Monday, November 2, 2009

Did I really get married last weekend?

It doesn't feel real yet. I mean I saw some pictures from my wedding, so I guess it actually happened... but it sure doesn't feel real yet! I wonder when it will...

Anyways we just got back from our honeymoon and it was UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE! I was looking at some of the pictures and had a hard time believing I was actually there. The beaches on most of the islands were crazy beautiful! Looked like something you would find on a postcard not in real life! It was so much fun! We flew to San Juan Puerto Rico and left from there. We hit... St. Thomas, Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Kitts, and then back to San Juan. It was awesome!!! The weather was great (big switch from our wedding day where it rained and poured on us all day long!).
In St. Thomas we went to Magen's Bay which was beautiful! I had never seen a beach like that! Soft white sand, clear blue water, oh it was great! We just laid on the beach and drank fruity drinks all day... it was the life!
Barbados we went to the beach too which was hands down our favorite beach out of the whole trip. It was big and beautiful and just unreal! The people kept trying to get us to go scuba diving and buy jewelry and drugs off of them but once we got used to that it was fine :)
Dominica is the only island we went to where we were nervous to get off the ship. You could tell just from looking at the port that it was not the... most safe looking place we had ever been. We decided to get off and if we were scared we could just turn around and run back to the ship :) It was pretty sketchy! There were a few times we would turn to walk down a street and turn right around because it was too scary lol! But we did end up finding a bar right by the dock and had some chicken fajita type things that were to die for! All in all were glad we got off to explore but have no desire to go back to Dominica.
St. Lucia was beautiful! While there we went kayaking to Pigeon Island. It was actually a lot of fun and not quite as hard or scary as I had thought it would be. Once we got to the island we went for a 15 minute hike to the top of a mountain and the views were amazing! I know I keep saying everything was AMAZING but it totally was! After our hike we got to go snorkeling which was also pretty cool. Something I said I would never do because the water freaks me out but it was pretty great!
While on Antigua we went horseback riding. That was... interesting! My horses name was Bright Lights and Michael's was Contriban. We had both never riden a horse before so it was a new experience for both of us. You could tell as soon as Michael got on his horse he wanted to scream like a little girl hahaha but he held it together and did great. My horse was a little fisty and kept trying to bite the horse in front of it. He ran a few times which was actually pretty cool. We got to ride them all along this trail overlooking the ocean, then they actually let us ride along the beach for a while. At the end they said if we wanted we could ride the horses into the water so like an idiot I said yes. It was the scariest thing of my life! The water freaks me out as it is, and riding one into the ocean... not a good idea. We had no saddle on and the horse was wet and slippery... something I will surely NEVER do again but I'm glad I can say I tried (unlike my sissy husband :) haha.
St. Kitts was our last stop and we decided to do the zip line thing. We were both very nervous but once you started it was not very scary at all. It was actually just really cool. It was like you were flying over the rain forest and it opened up at some points so you could see the ocean! I would do that again in a heartbeat!
All in all our honeymoon was AMAZING! We couldn't have asked for a better trip, better weather, better entertainment, it was all around the best honeymoon EVER!!!
I was only able to upload a few pictures so here are some to hold you over :)





Sunday, September 27, 2009

My Bridal Shower



This is a picture of my bridal party! Minus my good friend Miss Loren but she lives in Texas so I guessss I'll let it go this once. I had a great weekend with all my friends and family. My girls threw me the most awesome bridal shower EVER! It was great! The food was AMAZING!!! That was mostly compliments of Miss Tina Sue who was in fact Loren's stand in :) We had all sorts of deliciousness... blueberry french toast, breakfast casserole, quiche, mac & cheese... and that was just the first course! Wolf even jumped in and made something amazing! We had cake, donuts, pumpkin rolls... it was AMAZING! So when I can't fit into my wedding dress in less than a month you will know why!
After the shower I was blindfolded and locked in the back of a car for TWO AND A HALF HOURS!!! Shame on my friends! But it was totally worth it because we ended up in Rhode Island right by the beach! We had some more great food! A few drinks... just a few! Then did a little shopping!
All in all it was a pretty stellar weekend and I am so lucky and blessed to have such amazing friends and family!!!
THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! Now the countdown officially begins till the big day... less than a month! EEEKKKKKKKKK! :)

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Weekend of the 4th

Uncle Bill & Sheryl both have July birthdays so we started the weekend with a celebratory dinner with the Troesters.




And finished with some celebratory fireworks!!!



Sunday, July 5, 2009

Rated T for Teen

I was over Michael's parents house this weekend. There are three cute little boys that live next door and one of them had his 10th birthday today! Very exciting indeed. Well we were over talking to the boys about Daniel's birthday. Connor, one of his younger brothers, was telling us about all of the cool presents he got. He said that he got a really awesome video game that he really wanted. Then he came over and whispered... "It's rated T for Teen and Daniel is only 10" HAHAHA! I wanted to die!


This is a picture of me with Connor and Daniel last year :)

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Our first home

So Michael and I have been looking for a house for the past 6 months. We looked online for a while to get our feet wet and started looking at homes in person in April. Now that I am writing it, it does not seem like we have been looking for that long. But when I tell you it was time for us to find a freaking house... oh man was it time! We have gone house hunting every weekend and a few week nights too. We had found a house we thought we loved, made an offer, and the sellers would not come down in price so we walked. We found another house we thought was perfect but it had a swampy yard... GRRR! It seemed like we were never going to find a house. We were so aggravated that we were going to take the rest of the month off from looking and wait until after the 4th of July holiday to start the search again. We had seen a house online and decided we would go out looking one last time before our hiatus. Well we FELL IN LOVE with the house and ended up making an offer that night!!! We did a bit of negotiating but found out today that the sellers... ACCEPTED OUR OFFER!!! WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Obviously we have to do all of the inspections and all that other lame grown up stuff you have to do before you buy a house lol but we hope to have a closing date in mid August. We are SOOOOO excited!!!

We are family...