Whoa whoa whoa people. I am way too far behind on my blogging, I'm not sure how to come out of it. Chris and I have been at the river and Bakersfield working everyday we've been back except thanksgiving weekend. I'll make posts asap! Love everyone.

Miss Sky ZIPline

Yesterday Chris and I got the chance to do the longest zipline tour in Costa Rica. It was really one of the coolest things I've ever done. The zipline had a total of 13 cables and they were AWESOME! I swear I just laughed and screamed for 4 hours straight. After the 12th cable we walked down to a cool waterfall and swam. The guides were awesome, the other people kinda weird, which made for a better time of course. (howler monkeys is the noise in the background eek :)

Here we come Abe & Mer

Chris and I are sooo excited to be moving to Abe and Merivales when we get back we can hardly stand it. We decided to play beach house at low tide and play in our new home. Check out our new place, cute right.

So, Chris has been doing some sweet photog lately and his pictures are awesome! I think you will be as impressed with these photos as I am. They are rad, I wish I could post them all. Here are a few taken around our place. Enjoy! :)

Orphanage in Santa Cruz

Chris and I had such an awesome opportunity to go to the orphanage here in Santa Cruz. We have been so excited and anxious to go since we got here and we finally got to! We had so much fun and the kids were adorable! We loved it and hope we get to go back. The orphange had about 14 kids ranging in age from 3 to 13, so smaller than what I was expecting. As soon as we got there, they all piled outside and with the biggest grins shook each of our hands one by one. We went with a family in our branch and also the missionaries. Crissy and I cut and styled hair. The look on the girl's faces when I pulled out my paul mitchell hair straightner and product was priceless. I doubt many of them had ever had their hair straight before but they definately knew what it was capable of when I motioned it next to my hair. They went crazy and an immediate line formed to transform their intense thick and curly hair into something shiny and straight. I had so much fun, and they loved every second of being pampered. I wish I could go do their hair everyday to see their faces and how happy they skipped around afterwards. I loved it! Chris and the 7 other boys from our branch got to spend time getting to know the kids and playing for a little bit. Chris impressed me afterwards remembering all of their names, and I only remembered a couple! They loved him and he communicates so well the kids here it's really neat. I loved the time we had there and am really grateful we had the opportunity to help out the children even if it was in just a small simple way. They were beautiful and happy and really left an impact on me. Before we left we sang them, "I am a Child of God" and they all went silent and still. The spirit was strong and we can only hope they will always be watched over and taken care of. Thanks Santa Cruz for such an amazing time!
....I'm sorry for no pictures they wouldn't let us take pictures inside :/

1 new Gillie + 1 new Koelliker

We are so excited to have 2 new beautiful babies in the Gardner family and we can't wait to meet them!! Congrats Dani and Ray they are both PERFECT! Beckham was born October 24th and Shay on September 20th! They were born to incredible parents, we're so happy they're here! :)

Last monthly celebration.. promise. 2 months!

Happy 2 months Christopher you are absolutely perfect!! I love you!

Pura Vida!

Here is a picture of some wildlife that hang around. Spider
monkey, Howler monkey, scorpion, crabs, turtle egg shells, iguanas and lizards, raccoon/armadillo mix? More photos to come. Click on collages if you want to see the
pictures larger :)

Hope everyone is doing great :) Here are pictures to show what we've been up to lately.
We still love it, and only 5 weeks left! We will be so sad to leave.

Just for Fun

Not much new going on here. Still Loving everything about this place!! New pics so everyone knows we're alive :)

Bike Ride

So, for our one month we thought we'd take a bike ride and see what there was to offer around here. We don't have a car so the only time we get out of Nosara is Sundays when we take the bus 2 hours into Nicoya for church. So we were excited to venture out on our own. We rode bikes down to Guiones, the little surf town close by. We ate lunch at a cute cafe and it was really good food and cheap! Chicken salad for $4. :) I was happy. We rode to the book store and stopped at a couple other little shops. On the ride home, Chris almost got attacked by a dog. He will say I did nothing to help. And it's true, I was scared for my life I was pedaling as fast as my dumpy bike would go. After a good kick to the face the dog left us alone. Phew. LOVE Chris and how we celebrated our one month. :)

HAppy ONE month!!

