Bangkok- Girls Trip

I went on an amazing three day Girl's trip to Bangkok. Erika, Lauren, and I left our cute families (together we  had 9 kids) with our husbands- and my sister. And had an absolute blast. One of my favoite things was that both of these women have nice cameras and love taking pictures, so I didn't take one picture the whole time- thanks so much for sharing! 

 Riding in the "Tuk Tuk" That we totally got tricked into taking and drove around for an hour looking at stuff.

 Had an awesome, Night Bike ride, almost got hit by a car like 10 times but so cool

 Saw some great temples- City of Angels is what this city is referred to as, it should be city of Gold

 Delicious street food!

 Rode through the flower market that is hopping from 9pm-5am

 Loved these Bamboo bowls, we all had to take home a few!

 Mango smoothies, . .  yum

 This is the Temple where the King of Siam once lived- as in Anna and the King or the King and I- both movies I learned are banned in Bangkok :)

 This is holy water I am dripping on my head

 Door with in a door

 The architecture was incredible!

 One of my favoite things was this awesome cooking class we did. Totally luxurious and Delicious

 Hand made coconut milk

 In our kitchens ready to cook!

 Us with the chef's

 More street food - squid anyone?

 Shopping at the JJ Market- so many awesome things

 This prego women is a little worn out!

 We took a long tail canal tour, which was awesome got to see where people live. The juxtaposition of these poverty houses along side the royal temples is really interesting

 Lots of Fishing!

 One of the treasures we were hoping to find is this Silver- which we all took some home of  :)

Eating Curry in a cafe on our last day. 

 Here is my loot! Salad bowl, Pitcher, Syrup pitcher tray. Below- Bamboo bowl and platter

And don't forget our hour long massages- each for $12.00-!5.00 overall an awesome weekend, we all couldn't have been more pleased!

Durian

Durian

Durian is what Singapore Smells like according to my sister Katie. And she is right i

Widely known in Asia as the "king of fruits", the durian is distinctive for its large size, unique odour, and formidable thorn-covered husk.
The edible flesh emits a distinctive odour, strong and penetrating even when the husk is intact. Some people regard the durian as fragrant; others find the aroma overpowering and offensive.

If you are Singaporean you find durian a delicacy, if you are American you find it the worst smelling and tasting food in the entire world- eew eew eew, even as a gelato flavor it is disgusting, which is hilarious because they have to keep it in a seperate container other wise it will smell up the rest of the ice cream.

And my favorite because it smells so bad it is against the law to carry it in a taxi, bus, or MRT


Spencer's take on it- "Dirtian (or Durian) it smells awful you can smell it all the way from America."

But Asia loves it so much that they designed the Esplanade Art Theater after it- Amazing!

Marianne's Prayer

"Hevenly Fadder- Thank you for my thoes (shoes), thank you for the sersal (cereal), thank you for my body, help us good day, bless famiy, name Jesus. Amen

It changes a bit depending on time of day, but she thanks Heavenly Father for her shoes at the beginning of every prayer. She loves shoes. Didn't get that from me, I literally own 4 pairs of shoes, one of which I use everyday, 2 for Sunday and 1 pair of tennis shoes I wear occasionally.

Devin and I went Cebu Philippines, to visit the Cebu Temple and take a little honeymoon for a few days before this new little girl is born. My sister Katie-Anne was wonderful and stayed and watched the kids for us. 

 We got to do a session Wednesday night and then found out Russle M Nelson was speaking at the Temple Stake Center that night. We got to hear him and then shake his hand, the Saturday night before we got to hear and shake Elder Dallin H Oaks hand when he spoke at a meeting in Singapore. 2 Apostles of the Lord in one week. pretty good. . . .

 Thursday we went to our honeymoon hotel "movenpick" which was great.

 My favorite was the complimentary mangos on the desk.

 Lovely pool

 Snorkeling excursion

 Hanging out on our private boat run by 3 philippinos, all who love to find out that Devin speaks Tagalog

Ready to go, the water was sooo warm. We saw so many tropical fish, it was really great. 

 We got to see Devin's Missionary Companion and his family Irwin and Annie, they have a little girl Dina and a brand new baby named Kylee, it worked out great to see them and Devin got to help bless the baby on Sunday

 Here is the private beach at the hotel. So great. I am 17 weeks pregnant showing a bit!

Number 3 What's it going to be?

I am 15 weeks so imagine my surprise when I go to my appointment and the doctor does a "quick ultrasound" to measure the head and asks "So do you want to know the gender?"

I really wanted Devin to be their for the unveiling, which he was coming to the next appointment to find that out, but, how could I resist not knowing when the answer it moments a way.

So of course I said "YES!"

And then went and bought the frilliest pink skirt I could find and took the picture with me to a late dinner that Devin and I had already planned on having.

We are both thrilled to be having another girl in our family. I love my sisters and am so excited to have Marianne have a sister!

Devin felt very strongly that this little one would be a girl about 6 weeks ago, so it wasn't too surprising, but very exciting!

IT'S A GIRL!

Photoshoot

My Wonderful Friend Nicole took these pictures for me, they are of Spencer almost 4 years old and Marianne 2 years old. 

 I love some of the faces she captured of petunia, she has so many cte faces.

Don't you love getting cute pictures of your kids

Zoo

 We are taking full advantage of Katie being here to go on dates, last week we went to Singapore's Night Saffari, which was incredible! We loved it. Saw lots of live animals including this huge snake shown below.

Here we are visiting the white tiger at the zoo

Going On's

 Our friend Allen from our first married ward showed p in church a couple weeks ago, we love seeing anyone from america that we know so we had him for dinner and spent the day with him. So fn

Our favorite news this month is that Katie is here, she has been here 2 1/2 weeks and it has been amazing, I feel so incredibly spoiled and blessed, I get a companion, babysitter, house helper. It is awesome.

 Reading with Spencer on the train!

 Marianne really likes to dance and and says "Dance with me daddy" how can yo refuse

 Marianne is obsessed with these really big goggles "They help me sthwim"

Giving daddy kisses