The Fey's

The latest Momma Drama......

2011-08-29T09:35:00.000-07:00

When your a stay at home mom and life becomes a little mundane sometimes you have to pretend like the little events in your life are more dramatic than they are to spice up your life. I would consider this morning of mine very productive, started off with a jog(the speed of most peoples walks) which of course was instigated by Dan(thanks husband for the motivation), came home put Hudson down in the other room with some toys and turned on Mickey Mouse Club House in-case he got bored of the toys(whenever I leave him in the family room by himself I feel like I have to put on a cartoon to give him some company... odd I know) and then I headed in the kitchen to make breakfast for Dan and I, something gourmet like scrambled eggs. Dan left for work and I headed up stairs to give Hudson a bath. This is when the drama started. I'm walking into my bedroom with Hudson on my hip and bam knocked his head right into the door. What a stupid Mom. Feeling horrible I grab his binky and blankie and hold him and apologize repeatedly with tears in my eyes till he stops crying. I then proceed to giving him a bath and see that a knot has formed on the side of his head... this makes me feel even more sick(I call Dan, My Mom, and Wendy, to help console me and talk me through it). It's now 10:00am and its time for his nap. I lay him down swaddle him (don't worry only one arm swaddled) and give him his binky and walk out. A few minutes later he begins to cry... so I go in to give him his binky and find him still swaddled but on his stomach. (he's been rolling for about 2 months but I guess he's now figured out how to roll swaddled). I turned him back over and re-did the one arm swaddle. The scenario repeats itself, but this time I decide to go in and un-swaddle him to see if he can manage going to sleep without it. Once again the crying begins so I go back in this time with a genius Mom idea! How about I swaddle him NO ARMS.... So I get back out the swaddle blanket and just swaddle his lower half, meanwhile as my light bulb is turned on bright and shinny in my head, he looks at me like Mom you really have no idea what your doing, do you. Well 3 minutes of crying (it felt like 15 minutes as I sat there watching the clock) I peep in to find him fast asleep on his side. THAT'S WHAT WE CALL A MOM SUCCESS, just rolling with the punches!!

So there you have it, the Momma Drama of this morning! Please don't judge me for anything above, Hudson's expression was spot on, I really have no idea what I am doing, but I can tell you I'm trying my best.

Every 6 Months

2011-07-30T08:58:00.000-07:00

I often ask myself why I still have this thing. I may have over used it the first 2 years and now find myself blogged out. But alas here I am again with our 6 month check in. I would have made an update sooner but it wasn't till about 3 months ago that I learned how to put Hudson down.

Hudson Daniel Fey made it safe and sound into the world almost 6 months ago. He came a few days early but nice and easy. I was surprised to be laying in bed on February 15 and feel my water break and then go into labor. Never expected it to happen the movie way. However, easy, is a relative term, I still gave birth and to this day feel the effects of delivering a child. It's clear that somethings will never be the same! That's a topic I could write about for days, "All The Things Mom's Claim to Forget, or Intentionally Never Mention About Becoming A Mom!" But that sweet little boy brought this deep deep feeling into my life that I had never felt before. There's definitely a need for that feeling, the wee hours of the morning frantically call upon that deep feeling to help in balancing out the other emotions (exhaustion, frustration, helplessness you name it....).

From day 1 the word I use to describe Hudson is sweet. Dan would ask me, what do you mean by sweet, and I would answer I don't know he's just sweet. It's the first word that pops into my mind when I see my mini Dan.

Well I think it's official, I'm a Mom! My perfume consists of a hint of baby vomit mixed with a little acidic poop. My work-outs involve carrying and feeding Hudson. My wardrobe is anything comfortable! My sleep pattern resembles that of a new born, with whopping 3 hour stretches! 90% of my thoughts each day are about Hudson, 50% of that being about how to get him to sleep better! I spend most of my day talking or singing to Hudson every little thing that we are doing. And the poor kid doesn't even realize that every time he smiles at me when I am jabbering to him, it just encourages me to keep going. And my I-phone is proof of just how truly obsessed with him I am, is 10 pictures a day of you laying on your back to excessive. I'll apologize now for all the pictures I have of you alone, I haven't quite firgured out the right positioning to capture your mom in the picture with you!

I am slowly trying to balance back out my life, my poor Husband, whom I have to say from an UNBIASED opinion is one of the best Dad's around! 2 months ago I started to learn how to cook again, I forgot how to while I was pregnant and wasn't able to learn again till after the first couple months of Hudson's life. OOPS! It didn't help that Dan is a fabulous cook so I actually preferred him cooking! Despite all of the things that I go through on a daily basis that confirm I am Hudson's mother I still find myself wondering when his parents are going to come get him, I can't believe he's mine!

Oh the Places You'll Go!

2011-01-02T21:00:00.001-08:00

I'm sure some of you have lost sleep wondering where we have been for the past year, but wonder no longer were back to sum up 2010! And as the old saying goes "A picture is worth a thousand words". So to spare you a thousand words I'll let you in on quit the complex idea!

"We are" or should I say "I am" having, a little boy in the middle of February! I still haven't figured out the appropriate way to say that, because all though it takes two tango the rest, I have come to find out, is a solo dance something like the macarena until he makes his debut! I would hate to give credit where credit isn't due!

And as far as the overall year of 2010, it was good. Filled with a few more changes and adjustments than I usually like to face in one year. I remember at the beginning of 2010 talking to Dan about a few of the things that would lead to some changes and preparing myself mentally for the idea of change. But then I found myself in deja vu on new years eve as I thought about the even bigger life changes of 2011. I'm not real good at change. Every year I have to spend some time prepping myself for possible changes in the upcoming year. Self talk if you will. Needless to say during the 2010 mental prep the idea of adjusting to a little boy hadn't yet settled in my mind, I guess that is the point of the 9 month gestational period. The mental prep of past years doesn't quit compare to the amount of mental prep I am going to have to squeeze in this year. I felt so prepared to be a mom up until the day I realized I was expecting, which came about two months after actually finding out I was pregnant. I find myself most days walking in a daze, similar to how I felt right before I got married. I think both of these dazed phases have served the same purpose in my life, it keeps me a little out of it so I don't have to try and fully comprehend what's about to happen. But needless to say were excited for this little guy! He can take as much time as he needs to come out though, his soon to be parents still need some prep time!

A Year to Remember...2009

2010-01-11T09:53:00.000-08:00

Well, another year has come and gone! Where does the time go? 2009 was a good year for the Feys. We had some great opportunities come our way and we had several new additions to the family. I’m just going to hit a couple of the highlights this year. If you feel that we left something off, don’t worry we had fun, it was a highlight, but it just didn’t make the list.

Jan – Road trip to the Bay Area. Unfortunately somewhere between Provo and San Francisco we lost Ashton and KC Grewal. Life just hasn’t been the same without them
Feb – Long weekend trip to Seattle with our friends the Grewals (do you see a pattern).
April & May – Welcome the new addition Leah into the family. Another LONG road trip to Virginia to embark on a summer full of questions? We weren’t exactly sure what would happen when my internship fell through last minute, but we packed up our belongings and made the trip. It was great! I got a ton of great experience, Kristi loved her jobs and really felt a connection with the Larsen children. We got spoiled rotten by Kristi’s parents (thanks a ton) and we got to spend a bunch of time with family we don’t see to often.
June – I celebrated my 25th birthday. We went to a wonderful beach house in North Carolina with the whole Carver Clan. It was my first time and we absolutely loved it! Thank Mom and Dad. I got a new internship and it was a great blessing.
Aug – We added another niece and nephew to the family, Luke at the begining of the month and Sasha at the end. We finished up our time in Virginia and after some tearful goodbyes and 3 ½ months of fun we started out again for Utah. We did have some pit stops on the way. We dropped down to Georgia and visited my brother Matt and his wife Amy. We had a great time with them and loved downtown Savannah. They almost sold us on it. We then continued West and stopped in Colorado just in time to see my best friend Eric Bell marry Madison Mills. A beautiful wedding!
Sept – School started up again and we both regretted going back. I was in my last semester (only 2 classes) at BYU and Kristi was down to 2 semesters at UVU.
Oct – Another nephew to the family, Zachary. We celebrated Kristi’s 23rd Birthday. I got a job with Intermountain Healthcare doing sports performance (a dream come true, feels good to work again).
Nov – Thanksgiving with the Jeppson extended family and a yearly tradition we hope of having Val come out and spend some time with us in Provo.
Dec – I graduated finally! Christmas in Puyallup, nothing like it and a little Carver time up in ogden.

We had a great year and look forward to what the future holds for us. We hope that we can see you soon. We love being with family and friends and hope it is sooner rather than later!

In the life of 23 year old Kristina Fey!

2009-10-28T20:48:00.000-07:00

Oh the joys of being a little bit older and wiser! Turning 23 has been a little tramatic for me. I don't know why, it's just a year older than 22 right, but it sure sounds a whole lot older, and its started to get me thinking. Do i really look like I am 23? When I look in the mirror I still see an 18 year-old with some "minor" body changes! I am really just hopeing as I get older I don't get more weird hairs in weird places, eeek! And since I am still in college I have found myself feeling like I need to justify being 23 and still working on a bachelors. It has taking me a little longer than usual to embrace this age, I am working on it! I do love birthdays, but as you get older you become a little bit more anxious about them! However, thanks to wonderful family and friends, 23 was brought in with a bang! Tiny zachary was born the day of my birth and the night before that blessed day I got to have a shared b-day celebration with little parker!

Being a little teeny weeny Ant!!

2009-09-20T15:26:00.000-07:00

Okay not an Ant really, but I just thought it would get you interested in this possibly boring but had to be done blog! I am an AUNT to 17 darling nieces and nephews soon to be 18(scheduled to come out the day after my birthday =)). I truly love being an aunt. Matter a fact I can honestly say that there's little I enjoy more than being surrounded by all my little kin! No offense brothers and sisters! The Real Simple magazine summed up being an aunt perfectly for me,"No guts and all Glory"! That is truly what it is like being an Aunt.Here they are in chronological order(hopefully, I'm real horrible with birth dates) and what I love about each little one!

1 Jakob- is the best complimentary!
2 Mason- has a laugh that is contagious!
3 Gregory- is so sincere and honest!
4 Kailey- is so thoughtful and conscientious!
5 Emma- can liven up any situation!
6 Cora- has a witty sense of humor and smile that lightens up a room!
7 Jared- is quiet as can be but such a tough athletic little guy!
8 Mallory- is a girl beyond her years, she is so fun to talk to and always tells you just what she thinks!
9 Isaac- gives the best hugs and knows the perfect time to deliver them!
10 Lincoln- is also very quiet but has the sweetest voice when heard!
11 Elliot- is a wonderful cuddlier, with his thumb in his mouth and his blanky dragging behind him he can melt anyones heart!
12 Cooper- has a swagger that grabs everyones attention and a finger sucking, hair twirling combination that makes him so irresistible!
13 Elsa- sings songs that without a doubt will bring a tear to your eye!
14 Parker- has the most innocent little face and has a way of getting you to do just what he wants!
15 Leah- has these beautiful big eyes, that literally have a sparkle!
16 Luke- has this rarely heard little cry that pulls on all the heart strings, and the cutest button nose!
17 Sasha- who I haven't yet met =/, looks like a little angle!!
18 Zachary- see you October 7, we all can't wait for you to join the family!

