The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
I have had a lot of things going on in my happy little world that I have got to come to peace with. I read this Serenity Prayer and everything is so true. I need to be able to look back at this when times start getting hard because there are definitely things that I totally do not understand and need to constantly be reminded that sometimes you just can't change things and you need to leave it all up to God to handle for you.
Last weekend we had a Wonderful Surprise 30th Anniversary Party for mom and dad. We were so very lucky to have every person in the family to attend except for 5 people some of which were sick and live out of town. First of all, THANK EVERYONE so much for coming and making their day everything we had hoped and planned for it to be. Now back to the story, my cousin Mary, her husband and their beautiful baby girl Hope were able to come in from NC and she was also our Photographer for the day (pictures will come later when we get them back). Will not say much on this topic for Mary sake but me and her were able to have a nice and kinda lengthy conversation about it being difficult getting pregnant and how it can just make you mad at the world, everyone and everything. As some of you know, this month was a year of us trying. Mary also had a difficult time and in talking to her and another friend, I think that this is where some of my hostility and hard feelings are coming from. I don't understand how people can have children and not want them, love them, spend time with them, give them that love and affection, and everything else wonderful that goes along with having a little one and here we are wanting one so bad. Not only that, it is just making me so frustrated so easily with little things such as laziness, carelessness, irresponsibility, etc. I guess you can see the list just goes on and on. In saying all this, I just ask you all to Pray for me and help me get through this time of such negativity in my life. I hate feeling this way and don't really understand why, saying that normally I am a happy person.
It really sounds like I have so much negativity and I know I do also have positive in my life so On a positive note, I know I have an absolutely AMAZING HUSBAND and most WONDERFUL MARRIAGE EVER and that is absolutely all I could really ask for. I have said several times, I never knew Marriage would be this easy and this good. I know marriage has its speed bumps you have to cross but I never imagined it would be this easy. Maybe it is just cause I got that one in a million Man that made everything so great. Trent Justin I love you more than anything in this entire world. Thank you so much for being so understanding and loving when I have my hard times and as bad as I hate to say it, Thank you for making me laugh when all I want to do is cry. You are Aaaaahhhh-mazing. I love you Babe.
Mom, dad, Amber, Jack, Colton, Ricky, Linda, Leah, and Scott - Y'all are the most amazing family anyone could ever ask for. There is an abundance of love flowing through the family and I am so very Thankful that we have each and every one of you. With the love and support of our families, we can do anything.
Also on another happy note. We are having landscaping done Tuesday. We have been at our house for 3 years in July and we are finally doing landscaping. We are so excited because we know this is just going to make the house look tons better. Can't wait.
Sorry for my little rampage and venting session here. I hope my Serenity Prayer can help someone else out here.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thirty One Party
My sister is now a Thirty One Consultant and I am going to be hosting a party for her on June 12th. I will be getting some invitations sent out in the next few days however if you are unable to attend or live too far away, you can browse and order off of their website. www.mythirtyone.com/22262 go to place an order top center of the page, then click place an order online on the right side and then click shop now by my name. They have all kinds of stuff… purses, baby stuff, wallets, lunchboxes, diaper bags, organization things, etc. Go check it out. Feel free to contact me for any questions. Hope to see you all at the party.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Beautiful Mexico Anniversary Cruise!
WARNING: THIS IS EXTREMELY LONG WITH TONS OF PICTURES!!!
First of all, Happy 2nd Anniversary to us! Wow, I can't believe it has already been 2 years. Time sure does fly by. We had an absolutely amazing time on our Cruise. Of course this was my 2nd cruise so I knew what to expect but this was Trent's first and he also loved it. Neither one of us wanted to get off the ship when it was over. We already look forward to being able to go again. Luckily, I get to go back on one June 5th with my mom and cousin Kate and Trent is jealous of that. Anyways, this blog is basically just going to be pictures with explanations.
This first picture is out of order but oh well. It is a panoramic view sailing into Cozumel. Not so sure why it posted so small but you get the point.
We stayed in the Renaissance Riverview Mobile and it was a great motel and very nice. We had a port view so we woke up to seeing this outside of our motel room window.
