Girls Trip to Cancun

My beautiful Mother, sisters and I went to Cancun about a month ago.  I can't tell you how amazing it was.  When we were little, my Mom promised us if we got our Young Womanhood Award, we could go on a girls trip.  A couple years later (more like 10 years later, yep I'm that old), we went on this promised girls trip. We were so excited.  All we could think of was....beach...sun....books...beach....get tan....and virgin Pina Coladas.

It didn't start out that great.  We met at the airport and went to check-in to get our tickets.  I went to scan my passport (that I hadn't looked at since I'd been on my honeymoon), and guess what? It still had my maiden name on it!  My dad had booked the flight under Davies (as he should have), but I had forgotten to go update my passport to say Davies after I got married.  It seemed really stressful at the time (I thought I was going to ruin our girls trip). Jason was nice enough to drive back to the airport with our marriage certificate, which solved all the problems....or so we thought...

We got through security and went to wait for our flight from SLC to Dallas, TX.  The flight was supposed to leave at 12:15 pm.  But to our dismay, we watched as the flight got pushed back to 3:15 pm, then 10 minutes later, it was pushed back to leave at 5:15 pm.  There was no way we were going to wait that long, so we went back out to the lady who had helped me with my passport problem.  She searched and searched for other flights we could take, but there weren't any good options.  So we went back through security to wait for our flight to take off at 5:15.  After an hour of waiting, we looked again and our flight was pushed back to 7:00 pm.  We marched back out to the same lady (she promised she wasn't sick of us), and searched for more options.  She got us on a 4:45 pm flight to Dallas (and yes, we went through security a third time!) The 4:45 pm flight made us miss our connecting flight to Cancun. That meant that when we got to Dallas, we would have to spend the night without our luggage in a crappy hotel. (We will never have another layover in Dallas...their weather is CRAZY!)  We made the best of it, got some crappy hotel food and watched "27 Dresses."  The next morning, we woke up super early, got a cab...with a really hard to understand man with a THICK accent who sang really loud the whole time and overcharged us.  We didn't care though, because getting on another flight meant we were going to be in CANCUN soon!

This is how we felt when we got to Dallas...tired and ornery!

After getting to Cancun, the rest of the trip was amazing.
1. We laid on the beach every single day.
2. We read books, drank Coca Lite (WAY better than Diet Coke here)
3. We ate quesadillas with Oaxaca cheese (YUM), guacamole and pico de gallo for lunch.
4. We walked on the beach.
5. We shopped at Zara.
6. We saw a movie (Snow White & the Huntsman). Mom and Jamie hated it...it was okay...kinda weird.
7. We got McDonalds ice cream cones every night.
8. I spent some quality time with my sisters and mom (much needed!)
9. We ate tacos al pastor.  AMAZING TACOS that we haven't eaten since we lived in Mexico.  I can't describe how delicious they were.
10. We ate at Italiannis, a restaurant my family used to always go to in Mexico.
11. Only a couple bad things happened: Jenny and I got FRIED the second day...like the worst I've ever been fried.  It was painful to sleep for the rest of the trip.  And the worst part was I was burnt in splotches.  You could see finger marks where I was trying to rub in the sunscreen. The other thing was that my stomach wasn't used to the food and I got a little sick. Not bad though!  

It was a much needed vacay with my Mom and sisters and can't wait for our next one.  Let's go to Tahiti this time eh Mom? :) Love you guys. So glad I got to spend this time with you!

Pictures from the Trip (I'm sorry, there are a ton, but I wanted to remember everything!)

Cancun=Crystal Blue Water & White Sands

Beachin' It

This day I got burnt worse than I ever had in my life.

Most Amazing Drink Ever! Tastes way better in Mexico!

Delicious Italian Food we missed from Mexico!

Cheers to Coca Lite

Who makes the best Mona Lisa? Totally me right?

Taco Grill...amazing Tacos al Pastor and soup, right on the Pier

Tacos al Pastor....droooolllllinnnggg...

Paradise

Embarking on our Zara Shopping Adventure. We went there every day, just in case they got something new!

hahaha! The jumping picture!

We went to a delicious restaurant but right beside us there was a huge tank full of creepy sharks swimming around.

Most amazing place to stay! I want to go back!

My Life According to My iPhone Pictures (Catching up)

I'm really bad at blogging, I admit it.  I try really hard...but it just doesn't seem to happen for me.  I feel like I just posted and it was a month ago.  A MONTH AGO? ALREADY?  Time is seriously flying for me.  Here is what has happened in my life lately according to my iPhone pictures.

Midnight Movies
As most of you know, I'm crazy about movies.  I get so excited for some of them and HAVE to go to some midnight showings.  These are the midnight showings I went to in the past few months:

THE VOW

Jamie, Jenny & I saw the Vow at midnight.  We were seriously excited because hello...Rachel McAdams + Channing Tatum = amazing.  I think our expectations were a little too high.  We liked it, but it wasn't as good as we expected it would be. It was so fun though!

 

 

The Hunger Games-Gale, Peeta & I

I am obsessed with the Hunger Games. I loved the books and couldn't wait until the movie came out. Jamie, Jas and I went to see it at midnight and loved it! I think I'm more emotional in the late hours of the night because I cried like 3 times and covered my eyes about 5.  It was hard to see the little kids die.  But I loved the movie.  I thought they did a really good job representing the book and Kaniss is the bomb.  I also am a dork and had fun with photoshop on the picture above.  I am laying there with Peeta and Gale. After I was finished, I sent it to my family. My sister pointed out that Jason looks like Gale in this picture and that Peeta looks like my little brother Taylor, and now I can't look at it anymore! It's too weird!

So excited for Hunger Games!

Hunger Games

The Lucky One

The most recent midnight showing we saw was for The Lucky One with..wait for it....Mr. Zac McHottie Efron himself.  Let's be honest, I've been a fan of his since High School Musical. I just love Troy Bolton and his "Soarin....Flying" talent.  Jamie and I had read the book and loved it, so we just had to see it.  It was pretty good.  The book was better.  It was just a really fun night out with the girlies.


Baby Benjamin & Camila
Matt and Haiquis came to visit for their new baby Benjamin's blessing.  I'm sad I didn't get more pictures. I love these guys so much and wish they lived closer. We miss you guys.

Benjamin and I

Cute little bug

Camila is adorable

Baby Bo Bo!

Tay Got ENGAGED!
Tay is all grown up! He got engaged to a beautiful girl named Kelsie.  We all love her.  They are such a cute couple and will have a wonderful life together.

Ingrid Michaelson Concert
Jenny and I went to the Ingrid Michaelson concert and it was amazing. This was our 3rd year in a row going. She is awesome live and one of my favorite female artists.

Other Random Pictures

My Mom makes the cutest purses!

Someone put my bosses stapler in jello. He is still convinced it was me.

My new fave product. The NuMe Curling Wand. I curl my hair, and it will stay curled up to 4 days!

Jenny, Jamie & I got into the St. George Marathon

My First Long Run

 Sorry for the Super Long post! It feels good to catch up a little bit.