Is it time to go yet?

Well if anyone has been keeping track of the date, like me, you would notice that it is almost October 23rd! Now you probably might be thinking..."what's so special about October 23rd?" Thats the day I leave for some much needed VACATION silly! And this is no boring vacation! Its the BAHAMAS baby! (Can you tell I'm REALLY excited??)I have 20 days left. This is the time where it gets really hard. I just want it to be here already! Oh family trips I would always be the first one to ask, "are we there yet?" so now I'm asking, "is it time to go yet??" Last night I was trying to book my shore excursions. But there are so many things I want to do and its hard to just pick a few. I definitely want to go snorkeling but what else? Here are some of my options....

1. kayak in a clear kayak and snorkel in the reef
2. Swim with dolphins or stingrays or sea lions
3. tours to zoo, pirate museum, Atlantis resort, etc
4. sailing
5. ride a segway transporter through the forests
6. submarine experience
7. parasail

The hard part is that times are set for each thing so some of them overlap so I can't do everything I want to. I have to pick the best ones. Which should I do? And then there is shopping! I guess my family knows what they are all getting for Christmas! LOL thats what happened when I went to Mexico one year! Sorry fam! LOL

So a week and a half until track break and then a week later its cruise time!! I hope you all are as excited as I am! :)

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So I stole this from Jessica's Page cause I too am just way too bored and this looked fun!

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Whirl Wind Weekend with Family

I know it's been a while since I actually wrote a good blog but things have been just way too boring to write about. Pretty much I started school (so you can imagine all the fun that goes along with that), got a new calling at church (head of every activity imaginable in a singles ward), and have been counting down until I leave for the Bahamas (just about a month left!). So last weekend was really the first fun thing in a long time! It all started when I went to Salt Lake airport to pick up Terra and meet my adorable nephew Dakota for the first time! (Can I just say real quick how much I love the SLC airport! Terra's bags we out fast and I love the little parking lot where you can wait for flights to arrive!) Anyway, I was so thrilled to finally see and play with Dakota! He is such a ham! But only in those cute checks! I couldn't believe how fast he is growing up! And he was such a good baby in the car! And he was so content to be held and just sit and watch everything going on around him. Immediately after getting them we set out for St. George where we would be meeting practically everyone in our family. Mom and Terry came in that night and we ate a yummy steak dinner! Then later that night Kristi and Brittany arrived at about midnight (I think...I was soooo tired!) And YEAH because they brought with them my other cute little nephew Jonathan! I was in heaven. Surrounded by family and my two new nephews. I wish the girls and Hayden could have come, I miss them everyday. (I love talking to them on the webcam though! and watching Kristi's cute videos of Hayden!) I'm glad that Brittany had to leave later that day so that Kristi could come with her. I love how the Lord works sometimes! Well after a long night of chatting with the fam, watching Achmed,and screaming at bugs in our room, I woke up early to attend a session at the St. George temple with my mom and step dad. The temple was absolutely gorgeous! It is so much fun to be able to go through other temples and see how beautiful they are inside! I wish everyone had that chance! And it was fun to be able to go with my mom. Afterwards we had breakfast with the fam. Now when I say "the fam" I'm not just talking about my mom and sisters, but my grandma, aunts and uncles were all there with their husbands and a few of my cousins! And of course we aren't the quietest family ever! But it was great to be with everyone. Then of course we did a little shopping and then the best part...we ate lunch at Cafe Rio! YUM! I love it there. My new fav- pork tacos! YUM! After hanging out at the hotel and even taking Dakota to the pool, we had dinner at some mexican resturant (the best thing was the drinks and my sisters!) I think we have too much fun when we all get together! We are crazy! Afterwards we headed to Tuachan to see Les Miserables! Which I absolutely LOVED! It was so good. And I got to hold Jonathan the whole time! I couldn't believe he slept practically through the whole thing! I wish I were like that! So needless to say, after a three hour play and watching some more Achmed I got very little sleep! Oh and my allergies were killing me! I think I sneezed 7 times in a row during the play! Well, we woke up early...again....and headed up to Orem to see Donny! The rest of his family got to meet the roomies and see his apartment. I think my mom feels better now seeing everything for herself and that she got to take him grocery shopping! It was fun to hang out with him and everyone. Oh and of course we went to CPK for Brittany's birthday! (She she got so much free ice cream this weekend!)Happy 21st Breezy! Overall it was a fantastic weekend. Of course I was beat afterwards and it's taken me like a whole week to catch up on the sleep i've missed but it was well worth it! I miss everyone. Wish they were around more or that I could go home more often. I'm trying to figure out how to make it home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas so we'll see what happens! But so far I miss these little tikes! I hope they don't grow up too fast!

Rough and Interesting Day

So this weekend has been a lot of fun. I was able to drive to St. George and meet up with pretty much all of my family! It was tons of fun and I will post more and put up some pictures later. But after this weekend and lots of driving I have been EXHAUSTED!! Yesterday I even fell asleep for like 3 hours. And if you know me, you know I never take naps! So this morning I was dreading having to get up and go to work. It took me forever to get up and get ready. I even fell back asleep for thirty minutes after my shower! Well, I finally made it to work and right before the bell rang...our principal told us that it smelled like gas down by the office and that we needed to evacuate the building and we couldn't let the kids come inside. The gas company and fire department were called but it took 90 minutes before we were allowed to enter the building! Now you are probably thinking "What did you do outside for 90 minutes?" Well, we looked through each other's library books, played down by the banks, duck duck goose, hopscotch, a game of "pig" (horse was too hard for the kids to spell) ;) , and basketball. By the time we were allowed to go inside I was BEAT! And my allergies were killing me! So needless to say it has been a rough and interesting day!

Getting Closer!

So its getting closer to my cruise to the Bahamas! I am getting so excited! The only thing left to do is book all the activities I want to do when we get to the islands. There are so many to choose from. There is of course snorkeling, swimming with dolphins, playing with sea lions and sting rays, tours of the island's pirate exhibits, forests, and zoo, sailing, kayaking, and tons more! So if anyone has some ideas on the best things let me know! I also need some ideas of books that I can take to read. I love sitting by the pool and reading but I hate going to the bookstore and trying to pick a book the "sounds" good and then I just get disappointed! So if anyone has some suggestions for a good book that they've read please tell me!!! I think its about time to start my cruise countdown!! YEAH!!

Twilight Movie

Yeah I am so excited that the release date for Twilight the movie has been pushed forward! If you haven't heard it is now coming out on November 21st. If you want to see the trailer or a pretty good video about the movie go to the official website at http://www.twilightthemovie.com/ Kristi and Brittany are you going to wait and see it til I come home for Thanksgiving??? :(

A Day at the Lake

So yesterday, our Aunt Kari invited Donny and I to go out on the lake with her and her family. At first we were iffy about going because we had heard that at this time of year the lake can get kind of slimy and gross but we decided to go anyway. We got to the lake early and waited for kari to get there. Then we loaded into the boat and hit the lake. I was surprised by how big Utah Lake actually was. There were lots of people on the lake but the whole time we were out there, we only came across 2-3 boats. It was so nice. It was our first time out wakeboarding so once we got out there our cousins Ty and Kyle went first. They made it all look so easy! Then of course Donny gets out there and gets up on his second try! He did an awesome job! Then it was my turn. I have to say that it took me a couple of tries but once I got up it was actually easier than I'd expected!(I also tried the knee board and I have to say wakeboarding is so much easier than that!) I did walk away with a bit of a sunburn, a few bruises, and boy am I sore today but needless to say Donny and I had a great time out on the lake!