Ben got a dicapac for his birthday. It is a little case that you put your digital camera in and you can take your camera out in the water with you to take pictures! 
We are excited to have it! Anyway, here are a few of the pictures we took the afternoon of Ben's birthday, while we were snorkeling. It takes pretty good pictures!
Now we just need to find time to go to snorkeling
more so we can take more pictures!!!
We sure hope you have a wonderful and 
We were able to slip out one night and go have a quiet
dinner on the bay. Then we took a romantical walk along the beach. 
It was VERY nice!! We have plans to go
snorkeling this afternoon. Should be fun!!
Anyway, Happy Birthday to BEN!!!
It is soo good for her to be around other kids. Here she is with Aubrey. 
member of the branch and is also going to cosmetology school. She gave me some great highlights and a trim. I was the first actual person she did highlights on...she did a good job! She'd only practiced on the mannequins. Funny thing, I've heard my friends who are hairdressers back home....Kandice and Andee..... say that it is hard to work on black people's hair. Well, I was in this salon on Front Street with 3 black hair stylists and they all were saying the same thing about white people's hair. It was great! Anyway, it was fun letting her practice!
We Sure love our DAD'S!!! Today is Ben's first Father's Day as a Daddy!! Holdyn woke him up early with a smile and gave him this "WORLD'S BEST DAD" Ribbon...that she made!!! We didn't have time to make him much of a breakfast.....I teach a few of the branch members piano early, before church...so we had a quick morning. But we are trying to spoil him the rest of the day :)
GRAMP CARR
Dad Palmer
Dad Cluff
Dad Baker
WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!
Holdyn and I just got back from Jack's 1st Birthday! They had his party at the Kissing Fish Pool. 
on! We had a good time getting together 
with the other gals and kiddo's! 
Then this other is of Hillary and Aubrey, Natalie and Jack, and Holdyn in the tube. These three kids are within about 2 months of eachother. Anyway, we definitely had a good time at the party!! 
We caught it and introduced it to Holdyn......of course, just like anything else new she wanted to put it in her mouth...YUMMY!
We've been running like crazy the past couple weeks! Ben's schedule has pretty much been....studying from 8am-11:30pm everyday but Sunday. 
He does take time to come home for an hour lunch and an hour dinner...which we are very grateful to see him, and try to make the best of it!! This has been a pretty demanding semester soo far...but he is pulling through! Yesterday he took a badly needed break from the books and we went and spent the afternoon 
with our great friends the Brox's. Ben and Justin went snorkeling and brought back some pretty cool shell's. Here is a conch that Ben brought back. We're working on getting the conch out of the shell. It is pretty tricky but I think he's going to get it. It's been soaking in a bleach/water mixture to hide the stink. Soo far soo good.
Here is a shot of Holdyn with her new doll. We discovered she didn't own a doll....so we had to change that. She has all sorts of stuffed bears, dogs etc, but no doll. She absolutely loves it and carries her around by the braids. I guess they are easy to hold on to. 
We are SOOO excited to welcome another new member to our family! My brother and sister-in-law just picked up their new baby girl!!! They have been waiting for quite awhile to adopt her and she is HERE!! Weighing in at a mere 5 lbs!! They've decided to name her Brielle, I LOVE IT!! She'll be well taken care of by her three older brothers...Baxter, Bridger and Boston!! Congrats on the sister boys!! We sure love you guys and once again...CONGRATS! We are soooo happy for you!!! Can't wait to see her in August!!! She is beautiful! 
Love, Ben, Jill and Holdyn!!!
