Back in LA for a bit.....

We are currently back in LA getting ready to sail through Europe for the summer. Rehearsals are always hard but being here with our best friend Jesse has been so much fun! We went to see Wicked last week and since Jesse knows some people in the show we were able to go backstage. We even met Megan Hilty who plays Glenda.

Getting ready for Wicked to start with our new friends Heidi and Michael.

Jesse and Doug dressing up in Bok's costumes with Jesse's friend Adam who plays Bok in the show

Me and Heidi trying on Glenda's crown

In one of the dressing rooms just hanging out

Holding up Glenda's gown....it was heavy

Of course Jesse had to try on the crown...we caught him red handed!

Disney World!

We will never forget the screams of joy we heard when we got off the ship and approached the rental vans with all the kids in them. Doug and I literally felt like celebrities and we were so overcome with emotion. We have such a great family and spending a week with (most of) them in the Happiest Place on Earth was a memory we will cherish forever!

Me, Doug and Heather (one of our best friends from the contract) with the kids in front of the ship

Here we are in front of Mt. Everest at Animal Kingdom. I think this was everyones favorite ride. We went on it about five times. It was so much fun!

Me, the Merrills and Katie Bug!

Me, Lexi, Jarrett and MaddieMeatHead peeking her cute little face through

Me and Doug with the kids on our way to Universal Studios

Dave and Stin chilling out

We're pretending that Doug put us in jail here


Getting ready to go into the Bug's Life Show.

This was the best vacation we have been on since our honeymoon! ;) We have never felt more loved! I think we're going to have to start inviting ourselves on all family Disney vacations from now on.

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.