Where has the time gone????

2009-08-21T09:07:00.000-07:00

You know those times when you decide you want to keep a journal and then you miss a few days and that turns into a few weeks? Then you begin to feel a little guilty and you sit down to write and you have so much to say, but feel so overwhelmed that you scribble down a few sentences and promise to do better and then the same thing happens again. Now you know how I’m feeling. 3 months have come and gone since our last post. So much has happened and it seems crazy to try and write it all down in one post, but here I go!

Virginia was an absolute blast and a blessing. Thank you to all of you that made that happen. We had such a fun time with nieces and nephews brothers and sisters and most of all parents. I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into when we decided that we would be staying with Kristi’s parents for 3 ½ months. Well, what I got was spoiled, a ton of memories, all the Thai food I could eat, golf instructions, lots of laughs and the list goes on. We had such a good time don’t be surprised if we come out again. Maybe this time will be a little bit longer though.

After a few crazy happenings I was able to do the sports performance that I was hoping. I worked with Explosive Performance and had a great summer. I worked with tons of high school football players, some collegiate athletes and an array of kids ages 10-14 looking for that edge when they compete or a little more coordination in sports. It was all I could ask for. I also was able to do personal training at a great little studio called Fitness Together. Think about, Dan working out and surrounded by sports. Anyone who knows me can understand I loved my time there.

Kristi took to Mommy relief about as fast as the little babies took to her. She was constantly getting request to come to a home and work with children. She has a knack with children(thank you to the almost 18 nieces and nephews Carver and Fey). As popular and busy as she was she found more time for work. She began to nanny for the Larson family. No small task when considering they have five children 7 and under. She absolutely loved the 6 weeks or so that she was able to spend with them. She gained such a love for those children and they in return loved here. This was evident by the huge banner and going away party that was thrown for Kristi and the many tears shed by both sides.

We also had a sweet vacation in the Outer Banks in North Carolina. We lived it up in a wonderful beach house and rest and relaxed to our hearts content, just what we needed in the middle of summer. Just prior to this I turned 25, I can’t believe that! Right when we returned we celebrated 2 years of marriage, another crazy milestone I can’t believe, but feel so lucky to have hit. Thanks babe!

I don’t think we wanted to leave Virginia and I think Virginia didn’t want us to leave based on the amount of money that we had to put into our car days before we left, but we were able to leave and travel down to Georgia to visit my brother Matthew and sister in law Amy. We had a great time guys, thanks for making it so enjoyable! We saw countless wildlife (gators, dolphins, deer, raccoons, vultures) and ate the best peach crepes of our lives. Then we continued on from Georgia to Denver to attend one of my best friend’s weddings. Eric Bell got married and I was in the wedding party. We had a great time and enjoyed the beautiful temple sealing, ring ceremony and reception dinner. Thanks to you all!

Now were back in good old Provo after spending 3 days or so with the Pippins and seeing baby Luke. We’ve enjoyed our time here, but as they say all good things must come to an end. I have 2, yes count them 1-2 classes remaining in obtaining my bachelors and Kristi got some great news yesterday from her counselor that after her 16 credits this semester and 14 next semester she will be finishing up in April. We can’t wait to see after that where our next great adventure will take us. Sorry for the novel, but it is the only way it can do a little justice for the incredible summer we had. Thanks to everyone that made it so great especially Dean and Linda, you’re the best!

A Shot in the Dark

2009-05-19T06:20:00.000-07:00

Well, we really have flown by the seat of our pants these past few weeks. It brought us all the way to Virginia. What Kristi failed to mention is that we went out there with no real promising leads. The internship that I was supposed to have informed me the day before we were going to take off that they would be closing down there facility and that my services would not be needed. So needless to say what do you do in a time like that? You go out anyway, bum off your in-laws, spend time with nieces and nephews and look for jobs knowing that if you don't have any luck then you can turn around in the car and make the 30 hour drive back to greener pasteurs in Provo, UT.
A quick update though. We both felt really good about coming out here and knew at least we would save a little rent money (thank you Carvers), but were unsure of anything beyond that. Well, for the past week and a half I have been working as a personal trainer at a place called fitness together that offers small personal suits and that caters primarily to adults. It is located in Chantilly, which alloww me to run to work(only 2 miles...priceless!) It has been a good experience to date. Kristi had a job interview last week and upon completing the interview was offered a job right there on the spot. She will be doing Mommy Relief, assisting mothers in their homes you have recently given birth and are finding it difficult to adjust or simply need an extra pair of hands. She will be great at that, it's right up her alley. More great news, I was informed by Velocity sports yesterday that I was accepted to their internship program and will be starting the 26the of May. This is what I really wanted despite not being paid, it will give me a great opportunity to look into the sports performance field and see if it is really something I want to pursue.
All in all things are going great for us. We couldn't be happier and feel like we've been blessed a ton. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers. Kristi thanks for being patient and a thanks to all the family members that we've been able to see and spend time with. We've had a blast and look forward to another three months!

Fey's Motto of Summer 2009, "Fly by the seat of your pants"

2009-05-10T17:07:00.000-07:00

I have this man in my life that has taught me a whole lot about how to live life. As I dated this man I quickly concluded that we were two peas in a pod, we were the "exact" same. However... after marrying this man... and living life together... I quickly came to the opposite realization than I did when we were dating... We actually are very different and live life extremely differently. In our first year of being married it actually seemed as though we had more difference than similarities. Just to name a few personality traits that make us so different... Dan is laid back, easy going, mild manner, and very level headed, and Me, I'm pretty high maintenance, a huge worry wart, easily stressed, and emotional. Living life with Dan and watching him deal with things handed his way, I have begun to not only admire him, but envy how he lives life. At first it was slightly frustrating to me that after being handed the same trial he seemed so much more calm and collected, and always came out way on top! I soon realized this frustration was actually me just being a little jealous about him handling things so much better than me. His life seemed so much more enjoyable than mine.

So this past year, especially within the past few months, I have been attempting to live more like Dan! Trying not to map out the future so intensively and not worry so much about what tomorrow has to bring, instead, focusing on living in the here and now.

This more laid back, flying by the seat of our pants, attitude led us on a cross country road trip to Virginia to live with my generous parents! The idea had been floating in the air for a few months, but the decision wasn't 100% until the morning of the day we packed our bags and began our journey.

This new mindset has really led me to better enjoying every moment of every day... I'm not so focused on the future anymore... and what next month has to bring to the table. Life seems a whole lot more manageable! So thanks Husband for helping me put on a new set of lenses!

Now as far as the cross country road trip goes... I think every married couple should do it. It was a fun little relationship building, bonding experience! You find out just how entertaining each other are!

Sleepless in Seattle!

2009-02-21T15:47:00.001-08:00

I know exactly what to do with my time!

2009-02-17T17:17:00.000-08:00

Oh how nice it is to be home alone for a couple of hours! It's not very often that both boys are gone at once, but thanks to the elder's quorum guys night out tradition, I get approximately 4 hours of ME time! The schedule will go as follows, make a PB & J for dinner, jump in a hot bubble bath, cook up some kettle corn to go along with my T.V. shows. Watch the T.V. shows with out comments from the peanut gallery, and then possibly hearing a scary noise, which will force me to end the night locked in my bedroom reading a heart jerking novel. That's precisely my kind of night, ex the last part it just always seems to happen that way. I am not use to this houses silly noises yet!

And just in case you were wondering...

2009-02-03T18:22:00.001-08:00

I kept seeing this "baby making, with out making a baby" on peoples blogs, so I had to try it. I encourage all of you to try it out, after all you want to make sure there going to come out cute! If not you might want to consider other alternatives!
http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/

Here's the truth...

2009-02-03T16:37:00.000-08:00

The truth is I haven't had anything to blog about, and still don't. School has seemed to take over my life, which my Dad would be thrilled to hear! My sixteen credits occupy most my time, and the rest is ran by my (embarrased to say) T.V. shows that I find myself living vicariously through! We did take a quick vacation about two weeks ago to San Fransico which was bitter sweet. Sweet in the sense it was 70 degrees there and it was a 24 hour party, bitter because we drove our best couple-friends out there to stay. So now we are pretty friendless=( KC and Ashton use to occupy about three nights of our week, and we could always count on them for a good date night. Now, Dan and I are left to go alone, sad I know, unless we can talk Dan's little brother into accompaning us!

So lifes going, and I have realized I need to do better at enjoying and living in the moment, I have gotten really good about worrying about the future, especially since real life seems to be rapidly approaching Dan and I as we begin to think about life after school.

Christmas festivities!

2009-01-01T21:37:00.001-08:00

Time is Flying and so are we

2008-12-15T11:30:00.000-08:00

Well, from the previous post you can tell that Kristi has had 2 run ins with the provo police force since we've moved in a month and a half ago. One resulted in a ticket, the other a warning. Well, I could let her out do me, so this Friday I took it upon myself to speed excessively and get pulled over resulting in another speeding ticket for the two of us. Between our house(Joel, Kristi and I) we've been pulled over 4 times and recieved 2 tickets. In six weeks! What does that say about us? We've had a good month of December so far. We are in the home stretch for finals. I just took my fourth an hour ago and now only have three more. What a relief! We're stoked about the opportunity to go to Virginia and hope that you are ready for us(french toast every morning, carmel popcorn every night). TheInfamous Jazzy Jeppson Christmas Spectacular was quite a hit especially between the older cousins. It was there that I was first introduced to speedminton. It was love after teh first game. Google it if you are unsure of what it is, but be prepared to become addicted. We've also had a Christmas program at the Carvers(Nate and Krystene) and are making gingerbread houses with the Grewals tonight. Christmas is a great time of the year. We also attended our nieces gymnastic performance(Pease see themyersmix.blogspot.com to see us in action). It's a great time of the year. We are truly blessed to have a great supporting cast. We are blessed with great family and friends. We love you and appreciate your roles in our lives. If we don't see you, Merry Christmas and for those we will see soon, get ready!

They were out to get me!

