Playing catch-up

I guess you could say I got a little burned out on blogging. There has been so much going on and it's a lot of pressure to document everything with pictures so I kind of failed for a few weeks. So let me get you all caught up!

--I went to Seattle to visit the fam and had such a good time! I went out to dinner with my Dad, shopping with my mom, organized a bunch of recipes, did crafts, went for nature walks, ate outside, and relaxed. It was so much fun and exactly what I needed!
--My bff Nicia also conviced me to go hiking. The weather was perfect and the view was gorgeous but Nicia and her long legs sure kicked my butt as she was passing everyone on the mountain. lol Seriously, check out that view.. just another reason why I love seattle.

-- Jake and I were excited to finally be back in our apartment after all our travels! It's funny because we couldn't wait to leave our little cave, but we were so excited to get back! I spent the week deep cleaning and reorganizing getting ready for another school year.
--Since we went to Mexico in the fall Jake has become a master pina colada maker. With all the nice weather we had 3 "pina coloada parties" this week. lol We stayed at a house with all Jake's family before the wedding and we got to put the hot tub to good use!
--Jordan got married on Friday! When she gets the pictures from the photographer I'll have to do another post. But everything was perfect and beautiful! I had fun doing the congo and eating crepes! I need to make more friends so I can go to a wedding every weekend! lol



I didn't take any pictures so I stole these from one of Jordan's friends!



-- Summer semester started today.. here we go again!

Take me out to the ball game..

On Friday night we went to a Braves game. I love being under the lights, the greasy food, and the cheering fans. Although the Braves lost, we still had a great time!

Summer in the South

We are loving our time here in Georgia.  Jake and I forgot how pale we are and didn't use any sunscreen on our first day at the lake house. We were hurting for a few days and decided to spend the next day seeing a movie instead. Jake was nice and we went and saw a chick flick {something borrowed}. It happens to have my girl-crush kate hudson in it so I loved it--Jake, not so much. lol

We did a little boat cleaning before we headed went out for some tubing and wake boarding. I confidently told Jake I could do a 360 on the knee board and he didn't believe me. He promised me a back massage if I could deliver. Well, all I got was sore arms but no back massage, dang. Luckily no one took a picture. lol

One lovely morning I was reading a book on the patio when I dozed off. Jake was on the water bike fishing in the lake. I must have dozed off because I woke up to a plop on me that I thought must be jake trying to get my attention. I looked around, didn't see him, then I looked down and saw a big bird doo doo on my shirt. I yelled out, "Jakkkeee..!" Turns out bird poop isn't deadly and I survived.

We had a lot of fun fishing, boating, grilling, playing games, and taking a little sunset cruise.

Jake got his fill of smoked gouda, crakers, and apples. Life is good. lol 

We also had a super yummy dinner at a nice steak house in Atlanta. Ooh ya.



A perfect sunday.

On our last sunday{last week}, we headed to church outside of Maputo. We passed out toys and bracelets to the kids. At first it was very orderly and all the kids got something one at a time. Then, someone asked for something for their brother at home. So I sat down and searched for it in my big bag. Suddenly I was swarmed by a bunch of kids all putting their hands out and speaking to me in Portuguese. Since I cant understand them I started handing more stuff out, but even that got crazy, so I guestered that they could reach intp the bag and that turned into caos. I was calling out to Jake for help, but he said I was beyond help lol. In about a minute I was cleaned out, including my scented hand sanitzer that was never meant to be given away, but thats ok. Jake said some little boy asked him what it was for and Jake replied, "it's to clean your hands with, but it smells really girly." The boy relpied, "ok cool," and stuck it in his pocket. lol

After church we went to a spend time with a wonderful family, the Castanherias. They just had a little boy born a week before, but they still managed to make us a feast! There was so much yummy food! I can't remember everything we ate but I remember "mayonaise salad" (potatoe salad), coconut rice, brown rice, fish, curry steak, and cake. After dinner we went for a walk around the area. It was so beautiful and peaceful, it seemed like a scene from a movie. Sad I didn't bring my camera on the walk, but we took some fun pictures when we got back. What a neat family!

at first these two little cuties wouldnt look at me because my scary blonde hair lol, but they eventually warmed up : )