Ok so to finish the cruise from clear back in 2008... like anyone cares now but we are doing it anyways. So like i mention the ship went from Miami Florida to Nassau Bahamas to Cococay Bahamas which is a private island, and then to Key West Florida then back to Miami to go home.

Here are some pictures from Nassau... it was really fun! Bruce and i decided not to do the usual expeditions and use usual means of transportation while on expeditions... So in Nassau there is located the AWESOME Atlantic Hotel... So we decided instead of taking the ferry over there we would walk through the town and over the huge bridge to the resort and look around there... Then we ended up taking the ferry back because my sandals were killing my feet... The Atlantic hotel is a gorgeous place... the water was beautiful and warm!

OK so I have been trying to up load pictures into this posting and also trying to upload this blog since Oct. 17th and i am having problems with both... it's like it freezes while trying to up load pics and then my publish post button won't work... Any advise or help on this?

Yes we are still alive!

So I dunno if anyone is even still looking at my blog anymore since i am horrible at updating this but I am trying to commit myself again to updating this and doing better at keeping up with all this blogging, facebooking, and email stuff. None of which i check very regularly these days but now am going to try and do better. So I guess we will see how i do... There of course has been a lot that has gone on since December of 2008 and I of course will not be able to recount everything in detail... so I will probably be doing an over all recap and throw in some details as i remember them... So thankx for the patience and hope this goes well. :S

Cruise Take off! Dec. 14th and 15th On our way!

Well we left on an afternoon flight and seats looked pretty good to go Salt Lake City (SLC) to Houston (IAH) and then on to Miami (MIA). We stopped by Brookstone in the IAH airport and used their massage chairs, which was so wonderful and much needed! We got into MIA about 11 pm. and because we didn't want to pay for hotels (being most of them were over $100) and trying to work out transportation, which I brilliantly worked out using the Public Bus so it only cost us $2 per person, except for the fact that it doesn't take you all the way to the Port so you have to walk a little ways (which includes two blocks and over the big bridge to the port) which really isn't hard at all. Which everyone kept saying its way too far to walk so Bruce decided on a taxi... which was freakin $10 just for like a 5 min. ride (those 2 blocks and over the bridge). So after he saw how short it was and pointless for a taxi he was upset, but it didn't help with the night before staying in the airport cause like I said earlier he gets grumpy as soon as we are in an airport and we didn't sleep very well in the MIA airport of course being there from 11pm to about 1030 am. so we immediately checked in for the cruise and went down to our room and slept until dinner. After which we explored the ship more. We also have some wonderful dinner partners... there were 6 spots to our table but we only filled 5...
there was Auvi from Isreal, which came by himself (which you should never do on a cruise and he later admitted that he wished he hadn't told his girlfriend not to come). and then Yuro and Jo (an Asian couple) from Boston. They were all really nice people... i just wasn't used to having other people at our table, because usually my family filled up the whole thing. Bruce wasn't used to it either, because he'd always gone just with work so it was hundreds of kids he worked with that he all knew and they actually took up most the cruise ship! Well the ship took of at 5pm and was on its way to Nassau, Bahamas! I'm excited cause i've never been there before!

Arkansas Visit Dec. 4-8

We had the time of our lives when we flew out to see Bruce's oldest sister and her family out in Arkansas. His sister's name is Tamara and her husband's name is Wade... they have a cute, and hyperactive little boy Tommy, and an adorable, tries to be defiant, and who absolutely adores her older brother... Ashley.
Whom i swear is a teenage girl trapped in a 2 year olds body! She is just adorable! They also have one on the way which is exciting! She thinks it's a boy because it's wrestless like Tommy was when she was pregnant with him. What we did was flew into Memphis Tennessee and did a session at the Memphis Tennesse Temple which was amazing! Then we stayed over night in Tunica in the Harrah's hotel which was awesome! We got an increadible deal on it! In the morning we ate at their Paula Deans buffet! Which was sooo good but there was too much good food to eat that we walked away bellies hurting! Then we drove the 4 hours to their house... the other fun thing is that they had guitar hero they were going to give the kids for christmas, but they wanted to test it and make sure it worked and all that so we cracked it out every night after they put the kids to sleep and talked about it in code during the day... haha and who knew but I am pretty much a pro at guitar hero, which is weird because when i've tried it before i totally sucked it up! :S Well it was fun Friday night I went with her to her GNO (girls night out)while men tried to have as awesome of a party as we did, but everyone knows women throw much better parties. I had so much fun at the GNO. It was at Tamara's friends house Leslie, her husband Brett (who to me looked like a younger version of Will Patton) was there and their adorable little son Austin. And her other friend Stephanie was there. They had mexican theme night so we had enchiladas that Leslie made, which were amazing! She also made some delicious Virgin Margaritas. Tamara and i brought Crepes with Neutella, they were delicious i have never had those before either. Saturday Tamara and I hung out going around to some cute little antique shops and lunch with the kids it was a lot of fun!


They also lived just around the corner from Wally World (Walmart) so there were frequent trips there. Sunday we went to church with them and it was really cool they have an awesome ward! We also met Wade's parents... they are really nice people... his dad looks like an older version of Pierce Bronze (to me at least, but apparently he's had that comment a couple times before). Then Monday we got ready to go and made the 3 hour drive to Little Rock to fly home. We were so sad to leave! We had so much fun! We can't wait to go back!

