A-Dios.

Blog break for 4 months...but don't worry we will be back.

Austin will be going to Chile with the ROTC to study and train with the Chilean military academy to build relations, gain cultural understanding, and practice his espagnol. After the academy, he gets to travel all the way down to the southern tip of Chile in the Patagonia to play with these little minions and do a flood relief service project.  Austin will then come back to the states for an officer training camp called LDAC up in Washington state and then go down to Fort Hood in Texas to shadow a Lieutenant for a few weeks. 
Ironically the Chilean flag looks a lot like the Texas one.

who can really tell the difference?--not me

No this is not Chile, but the effects of the other major earthquake that has happened within the last few years...Haiti- which is where I will be going while Austin is doing all his warrior training. No worries, most buildings do not look like like this anymore (i hope) and the city we are going to is really safe. I will be working with the Sustain Haiti Organization, as one of their In-Country Directors. We will be focusing on sustain development through education, specifically ESL, Agriculture, Public Health, and Microenterprise trainings (click on Sustain Haiti if you would like to know more).

Yes, we will be apart all summer--and yes that is terribly terribly sad--but for those who know us well, know that we are pursuing our goals and these are our dreams in the making...so we are super excited! And at least we'll have a super awesome Christmas card this year!

a-dios amigos! 
if you do not understand the a-dios, please do yourself a favor and watch the movie True Grit. 

birthday week.

luckily our birthdays are only 3 days apart, so this week we partied all week long to celebrate! wednesday we both took off work and went to an indoor rock climbing gym in provo. austin taught me some cool knots and techniques from his recent army training school- so legit! we climbed until our hands were numb and then went for some brazillian bbq at tucanos, which was oh so yummmm! and we got some famous texas blue bell ice cream, flavor birthday cake of course. we ended the day by going back for a second round of climbing at the gym. in short: best birthday ever.

saturday night we had a birthday bash for austin with cake, ice cream and friends! i like to make him special birthday cakes, themed with things he likes. can you decipher this year's cake?

its a fish! with rainbow scales and a white tail!

happy birthday to my fisherman hub!