Saturday, May 22, 2010

A much needed update!

So I have much to blog about!! April and May have been filled with fun vacations and outings!!! In April the girls (mom, me, brae, kell, shay, kori, and kierra) went down to VeGaS for cheer nationals. My mom owned a cheer gym call Flyerz, she just recently sold it and so it is now called TNT. However we went down as and for Flyerz!! They did absolutely amazing takin 1St place!! It was a bitter sweet vacation. Flyerz has been part of my life for 10 years, so in other words 1/2 of my life has been Flyerz. I cheered on the top team for 8 of the 10 years being national champions for almost all of those 8 years!! Flyerz has helped make me who I am today and I will be eternally grateful for the long hard hours and what seemed like endless practices, the tears, the pain, the soreness, the friends/friendships that were made and continue to remain!! We had so much fun as we partied and walked down the strip. Watching people who are totally drunk and out of it is truly amazing and entertaining. Honestly anything and everything goes in Vegas! My mom, me, and Shaylee (my best friend) were walking on the strip on Saturday afternoon when suddenly we noticed this guy following us. All of a sudden he come up to me and Shaylee and says "hey girls my name is so and so, I work over at the Jet Ladies Night Club and would really like to see you there tonight, I'll be working the front desk so just come up to me and I'll get you right in. Oh and don't worry I'll definitely remember you two!!" He then gave us a huge stack of cards to pass out to our "other girls". Me and Shaylee were like oh ya okay totally....not haah. We both started laughing as soon as he left. My mom was in amazement and then started laughing. Only in Vegas would that happen, me and Shaylee are even legal to do anything in Vegas......(both under 21). All of us girls had an absolutely fabulous!!! In conclusion all I can say is "I found it!""......."my ears hurt down here". :) Mom, kell, and Shaylee you know what I'm talking about!! I love you girls all so much!! Bree we absolutely missed you like crazy!! Love you!
Dear dear Kori what would we do with out you??? Love you soooooo much!! p.s. get up LiZa!!

repeat pic of last year!!


We are hot we know!! (my bff Shaylee)



don't even ask!! Bless our hearts hahahaha



Inside Cesars Palace! Shay, me, mom, and Brae



Seductive!


The GiRlS!!


National Champions!



The Flyerz originals (we are missing Bree, love you sis!!)



Barron girls minus Bree, once again we love you and missed you on our trip :(




Ben and Jerrys!! Right after me and Shaylee were stocked






CaNcUn!

So I got home from Vegas on Sunday then Corey and I left that Tuesday for Cancun!! :) In celebration of our 1 year anniversary!! Cancun was absolutely amazing! It was perfect weather, besides a huge tropical strom which lasted about 2 hours. It was so nice to just get away just the two of us. We stayed at an all inclusive resort called the RIU Palace Las Americans. Food and drinks unlimited!! :) Our resort was absolutely incredible. It was right on the beach and had every activity you could ever think of doing. One of the days we went to a place called Xelha and the ancient ruins called Tulum. Xelha is a natural tropical water aquarium. It was filled with millions of beautiful tropical fish, big sting rays, alligators, sharks, and baracudas...... Okay so not really sharks or alligators but our little tour guy told us that and I seriously almost died I told Corey that "we are NOT going snorkling!" Sharks have to be one of my biggest fears they totally scare me! Of course our tour guide was joking and Corey laughed at me! It was so fun to go snorkling, I have never snorkled before so honestly it was kind of weird at first. It was so hard for me not to breathe out of my nose haha I'll be honest I struggled the first little while. Then when it came to going in dark little caves I stayed out and Corey went in, yes I was scared! Right before we left Xelha we got our pictures taken with these huge beautiful birds and a tucan! I got to hold the tucan in one of them and then in the other we both held the bigger birds! Our next stop after Xelha was Tulum. Tulum was incredible. Like I said before Tulum is the Mayans ancient ruins. Tulum means "walled city" it has 3 walls one on the North, South, and West. The reason for there not being a wall on the East is because the East side just happens to be the ocean. As we walked into the city it was like the Book of Mormon came to life. It was absolutely incredible. It was interesting our tour guide asked us where we were from so we told him Utah. Of course the first words that came out of his mouth after that was oh so you are Mormons, or the LDS church. We smiled and said yes. Then he said that is so cool we have a lot of you people come here and ask for mormon guides because this has to do with like your religion. We just laughed but he was right. It would have been cool to have a LDS tour guide and see what he said and kind of get the Book of Mormon side of things. All in all we had an absolutely incredible time. From our virgin Strawberry/ Pina Coladas, to food, to Xelha and the ruins, and of course laying out on the beach, swimming in the ocean and the pool we was a perfect vacation and much needed!! (These obviously aren't our only pictures but if I was to put all of them on we'd be here forever, so here are just a few...enjoy!!)

A pretty sunset!


"Bubba Gump" need i say more?

