Mexican Cruise

We recently returned from a Mexican Riviera cruise with Mitch and Chelsea. It was a blast and I have never eaten so much food in my life! I gained an impressive 12 lbs!

We left from San Diego on the Carnival Elation. The weather was so nice in San Diego. I wanted so badly to put on shorts! Only people from Idaho would want to wear shorts in 65 degree weather!

My cute husband standing on the dock of our ship.

This picture is looking out at the San Diego harbor right before we left for sea. We spent the the whole first day at sea. We were able to see dolphins jumping and just hang out by the pool and of course eat lots of food!

The night we spent out at sea was also our formal night. It was so fun to get dressed up and go to a nice dinner. When we were out taking these pictures we saw a bunch of squid swimming by the side of the ship. We tried to take a picture of them but the pictures didn't show them very well.

Mitch and Chelsea in their fancy evening wear. Check out Chelsea's smoking hot legs!

While waiting for the line to go down at dinner we stepped into this piano bar and a nice Indian couple took a picture of all 4 of us.

The next day we went to Catalina Island. That is our ship in the back ground. The water was too shallow for the ship to get any closer so we had to take smaller boats up to shore.

This is a picture looking down the shore line.


This is right by the pier.

We rented a golf cart here and got to drive it all around the Island. Leave it to one of the Littlewood boys to figure out how to get the cart in between gears so we could coast down the big hills at a much faster speed than the cart would allow while in gear.

It was so pretty up on the hills.

A view from the top of a hill. Notice the ship in the back ground.

We let house keeping come in one day to change the sheets and what not and they made the cutest elephant out of towels!

The most fun was going to Mexico. This is us at La Bufadora or the blow hole. We went on a tour bus with our tour guide Alejandro. He was super funny. At the first of the tour he pretended he could only speak Spanish. We thought we were in for one heck of a bad tour. Once the bus started to move he started speaking English. Those bus drivers are really scary drivers. They go so fast and are swerving into the other lane of trafic to avoid the pot holes while there is on coming traffic! On the drive out to La Bufadora was saw a Mexican man riding a zebra.

This is at the blow hole during one of the, for lack of a better word, explosions of water. The waves would come in and get forced into the cracks in the rocks and then shoot up into the air. Alejandro took the perfectly timed picture of all of us.

The weather was so nice in Mexico! I just love this picture because the ocean has that amazing blueish green color to it.

Our last night on the ship. This was our formal dining table and in front of all of us is the chocolate melting cake which was our favorite desert.

After a long day of fun in the sun we are ready to hit the hay. We weren't party animals at all. I don't know if it was the way the ocean moved the ship or if it was the massive quantities of food we ate, but we were always back in our rooms ready for bed by 10pm.

We had so much fun on this cruise and we couldn't have asked for better traveling partners than Mitch and Chelsea. Hopefully we will be able to do it again!

Homecoming

My cutest husband in the world finally gets to be done with work for the season in 2 weeks! I almost can't contain my excitement to finally get him back home!

Bear Lake

Sorry this is super late, I have just not taken the time to put all the pictures on.

We had such a fun time and want to make sure that we say Thank you! to Buffy and her family!

This is Payton, Chelsea, Me and Kade the first day

at Bear Lake.

Payton and Kade had so much fun playing in the

waves. Everytime Kade would walk into a wave

he would laugh like it was the funniest thing he

had ever done.

We were lucky enough to be able to go out on the

boat and go tubing. The water is so shallow for so

long that someone has to push you out into the deeper

water.

Chelsea and Payton on the wave runner. Payton

thought this thing was the coolest invention of all

time. I think he would have spent every second

out on it if someone would have gone with him.

I wanted to drive before I let Payton have a turn.

Payton took Lory out on a good ride. Needless to say

it was so good that he never got her talked into

another one.

Our final day, heading back up to the camper to get

all of our stuff together and go back to normal life.

