California and Family Reunions

This past week has been really busy! Lots of things happened.

Monday night, we flew out to go to California for a family reunion! It was lots of fun. we went to Disneyland! So monday night, after flying in really late, my family all went to Cold stone for some ice cream. Man, do they have AMAZING smoothies. I got the banana and raspberry smoothie... you should try it sometime. Adam got some ice cream flavor with the pie crust in it. I cant remember. but it was good too. All of cold stone is good. Oh, he just reminded me it was peach ice cream. Yum! Peaches!
After a late night, we woke up really early so that we could be to Disneyland by 8. But of course, it got delayed and we all went to eat the continental breakfast. So, there's something about continental breakfasts... they're like buffets. Some of them are good and some of them are bad. If it looks risky, you're better sticking with the fruity pebbles. Should have stuck to the fruty pebbles for ours... I tried the buiscuts and gravy...
bad mistake.
Oh well, you live and learn.
We got to disneyland and we had some competitions! Tuesday and wednesday, we had to make sure we got our fortune told at Esmerelda, try to get as many pictures of the characters as possible, get the highest score in buzz lightyear and the toy story rides, and find these random pictures. Let me tell you these pictures were hard! they were like of random corners of posters, the walls in the Indiana jones ride, and some other obscure things. It took a lot of the trip trying to find the pictures. and we still lost. ha ha.
we rode lots of rides! Space mountain, Splash mountain (that was the best, we finally got all of the kids on one--yes Jameson too-- and most of us got soaked. Adam and I were safe in the back, and we enjoyed it like normal), thunder mountain, indiana jones ride, peter pan, california screamin, tower of terror and more. and they are all as fun as they usually are! but i think after lagoon, we are rollercoaster-ed out for awhile.
Tuesday, during some down time, adam took me to Build-a-Bear and I got to make my very own stuffed monkey! She is ADORABLE. her name is Georgie and she has a jean skirt, a pink backpack, the cutest underwear, and a pink bow. She makes monkey noises when you squeeze her arm and when you hug her real tight, her heart beats. Adam thinks the beating heart is creepy, but I like it. I love her!
Wednesday was the awards night. We didn't win anything... but thats ok. During the award session (at a buffet, mind you. Remember what I said about buffets? Yeah, it was the nasty kind) we were in an earthquake! all of us thought the nasua we were feeling was from the food until someone mentioned we were in an earthquake. Then we could see the ground and lights moving. It was a weird feeling. Apparently the earthquake was in Palm Springs (a 5.4 earthquake) and we felt it 150 miles away. Crazy!


The new hat for the season is the mad hatter from the new alice and wonderland. I think its really really creepy...

You can take some weird pictures while waiting for some of the rides.
we LOVE space mountain!
Family pic in front of Mickey--Classic.

Thursday, our feet were all swollen and we were really tired and didnt want to move. So we stayed inside for a while in the morning. After a nice long nap, my family went to Huntington beach and played in the water! It was ICE COLD, but it was so fun! Salty. I forget the water tastes salty. I'm not used to playing in the ocean. Usually its been pools or lakes.
After playing in the ocean for a while, we came home, got ready and went to the Pirate Adventure dinner! It was so fun! We were in the orange group. Our pirate was the meanest (or so they said. He was kind of skinny) We laughed, sang drinking songs, ate more cafeteria-style and quality food, and were all highly entertained by pirates. It was great!
Here's a video of us playing in the ocean!

Friday morning, we flew home really early in the morning, and then we got our car all nice, drove up to salt lake and sold the car! then we spend the evening in Bountiful talking with family and we drove home in a huge thunder storm. I love thunderstorms. they are so cool!

Well we had quite an exciting week. I'm glad that it will be toning down a little bit. Its been fun, but it's nice to have some downtime again :)

Happy Freedom Day USA!

Happy fourth of July!

Today has been a wonderful day! I got to go to church today and then I came home and took a nice long nap. I've been feeling really sick lately, this weird medication I was on made me really nauseous. But today, I just had a headache. No biggie, I get them all the time. Oh yeah, and we've been listening to Real Men of Genius budlight commercials and watching fantasia.

Yesterday, Adam and I were having a bummer morning so we decided to go to lagoon. Wow! Talk about fun! We rode lots of roller coasters, got to go to Lagoon-a-Beach and ride water slides, walk through Pioneer Village and we even ate some corn on the cob!

