Spring Break 2010

It all just feels like a dream. A wonderful, perfect dream that you don't ever want to wake up from. (sorry Melissa ... we know you are back there)
Spring Break 2010 was spent on the Sea of the Western Caribbean aboard the Crown Princess. Seven days of bliss. Seven days of sun, food, reading, lounging .. bliss I tell you BLISS!

We celebrated Easter Sunday on board the ship. The Easter bunny (by the name of Stacy) visited our cabin while we were out at the pool.

Grand CaymanJennie and I went diving in Grand Cayman. You know diving is one of my most favorite things to do. There is just nothing like that moment when you first start to descend. When you enter another world. It is magical.

(check out our super cute dive master Mark. Just an added bonus to our day of diving.)

Jennie and I exploring Grand Cayman.

Buddies!

Jennie is one of my BEST BUDDIES! There are so many things I admire about this girl. I am SUPER lucky to have her as a friend. Funny things just happen when you are with Jennie. Who else will get on the bunk beds and take "BF pictures" with you?(This gives you a good look at our cabin. yikes! Needless to say we did not spend much time in there.)

Hitting the green during a day at sea.

Look at that blue ocean in the background.

STACY

Love this girl!Stacy and I have now been on three cruises together. I love that Stacy is always up for .. whatever! The perfect person to travel with.

eeek!

SOOOO excited to watch New Moon (barf!)

Movie Under the Stars (love watching a movie on the deck out under the stars while out at sea).

Wow! We are so pretty. Formal night. They have photographers set up to take your picture but we don't really need them. We just set up our own photo shoot. Put me in a black dress and throw in a gold stair case .... watch out!

Jennie totally should be an "action model"

Roatan Honduras

As we pulled into port there were a couple really cool ship wrecks. We basically stayed in the "cruise line built port" It was kind of a fake Honduras. Beautiful all the same. I don't know that I can really say I have 'been to Honduras' after this.

(I love our shiny sun-screened faces)

We ended up staying the night in Honduras. Due to some high cross winds we could not get out of the narrow channel. The consequences of this was that we missed our day in Cozumel. I was ok with the extra day at sea lounging, reading, relaxing and of course eating! (I have been to Cozumel before)

Totally candid pictures at dinner.
Doesn't Melissa have the cutest smile ever! Get Melissa to have the giggles late at night ... hysterical!

V.I.P

more like VVVIP!

Cap'n Nick Nash was the Captain on mine and Jennie's first cruise. We managed to get ourselves invited to the Captains circle cocktail party (didn't actually make it due to scuba diving) . Anyway, Jennie worked with the Cap'n and got know his daughter. Well when we found out that Cap'n Nick Nash was the Captain of our cruise we were just thrilled! Jennie sent a note to the Cap'n and the next thing we know we have ourselves an invite to the BRIDGE! Not everyone gets an invite to the bridge ... in fact very few people get to go to the bridge. It was very exciting to see how everything works and as a total bonus ... the officers are total hotties!

FOOD! FOOD! FOOD!

I did a little eating on this trip.

So my jeans don't fit anymore ... what's the big deal?

Such lovely ladies.

Oh Nico!

Nico was our cruise boyfriend. He is a photog for the ship. Isn't he dreamy!

Princess Cays
"Blue Crush"
Raft Style
(this pretty much sums up our day on the island)
The Crown Princess
She is a fine ship she is!

It was a week of bliss ... pure bliss!

APJC

I have yet to introduce my new nephew
Axel Peter James Christensen
He is pretty much the sweetest thing on earth!

SB CC'10

I am off to my Happy Place! It has not been SUPER easy thus far but it will be all worth it when I am on the ship sipping a fancy drink soaking up sunshine, reading a book not giving a second thought to real life ... ANYWAY, the not easy part started when I checked in and my bag weighed too much! WHAT? That has never happened to me! I am the girl who takes a carry on to Europe for two months! So what do you do? It isn't like I can just take stuff out and throw it away. My backpack was pretty full. I finally decided to toss the sunscreen and aloe and after sun lotion. They were brand new! I sure did ask the girl at the counter if she wanted them! She might as well. No reason for them to go in the trash. I do feel better that someone will use them! Nice that I am going on a cruise with no sunscreen. I am currently sitting in the Denver airport in the middle of my 5 yes FIVE hour layover. This is the first of two ... next stop DETROIT! I really feel like I will have earned my passage on that ship! Do you feel sorry for me yet?

March Madness!

