Christmas in Florida

We had a great time this Christmas break!

We got to go to Naples, Florida, which is were my parents live now and spend time with my family.

We all left on Sunday the 18th and stayed until January 2nd.

We played a lot of golf (Alex got pretty good), tennis, and card games.

We caught up with some old friends and enjoyed socializing.

We went wakeboarding multiple times, but also on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

Here's some pictures from the trip:

 Alex and Kenny ready to golf. 

Gator in the water near our ball.

Christina on the boat.

Christmas Eve wakeboarding

Gingerbread houses.

Opening presents. Dad with his stocking.

 Kenny in his beard beanie.

 More wakeboarding.

The new wake ski's.

Sadly on New Year's Eve I was using my dads new wake skis (they're like water ski's but wider and lighter so you can jump the wake and do tricks) and I was trying to a surface 180 when my left leg went one way and my right leg went the other way. I heard a loud pop and just screamed in pain. I went to the doctor and they think I tore my ACL. I have to wait until Thursday to find out for sure. It's really horrible timing for me to get hurt and I can't believe I was being so dumb! But we're hoping for the best. 

Other than that we had an awesome time. I love getting to spend time with my parents and my siblings. We had a great time with Nash as well.

We can't wait to go back.

We're also so glad we only have to wait until February to see my mom and dad again!

Wakeboarding on Christmas Eve.

Merry Christmas Eve and Merry Christmas!

I'm done!

Hello Christmas Break!

Goodbye finals forever!

 

Alex will be joining soon.

He has a dumb teacher who has a final the very last day.

Boo.

Fa la la.

This week is my last week of classes EVER.

Next semester I will be student teaching and I finally found out where I'm going. 

Lone Peak High School in Highland, Utah.

I'm so excited to start my path as a health teacher.

Look at me go, blogging three times in 2 days!

I'm on fire!!

Just wanted to write a quick health post.

For all the skeptics out there who think that strictly watching what you eat and exercising won't help you lose weight, I have some news for you!

For the past few weeks I've been watching my calories and exercising every day.

And...

I've lost 6.5 pounds!

It was a little slow going at first and I wasn't seeing any results, but the past week, the results have really shown.

I'm excited to use myself as an example in the health classes I teach next semester!

Get out and be healthy!!

I had to share these.

I went to the park today with my sweet nephews.

They were in heaven, they were laughing and loving it.

Melted my heart.

Then Alex wanted to take a nap, so Tyler cuddled up with him.

Instead of sleeping he played with Uncle Alex's nose.

They love him.

I love being so close to them and getting to watch them for my sister-in-law.

I'm really sad I won't be able to watch them during the week next semester.

Just means they'll be seeing lots of me on the weekends.

I love those boys.
They've been such a blessing in my life.