Busy, Busy, Busy!

Phew!! This has been one crazy busy summer, between Vacations, Weddings, Honeymoon, Camping trips, Reunion, Holidays, Work, Internship, and SCHOOL.... I'm pooped!

I have been staying very busy working at my on-campus job, as well as doing my practicum at a daycare, plus taking a couple online classes. Jeff has been pretty busy flying this summer as well. I can't wait until my classes and internship are done in a of couple weeks. Then I get a couple weeks off... ha. Then right back into it. I just keep telling myself that I'm almost there... the end is near!

It's been busy, busy, but so fun! Plus, I LOVE being married :)

Camping & Canoeing

We went on our first little camping trip as a married couple the second week in July. It actually was originally supposed to be a big group of people, but... everyone bailed. SO just me and Jeff went! We just went up Smithfield canyon and camped for the night. It was fun to use all of our new camping gear.

We woke up early in the morning so we could go canoeing on a triple date with some good friends. We had too much fun!

Rau Wolf Creek Vacation

So the week after we got back from the Wegner family vacation, we had my family's vacation up at Wolf Creek (end of June - yes... I'm behind). We were only able to go for the weekend since we had just taken off a week's worth of work, but it happened to also be my birthday weekend :) The big 21!

Cool man-made waterfall in Ogden canyon

My little birthday drive up a little ways on this cool dirt road that goes from Eden to Avon (Cache Valley). It was GORGEOUS with all the dense fields of wild flowers!

Birthday presents: Strawberry freezer jam, and temple bag. Love it!

Unfortunately Mike and Maridee couldn't make it up there that weekend, but everyone else was there. We swam in the pool a little, ate lots of food, and played tons and tons of games of course. That's just what us Rau's do :)

Cayman Islands Adventure

In the middle of June we went on vacation with the Wegner family to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. Mmm... it was heaven :) Minus the heat and humidity... BUT I actually didn't mind it that much because.. well, we were on an island in the Caribbean.

Here's a bunch of pics from our adventures. It was a great vacation and we had so much fun spending time with Jeff's family! Thanks Mom and Dad Wegner for an awesome trip!! PS... Sorry so many pics, it was hard to narrow them down.

Adventure #1: String Ray City... way cool!

Yes I am kissing that WILD string ray :) Which means 7 years of good luck! Ha ha.

Now "hugging" it...

Jeff "hugging" it... we got to feed them too!

Adventure #2: Turtle Farm!

We saw TONS and TONS of turtles (at all different stages of life)...

Plus one crocodile

Adventure #3: Queen Elizabeths Botanic Gardens

The Blue Iguana is only found on Cayman Islands and they are currently trying to get the population up enough to take them off the endangered species list.

Minutes after joking about this sign, we found...........

This monster under our car ha ha!

He didn't like us chasing him from his cool shady spot as you can see from this pic.

Adventure #4: Kayaking through Bioluminescence!

The Kayaking crew

Lots of snorkeling

Grandpa and Parker

Cute little Brielle and Parker!

Adventure #5: Deep sea Fishing!!

This was on my bucket list and I was way way excited for it! Unfortunately I was expecting a little bit bigger of a boat and we ended up going on the first not-so-great weather day, which resulted in HUGE waves... which then resulted in quite a few near puking moments for myself...

Nick cutting out the Tuna gills to take home for research

Captain Herman! And me with my first deep sea catch. A Tuna!

Jeff's catch... half a tuna! Ha ha

Captain Herman was the best! He came to our hotel afterwards and cooked up our Tuna fish for us. It was SO good! I'm not a huge fish eater but this was way good! And Jeff despises even the smell of tuna... and even HE ate it!

The view from our balcony. So beautiful there... I miss it already.