Update!

I know it has been a while since I lasted posted, hence the four posts in a row. We have been pretty busy lately. What have we been doing lately that keeps us so busy you may ask? Well, let's see where to start...

We play trivia with a bunch of Robert's Stetson classmates every Tuesday night down at the Horse and Jockey. We love trivia night! On Wednesdays, we are down at the softball field for Robert's intramural games. They don't let spouses play, so you can find me in the bleachers cheering the team on. Don't worry I am not the only one in the stands. Lots of people come to hang out at the game, so I have gotten to know lots of Stetson students. I mean don't get me wrong, I would definitely rather be playing, but my life on the bleachers hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. Fridays and Saturdays are filled with Rob's flag football and other fun things we schedule to fill up our weekend like going to the beach, laying out by the pool, shopping, tennis, golf, visiting family, etc. Then comes Sunday, the day of rest. For some...haha! Robert is branch clerk, so he gets up at 6 am to go to meetings and doesn't come home until well after church is over. I am serving as Relief Society 2nd counselor, so I am also staying pretty busy with that. Tired yet? I think someone is...

I caught him snoozing on the job.

Octoberfest of Birthdays

3 out of the 4 of Rob's immediate family members share the month of October as their birthday month, so we decided we would have a celebration to celebrate all three!

Robert's - October 2
Teri's - October 7

Austin's - October 25

Rob's grandparent's were there for the festivities as well.

Present time! I think everyone got gifts that they liked. :)

Our New Place - Picture Included

Come on in,

So, the place is still not a 100% finished, but I figured I cannot hold out forever on posting pictures. So, here you go! Just remember before this we lived in an itsy-bitsy tiny apartment, plus sold all of our furniture before moving, and oh ya now we have doubled our living space from before. Not that I am complaining. We love it here, but it is hard to decorate a place twice as big.

Our place is great, we now can have enough seats for guests to sit down. Remember those days visitors of old place? Well come stop by now, we got enough couch space for all!

Our combined dining/living room.

Our new entertainment center and TV that we love!

My kitchen that is twice the size of my last one! I love it!

Our guest bathroom before - (wall color: yellow).

And now...this is our one and only finished room! I know, not very impressive for how long we have been here, but after a while you just do not want to do any house projects.

Our new bedroom set that we bought with our wedding money. Thank you everyone who contributed. We love it!

Welcome to the danger zone! That's right, this is our spare bedroom/my office. In case you did not know, I work from home. I spend half of my days in here. It is also our place where everything that has not found a "home" is stored.

Well folks, that's all for now. I just realized I forgot a to take a picture of our bathroom. Well, I think you can do without that one, right? That's what I thought. It is so nice to have two bathrooms now, ours is located right in our bedroom.

Just for a grand finale, here is a Florida rainstorm, or I mean a wall of water dumping out of the sky. Visitors are welcome!

Brett and Sarah's Wedding

Brett and Sarah Boot married in the Orlando Temple on

October 10, 2009.

It was a beautiful wedding and my very first temple marriage to attend (besides my own, obviously). I was happy that it happened to be one of my closest friend's wedding. Seriously though, Brett and I go way back! From playing basketball after mutual, weekends at the lake, random crazy adventures with the boys, Italian music, my senior prom date, Zaxby's, etc. Oh, and we both married converts! We had such a great time, thanks for inviting us Brett and Sarah to share in your special day.

It was just so nice to see and catch up with some of my old school Georgia friends like Marcia. Literally, we have been friends since her 6 year old birthday party. Good times...

Congratulations you two! Best wishes for a bright and happy future together!

Happy Birthday Robert!

Robert's brithday was on October 2nd, and we had a fun time celebrating it. His birthday this year hit on a Friday, so I decided to surprise him with a fun filled day at Busch Gardens! I love surprises! I woke him up with a big box wrapped with shiny blue wrapping paper and watched eagerly as he tore it open to find two little tickets to Busch Gardens. He was so excited! I had to persuade him to still go to his early morning class, but promised I would pick him up right afterward. As soon as class got out, we hit the road for Tampa. In less than 45 minutes, we were outside the park ready to start our fun adventure.

