4 Months later and Now I'll Tell You About COZUMEL!!

So its the middle of winter(cause in my mind, January is the middle cause it snowed in April this year) and we're just a couple of days away from our half day airplane ride to the most wonderful place on earth! (No, not DISNEYLAND, even though I think its pretty close)

Its 5:00 in the morning and I'm waiting for Devin, he finally gets to my house, so now we can go meet up with Josh DeMann and Phil Stevens(Phil's dad was kind enough to take us from Josh's house to Bryan and Pam's then to the airport that early in the morning) From there, its all a matter of security checks and making sure Grandma and Grandpa DeMann knew where BOTH their carry-on bags were!(We each took turns carrying them so Jack could push Elsa's wheelchair) We finally get on the airplane and since I bought my tickets after everyone, I was sitting in a different aisle than everyone, but Josh, the sweetheart he is, moved so I could sit next to Devin!

Jack DeMann kept the stories flowing the whole trip to Dallas, and he is full of the greatest stories! Once we landed in Dallas, we had enough time to have a bathroom break and try to gulp down a sandwich that Bryce(Devin's oldest brother) had made! It was delicious! Then it was from Dallas to COZUMEL, QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO!! The weather was wonderful when we landed and I couldn't wait to get in the ocean! Once we got settled in our BEAUTIFUL condos, we set out to snorkel!

We snorkeled every day and it was GREAT!! The clarity of the water was amazing and seeing the fish was awesome! (Except when I got anxiety and had to get out, usually when the fish got to close!) We even saw a baracuda and some eels!! One night, the boys pulled out their night diving lights and went for a night dive, they say they saw an octupus and lots of lobsters! The next couple of nights, Miki and I went along for the night and can I just say...LOBSTERS ARE CREEPY! Literally screamed under water, and to make it worse, all the boys were trying to pick them up and catch them!!

(In this picture, you can barely see Bryan, for some reason he stood far away from us...)

We ate at some of the greatest places ever! We found "our spot" and "the place" that we liked to frequent but never the same twice in a row!

We went to this lighthouse on PUNTA LONGOSTA, the LONG climb to the top was long, but the view was so worth it! Even Jack made it up, it was awesome! After the lighthouse, we found some "mexican tigers"(a raccoon type animal), a lot of iguana's, and even a crab!

Then we went snorkling again! YAHOO! It was so amazing in this water, I couldn't believe it! The sand here was so soft!

Then Devin, me, Bryce, Mary, the kids, Pam, Bryan, and Jack(Josh and Clayton joined later) went to PUNTA SUR! It was this cool little cove on the south side of the island! They had cliffs(no jumping, unless you want to plunge to your death) shallow water and sand! We found a crab here and Bryce and Devin chased it for some time, then with Bryan's help, they caught it!

Another day, the whole gang(including both sets of grandparents) went to what you could call a water park, it had all sorts of inflatable water toys to climb on and such! SO MUCH FUN!

(No one from our group here)

One of the days, Devin, Mary and I went HORSEBACK RIDING! Fun, but the jungle had more garbage than a junk yard! Our tourguide was nice and showed us some interesting things! Mine and Mary's horses were best friends, but Devin's horse wasn't so friendly...!

Another one of the days, we toured the ruins on the island! Way cool!! And lots of fun! Found a cave that kept our interest for WAY longer than it should've! HA!

The last day, we rented SCOOTERS!! Like vespa's...IT WAS AWESOME! So much fun, we went around the whole island and stopped wherever we pleased! When we stopped for lunch...we definitely picked the WRONG spot, flies everywhere!! It was so gross, but then the beaches on that side of the island were so beautiful! Sand for miles and miles! We played in the ocean like we were little kids! The tide swept to the side, so you had to watch how far you were getting pulled away!

But I would say the most memorable part of the trip would have to be when Devin asked me to marry him! To him, it seemed like nothing was going how he wanted it, and I just saw it as another night! He couldn't have been sweeter with the whole thing and I feel bad that I ruined it! It turned out great though and the view from the pool was AMAZING!! We tell everyone and the responses couldn't be more different, Kitty(Pam's mom) tells us "if we had gotten engaged in December, we would've made it on her calander" but she's way happy for us! And Josh, oh Joshua....ever the sarcastic "uber happy" for us!

But we were happy and thats all I cared about! The only way I was able to communicate with my family was through the internet, so all I got to do was email my dad and let him pass on the good news!

(Can you find JOSHUA?!)

After all the fun and excitement of our ten day trip, it was time to head home! This time, I sat by strangers on the flights home, but I had my books and my iPod to play games, so it wasn't too bad! My wonderful parents picked us up from the airport and we all squished in with our luggage! What a wonderful trip! And they are planning on going 12 days next time!!

What an adventure!!

So starting this blog, I never imagined how much work it was just to get it started! (I've already had one phone call to my sister to ask about pictures) I can only imagine trying to keep up with it! It's been constant teasing from Devin about how clever I think I am with the names I chose for our blog and him just laughing at me! But think about it...what better way to say one of us is for BYU and one of us is for UTAH than to make our web address...byutahfans!! Clever right?! And LIFE AS DEMANN?! Who doesn't want to be DE mann?!
So Devin just keeps criticising me about the blog...he doesn't get why blog? Well neither do I, but it seems fun and I need something to do to fill my days, so I'll tell everyone about us, our lives and our wedding plans! Yes, for those so out of the loop, we're getting married in just over 2 months! Everything is planned and we just need to send out invites! Its been a great engagement, very little fighting! Devin is good at saying "yes, that'll be fine" and "I like it, if you like it". But, we're both happy about everything that we've decided on and can't wait for the day to see how everything turns out!
Since we chose an all inclusive reception center, they are doing everything(except clothing and photography) for us! So one night, we met with our consultant and 3 1/2 hours later, we had everything from the cake to the linens and napkins to the invites planned, we only had to meet with the florist! It was a long night but such a relief to have everything pretty much planned! We're excited for our ice sculpture to match our centerpieces and our cake to have 4 tiers with 4 different flavors! Everything came together nicely with the colors we chose and the feel we want our wedding to have! IT'S GONNA BE A PARTY!! After meeting with our consultant, we met with the Lori, our florist! And what a great lady she was! Way patient and very helpful with choosing flowers! She was able to incorporate all our colors in almost everything and even had these WAY cool Tye-died roses that have 3 of our 4 colors!! What an awesome thing to have! She does all of our flowers including the bouquet, boutiners, corsages and ceremony flowers!
Now Devin has always enjoyed working in a garden(all thanks to Bryan, his father, who has the most impressive garden ever!) He once planted gladiola's at a previous place of residence and have been one of his favorite flowers ever since...so guess what flowers are in our centerpieces...yes, Lori said gladiola's would look AWESOME for what we want, so that's what we get! Fantastic right?! Everything is just working out perfectly! Like finding an awesome dress right away, and getting 10% off? Its been easy so far planning our wedding and that's something we both love!