Let's go back in time

A lot has happened since October 5th. I finished another class. Holding up my 3.97 GPA. I know I had a lot of Dr's appointments in the middle of October. That all led up to the big trip the last week of October. We went to Cancun with all of my aunt's and uncles, parents, and grandparents.

We left on Saturday the 22nd very early. Nick took us to the airport. We met everyone in Dallas and then continued on to Cancun. From there it's about a 90 minute drive to the resort, Barcelo. It's an all-inclusive resort. We'd never been somewhere like that before and it was nice and relaxing. Sunday we ended up going to Tulum which is some of the Mayan ruins. It was really amazing and a beautiful day.

Monday was a beach day. I promptly got sunburned and my Mom finally got to parasail. Everyone sort of did what they wanted; reading, swimming, snorkeling, etc. Most of the evenings we tried to go to the gym and sit in the saunas or spas. The hot tub was always scalding hot.

Tuesday we went deep sea fishing with my dad and Russell and Misty. We had the boat to ourselves and had it all day. It was a lot of fun and I'm really glad we did it. There wasn't a lot of time between catches and we each got a pretty big catch that wore us out. After we took a "small" (it was gigantic) filet to a local restaurant and had them cook it up for us and it was delicious.

All this time we had been hearing that there might be a hurricane coming. Well Wednesday while some of the people when to some more ruins we hung out and watched the preparation for the hurricane. It was hard to get information on what was really going on. Thursday was the day that they actually shut us down. We were all supposed to be in our room at a certain time and only one restaurant was open. So we spent the afternoon with all our balcony furniture in the middle of the hall playing cards with everyone.

Friday we made a beach day again and it was beautiful. I don't remember doing a whole lot but going snorkeling with Annette, Mark, and Dwight. Saturday we were leaving so we did go down to the beach and hung out for a bit and then headed to the airport. Our plane was delayed in Cancun and we were told we wouldn't make our connection, but running we did. Overall, it was a really fun trip and we had a great time.

Pictures to come!!

Bucket List

I don't know if I mentioned this before but we (the crew, Stephanie, Bart, John, and I) made bucket lists a few months ago. Well, really, we went searching for Trapper Keepers. If anyone knows where we can get the good Trapper Keepers let me know. So we found Trapper Keeper folders and made our Bucket List folder.

 (and I wonder sometimes why I feel like a kid with a credit card and no supervision.....)

Anyways, so of course, skydiving was on the list. CHECK!
Next on the list that should be crossed off .... we are training for a 1/2 marathon in January. Yep, 13.1 miles. I think I started the whole challenge and it's gotten a little away from me. So we'll keep our fingers crossed that we actually do it.

SKYDIVING

 We finally got our skydiving scheduled about two weeks ago. We have been wanting to do this since we did the indoor skydiving in May. I have to say that it was the best experience ever. I kept waiting for the nerves to set in and have the freak out moment but it never came.

 This was on the tram taking us to the airplane. It's about a 15 minute plane ride to 13000 feet. We each had our tandem person (Joe for me, Jared for John, Pat for Stephanie, and Aaron for Bart). Then we had a photographer also. My photographer was Keith, I don't remember anybody else's. I know Joe was awesome about telling me what was going on and what we were going to do. Once we got to 13000 feet people start bailing out! It's about a 1 minute freefall from 13000 feet to 5000. Then you parachute the rest the way and that takes about 4 minutes.

 I was surprised because when the parachute comes out there wasn't a much of a pull as I expected. Joe let me "drive". We went full speed, stopped, turned left and right.

 The landing was perfect. Basically I stood on Joe's feet and kicked up my legs when he said and then stood up when he told me to. We didn't even end up with any grass stains on our butts.

 It is definitely addicting and it's hard to describe the feeling. I would say that having done the indoor wind tunnel was a good starter to skydiving. I never had the feeling of falling and I want to do it again as soon as possible!! For surviving our fall we had a celebratory dinner at LoLo's! Chicken and waffles with some red Kool-Aid. Best day ever!

