CaNcUn!

Well guys, the day is coming up pretty soon! March 6th! Woot! That is in 10 days!!!! I can barely believe how fast everything is going!

So, today since I haven't posted anything for so so long I decided I will just do a fun post of some random pics to show you what we have been up to lately.

These pictures are from our little Cancun trip. Joel earned this trip from work this summer and since I am his fiance'...they let me tag along! So we got to go to Mexico with a bunch of friends. It was a blast!!! This pic is us at a water hole. They had a zip line going into it and we had lots of fun doing tricks and back flips off it. Oh so so fun! That day was so great! We did a zip line coarse through the forest and mountain biked up to this water hole where we went swimming! LOVE MEXICO! :)

This is a picture of the resort we stayed at! It was so rad! Probably our favorite part was the pina coladas!!! Yum! They were so so good! We probably gained 10 pounds just from them alone! ha ha jk...but really, they were that good! :) You could just swim up to the bar in the water and they would serve them to you while you were swimming. Oh and ps. they were virgin (alcohol free!) just incase you were wondering. ha ha.

One of the nights we all went out for dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Cancun City is crazy! There are so many people. After dinner we went to the flea market and all of the vendors try to sell you their stuff and I was a little surprised! I thought everything was going to be really cheap...but no no, all of them were trying to rip us off! We were trying to bargin with some people and get some t-shirts for a good price and they were being sticklers. I told them that we could get them cheaper in the US and they were like "well you are in Mexico and these are very nice and made from good materials, this isn't the cheap stuff." ha ha what rascals :)

Me and Joel at the beach! Woot! The water was so beautiful and clear. We loved it!

EnGaGeD!!!!

Ok, so I haven't posted anything FOREVER!!!.....so sorry to all of you faithful bloggers! I will try to be better!

Anyhow, I thought I better share the good news! I'm ENGAGED! Woot! His name is Joel Robbins and he is my absolute best friend! We are sooo excited and can't wait to seal the deal on March 6th in the Logan Temple. We met at Weber State in one of our classes and things just got better from there! He is from South Ogden and we live pretty close to each other, which is great and so convenient! Life couldn't be better!

We just got our engagement pictures taken yesterday and it was so much fun! Our photographer was great and made the whole session fun and relaxed. Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures real soon!

So, there you have it! :) I'm engaged and lovin it! :) If you want the details you'll just have to give me a call sometime! Sorry, I'd write all about it, but who wants to read a 5 page engagement story! ha ha

oh, I almost forgot... This is Chantell posting :) :)

Women's Conference!!!-dedicated to all of the women out there! :)

First of all, to those who are wondering.....no, we are not dead!! ha ha. Sorry we have been so horrible at keeping our blog up-dated! But, just so you know we are home from Hawaii and back in good old Ogden. So many things have happened since being home so hopefully we will have time to document stuff!....but if not, we will just start from today!

This weekend has been soooo good!!! First of all, this Saturday was Women's Conference!!! Need I say more?? Well, I will anyways! I loved every talk! Each speaker was so inspired and I don't know if I have ever taken notes so fast in my life! I wanted to write down everything that was said!! I will definitely be re-reading those talks! After listening to them I felt like I could go run a marathon!...ok, maybe not literally!....but you get the picture! :) I wanted to go and DO, help, serve, and create!! Elder Uchtdorf's talk really hit me when he talked about how we should all be creators. He said to create things of substance and beauty. I started thinking, maybe I can't create a lot. But everyone can make people smile! So I'll start there, creating smiles, and work my way up! :)
I know that we are all daughters of God and listening to those talks helped me realize how much potential we really do have and the influence for good that we can make.
I just want to thank all of the amazing women out there! You do so much and inspire so many! And really, that is what our calling is all about! Helping, serving, inspiring, creating :), and the list goes on and on. But all of those things contribute to building the Lords kingdom and that is our goal. I love the gospel so so much! We are so blessed to have these amazing women as our leaders and examples. I hope that all of you women were able to listen to this conference, and if not I would really encourage you to get the talks and read them. I promise that you will learn and love them!

Thanks Britt and Jill for coming with me! You are both amazing and I love you so much! (We were all traveling back to Cache Valley so we could watch it with our moms and sisters, but we were running out of time and we really didn't want to miss it! So, we just pulled up to the nearest stake center in Brigham and ran inside!....luckily we were already in our dresses and ready to go! And luckily we are in Utah so there are churches everywhere :) ha ha) Sorry mom's and sister's that we didn't make it in time to watch it with you! But I'm sure you wouldn't have had it any other way. We all made it and got to watch it! :) Mission accomplished right!? :)
After the conference we met up with our mom and Tosha and went out for dinner! Firehouse.....yum....pizzookies! Thanks mom! You are the bomb!

