Another Party

So as you all know David and I have been partyin' since we got married (over a month ago!). We've been living out of suitcases since we said I do. This is the only picture I have of our last party aka- reception. I'll post more if I can later but I left the pictures on my parents computer in IF. It was so nice to finally get it over with haha they are a lot of stress, ok and they are pretty fun too.

Reader's Digest Version... but not really

This is the reader’s digest version of everything that happened since David and I got back to Utah on July 25^th (after our cruise).

On our way back from the Salt Lake airport David let me stop in Blackfoot and we had some good Melina’s.

  While there he realized they have some tasty verde sauce and his opinion on the place was positively changed.  Haha he liked it before but after he had some sauce he liked it much much more. 

My pathetic pile of boxes.... so much still left to pack

Basically our first week back we packed and made phone calls to get processes for buying our condo, me transferring my license, and anything else related to moving to Ohio; we also packed. Packing went pretty slowly though and we didn’t do a lot of it. Whoops

Then on Friday evening I had my bridal shower. It was lots of fun to see all the ladies that came. Thank you guys for everything! 

The next day David and I took Brandon and his friend CJ to the INL party. We hadn’t initially planned on going but my Mom has been getting sick when she gets too hot in the sun and my Dad was worried about her being in the sun.

 That was all fine and dandy but Brandon really wanted to go still so we volunteered to take them. It was a pretty good day especially when it rained a little, ahhh that felt good. 

When we went home my parents were washing their car, so we washed and TOTALLY cleaned our car inside and out as well. 

We even got David's college parking stickers to come off. Nothing is better then riding in a freshly vacuumed car.

I love working with David by my side

Afterwards we were setting up some problem solving situations for Tater. He is so smart we actually had to buy a new kennel for him because he learned how to climb out of his old one, we love to challenge him because he is so willing to figure things out and play along. We were putting his toy in a clear vase and convincing him to get it out. Here’s the little video, I hope you enjoy it! Props to me for recording the video while laughing and props to David for helping me post it and make it one video.

It was so funny to watch him put his head in the vase what a fun little dog he is and he’s the perfect mix of playful and snuggly. Then David decided to do what he does best and find and even better way to have Tater be in the vase. I'm really going to miss that puppy!

Sunday we were off to sunny St. George for David’s family reunion. I had only been through there once so I was excited to go. Also David let me go to Melina’What a LONG drive!

 

When we hit Payson I was thinking oh this isn’t so bad Malad, Salt Lake and Provo came and when fast enough; however 200 miles till St. George I was feeling it, are we there yet? No we weren’t.

 Unfortunately out of the 8 siblings in David’s father’s family only two showed up David the 3^rd’s (us) and his brother Rob with his wife and 3 girls. David’s Grandparents were there but we really only saw his grandma long story short his Grandpa ended up in the hospital.  Nothing fatal, thank goodness, but he will probably need back surgery. David’s grandpa had been in a lot of back and hip pain for a while now so it was a long time in coming we are all just glad he didn’t take a fall first. 

Our condo we got to stay in

David sleepin in our little closet bed :)

 Even though it wasn’t a very big family reunion it was fun and it was fun to meet his Uncle I only have one more to meet and I will have met them all. David has 6 uncles and 1 aunt so I think that is pretty impressive that I have met all but one.

brotherly neck pats

cousin Malia what a cutie

Us kissing!! before we saw Alfred Hitchcock's 39 steps in Cedar City, funny show!

Chilling outside before the show, it was such a nice evening.

polygamists!!! We saw quite a few of them it was really weird and I felt sorry for them. I have no idea what it is actually like for them but what I have heard is scary.

On the bright side of St. George, David and I got to swim and be in the sun, where once again he baked like a true Mexican and I got my signature almost tan but still looks red like possibly sunburned color. 

I don’t burn but when I tan but I always look flushed like I’m blushing it wasn’t always like that so I was really jealous of David’s dark brown color. 

Look at that! Isn't that ridiculous?!?

 I was also excited because David let me get some pictures of us in front of the St. George Temple, it was so beautiful and peaceful just like all temples. David and I decided that St. George is hot! BUT it isn’t like humid hot and so we could live in a place like that, we will have to see where his career takes us. 

I love Him!

 Ahh true love

Last Day of our Cruise

Our awesome pool area

This picture really is awful but oh well you pay a price when you want a good tan or if your name is Kari and you are white

Simpra is this band's name. There was the cutest little girl that kept going on stage with them!

And they sang so well, we loved it.

Our last Dinnertime

 At our last dinner they gave us a happy honeymoon cake and neither of us thought to take a picture of it when it looked nice, we destroyed most of it first and then we thought "oh wait.... we should take a picture." They sang "happy honeymoon" like the happy birthday song it was so fun!

"oppy foneymoon" to us- yay!

 Every night we passed these statues in one of the main halls, David would say "I want to take a picure by them" and on the final night we did.