It was kind of funny, when we were walking through Pioneer Village, we saw lots of carts like this, and I told Adam to get up on one so I could take a picture. Only after that, did we walk around the corner and saw it said please do not climb on the carts. Well you should have told me that before we got on! ha ha






Friday, we took a trip up to Bountiful really early in the morning. We are trying to sell our car to buy my parents car, and this girl was going to buy it from us. And then a bunch of things went wrong, and it could have been a scam... so we stopped trying for her and just put the car back up. we've gotten more calls so hopefully it sells soon!

While we were up in Bountiful, we went to Adam's house and spent the day with his family. It was so fun seeing the nieces and nephews. I had lots of fun talking with family, and we brought sparklers and pop its... I have never seen those kids so crazy! They were running around in circles. (They had never used sparklers before so it was really exciting to them)
We watched fireworks and lots of kid movies and ate yummy chicken and lots and lots of cherries. It was a lot of fun! talk about my kind of celebration!

Tomorrow, we fly out to California for my family's reunion/celebration/Disneyland fun! We are both so excited! It will be tons of fun spending time with my family! And hopefully we go to the beach and the pirate adventure! Next post will be all about the reunion. But for now, I must get ready!

School's out for the summer!

Well guess what??

It's OVER! School is out! I take my last final tomorrow morning and Adam takes his last two and then after we get done, we are done for the summer! It's so exciting... We both need a break.

Father's day is this sunday! And isn't that a wonderful day to celebrate?? I love my daddy, and adam's daddy is wonderful too. Take a moment to say hello to your dads on Sunday!

And other than finals, lots of studying, and lots of playing the addictive app for the ipod touch/iphone Angry Birds, this past week has been filled with lots of Lord of the Rings, massages, working out, and lots of love. I can't wait to talk about our adventures to be soon!

Birthdays and Holidays

Well this last weekend has been tons of fun! Jameson turned 23 on Saturday! We celebrated by going to Tucanos for lunch and eating our faces silly. I actually adventured out to the salad bar and spent a lot of time there getting lots of salad and fruit. Have you ever tried the fried bananas there? Little bit of heaven right in your mouth. Let me tell you.
Well afterwards, we went over to Jameson and Becky's house and played some scum, and then we cracked out the 64 and played battle tanks and golden eye. Mind you, I sucked hard core at golden eye--I think I was actually voted the most likely to die all the time award... ahem... moving on. And then Brenton, Adam and I surprised Jameson with our gift of Super Mario Galaxy 2! Apparently on some gaming website it got a perfect ten! Not many games get that, mind you, so its supposed to be awesome. Jameson likes it and thats all that really matters, right?

Sunday, Adam and I just chilled at home. Remind me never to stick around at church on the last day of the month. EVERYONE had to get last minute home teaching in. of course. So we spent most of right after church doing home teaching, visiting teaching or vice versa--having them come to us. And then, we just watched a lot of Planet Earth and enjoyed learning about this wonderful world God has given us. It truely is phenominal!

Monday was Memorial Day! and it was so fun! I got my hair cut! its really short now... like a bob cut. I'll have to post pictures next time. Adam and I went up to Bountiful to spend the day with his family. It was so much fun, All the nieces and nephews came over, and adam BBQ'd for everyone, and we spent lots of time playing with the hose, squishing gazillions of ants, coloring with sidewalk chalk, or just talking. I love spending time with family. I always get a kick out of the kids-they have the most creative minds and can tell the funniest stories!

So all in all, it was a great weekend. I was sad it had to end! But I guess, all good things have to end so some better things can come, right?

You've got mail...

Don't you just love classic movies like You've Got Mail?
It's a classic. You've gotta just love it! I love the part about how they meet but they don't and you can just see it before it comes. Sometimes predictability is so fun.

Last weekend was a lot of fun. Adam and I have the blessing of living so close to family and Saturday I spent the day with my sister-in-law. We got to workout and then we made muddy buddies and ate them while watching The Great Mouse Detective. I had such a good time that we invited the rest of the family over for a BBQ. Once again, Adam did an amazing job with the chicken. So good, that I decided to make kabobs for dinner tonight! Well, we watched a little bit of Brian Regan while dinner was being finished and then we watched the Princess and the Frog. I love Disney movies... Can I just say that? They are so cute. And I love the Princess and the Frog. The friend is so funny... "tell him big daddy! TELLL HIMMMMM!" It's so great.

