Jessica's Bridal Shower

This last weekend I helped with a bridal shower for my friends Jessica. She is getting married on July 2, 2009. We have been friends since we were 5 years old and went to elementary schoool, junior high, high school, and a year of college together. We really had some fun times together. Maybe we will have some children together, or close in age!


I made this for Jessica so she could put it in her house.. I thought it turned out really cute.... :)

This is a picture of me and Jessica with a friend from our ward when we were in Young Womens. We called her Grandma..!!

When we were in High School we had seminary in the mornings and this is a picture of us with our seminary teacher and a a two friends from High School..

These are a few friends that we went to high school with and some we went to college with. It was really fun to see some old friends.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Happy Anniversary.... 3 Years Today :)

Alan returned home from his mission in November of 2005 and shortly after we began dating. It was a little difficult because I was 3 hours away at college but we made it work. I would come home almost every weekend or Alan would come visit me. From the time Alan got home from his mission to the time that we were married I knew that I would spend the rest of my life with him, I just didn’t think it would happen as fast as it did. My twin brother was leaving on his mission and I told Alan that he had to marry me before Thomas left or he would have to wait until he came home because I wasn’t going to get married while he was gone. As the months past my family kept asking us when we were going to get engaged. My mom has always enjoyed Alan being part of our family and wanted to make it permanent. Therefore, in March Alan and I went with my Aunt and her family to Salt Lake City for general conference. On March 31, 2006 Alan and I were engaged! We were in the Joseph Smith building on the 10 floor looking out at the temple when Alan said “I do not think this dating thing is working!” I said “Huh” and he got on one knee and asked me to marry him. I said “YES!” After that day we began working hard on wedding invitations and getting everything ready for our special day. We set the date for June 17, 2006 which is 3 years today in the Arizona temple.

Engagment pictures

Our wedding day was perfect. That morning Alan came and picked up me and my mom from my parents house to drive to the temple. When wer got to the temple we entered the room where all of our friends and family were waiting and we got married for time and all eternity. It is the best thing that has happened to us.

After we went to have lunch, after lunch Alan and I checked into our hotel room and then went to the church building where we would have our reception. Our reception was beautiful! We had a really fun time at our reception, lots of food and dancing. Alan and I really wanted to make our reception a celebration where everyone could eat and have fun. My dad was able to make all of the food before and then we had friends put it out on the serving table for us. Everyone really enjoyed the food, and the reception!
After our reception we were able to leave and go on a cruise. We left from L.A California and we went to San Diego, Catalina, Ensenda and then back to L.A. it was a 4 day 3 night cruise. After the cruise we went straight to Alan's family reunion which was in Globe. After the family reunion we went and stayed with Alan's brother for a few days until we would get in our condo. We lived in our condo from July until November. We bought a house and are now currently living in it.

These are the pictures that we went and took at Sears the day of our first year anniversary.

Here is a picture of our second year anniversary.

And our third year Anniversary.

I am really grateful to be married to Alan. He works really hard to be able to provide for our family. Even though we do not have kids right now every day Alan is preparing our future for them.

This week has been a very enjoyable week for us because we spent the entire week in Cancun. We left on Sunday morning and got home on Friday night. On Sunday we left at 9:00 am and got to Cancun around 1pm but it was really 3 pm Cancun time. When we arrived in Cancun we got on a shuttle which took us to our hotel. We stayed at the Beach Palace, which is 1 of 3 palaces in Cancun. When you stay at a palace you are able to use the facilities at the other palaces. When we arrived at the hotel we went up to our room and it was AWESOME! We had a Jacuzzi right next to our bed, and a balcony that over looked the laguna and part of the ocean.

After we checked out our room we went down to eat dinner. We ate at a very nice Italian restaurant. After we ate we went and checked out the pool, the ocean, and the sky lounge. Then we headed to the room for the night.