It was actually pretty fun many of the people who passed us were laughing when they saw what we were doing.

He blends right in!

 hehe my turn!

I'm not actually on crack in this one, I just look like it.

Maybe a little high on coke though

 They had the BIGGEST boxes of cigarettes I have ever seen! That's not saying much though because obvisouly I don't smoke. But I do have a pretty funny story. Over the last month I have been having dreams where I am smoking, a LOT. Hah I've never smoked in my life but in these dreams I always really like it and the other night I remember thinking (in my dream) "this is totally against the word of wisdom! I should stop" haha it was so weird. Then the very next night I had a dream and in it David was smoking! It was so weird, when I saw him I yelled "David! What are you doing" and he replied all nonchalant "what I only do it every once in a while." I'm still trying to decide where these dreams come from but once again just for the record I have never smoked in my entire life, EVER! It's just so random.

I have this tendancy to hide from people, literally hide like around corners behind furniture whatever. I don't know why or where it came from but I have been doing it for years. I used to hide around the corner at the bottom of our stairs when I was younger jump out and scare my younger cousin Suzy as she came around it. I got her everytime and I always thought it was so funny. Well now I do it to David, probably too much haha it's so lame and childish but for the time being he seems to think it's cute we will see how long he feels that way ;) 

 I'm hiding!

This is our room, Ding dong

Oh yeah

 Kissy kissy

 This is what we used when we made a mess and felt bad making the room service people clean up our mess.

The End of the Cruise

Now I only have some stuff from our trip back, our trip to St. George, some of the fun stuff we have been doing inbetween, our journey to Ohio.... who am I kidding I got lots more

Honduras & Our last Formal Night

This was our last stop of our cruise and we almost didn't do anything. The shops they had at the port were teeny, not that we had bought much at the others but it was very touristy- translation expensive trinkets. David and I wandered the streets quite a bit before finding some t-shirts and such that we liked.

 David was all excited to show me random little things in the stores they had past the touristy part of town. I guess a lot of it reminded him of his mission in Equador.I'm not going to lie it was a little scary and sad, people there live in huts and lean-to's and just about anything and they rely heavily on the tourists for money. I was glad David was there to protect me too, it's difficult to be too scared when you have a big 6'2 man walking next to you :)

 Initially we weren't sure if we wanted to go to the beach because they were saying it would be $20 a person per way so 2ppl 2 ways= $80 but we were able to find one that was $40 total and we decided that if we didn't go we would regret it. Conclusion it was the NICEST beach of the entire trip! So glad we decided to go.The sand was smooth the water was perfect and we even got to snokel a bit. I had a slight panic attack when I thought I was getting too close to coral once, I started splashing around to get away, like an idiot and sent a ton of salt water down David's snorkel. Oopps sorry David, in my defense we all know you're the calm one.

 No judgements on my bathing suit please, yes I did gain 10 lbs (and some) on our cruise.

 I mainly did it for the sun exposure, which I might add that David still kicked my butt he tans so much better then me.... green with envy

Beautiful white sand, and it was soooo soft!

This is before we went snorkeling and I freaked out.
And then it was...

Dinner Time!

My totally awesome party dress! Thanks Mama Warden. I felt kinda bad cuz

she and David both wanted me to get something a little less flashy but I could NOT

help myself. It had my two weeknesses= sparkly-ness and twirly-ness

Profile shot, darn he is cute!

Thirsty?

So serious

This was our second to last dinner, all night Huzaini called me Princess Kahhhreee and all the next night. I like being a princess haha! And David cleans up nice too right? of corse he's so gentlemanly he can't help but look handsome!

Specialty Restraunt

David and I decided, after much talk with the people who sat by us at dinner, that we should go to a specialty restraunt on our ship. And it was soooo tasty! It was an extra $35 a person but you were allowed to order as much as you wanted... David and I ordered lots, all but one of the appetizers, two entrees and just about every dessert. Hey we had to get our money's worth right? David ordered french sweet bread and we have since learned that that is the thymus of the brain, tasty?

goat cheese soffle

These were the CUTEST little salt and pepper shakers I have ever seen!

So tiny :)

Mmmmm lobster tail, We also had Filet mignon (best piece of steak I have ever had)

Looking back David says he wished he would have asked for the "fiL-ET MiG-Non"

Cuz everyone knows making fun of French words and things is fun/ funny right?? haha jkk

(another side note I have come up with jkk which is- just kidding.... kind of)

A little melon sherbet to clear the palate

I actually didn't really like any of the sherbet it was too fruity for me or some thing, I can't

explain it, it just tasted off? Off meaning funny or questionable. 

At the end of our meal we got our bill and to our surprise our total $0.00!!! What? Because our room had gotten upgraded we were given over $100 in free stuff coupons and one of those perks included a free specialty restraunt meal and we almost didn't go because we thought we had to pay for it! Go us for deciding to try new things, French things besides!