2008-12-07T21:20:00.001-08:00

To start off the wonderful thanksgiving break from school, I got a speeding ticket! Now if this ticket came 6 years ago it wouldn't have been much of a shock it would have just blended in with the 3 accidents and 2 other tickets I recieved in my first two years of driving! I was on my way to rock climbing at the butt crack of dawn, just chatting away with mom along my usual route when all the sudden those red and blue lights came on. As I calmly pulled over I really wasn't that upset, matter of fact I felt like I was over due and deserving for a ticket, my record finally was just cleared last year, and I would hate to look like a perfect driver when I am in actuality probably one of the worst out there, and when i looked in my rear view mirror and saw the cop walking up he looked like a push over. So I was banking on just getting a warning, matter of fact I was like 95% sure it was just a warning! But he had a different agenda, and wrote me up. As i began to drive away thats when the guilt and remorse started coming up, it put me on the wrong foot for the rest of the day. I would have to say it is one of the worst feelings being pulled over, all the passer byers strain there necks to see the criminal, which is a little publicly humiliating, and it really makes you feel so horrible to have a cop car behind you with its lights on!
But if that run in with the cops wasn't enough, exactly a week later going down the same road, leaving the same rock climbing class, I get pulled over AGAIN. Once again not in a rush just going about my business, but this time i had failed to notice a stop sign! The cop was real sneaky, he was in this undercover navy blue, chevy~ When he came up to my window I began to uncontrollably ball, which wasn't staged but definently worked in my favor, or maybe it was the christmas music that i turned up a little when i saw the lights turn on to put the cop in the right mood. Anyways, luckily i got a warning! Needless to say I have chosen a new route to drive to and fro and refuse to drive down that road even if it knocks 5 minutes off my ETA!

Thanksgiving break...

2008-12-03T08:47:00.001-08:00

Antivirus 2009

2008-12-02T21:26:00.000-08:00

So to those of you that have been checking our blog, desperately anticipating the next Fey post and questioning our loyalty to the blogosphere consider this. For the last 2 ½ weeks we have been battling the Antivirus 2009. Now this virus may not cause the casual blogger to tremble, but anybody that considers themselves a diehard would quiver with trepidation at the sound of this ferocious beast. This particular virus nestled into our computer stating that we had viruses and that they must be fixed immediately. Well, the lack of computer skills that we possess made this event even more stressful. Each time we logged on we were made aware that now even more viruses had emerged and our very lives were being threatened if we didn’t do anything. After a few days of this and multiple times of being logged off the computer against our own will I gave in. I went to the BYU bookstore and was set that I would buy a laptop. I was close, I had convinced myself. Lucky for me I have a wife with a more rational thought process then myself and when I texted, called, and then called again she basically shut me down. The Mac book would only be 1000 dollars with my discount I told her (I still think it’s a great idea and would appreciate any convincing coming this way). After pacing the bookstore floor about a hundred times I finally just approached the clerk and asked him about this virus. He explained in detail the problem, most of it going in one ear out the other with my head bobbing up and down in agreement with everything he said. Finally, I mustered the courage and when I got home I tried to cure us of this virus. Only this time I believe the virus got smarter beating me to my next step every time. Multiple websites that I called upon to use wouldn’t open and I began to get very frustrated. Eventually I found something on you tube, struggled to understand everything it would do to my computer, but trusting in the wise Indian man’s voice that assured me that it was nothing too serious. With a little faith, and luck I followed the steps and to my surprise it worked. The virus is gone, as well as some other programs, but the virus is gone. Hopefully we will be making many more posts in the future.

"A historic landmark"

2008-11-14T14:17:00.000-08:00

Today at 10:45 we recieved the Internet! Now this may seem like a silly thing to many of you who have the internet at your finger tips,=p but for me, its been a "landmark in history"! We decided to hold off on the internet when we moved back from cali because of the unknown living situations! So we have survived with out internet for 4 MONTHS! Finally I can become a full-time blogosphere member again!I don't have to pretend like I am a BYU student anymore to use the computer while Dans in class to do school work, and most importantly I can catch up on some must see tv episodes that I missed at the begining of the season, I will no longer be an social outcast!!

Fey week!

2008-11-10T08:18:00.000-08:00

Dan's sister and brother inlaw came in town this week so we partied like rockstars, k not really, but we did have a good time! The pictures do a good job at summing up the weekend! The best part of this month besides the day of binging that comes at the end of the month that I have been looking forward to since last thanksgiving, is that it is full of visitors! We had Dan's Dad at the begining of the month for a weekend, then we had the sis, then next we have my Dad and then right after that we have Val for thanksgiving!!YAYA!

You can never feel too safe while driving with Daddy behind the wheel!

Here are some picts from our friend Ashtons b-day celebration in Park City! You might feel like you see alot of Ashton and KC on our blog and well you do, thats cuz we spend roughly three nights a week with them!!

Witch's Night Out!

2008-10-27T08:32:00.001-07:00

I'm struggling finding a balance in the blog world!! I think this week is going to be blog overload, then your cantines will be filled and I'll go back to blog drought.

It was an eventful weekend! We went up the canyon friday night for some bomfire smore roasting, with friends, and then saturday was packed full of outings. We went to the BYU football game in the morning, where we probably have a better view if we just stayed put at home, but its all about the atmosphere, right, so we insist on going to every home game!

Saturday night I met up with the brothers and there families at a farm that was showing the charlie brown halloween movie on a big screen as well as a tractor ride around a "freshly planted orchard", in other words a dirt field! The kids thought it was pretty cool and that's all that really matters!

Mid-way through the evening the girls took off to witches night out! An anual affair that takes place at this strip of boutiques called Gardner Village! We kackled the night away for free coupons and saw some of the "scariest" witches~ None of us felt the urge to dress up, I take that back we did have witches hats, thanks to wendy! But we had some great laughs looking at everyone who had dressed up! I never knew withces costumes could be so revealing, Hokus Pokus never revealed that side to me, so we were quite astonished by the amount of leg, bum and chest we saw! Krystene was the only lucky one who came out winning a prize at the end! You have to stay till 10:30 to see if you won anything an out of 100's of women the probablitity is very slim, but you always have to stay just incase. Krys scored huge~ A new outfit!! We were out till about 11:30 and I'm pretty sure it was the latest any of us have been out in a while!

To give you a quick update on Dan and I not a whole lot is going on other than school, but we're moving into a town house Dan's dad bought this week, so were pretty excited about that, i'm more just anxious and a little stressed, but it will be a nice change to be living in something larger than 500 square feet! Except that we all know I am scared of my own shadow so I don't know how I will adapt to 2600 square feet, it won't be such an easy process anymore to check behind every cabinet, curtain, and corner when I am alone in the house!

Our struggling blog...

2008-10-24T09:03:00.000-07:00

Today I discovered that the computers at school have an insert for my memory card, YAY! So heres a quick photo update of what we have been up to! We have done a good deal of pumpkin carving with friends and family in which Dan and I had our weaknesses revealed to us in full force! We have alot great ideas we just have a hard time executing them! Its tough knowing which peices to poke out or leave in~ Which is the key to quality pumpkin carving! We did a full moon Gandola ride with KC and Ashton, which was just as romanitc as could be, and then last but not least we have been doing a lot of schooling mingled with intramural sports! those pictures will have to come later cuz I am running later for class!

Here we go....

2008-10-03T21:51:00.000-07:00

Danny and I are up in Ogden for the weekend so that means PICTURE TIME. We have an eventful weekend ahead of us, my mom's in town so that means reality flies out the window!

The first picture I have been dieing to share is my first birthday present that i was given permission to open early! When Dan and I went camping I was admiring my niece and nephews footsie pajamas to my sis Mandy! Dan and his good ears over heard me admiring them and I guess it triggered a gift idea. As i was about to open the box that was fresh out of the mail he began to preface the gift and gifts to come. He said "since you are turning 22, I decided this birthday was going to be full of gifts that were pairs, and since 2+2=4, I figured you should get four gifts, are you sure you want to open your first gift early." I immediately responded of course! Who doesn't want an early b-day gift! This is what i found when i opened that box labeled "Jumpin Jammerz".....

Your eyes aren't misleading you, those are fleece, camo pajamas! Only one problem they have no rubber grippings! Do they not realize that adults have the same chance of slipping and falling!

Finally!

2008-09-29T21:04:00.000-07:00

I have been craving roasting marshmellows ever since I left wendys three weeks ago! I dunno if theres anything more relaxing than slowly churning a marshmellow on stick over a blazing fire,(I don't believe in the roasting marshmellows over coal method), I like the bombfire roast! So after three weeks of whining I finally got my opportunity! We took off this weekend with Jeremy and Mandy, our outdoorsy experts! Dan and I aren't much of the alone camping type, we really love the adventure but I just can't promise we would make it through a night on our own. Maple canyon is one of the prettiest canyons utah has to offer. Friday afternoon we took off, with just a morning to plan the adventure. With such last minute plans everything far exceeded my expectations and dreams!! The weather was perfect, food was deluctible and the company out did themselves!

P.S. Readers hold on tight I promise I will try a little harder to feature some pictures soon!

Hmm what to blog about...

2008-09-19T08:35:00.000-07:00

Still internetless at the apartment so these blogs will continue to be pretty boring. I'll try to spice things up in the writing! It seems that Dan and I are either busy at school or busy on the intramural fields! Dan is determined to win one of those t-shirts so he has taken up two sports this semester, softball and football, along with his 17 credits! I thought his dream of the t-shirt was shattered after his first football game when he came out mid half due to a tweaked hamstring. But he proves healed after his softball game last night when he was all over the outfield. He was nominated MVP after last nights game do to the amount of grass stains he acquired on his white shorts while diving for balls! I think Dan's Dad helped to put an extra hop in Dan's step because I have never seen him perform at the level he did! So theres a quick update so that I don't keep having flashbacks of my horrible day every time i check out the feyway,oh and here's a quick story that I just heard this morning that had me giggling to myself all through class.

Many of you know that we referr to my dad as the bird man! He has this "talent" of bird whispering, matter of fact it seems that every creature on earth is naturally drawn to him but he has a special knack with birds. Whenever us kids wanna know where dad is as it we inevitably can peer out the window and catch him out side either stocking up the bird feeders, searching through trees for the newest bird nest, or testing the temperature of his heated bird bath, with a string of grandchildren following behind! He has the most fascinating bird stories, but this one by far tops them off. Forgive me cause I didn't hear this story straight from the source so it could be butchered, but it's to great not to be shared. From what I hear Dad was asleep the other night and awakened by a noise. He opens his eyes to see a wild bird perched on his knee. So Dad, who hates being awakened, goes down stairs grabs a net and pushes the bird into the closet to catch him. Sure enough he caught that thing in the net, from what I hear he was a little nervous he hurt it but I have seen my dad maneuver wild birds before and those delicate hands I know couldn't of fazed that bird! I thought that kind of stuff only happened to Snow White or possibly Cinderella, but boy was I wrong. I love you Dad your the best!

