2015 Biggest Year of My Life

I knew heading into 2015 that it was going to be huge, I knew it would be a crazy adventure and without a doubt have the biggest moment in my life. However it ended up being even more insane and amazing than I could have imagined.

I had stopped posting on my blog because of it being such an insane year but I look back and wish I would have kept it up because of how I wish I would have shared these times with you all. I know some thing I did post about so some of this little rant/list might be rehashed however you may not have read the old posts or just forgot since it was a year ago!

In 2015, Steph & I really started to explore the world of Wine. We may not have actually gone on a wine tour or done any official tastings but we still found different ones we enjoyed as well as had "wine dates" with a few friends.

Extra Life is a huge thing in my life and in 2015 I found out that I would be having a Guild coming "close" to my home town. I was super excited and I made the 2+ hour trip to the guild meeting and loved it. Sadly the communications/emails/facebook stuff seemed to be done very poorly and I was always informed at the last minute about meetings. I also seemed to be removed as time went on.
The good news is I did have my biggest year to date for my annual extra life event. I raised over $600 for my local hospital. The results of that was shaving off my beard, thankfuly it grew back within a month & a half.

Life wouldnt be complete without our little sushi adventures/dates which we had plenty...but remember you can never have too much sushi :D We explored sushi from a few more cities and even a new state!

Steph finally had her 21 birthday and so we went out with her family and she bought a drink at dinner, but after we went and had her buy her first bottle of alcohol, which ended up being 1800 Coconut, which we still have a pretty full bottle of lol.

We later went on to a friend birthday group for stephs 21 and went to Sierra Nevada Brewry and well steph got a little tipsy. This guy made the whole place sing her happy birthday which was truly amazing and she went on to steal his beer from the dude because she was a little tipsy ;)

A big event that might not seem as important to most people was the fact that we actually sold Stephs car, we sold her mustang for a nice chunk of cash which helped pay for the biggest event of our lives...

My watch collection grew by a few new GShocks, including a Frogman which we put on layaway very early in the year and ended up reciving it for my birthday at the end of Decemeber. Layaway at my local watch store makes it so much easier(maybe not cheaper but in a way it is cheaper) to add to my collection.

During our spring break we went on a mini adventure to the Sacramento Zoo as well as a nice date night at the melting pot, a new place for steph in which she fell in love with the dessert, which I dont blame her as its amazing!

Now onto the big events that I missed while ignoring my blog....

I got married! WOOOO! Well if you are reading this you are more than likely A) My friend and know this Or B) A stalker who more than likely already knew Or C) A Stalker who is catching up! Anyways, this was the most amazing, scry, crazy, beautiful day of my life. I honestly sit here and think what to really say to try and explain the feelings I had this day. Hell I was thinking about this part before I even started typing this whole post.

It was amazing to plan our wedding together, making the invites(with help from my friend travis and input from others) to buying the center piece parts and just putting everything together to make our wedding our own thing. We had a football theme wedding which may sound a bit odd to some but we are a football family. Add in the fact that everything came together amazing.

From the speech our pastor gave to include football sayings and the sand pouring with team colors to our entrance at the reception to the Monday night theme song.  Our idea of wedding photos that are football theme seemed to be some of the better ones, however I dont want to fall into the negative side of things but we both agree our photographer was a poor choice. Thankfully my friend Steve came up and filmed the wedding and made a little video for us to share with our loved ones, including you guys!

After the wedding we had to have a honeymoon right? Of course! We left the next day for a nice little trip to San Fran, we went to another Giant game in which for the first time ever the team I went to see and cheer for actually won! This was a great feeling, going with my Wife to something in which our team won just felt amazing. Of course we had sushi and explored a bit of San Fran, I believe some of my best pictures came from this crazy weekend.  We walked MILES which steph wasnt a fan of but it was still a cool idea as we saw plenty of stuff we would never have seen otherwise. Not to mention we stumbled upon maybe our favorite non-sushi restuanrt in the American Grilled Cheese Shop(which I prob got the name wrong but we know where its at!)

After our mini honeymoon in SF we had to head home and finish out semester of schooling until summer came, in which our full on honeymoon happened..... The coolest adventure we have truly gone on was our cruise on the Oasis of the Sea from Royal Caribbean. I really dont know how to explain this one either but being on the worlds largest cruise ship(at the time anyways) is epic all by itself, let alone the rest of the trip.
We actually had to fly out to Florida to get on the ship, so we made a whole trip of it with a few days before the cruise in which we explored the little area of Hollywood that we stayed in, we walked two miles to the local theater to see Jurassic World on the big screen! I have the best wife ever guys! A fun fact is I was in Florida when the first film came out as well.

We didnt do too much at the start of our trip as we didnt have a car so we mostly just walked, but we did find an amazing little Cuban restaurant which was the first time we have ever had that type of food before. I now regret this. Why? Because it was AMAZING! We actually had it multiple times which we have this little rule in which we dont eat the same place twice during our trips, yeah that rule was broken. The bad thing is we dont have any Cuban places near us now....

