Honeymoon Plans

Garrett and I booked our honeymoon last weekend! We are so very excited to be going to Aruba! We are planning on going snorkeling, relaxing on the beach, and exploring this lovely little island off the northern coast of Venezuela!

Source

There's some great snorkeling over a sunken World War 2 ship. (On our last visit, the ship sliced open my leg, and the deckhand poured vodka down it. Good trip!) There is also lots of fun cuisine to try. Lots of nature to explore! Garrett and I are extremely pumped!

Here's the family (mom taking the picture from the boat) in Aruba in 2008. Best.Family.Vacation.Ever.

This is the California Lighthouse. We have a family picture in front of it somewhere, but I can't seem to find it!!!

I didn't want to post too many pictures from our family trip to Aruba, because I don't want to overshadow the fact that Garrett and I will be spending our honeymoon there. I know you will all be jealous when on Christmas, I'm the beach in Aruba while the rest of you will probably be stuck with snow! Love you all!!! :)

In other news, Garrett and I have everything crossed off the checklist that the priest gave us back in February. We went on the Engaged Encounter this weekend. We went into it with a not-so-great attitude. We talked about previous retreats, like high school retreats, and decided that those were always so much fun because all our friends were there. In high school, we really wanted to go. This was not the case for the weekend. Happily, we were pleasantly surprised by the whole weekend. We got to talk about a lot of things that are important, even though we had actually covered all these topics before. The entire weekend was dedicated just to us spending time with each other, which was glorious. No out side distractions or nothing. Just one-on-one time with Garrett. We ended the weekend stronger as a couple, which we are incredibly thankful for.

Source

With the weekend done, all we have left to do for the church is plan the ceremony. What readings to use and what songs to use and who will do what. I'm very excited. Planning our wedding has been delightful so far and I'm pumped to continue to do just that.

Oh, one more thought. My lovely sister, Lara, is graduating from Indiana University this weekend. She' graduating with Bachelor of Science in Business Technologies (I think) as well as her Bachelor of Arts in German Language. At least, I'm pretty sure that those are the degrees she's getting. So I had to put a lovely picture of Lara and I on here. This is Lara and I in Aruba in 2008. I couldn't help myself, I'm still way pumped about Aruba! In this picture, I had gotten a gash in my leg from snorkeling over the sunken ship. Note to self, very strong current, pay attention to what's going on. Anyway, so we had decided to not go in the water at the next place, and stayed on board and enjoyed delicious Caribbean drinks.

Congrats Lara!!!

Until Next Time!

Lots of Love!!

~A