Fish Lake Nov. 21-23

Well every year on the weekend just before thanksgiving my mom's family gets together in Fish Lake resort because we own a lot of it or something like that. Which hardly anybody knows where Fish Lake is and most people haven't even heard of it... it's in southern utah but not quite to St. George it's close to Sigurd... (if u know where that is) but it's a pretty nifty little place really beautiful and calm... at least every time we've gone in the winter... but apparently it's busy as ever in the summer! Back in the day it also used to be the place to go apparently also... i didn't get as many pictures as i wished. But we did go out on the lake for a little bit. We played hide and seek in the lodge and steal the flag when it got dark. I wish i got a picture of the lodge, because it is huge and amazing how they constructed it so long ago, it's amazing what they thought of! Well you can google Fish Lake and it comes up "Utahs Famous Fish Lake" it is really gorgeous!

Bruce had a lot of fun trying to fish... he didn't catch anything but he tried hard! :P

Nov. 20th Northridge High School "Beauty and the Beast" Play

We went to Northridge High School's "Beauty and the Beast" Play... they actually did a really good job! The props and actors were wonderful! We found these cool little whatever you call them that they put together extremely well and it looked awesome so we took a couple pics!Look at my masculine husband and that chest hair! woo hoo! Haha!

Camping November 1st

This was way fun! We've been going camping every weekend we can with my cousin Zack and his wife Merideth! It is so much fun! We just load up the rodeo in the back with the sleeping bag and air matress and everything. We go up to some property in Morgan that Zacks grandparents own (or something like that if i remember right) well they are usually just one nighters and Zack and Meri bring up Zack's parent's (my aunt and uncle's) Ranger... a cute little go cart thing and we go ride around for a while. It is gorgeous up there! Well this time we also stopped by this huge rope swing that was a total blast! Every time we have gone up though we have a problem with Petey running off and it takes forever for us to find him! So if we take him up we have to tie him up! :( Poor Petey...

Halloween!!!

Well i would have to say that Halloween was awesome! We did awesome on our costumes! But the vampire teeth were the only ones that didn't work out too well... they were kinda lame... I really wanted a pair of those new kind where they are just two single vampire canine teeth that you stick to your canines and you can still talk and do everything pretty much like normal instead of a whole mouthful of plastic you can't do a single thing with while they are in... if anyone knows where to find those i would love to know! Well we hung out at my parents house a little bit that night because their house is the coolest place to be for halloween night... if not halloween parties! (Those are the best kinds of parties) Because my family builds a small fire in the driveway and serve hot dogs, hotchocolate, some candy, and my dad built a cool contraption of a big screen projector sheet that takes up the entire face of the garage and he has a projector inside the garage projecting the movie so that if people walk in front it doesn't disturb anyone else's movie! Pretty sweet in my opinion!

Twilight... Anniversary Cruise Anticipation/Plan!

Ok so i'm a little behind on a few entries but I thought i would let you know they will be coming shortly! (Hopefully) I just was on and thought that I would add that I finally got onto the Twilight Wagon... I just finished the first book like 2 days ago and absolutely loved it of course! i saw the movie a little bit after it first came out and thought it was amazing! Which made me want to read the book of course so that was a good thing! So i have purchased all the books and am now anxious to start on them! Anywho so that's all i have for right now...

Well actually I am way excited for this next week! Bruce and I leave for our 1 year Anniversary cruise tomorrow... since the flights don't look so good for monday and the scheduling and what not... so since the flights look pretty full just to fly completely there tomorrow we are actually going to fly to Houston tomorrow and stay in the Airport for the night... Bruce wants to spare the expense of a hotel... since they are pretty pricey now... and he says he will be fine with just sleeping in the airport (but him and I know that always as soon as we hit Houston airport he turns into a mr. grumpy gills!) but we will work through it somehow... Anywho... then early monday morning we fly into Miami... we decided the cheapest way of travel and since we have the time... we would ride the Metrorail/Metrobus from the Airport to the Miami Port where the cruise ship leaves from Monday night... the only thing is it doesn't take you all the way there and so we still have to walk about 20 min. over to the port... which is worth it to me, because we are about to start a cruise which we could work off the weight we will be gaining and there are bound to be some shops along the way... (depending on his mood we may just take a taxi) haha... so that's the plan so far! We will take tons of pictures and I will do my best at posting them as soon as we get back! L8as!

Oct. 20th my bday presant from my dad!

So I haven't been repelling in forever and it's one of those love/hate relationships, because it is so fun, but so freakin scary at the same time! I'm not afraid of heights or anything just trying to get down the face of the cliff without too many injuries can be kinda crazy and akward! But we had lots of fun! I'm more someone who only does well on her own two feet... for the most part... skiing, ice skating, roller blading, biking, etc. yeah... not so good at. So it was just my dad, Bruce, and I we went to the usual spot I've always gone to with my dad and my family and whoever joins us up Farmington Canyon... it was so much fun! I went 3 times, Bruce went 4, and my dad went once... Mind you i didn't get experimental each time i went down it was just the ususal way... Bruce went down the usual way the first time. The second time he went down half way and then turned upside down and went down further and turned back around to finish. The third and 4th time he went down Ausi Style... (which if you didn't already know is basically jumping off face forward!) Which there is no freakin way in heck i think i will get the courage to do! This is Bruce's proof of Ausi Style!