Christmas 2012

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! It is true what they say...the older you get the faster the years go by.  Once again i had a fabulous christmas filled with laughter, family, and friends.  You know it was a good weekend when you have 2 delicious turkey dinners! We spent Christmas Eve with the Tidwell family and Christmas Day with the Worthen's! My little brother Reese came in on Christmas Day so our whole family was able to be together! It couldn't have been more perfect!!

Kaylee

Little Ry

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This is how excited my parents were when they saw what our present was to them! A trip to Knotts Berry Farm with the whole family!

My beautiful family! We didn't have one picture with everybody looking at the camera.

Thanksgiving

I can't believe Thanksgiving has come and gone! Well this is steve's favorite holiday!  He looks forward to it all year long.  Last year on the drive home steve says "i can't wait for flagstaff next year!" he said the same thing this year!

the reasons steve loves flagstaff:
VIDEO GAMES, VIDEO GAMES, VIDEO GAMES...and food!

the reasons i love flagstaff:
seeing Nana & Papa, hangin with the family, relaxing :)

Nana & Silas

Mav (goo ball)

Nana & Papa

Sherry, Carly, Me, Emilee, Nana, Deb, Ky, Hailyn, Lacie

Mav, Ken, Larry, Ryan, Silas, Rhino, Papa, Chance, Steve, Steve, Matt 

Ky, Lacie, Me, Em

July-October 2012

Well the rest of the summer was spent having a BLAST! We were able to go to the beach A LOT!

May 18-20
This was our first Beach trip of the summer to New Port! We thought it was going to be a little chili since it was still early in the summer but it was beautiful weather!! This trip was just with Rhino, Em, Chance, Mav, Steve and I.  We had such a great time!! We love spending time with the Ence family :)

July 6-8
New Port...we are creatures of habit.  We pretty much always do the same thing!  This time we had a much bigger group! I actually got my brother and his family to come join the fun!  We get out to the beach really early and set up our place...we have lots of umbrellas, blankets, and air mattresses.  With coolers full of food! It is my dream one day to live in the middle of steve's sister Emilee and my brother Ryan...this gave us a little inkling of what it would be like!! It was perfect :)

Ryan and Brit let us ride up with them so we got to hang out and have fun with Kaylee, Kensi and ryan!

 

 

July 20-22 Arizona
I couldn't wait for this trip.  We were going to Wet N Wild down in arizona.  I miss the wet N wild that was in vegas soo bad so i couldn't wait to experience this one! I must say it wasn't as good as the one we had here but it was a water park and we had a blast!

August 17-19 Utah
Steve and I finally got to go to Utah-we haven't been since before we got married. I really love it up there.  We got to spend some time seeing some good friends and hanging out with my family that lives up their. My cousin James when on a mission to chili so we went up for his farewell! We had a great time!

September 1-3 New Port
Our last beach trip of the summer :(  Steve and I weren't going to go but somehow Rhino convinced us! (it wasn't too hard)  We were definitely glad we went. We always have such a great time!! We LOVE our family!! Steve rented a surf board and went surfing for the first time! It was a lot of fun watching him!

JUNE 2012

Steve and I were so lucky to go on our honeymoon this year! After we got married we decided to just stay in Las Vegas and have a stacation because Steve didn't have any time off...so we waited patiently and then got to take the trip of a lifetime! It was better than i could have imagined!

COZUMEL

Day by Day recap:

Our trip started out with memories we will never forget.  I have never spent the night in an airport before but this is something we both experienced together! We had a very long layover in some ghetto town where we couldn't understand anybody's english! haha when we got in we were both starving but it was like 10pm so all of the food places were closed.  This chinese place was just cleaning everything up and was probably about to throw the food out but she insisted that we buy some chicken and rice for half price.  When you are starving you will eat anything!  So steve and i shared that and while walking to our terminal we found a little corner store open that had lunchables so thats what satisfied my stomach. We had like 8 hours to waste so we decided to watch some LOST (i think that was the tv serious we were finally finishing!) We pushed to benches together and made us a little bed.  For a little while i thought they were going to come kick us out of the airport bc their was NOBODY their it was a ghost town...except for this maitanence guy who must have been having a lot of fun vaccuming because we swear he vaccumed right by our terminal all 8 hours! We finally caught some shut eye and before we knew it we were ready to board the plane.  

The fun started when we got to cozumel:

*Polaris tour around the island-saw mayan temple, lighthouse, alligators, learned how to make tequila :)

*snorkel tour to 3 reefs with a personal photographer :)

*swimming with the dolphins

*parasailing 

*shopping and bargaining in town

*rented a jeep and drove around the Island...almost broke down in the Jeep!

*lunch right on the beach

*dinners with the best company

*fire show and dancing

*swimming in the rain

*laying and relaxing on the beach!!

 We had such a blast and created so many great memories! We hope this is the first of many more trips to come!!