Moab

Day 1 (wednesday)

Got everything packed & then double checked the packing list. Packed some more, then packed some more. Laid on the bed and watched Parenthood while waiting for Drew to come home so we could load up everything I packed (we were prepared). Loaded up the jeep (8:30 pm) on the truck and took off. Got lost in Spanish Fork for 30 minutes. Laughed a lot because i really don't know how to use a GPS. And then feel asleep. Woke up at 3:00 a.m. while drew was driving in a open lot off the side of the road in Moab and crawled in our back seat and feel asleep once again.

Day 2 (thursday)

Woke up in a state of where the heck are we. Looked outside and noticed that there was red rock and blue skies above and remembered where I was. Alan started to pound on our window so we got up (7:00am). I had to pee so bad and there was no where to go. So for the first time in my life i grabbed a cup and... need i say more. Lets just say i felt so much better. Drove to our camp site, set up camp, grabbed some lunch and headed on a trail. Poison spider, sounds scary.

The end was scary. The arch is scary. I held onto drew's hand like i was going to die.

Walked on top of the scary arch for a while then found a cave. Loved the cave. Soft cool sand, climbed around a bit, and laughed a lot. Love to laugh.

Day 3

The day of Kane creek. My favorite trail. Memories include a lot of dancing to lady gaga, good lunches by the creek, and dodging the trees that try to hit me as we are driving. Dinner was at the Moab Diner and i got some egg deliciousness and drew got something else... and then liked mine and ate mine. Oh i drove for a while this day on the wild rocks. No big deal.

Day 4

Another trail. can't remember what its called. Something mean like lions back, or sabertooth. Ok maybe not but something like that. I had to listen to anatomy lectures about the reproductive system. Talk about a lot a weird stuff to learn. Car show was at night. We got a little crazy trying to make people peel out in their cars. Oh and we ate at my favorite moab pizza joint and i saw Miley Cyrus. Ok not her but someone that looked just like her. I don't have the picture but seriously it was nuts.

Fun time at Moab. Always is. Always will be.

The Picture

IKEA has always been my favorite. Well ever since i went there for the first time in December. Now I want all these fun things from there and I'm constantly asking the girls in my family to take a girls day and go to Draper. So, last week we all found a time when we could go and we left on Wednesday.

Man it was such a fun day! And man did fine some good deals. For some reason we ended up taking Estee's car (Subaru Outback) because it was better on gas or something. Well picture this... me and my mom in the front and Estee in the back with 2 car seats. She had honestly about 12 inches to sit the whole ride (good thing she is tiny). Anyways.... I had a list of things that I wanted for our new apartment and one of those items was a big picture for our wall by our TV. So we get downstair where there are a ton of pictures to choose from and I love about 10 (of course), and Estee is my little friend on my shoulder whispering "that won't fit in the car Sadie". Every picture I would look at Estee would pop out of no where and tell me how it won't fit in the car. Well I found one that I really liked and I was sure it was going to fit in the car. So we check out and each one of us has about 10 items and we shove everything into the wagon. Then it was time for the picture to fit nicely on top of all the stuff we had bought. Well it sure didn't go in so nicely. It basically sat on Estee's head the whole ride home. Here is Estee, with to kids by the side of her and this picture that rested on her head for the 2 hour drive home. Yeah I wish I would have taken a picture to show you how squashed everyone was. It was pretty funny and i felt pretty bad for thinking that it would fit. I should oh sat back there but there there was no way my bottom was going to fit in those 12 inches between those car seats!

So i will post the picture for you all because it is sure loved at our house and I just wanted to tell you the sacrifice that Estee made to get it here. Thanks ST. You rock.

Valentines Music

I recently ran into a blog that had this amazing artist featured on it.... Mindy Gledhill. Her songs are definitely getting the repeat button pushed on my playlist.

Check it out.

My favorite song she sings is called "Anchor". It's pretty much amazing. I love how clean her voice sounds and how much i can relate to her music.

Anyways she is having a valentines concert in Provo! Anyone want to double? I so want to go!

