Snippets of our life.

This post is random, long, and out of order. Ellen's wedding shower, hikes we took in the fall, 2 little cuties got baptized, Ellen &Brody's wedding, Ben's farewell. Then we travel back in time to July and honeymoon #1, Cancun! So fun. 

Ell's wedding shower (family)

 the most beautiful food table

The "Aunties"

Friends' shower

And now it's time for some hikes.

It's wedding time!

And now it's time for a farewell, sending some cousins off to Mexico and Brazil!

A final football game

Tyler bought me a present! He's the best :)

And now we go back to July, it's Honeymoon time!

This was our favorite area for snorkeling, we woke up at sunrise one morning and went out and saw so many sea turtles. Amazing.

Ziplining over the jungle, swimming, rafting, and mud-jeeping in underwater rivers-in-caves. We loved it there, such a fun day!

Chi Chen Itza
Mayan ruins

You can't see any dolphins here but they are here, and we got to swim with them. And I stood on their noses and flew through the water like a mermaid. If I were a mermaid, I think I would be best friends with dolphins.

Cenotes. It's this whole underground freshwater river system all over Cancun. We found one right across the street from our resort and we went snorkeling in it. It was amazingly deep and dark and eerie but beautiful.

Our first dinner in our new home as newlyweds. Tyler is there, we are just really bad at taking selfies. Or should I say, "us'ies"

Backpacking

We went camping at an abandoned campground, turns out the firepit was home to a family of hornets. Can you say "S'more hornets?"

Tyler's first time on the Alpine slide, everyone's gotta go sometime in their life!

Holidays 2014

Once upon a time, a long time ago there was a magical time called Christmas. And I am about to take you back there. 

Everyone came to visit us!

My mom gave us our first Nativity set and I love it!

Our tree we cut down ourselves. It was green and fresh and still growing almost until the day we finally took it down (aka Valentine's day).

Our new favorite game, we introduced it to everyone and we loved it. It's kind of a fancy version of B.S.

Tyler made this awesome shelf for us and we can hold so many cans. We practically have food storage haha.

Snippets - Fall 2014

This fall my little sister got married! Because we had been roommates (which was THE best, by the way) our roommates and me got to go to her wedding shower that her friends hosted for her. It was so cute! Yay for Ellen!        

After the shower Jana, Allison, Abbi, Ellen, me, and our boys went to the cabin and turned off all the lights and played Murder In The Dark for HOURS. We are so mature. And yes, it was terrifying. 

Wedding shower #2. Our family's shower at my Grandma's house. His mom said he could come as long as he wore pink haha.

Food, glorious food!

Aunties. Hands down some of the best ladies you will ever meet.

Bubblegum games :)

Sunday Stroll

We live in such a pretty area.

We went for a fall drive with some friends. You've never seen so many aspens in your life. I love fall!

Another hike. 

Baptism picture (they both have October birthdays). Cutest cousins ever!

Hip hip hooray for weddings! 

Couldn't be happier for these darling kids.

Selfies while we wait for the reception to start.

Fast forward 2 weeks and you've got MISSION FAREWELLS! Two of em. In one day. The youngest cousins both left for the MTC on the same day.

Lar's Lawn Care crew

Best cousins

Post-farewell football.

We'll miss you!

What a fun fall! And surprise, my parents are now empty nesters. Crazy times! But good. So good.

Happy Fall Y'all.

Snippets - Summer 2014

Honeymooners in Cancun

 We went ziplining over the jungle, rafting thru underground rivers, driving little jeeps thru underground tunnels, and swimming in the rivers all day. Such a fun place!

 Chi chen itza. So pretty and really cool to learn about the history of the Mayans.

 We went swimming with dolphins! There are dolphins somewhere in the picture below. We do not have any pictures of us with dolphins because pictures literally cost $200. But we've got great memories of it! I love dolphins!!

These parrots were at the dolphin place. While we were waiting, Tyler was trying to get them to attack a stick, so he sat there poking them for 20 minutes with it, haha.

 This is a cenote that was across the street from our resort. All over Cancun there are underground rivers and water, from a meteorite a long time ago. They are mostly fresh water with just a little bit of salt water in them. They are really deep caves all over. We snorkeled in here and I loved it!

 Back home. This is our first dinner in our new home as newlyweds! Our selfies failed (I have short arms), but Tyler is here, too, I promise.

 We live really close to canyons and mountains so we took advantage of that. We drove a whopping 15 minutes and found a beautiful hiking trail. We took our packs (well, Tyler packed pretty much everything, I carried the water :) and camped on the trail. The next morning we hiked up to a beautiful lake. So pretty.

 Camping trip #2. I kidnapped Tyler. Literally. And made him ride in the car for forever. We found an awesome campsite (after 1 or 2 mishaps thanks to me haha) and it was beautiful. Especially the hornets that crawled out of our firepit and into my hair. Tyler killed them with pliers.

 The next morning we went to the Alpine slide- Tyler has never been!

That was a lot of snippets of our summer. It was such a busy, fun, adventurous summer!

Easter Weekend

New form of blogging :)

Blogging for slackers: links to other people who have blogged about me. haha I'm a genius.

http://crystalleafphoto.blogspot.com/2014/08/carlie-tyler-engagements.html

http://kayhazard.blogspot.com/2014/08/picklevilleplayhouse-juanitobandito.html

Enjoy :)