What a horrible start to a day....

2008-09-12T10:34:00.001-07:00

Feeling the urge to be productive I headed off to school an hour early. As I was getting out of the car I made the executive decision to leave my purse in the car, didn't need the wallet for anything, so I shut and locked the front door and opened the back to get my back pack out. As I picked up my back pack I noticed a puddle of water had formed under it, I then realized my un opened water bottle that I had grabbed on my way out the door was faulty, and had managed to soak my backpack on the drive! COOL! No harm done, just a waiste of a water! As I got over the water incident I began to make the transfer of personal items(keys,lotion,lip-gloss,gum)from my purse to my backpack, and then continued to put on my back pack when i remembered I needed to grab vaseline out of the cubby. I took back off my backpack and set it on the back seat(thinking i was setting it outside)and locked up the back door and headed to open the front door back up! As I reached the front door and remembered I had already locked it up I realized that I had just locked EVERYTHING in the car. What do I usually turn to to solve my problems, my handy dandy cell phone! BUT OH WAIT that was already in my back pack, so I proceeded to go into school searching for someone to solve my problem. As I was walking in and trying to think of where to turn to next I thought I could just borrow a phone and call dan, but don't worry I DON'T KNOW HIS NUMBER off the top of my head because I RELY on my CELL PHONE. Luckily "one stop" came to my mind and I was able to get the parking police to let me in! One of the more unfriendly people I have ever dealt with came to my physical rescue but I was always hoping I could make small talk and vent to him but he clearly was not receptive. What should I have done after that, just gone home and back to bed? Probably, instead I decided to face the day head on, I was able to tell my sob story to some friends in class but that didn't switch the day around for me. I headed to the library thinking I would try and be productive again and once again the opposite happened for me. I ended up accidently hitting print on a document and it printed off 55 pages that I didn't need. CRAPPY DAY! Well I gotta run to class, hopefully I don't trip and fall, but probably will.

Here we go except...

2008-09-07T18:23:00.000-07:00

we have one problem, On my way up to O-town I realized I had left my camera at home so our cruise pics won't be updated till I find another comp to use. But while the cat was away the mouse sure did play in between the moments of missing my husband terribly! So here's the past two weekends!

Who ever knew there was an intense balloon maker at brick oven, it was a great source of entertainment while the adults chatted...

There was no cooler place to be on saturday then the peach days in brigham city!

We are alive!

2008-09-05T10:46:00.001-07:00

We are back in P-town, but internetless. I'm sorry that last blog has been up for so long I promise my PMS didn't last that long! I will be at wendys this weekend while Dan is in washington at the U-dub vs BYU game(spoiled), so I will take time to upload some pics from the past month and turn this blog from geek to scheek!

How to handle a women when its that time....

2008-08-20T13:34:00.001-07:00

Most of you know, sadly, that I always seem to catch a wicked case of PMS. About three years ago I finally decided to accept and embrace my cycle realizing that the week before my period I was going to inevitably break down in tears at least once and maybe snap a little quick at those I love. I realized I need not be in denial about it anymore. I know what you are all thinking at this point poor Dan, and that's how I feel as well. But I will admit I have become a little more aware of my mood swings over the years and I feel like I am getting a better grasp on them,maybe. I am sure Dan wouldn't be able to agree with me in the moment but I think if he reflects back on the past couple years he might see a slight improvement, hopefully! Any how as I was showering this morning I was contemplating PMS as I am faced with it right now and I started mentally jotting out a list, so what better to blog about.

The three most important things to remember.....

1. If she seems to be biting your head off about any and everything, Do Not, i Repeat DO NOT, say or even think that it is her time of the month. She is aware of her mood but in the moment it seems impossible to control.

2. If you see her over eating and it seems like she is having a hard time getting full, maybe offer to take her out to McDonald's. After all maybe she just needs some juicy fatty meat!

3. If she says she is feeling fat and is struggling with feeling cute, over emphasize how beautiful she looks, even if she really does have three eyes due to the huge zit that has formed on her forehead! But warning do not tell her to go shopping, she will only come back more upset with herself!

So Danny I publicly apologize for this week I have been a little KOO-KOO. Maybe I even need to apologize for the past week as well......and for the future crazy weeks to come, I'm sorry!!

Sunday

2008-08-18T13:09:00.000-07:00

I would have to say one of my favorite things about Chino Hills, next to the donut shops on every corner, is our ward. They have been so wonderful and so welcoming. So needless to say we're pretty disappointed to have to leave and return to our 8:00am service with the boring married couples. The primary presidency gave us a card and framed picture of our CTR 6 class yesterday. I don't think the kids comprehended the idea that we were leaving for good, the whole class time they would sporadically ask when they would see us again. We will miss those adorable little tykes, who said the darnst things!

Yesterday evening we made a surprised visit to Grandma and Grandpa's(we were craving a Klondike bar j/k, but Grams did insist on us eating one right when we walked in the door, a new delicious Oreo kind). They are just the sweetest. It's been wonderful living so close to them and getting to know them better, we have spent many of Sunday evenings chatting with them for hours!

Okay Okay...

2008-08-16T19:11:00.001-07:00

Here's the update! But forgive me because I have not taken any pictures. I have been realizing more and more that our camera really stinks, and so I am revolting against it and not using it! Tuesday night we were at the Angel's vs. Mariners game and we were a few yards away from Ichiro and I wanted to snap an action shot. I get out my camera look through the lens at full zoom and realized that I could see more from the naked eye, and my shutter speed had no chance at catching him in action. To make matters worse my camera looked ancient compared to the cameras of Ichiro's fan club. We all know who held those high tech cell phone cameras!

Wednesday was my usual lonely day at the pool chatting it up with random pool friends and indulging in breaking dawn. Luckily Thursday marked the beginning of a three day party because I was getting pretty bored around here! Val joined us for the second weekend in a row!! We did some shopping, a lot of eating out, and a lot of Olympic watching. She really helps me out in helping me stay sane while I am caged at the house car less. On top of that she's a real fun house guest! Dan seems to enjoy participating in our girls nights as well! And just before we thought things couldn't get any better Eric Bell graced us with his presence last night.

To wrap up the blog for today I have to end by sharing our sad/glad news. It is our last weekend living as SO CALians! So to bring the wonderful week to an end we went to the LA temple this morning, got out our last hoorah in LA.

Getting Old?

2008-08-10T14:27:00.001-07:00

Normal people probably wouldn't announce blogging the "getting old" experience I had yesterday but since I am in desperate need of people to sympathize with me, I am going public!

I'm laying in bed yesterday morning talking with Dan when he suddenly reaches over towards my neck/right under my chin and says you have a hair. Thinking that it was hair that had fallen from my head I try and brush it off. Dan says "you didn't get it I think its attached". NO WAY not at age 21 have a developed one of those nasty hairs! Sure enough my nightmares came true, there stood straight out a coarse single strand of black hair protruding from my neck, about an inch long. I jumped up out of bed to get the tweezers to yank the sucker out, pulling it so hard that I hopefully got the root so that it will never grow out of that region again. As I began inspecting my neck further for crazy hairs I found another one a little further down but not as long. I don't think I have ever been so grossed out, I about cried, I had to immediately call Wendy to help restrain my tears! I have two questions "Is Dan the only one who saw that thing" and "What is there purpose" I have heard others speak of those sick crazy hairs but I had convinced myself it would never be me..... YUCK! My young days are over.......

Grandparents....

2008-08-06T19:19:00.000-07:00

Is there a rule in the Grandparents Handbook that states all grandparents must have some sort of ice cream bar in the freezer at all times? Because I'm like 99.9% sure there is. When I was younger I thought it was only Grandma carver who knew the secret treat to every grandchild's heart! But after 21 years of living and Danny raising my awareness of this tradition, I have come to the generalization that it is all grandparents. Grandma C always has fat boys, Grandma & Grandpa E always have Klondike Bars, Grandma J always has your staple Popsicle(which I do realize isn't really an ice cream bar), and 9 year old Grandma C the 2nd(mom) always has skinny cows! Mmmmm..... that's why there is no other place in the world like Grandmas house!!

P.S. I am really craving a ice cream bar now!

Third to last weekend in Chino Hills...

2008-08-04T13:28:00.001-07:00

So for the past month I have been just dieing to see Mama Mia, almost as excited to see it as I was to see Step Up! So Friday morning as Dan was on his way out the door I asked him if we could go see it that night, and to my astonishment he said sure!! About 15 minutes into the movie I leaned over to Dan and whispered my apologizes for dragging him to come see it because it was very chick flicky! I loved it, and his reviews were " it was a little over the top for me, but not too bad". Thanks husband!

Saturday Dan's company treated us to a day at Raging Waters, and boy was it a rage! I hadn't been to a water park since I life guarded at Planet Splash and Play my freshman year of high school, and although I despise walking around an amusement park in my swimsuit, I was pretty excited for a free trip! After a day in the sun we got home just in enough time to fix dinner and feed the missionaries. Immediately following dinner we partook in another rage at Borders as I picked up my reserved copy of Breaking Dawn!! The rest of our evening/night can be quickly summed up in the picture below!

Those sure are Nerf Guns, we found them on the clearance rack at Target on Saturday night and just couldn't pass them up! I don't know what those say about our marriage and our feelings for one another but those were on entertainment for Saturday night!

Sunday brought a fun day with Grandma and Grandpa Eastwood,Aunt Nadine and Uncle Cj, Aunt Kumi and their kids! There's nothing more relaxing and refreshing then Sunday Dinner with the fam!

Dedication to Lifeguard Linnie~

2008-08-01T12:16:00.000-07:00

Happy Happy Birthday Mom!

My mom is really wonderful. She's one of those people that every time you talk to them they make you feel like a million bucks. She is my best friend, my favorite shopping buddy, my loudest cheerer, my idle, my do it all, my go getter, my mom and most of all my #1 blog reader. I wish I could be there to celebrate your big day with you but since next year is your bigger year(if you know what I mean, big 30*2) I'll save my ticket for that one! I love you mom! I hope you have a super fun day, spoil yourself, you deserve it! I wish I could be serving you french toast this morning and carmel popcorn tonight but I guess I'll have to wait till next year! Thanks for being so awesome Mom, you are grrrrreat!

P.s. You are beautiful!!

Another P.S. if you want to see pictures of the month with the fam check out Wendy's blog! I didn't take a single picture, stupid me!

Get me out of here.....

2008-07-29T11:57:00.001-07:00

We just experienced a 5.8 earthquake. I had a blanket in the washer machine, so as the shaking began I ran to machine thinking that the blanket had gotten tangled maybe creating a serious shake in the apartment, but low and behold the blanket was not the cause. Dan jumped out of the shower shouting we're in an earthquake, he pulled me into the door frame where we stood staring at each other wide eyed. No damage but real scary and the cell phone lines are down. Can I go layout today or should I just sit in the door frame the whole day in case there's another rumble? I wanna go home....

