Home for a week....

We were only able to be home in Utah for a week so we had to take advantage of all that snow! Doug went snowmobiling and snowboarding with Dave in the same day. We also went sledding up at Soldier's Hallow with most of the family and had so much fun! We love our family so much and we felt so loved the last time we were home which made it even harder to leave!

Here are some pics of our fun snow day up at Soldier's Hallow. Being towed up in the hill is the only way to go sledding. Everybody loved it so much and the weather was beautiful.

More pics of the Caribbean

Our two week Caribbean cruises are our favorite. We go to so many great ports! Here are some pics of the two week cruise we went on in November.



This darling little family used to be on board and we had so much fun with them! They left about a month ago and we were so sad to see them go.


This is in Bridgetown Barbados at a place called The Boat Yard. Crew gets in for free so everyone always goes and it's so much fun!


If you look really closely you can see flamingos behind us. There are tons of them in Bonaire and we took our four wheeler through the mud to see them. It was fun!

Christmas at the De Voogts

We just had our first Christmas as a married couple. We had so much fun! Thanks to mom we had a darling little Christmas tree and LOTS of presents to open! Our room smelled like Christmas so everyone always wanted to hang out in there with us and we had tons of candy to share. We were able to watch Joy to the World on Christmas day too! (You're the best mom!) Although it still totally sucked not being home for Christmas we will never forget our first Christmas together in our tiny room on the Veendam.

Ship Tour

A few weeks ago we finally went on a proper tour of our ship. We got to go to the bridge and learn about how everything works but mostly we just pretended like we were the officers in charge of everything.

This is one of the officers in charge of driving the ship

















Doug is doing some navigation








The officers pretty much let us do whatever we wanted up here as long as we didn't really touch anything.











Someone gave this stuffed moose to the captain so they stuck up on the bridge. He's on watch 24/7












Looking out from the bridge












The view from the bridge

















































We also took a tour of the kitchen and met the executive chef



















After the tour we had lunch with the captain and he even sat at our table with the chief officer. We felt really cool.

Thanksgiving in Guatemala

We spent Thanksgiving this year playing soccer (well Doug played and I watched) in Guatemala. Although we would have preferred to have been in Utah it was something we will always remember.

We are so thankful for each other and for all of our many blessings. Spending Thanksgiving in a country where people really don't have much makes us realize how lucky we are. We miss our friends and family every day but we're grateful for the experiences we are having right now.

Sea Days

We thought it would be fun to show you guys what we do when we're at sea. We used to hate sea days but now we look forward to them because it's kind of like having a day off. Sometimes we participate in activities they have around the ship.




Here the boys are helping with golf chipping. They hold up the life preservers and people try to hit their gold ball into the center. It's really just an excuse for them to get in the pool on sea days.
















Since being in the Caribbean this is something we almost always do on sea days...lay out! We have to do it on the top deck where there's no pool because the pools get really crowded. There's always a nice breeze up there and sometimes the wind is so strong we get a little mist from the ocean.










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