Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Christmas in Reno!

This year we had a quiet Christmas! It wasn't our year to have Carter. I told Andy this was the first year I haven't been around any kids for Christmas, it was so weird! That's the best part of Christmas, seeing the little kiddos light up opening presents!
So we celebrated Christmas a different way....We drove to Reno and stayed with Andy's Dad and step-mom. They are so great! We relaxed, ate, played, relaxed and ate some more! It was really a great time!
We didn't take a whole lot of pictures, I need to get better at that! While we were there we drove to Tahoe and went ice skating! I'm not great at it but sure had a lot of fun! There was NO SNOW in Tahoe! It was so weird! Here we are skating. Nice pose, huh?! :)

I grew up with having a cabin in Tahoe! So many memories! We stopped and took a picture by Donner Lake, where my family's cabin used to be by! It's so beautiful up there!

Tonight we get Carter back and get to have Christmas again with him! We're excited to see him open his presents! Hope you all had a great Christmas! I can't believe how fast this year went by!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Bahamas Honeymoon!!!


Here's some of our honeymoon pics! Bahamas Cruise! It was amazing!

I had never been snorkeling before! Andy was so excited to take me! He LOVES the ocean! He already had some snorkeling gear so we bought some for me right before we left and brought it with us! Here we are on our first day of snorkeling (and soon to be my last....you'll see why later)



I've always wanted to drink something delicious out of a coconut :) Our yummy coconut drink!


This was our view from the ship every night. INCREDIBLE! Every night we would go out and watch the sunset. It was so pretty and perfect and you just don't see that sight every day so we really tried to soak it up! Then we would go hit the buffet for the 6th time and stuff our faces with crepes. Cruises are dangerous for your figure :)




Having some fun in our stateroom! We'd play all day at the beach and come back and crash!


Total awesomeness in the stateroom going on here. We took way to many dumb pictures of ourselves, haha. That's what I love most about this guy! Always willing to be goofy and play :) This is probably the only pic that Andy won't kill me for posting from our stateroom photo shoot:)

On our second day we rented scooters! LOVE! This was one of my favorite things! Andy drove us all over the island! And it's a good thing he drove because they drive on the wrong side of the road! We had a blast!

We drove the scooter all over looking for the perfect spot to snorkel. We ended up not being able to snorkel because the waves were out of control! So instead we played in the waves! Went in and out with the tide :) Lots of fun!!


This was our 3rd days destination! It's the cruise lines own private beach! This was the most gorgeous of all the places! We soaked up the rays all day!


The view from our lounge chairs! Does it get any better than this?! The water was sooo clear! Looks like the perfect place to snorkel right? WRONG! So we tried snorkeling, I was so excited because it was so pretty! But there were jellyfish everywhere! I had never seen a jellyfish in real life and didn't know how clear and see through they were! So we tried snorkeling anyway and ran into a whole school of them! I about had a panic attack and swam to shore for my dear life, haha. I am forever scarred. Andy is determined to change that:)


Andy on our last night of the cruise!

Last sunset! We had a perfect week and made some great memories :)


Monday, November 14, 2011

We're finally married!

Well, I finally did it! The Petersen crew officially has a blog now! It is still definitely a work in progress, gotta work out the kinks (like figuring out how to change the font color on the side bars that blend in, etc....not that computer savvy). I wanted to get this blog up and going basically for my own journaling purposes and it will be great for my friends and fam to keep in touch! I have been horrible with taking pictures lately and I'm really hoping this blog will keep me motivated to document more stuff! As for now...the biggest thing that has happened is we became a family! :) Here's some candid photos of the happy day!

* One of my favorite parts of weddings is seeing the couple come out of the doors for the first time! The happiness is written all over their faces!

I love this pic! "We're finally married!!!"










And we're off to the Bahamas! When I gave Carter a hug goodbye he asked me if he could come with us! Sorry buddy, not this time :) I'll post pics of the honeymoon soon!