A cute New Apartment

Things around here have been going really good. We both have started back up again at Utah State University and we are really excited to get one more semester behind us. I am graduating this spring, which is making this semester not as bad as most winters. Drew is taking one class on campus and the rest are online so that helps with making his schooling not so bad. We live for the weekends where we... (mostly he) goes up the canyon and get a little snowmobiling/skiing in. I used to be so nervous going cause its a little scary when you have to stand on one side while he stands on the other of the snowmobile... while you crawl up pretty steep stuff. Last time we went however, it was the most beautiful day! I loved being out of the smog and up in the most beautiful blue skies. And the snow was buttery so that was a definite bonus.

(Estee has got the best poses)

Something else that is new is we just moved into a cute apartment! The house we are now living in has so much character. We are living in the upstairs of a house close by the temple. I love that it has a laundry shoot, ironing board that come out of a cupboard in the dining room, the built in shelving, and who can forget the one of a kind doorbell. Its so fun to feel cosy yet have some room to move around. I'm excited to begin new memories here and hopefully we wont have to move for a while!

A Bud K New Year!

This year for New Year's Eve, us and our friends had a gift exchange. Now this wasn't your average gift exchange, it was a BUD K weapon gift giving extravaganza. My friend Jenny (and some other people) had the best idea of everyone going to BUD K.com and picking something out that was around $10.00. When the items arrived she wrapped up all the gifts in boxes so we wouldn't know what anything looked like. On the boxes she put remarks that previous purchasers made about the items. Some examples of the remarks were... " For a real mountain man" and "Great for practicing my honing skills." Anyways, it was so fun watching people open their weapons and laughing really hard at the size of some of the knifes. Such a fun night! Love the nights where you laugh so hard it hurts.

Anyways... Happy New Years!

P.S. Thanks Jon if you are reading this for the pics

Never a dull moment

Yesterday we had a whipping cream fight at my parents house. Estee started it....

...but she lost.

Cruisin'

Wow, it has been a while since i last wrote on my blog! It seems like just last week was August! Where did September or October go! I need to slow down so that i enjoy this beautiful fall season.

Last week me and Drew went with some friends on a Cruise to the Western Caribbean! It was so fun. We got to eat amazing food, lay in the sun, and not worry about anything.

Ok.... so just a little heads up there will be a lot of pictures!

This is one of the pools on our ship! This was the part of the ship that we spent most of our time. It has a huge screen TV so you could watch movies and swim at the same time (my personal favorite thing to do). Also the buffet, pizza place, and ice-cream stand was just below the TV so we definitely needed to be close to that.

This is cute Mandi and Jason who we went with! They are so awesome and we had a great time with them!

Grand Caymans

Our first stop was the Grand Caymans... and the water was amazing! We took a taxi to Seven Mile Beach. I have never been to such an amazing beach. The sand was so white and fine. We were in heaven!

I loved this place. I definitely want to come back, and spend a week on this beach!

Oh and there i am.... Long arms and all.

See how clear that water is!

Roatan, Honduras

Our next stop was Roatan, Honduras. We got off the ship and rented a car and drove all around the Island. This place was so green and beautiful. It also was such a huge eye opener for me. There is a lot of poverty here and it made me so grateful for everything i have been blessed with. It was fun to see their culture. Also it was fun to hear Drew talk some spanish again.

Talent.

This Lady was selling shoes on the side of the road.

A scenic view of Roatan.

Milk in the bag. Drew said this is also what he drank in Argentina. He said it wasn't that great tasting. I really looked like a tourist taking this picture.

Cozumel, Mexico

Here in Cozumel we got off the ship and rented some scooters! That was quite the adventure! Here is Mandi and Jason sporting their really bad smelling helmets.

I liked Drew's helmet the best.

Gomer on the back!

We drove a while down the road and came to some Mayan Ruins. They were really interesting but we really didn't learn to much about them because we didn't get a guide. But we got some great pictures:)

We drove a little bit further down the road and i found this guy. Yeah i don't know what i was thinking, but it was awesome while i was holding it. Now i look at it and i don't know what i was thinking!

Now for my favorite part of the trip! The waves in Cozumel were huge! I love to swim in big waves! The pictures don't really do it justice cause they don't really show you how big they got but they reminded me of Hawaii's waves! Should of got a surf board eh?

Loved the Coke in Mexico!

Bahamas

This day was pretty laid back and the weather was kinda bad so we didn't do much. We just kinda chilled on the beach, played in some seaweed water, and tried to get our last rays of sun before the trip ended.

THE END!

Sorry that was quite the long post! Love you all!