Well Sunday was very relaxing. We recently acquired a gi-normous love sac from Adam's brother (we're holding onto it for him for a while) and I took a nap in it on sunday. It was so nice. Everyone should have love sacs so that they can take sunday afternoon naps in them.

Well it's monday again. Time for the week to start. Adam has two midterms, I have a midterm and a presentation... basically, its super busy for the two of us. Oh, and it snowed today. In the middle of May. But the sun came through in the end... just hope it stays. But we are excited for the Memorial Weekend! Whoo hoo! Here comes the sun (I hope).

When you fall in love, it's like falling in love, it's like barbecue!

So the past week was lots of fun. Still haven't heard from the internship... Guess he doesn't want me. But that sort of stuff happens all the time.. right? (I really wouldn't know, I've only applied to one!)
Last Saturday, we went up to Bountiful to spend the afternoon with Adam's family and his sister came along and brought her kids! I always love hanging out with my nieces and nephews. We watched movies, ate lots of mexican food, and had lots of fun playing like kids :) Some pictures from the event...








Little Brayden was so funny! He kept making up these jokes that made no sense, like how did the ball get to school? It went through the pipe! But then he said this one that made sense and we busted up laughing. He said...
"How did the toot get to school? The wind blew it there!"
little kids. So great.

We celebrated Cinco de Mayo this past week! To celebrate, we made fried ice cream, enchiladas, homemade guacamole... and ate lots of chips! It was lots of fun! We also watched Nacho Libre to get us in the Mexican mood. I love that movie. Nothing like Jack Black with a really bad spanish accent to get us in the mood for mexican food.
"Do you remember that one time, when everyone was cheering my name, and I used my strength to rip my blouse?"
"yeah and then I saw you get knocked out, alright?"
It was a great cinco de mayo.





Oh! and then for our date night, we used our money to go to target and we bought (dun dun da duh!) a charcoal grill! It's like Adam's new favorite toy. And we had the most delicious barbecue friday night (and today). Friday we had hamburgers and hot dogs, with barbecue chips, macaroni salad, and corn on the cob. It was delicious! Adam has been wanting a grill for forever; you should have seen him putting it together. He was so excited :) And then, to celebrate the occasion again, we barbecued chicken today! Man, if you want delicious chicken, marinade it in some Carribean Jerk marinade and then grill it. Mouthwatering. So good!








We have been loving it this last week. It has been filled with so much fun including...
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putting off doing homework
going on walks
watching a couple more movies
playing lots and lots of games

Having ourselves an oriental time!

Yesterday was date night and like I said earlier, Adam is one creative fellow :)

He decided to go all out and have an oriental themed date! He picked me up from work and I wasn't feeling to well so he brought me my favorite candy bar! Hershey's Cookies and Cream! Soooo good. love it!
Then we went shopping for ingredients for our Chinese dinner. I was so tired when we got home that Adam set up a little bed for me on the couch and we watched Spirited Away (but I really took a nap)
Then it was time for the fun to begin!
We got all dressed up like ninjas. Well kind of. And we did a Kenpo Karate workout! It was so fun! kicking and punching and pretending we were stealthy. We had tons of fun and burned lots of calories :) which is good because I don't think our dinner was super low in calories, even if it was a salad.







After our work out, we decided that we were pretty hungry. It was so fun watching Adam in the kitchen! He is quite the chef! And, he did an amazing job and organizing and cooking and having lots of fun creating a masterpiece! We made a Chinese Salad, which was SO GOOD. Chicken and fried noodles and almonds and sesame seeds, with lots of lettuce, green onions and a little cilantro. I loved helping him in the kitchen!




After our DELICIOUS dinner we played some oriental games (aka chinese checkers) and ate some Pocky (strawberry dipped of course) Yum! I had so much fun on our date! Adam is so wonderful :) he even surprised me with flowers the other day. They smell SO good!






On another completely random note, I applied for an internship yesterday! It was for a personal trainer at a gym called Anytime Fitness! I am so excited! I really really want to get the internship (its paid too which is nice). I emailed him yesterday and I have been checking my email like MAD. Its like waiting for Christmas morning to come when you're a kid and its only 9 pm at night on Christmas Eve... so painful almost. Hopefully he's emailed me now... I better go check.