The cruise ship started off so scary but beautiful as we took a bus to the port, seeing the giant ship tower over all the surrounding areas is just.....beautiful and terrifying! Once we got into the port we both had been very nervous as we actually didnt have passports, so we had to take our Birth certificates and all the wedding paperwork for steph, thankfully it went smooth and we stepped foot on our cruise ship..... Lack of words.

The Oasis of the Sea's actually has neighborhoods in which you can go to the boardwalk and watch a water show or go to the park to sit back and enjoy the largest garden/park at sea, to the massive casino and man I cant think of everything the ship had. The food was awesome, of course we had sushi. We got all dressed up and had dinner as a married couple....at sea!

The stuff off the ship was cool too, we went to Junkaroo beach and swam in the clearest waters we have ever seen, we tried to get pictures however steph may or may not have broken the waterproof camera.... yeah wasnt truly waterproof lol.

We ended up going to this Coral World I believe it was called which had all different types of sea creatures and little areas to explore, it was like a zoo. We saw giant sea turtles and eels,sharks and the place was crawling with lizards. We also went on a boat that we sat inside and looked out these windows to see under the water, it actually made me extremely motion sick/sea sick/whatever and had to leave to the top deck. But still a really cool experiance seeing an old plane and other things covered in coral.

Finally on our last spot we swam with dolphins, which was a funny cute and whoa of an experiance. We kissed the dolphin and rode on its fins as well as had it push us with her nose. The down fall to this area was the "bonus" beach area was pretty rough and covered in sea weed, as well as the "free" lunch was a very weak turkey sandwich. Also had to pay FAR too much for pictures, but we had too!

Once we got back to Florida we rented a car so we could explore more area's which included two different beaches and two different malls. Including the worlds largest single floor mall which was pretty crazy. Considering we come from a small area both malls blew our little minds. We also found sushi in multiple places ;)

After our massive honeymoon we came home and a few days later went on a camping trip with our friends which was a fun get together, the water was a bit cold and the water was very low but it was great hanging/camping with friends. I got yelled at by some cabin owner for standing on his property which was pretty stupid and I dont think we will really go back but it still was fun.

Later on, early October I believe it was we went on a trip to Reno to watch our little sister play in a softball tourny, we of course went to sushi and had all you can eat which is amazing. We had it multiple times too.

We also had a halloween party for the first time ever which turned out great, we made different cool halloween themed drinks and played some games with our friends. It was also a costume party so we dressed up as Chucky and the bride of chucky! It turned out so well I hope we can do another party in the future.

I know I already talked about Extra Life but I have to add that the next day, after an hour of sleep I went on a limo ride with my little sister and her friends for her 13th birthday, I was the chaperon for the little adventure....man was this crazy going off an hour of sleep.... It ended up paintball for the girls.

Later on Steph and I took her and one of her friends to Sky Zone, which is a trampoline place in Roseville. It was cool but man as a fat guy I felt so out of place, however the little girls also got super tired so I didnt feel as bad. However we had one strick guy who made the event far worse than I thought.

We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner with my parents in which was the first time my dad was able to get up and out of his hospital bed, we got a good family picture from it as well.

Early December we went to San Fran again this time for a comedy show to see comedian Christian Spicer who is a guy I follow on twitter and occasionally talk with. So we got to meet him before the show and talked a little more after. Funny show in a super small venue. We also used Uber for the first time ever, I have to say I cant wait to use it again in the future.

We went over to my parents for my dads birthday and I cooked him scallops and shrimp scampi, he liked it but he wasn't eating much, just glad I was able to make him something he liked and did eat some of.

Sadly the next week he passed away. This is the hardest thing I have to write and I can feel the tears building up. Fighting them back is just as hard. Its so hard to think about him being gone, no matter what the little conversation seems to be about if it involves him I cant seem to stop the rush of feelings that hit me like a brick wall. I'm so thankful he was able to make it to our wedding however I miss him so much already and its so hard to think he isnt at home right now. Also knowing this is a whole different situation for my mother scares me as well..... Otherwise as I sit here with tears slipping past my nose I cant thinkof anything more to say other than I love you dad.

Christmas was just two days later, so it was a very hard christmas but I had my wife and mother with me along with Stephs step dad and sister so it was still a good day even if I have a massive hole in my soul but we all did our best to enjoy the day.

My birthday was a few more days later, we went out to sushi with two of our friends and my mom for some sushi. Also as I mentioned above Steph bought me my Frogman watch that we had on layaway for nearly a year. It was a nice dinner and we ate so much I dont really know the last time I felt THAT full.

For our New Years Eve we actually didnt do really anything, we are pretty old I guess lol. We did find a game on Xbox One that Steph likes called Knight Squad which we played for a few hours until it got near to midnight in which we switched on the TV broadcast of the ball drop and once the ball hit we took our first picture of 2016 as well as our first kiss. We went outside to enjoy the cold air and listen to some explosions.

Well That was my 2015 and I hope you enjoyed stalking me.