Its been a while...

Its been a while since i've been on here.. Things have been pretty busy for us since we have been home from Texas. We finally got a place to live, and its a cute little one bedroom apartment for a great price with only a five month lease (which is exactly what we need since were leaving again in 5 months), and were back in Murrieta. Two weeks after we moved into our apartment, we went up to Utah for 5 days for my sisters birthday and a couple of parties.. We had tons of fun!

This year for Christmas our whole family was able to get together and it was so fun! On Christmas eve we all got together and played Rock Band. It was pretty fun. Everbody was really good at it, (except for me that is). But it didnt matter, it was still super fun :)

On Christmas day, it was just another fun filled day of games and my dad's infamous pizza that is so yummy and the best pizza in the entire world that is made just for us on Christmas Day each year :)

Finally Home!

Nathan and I finally got back home to Murrieta on Monday. The first thing we did was go to the beach so that Nathan could go surfing! This was his first time in 6 months and I think this was the happiest i've seen him in a long time. Surfing is one of his passions, and it is fun to watch him :)

Now we are just in the process of trying to buy a home out here in Murrieta and we are just living with Family and Friends that are out here. Were so excited to be able to get a home!

Nathan and his Squirrel friend

Sedona / The Grand Canyon

These are a few pictures of our little cottage that we got to stay in all week

Thanks to Nathans parents, this last week we had the chance to stay at the Sedona Pine Resort in Sedona Arizona. It has been so much fun to finally have ourselves to each other, and only each other :) At the resort we get to swim in one of the largest heated pools, the biggest jacuzzi that i have ever seen, and we love that we get to miniture golf everyday as much as we want, and its all FREE! :)

So on Thursday we went to this place called Slide Rock State Park and the water was freezing cold. Nathan went down the rock slide, and if i can figure out how to put a video on here i will post it. It was a pretty neat park and it had a lot of history to go with it.

Yesterday we had the chance to go to the Grand Canyon. It wa absolutely beautiful! We got to hike about a mile and a half down the canyon.. The hike down was super easy, but coming back up, now thats a different story. We figured that since we got such a good work out at the park, that we didnt need to go to the gym yesterday :) When we got to the bottom of where we hiked, nathan made friends with squirrel and was feeding it our trail mix. It was so cute :)

These pictures were taken right before our grueling hike...

The Grand Canyon really is GRAND!!

Northstar Cruise 2008

We had the chance to go on another cruise this year. Nathan earned the cruise this year with the security company that he works for. We had a lot of fun. Nathan finally got to see his brother steven after 2 years and 2 months. He loved having his brother there and it was so awesome to see how much fun they were having together. Nathan didn't even sleep the night before because he was so excited to see Steven. When we got to Cabo we got the chance to go ziplining over the Canyons. It was so fun. We had the best guides, they made it the most fun! I would love to do it again. We also had a night on the cruise where we got to dress up in our halloween costumes. I loved Nathans costume! He pulled off Superman so so well. And Stevens costume was just so funny! It was the only thing that we could find him to wear in Mexico.. (Ha Ha)

I was Minnie Mouse and Nathan was Superman for Halloween this year

Steven was suppose to be some kind of mexican wrestler

Nathan (Superman) Steven (Mexican Wrestler) Paul (Michael Phelps) Josh (Batman)

The Cruise ship to Cabo San Lucas October 2008

Getting ready to go Ziplining through the Canyons of Cabo San Lucas

Me, Steven and Nathan on the Cabo Tender getting ready to go Ziplining

Formal Night on the Cruise

The three of us in the back of the ship saying goodbye to San Diego

Nathan and I on the airplane to San Diego

Nathan and Steven finally got to see each other after 2 years and 2 months

Family and Good Friends

So Nathan and i have been in Utah for a week now visiting my family and some close friends. Its been so nice to have a husband again :) He has worked so hard this summer and I am so grateful for him and what he has done. He has been really successful this year and couldnt be more proud!

While we have been here we have just worked out everyday and gone shopping and seen movies and gone bowling with my family and he has even got to hang out with two of his best friends Garrett May and Nate Crump. They are way fun to hang out with! We had a big birthday party for Nathan with all of our family, he got to share it with my cousin Trent. We have also had the chance to visit my cousin Holli and Jake and we finally got to see her adorable baby Carder.. So cute!! And also we have some pics of our new neice. She was born on Nathans birthday, and she is soooo cute!

This week we are leaving for a cruise with Nathans work and are so excited! We had so much fun on our last cruise and hopefully this one will be just as fun or better.. Enjoy some of our recent pics! : )