Friday, October 31, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Finally.........
Okay.....I'm sorry. I am a bad, bad, very bad blogger. I am going to promise to be better in the future. It's just hard to be in doors when it is soooo beautiful outside! I have a LOT of catching up to do! I will start where I left off and hopefully get you all caught up in the next couple of weeks.
I finally finished my accounting degree last December, WOOOOHOOOOO! My mom & dad-in-law took me on a cruise as my graduation present. I know, I know.....I am totally spoiled!
Our cruise left out of New Orleans, we happened to be there for the start of Mardi Gras.
Tommy & I dumped our luggage at the hotel where we met up with Brent & Mary who immediately wisked us away and filled us in on everything they had done already!
First things first....FOOD!!! Great food! We had a pile (literally) of seafood and some local micro brews for dinner. Followed by an interesting, in every way, stroll down Bourbon Street. Who can't love a place with "Huge Ass Beers To GO"?
After an evening of Marti Gras was a morning at Cafe Du Monde where we enjoyed Beignets and chicory coffee, however the beignets were more enjoyed than the chicory coffee. Cafe Du Monde is a 24/7 coffee house that was established in 1862 in the French Market of New Orleans.
All aboard!!! We boarded our ship that afternoon. After we were fully educated on emergency evacuation proceedures Mary took the helm and off we were down the Mississippi!
After a rocky night and a day across the Golf of Mexico into the Carribean sea our first stop was Roatan, Honduras. This was Mary's Birthday. What a breath-taking place to have a birthday! We were greeted by dancers at every port. After pics with the dancers we grabbed a cab and headed to the nearest beach. Tommy & Brent did some snorkeling taking in the view below water while Mary & I waded and took in the view above water.
Tommy took some beautiful pictures in Roatan, these are two of my favorites!
Next stop, Santo Tomas De Castilla, Guatamala. We were signed up for a hike to some waterfalls here, but had some time before to do sight seeing in town. Brent negotiated a short tour with a gentleman and we set out about town.
Our guide stopped by a coconut stand where they were using a machete to butcher fresh coconuts into a fine beverage!
You'll never Beliz where our third stop was! HA! This was my 30th birthday and I couldn't have imagined it any better. We went cave tubing in Beliz! Tommy & I took a waterproof camera on the tour, however, it was a cave so it was dark and unfortunately none of the pictures turned out.
Last stop on our journey was Cozumel, Mexico. Tommy & I signed up for a snorkeling excursion beach party. We were taken on a Catamaran to a couple snorkel spots before being taken to the beach where we were supplied with local brews and margaritas. A few other activities were available to us, we opted for the kayak! After our snorkel tour we hit the town enjoying nachos at the first restaraunt we saw. We enjoyed them so much that after a little shopping we went back for more!
After all these adventures, it was time to make the trip home. Tommy & Brent were exhausted and look more like father and son in this picture than any other! Don't be fooled by the sunglasses, Tommy is out!
Coming soon to a blog near you......Graduation Weekend!
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
A Pitcher Christmas!
I hope everyone's holidays were as fun and eventful as ours. I think this is my longest blog to date.
Jeeps and Biz got their picture taken by the tree. It's hard to get a good photo of the two of them together. Jeeps doesn't show up without a flash and Bizi's eyes can't handle a flash, so this is the best one of the bunch.
Mary took us all on the polar express! It is a real train that takes you to the north pole to pick up Santa! We had hot chocolate and Mrs. Clause fed us magical cookies that had elf giggles in them. We sang carols the whole way up and it was snowing like crazy. I can say that this was nothing less than magical and I'm 29, I can't imagine what Makayla was thinking!
It was snowing so much, they closed down the canyon and we all had a sleep over in Park City!
We have had so much snow so far this year! Snowboarding has been a blast! This is a short video Tommy took following me through the trees at Snowbird the day before Christmas Eve. You hear Mike and see David stuck in a tree well. This is the usual Sunday group less Tami and Chris W.
On Christmas eve we Fondued! Is that really a verb?!?!?!? Ant LeAnn and Uncle Norman came over to join us.
Justin helped Makaya track Santa on the puter, she had a hard time saying Bolivia.
This is what we walked out of our house to on Christmas morning!
Christmas morning was spent at the Justin Pitcher house, where the kids got to show off all their new goods!
Tommy and & gave this little outfit to Makayla for Christmas.
Mary made a delicious ham for dinner and this was the clean up party!
Happy Holidays!
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Tommy had a B-day!
The following Friday, Tommy took the youngest boy Pitcher to the top of the mountain and made him ride a snowboard down. This is something Shane has done only twice and that was a while ago. He did great and they had a fun time together!
Next blog will be all the Christmas fun, but for now it's Tommy's b-day!
PS My grades are final and it is official.......I am a college grad! Love you all, hope your holidays were as great as ours! More later..................
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