Traditional Christmas Eve breakfast for Tanner's birthday. It was early...
Reading stories with our favorite lil' Andy. We love the snowman book!
What a good looking fam!
My Christmas loot. Brian always has a way of hiding surprises so well! I love my boots!
The winners of the annual family after Christmas basketball game. Notice who is missing.... BRIAN! Well and to his defense we won the Tingey-Allen vs. Geddes game!
Yummy Pizza! Oh how I have missed you
My favorite new gun. Like my socks?
Bass Pro Shop
This is way better than Cabelas!
Peoria at night. The only pic I have. It is way bigger than Lafayette.
The rag blanket I made for Brian with the new sewing machine my parents gave me.
I sewed that on! That's right! I sewed it!
My first attempt at pillows.
Monogram I hand on my picture wall.
My pre-Valentine's gift Brian gave me because he was going to be out of town. My skillet for 'cookie monsters' and a massage certificate!
Look how happy he is!
My morning nap. Nice place to take a nap huh?
Oh the coconuts... what a story, what a great time
The whole clan!
The third story. notice that glass door? It leads to the high dive to dive in to the pool below.
Our Room!
Our view!
Aren't we cute!?
Back in Provo :(
I started writing a trip journal while we were there but then we just got caught up in all the activities and I never finished it. This is what I did get out. And we are still waiting for most of our pictures from all the other couples and I will post those when we get those!
We are in day two of our Mexico trip
and Brian says that we need to document our whole trip and write things down
before we forget. So here we go. We flew from Indy on Saturday and got a rental
car. A 2012 ford focus1 Brian was so happy! We have decided to sell our
truck, aka brains’ baby, and get something more economical. Besides, we don’t
need a truck in Indiana. We went and ate at Big Jud's to get a good diner
meal! It is not as good as the store in archer, but it was still nice to have
fry sauce and homemade French fries. We headed to filer and went to Johnny’s.
Yumm. I have put on a few pounds! Sunday morning we got up and we went to
pres. Newman’s house in elk ridge Utah. They are the neatest family.
We had lunch and played games and just had a good visit. It really
made me miss the west. We are missing out on great experiences and miss
out on seeing truly great people. Their house is beautiful. Right
up in the mountains overlooking the valley.
The next morning, it was time for
Mexico!!! We woke up and had sis Newman’s famous buttermilk and cinnamon
syrup pancakes and headed to the Provo airport. Sis Galland said just
park at the last hangar on the drive. Hangar is an understatement.
It is a ginormous building!!! We walk out to find our gulfstream
jet. I think a picture of this airplane would be next to the word luxury
in the aviation dictionary. I don't know how to describe it besides
absolutely fabulous. And beautiful. I don't know if I will be able
to sit through a commercial flight again!!!
We made it to Mexico and customs in
2.5 hours. You fly way higher and faster than you do commercially.
We went and got tacos at their, the Gallands favorite place. Oh I
guess I should say where we are! The airport was cabo san Lucas but the house
we are staying at is in is del José. Something like that. The cruise
ships don't come where we are. We pull up to this beautiful house and walk
through a really pretty garden to their front door. The house looks
modest until you walk through the door... after that the little house turns in
to a mansion! This is the most absolutely beautiful house I have ever
seen. And everyone just tells me wait until I see their house. It is like
the house in Hawaii. Totally different style but just super beautiful.
Words don't do justice. I will have to post pictures. All the boys
had to pick a number and Brian picked lucky because we got the second master
bedroom. Holy cow!!!
After we took in the grandeur of the
house we went swimming. They have built their house in a way that you
literally can jump off their roof from the second and third stories in to
little pools. 20 feet deep pools that run in to the main pools and
fountains. I am too scared to do it. We went to the beech next. They
live up on a cliff so we have a good little trek down to the water. They
live on the ocean and our take a path straight down it seems like. Brian
had a great first experience of swimming in the ocean for the first time.
We had a blast! Afterwards, we came back and played in the swimming
pool and hot tub.
We all got ready and went to dinner
at this place right on the ocean. They had a guy singing and I wish Brian
and I would have gone out and danced. That is a dream of mine! I
had a hamburger ;) it was quite lovely. We came back we had a little devo
from another couple and then I was so tired I went to bed and Brian went
swimming with the boys again.
Today, Tuesday, we woke up and went
walking at the golf course. the boys golfed and us girls came home. We
were scarred to drive back by ourselves because people are crazy drivers here.
There are no laws and no enforcers and all you have to do to drive is pay
to have your picture taken to get a drivers license. Scary right? We made
it back and I had a quick catnap and spent the morning out on the patio by the
pool. I started walking around and found sis Galland in her office and we had a
wonderful conversation for about 45 min and then the boys got home.
We went to lunch at this hole in the
wall and had pork tacos and pork sandwiches. Way different than what we
normally eat back at cafe Rio. The food here is a challenge for me but
Brian loved every minute of it. I could hardly eat because of what I saw in the
kitchen while I was eating. I just have to keep telling my self is that
they eat here every month when they come and have for the past 20 years and
they haven't died or got sick yet...
We came home and our afternoon was
very similar to the day before. We played in the pool and headed down to
the beach. It was a little cooler today so we spent more time in the pool
and hot tub. The boys became fixated on coconut hunting. They tried
to climb the trees. They tried to shake the branches. They slid
down the trees. They found long stick with saws on the end. They
cut them out of trees. The coconuts smashed on the ground. There was
great discussion on which coconuts were the best. Brown. Green.
Big green ones, little green ones. We had to try about five and i
think we have out answer. You eat the brown ones! Well we found
nasty brown ones and then we found a good brown one. Don’t know what the
difference was but there was obviously something that’s for sure. It is
harder that it appears to crack and get in to a good coconut. It required
three grown Omaha returned missionaries with sharp rocks, corners hammers and a
saw to finally get to the center. Man, that is a lot of work for a little juice
from a little coconut. It was quite enjoyable to watch them.
We stayed in tonight. We
ordered pizza from dominos and had another discussion. This time it was
Brian's turn to give a lessons and he chose to talk about metals and engines.
At the end he tied it in to the gospel. Everyone just kind of
parted ways after that. Some showered some talked missions some watched
mitt Romney win Michigan and I sat in the hot tub, showered, registered for a
zumba instruction class checked email had a lotion bath and sit here typing out
or day so we don’t forget even the smallest details.
The keyboard for the ipad is really
nice but the keys are significantly more squished and there are a lot more
mistakes so hopefully after I proof read and correct I will find most of them.
Off to see what the rest of the night
hold. And until tomorrow,
Hasta minana!!