For all you carrot cake lovers....

2008-07-06T16:48:00.000-07:00

The other night Dan and I were on our way somewhere and I got bummed out because I forgot my camera! Dan turned to me and quietly said "are you bummed out about the camera cause you wanted to capture the moment, or did you just want pics to post on your blog?!" We all know the answer! So then the next day I was looking at all the pictures I have taken since I started blogging and realized that I, first off, take way to many pictures(somewhat of an addiction), and second, I take some of the craziest, pointless pictures now. Ones that otherwise would have not been taken if it weren't for this dang blog. Should I be embarrassed?

So today came along and Dan and I decided to try to make a "from scratch" carrot cake, since it was a success, I knew I just had to capture a shot of it and tell all my friends about it. But then I thought this is has gotten a little out of hand. I should not just be taking photos so that I can blog about them. I know some of you know exactly what I am talking about! Luckily everything is digital, so its a win win situation, its not like a spending money on pointless shots! SO maybe I should just look at blogging as me contributing to my family history, you know like journal keeping! But on the other hand I feel like my spouse needs to hide the cam from me! But any who, here's the cake, allrecipes.com came through for me again. Try it out if you are a cream cheese carrot cake lover! Its not the best one I have ever had buts it is definitely good and I'm pretty proud of us for doing it from scratch. It's called "Carrot Cake 111" on the website.

"Oh oh say can you see, by the dawns early light...."

2008-07-05T12:24:00.000-07:00

There is no day like the 4Th! A full afternoon of picnicking ended by the explosion of fireworks! We went to the University of Redlands with some of Dan's Moms' side of the family, they really put on quit the show, with skydivers, jets and all! We even were blessed with the appearance of the ice cream truck! The excitement that ran through my body when I heard that familiar jingle brought me straight back to my childhood, I even became as frantic as the little ones trying to spot it! Happy belated 4Th everyone!

A day with Val...

2008-07-03T13:11:00.001-07:00

Monday and Tuesday I was confined to the house due to the limits of only having one car, so when Wednesday came along and it was finally my day to have the car, I took off far and away! Okay not really that far just up to Beverly hills/Santa Monica to spend the day with Val. We did a little bit of shopping, a whole lot of driving/being stuck in traffic, jammin' out to music, and quit a bit of eating! We had originally planned on just laying out at the beach all day but we got side track when we spotted some great shopping on the promenade in Santa Monica, oops! I also announce that I really didn't enjoy it at all, matter-a-fact I was disappointed had my first experience with sushi~ Val has been talking it up for about a year now so last night she convinced me that I needed to give it a shot! And I am sad to because so many people are so into it now a days!! I even stuch to the "Americanized" sushi,California rolls, which most people supposively dig but it really didn't do anything for me~ Needless to say I don't find my self giving that stuff a try again anytime soon but I am glad to have experienced it! Life is all about experiences, right?!

to Top it off...

2008-07-01T12:43:00.000-07:00

To top off our one year anniversary we ate a slice of our year old wedding cake! Now I remember hearing about this tradition of freezing the top of your wedding cake but I don't know if I can recall anyone actually completing the tradition! But thanks to my mom we were able to take part in that tradition! Linnie(the lady of keep all) held onto it for a year for us and when I went back home to visit a month ago she whipped it out of the freezer and convinced me that it would be fun to eat on our anniversary! I called Dan to see if he would actually eat a slice and if it was worth the hassel(he's a pretty picky eater)and to my astonishment he said of course! So Linnie securely packed it up and sent it off with me! We let the cake dethaw all day Sunday and then dug into it that night! Despite the slight taste of freezer burn, we relived our first memories of the cake a year back!

"I went skydivin' I went rocky mountain climbin..."

2008-06-29T16:25:00.001-07:00

Happy anniversary, happy anniversary......

2008-06-29T16:04:00.001-07:00

Yup that's right, we ended our first year of marriage with a jump off an airplane! Many of you are probably astonished that Dan and I did this considering were not the "adventurous couple" type and on top of that why would we choose skydiving for our 1 year anniversary, why not a nice spa resort or something thats more down our alley! But we figured if not now then never! So we did it and despite the motion sickness, it was the sickest thing we have ever done! I think we realized how incredible it was though, when we safely landed! Because until then I have never been so scared in my life! As we were free falling I started pondering back on my life making sure that I didn't have any loose ends that I should quickly tie up if it were my time to go! It was a blast and by far the craziest thing I have ever done! And on the anniversary side of things if the years to come with Dan are as wonderful as the past year then bring on Eternity because I have loved every minute of it! We rapped up Saturday with a dinner at the melting pot! I arrived at our table to see a beautiful dozen roses waiting for me, thanks to the thoughtful husband! We were first timers and I am sold on that restaurant! I could have continued eating another three hours if the 4 course meal would have continued on! Sorry about the brag blog but I think anniveraries call for it!!

periods.....

2008-06-26T12:20:00.000-07:00

After being a week and a couple days late I thought uh oh maybe we got an accidental catch. Each day past my due date I would go through this kind of debate in my head! Well this could be exciting, maybe its not such bad timing, this would give me a great excuse to my relaxing lifestyle, but wait what do i do about school, and our 500 square foot one bedroom apartment in Provo that we have already signed a year contract for. But it wouldn't be so bad I could dress it up and have a new little buddy to tag along with me. Wait a sec, I am definitely not ready to wake up in the middle of the night, and have a little tyke relying on me! The debates would usually end with me convincing myself it was not such a good thing to be of child right now. But alas the debates have now come to an end. I fell asleep last night with an awful stomach ache and knew I would wake up to a little surprise, and sure enough I did! So now I will be flat on my back all day with a heating pad or in the bath due to my agonizing cramps but no reason other than that for my lazy behavior! Its really funny all the mixed emotions I am now having. Anyone know what I am talking about! Its like part of you is relieved and part of you is a little sad. Maybe its just me, but that’s what has been on my mind this morning! WOMANHOOD!

Good day!

2008-06-25T00:08:00.000-07:00

After choosing to spend monday in a pessimistic/vacation bluez state, I didn't see the week getting any better till the weekend! But boy was I wrong, do you ever have those days that just seem to good to be true! That was today! I found out at about 10:30am that Val was finally going to come down and stay with us! I was stoked! As soon as I found out I began cooking a new recipe for chocolate chip cookies that got tons of rants and raves on allrecipes.com! As soon as the last batch came out Dan was walking out the door for work telling me he had an epiphany about selling five satellites today! I encourage those kind of epiphanies for sure! As Dan left Val showed up, perfect timing! The girls day out began! At about 7:30 we called Dan to have him meet up with us for dinner at PF Chang's! Right when I heard his voice I knew his epiphany came to pass but instead of 5 he had sold 7! The most in the company so far this summer which called for a couple bonuses from the manager! I am way proud of him and it was fun to see how excited he got! I hope we haven't jinxed ourselves and that there are more days like this in the future! It must be blessings from being married for four days shy of a year or something!

To back track a little funny part of the day was when Val and I were on are way to the gym before dinner to burn off some calories before we indulged ourselves! We both get on our work out clothes to realize val forgot her tennies! But that wasn't going to stop us! We decided we would share one pair of shoes! After I was done running a mile I handed them over for her to do hers! And of course it was the busiest day yet at the gym so I am sure people were curious why one of us had no shoes on at the gym!

OMG!

2008-06-21T12:31:00.000-07:00

Many of you are probably wondering why I have a picture of a spilled glass of water on my blog instead of some fun pictures of my week with the girls! Well this is why! Because for the past 6 months every day I spill a freaking glass of water. Now, you are probably all saying, especially you moms, waters nothing at least its not grape juice! But let me tell you, I have never been so annoyed and tiered of everyday soaking up my spills. The first few months I would just laugh it off as some bad luck, now it has gotten to the point where I can't laugh anymore. My cups of water are definitely out to get me! What do I do? Stop drinking glasses of water! Get a sippy cup and drink out of that! I am a grown lady you would think I would be able to go a day with out tipping my glass! HELP ME MAKE IT COME TO AN END!!!!!!!!!

P.s. this photo was not staged

She has arrived!!

2008-06-18T09:28:00.000-07:00

Most of you know by reading Wendy's blog that she she has arrived safe and sound! Yesterday we spent the day shopping, lounging at the pool and taking an nature walk around our complex to see first hand the bunnies! Just soaking up the real Chino Hills experience!! Today will probably consist of the same schedule besides the addition of Nicole! Girls Day Out is what it sounds like to me!! Its Dan's big day tomorrow so I have some last minute things to pick up! He is getting pretty old the big 2*4*! He is stoked that everyone wanted to come celebrate his birth with him! He's probably going to look somewhat like a polygamist or pimp when we go out to the Cheesecake Factory tomorrow night!

Take me out to the...

2008-06-16T12:15:00.000-07:00

Ball Game, take me out to the crowd..! Yup we just HAD to go to the Angels vs. Braves game on Friday night! Couldn't miss it, they only play each other once every three years! So i guess its a Must go! But I'll tell you what there's no other atmosphere comparable to that of a ball game. They are way fun. I could never watch a full game on the tube but it flies by when your at the field! I just sat there indulging any treat I craved. Started out with a simple $3.00 hot dog, and then a $3.75 bag of chips! Not a rip off at all. Then I started getting thirsty why not get a large soda for $5.50! I can not believe the prices at those places. Ridiculous! But that's just part of the experience I guess so sometimes you just gotta splurge! We got good tickets to for a good price from some scalpers. We were a little worried that they might be fake or something it was such a deal!

A funny story from Sunday! You are guaranteed one good laugh a Sunday when you are working in the primary. Kids say the darnist things! I was sitting with my class when I hear two little boys(7 years old) rough housing in the row behind me! One of the little boys screams "OWE you hit me in my Blatter". I turn around to see them punching each other in their private parts! Only Boys would be doing something like that!! Ha ha!!

One incredible evening......

2008-06-13T11:58:00.000-07:00

You better believe it! Last night Dan, Me, Courtney and Paul all attended the Broadway show Wicked in LA at the Pantages Theatre! We arrived there on full McDonald's stomachs all ready to go! And let me just tell you it was incredible, made me speechless which is pretty hard to do! It is by far the best Broadway show I have yet to see! We had great seats, about ten rows from the front, that Paul's uncle gave to us for only 25 bucks a pop, a serious steal! After the show ended I just sat there trying to comprehend how there are people in the world with that much talent, and how did they discover they could bolt it out like that. Were they in the shower singing one night when they realized they could hold out a note for 4 minutes? Why can't they share the wealth a little! Any who we wrapped the night up with a fun couples sleepover! I advice all of you to go see it, whatever the price, it is well worth it!

