A POST!!

I know. It's shocking. I have been absent in blogging world for quite some time.
I have been a horrible blog reader/commenter/stalker and I am sorry to all my bloggy friends. But I hope to be better at it in the near future.

I haven't been on my computer as much lately. It's been nice. When I am on, I usually end up on facebook and plurk. My two favorite things.

Not a lot has been going on with us. We have been sick since we returned home from the cruise. It's been pretty bad. Dustyn is finally feeling better, but I am still on the mend. I have had a double ear ache and my ears are still so clogged that I am not hearing well these days. :P I can't wait to be back to my normal self. Free of cough, ear aches and mucus. Ew. I know. :P

Today we were able to go up to our nephew's farewell. Tanner is leaving on his mission here soon! We are so excited for him! He is going to Tucson, AZ - Spanish Speaking. He will be an awesome missionary! It was fun to get together with the family and see everyone!

I am currently making frozen yogurt! I am so excited and I hope it is good!  We'll see. I am hoping it tastes just like Red Mango. Ha ha! I can wish, huh? I'll let you know how it turns out.

We finally bought a fridge! YAY! I am so excited and I can't wait to get it. After we went and ordered it, we came home and got to thinking about our back door. Our door was super narrow. It was basically a closet door. 28 inches wide. We looked up the fridge and found out that we would at least need 36 inches to get the fridge in. Off to Home Depot we go. We ended up buying a 36 inch door. My dad was super nice and helped us put it in. It ended up being better than it could have been, but it was still a project. They ended up cutting into the wood siding to make it wide enough... and it made a lot of dust. My house is covered in dust. But it is so nice to have a nice door! I know it will help keep our house warm. I haven't felt like cleaning it all up yet though... so it's still a nice mess! :) Hopefully this week I will get over feeling sick and get my house clean! We'll see.

On Valentines day we were able to go up the Draper Temple Open House. It was absolutely beautiful! I think it is quickly becoming my favorite temple! If you have not had the chance to see it, you should! Anyone can go. It goes until the 14th of March. It is definitely worth seeing! After we went to the Open House we went to The Pie in SLC to eat. It was really yummy! I had never been to the restaurant and it wasn't what I was expecting at all, but it still was a lot of fun. Loud fun, but fun.

Last Tuesday we were able to go up to the Jazz game. We met Brandon and JaKell up there. It was lots of fun and I am glad we were able to go. They even won! Thank goodness. After all, they were only playing the Grizzlies. I was sad when I found out that Larry H Miller had passed away. He has done a lot of really great things for Utah. It sad how quickly his health declined.

That is about all that has gone on in the past few weeks. Just being sick and survivin'.  Hopefully I will get a chance tomorrow to talk more about the cruise and such.

Have a great week!

Mexican Riviera - D and K Pictures Edition 2

Yes, I am stealing more photos from JaKell. (I'd just send you there, but her blog is private - so I steal)

Here are some of us all dressed up for formal night.

Mexican Riviera - D and K Pictures Edition

Here are a few random pictures of us. Seriously... this is about all I took of us the entire trip.

I might find a few more later. :)

Mexican Riviera - Food Edition Pictures

My sister took all the pics on the trip... I hardly picked up my camera. We actually took mostly video, but currently my laptop is too full to download them. Don't worry, we have a 2TB hard drive on the way so I can back everything up and delete a lot of my laptop. Yahoo! And maybe I guess I could start going through my pictures and posting a few. I am so lazy. I got use to not even looking or thinking about my computer for a week. Very nice.

Anyways, I just stole a few off her blog until I go get the CD of pictures.

So here are a few "food" photos courtesy of JaKell.

And a few of the Sapphire Princess:

Mexican Riviera - Food Edition

Here is a short recap of our vacation! (in a few posts)
We have decided that cruising is the way to go when you want to vacation! We had a great time and are glad that we were able to go! We can't wait to book our next cruise!

A food review - in list form!
-We probably ate the best food we have ever eaten, and a lot of it. On the Sapphire Princess they have one Buffet that is open 24/7. It has super yummy food and lots of it. There is also a pizza place that had some of the best pizza that I have ever eaten! So good... I am already craving more pizza. There was also a grill that served hamburgers, hotdogs, turkey burgers, bratwurst and lots of other good food (that I never actually got to). But every night we met (my parents, sister and her husband Brandon, and Chet) and had dinner in one of the five dinning rooms. We are talking fine dinning. So so good. We tried a lot of new things (and there were a few that I couldn't make myself try - like frog legs... ew) The food was seriously the best and totally worth every penny we paid. (And of course you could eat whatever you wanted and as much as you wanted - all included in the cost of the cruise. I can guarantee the cost of all the food I ate exceeded the cost of the cruise - for sure!)

-Here are some random tidbits about the ship/food/galley:
(I totally found all this interesting, feel free to skip it! lol)
+The ship stored about 110-115 tons of food at the beginning of the cruise (for a 7 day cruise).
+The Galley Brigade Consists of:
1 Executive Chef
1 Executive Sous Chef
4 Sous Chefs
17 First Cooks
137 Cooks
12 Galley Cleaners
10 First Dishwashers
40 Dish and Pan Cleaners
+The average amount of fish prepared daily: 1500 lbs
+The average amount of meats cooked daily:
Poultry: 1800 lbs
Beef: 2100 lbs
Pork: 1000 lbs
Veal: 400 lbs
Lamb: 460 lbs
+Average amount of salads served daily: 1600 lbs
+Average amount of shrimp used daily: 300 lbs
+Average amount of mayonnaise used daily: 28 gallons
+Average amount of sandwiches made daily: 1500 each
+Average amount of pastas made daily: 500 lbs
+Average amount of potatoes cooked daily: 2000 lbs
+Average amount of vegetables cooked daily: 2500 lbs
+Average amount of soups made daily: 550 gallons
+Average amount of flour used daily (for breads, pizza, etc): 1700 lbs
+Average amount of pastries prepared daily: 6000
+Average amount of ice cream prepared daily: 90 gal (They had the BEST sorbet!)
+Average amount of cakes and pies served daily: 300
+Average amount of butter used daily: 500 lbs
+Average amount of fresh fruit served daily: 7000 lbs

+Average amount of dishes washed daily: 70,000
+Average amount of glasses washed daily: 21,500
+Average amount of detergent used daily: 58 gallons

And that is just for the passengers. There is also 1100 crew member on board to feed.

We were able to take a tour of the galley. So, so cool! And it is HUGE! We only saw one deck that supplies food for three of the dinning rooms. The other two have another galley on another deck.
Deck 5 galley: 1200 sq feet
Deck 6 galley: 1200 sq feet
Other galleys: 2400 sq feet
Dry storage space area: 16,000 sq feet
Walk in fridge: 18,000 sq feet
Butcher and Fish Shop Prep room: 7,000 sq feet

They say the average weight gain on a 7 day cruise is 7-10lbs. I was going to be so happy if it was ONLY 10 pounds... luckily I must have walked it all off and was shocked I didn't gain any weight. YAY!

Okay enough random info. Hopefully my next post will actually be about the cruise!
Sadly, I didn't really take many pictures, but I have a few!

We're Back....

Yes, we made it home. We had a perfect time, but it's not always easy coming from this:

(Yes, that is Dustyn!)
To this:

(Yes, that is snow on those cactuses)