Island Park

This last weekend we went with some of Jake's friends up to Island Park for the day! His friend Ace has a cabin up there right on the lake so we loaded up the jet ski and the boat and made it an all day trip! It was SO fun! It was hot outside which made it easier to get into the semi cold water (much colder than Arizona lakes). We did some wake boarding, skiing, grilled some hot dogs, took long naps in the sun, and just enjoyed the last weeks of our summer vacation! 

(Jake forgot to take pictures of me wake boarding.. but I promise I did it!)

Jake is really tall.. therefore he has big feet. So he needed lots of assistance to squeeze his big feet into wake board boots!

My life is exciting

So I get REALLY bored at work.. its the best job because me and the girl I work with try to find TV shows to get addicted to so we don't get so bored sitting at a desk for 8 hours every day (currently its Friday Night Lights). Well sometimes in the mornings it's just me so I try to find things to do. Lately I have been making my own recipe cards on picnik.com. It's so easy and they are so cute! When I get enough made I am going to print them off just as a picture at walgreens or walmart and put them in a photo album and then I will have my own recipe book! Here are a couple of recipes that I have made cards for :) 

Just around the river bend...

Jake and I have always talked about wanting to float the river.... so we finally did it! We invited his friend Jesse ( a boy he works with and they served in the same mission) and his wife and got some giant tubes from their boss and we were on our way! Jake had floated this river before with his ward a couple of years ago.. and said it took about an hour and a half to two hours to float. Well.. we went around the circle once.. and it literally felt like we were floating for maybe 30 min. So we walked back to the beginning and did it again! Come to find out it was actually about 45-an hour one loop around but it felt so short the first time! The water was FREEZING! Arizona rivers do not get that cold... ever. haha but the second time we went it actually felt pretty good and it was a hot day! (We have sunburns to show for that) Then when we were done we finished our adventure day with some lunch at Costa Vida! Such a fun day!

Birthday!!

Yesterday was  my birthday and I loved spending it with Jake! The day started off with some skype and phone calls wishing me happy birthday from my family while Jake was mowing some lawns. Then he took me to breakfast at a yummy local breakfast place here in Rexburg. Next we came home and this boy SPOILED me! I just love him! I opened some great presents from him and I was shocked that he picked out a cute outfit for me and I liked it! He said he got some help from a lady at the store. haha.Next we packed up a yummy lunch and we headed out to Rigby lake because there was no wind and it was HOT outside! We got some good rays and headed home to get ready to go to Jackson, Wyoming with his parents and his sister and her baby. Jackson is GORGEOUS! I had never been there and it is a big tourist place and a very wealthy town. Famous people go there to vacation! We walked the streets and then hurried over to Bar J Chuckwagon. This place was awesome. You get a home cooked bbq meal, and then a very entertaining show of brothers being hilarious and singing awesome country songs and they were amazing! It is a family run business and I highly recommend it! It was a great birthday and I loved spending it with people I love! 

Oh! I forgot to mention that while I was at work on Friday I had a special delivery for my from my husband with these gorgeous flowers!

I told this little punk to smile for this gorgeous view and obviously he didn't smile... on purpose!

The HUGE portion they gave us

Raspberry Freezer Jam!

We don't have anything really exciting going on in our life right now.. just enjoying being married! Well Jake's mom grows raspberries in her garden every year and there are tons! The whole garden is just raspberries because she makes yummy freezer jam every year. Well since I am married and all and need to be a good homemaker I decided to make some of our own! Super easy!

Step 1: Get nice husband to pick a whole bowl full of raspberries for you!

(So something I learned is that big ugly spiders like to chill out in the raspberry garden and I am NOT a fan of any kind of bug. sooo I took pictures of him picking instead!)

(Do you see him in there??)

 He said the best berries are the ones on the bottom! He also told me that when him and his siblings were all little one of there chores was to come pick raspberries! I thought that was hilarious!

Step 2: Smash them all up, add some lemon juice, ALOT of sugar (I was surprised at how much you actually put in), add some light corn syrup and that's it! So easy!

Here is my yummy homemade raspberry jam! Maybe next I can learn to make bread to eat it with!

Bridals

Nothing too exciting going on with us newlyweds.... BUT we did get our bridals! Our photographer (Sarah Webb) was SO easy to work with and so cute (she came all the way from Colorado!) Enjoy!

Honeymoon!

So I haven't gotten back wedding pics yet so that will have to be a later post... BUT I want to update everyone on our honeymoon! We went to Cancun Mexico! (it was actually about an hour away from Cancun) We loved every second of it.. I will probably type too much but enjoy the story!

Sunday July 10
      Our flight didn't leave until midnight so all day Sunday we just lounged around and had to pack for our trip! I finished packing at about 9:30 pm.. and we were supposed to leave for the airport at 10. So I was getting everything ready and realized I needed to get my passport.. but when I looked in the spot where it was supposed to be it was not there. I started looking in other places and when I didn't see it this is when everyone started freaking out.  I felt like we ripped our house apart and searched everywhere and still we didn't find it. Jake was on the phone with our travel agent seeing what our options were and she tried to give us some hope.. but we knew there was no way I could travel without it. After about a million prayers Jake was sitting on a bench when he looked up and saw my passport in a bag of lingerie (how it got there I have no clue!) The weird thing is, is I searched that bag and my mom even dumped it out and looked. So we were meant to go!!

Monday July 11
     After a long night of traveling and a 5 hour layover in Atlanta we finally reached our resort! It was breath taking! The pool area was huge and the ocean was RIGHT there! When we got to our room they had a cute sash on the door that said 'Just Married' and roses all over our bed which was so cute! It was all inclusive so we got unlimited food (which I get to do ALOT of Zumba to work off those vacation pounds) and unlimited drinks so we are still getting used to not having a pina colada in our hand at all times.

The next couple of days we just layed out by the pool and the beach and we loved every minute of soaking up the sun! At night they had shows that were pretty entertaining! The last show we went to Jake actually got called up on stage (which he loved every minute of it...) and there was 3 other guys and they had to help perform a magic trick.

Thursday July 14
   This day we woke up early and went with our tour guide and went deep into the jungle and went rapelling, zip lining, cave exploring and snorkeling and the most beautiful beach! This was such a fun adventure day and even though Jake is afraid of heights he did it ALL!!

Friday July 15
  This was a sad day because we had to leave paradise! Our flight was supposed to go from Cancun to Michigan, then from Michigan to Phoenix. Well on our way to Michigan we had to do an emergency landing in New Orleans because a lady was having serious chest pain and anxiety. So that caused mostly everyone to miss their connection flight so we were the lucky ones to stay the night in Detroit Michigan! yay us! Delta gave us a hotel and food voucher for the night then we woke up early the next day and caught another flight to Phoenix!