Enjoying the adventures along the way!

Time just keeps flying by!  But along with all the time that's passing, we get to have wonderful adventures along the way, so here's a fly through those moments we had :)

Our first adventure was taking off to Utah to visit family and friends just because we could.

This is in Salt Lake City, UT and is the coolest library ever because you can go on top and have a beautiful view :)

Adventures are always the best with this guy!

This view, and this view alone, might make it pretty difficult to stay too long here in Texas... I miss mountains :P

This is Braden (brother-in-law) teaching Jared how to fly this awesome plane!

And this is Jared, concentrating on flying that very same plane :)
So fun to watch these two focus so hard.

Oh and this is just some random guy driving around a bunch of random kids,
but I mean, seriously, I couldn't miss that kind of VIEW and an awesome photo! :)

One of my roommates from college was also in the area, and we decided to ask her to take some photos of us :) Here's a couple of our favorites. She did a wonderful job!!

           

Our next experiences happened over the Fourth of July weekend:

This was our adventure to Pedernales Falls (Johnson City, tx) with a couple of our friends!

  

This was the very next day when we decided to climb a huge rock :P
It's called Enchanted Rock and is near Fredericksburg, tx
Climbing the rock is said to be similar to climbing the stairs of a 30-40 story building.

We found a Cave Entrance and this guy was the first one to scope it out :)

The first part of the cave was walkable and more open; however, once we got truly inside the cave, we realized that "walkable and open" were no longer an option.  I'll admit, it was a little unnerving considering that there were times where you had to shimmy yourself through...on your back, but we thoroughly enjoyed the accomplishment once we got out of the cave!  Getting through the cave took us about 30 minutes and was very VERY dark (even with flashlights).  There were times where we were looking for the arrows that are to help guide through the tough parts of the caves, but shining those flashlights on the rock walls had me feeling a little uneasy - not knowing if other crawling things were down there... Jared, thankfully kept me in the dark about the spiders he saw crawling into the holes in the rocks until AFTER we got out of the cave..  BUT how many people can say that they were able to crawl through the inside of a giant rock under a bunch of other giant rocks?

Jared's confident pose :)

To finish off a well planned, busy weekend, we got to go downtown and listen to the Austin Symphony play while the fireworks went off.

This view was gorgeous to watch the fireworks over the lake in front of downtown :)

This is a video of the chaos that goes on downtown during the fourth of July!

We hope you all had a wonderful fourth of July :)

Rain, Vultures and Who knows what else!

Over the past months Jared and I have just done some random things, so there won't be any nice transitions between them, so just enjoy the photo journey :)

I'll start off with March, we were invited over for dinner to a friends house of ours, and were introduced to a fabulous game called Lost Cities.  It's a two person game, so perfect for Jared and I and it's a little confusing to learn at first, but is now a favorite game of ours.

So this game consumed most evenings until we were delighted to have Jared's parents and 3 siblings come to visit us for about a week!  We were able to take them to Top Golf and to Congress Bridge to see the bats and had wonderful weather while they were here.

Our talent at golf :) I think Jared's action shot looks cooler :P

We were running out of time, so the boys decided to
gather some golf balls ahead of time :P

We also took them to Congress bridge to see the bats, and the night was gorgeous!

It's a very popular place.... ;)

We also took them to see the enormous Whole Foods downtown, which by the way has (or had) a bunch of wheel barrels hanging at one of the exits.

Jared and his 2 younger brothers

We all know that good weather/bad weather can only last so long before it switches...and well, Texas was in some deep need of rain, and well, we've been getting it.  April showers bring May flowers right?  Boy did we get April and May showers, so those June flowers better be so stinkin' pretty :P

YUP! 10 straight days of thunderstorms

However, before we received these heavy rains...

We were (and by we, I mean me) welcomed into April by this not so great friend of ours, 

Here's the story

I was sitting in our living room one afternoon while Jared was at work (it was my day off), and I heard a knocking at our sliding glass door.  We're on the third floor with a balcony, so to have a knock at that door seemed super odd...  I went over there to see a vulture knocking it's head against our door.  I then proceeded to act like anyone would seeing a VULTURE on our balcony and ran back into the living room and had a little panic attack (little).  But then I realized that I had to get a photo or no one would believe me, so I went back to the door, but by then the vulture was on the railing.  Needless to say, I'm not a fan of huge birds, let alone, ones that are 2 feet from me...

(even if there is a glass door inbetween us)

here's the proof :)

We've also had some pretty fun date nights :)

Which Jared kicked our butts....

in BOTH games...

We also went to Pecan Street Festival (6th street festival), and got a free gecko ;)

Actually it was a free cardboard Geico advertisement 
that someone handed us... ;)

...and saw some Boy Band mini's :)

Our Church ward was holding a dance that was "Take me to the fair" themed and was super fun!
There were popcorn concession stands and lots of other goodies to go around.

It only took a little coaxing to get Jared to dress up ;)

The photo booth was super cute!
The brown and blonde hair worked perfectly ;)

And for my birthday this month Jared got me a wonderful
mint chocolate chip ice cream cake :) happy day!

We're excited for our adventures this next month :)