Update as a newly married couple

We sealed the deal on November 16, 2013 & no were not pregnant lol. :)  It was the greatest day of our lives.  Everything was perfect, the weather was fantastic, the decorations turned out perfect, everything was just how we expected.  We were surrounded by friends & family in St. George, UT & sealed the deal.  We flew out that night for an amazing honeymoon in Hawaii, & are now Mr. & Mrs. Shotwell.  I am so excited to be married to the man of my dreams, & we cannot wait to see where life is taking us.  Read below for some detailed information of what we have been up to the last couple of months.

We traveled to Hawaii for our honeymoon & spent seven long days in the gorgeous island of Maui.  We went bottom fishing on a charter boat, S got a few fish, but I didn't catch a thing... It was still a fun experience.  We went sport fishing to & caught a Mahi Mahi, it was so huge & not too cute!!  We stayed in a beach house & spent many nights watching the sun go down on the amazing beaches there.  It was kind of hard to travel because you have to be 21 to rent a car, and neither of us were so we were stuck riding the bus everywhere... which was a pain in the butt!  We didn't really know where to go & where all the stops went to, so we kinda just played the guessing game  the whole time.  It was actually really fun trying to find our way around & getting lost here & there.  We decided to go snorkling & snuba diving.  *Snuba Diving: your actually not SCUBA diving & carrying the tank on your back, the tank is on a raft up above & the breathing tube is like 15 feet long.*
It was our favorite thing that we did.  We rented the underwater camera & took a ton of pictures!  It was extremely fun & unique.  We went to the Molokini Crater on the island & that is where we did those activities.  On the way back, they showed us all the green sea turtles that were like 150 lbs.
They were pretty big, no huge.  We went to this seafood restaurant but everything was Japanese, so we ended up ordering lobster.  Another day, we went Canoeing with the local canoeing club.  We traveled half a mile out to the coral reef, where there were a few people hunting octopus.  It was such a fun trip, & it was nice to enjoy some time as the new Mr. & Mrs. Shotwell.  The ride home was the longest day of my life, because I was ready to be back home.

We returned home, & got settled into being married & changing my last name was a pain in the butt.. of course.  We were trying to decide what to do with the rest of our lives & it was a challenge.  Oh & we also needed a new vehicle.  His 1998 Ford Ranger single cab... just wasn't cutting it for the two of us.  So we decided to the Toyota dealership and purchased our very own, 2011 silver Toyota Tacoma sport!!  We are so excited to have a new vehicle that can actually fit more then two people!

S has always had a dream of joining the air force ever since he was in high school.  He decided to look into it more & after several hours of discussing our futures, we decided it was the best choice for him to enlist.  He joined in December 2013 & will leave for basic training July 8, 2014.  He will be gone 8 1/2 weeks for basic training & then for his further training, we will find out then.  After all the training is finished, we will find out where we will be stationed & we will be moved.  We are excited to see what the Air Force has to offer us, S is so excited to finally be a US soldier.  We are excited to be moving & starting a life together.  

I am planning on keeping all the family updated on here on where we end up & what we are doing in our everyday life.  It is going to be hard to keep up with us when we are always on the go, but I hope this blog will help make it easier.  

-Aspen