Ouch!

Many of you already know this, but Devin hurt his knee back in Sept., and when I say hurt I mean he really messed it up. He completely shredded his ACL and tore his meniscus. He was playing flag football, which he says he will never do again. I feel so bad for him, I just keep thinking you are not even that old, you should still have plenty of time to goof off and be active. And it's not like he was in that bad of shape either. He was working out around 4 times a week. I hope he still able to enjoy himself and not worry that he is going to hurt any other part of his body. Devin is not unfamiliar to injuries he's had two or three other injuries that I can think of. It has really made me be a little more cautious, because I like to push myself pretty hard at the gym.

Devin is doing so much better and he doesn't have to use his crutches anymore, which really makes me happy. However, he still has a few months of rehab ahead of him.

Here is a pic of him at the hospital, I tend to not take to many pics of things I don't want to remember but I did snap a couple.

Injury Flashback...Here is a pic of Devin in High School after a football injury. I love the poem that he wrote, and Devin you are so fine!



In case any of you were wondering what a $25,000 surgery looks like:) Ladies just show this to your husbands when they tell you they want to play flag football!

We have such wonderful friends and family. We are so blessed. Thank you to all those for your prayers, food, and thoughts.

Esenada Mexico

Oh, what to say about Esenada Mexico?? I don't think I will ever go there again. No really it was fun but very different. There where parts that were very sad to see. We started out the day by renting scooters, this was a first for me and Devin. We decided to go out and see the "blow hole", the guy who rented the scooters told us it was like 20 minutes away...liar! We spent an hour and a half on those things and kept thinking we had missed the turn off. I was freezing the whole way there because I only had a cover up on. Anywhoo.. we finally made it and then made the scariest walk of my life down the "Mexican rodeo drive", seriously every little shop that we past they would ask come look at my shop, you want prada purse? You come look at my shop on the way back, I remember you! You had to walk down this path do get to the blow hole. So at the end of the path were the restrooms, which you had to pay 25 cents to use. I decided I would take my chances and wait to find a better bathroom, but apparently some lady was washing her dishes in the bathroom sink, yum.

The Blow Hole. Water goes in and blows back out. Beautiful.

Blow hole face, Devin doesn't like how every picture is posed. So I made a funny face.

About to go back down the Mexican Rodeo Drive.

So after we made the journey back I really wanted to eat some real Mexican food, plus they had nicer bathrooms. The food was pretty good, but a little bland tasting. So we scooted around for a little while longer before heading back to the ship. Another interesting thing about Mexico, they have about a thousand pharmacies. I think Devin and Greg were asked about a hundred times if they wanted to buy some Viagra.

Getting ready to ride!

Greg and Tonya on their scooter.


This pic was taken on formal night. It was really fun. I actually got Devin to dance with me, and loved every second of it. I think this was the night we went to the club. Tonya and I where dancing and totally got hit on! This guy, with beer in hand, came up to us and started dancing by us, and I think our husbands thought it was funny. The guy finally got a hint that we were married and left. Awkward!

Devin goofing around, again.

Greg and Tonya on formal night.

So here is another towel animal. We had the chance to got to a few comedy shows on the cruise, and the host was making fun off people taken pictures with their towel animals. So I of course had to take one.

Bye-bye Esenada.

Catalina Island

Catalina Island is a small island not to far off the coast of California, and it is beautiful. We rented a golf cart for a few hours and drove ourselves around the island. It was a blast. Tourists completely support the lively hood of everyone that lives on the island. We drove up the hill and saw all of the beautiful houses. I felt sorry for the people who lived there, because the had absolutely no privacy.





The "Casino".
Our ship.

Bye-bye Catalina Island

Taking off

Ok, so like 3 months ago we went on a cruise and I am just now getting time to post pictures. Oh how I wish I had more time to blog *sigh*. Anywhoo..we had a blast with our friends the Bennetts, and I would encourage anyone who is thinking on going on a cruise to go with someone. So we left our house at around 3 in the morning. Way to early for me but our flight left early, and we landed in LA which was where the boat took off from. Here are some pics from the first day.

Celebrating our 7 year anniversary!!!!
Off to the airport, chugging down an energy drink.

So when we got to the boat, there was nothing around there! We ended up walking around for awhile. Here is the Queen Mary, which is now a hotel.
Greg and Tonya, our awesome friends. They have been married 10 years!!
You really had to hold onto your hat, or it would blow off:) The ship really never went that fast, but it was still easy to get sea sick.
Work it Zoolander!!
Every time you came back to your room there would be a cute towel animal, so there will be more of these pics. I wish I could take one of those cabin boys home with me, because it was so nice to come back to the room and have it all nice and clean and the bed made up!

Cousin fun!

I am so happy that each of my kids have a cousin that is the same age. Cael has Ethan, and they are 3 months apart. Bree has Kiaya and they are 6 months apart. I always thought it would be to have a cousin my age, but I am the oldest grandchild on both sides, and my closest cousin in age is 3 years younger I think. Anywho, when in Utah my sister Shanna and I decided to get the girls pictures taken together. And of course Bree was naughty and would not smile, but they still turned out cute anyway. I think my sister and I need to swap babies, because I think Kiaya looks more like me, and Bree more like my sister. (I guess both babies look like their daddies) They do however have one trait in common, and it is their blues eyes. I just can't get over it, they both have the prettiest blue eyes.





Here is a pic of Cael and Ethan from this summer swimming:


Getting ready to jump in! Cael with his other cousins Alex, and Olivia.

Cael's five years pics

I had Cael's five year pictures taken awhile but just got them last week. This first one is my favorite. Even though he is getting older he can still remind me of my sweet little babe. He has the most beautiful eyelashes, they are long and thick, and quite frankly I am a little jealous that my boy has prettier eyelashes than me! This year was suck a challenge getting his pictures done because he kept making a cheese face, but there were still a few that turned out pretty cute. I have so many pictures of him and yet none of them are framed or displayed, I really need to figure out what do to with them.

I love this last one too even though it is blurry, Cael really has a cute personality and this picture shows it.

I can't decide

Ok I am the world's slowest decorator. We have almost been in our house for a year, and I don't have one room completely done. I think it may be due to the fact that I am very indecisive. So in our bedroom I need some side tables and when I ordered our dresser I didn't get the matched side tables because I wanted something a little different. I absolutely love this trunk with drawers:


It's only one thousand dollars! I also like these nesting tables in a silver finish:

They are only $440 for the pair, but still that is a little to expensive. So here are some alternatives that I found from Overstock that are more reasonably priced:





So help me decide friends which one should I get or should I keep looking?