Monday, August 16, 2010

A moment to be grateful for

So I've done it! I officially passed my Personal Training Exam and I am certified. So I went to Golds Gym and asked to intern there. I was accepted no questions asked. How amazing is that? I love going to the gym and shadowing the trainers. I learn so much watching how they modify different workout routines for people. Its really cool.
Adam and I were fortunate to find some old textbooks lying around and we have recently learned that we can ship in our old books for money. Some old chemistry books, physiology books and a couple other random ones earned us $200. 200! And then, as a back to school gift, adam bought me a body bugg! I am so excited to use it. It calculates all the calories I burn every day and it calculates the amount of sleep I got and everything!
We had some lovely neighbors move in this past week! We are so excited to live next to family :) We will have lots of opportunities to spend time with them and we can't wait. we have already enjoyed several encounters with them already!
Finally, Adam and I were blessed today to find out that we both got grants for school! That is such a wonderful blessing. We have all our tuition paid for and Adam even got an extra $2,000 for his exceptionally good grades!
I just wanted to say that we are so grateful for all the blessings we have received here as of late. We love our lives!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

A happy weekend!

Hello sunday!
This weekend has been amazing! It's been full of stress, talking, fun, cuddling, hard times and good times.Friday, we had quite the adventure! We set out on a mystery date (meaning, i had no idea where we were going, but Adam had a plan) And where should we turn up? The aquarium of course!
I didn't know until afterwards that Adam had never been to an aquarium before. I guess living in Seattle, where there is an aquarium so close, and my mom took me all the time when we were little, I just assumed that everyone had been to an aquarium at least ONCE. But I was surprised! It was really cool though. We got to walk around and see the animals native to utah (like all the different kinds of frogs, and did you know that bullfrogs are HUGE???) and then we got to go through this discover africa or something section. We saw a small crocodile, an electric eel, piranhas, and an anaconda! Did you know that Anacondas never stop growing? And, when Roosevelt was president, he put a $10,000 reward to anyone who could find an anaconda larger than 30 feet? Its raised now! Apparently, you'd get $50,000 if you could find an anaconda larger than 30 feet. Well you see, I spotted the flaw in this program. It's not finding the anaconda. It would be bringing the anaconda in. I don't know about you... but trying to capture a snake longer than 30 feet that could kill you... doesnt sound too fun or easy to me.Oh! there was this petting zoo part and we got to touch sting rays! It was really cool, except for the fact that I was afraid that I was going to get stung. They felt really strange too.

After our adventure at the aquarium, we went to the cheesecake factory! We got seated outside only to barely get our food, have rain start POURING down on us, get shoved back inside in some random corner of the restaurant and watch the rain, wind and lightning right where we were sitting just a couple minutes before. Crazy. But the food there is still good.

Saturday morning I got up really early and went to North Orem to take my NASM Personal Training Certification test. It was crazy hard! I was so nervous to take the test, my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest, and I thought that I was going to be sick. But luckily, I wasn't sick, and I passed my test! I am now a certified personal trainer :)
After that, I came home, and Adam and I made some Cinnamon bun popcorn and a bean dip for my sister-in-laws birthday party. We had my family come over, we watched the movie Up! and we made our own bottle cap pins and filled out our own adventure book. It was very clever and quite fun :) Thanks to Jameson for the planning! And happy birthday Becky! (on Monday)

Well church will be starting very soon, and I am playing the piano in relief society so I should probably get dressed now...

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Busy busy busy

So its been a while. I know it has. but its been a busy month!

Lets see...whats happened?

Well, I turned 21 for one thing! it was an exciting day. this is how i spent my 21 birthday. First- I woke up and went to work. After work, I went to the doctor to get my neck checked out because I injured my neck really bad the day before. Then after the doctor, Adam and I went to the dentist to get our teeth cleaned. And we got quite a shock with the bill--Hello!??! x-rays were 170! for one of us! Luckily, no cavities, so we didnt have to return. Memo to me--just keep the teeth clean and dont visit the dentist unless you have to. Oh and do you know how uncomfortable it is to have your teeth cleaned with a hurt neck? Not fun!
After the dentist, we met up with my family who was in town and went to the texas roadhouse for dinner. It was so much fun! They made me sit on this saddle as they sang to me. It was kind of awkward. but I liked it anyway :) We went to our apartment afterwards and had a watermelon and an ice cream cake for dessert. I got some really fun books from my parents, and a really cool tv series called Life from my siblings! I'm so excited! Planet Earth is so cool, so I'm really excited to watch these.
That weekend, we went to bountiful for my other birthday party! It was so fun. We had a luau/beach themed party. Plenty of pulled chicken, and meatballs, and other yummy foods was made. Then, mommy williams made me a really cool parfait for my "cake" it was so good!

lets see... what else happened?
Oh! Adam got accepted into his I Sys program at BYU! We are both so excited! Its really hard to get into the program--like a 30% acceptance rate. So we're both really excited for that!

My parents are finally off to India. Which is really exciting for them! Not so exciting for us though, when we went to walmart for like ten seconds, came out and the car was dead. We had no idea what was wrong... and since it was my dad's car before I thought... well if only i could call them! But you see, it was like 2 pm utah time, which means its like 1:30 AM india time. Not cool.

Its been pretty stormy at nights lately. I turned to Adam one lightning filled evening, and I asked "Adam, can you have a lightening storm during the day?"
to which he replied "yes... but its really rare... but yes... but its really rare"
And he made fun of me. I mean, how often do you see thunderstorms during the day?
But guess what???
Just yesterday, it happened. I saw a thunderstorm during the day! it was awesome! Half the sky was dark and grey and the other half was blue. and lightning struck through the dark side into the light side. I thought it was so cool. and so awesome that it happened right after our conversation. Maybe its not so rare.

I take my NASM personal training test this saturday! As in... 2 days from now. I'm kind of really nervous for it, but I am so excited at the same time. It will be awesome. Hopefully I pass! If i do, i have an internship lined up with golds gym for after.... hopefully it all works out.

And thats just some of whats happened lately. The rest has been filled with, but not exclusive to...
homemade french bread
more birthday parties
playing with nieces and nephews
invader zim
netflix on demand movies
internet problems, and then fixing them
chocolate peanut butter bars
zumba, pilates and yoga
lots and lots of strawberries
and homemade crafts!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

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 :)

Sunday, July 4, 2010

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!

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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!

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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?