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.