Lets try something new!

2008-06-11T19:13:00.000-07:00

Although I am home all day, cooking just ain't my thing! Maybe if I was rich I would enjoy it better, because then when Rachael Ray says you need fresh arugula I wouldn't mind going out and buying it cause who cares if it's 10 dollars and you will only use it for one salad whose left overs will go bad the next day. As of now I stand by store brands(in most things), and try to avoid at all costs going to the grocery store! A gallon of milk here is 5 bucks! Can you believe it! When I was single my weekly grocery money would usually be split in half, half for groceries and half for a cute new shirt! Now I end up having to go to the grocery store at least once a week for one thing or another and my grocery costs have doubled! So ever since I have been married I have been hunting down quick and easy, with real simple ingredients, recipes! One of my favorite spots to find these recipes is allrecipes.com! After seeing that new pizza hut commercial with the pizzone I began craving a calzone(a food name I am more familiar with than a pizzone), and where better to look then at allrecipes.com. So I saved the 11 bucks I would have spent on going to pizza hut and instead threw together ingredients I already had! Dan complimented me three times on it, that means it must be good!

Here it goes:

THE DOUGH

1(.25 oz) package of active dry yeast

1 C. warm water

1 T. olive oil or vegetable oil

1 t. and a pinch or so more of sugar

1 t. salt

2 1/2 C. all purpose flour

The Inside

2 C. of whatever kind of cheese you have (cheddar, mozzarella, etc.)

1 C. of what ever kind of meat you have (pepperoni, sausage, Canadian bacon, etc.)

1 T. of dried basil leaves or Italian seasoning

To make the dough: dissolve yeast in warm water, add the oil, sugar, salt; mix in 1 cup of the flour till smooth and gradually stir in the rest of the flour, until dough is smooth and workable. Knead dough on lightly floured surface for about 5 minutes, if you need more flour go ahead and put it in till it feels right, you don't want it really sticky, a little flour at a time though the less flour the better. Put the dough back in a small bowl that now contains 1 teaspoon of olive oil or vegetable oil, and flip the dough to coat it in the oil! Let it rise in a warm area for 40 minutes. Sometimes I turn on the oven and put the bowl of dough on top. The oven vents the heat through the burners making the dough rise faster!

To make the filling: While dough is rising, combine the cheese, meat, and spices.

When dough is ready, punch it down and separate it into 2 equal parts. Roll parts out on a lightly floured surface into thin circles. Fill each circle with 1/2 of the filling and fold circles in half. Secure edges by pressing them down with a fork. Brush top lightly with butter and sprinkle Parmesan cheese or any other seasoning on top if you want!

Bake at 375 F for 30 minutes. You can also warm up some spaghetti sauce so that you can dip the calzone in it, or any other dipping sauce! This recipes makes two large proportions! I ate half, Dan ate the hole thing, so it just depends!

A week from today.....

2008-06-10T12:37:00.001-07:00

Wendy comes!! YAYAYA! I haven't seen my sis in almost two months which is a long stretch for us! We have a ton of fun together. I think our husbands get a little weirded out by how close we are! Our time together usually consists of a trip to the mall(usually buying matching shirts in different colors because of the cute, good deal), a Costco pizza run, a lot of talking, a walk through a home decor store(Rod Works, Thai Pan, etc.), and ending realizing that we probably spent too much money, and then we convince each other it was well deserved! Anyways, I'm just really excited for her to come out!

Another week in the life of SO. CALers'!

2008-06-09T14:52:00.000-07:00

Dan got Saturday off! YAYAYA! So we took off to Manhattan beach with Paul and Courtney! It was a beautiful, fun day!! The boys enjoyed some NAR NAR waves with the surf boards, while the girls laid on the beach soaking up the sun, and getting grossed out by women who were too large for their swimsuits or were revealing too much, yup we saw a lot of butt cheeks! The water was freezing, but Dan convinced me it would get better if i just went all the way in! Having faith in my husband I got all wet, too realize that instead of my legs just being numb my whole body was now numb! But I have to say no beach trip is a real beach trip with out getting in the water at least once and getting wiped out by at least one wave! I'll be honest there is no feeling in the world like getting tumbled by a wave. Your face smashing against the gravely bottom, while sand begins to enter any and every hole and crevice and, then when you finally find which way is up and gain gripping with your feet you stand up humiliated realizing that your swim suit is all mangled(a little bum crack showing here, with a little more cleavage showing there) and your hair all tangled, and then you usually get pumbled by at least one more wave! Nothing like the ocean!

P.S. I FORGOT MY CAMERA! I need to get better at caring that thing around! Sorry bloggers' for slacking!I'll make it up to you!

Just another day in paradise...

2008-06-04T16:13:00.000-07:00

The first thing I do when I wake up is look outside to predict the forecast and then after knowing the weather I plan my day out accordingly... when I will hit the pool, when I will work out, when i will go run errands that I pretend I need to get done, etc. When I glanced out the window this morning I was thoroughly disappointed. The activity that usually takes up the largest proportion of my day was not going to be able to take place, as well as the running errands portion because today is my day with out the car..... What was the girl to do now? So as I lay in bed watching HGTV, soaking in my disappointments, I decided I would finish up my current reading, "New Moon". That made me excited cause I really get engrossed in the book! Then an even more brilliant idea popped into my head, I would treat myself to a grilled cheese with a dollop of ketchup, my favorite replacement when I am all out of tomato soup, and ya know what... that's just what I filled my day with! And yes I did specifically take a picture of my grilled cheese so that I could blog about it! If your wondering why my face isn't in it well that would be sharing too much information with my blog readers. I don't want everyone to know how pathetic I really do look! Haven't showered, still in P.J.s, so on and so forth and it's 4:30pm... too late just shared it with you! Now your wishing i had a picture to go with that description huh!?

The Bird Pic...

2008-06-03T12:20:00.000-07:00

Many of my dedicated readers are wondering about the pigeon/parrot picture that was located to the left of my last blog... And I should have reported about that eventful beach walk during the San Diego post!

I am definitely my Fathers daughter cause right when I saw that thing perched on the women's shoulder with a trail of poop down the back of her vest I knew it was an AFRICAN GREY! I stunned my friends and husband with my knowledge! But any who... This lady was just walking down the beach with it... It would fly off her shoulder frequently and then return back to her, where she would give it a treat and make this bell sound to notify to the bird that it did the "right thing"! So I approached the lady casually and asked "if it was an African grey?" She said Yeah! I then in return began making small talk with her and asking her if she was out training it on the beach or was she just letting it get some exercise. She said it was already trained and just was giving it some good exercise... I later found out that thing was not trained.... As the small talk came to an end I asked if I could hold it, she said of course, so I held out my arm in perch position and the thing came to me!Cool! As the bird sat perched on my arm I talked to it and made cools noises with my mouth, noises i recalled dad making to Lori, just trying to make the thing comfortable, building rapport if you will... I then brought the bird closer feeling comfortable with the relationship and as I did so he started to put his little beak on my cheek. I thought aw he likes me, he's nestling then the next thing I knew the bird BIT my freaking CHEEK! It latched on and yes I did have a mark from it which was recorded on my friends camera! I screamed that sucker hurt me and made a little beak dent in my cheek! I expected an apology or at least a reaction from the bird owner but instead she called the bird back to her and gave it a treat as well as the ring of the bell... Retched women!! And then through out our walk the bird would continually fly and land on one of us, as if he was harassing us! The other picture that you see of the boys walking on the beach is also with the bird, he landed on our friend Eric as well but he didn't stick up his arm to allow the bird to perch he was just chatten with dan! Let me just tell you that thing was not trained... the only reason he kept returning to the women was clearly for food! But hey I looked at it as an event to blog about!

Just some updates...

2008-06-02T13:14:00.000-07:00

We had our first day with the six year olds yesterday, and boy are they cute! We have five... 2 boys and 3 girls! Church was great and really flew by! Dan and I walked out of church looking at each other as if it didn't really feel like we had even been at church for the past three hours, it kinda felt like we were doing day care!! Its definitely a different experience in the primary. The lesson for the 6 years old was "Jesus Loves Me" and all though that is a very important principle, the discussion began and ended on the surface level of that principle. It felt like all we did was reiterate that same phrase over and over again for an hour! Every story the children felt like they needed to share we just tried to tie it in! It was fun!

After about two hours of being home from church I got a call from one of the counselors in the bishopric, you know what that means... I'm giving a talk on fathers day.... immediately after accepting the offer the anxiety began! I think I would do better with shorter notice, like being asked a week ahead of time, because then I would only have a week to worry but now I have TWO weeks of worrying! Oh the joys of being new to a ward!

Despite the worries of the talk, I have something to look forward to during the next two weeks as well! I have two visitors!I lured them in! Wendy and Nicole are going to be here at the same time! Wendy and Parker come June 17th to 20th and Nicole comes June 18th to the 20th! YA YA Sounds like a party too me! I bet Dan is glad that there will be another boy to hopefully even out the overwhelming levels of estrogen in our home!! Can't Wait!

P.S. Can you guys believe it is already June! WOW!

It is someones birthday......

2008-05-29T18:27:00.000-07:00

Happy 22nd Birthday Val!! Love you lots!

My Dilemmas...

2008-05-28T16:15:00.000-07:00

Most of you know that everyday that is nice here, which is about 6 days of the week, consists of me lounging at the pool for a few hours.... but after being home and hearing about my brothers bouts of skin cancer and seeing my mothers battle wounds from skin cancer removal the pool has not been so appealing to me. So here I am faced with a serious dilemma. What do I fill my day with now? Today I talked myself into going out there to get some fresh air, since I don't have the car today. I made a deal with myself.... hour in the sun, hour in the shade, and then I would go home. So that's what I did... I figure as long as I am not getting burned hopefully I am okay! I have noticed that I have developed a new patch of skin that stays white... should i be concerned?

Here's another dilemma... I'm tiered of shaving... you women know exactly what I am talking about... and for me going to the pool everyday shaving has become a daily thing... with the longest stretch being every two days... can we figure out another way to control this hair growth... I have been spending much time contemplating the investment of laser hair removal because its just been driving me crazy... Tough life! Do you ever hit a point in your life where the growth just stops? Or is this a battle i have to look forward to fighting for the rest of my life!

Just some thoughts for today!

Our Memorial Day San Diego Trip!

2008-05-27T14:38:00.001-07:00

Its been 15 days!

