Sting-Rays, Sharks and Dolphins!

What's Thanksgiving weekend without a little bit of shopping? Midnight...at the outlets...with the fam, it was awesome! We went shopping and got some killer deals on some clothing and shoes, let's just say our bags were about to bust the zippers on the way back home.

Then on Friday we had the wonderful opportunity to go Discovery Cove. If you are heading to Orlando in the near future, it was totally worth every penny! It is associated with Sea World, but the great thing about it is that you have to make a reservation for it, and they only allow a limited number of people in everyday.

So it's a great park without 10,000 tourists waiting in 3 hour long lines. It had a big man-made beach with a huge pool of amazing fish and superb snorkeling, with enormous sting-rays and within glass enclosed spaces some sharks and eels.

Don't we look like dorks? I love goggles.
We got to feed and touch some sting-rays. Ya does anyones death from a sting-ray come to mind? We miss you Steve Erwin. Anyway, yes, we swam in a pool with them, and fed them, crazy huh?

Then they had a big aviary with tons of beautiful tropical birds.

We also got to swim with dolphins! A lovely 35 year old female named Dixie, she was amazing. We got to pet her, she showed us her tricks, and she even took us for a little dolphin ride! I didn't get any pictures of that, but we bought some, so I'll try and get those pictures on here soon, it was awesome!

We had such an amazing week away from school and work. We loved spending all that time with family, relaxing and having fun! Thank you Bob and Sue for such a memorable Thanksgivng, we love you!

Shamu Thanksgiving

Sea World, the place where dreams come true, well for some I guess. We got to see a dolphin show, a sea lion show, and the great and famous Shamu!

We went there on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, road the..."the" rollercoaster, the Kraken, 3 times and spent quality time with little Tanner before the others came.

This was a documentation of the trip. Jane Anne, and Colby...well Colby has been with us here, through text.

We've spent hours doing absolutely nothing, which has been just what we needed. If I even start thinking about all that we have to do when we get back just scares me...ah! Here's a cute little pic we caught of Grandpa and Juliana watching Cinderella...

Rob and Julie flew in this morning with thier kids right in time for Thanksgiving dinner. The family was finally all here! We had three additions to the family since the last time we had been together, so it's fun to hold all the little babies! We went back to Sea World after dinner and after an awesome nap to see the Christmas Shamu Show. It was so good, we all loved it.

Tomorrow we're off to Discovery Cove!

Happy Birthday Honey!

The big 2-4, whoopie! So we are actually right now in Orlando Florida to celebrate Thanksgiving with the whole Jackson clan! Because today is Ry's birthday, his golden birthday, I decided to throw him a surprise party Saturday, the night before we left. I ran into his friend Devin on Thursday so he basically contacted all of Ry's friends, Jen got a pumpkin cheesecake, and after a tragic loss, I distracted Ry for 1 1/2 hours until we went home for the big surprise. He had never had a surprise party before, so it was fabulous.

We flew in late last night, so we spent all day just 'chillaxin'. We slept in, went for a run, then played with babies for a few hours. We got to meet Ella, James and Angela's new addition....

and we got to go on the paddle boats around the lake...

Notice one of Ry's presents...can you guess we are big 'Office' fans?

All the Jackson girls (minus Julie, Grace, and Viv)

Come Thursday, Rob and Julie will bring another two little girls and a baby boy to play with. We have many more adventures to come this week, so stay tuned!

Brownies and Blue Bell ice cream...it doesn't get much better. I love you honey, you are the man of my dreams! I can't wait to spend the rest of my life plus with you! Thanks for always making me laugh and keeping me happy!

Family Picture Time!

Like I said, we took some awesome family pictures last Saturday for our Christmas Card. So I guess it techinically defeats the purpose of posting the picture I'm using for the card, but I just love the pictures and wanted to share them. These are the only pictures that Lizzy has posted, but here's the jist of what we did. She did an awesome job, she was so fun to work with and she was willing to do anything and go anywhere to take them, even climbing in trees! Check out her blog for a bit more of her work at lizzyjeanphotography.blogspot.com. Thanks Lizzy!

If you haven't done the survey below, please do so! And thank you so much for all of those who have done the survey and emailed me your results, you're the best!

A Survey Favor!

So it's crunch time between now and finals with several papers, projects and presentations. The week after Thanksgiving I have 3 presentations...hmm...ya we'll see how they go. With each of those presentations we have papers due along with them that are at least 10 pages. Ok, so here is why I am telling you my life story...I have a favor to ask of you.

