Our Jamaican Vacation (Part 2)!

This is what we looked at everyday, ahh I could get used to that.

During the day we would lay out and then take a dip in the ocean and then go float in the pool. It doesn't get any better than that.

Our second night there we ate dinner at Portifino which was the Italian restaurant. It was SOOO good! For our appetizer we had this thing called a mushroom pancake and it was amazing, I can't even describe it. I even took a picture of it.

Our entree was this wonderfully cooked snapper.

If you can't tell already, this was my favorite restaurant. We even went back for a second night!

We were in Jamaica from June 6th-11th. Rob's birthday was June 10th so I had to do something special. I went down to the front desk and asked if they could send a little dessert to our room for my husband's birthday, they said of course. We were about to start getting ready for dinner and there was a knock at our door. It was room service bringing Rob a piece of cake, champagne and fresh fruit. How wonderful to get to spend your birthday in Jamaica.

I made him take a picutre with his cake!

After that, we finished getting ready for dinner and headed to eat at Himitsu which was the Japanese restaurant. It was great, we had a great meal which included sushi, some chicken appetizer and shrimp fried rice.

 At this restaurant you had to make reservations if you wanted to sit at the hibachi table, Rob and I really didn't care about sitting at the hibachi table b/c once you've seen one show, you've seen them all.

After dinner that night we came back to the room and there was a knock at our door, the concierge had brought us some more champagne and some flowers for Rob's birthday. He had a very special birthday!

Nightlife at the resort was good some nights. One night they had a steel drum band which was GREAT and then one night they had things going on outside.

While we would be laying out and enjoying the sun, they had people walking around taking your drink orders. They would also bring you bottled WATA, that's right I said WATA not WATER. One day I was drinking water and I looked at the bottle and notice it said WATA not water...haha.

We had such a great vacation! We are already planning our next one. We really love going to all-inclusive resorts b/c everything is already paid for upfront. You don't pay for food or drinks, the only thing you pay for is if you want to go on an excursion. We didn't do any excursions, we just enjoyed relaxing! This was a great vacation before children come in the picture. Sorry if the posts were long, i just wanted to document everything I could think of, and I probably left some things out. It's so hard for me to post just one or two pictures. Gosh, it's gonna be bad when we have children...haha. I hope ya'll enjoyed reading about our Jamaican Vacation.

This picture was taken on our balcony the day we were leaving!

I took this picture as we were leaving the resort.

Our Jamaican Vacation!

We are back from our Jamaican Vacation and  had a GREAT time. We left home (June 5th) Saturday afternoon and headed to Atlanta which took a little over 3 hours. We stayed in a hotel right near the airport. At this hotel they had the option of paying a little bit extra and leaving your car there and their shuttle would take you to the airport. So that is what we did and that was the BEST decision we made. We would have been so lost trying to park in the Atlanta airport and it probably would have cost us too. We got up about 4:30a.m. Sunday morning, got ready and headed to the airport. As we were sitting in the terminal waiting to board the plane, they announced there would be a bit of a delay due to a mechanical problem. Well that's never good, Rob hates flying so this didn't make him any more comfortable, and in my mind I was a little nervous too. The delay was only about 30 minutes and they said it was a problem with the batteries in the plane. We had a smooth flight to Jamaica and it only took about 2 hrs. 22 min. which wasn't bad. We landed and had to get through the airport and get our baggage and then find our transportaion to the resort. The resort was only about 15 minutes from the airport which was great, on our honeymoon when we went to St. Lucia the resort was over an hour from the airport. We got to the resort around noon and this resort was beautiful! We were staying on the Preferred Club side of the resort which was really nice b/c we had a few more amenities that the regular side did not have. The service was great and the staff was really nice.

When we got there and checked in, our room wasn't ready which was fine. We had packed our swimsuits in our carry on, so we went into the bathrooms and changed and headed to eat lunch. We ate lunch and then proceeded to get a cold drink and head to the beach. Our room was ready around 3:00 so the bellman got our bags and showed us to our room. Our room was gorgeous, we couldn't have been happier. We even had a little mini bar in our room which was really nice.

Once we got settled in our room we headed back down to the pool area and met some really nice people. There were people there from everywhere. We met people from New York, Vancouver, North Carolina...etc. Around 6p.m. or so we came back up to the room and got ready for dinner. I am so sorry but when we headed out to dinner that first night, I forgot to take my camera so I didn't get any pictures that first night. We ate at Bordeaux which was the French restaurant and it was very good. Rob tried the lamb, he has never had lamb before so this was a good time to try it and he really enjoyed it. I got a filet which was pretty good. We didn't stay out too late our first night b/c I wanted to go ahead and get up the next morning and get out in the sun. The drinks at this resort were GREAT!!! I enjoyed a strawberry dacquri, a mudslide, a margarita and a miami vice. Rob pretty much stuck with Red Stripe the whole time, that is the only beer they had at this resort, he would occasionaly have a fruity drink.

 Each afternoon around the same time, it would pour down rain so Rob and I would go grab some lunch and then head to our room for a little bit to rest. Once the storms would pass we would head back out to the pool. There was a lobby on the Preferred Club side and they always had yummy snacks out and drinks. One day they had some steamed mussels, which were so good, so we put some on a plate and headed to our balcony to start watching the sunset.

We saw some beautiful sunsets while we were there. We would always go up to our room to sit on our balcony each evening to enjoy the sunsets. Here are just a few pictures of the sunsets.

