Hawaii to Tennessee...

Our last week in Hawaii was spent playing tourists. My family came out to visit and play with us and we had a lot of fun. Too bad the weather was stormy all but one day...oh well. still had fun.

In Hawaii we...
-celebrated Chris's graduation from BYU-Hawaii!!! way to go babe! such an awesome day!
-enjoyed the dole plantation
-at lots of pineapple
-devoured acai bowls (my faaaaavorite snack in the world! already made one here in ca)
-ate out almost every day!
-went snorkeling
-jumped the rock at waimea
-laid out when there was sun
-visited the PCC and went to the awesome night show
-lounged around at the condo playing on the ipad 2 (soo sweet!)
-said goodbye to lots of awesome friends and people
-packed up our newlywed life and moved back to the mainland. Aloha oe hawaii! you will always have a piece of our hearts!!





























The four days we were home before tennessee we had the chance to go the temple to see a family friend get sealed for time and all eternity! it was so awesome to be back in the temple remembering our own wedding 3 months earlier!



We spent four days at home in California before we went out to visit Chris's family in Tennessee. It was my first trip out to Tennessee and it was beautiful. We had a small storm scare the first night we were there but nothing too serious...and no tornados...thank goodness :]

While we were in Tennessee we...
-ate lots of southern food (catfish, not me, yikes!, bbq, potatoes, mac n cheese etc)
-went to Nasvhille
-visited the Grand Ole Opry and Opryland
-slept in every morning
-spent lots of time with family
-met the entier Spann clan (lots of food, lots of people, lots of noise...just like my family!!!)
-were sad to leave but glad we got out when we did, as lots of storms hit the south the day after we left!

this is a fairly typical southern home (larger than some, but same type of style...lots of bricks and columns out front!)




At the Grand Ole Opry. We went to see Josh Turner but didn't realize that he would only be singing two songs! we were bummed but it was still a fun experience...




inside the opryland hotel...place is HUUUUGE!




Its been a busy/crazy couple of weeks but it feels nice to kinda start settling in and not having to live out of a suitcase. Now the real world begins and we are in the process of figuring out what are plans are. stressful and exciting! Lucky to have awesome family that take such good care of us!