Zumba for the Cure!

My friend Laurie is a certified Zumba instructor and a couple weeks ago they did a Zumba for the Cure. It was so much fun, and turned out to be a great success. They raised $1200 for Susan G. Komen, which is awesome!! Here's a few pictures of us sweatin our bums off! :o)

Prefer Tag

Not sure who I stole this from, but I like it. :o)


I prefer..


I prefer yellow over green
and strawberries over watermelon

I prefer brunette over blonde
and diet coke instead of pepsi

I prefer the ocean over mountains
and pancakes over waffles

I prefer comedy over drama
and cupcakes over pie

I prefer chocolate over vanilla
and puppies over kitties

I prefer art over math
and barefoot over shoes

There's a lot of people that I love and admire
but if I had only one choice,
I prefer to be with him.

Life. And a new car!

How the heck does life get so busy? And we’re just getting into the holidays. Man, I’m screwed. I need to get better at blogging!
I thought I would give a little update of our lives. Just for my reference to look back in twenty-something years. (And for the one, maybe two people that read this.)
Work is going great for Tay and I. We spend every waking moment that we’re not at work with our friends or family or playing with Harley. She is growing into the most fun personality, she keeps us laughing every single day. Some of my favorite things about her right now:
-Any flashlight, laser pointer, or even just sun coming through my mother-in-law’s blinds drives her NUTS!
-When she wants an ice cube (her favorite treat) she’ll put her paws up on the fridge ledge and just wait for you to dispense some ice.
-She’s a regular air bud when it comes to balloons. She will entertain herself until they are all popped.
-After doing something she knows is naughty, she rolls over on her back with her ears down and the saddest face you’ve ever seen. How can you be mad at that? It’s too cute!

There are so many more, and I’m sure even more to come as she gets older.
We’ve also been spending lots of time with our friends. We seriously have the best friends ever, and I love how we all get along so well. Every get together all the guys get in their own little world either watching football, or playing scrabble on their phones. They all get so into it, it’s really funny. And all the girls just talk. You’d think after seeing these people several times a week there wouldn’t be much to talk about. But I love our girl talks.
Our families are about the same old. We try to balance them back and forth and see each side at least once a week. Family time is always fun, we look forward all the fun stuff we do.
Taylor is the sweetest husband and spoils me rotten! Last week he came home with this:

He knows what a true Disney freak I am. :o)
Also before we went on the cruise, we decided we should get a new one of these:

Our waterproof one was awesome, but it has a major delay, and for non-underwater pictures, I wanted something a little bit sharper. This one takes awesome pictures! There’s a cool feature on it where it will shoot in black and white except for one color. Here’s a few of our test shots just playing around.

And last but not least, we also got me a new car!

My old one was starting to have issues, and there were ads on the radio that we could lease a brand new Mazda for a little less than we were paying. Newer car and cheaper price? Yes please! So I’ve been loving that.

Oh and PS, I wanted to give an update of my coral burn because it looks pretty yucky still. Which is awesome. I kinda hope it leaves a cool scar. I love good scar stories. Here’s what it looks like 3 weeks after I got stung.

That’s our life for the last little bit. I gotta say I am a very lucky girl and am so thankful for everything I have. I wouldn’t change a bit of it!

CRUISE time!

Our cruise was a TOTAL blast! Seriously, probably the most fun vacation we've ever been on. We use the excuse that it was our best friends' 1 year anniversary so we needed a fun place to go. Our stops were planned to be Grand Cayman, Honduras, Belize, and Cozumel. Key word. Were.
Well.....thanks to hurricane Paula, we re-routed to Grand Cayman, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. It turned out all good though, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. We had perfect weather and had we gone with the original plan, we would've had rain everyday, because we were chasing the tail end of the storm.
It's hard to sum up the whole week in just one post. There were so many laughs, I almost peed myself on SEVERAL occasions. Lots of great memories, and it was just so nice being away from everything and spending time with my lover. (And no cell service. No work emails. YAAAAAY!)
Well because I have literally, like 900 pictures, I'm going to try to keep this somewhat summarized.






First day was at sea. Here's a few things we did:
Of course, lay out! Ipods, oil, magazines, fruity drinks. Check, check.



Ate. A LOT! This whole trip. Just a little idea of how our lunches looked.




Got all dressed up and had fun dinners.





Day 2 was Grand Cayman. We signed up to do Sting Ray City with Captain Marvin. It was so awesome!





We met Captain Marvin himself. He's 94! Cute old guy.



Held the sting rays and got a back massage from them.





Fed them dead squid! Yum!






Seven years of good luck for whoever kisses a sting ray. Woowoo!



After Sting ray city, we snorkled in the Barrier Reef. It was so pretty!





I don't listen very well. They told us to not touch the fire coral. Whoopsie. I got stung.




Next stop was Jamaica. Very pretty, but very rude people. And they're dirty. It's fun to see once, but I wouldn't reccomend spending more than a day there.








Mika getting 3 braids. By force. "Sexy lady, I only charge you 15 dolla, since you didn't want the hair braid."



Our cab driver showed us the "back way" to Dunn's River Falls where we could take a picture for free. Turns out it was through a hole in the fence and he had to climb up into a tree to take a picture of other people. Lol. Serious?? This was moments before we witnessed the drug deal go down.




Last stop was Nassau in the Bahamas. This was all of our favorites! We did some shopping and then found a beach to play at. Mika and I laid out while the boys played in the ocean. It was so nice and SOOO pretty!












The rest of my pictures are kind of out of order. Just some random things we did while on the ship and what not.
































This was the best dessert ever! Chocolate cake that is melted underneath. A little of that with some vanilla ice cream, oh man. I want some right now!







How much does my husband love me? Hmmm, he bought me TWO Juicy bags! I fell in love with the first and bought it. Then I saw the second and loved it too! He's like, "You're never gonna get this good of a deal on it. Just get it." Awwww. I'm so glad now that I did. I've already switched between them three times.