busy, busy, busy....

the end of school is FINALLY getting near for both patrick and i! if all goes well (and as planned), i should be graduating next spring with my AS in speech communications...and patrick shortly thereafter with his certification in paramedics and/or firefighting...it has been a long, crazy, time. but in the end, it will be SO AWESOME to be done!!!

in addition to our work and schooling, we both have felt very called to start working with the youth group at our church (peach tree church of christ). we both had excellent experiences when we were in the youth groups (with time focused on personal growth in indivudal realtionships with Christ, fun activities, and building great realtionships with the other people in the youth group), we really desire to give our youthgroup a -smiliar expereince - to the best that we can! we have been very busy with it though!! we have SEVERAL fundraisers planned for the summer to save up money for our big trip to disneyland! we are going to spend 2 days in the parks...i'm very excited! even though patrick and i just went to disneyworld... i havent been to disney land in years! (and they are actually very different =] )

our first big endeaver of a fundraiser was a bake sale, where patrick mastered his bobby crocker cooking skills and made two AWESOMELY DELICIOUS cheescakes!! they were a big hit... however, i did try to warn him that if he started making cheesecakes, he might be forced to make them more often since that is one of my major food weaknesses! =) well, it's prolly about time to head out and start gearing our for our next big fundraiser... a service aution... people get to essentially "buy" us for labor! im excited cuz it will be a different experience for every one... the youth group was a little hesitant when we first proposed it to them though! but i think it will be a decent success.

Our Florida Honeymoon

at about 5am before we left the apt













at about 1am (Eastern) after we got to the hotel














at Epcot!














the back of our matching shirts...they say "The Mahers"
















In "Canada" at Epcot















Sky writing at Epcot































Not wanting to wait in lines anymore















Coco Beach













































"Expedition Everest" - the new Matterhorn




















In Magic Kingdom















Awesome time- our knight was the "bad" one tho!















Kennedy Space Center (we couldn't go inside tho since we got there too late :( lol)



















right under the "no loitering " sign at Coco Beach














Peek-a-boo




































Hollywood Tower of Terror








































Animal Kingdom - "Tree of LIfe"



















THe African Wildlife Reserve (which is actually a "safari" ride in Animal Kingdom)


































So as you can ell, we had an awesome time in Florida! We had great weather, and were able to do a lot of things!! We hit up every park at least 2x, making sure we got to our favorite rides as many times as wanted! (I think the record was 6 on Tower of Terror). We were also able to go to Coco Beach (a famous surfing beach) and Ron Jon's Surf Shop (also famous surfing spot). We tried to go to Kennedy SPace Center, but endded up getting there too late to be let in... so we took some pictures of the outside (lol). We also went to Medeviel Times!! I couldn't even remember how it was when i went almost 12 years ago!! On the way home, we stopped at the Mall of America and hit up some of the rides and shops (let me tell you - it's GINORMOUS!)

Now back to the real world with work and school and all...but our trip was the best honeymoon we could have ever even imagined!

wedding pics

Married now!

So as of Saturday, we will have been married a month! Patrick and I are enjoying life as newlyweds...although sometimes it is a liiitle hard with our differing work and school schedules, so we plan a date night ever week.

Right now, we're getting ready to go to Florida! We're going to DisneyWorld for a week for our honeymoon. We're both very excited! Since Patrick's already been there and I never have, he's taking care of all the planning - what we ABSOLUTELY have to do and all! So be looking for pictures of our wedding and honeymoon in a week or two!!