The birds that we held

These huge lizard things were everywhere!

the StOrM!


the roads after the storm


in our bus on our way to Xelha/Tulum


Snorkling at Xelha


Tulum


Main temple in Tulum

us on the ocean side of tulum
Core playin water volleyball


The beautiful ocean!



our resort



20 YeArS OlD!!!
The next day after returning from Cancun just happened to be my 20th birthday!! So yes Corey is no longer married to a teenager! :) He is absolutely thrilled and couldn't stop saying that all day! (craddle robber) :) I got fabulous gifts from everyone....Thank you all so much I love you!! It honestly feels so weird being 20, it makes me sound so old! Corey asked me when we first started looking for house 9 mo ago if I ever thought that by the time I was 19 that I would be married and lookin for a house. Of course I never ever thought any of that but I wouldn't change any of it. Now I look back and think wow I would've never thought that by the time that I turned 20 I would have been married for a year, worked as an MA for 2.5 years, and have built a home and become a home owner!....WhAt WaS i ThInKiNg??? haha No actually I couldn't imagine life being any different. Corey and I have truly been so very blessed in so many ways. I must say that I have been the most blessed because I have Corey as my husband and that is the greasted blessing in my life. If I didn't have anything else in my life except for the gospel, Corey, and family I would still be the happiest person in the world!
me and Corey


my incredible parents and I

Me and my two amazing and favorite brothers!

Kell, Melynne, Brae, and Me

The birthday gang!

All of us playing Croquet!

MY hot husband!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

EaStEr!!

Okay so really quickly before I talk about Easter I thought I would put some pics of Corey's B-day party. For Corey's birthday I made dinner for mine and Corey's family, then we did dessert and invited some of our closest friends and our extended family members over to our house!! It was so much fun, we had a great time and are so grateful for our friends and family that came. What would we do without all of you?? We love you all so much!! xoxoxoxo



some of the party gang!!




Me and the birthday boy!! I just love him so much!



Me and my fabulous sister-in law! Melynne is pregnant!! yeah! She is having a boy and is due in August! We are so freaking excited! Every time I see her I have to go and touch her belly, I love it! She is seriously the cutest little pregnant woman ever!! Love you "lynneee"



Me and my best friend Shaylee Pulley! Me and Shay have been friends since Jr. High. We have seriously done pretty much everything together and have had way to many fun, crazy, and funny times/experiences! She is dating one of Corey's good friends Ryley Johnson and we are secretly hoping and praying that they get married!! We love them both so much!!




Me and 2 of my 3 sisters!! We miss you so much Bree and love you so much! Your the greatest!





Corey with his mom and papa!!



Corey opening his present from his parents!



present opening continued

Birthday Boy! Happy 23rd birthday babe! Love you!




Plowing out the candles



The birthday cake! So I made this better than "anything" cake basically so Corey could blow out some candles. But for Corey's real dessert I (with the help of my amazing mom) made Peach cobbler. Corey isn't a huge dessert or sweets kind of guy. He does however love peach cobbler, therefore that is what I made him!


Now onto .....


Easter!!

Okay so the Barron family has a lot of traditions and I absolutely love it. All growing up we always colored eggs, then the easter bunny would hide the eggs, and first thing Easter morning we would wake up and do a big Easter egg hunt. Well because half of us kids are grown up and married now, and it was Conference weekend we did things a little different. Now when I say different I am saying that instead of doing the easter egg hunt first thing in the morning we did it in between conference sessions. This year might have been one of the biggest Easter egg hunts ever done by the Bryan Barron family. We had a total of 54 eggs to find! :0 It was so much fun! All morning Corey had been talking trash that he was going to win, so my goal in this hunt was to make sure I beat Corey. And of course......we tied!! We both found 10 eggs! haha! So because we found 10 eggs (each) the Corey and Brittnee Hansen family took 1st place!! We won the Easter egg hunt! :) Corey was so Proud!! It was such a great Easter/Conference weekend. Conference weekend is by far one of my favorite weekends and time of the year. It just happened to be a bonus that it also got to be Easter weekend as well.

Our Easter basket from my mom and dad! Thanks mom and dad!! We love you guys so much! :)


Stretching before the big hunt!




My favorite and most incredible big brother Brigg a.k.a. "jose" stretching the "hamstrings" before the big hunt.


impressive stretching!

stretching continued

Pregnant Melynne stretching or atleast trying to haha


Me on the hunt



The end of the hunt! We are lined up in order of place taken in the race. 1st (winners) on the right (which is why me and Corey are standing there :)) and last (losers) going down to the left!! Don't worry guys you'll have next year!! :) Love you all!
Because Corey had the priesthood session on Saturday night Corey, me and my good friend Jenna colored Easter eggs on Friday night! Jenna is attending SUU right now and she was up for the weekend so she came out to see our house and then of course we had her stay to do Easter eggs with us!! We had a blast and we absolutely love Jenna and were so glad that she stayed and joined us!! Love ya girl!

Givin Core a kiss!

Holding up our eggs!

Me and Jen! Wanna kiss our "lucky eggs".......... :) Jenna is one of my bestest friends ever. We have now eachother since forever, we grew up in the same ward and have been neighbors our whole lives. I absolutely love her!

Our egg dye!

Corey dipping his egg

Me and Jen with our eggs!


All of our eggs!
We had such a great weekend! It is always great to spend time with both families and our good friends! And of course to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I am so grateful for my savior and for his great sacrifice! And for the knowledge that I have because of it and him!! I hope that you all enjoyed this fabulous conference and Easter weekend. Much Love to you all!! XOXOXXOXO