fall 2011

So i am going to quickly go through fall of 2011 because it was all kind of a blur! These pics and visiting with family is what made those few months bearable :)

For my bday my parents gave me tickets to the Ole Miss game! i got to join them on their trip to louisville, KY and then we drove to the game! it was so much fun and seeing the campus and the tailgating there at the grove is insane!!! never seen anything like it!

After the win :)

waiting for jake with my beautiful mom!

ben was mostly interested in what was on jakes face!

My dad came for homecoming and it was great to have him there!

Jake and I got to go to Maria's b-day party and caught most of my old roomies & their significant others! congrats maria on the engagement!

I got to go to San Antonio and see my Uffen's girls for the TCU game which was so much fun!!

Rach and I!

We got to steal jake away after and celebrate paigeys b-day at the great wolf lodge! it was so much fun to have an extra day or two to play!! paige loved having jakey to herself haha

Me and my handsome husband!

Got to go see Breaking Dawn with Kelly and Brittany and got dumped on our way back to the car! haha the ride back home to provo was very scary!

We got to see the Bergs in november and we loved having them all here and esp having ben & britt stay for a few extra days!

Went to a game and ben perfected his "GO JAKEY" chants!

the boys taking a nap...

Visited Gma in Salt Lake before sending britt and benners back to KY!

Some might be out of order but these were our highlights of the fall!

Sweet summertime!

UNFORTUNATELY, on the cruise my camera screen stopped working making it virtually impossible to use. Because of that the amount of pictures since the cruise has dramatically dropped. These are ones I could gather from sisters and my phone :)

We got to go to Dane's graduation from childcare!

I assisted for my Dad at work up until the wedding while jake was in UT so I got to spend a lot of time with some of my favorite little people :)

Quinners!

Went to Dane's CIRCUS! He made an awesome lion!

Made it to some baseball games!

AND got to spend some quality time at HEAVEN on EARTH...

missing jakey...

Sleepovers at the cabin with family :)

Paige hanging out with me... mainly to drink my DC

Anna Banana & Kate!

Goofy Paige!

Cousin time!

After the honeymoon we had an extra week off football! We got to spend 4th of July at Fort Vancouver with the family and a few extra days at the cabin!

Jake and his girlfriend

After moving back to UT my mom, cait and kate came to visit and see our new place!

In August, I was lucky enough to be able to go see the Uffens in San Antonio! So fun to see my girls and their new town!

This summer was very eventful and I wish I had more pictures! I am so grateful for friends and family!

Caribbean Honeymoon!

Soo.. I am not sure if we would choose to take a red-eye on our wedding night again! It was rough, but we wanted a 7-day cruise and thats what we had to do!! This was on our way from the airport to the cruise ship, I am surprised we look so awake!

We loved exploring the ship and people watching :)

This was our dining room/table every night and we loved trying out all the new menu items every night! We had choices of 3 courses and Jake often got multiple!

We only made 3 of our 4 destinations and only got to go on 2 of our 4 excursions! Little did we know, June in the caribbean is HURRICANE season! It not only made the sailing not as smooth but also hard to anchor in some of the ports. Because of that we did not get to stop in Belize! It also made the weather not the perfect laying out weather, even though you can tell in the pictures we managed to get some sun!

Our first stop was the Cayman Islands! Probably our favorite!! We got to jet ski 5 miles out into the ocean to a sand bar full of sting rays! The jet ski's were a little interesting considering neither jake and i had driven one ever... and it was very rough!! haha good memories though! We got out there and everyone else was prepared with water proof cameras... so we didn't catch us feeding and kissing the sting rays but we braved getting my nice canon out on the jet ski while going to snorkel! After we had time to walk around the town and look at some shops and make a stop for lunch at Margaritaville! Here i got my fountain diet coke, those who know me will know finding out they only had cans on the cruise was HIGHLY disappointing.

Next stop: COZUMEL! Our excursion was supposed to be parasailing which we were both really excited for BUT it was too windy! So we walked down the main street in Cozumel and i NEEDED my fountain drink :) we figured we could pretty much count on Margaritaville having it.. i was VERY bummed when the waitress brought me this...

Next was Mahogany Bay, Isla Roatan was was so beautiful! We were supposed to go zip lining and then snorkeling, but because of the wind we were not able to get into the port on time! So we only had time for the zip lining but thats alright! We went a couple times with our guides and they pointed out all the fun iguanas in the trees, then they let us get a little crazy!

Let me just say- we did what they told us to... looking back on these I cant help but think they were playing some joke with each other haha

A couple of the guides just had these cute little monkeys hanging out on them and i couldn't resist asking if we could hold em! isn't he cute??

Every night we got our ice cream & lets just say I am a PRO

We made it to some comedy shows and even walked out of a few adult shows we were hoping would be clean :) We were the butt of some jokes being one of the only newlywed couples, guess thats what we get for raising our hands!

Picture in our room before headed to dinner...

Out on our balcony, its too bad you cant see all the white caps!!

We had so much fun and would definitely do it again- just maybe in December :)