adam, erica, wyatt, sawyer: September 2009

Monday, September 28, 2009

Artists in the Making

So, we totally copied this idea from another couple but I would recommend it as a cheap date night to anyone, it was lots of fun! We went to Micheal's and bought a canvas plus some paint and became artists for the day. I have ZERO art experience so my side wasn't looking real good at first (I am not telling which side was mine) but eventually I copied Adam's strokes and he helped fix a few spots and this is what we came up with:

Adam has great painting techniques:)

The Artists

(this is an unrelated picture but we didn't take any of us painting together; this is us at a really delicious restaurant on the dock! )

The Finished Product

We realized after that we should have taken more pictures of the progression of the painting because believe me, it came a LONG way! Maybe next time...

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Beach Day

On Wednesday I went to the beach with these cute faces:

Grant

Brinley collecting shells

All of the sudden we looked down the beach and the rain was on it's way...

This is what it looked like by the time I got back to my apartment. It rains so hard here and with the rain ALWAYS comes thunder and lightening.

I love it!

Friday, September 18, 2009

Labor Day/Fishing

I never knew Labor Day could be so fun and relaxing, usually I have to work! This year we went with our friends Tyler & Jessica to Sanibel Island and went to the beach all day. We got some shells along the way and saw this lighthouse, which looked a lot cooler from far away:)

(Oh, yea we wore sports team shirts and got a free Chick-Fil-A sandwich on the way)

When we got back we all went to a BBQ at Melissa & Kenny's house. It was lots of fun and good to have something to do since it's our first holiday away from family.

The next day I figured Adam would study ALL day because he spent the weekend in Dallas at the BYU game (Go Cougars!) and Labor Day playing with me. But no, his friend Tom invited us to go fishing and he wanted to go. I have only been fishing two other times, once with my uncle in between waterskiing (that didn't work), and once about a month before we moved here with friends in Utah. Neither of those trips were successful and as you can see below the trip in Utah was in the middle of the summer but was FREEZING!

But the scenery was gorgeous!

This trip was a bit different. We went out to Marco Island, waded across this HOT swampy water, caught our own live bait (I left that to Adam and Tom) then walked a path over to the ocean. Yep, fishing off the beach into the ocean. The boys were catching some catfish and ladyfish but they kept seeing this big fish, called Snook that they both wanted. I was just hanging out on the beach getting some sun, I'm not much of a fisher. After about an hour I was getting bored so I asked Adam to show me how. He baited my hook for me and showed me how to cast. I cast once and nothing, then the second cast I felt this huge pull and my line was spinning out like crazy...here's what I found at the end of my line:

My First Catch

Snook

Adam's First Catch

(I totally beat him!)

Adam & Tom

I think Adam's got something here...

Finally a Snook!

Adam ended the day catching up to my fish and he has the tough guy face to prove it:] So the moral of the story is, I like fishing more than I thought and I love living by the beach!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Summer Fun!!

Summer 2009

I realized I am a big fan of more pictures and less words; so that's the plan with this post. With the move and everything I kind of skipped over all the summer activities. The first half of the summer is always real busy at work but I did manage to slip away to Adam's graduation. Then I quit 3 weeks before we left so I could get in some good summer fun! I got to go to all of the 24th of July festivities for the first time in 4 years, two Bear Lake trips, a wedding and lots of swimming and barbecues in between. I loved every minute of it, summer is the best!

GRADUATION