2008-05-21T12:35:00.000-07:00

I have been in CA now for a total of 15 days, and already have finished two books which in turn means I have read 822 pages in 15 days! I'm pretty impressed with myself! The last book that I recall reading from start to finish and actually comprehending was Brown Bear Brown Bear.. So it seems I have come a long way. To be honest I actually have started to enjoy reading, maybe this is a forced enjoyment just because I have so much time on my hands. Who knows! But the point of this blog is to get some advice on some good books that you may feel like i would enjoy! I like real life books, although on occasion I have been spotted by my spouse living in my own world reading Twilight, which is based on vampires and werewolves! So I think I can get into about anything! For the last two books I have read I just have found ones that are recommended by New York Times as being best sellers! I have enjoyed the last two but both had risky parts that I had to skip over. Books don't have ratings that I am aware of so I would prefer getting a book that I don't have to edit for myself! So let me know if you have any rec commendations! I have three more months left, and at the rate I am going I could probably finish 8 more books! Well I am off to Borders!

p.s. sorry for the lack of pictures!

A blip in my daily routine!

2008-05-19T22:11:00.000-07:00

At nine-thirty on Friday night, Dan and I went on a late night date to see Iron Man. As we pulled up to the theater I became confused on why there were so many teens hanging outside of the theaters. I posed my curiosity to Dan and he said probably because its Friday night, I quickly responded back argumentatively no its not its Thursday. Yup... you better believe it I went through the whole week being one day behind! That's embarrassing!

Saturday night we went miniature golfing. The only course i could find was thirty-five minutes away right out side of LA. I had no idea of what conditions we were getting ourselves into as the Internet lacked a picture of the facility, but I was determined to quench my crave to go put put. Lets just say we were the minority and there was an officer patrolling the place the whole night... a little sketchy, but actually one of the best courses I have ever been too. Wish I had pictures to show forth but no dice forgot the cam. The highlight of the night was seeing someone who strongly resembled the rapper 50-cent. It took me the whole night to convince Dan that it wasn't really him.

Sunday! Best day of the week! We went to church and received a calling. We are team teaching the 6 year old! We are in for a serious adventure! I'll leave the teaching to Dan and I'll hold down the fort by controlling the little tykes.

Today I had a serious blip in my daily routine. I live on a regimented schedule here in CA for those of you who didn't know. But I made a friend and so I had to squeeze in time with her which in return through my day for a loop! We started the day off with lunch at Chile's today which really hit the spot. Then we ran some errand at one of my favorite stores, Wal-mart and then we went back to her house and had girl talk till about 5:30. She is a ton of fun! I never have had a day go buy so fast since I have been here. When i returned home and glanced in the mirror for the first time since I had left, I realized that I had a huge piece of something green stuck between my front teeth. That was cool, I'm just praying that it hadn't been there since 12:00pm. Can someone help a sister out with that next time, to lessen the humiliation!! So needless to say I was too busy to blog till now! Once again tough life!

P.S. Don't ever go to cold stone and try to be healthy not worth it. I thought after eating there twice last week that I should take it easy and try the raspberry sorbet! Bad choice I should of stuck to my cake batter with rainbow sprinkles and brownie~ The sorbet tasted good but just didn't give my the overstuffed sensation that I always crave when i walk into cold stone! Love that place!

Va Trip Pics Continued...

2008-05-16T15:07:00.001-07:00

My trip to Va!

2008-05-16T14:20:00.001-07:00

Home Again, Home Again Giggidy Gigg!

2008-05-16T12:01:00.000-07:00

Have you ever felt homeless? Cause that’s kind of how I am feeling! I have called Provo home for the past 4 years, so when I returned to Cali from VA I didn't really feel like I was going home; it felt like i was continuing on my vacation. Weird.... I don't feel comfortable calling VA my home anymore because I haven't lived there in such a long time, and we have only been in cali for almost a month! While on the plane to and from Cali I was unaware on how to answer people when they would ask me where home is for me. I found myself taking ten minutes to explain where home was! "Well my husband and I are in California for the summer for a job but we have been going to school in Utah for the past four years, but I lived my whole basically in Viriginia and thats where my parents still are but I was born in HongKong!" Maybe I should just decide on a place and call it home or better yet just make one up!

Anyways after ten days of being in VA and not blogging at all I am back in Cali and ready to update all of you of my trip! The slide shows of pictures tell it all, with brief descriptions to describe some of the events that transpired!! Enjoy...

Welcom back to me! Thanks Danny!

Missing You

2008-05-08T23:06:00.000-07:00

You never really know how much you'll miss someone until you are away from them for an extended period. I know that it has only been a few days, but life isn't the same without Kristi here. You think that it would be no big deal and that it would be like when I was a bachelor, think again. When you are used to having someone with you everyday and then they leave for an extended stay, it really hits you how important they are in your life. It's the litttle things. Although Kristi is having a great time in VA and I'm sure all of her family wouldn't mind her staying another month I can't wait for her to come back here to CA. Not only am I missing her, but for you loyal blog readers her friend Joe and her workout buddies are worried sick. The Missions just isn't the same. Have fun together Carver Fam and I can't wait ot see you all in July. But, in the mean time keep an eye on Kristi for me, she kind of important to me!

Surprise!

2008-05-04T21:08:00.000-07:00

We just had our first visitors to chino hills!!! KC and Ashton took a spontaneous road trip down to San Diego on friday to see Ashtons sister and on their way back home they blessed us with their presence! Although it was only a couple hour visit it was so fun seeing them and catching up!! Back in provo we use to have weekly dates with them, so we were in much need of a dose of KC and Ashton!! We tried are best to convince them to spend the night but no dice, KC said she had to back for a work meeting! I wouldn't know the importance of that considering I have been jobless for three weeks !! We love them, they're really great, we look forward to their arrival during Memorial Weekend!!

A little taiste of my surroundings!!

2008-05-02T16:15:00.000-07:00

So my goal is to lour people to Chino Hills to see me! So here are some pics just to give you a little taste of what you could see if you came out here! By the way its been a good day today! I met a man in his late 30's at the pool today. His names Joe, guys quite thinking like that he has a girlfriend! But the guy has long shaggy hair, he could be mistaken as African American he is so tan, he attends the pool quite often which suggests to me that if he has a job he works late at night. Anyways Joe felt the urge to talk to me for the hour and half we were there together. I don't know if he missed that i was trying to read the last 30 pages of my book or he just was lonely and ignored the fact. But he was a nice guy. About an hour in to the sun bathing we were accompanied by two other people Joe knew and he introduced his "friends" to me, a boy and a girl, they looked about my age so i think Joe just likes chillin with a younger crowd. I can understand that, maybe it helps him feel younger! Anyways he was very friendly. Nice Man. Well here are some pics. The bunnies were few and far between yesterday evening when i was trying to capture some photos i think its because they had mowed the lawn earlier that day and its scared um or ate um!! who knows! But I caught three on the camera!

Yup that's the pool I lounge next to....pretty huh!! You could lounge with me if you came here!!! Spoil you rotten!

First picture: Oops I scared them. I was trying to be quiet!.
Second Picture: This one i named cami! Short for camlaflouge!

P>S
Anyone know what to do about ants besides calling Ben from the pest control company! They are driving me nuts! I keep finding trails of them sporadically around the apartment! My knew occupation is an ANT MURDERER! sorry Becca!

You know when you feel like you should say something but you don't?

2008-05-01T18:53:00.000-07:00

I had one of those experiences today..... I was going about my normal routine; Dan leaves for work, I head off to the pool, and then come home after a couple hours, grab lunch, let lunch digest and then take off to the gym! But the gym is where my pretty relaxing day came to a hault. After about 30 minutes of being in the gym with the normal 5:30 work out crew this Dad comes in with his beautiful blond hair brown eyed little daughters, ages were probably like 2 1/2 and 4. They were just the sweetest looking little girls, the youngest one kept waving to me and smiling while i was working out. But anyways when i see them come in my first though was aw the Dads bringing his daughters to hang out in the gym with him. The Dad was real stern looking and wouldn't crack a smile to save the life of him but at this point I'm still thinking how sweet hes probably giving his wife a break. But then I see him keep beckoning his daughters to come and sit on the ground right next to whatever machine he was at. They would try to stand and he would grab them by the arm and he would pull them back down to the ground. Thoughts going threw my head at this point were "there just little how do expect them just to sit there and not move, why the heck would you bring them here with out anything to occupy them with if you aren't going to let them get up and entertain themselves, and last thought relax" . Then the dad gets on the treadmill, by the way during this I'm working out on the elliptical using my "people watching talent" and just observing, and he tells the girls to sit on the ground in front of the treadmill so he can watch them. By the way the gym is like 20 ft by 20 and its surrounded by mirrors and you have to use a key to get out and I was the only other person in the gym so in my eyes they were okay not sitting directly in front of him. The oldest girl sits down, she accidentally sits on top of the cord attached to the dads treadmill which in return turns the thing off. The dad glares down at the little girl, as if she knew what she did and repeatedly says fix it as he presses his lips together. The little girl keeps raising her shoulders with nervous look on her face like i dunno what i did. At this point i get this sick feeling in my stomach and then after about a minute and a half of the dad repeating himself he gets off the treadmill and walks in front of it and first takes hold of the youngest ones hair and yanks on it and then does the same to the oldest, and then plugs the thing back in and restarts his work out. I felt angry as I watched this man treat his daughters in such a way. I wanted to stand up for the little girls and tell him that how he was treating them was not okay. I was disgusted and as i left the gym I thought if this is how he treats them in public whats going on at home. I really regret not saying anything, not putting that man in his place.

Usually my blogs are light hearted so I apologize for the quick change up but I just felt like i needed to blog about this. Cause i am sure we have all had those moments when you feel like you should have said something but you don't...

And on top of that! Only one bunny was out today! So hopefully tommorow I can catch a few more and get better pictures to blog!

Welcome to our Crib!

2008-04-30T14:20:00.000-07:00

Step on into my crib!! Sorry I was just watching MTV cribs, Lil Romeo's crib, so I just was mimicking how he introduced his house! ha ha! I'm bored, its cloudy outside so I'm trying to fill up my time that i would be at the pool with other things! Really messed up my schedule!

So here are some photos of our pad! For those of you who haven't seen our place in Provo this is definitely a step up, and double the size!!! The furniture was rented for us so its a little hotel like and not so comfortable the only things that are ours are the linens! I'm having a hard time feeling like its home cause nothing is ours! "But home is where the heart is", right? Or "houses are made of bricks and beams and homes are made of hopes and dreams" and we've that! So maybe it will just take time! These pictures might not tell exactly what they are so I put some headings to help identify!

First picture: Walk in closet! Above: The Bedroom!!
Second picture: The Bathroom! Third picture: Big tub! Which I love!

Fourth picture: Kitchen and Dining Area! Last picture: Living room!

Good News!! We got our Internet and cable hooked up today!!!

FYI: I will take photos of my surroundings tomorrow when the sun is out!! Bunnies and All!!

