formal night that night so here i am all glammed up! The third day was Catalina. All there really is to do is shop so we only spent about 3 hours there, but it is really really pretty and we found some cute stuff.


The 4th day we went to Encinada. The actual city itself is pretty dirty and gross but we luckily did what people suggested and took a bus up through the mountains to the blow hole. The drive was gorgeous and it was real cool to see. We also were able to do some real good mexico shopping their. With our blonde hair we attracted a lot of attention and had guys ask to have their pictures taken with us.



Okay so this last picture is my favorite picture...possibly of all time. If you have ever been on a cruise you know how they take cheesy pictures every night. Well the whole time jacki and i tried to get the cheesiest picture we could. Finally the last picture of the last night we got it. When we saw it we both fell down laughing. I had to buy it!

picnics and parties

April 22nd is Chris' bday. I decided to throw a memorial birthday bash. We had a pot luck dinner at sugar house park and wrote messages or memeories on black balloons(his fav color) with silver markers. We sent them off and the kids loved watching them float away. After the park a few of us went up to visit his grave(it has grass now) and Colin drew two pictures for his dad and picked out a car to give him for his birthday.



We had a fun picnic dinner at Wheeler farm with Ash and Annika. We have some pics of these two a year and a half ago on this same bench...too cute! All Colin wanted to do was ride on the tractor and look at the ducks.

This picture Annika sat up on the tractor with Colin and says "I'm the mommy and colin's the daddy"

Spring....

One of my favorite places to go is to SpringCity with the Janke clan. So that is what we did this last weekend. Colin got to ride a horse for the very first time and did really
well with it!

I really didn't get any good pictures of Colin in his super handsome Easter Outfit...but this is what he got for easter...a lightning Mcqueen scooter. He's a little timid on it right now, but by this summer i know he'll be racing around the neighborhood on that thing.

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I JUST learned how to blog from my phone! Wahooo! This is me and my boy on st. Patty's day! We were saying...'kiss us...we're irish'!

Back tracking...

Okay! So here's some pics I haven't posted yet. These first few are of my friend Brooke and her little boy. They got the first flight they could after Chris passed away and came up here to be with us. Love you guys!

This pic is of my mom and I in January about to run the St. George half marathon! We look cute cuz we haven't run yet...we do have some "after" pics...but I can't find those. We trained well and did a great job, ran the whole way and finished in about a 10 min mile the whole way...even with bad knees. We want to run some more half(and I'm trying to talk her into running a full with me)but right now we are rehabing our knees.

This last pic is from the funeral...My sis took alot more of the whole day. But this is the only one that i have on my camera. I will eventually print this whole blog out and turn it into a little "hales tales" scrapbook for Colin and me.

For those of you who want to know how we are doing, we are doing pretty well. Our house is officially up on the market...so if you know anyone who wants a super cute townhouse in a super cute development up north...let me know!

Life...

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone's support and love over this last month. And thank you to everyone who came to the funeral/viewing, for meals, notes everything!!! It's amazing how quickly life can change, I miss my husband and my little family. But I am so grateful for what I DO have, things could be worse and my child is the best thing to keep me going. Colin and I have moved from our cute house in davis county, to my parents house. I really feel like we need to be close to support and love. These are some cute pics of us over the last year or so.

Christopher B Hales

For those of you who follow my blog and haven't heard, my sweetie passed away on saturday febuary 6th. I miss him already, and my heart aches. Life is so short and so precious, love to you all