On Monday morning we went to Chichen Itza which is an old Mayan ruin. It was interesting to learn about it, and to look at the old ruins. This was an all day tour. We left on a tour bus at 7:30 pm arrived at a shopping center at 8:45am and then arrived at Chichen Itza at 10:30 am and walked around and listened to our tour guide until 3pm. It was really hot and humid there. Alan and I were sweating so bad….We tired to stay in the shade as much as we could, but it didn’t help. We finally got on the bus at 3pm and headed to a restaurant to eat a later lunch. We arrived there around 4pm and ate and headed back to the hotel. It was so nice when we finally got home because we were able to rest. However, Alan got a migraine from the heat and I ordered room service for dinner. I ordered fruit, spaghetti, and a chocolate cake. The food actually wasn’t to bad!

On Tuesday morning we were able to go to Playa Maroma to go on a speed boat and on an ATV. We got to sleep in a little bit because we didn’t leave until 9am. When we got to Playa Maroma they took us out to the speed boats and Alan and I shared a speed boat. We were out on the ocean for 45 minutes with 4 other boats and a tour guide. After we finished the speed boats we went over to the ATV’s and road those for 45 minutes. Alan was able to drive it and I rode on the back. We went through a jungle on a dusty road. When we were done our faces were covered in dirt, but it was really a lot of fun. After the ATV’s we had a little lunch which consisted of beans, salsa and chips. The salsa was a guacamole salsa that was delicious. The tour bus came and picked us up at 1pm and we headed back to the hotel and we took a little nap and then headed to the shopping malls. We walked down to a mall and it is quite funny because everyone wants you to come in their shops and make a deal with them on something to buy. Its really hard to just walk out but you have to. We also went to a market place and those people are even worse they almost drag you into their store! Haha.. But you just have to keep walking. We finally got back to the hotel and had dinner, and then watched what they called it a “Mexican Show.” Women were dancing in dresses, and men were playing instruments and singing.

On Wednesday we were able to go on a tour that took us to Isla Mujeres. This is an island that is about 40 minuets off of Cancun. There we were able to go snorkeling. This was the second time I had gone snorkeling (the first time was in Catalina Island) and this was the first time Alan snorkeled. It was really a lot of fun. They took us out to a reef where there were gray and yellow stripped fish, and blue fish. It was neat to be able to get so close to the fish. The tour guide threw food out to the fish and they would come right up to you and touch you to find their food. After snorkeling we went and had a nice lunch and then lay out on the beach until it was time to go back to the boat. When we got on the boat we headed toward another part of the island which was where the shopping was located. When we got off they told us the best places to go shopping. We found a nice jewelry place which had real silver stuff. My mom gave us money to get her something so we found a really nice jewelry set for really cheap, so we got it for her. After shopping we got back on the boat to head toward Cancun. The tour guides on the boat said “This is a party boat; no one leaves without drinking Tequila.” I was thinking, “Yes, I will!” As they came by with the drinks you just said “no” and they just passed you by and went to the next person. When we returned back to Cancun we went and ate at the barbeque patio. Again the food was very good. That night the show was “the perfect couple.” I did not want to get picked to be on the show, thankfully, we didn’t get picked.

Thursday Morning we went to a place and was about to go on a zip line. I had never done it before, and I am scared of heights but it was actually very fun! We went from tower to tower zip lining. We were able to go to 12 towers and the zip line went over swamps and forest. After that we went and had lunch, and got to lay out at the pool. We only swam a few times while we were in Cancun. After we went swimming we went shopping and then to a night show, which was a fire show.

Friday morning we woke up and went and had breakfast at the Cancun Palace and took pictures out on the beach. Then we headed back to our hotel and packed up our things and headed back to the airport to come home.We really had a nice time in Cancun. You may hear that it isn’t a nice place for vacation, but it really is. The people there serve you like a princess or prince and do everything for you. Anytime you needed help or assistance they were there to help you. From June to first part in August is the hottest time to go so done go during those months. We didn’t know it would be as hot as it was. The hot didn’t bother us as much it was the humidity that really killed us. It was just to much. However, we really enjoyed being there and would go again if we got the chance to go again.