Amazing

Quick post. I had the chance to finally volunteer at Phoenix Children's Hospital on Thursday. They do a 2 day radiothon and I have listened to it since we moved here and have loved it. Then I have been wanting to go volunteer at PCH for a while. Well, it was an amazing experience. I loved every minute of it. Maybe I'm demented or something seeing as that I can't have kids, but I feel very strongly about volunteering there. I can't wait to get back and complete the class so I can go back more often!

Hmmm

So I have been thinking about this blog. I don't have a whole lot to say. That's not true, I don't have a whole lot of time to type it all out. And I'm not documenting anything for my kids or anything so should I keep it?

Recap

Ok it's finally time to try and recap.

May:
My mom was here over mother's day weekend. We went to Water for Elephants, still a great movie. Love Rob. We painted some pottery at As You Wish. We must have finally pottery painted out as we haven't been back since. I do have some platters I picked up to paint. Then the best part of the weekend we went indoor skydiving. I was a little nervous but it was amazing!! We had done a 4 minute package. So you go in for two minutes and then rotate through and do another two minutes. The first time is really to get the feel of it and learn how as you adjust your body you can control your height. Then the second time they let you go a bit more and at the end they take you clear up to the top of the tunnel and you spin around and around. Basically when you're experiencing it you are just thinking:

"THIS IS TOTALLY AWESOME!! MY MOUTH IS HANGING OPEN. DID I JUST DROOL ALL OVER? THIS IS SO AWESOME! MY NOSE IS ALL DRY. WE'RE GOING FAST. THIS IS SO TOTALLY AWESOME"

We came out and immediately asked if we could go skydiving from a plane but it was too windy. So plans are in the works that we will go before my birthday.

How pathetic is it that when trying to remember what we did I am looking at my bank account! So apparently the weekend after Mother's Day we went to Oreganos....probably with Bart and Stephanie.

Nick got here on the 19th..ish. I took Friday off and he and I basically unloaded his entire house. I remember being sore and tired and a bit sunburned after this.

The next weekend was Memorial Day weekend. I don't really remember what we did Friday or Saturday. I know I started a class on the 17th so I probably worked on some homework, etc. Sunday we did a caravan with Stephanie and Bart up to Jerome. It's this little town at the top of this big mountain and it was pretty cool! We wandered around all the shops and grabbed some lunch, etc. If memory serves that night we came back and went to Oregano's and tried to burn the place down.

That pretty much wraps up May. In between all this was just the normal school and work.

June:
I think it may have been the first weekend in June that we went on a pretty awesome bike ride one morning. We rode by Kim Whalen's house and then to Dunkin Donuts and then around Power Ranch. I believe that was the weekend I broke down and had someone finally cut my hair. Turned out ok. Then we tried Blue 32 that weekend. The burgers were good.

Shar and the kids got here on 9th or something like that. On the 10th I went to Wicked with Heidi. We had dinner at Casey Moore's and I had an awesome salad and then the play. Except I typed it was Wicked and it was really Les Mis. LOL. It was good and I was surprised it wasn't on the turntable and then I read an article specifically about how it wasn't on the turntable.

Then the weekend of Father's Day. We didn't do anything. I got sick Saturday night/ Sunday morning. Like throw up sick. I haven't thrown up so much as I have this year. So I ended up calling in sick Monday to relax a bit.

Life has been crazy finishing up this class in school and then I have been double covering at work which has been a bit of a nightmare but is hopefully getting under control. 

I don't know what we're doing for the 4th; possibly some bowling and I'm sure some general hanging out. We did have some fun the weekend of Father's Day when I finished my assignment and then 2 hours later my motherboard crashed. So I am now the proud owner of a Mac. Four hard drives in less than 4 years I couldn't handle it. So far I am getting used to it and liking it. But who knows where all my pictures are. I will try to find them and get some uploaded. Two weeks to get that done until my next class starts!

Awhile

I know it's been a while since I have posted anything and a lot has gone on. Sometimes it's so hard to sit down and type something up. I also have a bunch of pictures to add, but that is so time consuming. So with that said, I will get this updated but today is probably not the day.