a pictures update.

since moving, travis and i had not gotten all of our electronics in order until this weekend during our fall cleaning. because of this, i have been unable to upload pictures lately. i thought i would add a few here. they're in order of most recently taken. enjoy.

this picture is of lindsay & justin. it was taken

while we all waited for the boat to come pick us up for scuba diving.

another picture of lindsay & justin taken toward the end of our

day at six flags in dallas.

group shot.

my favorite & me.

waiting for our first ride of the day
the superman tower (pictured below)

it's a bird ... it's a plane ...

waiting for everyone to head to the park.

the car ride to dallas. i'll spare you from all of the

"making out" pictures of these two.

moving day.

just the two of us.

don't we look tough?

home from morgan's wedding.

at the wedding travis asked, "do you think we're next?"

biker boyz show 2008

we're going to learn to do this.

resting at the apartment after being in the sun all day

at the biker boyz show.

more stunts.

my handsome stud.

another stunt.

dinner after the biker boyz show.

justin & lindsay at dinner after biker boyz.

into the deep blue ... lake?

to begin again from last night. on thursday evening after work we headed to muskogee. our diving classes began on friday morning at 9:00 at tenkiller lake in gore and we wanted to make sure we got there in time. we hung out with justin and lindsay and took it easy.

on friday, we all woke early, showered, and headed to the lake. gene, the owner of the scuba shop is an incredible, incredible man who has had so many awesome experiences. he retired from the air force after 20 years of service; retired from the troopers after 20 years of service; and retired from northeastern state university after 30 years of service. he has been on 147 rescue dives, and has a picture shaking john f. kennedy's hand. the memorabilia that is on all of the walls of the shop are like an enormous scrapbook. i'm amazed each time i walk in. we were the first to arrive out of the other students and gene introduced us to jim, our instructor. most of the day friday was spent in the classroom watching videos and then in the freezing cold pool. it was so cold that i lost feeling in my hands before the class was over and immediately jumped into a warm shower as soon as we were dismissed. lindsay's lips were purple. we headed straight for gene's shop to get wet suits for the next day. friday night we just hung out at the house and watched movies -- a typical evening in muskogee.

saturday morning was much the same as friday's. this time we got to the shop, loaded up our scuba gear and headed down to the lake. we hopped on a boat with everyone and (slowly but surely) made our way to goat island. the boat was having problems, but we finally arrived and completed our first two open water dives. i had a hard time learning neutral buoyancy, so i spent most of my time crawling along the bottom, but it was still a lot of fun. travis and i couldn't tell if lindsay and justin really liked it, but we both had a great time. when it was time to leave for the day, the boat wouldn't start and we had to be towed by another boat, the driver of which said "i'm not really a sailor" ... and was he ever telling the truth! i think we would have rather taken our chances with the busted motor. :) we got to the house, took showers, and headed to zollie's. lindsay wanted justin to eat there for a long time, and none of us had ever been, so we decided to give it a shot. the food was pretty good, but the people were really rude. i felt bad for lindsay because she had talked the place up so much; it always sucks when you really like a place and then everyone else has a bad experience. we went to the house to watch the matrix, but i think i fell asleep as soon as the lights were off.

sunday we had to get up earlier so that we could take food out to the lake. justin and lindsay ran to the store while we stayed at the house and got ready. we finished up our last three dives -- travis and i even got to do a dive by ourselves without our instructor. we didn't get to go too far because we were almost out of air and almost back to the boat, but still it was fun. the last dive was the best for me because i finally got neutral buoyancy and was able to experience the feeling of being weightless that trav kept referring to. it wasn't such a great day for lindsay. she wasn't able to complete all of her dives because she got blockage in her ears which caused a nose bleed. when we got home sunday, we didn't stick around the house long. i was ready to get back to tulsa, back to our house. we spent the rest of the afternoon home relaxing, unwinding, and getting ready for the new week.

i found out that travis's cousin tabitha was in the hospital, but we're thankful that she's doing much better now.

open water diver certifications.

i can't even believe this. i have been typing a post for over 20 mins, saving along the way, and suddenly the site started experiencing difficulties and lost my entire post ... even though i've been saving all along. ugh ...

i'm too tired tonight to repost. i'll do it again tomorrow.

i would just like to say that travis + i (+ lindsay + justin) officially have our scuba certifications. we can't wait to take our first scuba trip.

labor day weekend.

i don't know where the days are going. i often think of updating and then i look up and it's time for bed. this past weekend we spent friday doing laundry and getting the apartment in order. saturday we went to muskogee and hung out with travis's family. dee wanted to cook us dinner. we spent time around the house and driving around town. dee fixed manicotti and lindsay & justin came over to eat with us, too.

on sunday morning we spent time around town waiting for justin to get off work. when he got home we loaded up and headed to dallas. we had all been looking forward to this weekend. everyone couldn't wait to get away. it's not that dallas is overly exciting, but we just wanted to get away from everything. we got into arlington around midnight or 1:00. we got to the hotel and crashed.

the next morning we woke up, took showers, and headed to six flags. we had a lot of fun all hanging out together. it was so incredibly hot. i've been to six flags a lot of times, and i don't remember it ever being that hot. i got some great pictures of us and will get them posted soon.

it was fun to spend time with justin and lindsay. each time that we spend time with her, she seems to open up a little more. justin seems pretty crazy about her. actually, last week, they sprung some pretty surprising news on us ... i will have to wait until a later date to elaborate. =) -- and no, they're not having a baby.

now we have one more day of work and then we will start our scuba diving certification classes! we all have the day off on friday and will be in class friday, saturday, and sunday. i have a feeling that i will be just as exhausted after this upcoming weekend as i was after this past weekend. i'm just excited that we're actually doing things and not sitting by watching our lives pass by. we're spending much time making memories and being together.