March Madness!

So, no this post is not about basketball although this years March Madness has been nothing short of madness. I mean come on so many upsets and poor Kevin Ware's broken leg. YIKES!

As far as my march madness, there has been a lot going on (hence my post being a little late...oops). First, there was spring break! Wahoo. I had David, school free, for a whole week! awesome. So we wanted to make the most of it. We did a lot of cool things just right around town like the Riverwalk, the Witte museum, and just chilled.

There were cool photo bombing dinosaurs at the Witte Museum. 

We wanted to have a super fun day too, so we went to the beach. I was so happy to feel the salty windy in my hair, to hear the roar of the ocean, and to feel the sand between my toes! Lets just say I was excited! David had just bought his new Tacoma with 4 wheel drive so we had to try that out! It was a blast to drive on the beach! What a great spring break!

Squinty Squinty! 

Yeah we came across a camel at the beach. When I am rich, I too will take my pet camel to the beach...  :)

David couldn't resist posing his black beauty for a nice little photo shoot. 

Then, my parents came out to visit. It was more fun than I was anticipating. WE took them to some local joints and ate WAY too much food. Also, when us girls get together we of course have to shop! So we shopped until we dropped. I was looking for a specific item while out shopping, heels! I know weird, me wearing heels. But that is the wonderful thing about having a boyfriend that is 6'9" I can wear crazy heels and still be significantly shorter than him. I can finally try and be tall instead of wearing flats to have a bigger range of men to date. Now I just need to make sure I can walk in them. Thank heavens I haven't tripped yet. (key word: yet)

Bought these sexy bad boys..well mom did :) Thanks mommy

Now for the reason this post is so late... I was in Arizona for the past week. David and I went out to visit his brother Jeremy, Jeremy's fiancee Steina, and their son as well as to see Davids old mission buddy, and my friends Kahanu and Krisha. Talk about a full week! so I will let the pictures do most of the talking.

First I got to see this awesome lady! Kahanu was down from Hawaii visiting a friend so of course we had to meet up and cause some trouble. 

We also had a double date with David's mission buddy and we were able to go to the wonderful Mesa Easter pageant. It was beautiful and so nice to visit the temple and to be reminded of the true meaning of Easter and the loving sacrifice that our Savior has made for us. 

One of the things I miss about good ole Cali is In-N-Out Burger. I missed In-N-Out so much that during the 1 week I was near an in-n-out, I went 3 times. I had to stock up for the In-N-out famine I am currently in and do not know when I will be blessed with a delicious double-double again.

Also, Saturday was Off-road Appreciation day so we had to be extra appreciative! Jeremy knew some people that were going to go from Lake Pleasant to Crown King (a 30+ mile off road trail) so we decided to join them. David, Jeremy, and their mom bought a Can-am Commander so we HAD to take it out and keep up with the gang. Well we kept up alright.... except for that one time.

Most of the trail is minor bumps and rocks all over the place except for a few "challenges" that you can decide to take or not. Well Jeremy was driving, I was just the passenger along for the adventure (David was in a friends Toyota FJ) and we did not want to be shown up by anyone! We conquered all challenges (some more than once) except one that we didn't try because we didn't have the clearance for it, even one of the FJ's got high centered.   Well, one of the times we were taking on the hill things got a little interesting. We  had just gone through the rough patch once and looped back for round 2. We were going up, going up, then all the sudden we are going sideways and the rock next to me kept getting closer and closer until we were on our side, skid-plates showing and needing some assistance to get back on all fours. It was frighteningly awesome!

One of the other fun things that happened was going to a Baseball game. We hit up the Arizona Dimondbacks vs the St.Louis Cardinals. We had great seats and just enjoyed hanging out.

All in all it was a great month. Now I could just use a vacation from all my vacations to just chill and
relax. But then I wouldn't have anything to write about for April... so I will find some crazy adventure or event to make blog-worthy.