(which is so over rated!)

To Bone and Back

My moms side of the family, the Anderson's, all love to run. We thought for this year it would be fun to have our family reunion around the To-Bone&Back race. We didn't have quite enough people to form a team, but Connor and Chelsea my brother and sister in law stepped right in to help.
In this race, you hav 8 people on a team to finish the 40 miles. So that breaks down into 5 mile legs for everyone.




Chelsea ran leg 1 and did so awesome! She improved her time from her previous time doing the race by almost 30 mins! This picture is not actually of her running her leg of the race. I forgot to take a picture of her while she was running. So we posed this picture right before I started my leg of the race.



My Aunt Holly is an awesome runner! She took the up hill portion of the race, and when I say up hill I mean it is totally up hill. She did this part of the race and only took 50 mins! She is so awesome!




Now, let me preface Connors little bit with the fact that he occasionally goes jogging and has never done any serious training. Now, with saying that Connor finished 5 miles in 37 mins! He was so awesome! He is definetely on my team for next year!





Connor had to leave to go to work after he ran his leg of the race so we took a picture with all the Littlewoods before he left.

Melody took the bone (yes, they had us carry a fake bone as the baton) from Connor. Poor Melody had ran 8 miles the day before and then volunteered to help us fill a spot on our team left by my mom when her darn appendix ruptured. My mom is doing fine and recovering but just wasn't healed up enough to run. Thanks for filling in Mel!

Cayla did so good! She doesn't really enjoy running, but since she has been on the Sacramento State gymnastics team has been keeping it up. She has to get in so many hours of cardio a week for her training and running is the easiest way for her. I am so proud of her for how hard she ran!

Layne did very well. It always makes me mad at these boys that they can go out and run 5 miles without ever really training for running.

I had the easiest portion of the race and still didn't beat Connors time! I was able to finish in 40 mins which is an amazing time for me! I am very proud of it, but would have liked to beat Connors. Especially since I have actually been training for it.





Lee was amazing. In the heat of the day (on his birthday) he was able to finish his portion in 41 mins! He has lost alot of weight and is in really good shape now!

This was a picture of our team at the finish line, minus Connor. My team was so awesome! I can't believe the kind of times that they got!

I am hoping to definetely do this next year. I think I caught the running bug again. I need to sign up for some more races. Last year I sort of took the year off and it would be fun to get back into it again

Thanks to my team for all the hard work!

Planting a Garden

I have such great In-laws. Chelsea, Payton, Lory and I got to get together at the Littlewoods to plant the family garden. It was alot of fun to put all the seeds in and hope that it would grow.

While we were planting the garden Kade was trying to sneak and eat dirt. He is such a funny kid and hes getting so big! It has been fun watching him grow up.

Memorial Weekend

Memorial weekend is always a fun time around the Littlewood household. I know I have said this before, but I am so lucky to have married into a family that likes to go on little trips. i love camping so much! Before I met Jake, I thought camping was roughing it up in the mountains in tents. I didn't know that camping could be so relaxing, and you can take showers too! Thanks Pres for letting us sleep in your trailer!

My cute logger husband. He spent the majority of the time chopping wood. I'm not really sure why.

Even though I wasn't at work, I got to take Conners stiches out with some help from my lovely assistant, Chelsea.

Sitting around the camp fire. A favorite pass time of camping.

It can't be a camping trip without dirt biking!

Chelsea and Kade. He was such a good boy! He was even teething and he hardly ever cried.

My new toy.

As many of you know, Jakes family is really big into dirt biking. Before we even got married Jake was looking for a bike for me. I had been riding Paytons 125 that felt way too small.

I thought the day would never come when I would be able to have my own bike, but it finally came!

I am still not very good at dirt biking, but Jake has been really good with me. He has taken me out riding the past 2 weekends to teach me. Hopefully with some more practice I will be able to keep up with my sister-in-law Chelsea.