*One Year Wedding Anniversary*

Well it's official...Josh and I have been married for a WHOLE YEAR! This first year of marriage has flown by but oh what a wonderful year it has been. So for our anniversary Josh took me to his beautiful family cabin in Ophir, Utah where we spent three wonderful and romantic days! Friday we got there a little late so we just hung out in the cabin and explored it since we haven't been there for awhile. Saturday, which was our actual anniversary day (August 22) we went quad riding all around the mountains surrounding the cabin, had a romantic bon-fire and cheered w/ sparkling cider to a wonderful year of marriage and an eternity more to come. Here are a few pictures to enjoy from a weekend that ended too soon!





HAPPY ONE YEAR SWEETHEART, I LOVE YOU!

*San Diego 2009*

In the Bracken family it has now become a tradition since last year that we go to San Diego and camp right on the beach w/ a beautiful ocean view. Well this year we had tons of fun, especially now that Josh and I are married the sleeping arrangements were so much nicer! It was also really nice to finally have time away from work since I have not been away since I started in March, so needless to say it was a well needed and deserved vacation!

To start out our vacation we went on a long 18 mile bike ride around downtown San Diego, and took a ferry around the harbor to see all the aircraft carriers which was really neat to see. Here are a few pictures to enjoy from our bike ride....





The very next day my wonderful in-laws took me to Sea World for my very first time and let me tell you it was a blast. I loved seeing all the shows, especially "Shamu Rocks" which was the night time show, and SLL (Sea Lions Live) which was just like the show Saturday Night Live. It was really funny and the sea lions really act like people and are super well trained it honestly did not seem like they were real sea lions (I was very impressed). Also the Shark exhibit was awesome and going through the shark tunnel was a bit creepy since basically the only thing between you and a shark is glass, so a bit scary. Here are some pictures from the Sea World adventure....








Josh and I decided before we ended our wonderful vacation we would stop home in Arizona to see my family and hang out for a few days. Well that ended way to quickly and before we knew it, it was time to come back to Idaho. I cried the whole way home because I'm a baby and I hate saying goodbye to family, and well to be honest I love Rexburg but I am so ready to be home in Arizona...only a year left!