Its only been about 6 months since I've posted, so Im sorry for the picture overload and stories.
Blake a I celebrated our 1 year anniversary in August and went to Vegas for the night. It was fun and nice to go somewhere. I can't believe its been over a year and we still like each other! I'm excited for all the more years and forever.
We also got the chance to travel from coast to coast in September. One weekend was with Blake's family in San Diego. It was my first time there and it was a blast! I loved it. His family is awesome which made it better. We did a session at the San Diego temple and that was a beautiful experience that I loved! We also went to the beach and the water was absolutely perfect. His Aunt and Uncle took us on a tour of the city and since they had been on some professional tours they knew a lot of history. It was fascinating.
The next weekend we went to Miami and stayed at a beautiful resort in South Beach. It was another awesome trip Blake won for work! (Love you baby for working so hard and being amazing!) The hotel was incredible. It had a beautiful pool area with like 5 pools or something and then when you left the pool you could just walk over to the beach! The weather however was soooo humid and I hated that part. Curly hair and humidity don't play nice together. Anyone seen that Friends episode with Monica and she ended up getting braids and beads in her hair to fix the friz? Yeah that was me but no beads and braids. It was still fun though and we ventured out to downtown and ate at this cuban resaurant and had some delicious authentic cuban food! Honestly probably the highlight of the trip. That and the freshly squeezed florida orange juice. Oh my goodness! I love food:)
October was the Marathon and my boss drives the pace van every year so I asked if I could come and since Blake was running in it we got to drop him off at the start and I got to kiss him and wish him luck:) The starting line was crowded with so many people and a radio station and flags from all over the world! It was exhilerating! And watching the first runner finish was crazy, then we drove back to find the first female runner and she wasn't too far behind. Go runners!!
Later that month my friend Kristin and I decided to take advantage of her flight benefits since she works at skywest airlines and fly to San Francisco. We spend weeks planning and had details of where we were going and Alcatraz tickets booked but when the day came to fly out the flights were booked and since we were stand by we were on a waiting list. It didn't look good. Everyone else I guess wanted to go there too. So since we figured we would be stuck in the airport we decided to go with plan b and fly to Orange County and stay with her parents. It ended up being the vacation we both needed. We shopped, ate her parents amazing cooking, slept in and just relaxed! THATS a vacation. It was fun. Thanks Kristin!
Just before I left for California my sister Ereka had her first baby! Isaac Todd Rignell! So adorable! And we needed some more nephews with all of the girls in the family. They are such a cute family.
And of course you can't forget Halloween! I love the funky scary food creations, costumes, trick or treaters and decorations. Blake was Bob Barker and I was a crazy Bob fan. We went to our friends Brady and Lyndsay's house and played some way fun and embarrassing games! It was a fun night.
November came and of course we couldn't stay in one place yet again so we left to see my family in Idaho! We celebrated an early Thanksgiving dinner and took family pictures with my grandparents. It was so fun. We also went to see Blake's old roommate speak at his "fairwell." Cool story... Years ago when they lived together he kept saying he would go on a mission and never did. Blake said "when you do go on a mission, wherever I am I will go to your farewell." Sure enough he decided to go and I tell you I have never heard a more powerful talk. It was so cool to see that change in him. Good luck Steve!
Thanksgiving was fun, Blake and I decided to stay put and take advantage of the day off. His family decided to come to us! WE didn't have to go anywhere and we still got to be with family. We were thrilled. We even got a free turkey! Blake, Ereka and I decided to go to the turkey trot and run the 5k. Ereka and I decided to walk since its been awhile that we've ran and she just had a kid ya know. we ended up only walking a mile cuz we were late but still got in for the drawings and sure enough won a turkey!! It was the best turkey ever too! Oven bags btw are my new cooking friends!
The furthest we have traveled is Mesquite for Blake's work Christmas party and then for Christmas we will go to Delta to spend with his family! I think we can handle that:)
Merry Christmas everyone and today was a great morning to get me more in the spirit of Christmas! Beautiful snow!
