When Michelle's away Mike's at Play!

So this week Michelle has been super stressed with midterms coming up and as most of you know she has to take midterms AND write one for the ASL class she is teaching! So to be a supportive husband I try not to bother her and I keep out of her hair.  To do this I figured getting out of the house would be best.  So now what to do???? Hmmmm I have an idea!!

It had rained and snowed for a few weeks so most of the trails out here were closed but they opened them up yesterday and lets just say the trails still had a little mud hanging around.  I went solo to a nearby area for riding and I saw a couple quads come out that were totally clean so I thought that the trails must have dried up.  Then I saw about 5 dirtbikes come off the same trail absolutely covered in mud.  At that point I knew it was going to be a good day.  After the first 2 min on the trail I hit the first mud puddle and then about every minute I was in the mud.  I almost got stuck in one mud hole because it was so thick and deep.  I was having so much fun I didnt realize that I was soaked to the bone until I got back to the truck.  I had to strip down to my skives and luckily I had a towel in the truck to wrap around me on the way home.  Needless to say I now have permanently stained riding attire.  I have not had that much fun in a long time.  Funny thing was Michelle didnt even want to come the next time I go out.... weird.

Now you see it now you don't

So today Michelle took a big step to losing some weight.  She took some good steps in the way of cutting out some unnecessary protein.  The good news is that it only took one pair of scissors and a skilled cosmetologist.

 Soooo Cute!!!!

2 Months!

We are celebrating our two month anniversary today! So for our celebration we ate leftovers and I rebuilt my quads carburetor then drove it around the block. Actually we forgot until just now.  But it is nice to know we have made it two months! Woohoo!

Puppy Love

 We are getting the cutest puppy ever! We went up to Amorita, OK where the breeder lives and got to meet the father and mother and their little ones.

New Foal

 Our new addition to our equine family came on the 31st of Jan.  She had a little rough start but she is doing great now! Her name is Fancy by Design, but we just call her Fancy.

Honeymoon!! wink wink smile

 This was the view from our hotel room in Tampa, FL our first stop on our honeymoon.

 We ate at a famous restaurant in Tampa called Burns Steakhouse which has the entire second floor dedicated to dessert! I love dessert so we just had to go!

 The dessert room had little pritave booths that were romantic.

 Oh and we took a limo from the airport to the hotel and to dinner.

 This is the first view we had of Grand Cayman

 This was the view looking out the back door of our condo on the island.

 Our condo had a kitchen which we took advantage of that every morning.

 This was the balcony where we ate breakfast most mornings taking in the sea breeze.

 Our first night we took a Bio-Luminescence tour on kayaks to see the micro-organisms that flicker like fireflies under water. It was amazing

 Driving in Grand Cayman was a little backward but I got so used to it that I had a bit of trouble when I got back staying on the correct side of the road.

 This was Michelle's first crabcake! it was the first place we ate on the island and the best. It was dumb luck we found it.  It was the only place open after 9:30pm when we got back from kayaking the first night.  They stayed open for us.  It was great!  We went back two more times while we were there.

 Sweet breakfast on the beach front patio.

 Dont try this at home! Sea urchins are poisonous but these young ones dont have the venom yet.

 We got to hold starfish and chonch shells with the snails still in them.

 Horseback riding on the beach then in the ocean where we took them for a swim about 200 yards off shore!

After our swim we grabbed a fresh coconut to drink the coconut milk.

 This was a nice place on an inland lagoon surrounded by mangroves.
Next stop was to swim with the Dolphins!

 Footpush was amazing.

 So after the dolphin swim I seemed to have gotten a rash...... Wrong! The next day we talked to our fishing boat captain and he identified it as a jellyfish sting.  It was on both sides of my shoulders. In the area where my lifevest didnt cover my skin.

 We rented a jeep the whole week we were here so we could do a little beach offroading.

 To make things more interesting after our horseback ride the horse I rode spooked when I was leading him and he stepped on my foot while I was barefoot....Ouch!!

 Wendy's!! who knew we would find one on the island.

 Michelle is like a fish in water! Kind of...

 Just a walk in the park hand in hand.

 My orange smile

 This was a cool beach front restaurant.

 We were up at dawn to get the best fishing.  This was our boat.

 Ahhhh Barracuda!

 Then Mike got sick.

 The camera woman.

 Good morning rays

 Michelle was trying to hid behind me but the rays were all around us.

 FISH ON!!!

 Or two or three or four!

 The camera women's perch.

 We got the last fish we caught fileted and cooked right at the dock... Yummy!!

 This place is called the Lighthouse for obvious reasons

 Turtle turtle turtle turtle

 Iguanas!

 The church is everywhere!

 The weirdest traffic signs ever.

 Blue iguanas are only found on Grand Caymans.  This guy we saw in the park and then later in the parking lot as we were leaving

 He was great at posing for the camera

 This is the restaurant that we went to that first night on the island... it was an open shack behind the local bar.  Best food!

 If you look you can see the runway on the island... if you don't get up soon enough you will land in the ocean!

On the plane flying back to the States.  We had the most amazing honeymoon and did everything that we wanted to.  It was a perfect week!