Here we are getting ready to leave the motel room but took a picture first. You can see the ship to the left of us.
We had just boarded onto the ship and ate lunch and went to look around. Trent was excited and couldn't wait to start sailing away.
I had arranged for our ship room to be decorated before we even got there so that when Trent opened the door, he would be surprised. There was more than just this, there were also things hanging from the ceiling but it was just something cute and fun.
We had just started sailing away and for some reason, I liked the looks of Trent's profile with the sun shining down on the bay.
This was the sun set the first night.
The 2nd day on the ship was Captains night. We wore things from our wedding. I bought one of my bridesmaids dresses and had the train cut off and then wore bracelet and earrings from the wedding and the necklace from Amber's wedding. Trent wore his pin stripe suit but wore the vest and tie that he wore in our wedding. This was the professional picture taken that we bought.
We were up on one of the higher decks so the wind was blowing like crazy so I look like crap. If I wasn't blowing away, it would have been a great picture
I love this picture of Trent. I sure do have one Handsome hubby.
Me in front of our window in our room
I love this picture of us.
Trent in front of the Whale tale.
Me showing off the name of the ship with the whale tale in the back ground.
Looking towards the end of the ship at night
It was so extremely humid in Mexico that each morning when I pulled the lens cap off of the camera, it would fog up and take forever to un fog.
Docked in Cozumel at the Puerta Maya pier with the Carnival Legend beside us.
Cozumel lighthouse
View pulling into Cozumel. We docked at the pier in front of the yellow building to the right
In Cozumel just after getting off the ship.
Waiting to get on the Twister speed boat to take us to Isla Pasion (Passion Island). The twister was a speed boat that done 360 degree turns in the shallower spots of the ocean. We done probably around 12 turns. It was a blast.
Entrance into Isla Pasion. This is the actual Island that Corona commercials are filmed.
Just some more view of Passion Island
Me and Trent standing under the 2 palm trees used in the Corona Commercials.
This is the Place that is known for Goddess of fertility. I sat on it so maybe we will get lucky. Also, the little cactus like plant things that you see all around it is what is used to make Mexican Tequila.
Beautiful view of Passion Island.
So many photo opportunities on this island. It was absolutely gorgeous.
I wish I could stay here forever.
These are the 2 exact trees that are used to film Corona Commercials (from here on out will be called Corona Trees)
Me and Trent under the Corona Trees
Kissing under the Corona Trees
These were the Twister boat drivers. Jorge, Me, Willie, and Trent. Jorge was Willies assistant and Willie drove the twister. These guys were great and hilarious. May do this with Mom and Kate when we go to Cozumel and I will definitely request to have them if I do return.
The water is so Amazingly blue in Mexico. I don't think it matters how deep it is, you can see the bottom.
In Cozumel, standing in front of our ship the Carnival Fantasy.
Oops this picture is also a little out of order. We docked in Calica which is nothing but basically a sand pit and rock quarry. You can see that pic in a minute but Playa Del Carmen is about 15 minutes from Calica so this picture is Playa del Carmen zoomed in from the ship in Calica.
This is Calica. This is the view you get when you sail in. Not much. Welcome to Calica.
Again, Welcome to Calica
This is when we first walked off the ship in Calica. I liked the view of the sun coming around the side of the ship and reflecting in the water.
In Calica, we took a 4 wheeling excursion the the Jungle and Beach. (it also stopped at a Cavern) On the way to the Ranch where we got the 4 wheelers, the speed bumps where huge ropes tied to trees on each side of the road. That totally cracked us up.
Trent in his helmet and Bandana (to shield face from dust) ready to start the excursion
Here is the cavern that it also took us to. Right outside of this cavern, I got attacked by what I like to call the MMM. Which stands for the Mexican Mesquito Maffia. Only about the bottom 6 inches of my legs where showing and I came back with 43 bites on just that half.
The leader of the pack stopped so the slower people who had never drove a 4 wheeler could catch up so me and Trent used it as a photo oportunity.