It is true that I have gotten sucked into college basketball this year. (A certain boy got me hooked on watching the Cougs.) It hasn't captured my heart like the Bronco's but it has been fun and I even have a favorite player (hello, it is so much more fun when you have a team boyfriend!). The first week of MM was intense! Love the upsets, although my interest has dwindled as my bracket is totally shot at this point and I will admit that the timing of last week is unfortunate as it would have been much more fun to be watching all these games with that certain boy (sigh). Anyway ... THAT March Madness is not what this post is actually about ....

MaRcH MadNeSs!

March has been busy and crazy and has shot by in a flash! We are suddenly at the end of the month. Spring is in the air. There are just a few things that are blog note worthy for the month of March.

Demo It seems like the only time I actually make anything is when I do demonstrations for my classes. My ceramics II classes started throwing on the wheel so I got to play a little. These are a couple of the pieces that I did as demos for them. Seriously, I have the best job (except for this last week when I was grading a bazillion ceramic projects)! I feel a give away coming soon. Stay tuned.

I didn't exactly have the best week last week. So when I stopped at my mailbox on Wednesday what could I find that would just top it all off????

JURY DUTY PAPERS! Now for many of you this probably doesn't mean much. You have gotten them before, filled them out and never thought of it again because nothing ever came of it. Some of you have never seen such papers (who did you pay off? huh?). Well for me, it makes my stomach drop! The last time I got this lovely yellow paper I ended up on a two week FEDERAL trial! While it was very exciting (by the end of the trial there was so much press we had to be escorted out of the courthouse by security through the tunnels and then separated and taken to our cars!) and made me want to audit law school I feel that I have done my civic duty ... FOR LIFE!
It really just felt like the cherry on top of my what next week.

Since we are on the topic of CIVIC DUTY ... next time you see me please address me as
"Representative Sari"
Like many of you I did heed the call to attend my caucus meeting a couple nights ago. Next thing I know I am agreeing to be a County Representative for my precinct. I really feel this is the beginning of my political career. {HA} I think I might be, "go'in to Washington D.C."

Well I survived the end of yet another term and grades and excuses. Please don't ever let YOUR child be the child that shows up the day or even ten minutes AFTER grades have gone in and says, "Miss Christensen, what can I do to get my grade up?" REALLY? REALLY? REALLY! Let's start by going BACK in time and doing the assignments! Ugh. On the bright side ... we only have EIGHT weeks (not counting the upcoming week of spring break) of school left. HOLY COW!
Summer Sari is in sight.

Now let's move on to April shall we!

Run Run As Fast As You Can!

A couple months ago Beckie called me and asked if I would run the Moab half marathon with her. Ummm ... NO THANKS! I am just not that interested in running 13.1 miles. Ok, so run the 5 miler instead. Yes, that I can do. Of course we had to make a fun weekend out of the event. So Beck flew to SLC and we drove to Moab together. Three straight hours of uninterrupted talk time. How fun is that! We got up early, headed to the shuttles, wished each other luck and parted ways. Boy it was a cold morning. SOOO cold! Finally the race started and off we went. What a beautiful run.

I had a great race. I felt good. I was happy with my time. So all and all it was a good experience. I hung out and waited for Beck to finish her race. She did AWESOME! I am so impressed that she ran 13.1 miles! Then we got another three hours in the car ... a little stinky but fun all the same. Who would have ever thought that Beckie and I would be running a race together (ok, kinda together). Now what? Triathlon in two months!

Rerun

You are following a TV show. It is starting to get pretty good. There is some anticipation each week as to what is going to happen next. Just a little something to look forward to ... you know what I am talking about because you all have at least one show that you watch. And then one week it is a rerun! Ugh ... and it isn't even a very good episode. In fact it isn't good at all!
Welcome to my life!
I am living a rerun in my own personal sitcom/drama that my life seems to be. I am not kidding. This week has been a total rerun of this same week last year. And that was not exactly a good week. It is a little bizarre how rerun-ish these two weeks have been. I didn't enjoy this episode the first time around. I really don't want to watch (or rather live) it again. So ... gotta shake my life up a little (or something) and then there are those things just not under my control (hate that). I have never been a big fan of reruns. New episode please!

Spring Snowshoe

With a random Friday off from school (no there was no holiday ... it's called cutbacks!) We headed up to the cabin. Of course we had to go out for a little spring snowshoeing.

It was a beautiful blue skied day.

We kinda sneak around ... so when we hear someone coming we have to "run and hide". This is my mom "running and hiding". It just makes snowshoeing a little more exciting.

A little fresh air, a little exercise, a little adventure, a little nature!

A great day of Spring Snowshoeing!