Happy Holidays Video Blog

I want to take a moment to thank all of my friends and family that made our journey possible! Your love and support for our off the wall ideas really mean the world to us! Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here is are some video clips from our trip to spread the love!

Life after vacation..

Needless to say, I miss Mexico and all of the new journeys every day! It is nice to be home though, especially for the holidays. Our cat Chewbacca missed us like crazy and has made sure to show us by cuddling up every chance he gets.

Other than Chew we have been trying to spend time with Shane's family and catching up with friends when we can. Job hunting was the #1 priority for me when we got home and believe it or not I got a job and even started today! I am now a secretary/receptionist at a closet company. I didn't go as far away from home improvement as I thought I would, but I am still super excited! The company does quotes at your home and then installs custom closets and storage areas  (garage, office, ect.). I will be running things in the Show Room and doing schedules, answering phones, and all that jazz. 

Shane is still on the hunt for work and is looking for something different. He would prefer a government job but is open to other options so the hunt continues. It's fun starting something new!

The house is Christmassy and I love it!

Still have some LIGHT Christmas shopping to do and we are right around the corner from the holiday! Just like me to wait till last minute. 

Also I dyed my hair back to brown!!! YEY! The sun made it so light in Cancun and I was dying to dye it! I am not a blonde and my hair was far to close to being there. 

Well that about sums up my updates of life after the best trip ever. 

Now we work and start saving to do it all over again.. Next stop.. I am thinking Euro Trip.

Florida

Florida-Florida-Florida!

I hate getting backed up on blogging because then I have too much to cover so lets keep this basic with a few words and a bunch of pics!

The night we came in after family dinner we headed to the dog tracks

One of my younger brothers!

Shane's first time ever at the dog track holding up his bet.

After the tracks we headed out to see my friend Kaity! It's always great to see my girlfriends!

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Saturday I was able to spend some time with my niece!!! One of the most wonderful women I know had the most gorgeous daughter 4 months ago and we finally got to meet. I can't get enough of her!

Alexie Charlotte

Love her so much!

The beautiful mother of my niece! ( '', ) So Happy to see my girls!

At night we went to a country bar for my youngest brothers 21st birthday!! 

Happy Birthday Joey!

Cousin Paul shooting pool.

Brother Sam

Brother Joey

I only managed to get pictures of pool, but our night was full of cold beverages and line dancing as well. I had a great time and some really fun memories. 

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As for Sunday.. I slipped out early to hang out with Kim and Alexie! I have been dying to take some pictures of the beauty so we had our own little photo shoot! I decided I love taking baby pictures and I need to get a nice camera ( I used Kim's ). We had such a good time with the baby shoot that we went back out for a family shoot later in the day. 

Our model for the afternoon! She was loving it!

Little Snow Angel

Beauty Queen

Alexie and Mommy

Alexie and Daddy

Most beautiful eyes!

Sunday night was pretty great as well. My mother is wonderful and so since Shane and I missed thanksgiving she had my family wait until we got there to celebrate! The food was delicious and it was great to spend some time with the fam! 

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Monday was a blur of a day. Shane and I took a drive down the beach and then went back to the house to hang out with my oldest brother Sam. Dinner and drinks later at night with my good friend Billy at Applebee's!

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Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday

Sea World and Disney Christmas! It was a long day full of fun! We drove up to Orlando early in the morning and met up with one of my oldest friends, Elena! Then we all spent the day at Sea World!

New best friend

This guy only smiled like this for Shane! New favorite picture!

Fish Tank Bar

Resturant walls... 

Cute sea lion show! 

The Polar Express! (My lovely friend Elena)

Shamu Family Show!

I have been waiting to get some pictures from Elena of Disney (we used her camera) but will skip them for now. After Sea world we headed to Disney for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party! I love Disney Christmas because they light up the castle, have fake snow down main street, and give you endless cookies and hot coco. What more could a girl ask for. It was such a great night! They only sell a limited amount of tickets, so we didn't have to wait in any lines the whole night. Favorite part of all was the fire works show! I love fireworks!! 

Magical as always!

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Wednesday not so magical! We drove home from Orlando and Shane was running a fever all day. I contemplated changing our flight for the next morning because I was worried about putting him on a plane, but we decided we have been away from home for too long and so he fought it out. He rested up all day, and at night I had to sneak out to say goodbye to everyone.

My big brother and I! :)

Goodbye to my sweet baby Alexie and momma Kim!

And most importantly my mom! I miss her every day but luckily she is only a phone call away and likes to talk to me!

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Thursday Shane was still running his fever but we managed to hop on a plane and make it home to Tucson! His mom had a doctors appointment all set up, so when we got back he went and he got some antibiotics for his ear infection. It's great being back to our sweet cat, Chewbacca! We both missed him like crazy! Looking forward to getting Shane feeling better so we can catch up with all of my friends here in town. Otherwise Vacation is over and we are home safe and had the time of our lives. If anyone asks about it I am just going to give them my blog site because I am pretty sure I covered all of the basics in here. Adios!

Bye Cancun, Hello Florida

Adios Cancun! You have been an amazing adventure that I would repeat over and over again!

We signed the guest book to our "Cozy Studio Condo" to let them know how much we enjoyed it!

Goodbye Tiny room that we made sure to keep messy! 

Goodbye Awesome Car! 

You were very tiny as well! That came in handy when we had to squeeze through other cars. 

Goodbye beautiful beaches! You will be missed.

We boarded on a plane and left Cancun on Friday! Lay over in Miami. I am not a big fan of customs in Miami when you have to catch another flight. I swear by the time we went through customs, picked up our luggage, waited in line to basically walk through the doors out of the luggage pickup, checked back in our luggage, waited in line for security check, boarded a shuttle and walked across the airport, we finally arrived to our gate and everyone was already on the plane! They really don't leave you any wiggle room. A little too much going on there for me. Luckily it was only a 45 minute flight to Tampa where my brother picked us up! Since we have hit Florida it has been non-stop! I am so happy to be around my friends and family. Pictures will come later!

XPLoR

11/25-11/27

Well unfortunately my phone (which takes 95% of my pictures) is now dead. I think it got wet at some point of our trip and now it's completely useless. So since Sunday-Tuesday were not super trip days I didn't manage to get any pics other than one from pool side on my underwater camera..

We played Bingo.. Shane won a bag, headband, and cup! Woot Woot! Other than that we just relaxed in the sun, did a little dining around the city, and just took it easy.

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11/28

Just south of Playa Del Carmen there is an awesome natural park called Xplor. Basically they used natural caves to build the park around and provide activities to enjoy it while still preserving it (zip lines, jeep rides, underwater river floating, underwater river rafting)! It was a blast!

On the way!

Little cavemen explaining our adventure

Walking up up up to our next zip line!

Long way down!!!!

Here we go! (I have so many great videos from this day, but will have to wait until I get home to do anything with them! The video camera on this works great)

Cave life

Fun little dino they have you walk by

On our way through a cave in a Jeep

I always let Shane drive. I prefer to enjoy the scenery.. 

helmets on at all times!

Getting ready for some river floating. First they prep you with a waterfall.. colddd waterfall!!

After a fun day! The park took really fun awesome pictures of us throughout the day that I am still debating if I should buy.. but they charge you an arm and a leg so since I like my appendages my pictures will have to do! haha

11/29

TODAY IS OUR LAST FULL DAY IN CANCUN!

We have to pack and then enjoy our last night in this beautiful place.

I am going to miss it but really looking forward to our trip to Florida to see my family!

:)