Alabama...The Beginning

So we've been here for little over a week, but I'll start at the beginning of when we left for our trip. It was a really fun drive. And surprisingly it seemed short. We took 4 days/3 nights to drive.

Ok, so I was trying to get a picture of every State we entered, but that didn't work, I was either reading or playing with Mya. So I missed A LOT! I did manage to get some, like Little America. That was our first stop, we ate some food and just hung out a little so Mya didn't get too sick of driving. 

I really wanted to buy this for Mya, but we couldn't. Sad! She loved it too!

Sadly, this was the first State picture I got and that was lucky cuz we stopped at the first rest area to take another little break.  We got some pretty funny videos while taking a driving break. First we have Chris and Daneile: Chris was prepared, but Daneile just wasn't willing to fully commit. :)

Then we have me and Vince. I was excited and was totally ready to fly like the wind, however, Vince was not:

And finally, we put the only two people who were both fully committed and we got this: 

After our oh so fun time, we got back on the road. My next sign I got was this one:

Haha, yeah I missed a couple in between, but oh well! At least I got some!

Another stop. Mya needed it more than I did, but it was a pretty cool rest stop.

Like I said, it was pretty cool. Just really windy. And I mean really windy!

When I saw this sign, I was totally blown away! I thought to myself "What? Where did the rest of the country go?! Shouldn't we only be in Wyoming?" haha, it was such an awesome feeling to be so close! I started getting butterflies instantly!

This sign says it all "Welcome to Alabama the beautiful" It certainly is beautiful! I was so excited and it already felt like home! Now our adventure begins and we'll for sure make the best of it. I'm sure we'll see some tough times, but out of those comes wonderful memories! :)

The New Mrs. Martinez

There is mostly going to be just pictures, because you know what they say, a picture is worth a 1,ooo words! :)
I got my pictures back from my wedding on Sunday and figured it was time to update! It was a month ago, (Although it feels only a week ago)That Vince and I tied the knot. It was such a special day and so much fun. I was so nervous, I couldn't sleep the night before. I just had so many butterflies! I felt like a kid on Christmas Eve, I couldn't wait to see what Santa brought me!

We got to the church at 10:00 am to get ready for the big day. It was pretty crazy in that dressing room! So much fun! Everyone getting their hair and make up done.
Here is Daneile curling her hair.

Here is Lindsay doing her make up.

Amanda doing her make up as well

And Holly painting her toes all pretty!

Mya was so much fun, she was such a crazy little girl that day. :) She wanted to get all pretty too like all her aunts! I can't remember who it was, but someone put all of Mya's clips in her hair all over. Mya showed off her clips to everyone! It was cute, she was so proud!

I had to get my hair done as the same time as my make up. I could not wait until it was time to get in my dress.
As we were all getting ready, my Dad was making signs and he thought it would be funny to write it in Spanish. I must admit, it was cute and I laughed. I love my silly Dad!
Now it was Mya's turn to get her hair done. This picture is so sweet. She looked so cute!Now it's time for me to get into my dress. I had to hold it up while my Mom got the laces ready to lace me up!
This is when I realized I couldn't breathe! GAH!!! TOO TIGHT!!! :) My Mom had to loosen it up.
I was so excited!! I forgot about being nervous and just wanted to be walking down that aisle toward and toward new life!
Here is me and my Grandma! She's such a beautiful lady!
Me and my wonderful Mother! She was so excited! I love my dearest Mother!!!Here are all the girls ready and looking absolutly radiant! :)

Me and My beautiful daughter! She was tired already, but still looked like such a doll!

LETS GO!!!

As the girls were slaving away at looking prestentable, we had Vince and Scott...

Yes, playing video games! Haha, I really had to laugh at that!

Finally, the guys are all ready and looking sharp! Very handsome.

The big moment has arrived, the guests are seated and everyone is in their place! Cue the music! And Here..We..Gooo...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kai did such a great job! I love his cute little smile!
She look so darn sweet!! I LOVE HER SO MUCH! :)
The first thought I had when I walked into that room was "wow, Vince looks so handsome!" I even told my Dad that! I couldn't stop smiling. My dimple is really showing in this one!
I couldn't lift my arms up very high, and I wanted so bad to just throw my arms up and around Vince! My dress even got hooked on his suit!
Yay!! WE DID IT!!!!!! (Like I said before, I couldn't lift up my arms, that was very hard to do! As you can see the look on my face) I now present to you: Mr. & Mrs. Vince Martinez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!That was the best day of my life! I am married to my highschool sweetheart, the man of my dreams, the one who picks me up when I fall. He is the only one that can make me laugh when I'm sad, and calm me when I'm mad. He has my heart and I his. Not to mention we have the best daughter ever! My life couldn't get any better! Oh wait! It will!!! It only goes up from here! :)

I'll post more on the reception and stuff later, as for now, I'm done! It's taken me 2 hours to get that! (p.s. the photos we snapped by: CT Photography or yourlifesjourney.blogspot.com) :) Thanks Chelsie and Aunt Tracy!

