I'm Home...

Me, Hills, and Afton at the concert.

Sorry, the picture is so bad, but I was there and I needed proof, ha ha
Last week, on Wednesday, I flew to Az with Grady. Long story but I needed to go pick up our car and I wanted to go see Em and Jon before they headed back to Germany. My sweet mom flew me and Grady down. We had a good time. I ate way too much good food (I really love some of the places there, gecko grill, neilsons, bajio, cafe rio, etc.etc.) I got to spend some time with Em and Jon, we played games and I think Jon and Johnny wont play with me anymore cuz I KILLED them, ha ha. Friday night I spent with my two awesome sis-in-laws, good company, not so good movie LOL! Sat. I went to a baby shower for a girl in my old ward and saw alot of old friends. My sweet mom took me shopping to get a few things for the kids ( I don't know what I would do without my parents). Then I went to the General Relief Society broadcast with my mom. After that we headed out to the Mesa Ampitheater to see Brooke White in concert. Thats right folks, I saw Brooke White live. It was fun except for the fact that the guy who opened for her lasted way to long. We listened to him for an HOUR, don't get me wrong he was good and all but I would have been just fine with 3 songs. Next, came Brooke White, she was very personable with us and I love how it is just her doing her thing, no band and no gimmick. She only sang about 4 songs, her voice was giving out on her but it was still fun and I am glad I went. My lame camera wouldn't take good pictures but I got some. I am so mad at myself for not getting any pictures of me and my sis and me and my mom, ugh!

I love my husband...

I just have to tell the world (or the few people who will read my blog) that I am so in Love with my husband. He is amazing. I came home from school last night and he had a hot bubble bath all ready to go for me. On a plate next to the tub was an assortment of chocolates and the sweetest card ever. Thanks Babe, you rock my world! You are what keeps me going and striving every day to be a better person. I love you more than you could ever understand.

What a week.....

And it is only Wednesday. Wow, is all I can say about the craziness of my week. Here is a little background into what makes this crazy. Some of you know I have been in the process of getting my personal trainer certificate. Well I started quite a while back and through all of the stress of the house and other things I lost my fire inside to continue and so there the book sat on my table for weeks on end. I would think about it and say to myself "I should start studying again" but had no motivation inside me to make me do it. Well last week I decided to look online at my course and in big highlighted letters at the bottom of the page it read " This course will expire on Sept. 19th". What???? Have I really had this course that long and now in one week I need to take my test to avoid paying an extension fee? Yikes! Why do I do this to myself? I decided right then and there, I AM going to do this and I CAN do this. I called to schedule my test and I needed to have CPR and AED training before I can take the test. LONG story short I had to get a small extension for the test in order to get the CPR and AED training in first.
So I am officially taking my test on Monday the 22nd, after doing my CPR training ALL day Sat. Wish me luck!!! On top of the countless of hours of studying for this test I have had many other things happening this week. Last night, Tuesday, was my first night of classes at the Community College. I have started a 10 week course of classes there and I go T-W-Th from 6-9pm. Then this Friday we are having a tri-ward craft day. I somehow am in charge of teaching how to make the blocks with the scrapbook paper and letters. We are doing holiday blocks (joy, or boo) and I hadn't planned on being over this but I have learned when asked for ideas don't share unless you want to take over the job! (I am not bitter). So in a nutshell here is the breakdown of my week!
Monday-study, study, and go buy supplies for our craft.
Tuesday-play date (at my house) study, study and go to class from 6-9
Wednesday-study, try to find a dance or gymnastics class for Ally, study, take Cayden to cubscouts, class from 6-9
Thursday-study, cut wood for craft, sand wood, study, go to class 6-9
Friday-study, craft fair from 12-8pm, study
Saturday- CPR 9-5pm
Sunday- day of rest, whew! Get ready for monday.
Monday- 8:30 drop Grady off at a friends, test from 9-11am. I will be so happy when this is done. I kind of feel like my head is overloaded with information.
I didn't even mention "the daily grind" like laundry and meals and helping kids with homework and grocery shopping etc, etc,. Thank heavens I have an amazingly supportive husband to help out with everything, including me study! Love you babe!

"Cruise with me baby"

Warning: A TON of pictures to follow.

These are not in the order that I thought they would, so try to follow along as I take you on our cruise with us. What would any vacation be without Brian and this face? Gotta love it!

