Tuesday, January 28, 2014

I guess it's about time I catch up on our life through the holiday season, our anniversary, and new years till recently. Well, I guess I'll start off with Halloween. Halloween was fun! We went to a couples halloween party at our friends house the weekend before and then on the day of halloween, we just stayed home while i handed out candy till adam got home because we both worked the next day.

 Going from there, Thanksgiving was nice and relaxing. We are lucky enough to live close enough to both of our families so we got to hang out with both on Thanksgiving.

 We had our family pictures taken with both families that day as well. I don't have copies of both yet, so I will have to add that at a different time. But for now, here's us on Thanksgiving!

We had been thinking about what we wanted to do for our first anniversary for a while. We didn't want to spend a fortune, and didn't want to travel too far, but still have fun. So, we chose Sedona. It was nice to get away and just have a fun weekend with just us. We hadn't been out of town since our wedding, so at least for me, it was much needed.

The first day, we checked into our hotel and then just went sight seeing and walked around. We went to the Chapel of the Holy Cross. It was a church that was built into the side of a mountain. It was a cool experience since I had never been in a different church other than an LDS church.
The next day we went to Out of Africa wildlife park which was pretty awesome! We got a good deal from Groupon for it and lemme just tell you.. it was way better than the zoo! We got there in the morning and spent a good chunk of the day there. When we got there, we went on a little safari through the park with a tour guide that showed us all the different habitats and even drove into some of them. We drove into a zebra, giraffe, water buffalo, and a few other deer like animals that I don't remember the name. We got to feed the giraffes. Well, adam did. I gave him my carrot so he would have more chances of getting a picture of him feeding it OUT OF HIS MOUTH. Yeah, he got a nice slobbery giraffe kiss. I made sure he washed his face before I would kiss him, don't worry. ;)

 Apparently, this deer like animal below got its broken horn because it use to be bordering habitats to the lions and tried to ram its horn through the fence to get the lion. Obviously, didn't work out so well. And of course, the rhino. He seemed like such a gentle giant. They gave him a big tractor tire that apparently, he sleeps with. Cute huh?

 Weird deer like creature that started running when we took the picture on the right side. And of course, the zebras. They were NOT shy. They kept cutting off the bus and stuff and trying to get food. They told us that they "don't like carrots" haha which has got to be such bullcrap. They're the horses cousins, they're going to like carrots. They told us that the zebras bite, so there's why they used that excuse.

Ok so maybe they were a little feisty

 From there, we got to basically walk around and do see the habitats a bit closer. Here's a taste of what we saw.

 This was the prettiest of the regular colored tigers, in my opinion. It had such a pretty orange color. Or maybe he just had the most recent bath. Who knows! It was cool though because it was just pacing back and forth along the edge of the cage.. so we got to get pretty close.

Here's some more pretty kitties!

And of course, the prairie dogs!

 After a while, they had a tiger water show. They had some of the trainers play with the tigers in a pool and the tigers were chasing the trainers around and jumping in the pool after pool toys. It was pretty cool. After that, we got to feed the tigers. Its not as cool as it sounds, don't get too excited. There was  fence..and another fence.. and a man.. and some tongs in between us. BOO. haha it was still cool though! They were really gentle.  You can tell they've been around people a bit.

 From there, we left the park. We just pretty much killed time at the park till the water play thing and so we could feed the tigers.. but it was at a certain time, so we got in a lot of walking that day.

Some restaurants we visted while we were there were El Lote Cafe.. and some brick oven pizza place that was by our hotel. It was all pretty good from what we had. At El Lote, we got the "El Lote" which is just corn in a white sauce that you dip your chips in. It was pretty good.. different. I dont remember what kind of pizza we had at the pizza place. It was weird, but it was good. Haha

Then the next morning, we drove home. So it was pretty fun. I liked it a lot. I probably wont like going to the zoo anymore cuz this one was just THAT much cooler.

Then, along came Christmas, It was nice also. We had a small Christmas this year because we're trying to save up for Adams schooling that will be coming up before we know it. Which, by the way, he got accepted to ASU and will be starting August 2014 for his MBA.

For new years, we were boring.. and we just stayed home. In fact, we were in bed before 12. Haha even my sisters family who also lives in my parents house with us went to bed early. They had some little fireworks that we lit in the driveway of our parents house around like 11... and then we just went to bed pretty quick after that.

If you don't already know, I'm a big Anberlin fan. They've been around forever. In my mind, they were GOING to be around forever. They recently announced that in 2014, they will be releasing a final album and then touring after that.. and then they will be done. It literally makes me sick to think about it. I know, I shouldn't be that invested in a band, but it really makes me sad. First Acceptance.. then Between the Trees.. now ANBERLIN?  Sad news... really sad news. So, what did I do, me and my brother Tanner & his wife Chandra went in and bought some merch for the upcoming tour that we HAVE to go to. Like.. if they don't come to AZ.. I'm going to them. Ha, its gonna happen.

So funny story..
ummmm so me and Adam have my parents old waterbed, right? Haha so Saturday, Adam wakes up for work and tells me that the floor is wet over by his side of the bed. I'm like half awake.. like whaaa? I was like "Did you drool" and he said no.. and he got out of bed and started getting ready for work. So after he left the room, im trying to go back to sleep and i hear dripping. I'm like wtf.. we don't have any cups over there so its not like it was something like that. Then it hit me.. our bed is leaking. So when Adam came back in, i said i think its the bed leaking. So he feels the bed on the side of the mattress and sure enough.. our bed was definitely leaking. So i had to wake up at like 6am to figure out what we're going to do. And so we had to take all the bedding off the bed and then we didn't know what to do. Its not exactly a common situation. Haha so then I just went and slept in our guest room in this crappy day bed for a couple hrs till my parents woke up. It wasn't like the bed was pouring out or anything, we just put a bucket under the area it was dripping so I could go back to sleep. haha anyway.. to sum it up.. we had to drain the bed.. and now we dont have a mattress and have slept on a air mattress because we haven't had a chance to go buy a new mattress. So since we're going to need it eventually when we move out of my parents house.. i guess its time. Ha but yeah it sucked.. but on the bright side, we are getting a memory foam mattress. I'm excited. :) haha 

sad box mattress face.

Since then, we've had an air mattress. Bleh.

Other than that, its pretty much the same ol' thing going on here! Riding my horse as much as I can.. Which is MAYBE once per week. That's pretty much it for now.. until next time.