Sunday, August 24, 2008

Where have we been?

Well after the cruise, life got crazy. Jason had wisdom teeth surgery, and two weeks later and dry sockets he survived. My office got busier, we have moved in quite a few people over the last few months. I had a root canal and found out I am claustrophobic. I rode my new bike once before the chain broke. We celebrated Lynn's 50th and first ever birthday party! :) Amy, J's sister moved up here and is job hunting. Its pretty fun having her and her dog Allegro up in DFW :).

Some of the biggest news is that Jason and I no longer felt called for Jason to do the Ph.D. program, after talking and praying we made a decision not to even apply. So we thought we might be done, but oh no..... I am now the student! I am pretty excited about it, I will be getting a Master of Arts in Christian Education with a concentration in Women's Ministry. Pretty exciting news :). Jason has been very supportive and excited for me, there was a little sadness in him no longer pursuing the Ph.D, he had worked so hard on it. We are now looking for ministry positions, to where we do not know! :) I am starting my classes, and there is so much reading to do I should not be updated my seriously past due blog. But I needed to do it! Jason is taking one class and will be done in December with his MACE in Teaching :), that's not a teaching degree like a high school teacher, its more like teaching others to teach in the church (Sunday School, small group).

Other exciting things have happened, my brother Lance got married to his sweetheart :) Elizabeth, and we got to go home to KS for this event and visit with family including my brother and sister in law as well as our nieces :). We got to go to Chuckie Cheese as well, all to say it shows that Uncle Jason and Aunt Tonya do not have kids, we liked the games, but it was loud! Us and my parents were overwhelmed and ready to leave the noise :) haha. We had so much fun though and would of done it again in a heartbeat! To play with my niece was priceless and get to meet my new one was amazing. Its fun to grow up some days, and this was one of them. Its pretty neat to see my brother a daddy, and I have to say he is one darn good dad, I'm proud of him. He has an awesome teammate as well-my sister in law is an amazing mother.

Well that is us summed up in one blog over the last two months, from weddings to birthday parties and having fun in the sun during the hot summer days, we are ready for Fall! I would blog about the Olympics like some are, but I'm sad to say I have not been watching them :(. I saw a few races of Michael Phelps, but not enough to be a Phelps Phan :). Jason just built me an outside swing out of an old swing that he "refurbished" in a sense for me, I"ll get pics up of it soon :). (Elizabeth-the one you gave us :) )

We have new neighbors, two guys Chris and Tim, we plan to have them over soon and visit. Our first neighbors the Mays left in May :), and then the Sixes left about a month ago, its been sad not having them here, but I'm excited to meet our new neighbors :). Well time to wake up the hubby from a afternoon nap and time for me to get some reading done.

I pray that if you go to Church, you had a blessed morning and message like I had, and if you don't I pray that you go visit a church some Sunday morning and you'll be blessed :).

In Him,

Jason and Tonya

Last Few Days and Comments






Well after all the shore excursions, we got to rest for a couple more days on the cruise. It was a sad day when we left, the Cruise was an amazing trip. Jason and I really needed to get away, and this was honestly an Answer to prayer. I hope you enoyed reading about our cruise, it was so much fun. This was truly a relaxing time and we honestly think God for it! :)

Thank you mom and dad Curry for answering our prayers!

Day 6: Cozumel

Day 6 of our cruise.

We went to Cozumel, Mexico. All 6 of us decided to travel to see the Mayan Ruins in Tulum, Mexico. Getting there was an adventure itself. To get to the Bus to take you the the Mayan Ruins, you must first take a ferry. These ferry's are pretty much a big speedboat that holds a lot of people. If you don't take the nausea medicine ever on the cruise, take it for this ride. You will be very nauseous. So this ride lasted about 30-45 minutes to get over to Playa de Carmen. We arrived at the dock and people were very happy to get off!




We then get off meet our tour guide and wait to walk to the bus. The walk to the bus was only about 5 minutes, we get on and our adventure begins, we are on our way to Tulum, Mexico. Raul,was our tour guide, a very nice man and a Mayan himself, he had a lot of historical facts about the Mayan ruins (hes a history teacher as well) and very passionate. We stopped at a little shop on the way there, Jason got his shot glass for his collection (it was started by family- some gets spoons, my husband gets shot glasses). We then got back on the bus and traveled to Tulum, once we got there, it was like a shopping center of the front of a Zoo, very interesting. We walked about 10 minutes to get there and finally did. The pictues will say the rest!





Jason, Amber and Lynn probably enjoyed this trip the most, but the rest of us did have fun.

I got to play in the ocean, get taken down by waves, and walk with sand in my feet. Overall this was a very cool place to visit, enjoy the pics!





Saturday, August 23, 2008

Day 5: Grand Cayman Islands




Day 5 we arrive in the Grand Cayman Islands. Gorgeous is the word for this place!!! The photos above are of us arriving.

The shore excursion that Amber and us decided was the Pirate Ship, while Rodney, Lynn and Amy chose to go on a tour of the island. The ship did not dock, so we took a ferry to shore whre we waited for our excursion. We waited for quite some time to go on our excursion. Here are some photos of Rodney and Lynn waiting as well as the ferry we took:




We finally get to the pirate ship, and its pretty exciting!




When we got on the pirate ship, there was about a 10 minute "dramatic act". It was pretty funny. From making the kids scrub the deck to tying a poor guy up until he answered questions right! It was a lot of fun then we got to explore. You will notice one funny photo, this actual pirate ship from the 1800's has been modernized.... you will see on one photo the "speed boat" part of it, and the best part...the captain was talking on his cell phone the whole time! Hahahahahaha. This was a fun excursion, we would reccommend though if you do want to do this, they have a longer ride where they actually take the sails down at night. But you have to stay in Grand Cayman for that. So oh well! :) But if you do this, you get to go swimming in the ocean as well!!! Hope you enjoy the photos:








Here now are photos of all 3 of us, you see Jason made friends with the "pirates" and Amber is sporting her new braids!