Christmas and our Cancun vacation

Christmas was SO GREAT because I got to spend a few days with my family. I was kind of sad to go to Cancun honestly, because I had to leave my family in Utah without me! We had fun, though. This is me, below, in my scuba diving lessons. We went to a beginner level of 30 feet and it was really neat. It's a whole world under the ocean and we lots of schools of fish. I felt like the Little Mermaid.


This is the view from our hotel room. The water and waves were very pretty!This is at dinner one night at a Mexican restaurant. I seriously think the Mexican food in America is better than the Mexican food in Mexico! Funny, huh?!This is Tyler doing his best to sell trips to swim with dolphins. Just kidding :) He wanted to sit down while we were shopping and he couldn't find another spot!This is what we did most of the time. Lay out on the beach and read. I did venture into the water though because I love playing the waves! Tyler rented a boogie board and I caught some waves which was really fun.This is my cute husband :) Ha haThis is our hotel room. We had 2 suites, and this was one bedroom in one of the suites. There were two bedrooms and one living room and kitchen area in each suite. We went to Wal-Mart on the first night and bought food for breakfasts and lunches so we could eat at the hotel during the day.

We had a good trip. We laid out on the beach pretty much every day and read and relaxed. Ty and I took a few walks down the beach on a couple days, played in the waves and one day we went scuba diving. Every night we went to dinner at a different restaurant, and luckily none of us got sick! It makes you worried to eat salad, but we ate it and it was fine. We bought our own water at Wal-Mart, and oftentimes got free drinks from random vendors and restaurants so we could get a free pina colada or lemonade. We ate at a taco shop the first night, then Hard Rock Cafe (yummy nachos, salmon and pina coladas!), Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, Outback Steakhouse, Bubba Gump's, La Parilla and Chili's. I missed my family terribly!!! But we had a great time :)

This is my dad and Katelyn building an igloo in Utah! They are so cute and fun I couldn't help but take a picture!

This is my beautiful mom and best buddy! I love her so much and I was SO happy I got to see her at Christmas!

One of our family traditions is to make gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve. I seriously look forward to it for months! I love it and it's so much fun to everyone together with loads and loads of candy creating masterpieces. We had a blast and I love this tradition!

This is Tyler's wonderful house.

And here is my gingerbread house. Call me Gretle and I'm ready to move in!

Tyler and I got called to teach the five-year-olds in primary and we taught our first class today. They were so cute! We have four girls and four boys. The girls are SO well-behaved, and the boys...well, they are fun but wild! There are triplets in our class that are adorable. Their names are Francesca, Cecily and Finnigan. Two girls and one boy. And OH MY gosh Francesca is a DOLL. I want to squeeze her cute chubby cheeks! We're going to have fun, and I'm excited for this calling.

I hope you all are doing well! I'm off to start my LAST SEMESTER of college on Tuesday!! WoW!

Winter winter wonderland

It snowed SO MUCH today! It was snowing when I woke up and literally didn't stop all day. We had over a foot! It was such a fun day because I got to spend it with my mom :) We went to lunch at Zupa's and then went to Costco and the University Mall. We went Christmas shopping and I got most of mine done. I was starting to panic a little cause I hadn't gotten any done, but I made a big dent and I'll be finished by tomorrow. I'm excited to give the presents to people! Tyler and I, with his family, went to the Vegas Bowl on Friday where BYU played the University of Arizona. They played horribly, but we still had fun despite the white trash, low class Arizona fans behind us saying the F word every other second and making fun of our religion. Whatever.

We went shopping during the day before the game on Saturday at Caesar's Palace and saw Hugh Hefner's girlfriends. Haha. We also saw David Hasselhoff up close because he sang the national anthem at the game. He truly has the WORST voice! Oh my gosh everyone was cracking up! After the game we went to Luv It Custard (a Parcell Vegas tradition) and got custard, then Ty and I headed back to Provo the next day. We drove Drew's newly purchased 12 passenger van that he bought to use this summer for summer sales. We got a few weird stares, but it was nice to lay down in the back and take a nap! We then had tithing settlement and then went to my work party. We ate dinner and I got a mall gift card for working there over two years. I just got Jocelyn a job there too, so it will be fun to work with her every once in a while!