We are helping a girl start her own Customized Framing Business and she is trying to figure out what to price her frames at and how she can maximize her profits and all that jazz. So if you wouldn't mind taking a minute and answering these questions it would mean so much to me!!!

1. How much would you be willing to pay for a 16’’ x 20’’ custom wood frame?
a. Less then $50
b. $50-$70
c. $70-$100
d. $100-$130
e. $130-$160
f. $160-$200
g. More than $200

2. Would you be willing to pay more for a frame if you could custom design it?

3. If so, how much more would you be willing to pay for a custom frame then a premade frame?

4. How often do you buy a new frame?

5. Where did you buy your last frame?

6. What was the size and purchase price of your last frame?

7. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, how important is it to you to have a nice frame that is customized specifically for you picture?

8. How much would you pay for a 16” x 20” professional grade print of your choice?

If you've taken this survey, I love you and you're a life saver. Next time you come to my house I will make you freshly baked cookies, or something. You can either post a comment, or you can email me at rebeccafjackson@gmail.com.

Thank you thank you!

Congrats!

So, this a congratulations post. First of all to one of my bestest best friends ever, Lindsey Hall Swan, congrats to you and your beautiful baby Bailey Swan. She is a very adorable little girl with lots of blonde hair and I can't wait to watch her grow up and be just like her crazy mommy!

Second, congrats to Rosie Jackson on her engagement to be married next month. I went to her bridal shower earlier today, and she is a beautfiul bride to be. We are so excited for her!

Third, congrats to Ellery Baum and her engagement as well! I also went to her bridal shower today, and I just absolutely love the girl and am so excited for her to get married!

I love marriage, I love weddings, and I just love love. I just love weddings so much that we decided to take wedding pictures again yesterday. Hmm...well kind of. A guy that Ryan works with is starting his photography business and needed some bridal and couple shots to jump start his business and show off his work. So we spent 3 1/2 hours yesterday on a cold but sunny morning taking some awesome pictures. We were able to take some pictures that we didn't do when we really were married (2 years ago), and I can't wait to see how they turned out.

Then we thought that taking lots of pictures was fun, so we took some more today for our Christmas Card. We didn't do a card last year, so we'll see how successful it is, and if we get it out before Christmas even comes. My sister's friend, Lizzy, took some way cute pictures today of Ry, Sarge and me today. Once again, I can't wait to see how they turned out.

One more week of class and, then Thanksgiving break! Thank goodness!

Tag Time

Ok, so I'm not a huge "tagger", but you can get to know me a little better here I guess

Things I was doing 10 years ago:
1. Being the tallest girl in my 6th grade class at Rock Canyon, and not liking the fact that no boys liked me.
2. Preparing some Festive Jingle for my Christmas Piano Recital
3. Counting down the days until I FINALLY left primary and went to Young Womens
4. Getting past the "fat" stage...well that's debatable
5. Just getting my braces on!

5 things on my "To Do" list for today:
1. Take wedding pictures again...There will be more on that story later
2. Send a package to my cute pregnant sister-in-law
3. Go to work and most likely do...nothing
4. Write a research paper sometime by tomorrow night
5. Go out to dinner with the Jackson clan!

5 snacks I enjoy:
1. grapes, try them frozen, they're fabulous
2. cookies/cookie dough
3. apples/pears
4. pretzels
5. I drink lots of water, does that count as a snack?

5 things I'd do if I was a millionaire:
1. Pay lots of tithing
2. Buy a modest, but Sweet home with all stainless steel appliances
3. Go to Spain and visit my parents over and over again
4. Not have to work and spend lots of time with Sargie and my honey
5. Donate a bunch of cash to BYU for all that they've given me!

5 places I've lived:
1. Taylorsville
2. Laie, Oahu
3. Provo (with parents)
4. Provo (with roomies)
5. Provo (with my honey!)

5 jobs I've had:
1. Working at a corn stand on Canyon Road when I was 15
2. Day's Market as an awesome bagger
3. BYU Bookstore Cashier
4. BYU Bookstore Student Manager
5. I'm trying to find something for the winter semester...any ideas? an internship would be ideal, know of anything looking for a fabulous intern in marketing? Any part-time job would be nice too!

5 people I tag:
1. Melissa Grow
2. Brittany Perdue
3. Mommy
4. Lindsey Swan and new baby! Congrats Linds!
5. Erin Packard