Ode to the ones I love...

 It is amazing how much I love this little girl.  As an example, let me describe our week.  Three full days of potty training, with only 1 potty success, endless pee on my kitchen floor, and a final exasperated sigh before we gave up.  We will try again in a few months.  But really, no matter how much your kids pee on your floor, no matter the fits, no matter how many sleepless nights you have...you love them so much.  Jordyn is so sweet and polite, it is impossible not to love her.

And my husband Chad.  He makes me laugh all the time.  My days are so much better when he is around.  He is sensitive to my crazy emotions.  He has somehow solved the mystery about when I need a snuggle, and when I want my space.  He pretty much does anything I ask (of course there are limits, but you get it!)  He is gone for work for a few days and not with me this Valentine's Day.  He still thought about me and had 2 dozen roses sent.  What a good man I have!  I love him more every day.

My Thoughts on Pinterest

I have been pinning for about 9 months now.  I understand the addiction.  It was not so bad until I got a smart phone.  That pinterest app is killer.  It has been a very educational 9 months and I have learned a lot about myself, and frankly, a lot about you.

• I have a board titled "Laughs and Inspiration".  I have 65 pins on that board, only 5 are inspirational.  Lesson learned...I am way more funny than I am inspired.
• I hate when I pin a recipe, try it that week, and it is gross.  Not cause I screwed up, but because it is just flat out nasty.  In the following weeks, I see a gazillion people pin this nasty recipe and I just want to scream "Don't do it!"  Here is my warning to you... the crock pot orange chicken recipe is horrible.  I literally threw up just from smelling it.
• You are planning to remodel your kitchen.  I can tell.  Hopefully it was not a secret that you want white cabinets cause now every following pinner knows.
• The clothes thing drives me nuts.  When people pin a cute outfit, I can agree.  That chevron maxi skirt with the denim jacket is adorable.  What aggravates me is that I am no closer to getting that outfit or looking that fashionable.  I have no idea where to find these clothes.  Plus, anything looks cute on a size 2 with perfect hair.
• There are some things I just don't care about.  I don't want to unfollow these friends, but can I just unfollow one of their boards?  For instance, I hate when I am browsing and I have to go through a hundred pins on how to apply smokey eye shadow.  I just don't care.
• Sometimes when I can't sleep, I just look through the specific humor section and laugh and laugh.
• I know exactly which of my friends are working with LDS Young Women.  I know cause I repin everything you pin. 
• I laugh when I see comments like, "This is the perfect house floor plan".  Of course it is perfect.  It is 8,000 square feet, and a quarter of it is a master walk in closet.  Maybe I am just too practical but I never pin those.  I know how much money we make.  I just don't dream big enough I guess.
• It makes me miss being a teacher.  I would love to repin all the teacher ideas I see, but I somehow feel like I am jinxing myself.  Like, by the time I am back in the classroom pinterest will be dead.  And until then, those clever teacher pins will just haunt me.
• My most beneficial and most used pins are the exercise ones. 
• I always wish I could come up with clever names for my boards, like "good eats" or "oh the places you'll go".  I see people with clever board names and think.. "dang, why didn't I think of that". My boards are titled "recipes" and "travel". 
• Because of pinterest, I think I should get a second shot at a wedding.  It would be so much cuter this time around!

There is much more.  Pinterest is never ending and so are my opinions!  But you get the sarcastic point, right?!  I love/hate pinterest. 

Cancun!

Our trip to Cancun was kind of a last minute, random getaway.  Not that I need to explain myself, but I will.  You wanna know how many dates without Jordyn we have been on since we moved to Colorado 16 months ago.  One.  Uno.  We decided to hurry and take a trip at Christmas time because that way we could just drop Jordyn off in Utah while we were there for Christmas and fly out from SLC.  It all just came together!

We stayed in an all inclusive resort in Riviera Maya.  I had never done an all inclusive, and we acutally really liked it.  It was so chill and relaxing.  We felt like there was more to do there than on a cruise ship so we really just enjoyed the days we spent at the resort.  Our room was big with a jetted tub and giant shower.  It was a room you wanted to relax in. The bed was like a dream, so much in fact that one of the days we slept til about 10:30.  Ahh!  All in all, we felt like a resort vacation was much more calm and relaxing, which is exactly what we were looking for!

View from our room.

The pools were awesome. We spent a LOT of time at the pool!

We did a few excursions.  We went to some ruins at Coba.  They are the only ruins you could still climb on.  (That changed in January, you can no longer climb on them.)  We also enjoyed Coba cause it was only a half day excursion.  Also, we were there the same time the Mayan calendar was ending and there were alot of crazies running around the more popular ruins like Chichen Itza and Tulum.  They also have the tallest ruins in the area.  All in all, we were really glad we went to Coba.

On top of the tallest ruin.  I promise I was not really as miserable as I look in this picture!

Creepy tombs.

Tall ruin.  The steps were in incredibly narrow and steep.  Going up was ok, but coming down was kinda scary.  I had to pretty much slide down on my rear.

 

We also went to a water park called Xel-ha.  There was lots of stuff to do there, like swim with dolphins, scuba dive, swim with manta rays...but all that stuff costs extra.  We stuck with the free things like zip line, tubing, snorkling, and of course... food!  The afternoon got cloudy and kinda chilly so we did a lot walking and animal seeing.  It was an increadibly beautiful lagoon. We did not get many pictures because carrying a camera around was hard when we were in and out of the water so much. I wish the few pictures I did get did it justice!

 

 

It was such a great trip.  We love Jordyn, but it was so great to spend some time with just Chad and I.  I just loved it and hope that we can do things like this throughout our married life.