The 4 wheeling ride made a brief stop at a beach and I almost sat on this iguana. After Trent warned me that I about sat on it, I chased it and took its picture
This was at the brief beach stop.
After the brief beach stop, it took us to this beach which we stayed at for an hour and a half.
After the 4 wheeler ride, we got a taxi to take us to 5th Ave. in Playa del Carmen where there are shops and restruants galore, attached to the beautiful beach.
A church on 5th Ave attached to the shops and beach.
We stopped at Carlos and Charlies to eat and there menus were GIGANTIC. As you can tell in this picture it basically took up half the table.
Their suvenier cups were also GIGANTIC. Not to mention all the drinks in Mexico are nasty. Diet Coke is called Coke Liet which does not even taste like diet coke. Absolutely nasty but that was the only thing they had that I would drink. Note to self and anyone else going to Mexico. Take plenty of bottle water with you if you drink diet drinks. I think the regular drinks were fine and just like normal drinks in America.
Another view of such clear water. At this point, we were at 180 ft sea depth and we were up on one of the higher decks and got this fish swimming by.
Leaving Calica, we got this pilot boat driving up and the man in the white shirt climbed out of our Ship and onto that boat. Too bad I didnt have the camera ready to get him climing out of our ship. I thought that was pretty cool.
Last but not least, from Calica you can see Cozumel (of course and Visa Versa). Here we were leaving Calica and caught this beautiful sunset setting over Cozumel.
First of all, Happy 2nd Anniversary to us! Wow, I can't believe it has already been 2 years. Time sure does fly by. We had an absolutely amazing time on our Cruise. Of course this was my 2nd cruise so I knew what to expect but this was Trent's first and he also loved it. Neither one of us wanted to get off the ship when it was over. We already look forward to being able to go again. Luckily, I get to go back on one June 5th with my mom and cousin Kate and Trent is jealous of that. Anyways, this blog is basically just going to be pictures with explanations.
This first picture is out of order but oh well. It is a panoramic view sailing into Cozumel. Not so sure why it posted so small but you get the point.
We stayed in the Renaissance Riverview Mobile and it was a great motel and very nice. We had a port view so we woke up to seeing this outside of our motel room window.
Here we are getting ready to leave the motel room but took a picture first. You can see the ship to the left of us.
We had just boarded onto the ship and ate lunch and went to look around. Trent was excited and couldn't wait to start sailing away.
I had arranged for our ship room to be decorated before we even got there so that when Trent opened the door, he would be surprised. There was more than just this, there were also things hanging from the ceiling but it was just something cute and fun.
We had just started sailing away and for some reason, I liked the looks of Trent's profile with the sun shining down on the bay.
This was the sun set the first night.
The 2nd day on the ship was Captains night. We wore things from our wedding. I bought one of my bridesmaids dresses and had the train cut off and then wore bracelet and earrings from the wedding and the necklace from Amber's wedding. Trent wore his pin stripe suit but wore the vest and tie that he wore in our wedding. This was the professional picture taken that we bought.
We were up on one of the higher decks so the wind was blowing like crazy so I look like crap. If I wasn't blowing away, it would have been a great picture
I love this picture of Trent. I sure do have one Handsome hubby.
Me in front of our window in our room
I love this picture of us.
Trent in front of the Whale tale.
Me showing off the name of the ship with the whale tale in the back ground.
Looking towards the end of the ship at night
It was so extremely humid in Mexico that each morning when I pulled the lens cap off of the camera, it would fog up and take forever to un fog.
Docked in Cozumel at the Puerta Maya pier with the Carnival Legend beside us.
Cozumel lighthouse
View pulling into Cozumel. We docked at the pier in front of the yellow building to the rightIn Cozumel just after getting off the ship.
Waiting to get on the Twister speed boat to take us to Isla Pasion (Passion Island). The twister was a speed boat that done 360 degree turns in the shallower spots of the ocean. We done probably around 12 turns. It was a blast.
Entrance into Isla Pasion. This is the actual Island that Corona commercials are filmed.
Just some more view of Passion Island
Me and Trent standing under the 2 palm trees used in the Corona Commercials.
