Babies!!!

Yesterday both my sister Holly and my best friend Heidi had their babies!!! Holly named her little boy Jensen Brian Rawlings and Heidi named her first little girl Audrey Leilani Sherman. Both are miracle babies in their own way - Heidi and Jason have tried to have kids for 10 years. They have done every kind of fertility treatment you can imagine! This baby will never wonder if it was wanted! And Holly has had complications with all of her pregnancies and lost her last baby. Jensen has given them several scares over the months but he is healthy and happy! Heidi is here in Arizona so we were able to go visit them at the hospital yesterday. Here are some pictures!

Violated

Last week i had my car broken in to and my purse stolen! They busted the passenger side window and grabbed the purse from the floor. I was in the gym for abou 30 minutes and came out to find i had been violated!! The random part is that exactly the same time i found all of this, my phone stopped working without warning at all ( i had the phone with me). So i had trouble trying to make calls to get credit cards stopped, etc. Luckily we got all of that taken care of within an hour or so and we discovered that the new credit cards that James had given me (from his credit card accounts) with 'Heather Janssen' on them - had already been used by the criminals who did the deed. Those dirty dogs. Anyways, a word to the wise - be extra careful at the gym... I never thought about it much, but apparently i have heard since, that this a huge hot spot because people don't usually take everything in with them. On a positive note - my phone started working (randomly) again on Tuesday. So i went a week of being phoneless and moneyless relying on my generous sugar daddy but now i've got credit cards and debit cards back so i'm on a spending spree to celebrate!

Everything's bigger in Texas

We spent the last three days in Texas - San Antonio area. James' grandma lives in San Antonio and his uncle lives in the area as well. We spent time with their family friends in Boerne and Fredricksburg but we also visited Luchenback, TX and Bandera, TX. We saw the San Antonio temple, spent time at the famous Riverwalk and also the Alamo. It was great to get a small taste of Texas living. The people are so great!!

Lots o News

I haven't posted in a month now and a lot has happened!!! Almost 3 weeks ago i got engaged!! I have discovered that i am not the type to shout it on the mountain tops...its taken me this long to update my blog. We were in Nebraska this past weekend for James' ten year HS reunion. Good times! Kind of randomly, his sister's best friend went out with us to take a few pictures to see if there was any we could use for our engagement photos. In between photo shoots she took some of us playing around.... Kinda fun. We are getting married Sept 27th in the Mesa Temple!

Zorbing in New Zealand

So one of the highlights of my South Pacific Trip was Zorbing in New Zealand. You may have seen it in a Toyota commercial. There are only a couple of places in the world you can do it. Its like you are in a big hamster wheel... Check out my pictures:

So Stinkin' FUN!!!!

Finally over the jet lag...

I'm back in the real world and missing my vacation days. I'm still getting around to posting more pictures. But in the meantime, one of the guys from the trip put together a best of the best photo assortment. You can see them at the following website:

http://www.stecks.net/southpacific

Check em out!

Bula! from Fiji

We are on our way home tonight and Fiji has been incredible! We went scuba diving two different days and saw lots of sharks and a sea snake and incredible soft coral and fish. Lots of nemos (clown fish). Four of us went sea kayaking and our kayak got water logged out at sea. It was an adventure. We were trying to swim it back in and drag the kayaks but we were going about 10 meters an hour and someone on shore spotted us and sent out the boat! Stupid tourists!
We saw some Fijian dancers last night who were really good and there was some great firedancing as well.
Yesterday we went up to a real fijian village in the rainforests - just six of us. Not touristy. But the chief met with us and his son showed us around there land. We hiked up to a cave and some incredible waterfalls that we swam in. And they cooked us a traditional lunch - taro leaves with coconut milk, fried eggplant, fish, sausage, boiled tapioca and lemon juice. It was pretty good.
I don't have any pictures to post because i lost my camera in Sydney. Not sure where...I'm trying not to think about it. :) But everyone else has taken tons so i'll have lots to show!
Hope to talk to everyone very soon!