Floral Fridays

Here are some more flowers, not sure if you can tell but these flowers a did a few months after the flowers I did on the last post. It saved a lot of time!

MEXICO Vacation!!!!

Ahhhh vacations! I wish I could go on vacation anytime I felt like it. We just got back from Mexico on December 1, to all the snow burrrr! How ever we did get to miss some of the cold weather which was great. We went to the Mayan Riviera and stayed at the Iberostar Paraiso Lindo Resort click here to view the site. We had great weather during our time there, it was around 28 to 30 degrees Celsius everyday. There were a couple of days where it was a little bit cloudy but still really nice. Also it did rain a little bit but it only rained in the evening and it would only be for 30 minutes or so. It was really great to just lie around by the pool and relax, why can't that be everyday?

                                      
                                             Here is the ocean from the beach

 These are some of theTulum ruins that we saw on our guided tour which was really cool to have a guide because he gave us some of the history. Like Since I was the youngest girl of our "tribe" I would be sent out for sacrifice. How great is that hey. The ruin above was used to determine when the 4 seasons would change. It would depend on which window the sun shone through (or something like that I can't really remember now) and that would tell them which season it was.

                                      At the El Rancho Resturant on the resort
                       Below is Matt's brother Richard and our sister in-law Kunthea

So this resort has a golf course attached to it, it is connected by a tunnel that goes under the high way since it is one the other side of the of the resort. So it was my first time golfing!!! I had a lot of fun. We signed up to do the full 18 holes, and a big bucket of golf balls at the driving rang shared between 2 people. So Matt and Richard were in a cart together and Kunthea and I were in a cart together, we had so much fun and we did awesome! We didn't finish all 18 holes because we are newer at golf and by the time we got to the 17th hole it was starting to get dark (we started to golf at their twilight time) and the bugs were coming out and we were getting eaten alive! I had 10 bite from my ankle to under my knee on only one leg!!! But it was still a really good experience and I defiantly think I will golf again.

This was from our Mayan Xtreme/ Snorkel Xtreme excursion. I was a bit nervous to do the repelling the first time because I wasn't too sure what to expect, but the second time I went do it was so fun I went down really fast!

                                                     Matt really liked it too

 

This was the underground "river" that you got to snorkel in, the water was ice cold and it was very dark but still a good experience non the less

Floral Fridays

So these next flowers were for a special service earlier this year. It was for the service of the Departed. The service for the departed is not supposed to be a sad service like some may think, it is actually meant to help invite those souls from the realms of the departed to partake in the 3 Holy Sacraments (you can find the explanations here )
Of course these are not done physically with those in the realms of the departed but they are done through proxies (two ministers who stand on their behalf to recieve the sacments.)

Renovation Wednesdays



 The next bit of renovations we did was outside. We had to get rid of our concrete steps because they were breaking and looking terrible.We also wanted to get a concrete patio in the back yard so we could actually use our outside space that we have. In the pictures you'll notice the fence, this was not the original fence, the original fence was falling apart but now we have a really nice strong fence and good looking too. I will have to update the pictures of what they look like now but with out the snow that we have now, so that will have to wait till the summer probably. Oh well, here is the pictures of what it looked like before, during and then right after it was finished (so no plants yet).

Before



During

                                                                                    



After



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After

                                                 



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After

                                                                                                                         

This is a close up of what the concrete actually looks like