Warm Weather!

The past couple of days as I drive home from work I have been loving this warm weather, and also driving home while the sun is still up. This picture reminded me of summer, and I wish it were here already!

Ella and Uncle Lance

Here is Lance and cutie patootie Ella at the Christmas party at grandma Helen's. Once again, another photoshop victim. This one took me much longer because Ella had chocolate smeared all over her face....she's clean now!

Cute Sadie girl

I thought this picture of Sadie was the cutest. Makes you wanna just pinch those cheeks. I've been learning my photoshop just a little bit; I don't know how to do too much yet, but this pic took me about....ooohhhh I'd say 3 hours!

CABO 'Lover's Beach'

This was our first stop; the famous Lover's Beach at Cabo San Lucas. My first thought was, Cabo.....crystal clear water....beautiful beaches right?! As you can see...very, very, dark water...which was the water all of the crew wanted to scuba dive in......with sharks (of course no one thinks of this but me). Don't get me wrong, the beach was beautiful, just dark, very dark water.

So all of us jumped into this fancy glass bottom boat (and you would have had to be there to realized what an over statement fancy was); anywho, what a great pic huh? Our tourist, Ziggy, took us around Lover's Beach to show us the sites; I couldn't get enough! Among many of the arches, this one was definitely one of my favorites.

This was another site we were able to see; a large number of seals relaxing on the rocks. I was quite surprised at how close we were able to get; however, what an odor these thing give off.....even worse than Lance after passing a few. I think out of the crew, I tolerated the smell quite well; I've become immune to horrible smells, what can I say (thanks babe, love ya for that).

(you would have to know lance to know what I'm talking about)

Cabo had some of the largest waves I had ever thought possible. I mean, you see large waves on movies, but in real life? These were massive! And get this, this wave wasn't even at its peak, and was right off of the shore line. People would get creamed by these waves, and not on purpose, which made it quite funny. I think I have more pictures of other people than the people we were with because they would keep getting wasted by these waves. It was good entertainment...and good picture taking at that!


I thought this picture was hilarious! Lance is on the left of the picture, and Rich on the right. Here Lance is attempting to part the waters...hahaha...how funny is this?! Lance is such a fun person to vacation with, like a kid in a candy store. He definitely makes the vacationing exprience an interesting one.
Quick story: My fam, Lance, and I vacationed in Missouri a few years ago, and we were out doing things the whole day, every day, from morning until like midnight.....well one night in particular we were driving home and Lance states, "dude, so what are we gonna do now?" We all started laughing and said...uhhh go to bed! He doesn't sleep!!! To make a long story short, Lance was pretty upset, ordered pizza, and fell asleep watching tv on the couch..
...like I said, kid in a candy store..no time for sleep...
We love ya lance, you wear us out, but we love ya.


Here is Lance running his little heart out....lovin' every minute on the beach!
(as you can see all of these pics are of lance, cause I'm the one 'taking' the pics. It's a good thing he looks so awesome in those pictures!)

Lance, again, taking such an amazing picture....you go lance, what a great pose!
(I had to catch him off guard, becuase he would never pose like this on purpose)
....isn't this such a cool picture of the ocean...maybe I just don't see the ocean enough!

MEXICAN RIVIERA GET AWAY

We just got home from our Mexican Riviera Cruise and it was AWESOME!!! This was the first cruise that Lance and I have gone on together. Lance was just like a little kid in a candy store....he was a lot of fun. We've spent the last 9 days in 70-90 degree weather and we most certainly were not looking forward to coming home to snow! This is a picture at the beach in Puerto Villarta..isn't it beautiful?!!!

We also visited Cabos and Mazatlan, but Puerto Villarta was definitely my fav!

Here is a pic of our "cruise crew". From left to right....Holly, Rich, Lisa, Aaron, Lance, me, Scott, and Casey. They were a blast to cruise with. Thanks guys! This pic was taken after the guys had a basketball shoot-out while us girls cheered them on at the sidelines.

Before we boarded the Dawn Princess cruise liner, we spent a couple of days visiting Brady and Christina in San Diego. We visited Balboa Park, shopped at the outlets, and ate...and ate...and ate some more. This pic is of Lance and I at Balboa Park. This park is a whole whopping 13 square miles. It was huge!

San Diego is BEAUTIFUL!! It was a great chance for me to practice using my new camera. I took this pic of these pretty flowers right outside of Brady's house. It had just finished raining, hence the rain drops on the flower petals.