After the party, we went to my grandma's house because my family was there! It was so good to see them and I love that we get to spend the whole week with them! It's the best. I LOVE Christmas time because it brings the whole family together. I'm excited for our annual gingerbread house decorating on Christmas Eve!

Happy Holidays!

I made these lovely little cheesecakes for our ward party and they were so easy and delicious! Our ward Christmas party was a lot of fun. We had dinner and desserts and then afterward listened to the BYU Men's Chorus. They were SO GOOD. Oh my gosh it was one of the best things I have ever listened to. Their choir director is in our ward so she had them come to our church and sing to us. It was so great!

Ty and I went to temple square with Courtney and Marc and two of thier friends on Saturday night. We went to dinner at Pei Wei (yummo!) and then saw the lights and watched the Joseph Smith movie. It was a fun night!

I have four finals down, and just my accounting one left to do. Then it's Christmas break! We're leaving for the Vegas bowl tomorrow, coming home on Sunday and hanging out with my family for Christmas, then driving back to Vegas the following Friday to leave from there to Cancun on the 27th. It will be a fun and busy break!

Mexican Riviera Cruise!

We just got back from our cruise yesterday and it was wonderful! We ate a lot of good food (Holy cow, no wonder I gained two pounds. Ha ha! Eating a huge breakfast and dessert after practically every meal isn't a normal thing). We went to Acapulco, Ixtapa and Manzanilla. I went parasailing for the first time, we went snorkeling and we rode horses on the beach. It was nice to lay out in warm weather. I will you tell you what though, Mexico is CRAZY. We sat down on a beach and got bombarded every second asking if we wanted to buy this or that or have a massage or carry their next child or something. Okay, not really the last thing on that list but they are very persistent there. I am SO glad I wasn't born in Mexico. Some parts were very pretty though and we had fun. I did karaoke one night to "My Humps." Oh, dear. There were some fun shows, like on the second to last night we went to one that had all of the songs from many broadway musicals. Overall, it was a pretty good trip!

Thanksgiving was fun too because my family was all together. We hung out, went shopping, and on Thanksgiving day we had dinner with Tyler's family then went to Four Christmases with both of our families. I wish all my family lived here!

Bobby's birthday was yesterday so went to say hi to them last night, we went shooting with them this morning and had dinner with them tonight! It was fun!

Back to school....at least for another couple weeks and then its another fun break again!

It's official

These past few weeks have been the busiest of my life in school! I've been getting ahead in school because Tyler and I are going on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. Yipee!

In other news, my family is here for Thanksgiving!

Happy birthday Ashley!

Happy 22nd Birthday Ashley!!!

We went to Tepanyaki for Ashley's birthday last night and it was delicious! Mmm

Ashley blowing out her mini cake! Don't worry, Tyler got the entire restaurant to sing her "happy birthday!" Yikes

This is while everyone was singing to her :)

Ty and I eating our delicious filet mignon and shrimp

Happy birthday Ash! I remember when you turned 14! I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful friend like you in my life. You are one of those lifelong friends that I truly know I can count on for anything. You would do anything for me, and I would do anything for you! Thanks for being such a good friend :) I'm excited for many more birthdays to come!

Halloween!

We woke up and our neices and nephew came over while Heather got her hair cut. I thought this picture was so cute because Paisley was so snuggly with Brynley. She just wanted to be held and she was so cute!

We went to a Halloween party with our friends Marc and Courtney. They were hilarious! She was a lumberjack and the other three of us were a forest. She looked so manly and gross!

Donut eating contest

The manly Courtney! Ha ha it was so funny!

A lumberjack and a forest!