Grandma & Grandpa's spring break visit to Singapore! (Part 1)

Grandma and Grandpa are here for their 3rd (g-pa) and 4th (g-ma) visits to Singapore!  We're so glad that they could make the long & grueling trip to visit us!

How it's going so far:

They arrived at 2:00am Thursday morning.  Sammy & Bailey did a great job as the "welcoming committee!"  They decorated their room and hid behind a wall at the airport and jumped out to surprise them at the airport!

Thursday after a bit of sleep we swam at our house, played some "horse" in the swimming pool, allowed g-ma and g-pa to have a nap and then introduced them to their first "Gold Class Movie" experience in Singapore.  They went to see The Hunger Games at Vivo City Gold Class with Sammy and Mike.  I don't think they will ever be able to enjoy another movie without a blanket, lazy-boy chair and waiter to bring them hot chocolate (due to the freezing cold nature of Singaporean movie theatres) again.

Friday we packed up for an overnight stay at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel.  We checked in and met up with my friends Jen and Kyle Larson who work there.  Then we checked into our beautiful room on the 50th floor of the hotel.  The rooftop pool is on the 57th floor of the hotel.  Our view out of the window was the most amazing that I have ever seen.  It is right up there with the view of the Hong Kong harbor out of the Marriott Hotel (where we stayed when we first arrived in Hong Kong).

We hurried and changed into our swim suits so we could enjoy the amazing 150 metre-long infinity pool on the roof of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel.  Because Singapore likes to have the "biggest everything in the world" this hotel doesn't disappoint... having the "largest outdoor swimming pool at that height in the world!"

                                          Sammy & Sky had a great time splashing around.

Grandpa is way too much fun in the pool!

The view is stunning!

A view of the top while I'm standing in the pool.

View down below while standing in the pool.

 

My mom enjoyed her book more than the cold water.

Bailey was so lucky to have a close friend from school staying there the exact same day as us!

G-ma finally braved the cold water!

A view of the opposite side of the hotel.

Dinner was an adventure at the Food Court in the mall across from the hotel.  The food was good but it was so crowded!  We found some Japanese ramen, dim sum and chicken rice that was delish.

Grandma stuck to rice and steamed cabbage.

This photo was taken on Saturday while we were wandering the skypark on the roof of the hotel.  Saturday's weather was weird...windy and I think someone even said cold?  Is that possible?

No one wanted to swim on Saturday.  Carson and Sammy decided to get sick and Bailey had a terrible night in the hotel with her allergies acting up.  Don't think g-ma and g-pa got much sleep...but it was very memorable!!!

Saturday night we went to the Woodlands Waterfront Park to walk around.  We were very surprised when we showed up and 100's of people were there getting ready to celebrate "Earth Hour."  So, we went home and celebrated it ourselves by lighting tons of candles and telling not-so scary stories:  For example, the timing was perfect for g-pa to tell this old classic:  One night 2 men sat by a campire, one turned to other and said "Tell me a story Bill and the story was this:" (Now just repeat it 100 times!)

Skylar Cecily

Skylar is now officially 1 1/2.  That means that she can:

-walk, run, talk, make big messes and go to nursery.  (I'm the nursery leader in our ward so it's not really that big of a deal.  She's been in nursery for about 4 months now anyway.)

So this post is dedicated to Sky!

This was her Valentine this year which sums up a lot about her personality.  In photo #1 she wouldn't pose and only cared about trying to break into the pool area.  In photo #2 I gave her a heart cookie cutter to hold thinking that would help her pose better but she immediately tried to push it up her nose and cover her face with it.  In photo #3 I gave her some flowers and thought that would help with the photo taking but they were just too fun to smell so we just decided to stop and smell the flowers instead of getting a great shot with her full face showing.
These were the 3 best photos I got which just tells you that she's a busy girl right now with lots more important things to do than pose for photos.

This is how Skylar addresses everyone in our family:

Daddy = Daddy
Mommy = Mommy
Sammy = Sassy
Bailey = Bay duh
Carson = Car key
Jack = Dackie
Marnelie = Marnie

We love this girl and she is so much fun to have around!  She does scream loudly when she wants something but I guess you have to scream when you are the smallest person around a bunch of big people.

She is lucky to have the 2 best big bro's and 2 best big sisters a girl could ask for.  They sure love her!

She is the main attraction with all of her siblings friends also.  She's always getting carried away by her big sisters and brother's friends:

She even gets carried away by our adult friends sometimes!

She's a girl with many hobbies: here she is doing one of her favorites: pulling all of the dishes and stuff out of the kitchen cupboards. 

Here she is captivated with her favorite TV show: Teletubbies.  It's the only show that has ever grabbed her attention and when it comes on she screams, "Tubbies!" at the top of her lungs!  (Sammy was our other kid obsessed with teletubbies.)

Here she is sitting at my desk making an important phone call.

 We know for sure that she's a Daynes because she loves chips with mom's homemade "Christmas salsa."  Sometimes the chip becomes too cumbersome and she just eats the salsa straight with her hand.  This stuff has quite a kick.  Girl after Bailey's heart!  Bailey was eating kimchi at this age in Korea and lovin' it!

We're sure glad you could complete our family!  Hopefully we won't have to endure many more of these tantrums...but we love you anyway. xoxox.