Spring Break 2013

This year for spring break we wanted to go up an visit Becca, my beautiful sis-in-law!

She was living up in Washington doing an internship before she leaves on her mission to Brazil in August.

If you know anything about the Ray family, you know that the LOVE movies,

that includes the Twilight series. 

So naturally, being in Washington, we had to go to Forks and take the peninsula tour!

It was so much fun I can't even explain! 

I love Becca and getting to hang out with her again was so much fun!

 Becca picked us up from the airport and we stayed the night with her host family 

and started our adventure the next day.

We stopped at some beaches on the way to our hotel in Forks!

The beaches up there are so pretty!

I am falling in love with the ocean more and more when I see it!

Always goofing off :)

I love him!

Becca in front of Bella's house!

They take it very seriously up there.

Jacobs bike!

The classic jumping picture!

My vampire sparkling in the rare sunshine!

I love sparkly things!

The ONLY ones in this Mexican restaurant in Port Angeles.

Waiting in line for the ferry!

Coming in to Seattle on the ferry

Gum wall... AKA Jordan's worst nightmare

We rode on the new Ferris wheel thingy they had.

This trip was so much fun! I can't wait to hang out with Becca more before she leaves on her mission!

 Ok catch up time! So over Christmas break we had a blast with my family over in Meridian. We loved being able to spend time with them. My wonderful in laws surprised us with a cruise to Mexico the week after New Year's. I was so excited because I had never been anywhere outside the United States and I had never been East of Denver, but our cruise was leaving from New Orleans. We flew to Denver on the 3rd and stayed with Jordan's family for a couple days. We missed Cathy and Becca, but they were driving up to Washngton for Becca's internship. We then flew to New Orleans and got to spend a night there. It was so much fun, but not anything like Idaho. We walked down Burban street and lets just say that was an adventure itself. The next day we walked to our boarding place.

 Jordan when we got on the boat and were touring

 It was still really cold in New Orleans but we were so excited to be there!

 Bridge over the Mississippi. This river is HUGE! haha while flying to New Orleans Jordan said the Mississippi River was 22 miles wide! Not quite, but still HUGE!

 New Orleans from the ship! Our hotel was one of those buildings back there!

 Enjoying the Ocean view! The water was so blue, like a deep deep blue! I loved it!

 Our first stop was in Progresso, Mexico. We decided to risk it and find a tour when we got off the boat. Luckily we found one that took us both for the price of one of us if we had booked with the cruise! We rode a bus for 2 hours to Chichen Itza. It is the biggest Mayan ruins. It was amazing! I can't believe they built all that without machines. We ended up leaving some asian guy because he did not meet back with the group and was no where to be found. Hope he made it home safe in the end... Never found out what happened to him.

Jordan playing the game from El Dorado!

 Our Carnival cruise ship... The Elation.

 So our second stop was in Cozumel, Mexico. This place is famous for it's beautiful water. We decided we really wanted to try out snorkeling. Our tour guides were so much fun and they let us go to a lot more places than normal. Good thing Jordan spoke Spanish! It was fun to see him communicate with people. I could understand, but not really join in on the conversations. The fish were incredible. I was a little scared of them though.

 The fish kept coming really close to me cuz our tour guides would throw tortillas by me. It freaked me out a little when they would brush up against my skin. I guess I have a trust issue with all animals. They are all out to eat me!

 Jordan at home with the fish... Mention a shark and he could swim pretty fast!

He said he kept a look out for one the whole time!

 After snorkeling we were going to go to the beach, but didn't have quite the time to get down to one so we were wondering around town and found this little juice bar right on the ocean that had hammocks and couches and the most delicious juice.

 It was the perfect end to the day to swing in a hammock, drinking a juice, on the ocean, and spend it all with my best friend. We definitely want to go back someday.

We had so much fun on our cruise. It really was such a new experience and we loved it! Thank you to our wonderful in-laws for sending us on this beautiful cruise. We hope next time you are on it with us!

Where my smiles come from

As I sit here at the library studying for my two big tests next week, I realized it is November. I don't know what it is lately, but I have been feeling less grateful than I should. So to start off November, I am going to post one thing each day that I am thankful for (maybe more if I am feeling ambitious!). 

Today, I am grateful for my husband. I know that this is the obvious thing, but I really am. I have found the PERFECT guy for me. For instance... I hate watching sports. I couldn't think of a worse thing to do. Luckily, J hates watching sports almost as much as I do. J is always doing stuff for me like washing the dishes, making me breakfast, billing my water bottles. He is always willing to listen to whatever rant I am going on about and he is one of the silliest guys I know! He makes my days happy and I love him more than words can describe!

 ~M

Leg spreadin for Halloween?

As most of you know, I am in Anatomy for my physical therapy degree. In anatomy we are dissecting cadavers to better learn the anatomy. Our group is pretty funny and we love to work fast. We know our cadaver was funny too because she has an "F* You" tat on her buttocks. Well to start off the Halloweeny activities, we had to dissect the "cotch". Here we are, a group of 6 with 2 boys, and all the girls back up with their hands in the air. The boys waste no time and grab the tools and dig in. Let's just say... nothin will scare me after seeing two legs sticking up in the air!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 

Our night will most likely consist of watching Psych... because that's as scary as we go!

Catch up

Jordan and I have been enjoying Pocatello a lot. We have rediscovered our love of the outdoors. Now that it is finally cooling down we can actually get outside. Sometimes it can still be difficult with school and all, but who goes to school? 

We live in a 1 bedroom apt right on campus and we love it. It may be the orange counter tops or the stray cat that comes around, but mostly because we can leave for a 9O'clock class at 8:55 and still be on time. 

We have been going mountain biking and rock climbing a lot. I did discover at the beginning of the semester that I am not a kayaker. We rented kayaks from the school and took them up to a little lake just to practice rolling. I was first up. After much whining (mostly from me) I finally got up the courage to roll. I don't know what it is, but when I go under water it's like I turn into a thrasher. I couldn't get back up and then I was sure I was drowning. Jordan calmly always just flipped me back over and made me try again. I don't know why he thinks I would freak out in a life or death situation... I would be fine! 

Jordan turned out to be a pro!

We are still having lots of fun with this new place!

New Tent!

Thursday our brand new tent came in the mail! Jordan and I were so excited we wanted to sleep in it right then. Unfortunately we had school the next day and J was staying late studying for his anatomy quiz. Alas, the weekend came... We wanted to sleep outside, but Rexburg decided to bless us with a foot of snow... So, we set it up in our cabin! It fit perfectly! We slept in it all three nights of the weekend and were so sad to take it down on Sunday night. Fortunately, the weather in Rexburg is looking up, with tales of supposed 50 degrees next weekend! WOO! Our mountain bikes will get some use!