One year down and FOREVER to go...

Ty,

I want you to know that I love you SO much. I am truely blessed to have you as my husband, my best friend, my everything. You are for sure my better half. When anyone needs you you're always there. When I'm having a bad day you're there to comfort me. When I need someone to talk to you're a phone call away. When I don't know what to do you give me advice. When I'm fustrated or stressed you calm me down. The lists goes on... You are wonderful person. And I'm so lucky to have you in my life and to be married to such an amazing man as you. I don't believe we got together by coincidence but rather by design. I couldn't have met you at a better time in my life than when I did. You fulfill me and you are what makes me whole. And I can't wait for the day when we can go to the temple and kneel at the alter and exchange eternal vows and become an eternal couple. What joy that day will bring. You mean everything and so much more to me. You are my husband and for that I am eternally grateful.

Love you always and forever,

Your love

(P.S.- Thanks for truely making this the best year of my life!!!)

...CRUISING THE WESTERN CARIBBEAN...

Doug, Ty, Karen, & Mark checking out the beach in Cozumel, Mexico. I forgot my water shoes so I took pics instead. I HATE things in between my toes. Flip flops are fine but that's all. Sand and rocks are the WORST! I know I'm a NERD! haha...
The BEAUTIFUL beach in Cozumel.
SORRY this pic is upside down. I couldn't figure out how to ROTATE the pic so this will have to do. This guy just stood as a STATUE and made tips off it. Thought it was pretty interesting. Could you IMAGINE doing that all day? Man, and I THOUGHT I had a few slow days. ha!
WE had to take a pic to show you how SMALL the shower was in our state room. (And don't judge the hair. I hadn't touched it yet that day.)
And THIS wonderful lady was our dining room waitress, Nina. SWEET girl and she took SUCH good care of us every night. I must say they had some of the BEST food I'd ever had!

MWAH infront of Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville.
LEAVING Grand Cayman. We rode in a TENDER boat to get back on the ship.
LAST we went to Cozemel, Mexico. WE had a lot of fun! We rented a sweet yellow jeep and toured the Island and OF COURSE had to make time for some shopping. This is just some RANDOM pic I took off the beach.
My SEXY man! We stood on this HUGE crazy rock thing. It had wholes EVERYWHERE as you can see here. You definitely had to be VERY careful walking on it.
Me standing on the same WHOLELY thing. It was scary especially in SANDALS!

Another one of our stops was at George Town, Grand Cayman. It was definitely MY favorite places BY far! There's over 500 banks there! Pretty crazy! And they don't call it HELL there for nothing. It was HOT!!! But the shopping was GREAT! This was an underground shop. Had to take a pic w/ this BIG hunk. haha...

ALMOST shopped out.

US in Grand Cayman.

Had to take a pic of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville!

Ty, Kara, & Ryan on the shuttle bus going the beach.
mwah

Another RANDOM pic in Jamaica.
And Ty and Ryan swimming to a water tramp. No not a whore an actual TRAMPOLINE in the water. haha...

Ty BEFORE zip lining.
The ship in Haiti.
Dining room. We ALL had assigned seats which made it SUPER nice!
A FISH carved out of a watermelon! Just an EXAMPLE of the crazy things they did out of food.
RANDOM pic of Montego bay, Jamaica.

Us AFTER the baby Zip line.
Tyler AND his friend Doug.
Oh YES so THIS is the TOP of the ZIP line! I about crapped myself! haha... It goes all the way to the other side of the island. Yeah can you see that LIL line over there? That's WHERE we were going! They had 5 lines going at once AND don't worry I happened to be ONE of the FIRST ones to get chosen to go!!!
You SEE the ship? It DIDN'T even look that big from where WE were!
Mark and Karen. We ALL pretty much talked Mark into going. It REALLY ended up being A LOT of fun!!! He seemed to REALLY enjoy it! I must say that I have THE coolest INLAWS ever!!

Us waiting for the Comedian show...
A LITTLE bored waiting for kareoke night to start. Yeah we're cute! haha...
Labadee, Haiti

We went zip lining over the ocean. Haiti has the largest ZIP line to ever go over the ocean! I pretty much had to DARE myself to do it after KNOWING that! It was SO fun! They had us try the baby one first before the actual HUGE one!
This is the baby zip line.Ryan, and Kara

US during the ' just in case we HAVE to jump over board' drill... haha...
Ty's parents! SO cute!!!
My sista Kara, & Ty's bro Ryan (Hey if they got hitched we'd be like the Houston's!)
And YES that red on the floor is a JOGGING track! haha... I maybe saw 3 people jogging the whole week. And they had a gym! Come on WHO seriously works out during a cruise OR just vacation for crying out loud?!!!
And they REALLY do make animals out of the towels every night. CRAZY! It was fun to see what NEW animal would be on our bed at night!

So let me remind you this IS the largest ship to ever sail the ocean. It was the 'Royal Caribbean International' cruise line for anyone who is interested. (7 night western caribbean cruise) And the ship itself is called 'Liberty of the Seas'. It was HUGE! This is looking up at the elevators. (They're the 2 lighted up things on the sides.) And if you haven't ever been on a cruise I HIGHLY recommend you to go! We'll definitely go again...
This would be the mall! Sorry not a very good picture.
And you can't forget the H2o Zone. ( The kids play area.)
Everyone just a chillin'. They were all so tired of me taking pics and it was the first day! haha...
Us leaving good ole' Miami.

So my MORE than very generous family bought Ty & I this luggage for our birthdays. Our birthdays are exactly 1 week apart. (He turned the BIG 24 & for me the BIG 21.) So why not do 2 in 1 when you can, right? So they all pitched in and got us this matching set! And it was such a GREAT gift since I didn't own 1 suitcase. So we wanna give a huge THANK YOU shout out to all of my fam that pitched in! They were SO perfect and we love them!!! And aren't they just the CUTEST?!! Thanks again!!!

FUN in MIAMI!!!

So before we left on our cruise we stayed in Miami for a night. So FUN! And of course Ty and I had to find Miami Ink! We love the show and had to take a pic in front of the tatoo shop. Miami Ink is actually now their store where they sale all their merchandise. And right next to it on the left is where their NEW shop is "Love Hate Tatoo". And we saw Chris Garver! So cool! I admire his art work A LOT! Wanted SO badly to get a pic w/ him but he was outside smoking w/ some buddies and that was just weird. I KNOW I should have!!!

Couldn't help myself. Beautiful!

Ty and I just hanging out at the hotel.

And of course we had to make a trip to the beach!

Ty's friend Doug and his wife Kara, Ty's dad, my older sista Kara, Ty's older bro Ryan, me & Ty