Brian and Hills in Cabo San Lucas, they are too cute!
Ok this was too funny, Brian was making "friends" with the locals and "getting in good" in order to be a better tour guide for us while we were cruisin around town on our scooters.
This was our last night at dinner with our "guys". We had the BEST group of waiters ever. We had so much fun with Ihar, Rolyn, and Emoke.
The girls enjoying our last meal prepared, served, and cleaned up for us before we headed back to REAL life. Ahhh it was so wonderful!
HILARIOUS! There was these um.... interesting paintings all throughout the ship and we just had to have the boys pose in front of our favorite one, LOL!
Here we are in front of our room. Cabin number R225. With us is our "stuart" (room steward) who was also really cool. Every night he had a towel folded as a different animal on our nicely made bed. He and one of our waiters were Phillipino which made it really fun for Travis and Brian to be able to speak to them throughout the trip. This was the last night and we had been kind of bored and all of a sudden we got this weird silliness that took over us. Hillary was on the floor laughing soooo hard, good times, good times.
This was actually as we were getting on the ship, day ONE. "It's only just begun"....

While we were in Cabo we rented these fun scooters and cruised around town for a few hours. It was so much fun, but a little scary, driving with the Mexico traffic on busy ONE WAY streets, that we never seemed to know were one way until we were on them headed the WRONG direction. Um, I am pretty sure my husband is incredibly good looking!

Travis, Brian and Hills after our journey through Cabo.
At Billigans for lunch after our hot, sweaty ride. We have helmet hair and sweat marks, aren't we hot?
My spa treatment on the ship. It was really nice. I have never had a facial before and think I found my new favorite, goodbye pedi's hello facials.
These 3 boys were hilarious the whole trip and this picture pretty much sums it up.
Waiting for our scooters that were supposed to be hear any minute. We waited and waited and waited. Finally Trav told the guy they had 3 minutes or we wanted our money back. Then next thing we know he says to follow him. We follow this random guy through some closed shops, around the back way, through the alley and to a street, where a van pulls up and he tells us to "get in". I had thoughts of all these horrible stories of 6 Americans kidnapped in Cabo while on vacation. Well, we got in and he drove us all the way across town, around the bay, to where they had this little hut type thing with the scooters sitting out front. What a completely different experience than if tourist came to the good ol USA! Long story short we got on the scooters and had a great time, once we learned how to ride them.

Seriously I think I may have married the best looking man in the world, love you babe!
Note: don't wear a little sundress on these things.
It was quite a sight to see all 6 of us in a line cruisin around the town. Here is the back of me and Justin and you can see Amy's head.
Tour guide Brian in the front pointing to something or someone. Then Hillary, Amy and Justin in his tourist shirt. Love it.
This was the first day on the boat, it was so BEAUTIFUL!!! (don't you love how I look pregnant in this shirt)

Second day at Sea and thought about catching some rays. It was so cool to look out and see nothing but water.
This was the "Formal" night at dinner. It wasn't really any different than any other night but it was still fun.
Aren't we cute???
Once we arrived in Cabo, the ship stayed out in the ocean and these tender boats came and picked up everyone and took them to the dock. That is our ship from the view of the the tender boat. So incredible how large these things are.
That is all of the pictures. We had such a wonderful time. It was so relaxing and nice to not think about any stress at home or work or anything for 4 days. Thanks to my parents for keeping the kids I didn't have to stress about them either. I highly recommend a cruise for any couple wanting a very chill vacation. We couldn't have asked for better company either. We are so glad we have such awesome family. From playing games and talking in funny accents (tranny) to trying to find Weezy all weekend it was the BEST! Thanks babe and Justin, Amy, Hillary, and Brian for sharing this great trip and making memories with me!

A short update...

These pictures are really out of order and my words are at the bottom but oh well!

Trav and I early Thursday morning about to head off to San Diego to go on our cruise.
Grady enjoying some sour cream, YUCK!

One of Ally's favorite things lately is to have me braid her hair at night, after her shower, and then have it "curly" for school.
Labor Day swimming !


We have been out of town a lot and I don't have much time but here is a little update. We got home from our cruise this last Monday and we had such a wonderful time. I miss it already. I am waiting for a disc with my pictures because they mysteriously disappeared off my camera so until then here are a few others.