Andy and Tricia: April 2009

Since I'm terrible at keeping this thing up to date, I'm doing one post to sum up our winter. We ended the year by traveling to the Bahamas. JoAnna was gracious enough to give us her timeshare down there so we invited our friends Billy and Shelly and hopped a flight to Nassau. The highlight of the trip was scuba diving with Caribbean Reef Sharks!! We started the new year by going to Cancun with Andy's company, APX. We had so much fun!!! With the new year also came responsibilities...Andy had to focus on preparing his office for the upcoming summer and I worked as an RN on the Surgical-Trauma Unit as well as teaching 25 new nursing students in their nursing fundamentals lab down at BYU. We also found time to have fun. Andy and I took a road trip to Northern CA to visit family. We were lucky enough to crash a trip Glenn and Heather had planned to go to the Cooper’s place in Sea Ranch J We had fun playing on the beach and enjoying the beautiful weather!! In March, Andy spent 10 days in Costa Rica with Bob, Jeff, Jacob, and a few other friends and I spent a long weekend with my dear friend Sara and her baby Saylor in Portland, Oregon. We both had a lot of fun!! March brought around both of our bdays-Andy had a special Wizards and Dragons theme for his party (unbenounced to him). Andy was a trooper and even wore the purple cape and wizard's hat. :-) The biggest thing Andy and I looked forward to at the start of the new year was training for a half marathon set to take place in Calistoga, CA on April 28. A lot of friends all signed up for the race and it ended up with about 15 of us all running the half marathon and actually doing well (Andy wanted me to also mention that he beat Heather and I will mention that he took first out of all the friends)!! Wearing ridiculous outfits for the race was of course a must. ;-) After the marathon we went and picked up the newest member of our family, Ruby. She's a 9 month old boxer that we got from some friends in Hemet, CA (yes, we flew from CA to Vegas, drove to Hemet, then turned around and drove Ruby all the way home) that didn't have enought time and energy for her. We absolutely LOVE her! She fits in perfectly with our little family. Andy and I are now packing for our yearly summer move. We are heading back to Jackson, Mississippi. I will be commuting to SLC one week a month in order to keep my job at Intermountain Medical Center....yes, its not the best idea I've ever had, but I was unable to find a temporary nursing job in Jackson. Anyways...there's an update of our lives. Bing bang bong.

Christmas lights at the SLC temple

Hogle Zoo Lights

Making a snowman with Anna and Bert in our backyard :-)

BAHAMAS!!

Descending below our boat. Crazy what lurks beneath you!

There were about 75 sharks swimming around us. A few even bumped into us!

Andy and I are in the bottom right of the picture

CANCUN!!!!

So I kinda missed the memo when Andy said "1,2,3...jump" that he actually meant JUMP....I just stepped off and therefore Andy ended up hitting the water sideways since I wouldn't let go of his hand. Ooops.