One more thing...

2008-04-29T15:55:00.000-07:00

You can never post too much!Its Dan and I's 10 month anniversary! It feels like longer than that, but its true we are two months away from a year!

So. Cal Here We Are!

2008-04-29T11:27:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! We made it safe and sound! I figured out where the computer lab is in our club house so the blog is back in business! We don't have Internet or cable till tomorrow morning but luckily the facilities have both. I have become pretty reliant on those things so its been a good adjustment to not have easy access to them. We ended up leaving Saturday morning after all and got in about 3:30pm Cali time that afternoon! It took us about 9 hours, not bad at all, so if any of you in UT wanna come out and visit its not too far of a drive and we would love to have your company! Any takers?! Dan had his first day of work yesterday, he left at about 12:00pm and didn't get home till 9:45pm, which left me pretty lonely, and him worn out by the end of the day. But needless we got through it and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. He's a trooper and says hes up for the task. After a long day of work and not many sales, I didn't hear one negative comment or complaint when he came home, he walked in with a smile on his face, and ready to feed me the attention I was in desperate need of! I kept myself pretty well entertained though. I picked up a book earlier in the day from target and then went to the pool and sun-burned for a couple of hours while i read. Then later in the day I worked out for a couple of hours because there is a T.V. in our workout facility so I was able to get my T.V. fix, while toning things up. Hard life I live! Its beautiful here in Chino Hills, my favorite part about this place is there are tons of wild bunnies, that live right out side our apartment on the grass. I find my self gazing at them pretty frequently, there pretty enjoyable to watch! Hope you can try it sometime!

I go home a week from today!! I am pumped, it will be the longest I have been away from Dan though, so that part might be a little challenge! I just had gotten good at sleeping alone, and then I got married and now i think i am back in the pattern of needing someone by me when I sleep. Guess I will have to snuggle in with mom and dad! haha! Well, I hope everyone is doing well~

P.S. I love phone calls!!

OOPS!

2008-04-25T13:26:00.000-07:00

This incident is definitely blog worthy! So I ran downstairs to get my blankets, sheets, and etcetera out of the dryers. When I pulled out the first load I found a pair of socks tangled up in my stuff. So I put them in lost and found, its a common thing to forget in the laundry matt. Then I took out the second load, no random stragglers, took out my third load and twisted around my finger a VICY'S THONG!!! HAHA! Dropped that in lost in found as well! Good thing it had just come out of the dryer or else I would have been a little grossed out!!

Moral of the story: when sharing a laundry facility make sure to double check the dryer!

I'm Back!

2008-04-25T10:39:00.000-07:00

Sorry bloggers for the crazy past couple days! I appreciate all of you calling and vocalizing your concern about the site, no worries we're back up and running! And don't worry I was not doing anything illegal they said it was an error! Although you can get written up for having porn on your site, my weekend with the pippin's blog might have been borderline soft porn. I'll try and keep it more clean. I should probably notify the blog president of this unacceptable error though!! I had a lot of important things to update my readers with and was unable to for TWO WHOLE DAYS=)

Wednesday Dan and I finished up our finals, feels great having that out of the way, and of course that night we had to celebrate, and what better to celebrate with than a 5 buck pizza from little caesars! Our favorite treat! Thursday we woke up and decided its probably be more realistic to leave saturday early morning than to leave saturday late evening after the weddings. So we will sadly be missing Tia and Derreks weddings! I can't believe its already that time. I'm feeling good about it though not to overly nervous, or anxious! Which is good for me because for the past week I have been fretting it. We spent all day yesterday packing and then at night we treated ourselves once again at California Pizza Kitchen, where Dan's little brother fronted the bill! Yes that would be the fourth pizza eats of the week! SICK! What else can you do when your house is all packed up! RIGHT? Dan had a closed coupon for there, that had to be opened by a manager, and redeemed by May 16, so we took it and the manager scratched off the prize and we got 50% off are WHOLE billl! What a deal!! She said it was the most she has seen so far! WOO HOO! It made my night! Well I better get back to the packing! XOXO BLOG GIRL!!

Shout Out to American Fork Police! WHOOP WHOOP!

2008-04-22T15:52:00.000-07:00

After a late night of celebrating the birth of Wendy, I woke up early this morning(9:20am) feeling a urge to be productive, so I began studying for my three finals that are tomorrow!! At 11:20am I got ready to go out for a goodbye lunch with Annie and Nicole! At 3:15pm lunch got over and I headed home still in a productive mind set! I then got distracted by a sign for target off the highway and felt the sudden urge that I needed to stop off at that specific one in American Fork, right then cause I just needed this comfy, cute pair of summer slippers to help study for my finals! I also needed to get a poster board for a presentation in one of my classes so it gave me even more of an excuse to enter into that money pit of a store! I ran in and out speedy quick! I walked out congratulating myself for just getting what I needed. I reached into my purse to grab my keys and realized they weren't in the side pocket like they usually are, so I began searching in the main part. After being goobed with my hand sanitizer that had opened and spilled, I began emptying the contents to find my keys! Nope not in the main pocket! So i looked in the driver's side window to see if they were on the seat! Nope not on the seat! Okay.... SO I go around to the passenger side and peered in the window! OH THERE THEY ARE STILL IN THE IGNITION WITH THE FREAKING CAR ON.......COOOOLLL!! So then I began to panic and who better to call when your panicking then your Mom and Dad! NO ANSWER! next idea call Nicole she works close,and has lived in the area for a while she will know how to get help. NO ANSWER! Okay I'll call Dan, we only have one car so he can't easily run keys up to me and he is in the library so by the time he gets up here I will have been waiting for an hour! NO ANSWER! By this point I'm frantic, trying to keep cool as I am in public and about to start crying. I try Nicole again cause she is always by her phone at work!! FINALLY she answers and tells me to call 911! I hesitated because this wasn't by definition an "emergency" though it felt like one to me! So after a few minutes of convincing myself it was emergency worthy I called and they connected me to a dispatcher and said someone would be on there way! I then call Mom again and Dad answers, finally, and he hates panicking so I play it cool! He remains calm as well, and tells me its alright Mom's done that before, and if the police don't come then call AAA! Mom gets on the phone and lets me know that I got that gene from her! OH NO! I then call Dan three more times, he finally answers and finds it humorous that I locked myself out, and helps me calm down! After 45minutes of phone calls to tell people the situation i put myself into and sitting on my hood being publicly humiliated by all the target shoppers, the cop showed up! The littlest cop I have ever seen! But boy was I thankful!!

Moral of the story, I guess I didn't really need those cute summertime slippers, and I'm going to go get my Alzheimer's checked out because a 21 year old should not be doing that!

But on the bright side I got something to blog about!

Weekend at the Pippin's

2008-04-21T09:36:00.000-07:00

I have become borderline addicted to updating/rearranging/looking at my blog! Real strange! Maybe this was the real reason why I was holding myself back from blogging! But hakuna-matata, I have something real funny to blog about so I got to do it! Saturday night Dan and I were putting up shop in the study at the Pippins. Wendy was checking up on her home page, I was making up the blow up mattress, Jared had already gone to bed, and Dan was down stairs catching up on ESPN. All the sudden out of my peripheral I see Wendy get underneath the desk in fetal position as if she is hiding from someone or something, distracted by a late night call from Val I ignored her unusual behavior. A few minutes later, while I'm chatting away on the phone, and Wendy is still in her hidden position, Dan walks in and starts getting ready for bed. All the sudden I faintly hear the sound of a zipper being undone and then I see Dan taking off his shirt! Un-beknownst to him Wendy was still in her crouching tiger position under the desk! Wendy and I gasped! Never seen my little Danny move so fast! Oh the situations we put our husbands into!! Love Her! Wen's birthday week allows her to do whatever the heck she wants!!

Our Wedding Day!

2008-04-19T14:22:00.001-07:00

I just like this photo! So why not add it to the

blog! Show us off a little! After all isn't that what

a blog is all about!

I did it!

2008-04-19T12:28:00.000-07:00

So after months of putting all my energy into being anti-blog here I am! My reasons behind not wanting to do a blog were that I don't have any cute babies to blog about, my life is pretty monotonous, and I lack in the creativity department. Lacking the things that most bloggers blog about I decided to try and obtain some of those things so I could fit in with the rest of the blog world. First I tried talking Dan into trying to reproduce, cuz I figured then I would have a cute, hopefully, baby to blog about, but didn't seem real practical considering I lack the maternity coverage on my health plan and I have year and half left of school. So then I started trying to think of hobbies. I tried scrap booking at Wendy's baby shower but it took me two hours to do one page, so once again not so practical. I thought about trying to become really good at cooking or baking, lacked in that department too for the most part, except that I realized I can whip up a pretty amazing chocolate chip cookie! So after a couple of months searching out different things I could blog about I decided that I was going to buckle down and just blog about my life. I have decided to put my energy into making my life less monotonous and just enjoying the stage of life that I am at, embracing it if you will!

I'm ten days away from hitting my 10 month anniversary of being married. I was nervous about getting married young(20) but I knew I couldn't let this gem get away from me! So Wah-Lah we did it and its been the best decision I have ever made. Now at times it has been hard, expected! But nothing to hard to hold hands and push through. Most people that knew me during my dating years of high-school are shocked and amazed at the winner I pulled, even I was, and each day I become more and more amazed.

A little about me! My senior year of high-school I won Class Clown for senior superlatives and ever since then its given me confidence in the idea that I guess I am pretty funny! Dan says that, that is one of his favorite attributes about me! My humors a little bizarre and sometimes over the top, and usually I'm the one laughing the loudest at my jokes but I like it and I think its one of my favorite characteristics about myself. One bad quality that I have noticed since I have been married is that I'm pretty stubborn, and set in my own ways. Working on that! I had this teacher last semester tell me that the worst attribute that you could bring to the social work field is thinking that your right, because if your right then the other side of it is always wrong! Its a pretty simple idea! Some other things about me, I like a clean house, and I actually really enjoy cleaning! I guess I could post blogs about different cleaning supplies~ haha! Weird~ The first thing I do when I get home from wherever I have been is straighten things up, cuz then I'm able to fully relax. I also really enjoy people. My family tells me that I stare, but I like to tell myself its the talent of "people watching". One time while I was in Singapore with my sister Dana I was "people watching" so intently that I walked straight into a pole! I like to travel, and learn other cultures. I like to be outside and feel the serenity that nature brings. I love laying out in the sun, which I'm trying to cut back on cuz we have quite the background of skin cancer in our family. I love families, and I love spending time with family! I like teenagers, which has been my profession for the past year and three months. I like how dramatic they are! I enjoy life and though I get anxious about what the future has to bring I enjoy the mystery of not knowing!

P.S. A week from today Dan and I will be in Chino Hills California for the summer!