We made it through our first month ;) It's been so So Awesome!! Chris is as perfect as I ever thought! I love getting to spend every day with my best friend. I can't believe I get forever with him! Love love LOVE you!

We made it to COsta Rica!

We made it to Costa Rica and it's SO So Beautiful!! The coolest place I've ever seen! We live in the middle of the jungle and are about a min 1/2 walk from the beach. Playa Guinoes, the surfing beach, is about a 25 min walk down the beach. You come out of this huge jungle to an incredible coastline. It's so rad here! We are renting a vacation home and it's a nice really private lot and has a swimming pool that saves us (the ocean is so warm and rarely refreshing). Costa Rica is Hott!! We live in the city of Nosara where paved roads don't exist, which means not much else does. We have a little market across the street with a restaurant attached that serves little purpose to us, all their food has a super foul taste and smell. It's weird. We can't quite figure out why and where it comes from but the next market is about 3 miles away and in between are some homes hidden homes and nothing else really exists in this city.

Howling monkeys live in the trees around our home, iguanas on the roof, gnarly crabs with neon orange legs, blue backs, and yellow eyes like to cruise in the jungle, supposably crocodiles (we haven't seen any yet), scorpions, cockroaches (the death of me) and other little critters live about. Our typical day consists of surfing 1 or 2 times, watching a lot of the office, phase 10, chris playing music, a LOT of relaxing time, some skyping usually, and whatever else comes our way. The sun sets at 5:30 so we are finding interesting things to entertain us. Somehow we thought it'd be nice to have a maid but then we have to handwash all our clothes. Not that cool after all! We love it here its so awesome and a lot of fun!! It's really different and quite the adventure so far. I'm so happy I get to be here another two months with Chris! Thank you Costa Rica for being so good to us!

Honeymooning in CABo!

The morning after our wedding we flew to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for our week long honeymoon! Woohoo I was so excited to go! I haven't been to Mexico or out of the country since I was like 5 so I was really excited. Cabo was beautiful of course. An amazing coastline in the middle of the desert. Our resort was fun and we loved it! We did a little surfing, took a glass bottom boat out to lovers beach, snorkeled, crossed over to divorce beach (pacific ocean), and checked out the little town of Cabo. We got a suprise, hurricane Jimena, the second day we were there. We were told by the hotel staff it was going to be a 5.0 hurricane out of a 5 point scale. I was freaking out. The hurricane went on for a couple days and ended up passing us by with just a 3. There are a couple pics of us blowing away when we went outside. It ended up being kinda fun, I always enjoy a little adventure. Welp, that was pretty much Cabo and it was awesome! First week with my husband to finally relax , greatest week of my life :)

Wedding DAy!

The greatest day of my life! Everything was so perfect and even if it wasn't, I thought it was. The Garnder's throw a seriously good party. Our reception was a lot of fun and there were a couple unexpected twists that were awesome. If you came you experienced Aaron at his finest with his tihitian dance moves. My personal favorite. Chris was amazing as he sang a song to me he had written the night before :) What serious talent he has, as all of you know. Every time he plays I get giddy in loveand can't stop giggling. He's incredible in so many ways and this is one of my favorite things. I can't even start to explain how happy he makes me. How am I the luckiest girl in the world!!

I Guess We Blog Now?

So Nicole has always been a big facebooker. Ha Ha. But I guess now that we're married we have to get into blogging? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's how it works. Anyway...we are now married, ya that's right...married and couldn't be any happier. We had a nice little wedding dinner on a yacht in Newport Harbor hosted by our good friends the Hobbins, and then the festivities began. On August 29th 2009 we receited our vows and we're sealed in the Newport Beach temple forever. I couldn't be any happier. I'm the lucky one for sure. Love.