It was the perfect day! Now that tourist season is over, and it being a weekday, we practically had the park to ourselves! We were totally spoiled. We were able to ride in the front of every ride. The longest line we waited in probably lasted 15 minutes tops. We got to the park at 11:30 and we were ready to leave by 5 because we had done everything there was to do!

This was my favorite rollercoaster of the day. It is called the Shriekra because the first drop is completely vertical. We definitely rode in the front on this one, and I was not prepared to be stopped right there where those people are in the picture for like 30 seconds. You had no idea when it was going to finally drop you! I loved it! It was so exhilerating to be on a rollar coaster and free fall at the same time.

Busch Gardens is not just about rollercoasters, but it has a zoo in the park as well. We were able to get up close to lots of animals. Which is perfect because if you know anything about Robert, it is that he loves animals. Hence why Busch Gardens made for the perfect gift!

Florida lawn ornaments...

A tree top jungle gym.

I had to get a picture of the hippo. I think they are fascinating.

Umm...this horse is huge! I look like a midget. This was one of Robert's favorite exhibits, he loved petting Bud the Clydesdale.

Haha, I love this picture, isn't he cute? I love meerkats. They are so funny to watch.

Best birthday cake ever! It was perfect size, we weren't stuck with a bunch of left overs and these cookies are to die for. They are Robert's and mine favorite! We are glad we live so close now to a Great American Cookie shop.


Happy Birthday Rob! I love you!

An Unwanted Visitor

On Friday evening after JoAnna left for Utah, I looked out the window and saw this unbelievable sight. It was a tornado in the Gulf of Mexico. I would guess that it was a few miles offshore, but I am not positive. It hung around for about 10 minutes strictly in the Gulf, and then it headed further offshore. It was nice to see such a powerful force of nature from a safe distance.

It was bit scary at first. However, I quickly realized that the storm was headed further off the coast.

As you can see, it was more than just a water spout!

The size of it surprised me the most.

Labor Day Weekend At Lake Chatuge

We decided to drive up to North Georgia for Labor Day and spend the weekend with Robert's parents and the Jones family at the Jones' lake house in Hiawassee, GA at Lake Chatuge. It was well worth the drive. It was so nice to spend time relaxing and having fun with family and friends.

We spent a lot of time out on the boat having fun! My favorite part of the weekend was jet skiing, so I was sad when the jet ski broke down and we had to take it into the shop. Oh well, that's how jet ski's go right? At least we were still able to have fun tubing and boating. Tubing was probably Robert's favorite part of the weekend. He went on a lot of runs. I think he paid for it later because he was super sore the next day.

The following day, the boys plus Hayley and I went out fishing. I did not fish, I just managed the boat, so we did not drift too close to shore. Everyone else seemed to have a really fun time fishing though because they fished for hours.

Here are the guys getting ready and geared up to start the fishing day.

Let's just say as a whole they caught a lot of fish. Some had better luck that others...

Spencer caught the biggest one of the day, the smallest one, and had the fastest catch ever. It was crazy because he literally casted out and then caught it in like 3 seconds.

Chris and Charlie caught their share of fish. It was a tight race between Spencer and Chris for most fish caught. I think Chris beat him out though on that one.

Hayley showed off her fishing skills as well. It was a race between her and Robert to see who could catch one first. Hayley won. Poor Rob, we were thinking he was never going to catch one.

Well he finally did and he loved every minute of it!

He ended up catching a couple more that day.

The boys took some time out from fishing and took a few turns on the rope swing. Spencer is in the picture above and Robert is in the video below.



The parentals
Charlie, Beth, Teri, and Chris

The boys and their girls.
Hayley, Spencer, JoAnna, and Robert

I hated to see the weekend end. It was hard to leave the lake, but I am glad to be back in the South and spending weekends at the lake. I felt right at home.