Certified!

Jared and I finished our Open Water Diver class. We are now certified in Scuba and can go diving whenever we want. Yesterday was rough. After the first dive, Jared and I both asked each other, "What are we doing?" I didn't have enough weight and couldn't go down while I watched everyone I knew descend into the abyss. Well it turned out ok once we got the weight thing figured out. Jared had problems equalizing and couldn't get his fins under control. We were a mess. After the 2nd and 3rd dives yesterday we got everything figured out and even went 45ft and stood on the brink of a cave system. Jared saw an eel and the instructor was bummed that I didn't get to see it but I told him that that was definitely ok!

Today was awesome. We had to walk about a mile today in soft sand with 28pounds of weights plus our gear which probably totals 50pounds. (not awesome) When we got to the jetty, we were able to descend, finish our drills, and go hunt sand dollars and shells. Jared uses so much air so we didn't get to spend a lot of time collecting stuff but I will post pictures of our loot. One of the guys in our group was tormenting me with a crab and found this dead fish skeleton that he was waving around. Boys ugh. So anywho we are certified and are so pumped about being able to go explore.

This is Jared and I doing our buddy check in the pool last week.

We Passed!

Jared and I spent 8 hours in the water today. We spent 8 hours learning about scuba yesterday. It was brutal but so interesting. We are on brain overload right now and very water logged. So today we spent all day in the pool learning about our gear, bouyancy, and what to do in case of emergencies. There were 5 total in the class. The other 3 were Marines; needless to say, I had the most difficulties. It made me want to go workout because with 15lbs. of weight in my weight belt, I sometimes struggled with staying down. It was the coolest bonding experience because Jared and I were buddies and we just had to understand what was going on with the other person with only a few signals. Soooo coool. Next Saturday we will go to a spring and dive there and then on Sunday we are off to the gulf to get some sand dollars. Today we only got downto 6 feet in the pool and I felt very cramped in there. I am sure that's the only time I'll feel cramped. I am sure I will have dreams about breathing underwater now because of how unnatural that feeling is. I'll get back to you next weekend.

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That feels good.

Finally updated on pictures. I have been so busy at school and when I come home, I go straight to Jazzercise. Our lives are crazy but here you go. I have a few more pictures to post. One of Megan and one of Jared in his scuba gear and some of our vaycay.

Spring Break

 
Two of Jared's former players brought a bunch of guys to our house for Spring Break. This was the only time that I saw them. Preston (2rd from left), Jordan (5th from left), and their friends from A&M took us out to dinner one night. They were all so nice and there were 7 girls that stayed somewhere else but were in their group too. That night the girls called me 'Mom'- weird.

Jared's Team

 

Jared's team did a great job of improving this year. He was very happy to work with these girls to build their program. They won their first game of the district tournament before being beaten by the state semi-finalists! Go Lady Knights

Random Beach Pictures

 

Mendi

 


These are pictures of Mendi Border and all of the Border festivities that I was so glad to be apart of. I took them in December and haven't had time to post them. Mendi is so freakin beautiful- I hate her. Really though, Mendi is a great friend and her pictures show the kind of life-of-the-party spirit that she has. I miss you so much!

Update

Hi guys. All is well here. We just got back from Spring Break. We went to Tennessee and it was cold. I came out of retirement and played some golf at a Par 3 course. Jared and I did about the same which tells you that neither of us did very good but at least we had fun. Megan met us half way and we got to eat dinner with her. It was great to see her and catch up a little bit. I will be seeing her at the end of May for one of our friend's weddings in Vegas. Yeah. It has been rainy here which bummed me out because I was going to spend the last part of my break at the beach but I guess there's always next weekend. Speaking of that, we are starting our SCUBA classes next week and will last 2 whole weekends. We are pumped but the sooner it gets, the more nervous I get about sharks. Our instructor said that he has seen a total of 7 since he has been SCUBAing. I think 7 is a whooooole lot. Anywho it is going to be an adventure.
We saw Mom and Dad in Lake Charles for Easter and had a fun time with them. Dad showed Jared a thing or two about playing Craps while Mom and I yawned. We all lounged and had a wonderful Easter.
Our Anniversary is tomorrow. 1 year!
I am sure I will never post pictures even though I want to say I will.
Kara and Olivia are coming in 1 month. This is spectacular!