New Years Resolutions!

I was reading Chelsie's blog about her new years resolution and it inspired me to write a few down as well. :) haha, thanks Chels!

1. I've been feeling not very happy about my body lately. I'm not saying I need to lose a lot of weight, but I do need to start exercising again. It's surprising how much better you feel about yourself right after a good work out!

2. I need to be more kind to my family. (mostly Vince) I find myself getting very irritated easily and it's mostly about dumb things. Also my stress level builds until I explode and the person I usually end up taking things out on are Vince, so I need to channel my feelings better and just become a kinder person.

3. When I was growing up I did a lot of service. I wasn't very happy to give it until I was doing it. Service makes you a happier person. I'm going to try to give more service, whether its just picking things up around the house or something big. Service is service and I'm gonna do it! :)

That's all I have. Working on little things at a time. I figure if I start small I'll be more likely to achieve my goals. I'll post on here my progress. Don't expect too much right now though, I'm getting married in a week! :)

Getting Hitched!

Yep, you read it right, I'm getting married!!! It was the sweetest thing! Vince had Mya walk out with the ring and hand it to me. I couldn't believe it! Was it really what I thought it was? Sure enough Vince got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. After a tearful yes, he gave me a great big hug! He had no flowers, no big speech, nothing fancy, but it was the sweetest thing I could ever imagine! 

So, as you can imagine, I'm going to be quite busy planning! We're getting married on Jan 23, 2010 before we leave for Alabama. Things are going rather smoothly, which is the way I'd rather have it! I'll get some pictures of everything after the wedding. Wish me luck! :)

My computer is back!

Alright, I got my computer all fixed!! So I'll be posting very soon! Be sure to check it out because there will be a lot!!!

Mya and Makeup

Mya loves to play with anyone's makeup. You can almost always find her digging into my makeup or Grandma's makeup! Well when Grandma Huff was putting on her makeup, Mya found her eye shadow. Yes you heard me right, eyeshadow. This isn't lipstick!

Mesa Falls

Vince and I were invited to go camping with Daneile and Chris to Mesa Falls. I was excited to go because I hadn't been camping in 3 years! We got all packed up on Friday and left town. (Mya stayed with my Mom) It took us a couple of hrs to drive there and another 20 min to hike to the camp spot. It had such a beautiful scenery and was an excellent spot to camp. After we unloaded, we all went down to the river to watch Chris fish. I decided to try climbing up the rocks back to our campsite. I didn't get very far, but it was fun to climb rocks like a little kid again!

3 bites and 3 lost fish later, Chris gave up on fishing for the evening and we all hiked back to our camp spot. We then made a camp fire and sat around waiting for everyone else to show up.

Daneile had a wonderfully fun idea to make a torch. We all watched as she ran around picking up things to use in her torch. She even glued it together with some sticky sap. It was a way neat torch and it burned for quite awhile, although it didn't light up very far.

That night we had yummy dutch oven lasagna and peach cobbler for dessert. It was fantastic. We then stayed up and talked and laughed around the campfire. Chris sure has some colorful friends and made me laugh a lot.

The next morning, Vince and I were the only ones awake and sitting around snacking when Vince nudged me and pointed, I looked over and to my surprise there was a small grizzly bear about 100 ft from our camp!! Holy Cow! Where is the darn camera?!?! Of course, I didn't think of getting a picture until it was gone. Vince and I stood up slowly and was inching our way to the tent to wake up Chris and Daneile. It took a long time to get them to believe us. In fact they didn't get up until I said "You can punch me in the face if there isn't really a bear, just get up!!" As we were trying to get their attention, the bear looked at us and it made me freeze! I was like crap, now he's going to say "hmm, some yummy campers, I think I'll eat them!" But lucky for us, the bear was scared and ran away, but not before Daneile and Chris saw the little guy! I just have to say that we were lucky he wasn't full grown or baby, because then we would be dealing with a mama bear!

After our exciting morning, everyone decided it was time to jump off the cliff into the water. I have to say that it was the craziest thing that I've ever seen and I would never jump off it myself. It was way neat to see them do it. We got a lot of videos and pictures. After they jumped into the freezing water a couple of times, we decided to go for a hike. We hiked for about 30 min and ended up at another cliff they used to jump off of. They found a raft and 2 oars and went down the river with it a couple of times. (Those guys are just full of adventure)

When we got back into camp, it was time for lunch and yummy cobbler again! Plus some more fishing! Chris ended up with 1 fish, Vince and I on the other hand, didn't catch a single one. Bummer! When our tummies were full, it was time to start packing and head home. I didn't want to leave quite yet, but I missed Mya terribly! (it was the longest I'd ever been away from her)

It was such a great weekend and I'm glad we were invited. I can't wait to go camping again! Maybe next time we can bring some guns and go shooting as well.