This is the Place that is known for Goddess of fertility. I sat on it so maybe we will get lucky. Also, the little cactus like plant things that you see all around it is what is used to make Mexican Tequila.
Beautiful view of Passion Island.
So many photo opportunities on this island. It was absolutely gorgeous.
I wish I could stay here forever.
These are the 2 exact trees that are used to film Corona Commercials (from here on out will be called Corona Trees)
Me and Trent under the Corona Trees
Kissing under the Corona TreesThese were the Twister boat drivers. Jorge, Me, Willie, and Trent. Jorge was Willies assistant and Willie drove the twister. These guys were great and hilarious. May do this with Mom and Kate when we go to Cozumel and I will definitely request to have them if I do return.
The water is so Amazingly blue in Mexico. I don't think it matters how deep it is, you can see the bottom.
In Cozumel, standing in front of our ship the Carnival Fantasy.
Oops this picture is also a little out of order. We docked in Calica which is nothing but basically a sand pit and rock quarry. You can see that pic in a minute but Playa Del Carmen is about 15 minutes from Calica so this picture is Playa del Carmen zoomed in from the ship in Calica.
This is Calica. This is the view you get when you sail in. Not much. Welcome to Calica. 
Again, Welcome to Calica
This is when we first walked off the ship in Calica. I liked the view of the sun coming around the side of the ship and reflecting in the water.
In Calica, we took a 4 wheeling excursion the the Jungle and Beach. (it also stopped at a Cavern) On the way to the Ranch where we got the 4 wheelers, the speed bumps where huge ropes tied to trees on each side of the road. That totally cracked us up.
Trent in his helmet and Bandana (to shield face from dust) ready to start the excursion
Here is the cavern that it also took us to. Right outside of this cavern, I got attacked by what I like to call the MMM. Which stands for the Mexican Mesquito Maffia. Only about the bottom 6 inches of my legs where showing and I came back with 43 bites on just that half. 
The leader of the pack stopped so the slower people who had never drove a 4 wheeler could catch up so me and Trent used it as a photo oportunity.
The 4 wheeling ride made a brief stop at a beach and I almost sat on this iguana. After Trent warned me that I about sat on it, I chased it and took its picture
This was at the brief beach stop.
After the brief beach stop, it took us to this beach which we stayed at for an hour and a half.
After the 4 wheeler ride, we got a taxi to take us to 5th Ave. in Playa del Carmen where there are shops and restruants galore, attached to the beautiful beach.
A church on 5th Ave attached to the shops and beach.
We stopped at Carlos and Charlies to eat and there menus were GIGANTIC. As you can tell in this picture it basically took up half the table.
Their suvenier cups were also GIGANTIC. Not to mention all the drinks in Mexico are nasty. Diet Coke is called Coke Liet which does not even taste like diet coke. Absolutely nasty but that was the only thing they had that I would drink. Note to self and anyone else going to Mexico. Take plenty of bottle water with you if you drink diet drinks. I think the regular drinks were fine and just like normal drinks in America.
Another view of such clear water. At this point, we were at 180 ft sea depth and we were up on one of the higher decks and got this fish swimming by.
Leaving Calica, we got this pilot boat driving up and the man in the white shirt climbed out of our Ship and onto that boat. Too bad I didnt have the camera ready to get him climing out of our ship. I thought that was pretty cool.
Last but not least, from Calica you can see Cozumel (of course and Visa Versa). Here we were leaving Calica and caught this beautiful sunset setting over Cozumel. 
We had a wonderful Anniversary and we ARE NOT ready to get back to the real world and start working. We have lots of fun things still coming up though to keep us busy and side tracked. In a week and a half, we have family pictures coming up in Manchester and then beginning of June, I have my cruise with mom and Kate. Middle of June, Trent has his trip to Omaha with his dad. July we have 2 parties to go to and July 9th - 11th we have AJ Fundraiser Ball Tournament. Oh yeah, and then in September, Trent friend and roomate from College is getting married in South Carolina. Busy busy, life always seems fun and busy for me and Trent.
Hope you all enjoyed this horribly long blog.
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