Random events

This post will include a lot of randomness. I have had a few get-togethers and events with pictures I'd like to posteritize (it's ok to make up words sometimes).


We threw a baby shower for my sister-in-law Kera the other day. She is going to have a little girl in a couple of months. The shower was at Noelle's house and she made the whole thing so cute. Below are a couple of pictures from the shower.



Earlier in the day, before the shower, we (my mom, sisters and sisters-in-law) got together for one of our monthly food storage prep days. This day we made freezer jam. We made jam for hours at Heather's house and she was a great teacher. We ended up with around 100 pints of jam - DELICIOUS! We try to get together once a month for these little classes. I've missed a couple of times because I've had to work and last month I forgot to take pictures of Marilyn's gardening class. Other classes have included bread-making and canning. I may be forgetting one or two...but we've been doing it for a few months and I already feel much more prepared for whatever disaster might come our way.



Next up is the Easter egg coloring from last month. We invited Nicole, Kace, Cass and their boys over. We had some yummy pizza and then we had fun coloring the eggs (mostly the girls had fun). We weren't able to pull Osiris away from the game he was watching on TV and we barely pulled Taylor and Joe away long enough to color a couple of eggs.



The next pictures are quite old. A couple of months ago we went snowmobiling in Idaho with Taylor's dad and Megan, Jared and kids. The snow was great and we had lots of fun!






Lastly, these next pictures are also quite old. A couple/few months ago Taylor went to some UFC fights with my bros and bros-in-law so the girls decided we should get together for a very girly girls' night. Noelle had all the fixins to make sure we did lots of stuff we wouldn't do with the boys around. We made good smelling bath salts and salt scrubs. We ate LOTS of goodies and we watched a chick flick. It was a lovely girls' night in

MEXICO

Ok so I'm about a month late in finally getting this post done but hopefully the saying "better late than never" is true in this case. Last month Taylor and I went on a cruise with my parents and Jeremy and Kristi. We had SO much fun and maybe the reason that I haven't blogged about it yet is because I was so sad to be back but I am finally starting to accept that I am stuck in the real world. We boarded the ship in L.A. and headed down to Mexico. If you want a play by play of the trip you can go to Kristi's and my mom's blogs. I'm going to throw in a few details right now and then just attach a bunch of pictures (in no particular order). We made stops in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas. We did a very good variety of things in the different ports and we also had so much fun on the boat. We saw whales, dolphins, seals etc. We took dance lessons. We went to comedy shows and we ate SO MUCH GOOD FOOD! We took naps, read books and we even worked out a little on the ship track and in the gym. Kristi, my mom and I even did a yoga class. Taylor, Jeremy and my dad went to some golf seminars and they're positive that they now have what it takes to make the PGA tour (well, at least Jeremy and Taylor are...my dad slept through the class he went to). We went down a bunch of zip lines in the Sierra Madre mountains, where we also rappelled, hiked and rode mules. We spent time on multiple beaches and of course we shopped. We had such a great time and we can't wait to go on our next cruise (hopefully soon)!

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