Joys, Fears, Obsessions, Random Facts

So I was tagged awhile ago and I’m just now finally doing it sorry Lacy. I still consider myself an amateur to this whole blogging thing. But really how much does it take?
Here it goes… 3 Joys, 3 Fears, 3 Current Obsessions, and 3 Random Facts

3 Joys
#1 Family of course! I’m sure most of you already know that’s a given.

#2 Friends, I love them all!!! Even the crazies (Alyse, bah ha! I love you!) #3 Outdoors! I love, love, love being outside hiking, going for walks, running whatever!

3 Fears
#1 Doing something bad! Haha, that probably sounds a little crazy but I do not ever want to have a regret hanging over my head from something I could have prevented!
#2 Bats, rats and mice I don’t know why… I’ve never had an encounter but I can imagine one biting me and they are filthy looking disease infested creatures. Eww, just thinking about them makes me cringe.
#3 Walking to my car alone in the dark. Or walking anywhere where I’m completely alone for that matter in the dark. If it’s populated with lots of strangers I’m okay!

3 Current Obsessions
#1 Yogurt Land, I’m going to miss that place oh so much!
#2 I have favorite words/phrases and they are somewhat weird but I love to say them (fancy- it’s a new one, bomb, filthy, dummy- I know it’s rude but anyone who’s around me knows it makes me laugh, Get Out!, yikes, and Welp… ya can’t win em all!) just to list a few.
#3 People watching, I’m obsessed!!! Chantell is my partner in crime. We’ve gotten to such a low that we take pictures with no shame! I mean seriously there are people out there just screaming “Take my picture PLEASE”! I think we'll dedicate a post just for those people! Waikiki is pRiMe for people watching!!!!

3 Random Facts
#1 I put on my mascara like a freak. I have to use a little plastic card put it up behind my eyelashes and do my thing. I can’t possibly do it without a card! I have done this ever since I’ve worn mascara.
#2 I have slightly webbed toes! Yep, I really do! And NO, it does not make me swim any faster! Honestly people come up with something new when you find this one out! Everyone asks like they are the most original thing that hit this earth. Haha, I take pride in those little piglets! :)And yes if you want to see them I’ll be more than happy to show you!
#3 I knocked a dear friends two front teeth clean out in the fifth grade. I SWEAR it was NOT intentional at all! I'm really not proud of this one!

The Beauties of the Island!

A personal favorite of mine! Along with many others! :)

Just from the Lulu's. This is also the view we look out to while we're at work!

This is another one of those. You can pretty much drive anywhere and find the coolest views! We have seen some way neat ones!!!

This view was so cool! This was out of the DuPonts (a sweet couple we met at the temple)back window... how would that be? You can see where we live from it! It's one on the sky scrapers. Yep, we live in a hotel (I've never missed my own bed more!)

Where ya goin?

So on a quick little stop for Hawaii's famous Malasada our dad gets out of the car and runs across the street to a little shop. Me and my bro Josh look at each other and were like...."um so where is dad going? haha!"

#1 Lowest Priced Tobacco! I had to snap a picture! When he got back we all asked about his shopping experience. The funny thing is, he saw hats in the window and somehow managed to miss that it was a smoke shop! I bet the hats were nice :)

Polynesian Cultural Center

This picture does not give this place justice. But hopefully gives those who haven't seen it some what of an idea. The PCC is awesome! All of the Polynesian islands in one place! It's packed full of culture and tradition!

Does this picture really need a caption? We're just crazy! I love my sisters!

This was at the Tongan village. These guys climbed completely up the whole coconut tree with bare hands and feet super fast! Impressive!

When we go touring we make sure we have proof! See the camera in my dads hands? Well it was glued there the whole time. :) We tried to pry it away while he was sleeping... not a chance :) We really are happy to have lots of pictures and video though. We will always cherish those memories!

We had such a great time at the PCC. We didn't get to spend tons of time there but we loved every bit of it! There are little villages all over and you visit them and learn about the cultures. We loved seeing Tonga and New Zealand (that is where our dad served his mission so that was awesome to be able to relate with him)