 Sorry this post is getting long, but we were there for 5 days so I have a lot to post about that I want to always remember. So I don't bore you and so this post doesn't get too long, I am going to put our trip into two posts. We took so many great pictures. If you read this blog and you want to see all the pictures from the trip you can send me a message and I will send them to you through snapfish. I will be posting all the pictures on facebook. Alright on to the next post!

And We Are Off...

to Jamaica! We are leaving today(saturday) and heading to Atlanta to stay the night since our flight leaves so early in the morning. We will be flying to Jamiaca Sunday morning and will be coming back on Friday! We are SO excited! We figured we would get another big/good trip in before kids come in the picture. Don't you worry I will be taking plenty of pictures, probably too many! Talk to ya'll when we get back! LOVE!

What's been going on?!

Well it's been a little bit since I last blogged, sorry for that. Let's see what's been going on around here. About two weeks ago this is where we were

Guntersville, AL at Guntersville State Park and Lodge. My good friend and college roommate Sherry was getting married and I was a bridesmaid in the wedding. We left Troy thursday night and headed to Birmingham to stay with my sister and brother-in-law. The reason we stayed in b'ham was to break up the trip a little bit. Friday morning we headed to Guntersville, I had to be there Friday afternoon for the bridesmaids luncheon. Friday night was the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner which were very nice. We stayed up pretty late visiting Friday night and then I had to get up early Saturday morning to get ready for the wedding which was that evening. The wedding was held outside on one of the terraces overlooking Lake Guntersville and it was gorgeous! It was a great weekend with some good friends. I didn't take many pictures b/c I just didn't feel like keeping up with my camera all night. Here are a few pictures I did take, these pictures were taken the night of the rehearsal dinner.

This past weekend (Memorial Day weekend) Rob had to work so we stayed in Troy. Friday night the boys had a poker night over at our friends Kelley and Kay's house. So while the boys played poker, I hung out with Kay and Henry. We had some yummy guacamole dip that Kay made and some chicken enchiladas.

 

 While the boys played poker I hung out with Kay and Henry. Kay had to give Henry a bath so I had a little photoshoot.

He is such a precious baby!! Saturday Kay and I went to Montgomery to do a litte shopping. We had a great time!

So that is pretty much what we have been up to lately! We are leaving in 4 days for Jamaica, we can't wait!!

 

2 years ago. . .

 ...today, I married my best friend and the love of my life. Happy 2 year Anniversary Rob, thank you for always being there for me.I can't wait to see what this life has in store for us. I look forward to many  more anniversaries with you. I will never be able to express just how much I love you!

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Friends!

Last Saturday night we had our good friends Kelley and Kay Grenon and their son Henry over for dinner. Henry is absolutely adorable!!  It was mexican night,we had margarita's, chicken enchiladas and mexican rice. It was a delicious meal with great company! Here are a few pictures from the evening, I had to play with my camera a little bit.

Graduation Weekend!!

This past weekend my sister Sara graduated from Troy University. My mom and sister Anna came to Troy Thursday night and then my dad and my aunt Ty came in town Friday morning. Thursday night as we were sitting around visiting, I was handed a package. My mom had wrapped something up for me and it had all these stickers on it, some from Christmas, thanksgiving, birthday, new years, Easter and so on. I had no clue what could be in this box. As I was opening it, I knew it had to be a pretty big gift b/c this gift was for the rest of the year. When I unwrapped it, I couldn't believe it, she got me a brand new AWESOME camera!!

 It's a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and it is AMAZING. I have been wanting a nice camera but had NO idea that my mom would surprise me with such an AMAZING gift. I am still in shock that I have it. Now I want to take a class or two and read up on it so that I can learn about all these great functions :)!

After that wonderful gift we went to eat dinner.

We had to get up early Friday morning to get ready for graduation. Graduation didn't start until 10:30 but we had to get there early to get good seats, so my mom went at 8:30 and there were already people waiting to get in. My aunt Ty and my dad came Friday morning around 9:30 so we left the house and my mom had gotten some great seats. We were actually seated in comfortable chairs that had a back, most people had to sit on bleachers for 2 hours. Here are some pictures that I took through the ceremony, I took a TON of pictures so I will only post a few...ha ha.

Graduation got over around 12:30 or so and we headed back to our house to grill out hamburgers, take pictures and just visit. Rob ended up taking a half a day off work so that he could be at home with all of us and to grill the burgers! After we ate and visited, my aunt Ty had to head back to Birmingham. We are so glad that she came. Here a few pictures that we took afterwards at our house.

After we took pictures at the house Sara wanted to go to the fountain on Troy's campus to take a few pictures with her friends Grace and Tommy. So we headed over that way. Here are some pictures from the fountain. Sorry for all the pictures, I told you that i took a bunch, this isnt' even half of them...haha.

This next picture is great. I had to post it, but I'm sure once Sara posts on her blog about graduation you will see this picture again.

I put my camera on continuous shot and got a GREAT picture of them jumping off the fountain. PRICELESS!

Later that night we had some of Sara's friends and their families over for some barbeque. We ended up having a great time and getting to celebrate such a wonderful event. 

Rob and I are really going to miss Sara when she leaves Troy. I (we) have really enjoyed having her here. We don't have any family here in Troy and it was so nice having her around. I don't know if she will ever know just how much I (we) enjoyed her being here these past few years. I know she probably won't move far away, but it won't be the same as having her here. We are SO proud of Sara and I (we) hope she knows wherever this journey leads her, that we will always be there for her.

After all the graduation festivities were over, we gave our mom her Mother's Day gift since we were all there together. We are so very blessed to have such a wonderful mom and wonderful parents!!

Sorry this post was long but I had to document this occasion. We had such a wonderful time!

Another post is coming soon!