The End

We finally had our last school at work come home signifying the end of the season!!! No more middle of the night phone calls from teachers, angry phone calls from parents, emails to no end... we are free until next season! So to celebrate we had a work lunch-on, the company provided pizza and everyone else brought a dish to share.... here is what i brought

It was pretty darn tasty- I think next time I will add pretzels because i felt it needed something salty added.

 Here is the link to the recipe

http://www.chef-in-training.com/2012/03/better-than-sex-chex-mix/ 

Here is the wonderful people that I work with, my boss ( as known as my Dad)  is the guy all the way to the left in the blue. He is so cute!

 I am preparing for the 10K race on the fourth of July... wish me luck

weddings and more weddings

These past two weekends I was able to go out to Utah to visit my good girlfriends/roommates and was able to be there while they got married! It was so much fun hanging with the girls shopping and laughing. Here are some pictures

 Anica and David's Wedding with the Roomies minus Kelsey who is on her Mission

( I don't know why this wont post straight instead of sideways)
Visited the Pepper Ridge Farm to stock up on Cookies for Reception - They were super in expensive at the warehouse.

Kristin and Jon's wedding minus Kelsey ( on Mission) and Calee who had her younger brothers wedding the same day. It was really windy this day.

I get very motion sick when i am on airplanes. the smell of the plane only makes me sick so this is what helps me to feel better before and after any flight. Ice cream! yummy

 I really missed these Gigantic snow cones- we don't have these in California with cream and ice cream on them- we don't have snow cones period. Its very sad, my brother and sis treated me to it. Yummy! I tried to re-create my favorite Spiderman flavor- Blue and Red Raspberry.

 I have never eaten at the Cheesecake factory( maybe 1 time but i can't remember) I was debating between a salad and their Bang Bang Chicken. My roommate got the Bang Bang and I got the salad. However my salad left the table barely touched and this dish was gone! Thai sauce, with peanut, Chile taste, vegetables and chicken and toasted coconut all over the top. It was the best dish  I have ever had in my life! I will be taking Jared with me to visit the closest Cheesecake Factory this weekend.

I had so much fun with the girls and we are already planning our next adventure- Maybe a getaway to a tropical place!

Picture Blog

I am charging my camera for my girls weekend /weddings this weekend and found some fun pictures and thought I would update.

 After hunting for Easter Baskets- He didn't feel too well if you can't tell?

 Jared was playing the piano at church for fun and all these girls were around the piano watching him and telling him what a great job he was doing- haha as soon as I got the camera they of course had their attention else where.

 Jared Birthday

 This is what Sunday afternoons look like- There is the fat cat Moo Moo on the leaves blanket- she is so fat

 Lil' Bit he likes to sleep with his arms folded ready for prayer- I like this cat

We went to a River Cats game on Memorial Day- I was a blast we got to go with friends the Lungren's in one of the booths/suites. It was nice and way fun! Thanks Lungren's for inviting us along

The Flying Mattress

Work was slow on Friday- WAY Slow so Jared and I spent the day in between phone calls and emails on Craigslist. I LOVE that website. Well we found a KILLER deal on a King Size Mattress for $100 in excellent condition. So we found a friend who had a truck and went to pick it up after work. On the way back we thought we had tied it down good enough but the wind caught it and it blew out onto the freeway with all the other work hour traffic vehicles. THANKFULLY it landed on the bottom side of the mattress and skidding to the shoulder. No cars hit it and it was perfectly ok.I was so thankful that no accidents happened and that the plush pillow top was not the part that skidded across the freeway :) I still laugh really hard when I think about it. I was driving behind Jared in the truck and was honking like crazy once I saw it was going out- I was also really sad because i thought for sure the mattress was gone and someone was gonna hit it. We are excited to have a King Mattress- now we just need to find a place to move into. YAY!

Crazy Weekend

Our weekend has been very exciting. We had stake conference- mainly because our stake presidency was getting released. And in relation to that big event Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve and Elder Whiting of the Seventy came out to preside and set apart the new presidency. I purposely decided to sing in the choir so I could sit in the comfy seats on the stand and be next to the apostle. Which worked out perfect I sat directly behind him! But what was even cooler is that my dad got called into the new stake presidency and we got to meet and mingle with An Apostle of the Lord. It was a very spiritual weekend to say the least!
My calling in our church is in the Primary Presidency which i love. At the end of the meeting Elder Christofferson invited all the little children and youth to come up because he wanted to meet them and shake their hands. Since I sat right behind him I decided to stay up there a little longer and watch all the children go through. Once I saw the first child come running up so excited to meeting the Apostle of the Lord My emotions got the better of me and I sobbed. The more the kids came through the worse it got so I only lasted about 20 kids and then I had to get off the stand. I think Primary has cursed me- I have this super sensitive emotion when it comes to the little ones they are so pure... My brother and Sister In Law were able to fly out early Sunday Morning ( when we got the news that my dad was called) for the Sunday Morning Session. I got to feel my little Niece kick in Gracie's belly and I cried a little, It was pretty cool... Luckily their flight was cancelled so they get to spend one more night with us so I can rub the belly More- Haha creeper sister-in law.

Here are all my siblings with Elder Christofferson- I am amazed at the strength of the spirit around the apostles

 My whole family minus my cousin Amanda with the Apostle and Elder Whiting- we aren't a very big family

The weekend was amazing- and i feel very spiritually full.
We hit a milestone this week and paid off all our undergrad student loans!!! YAY It felt so good!  Now we have to begin to prepare for the Dental Application Expenses- Ewww.
There is light at the end of the tunnel as we begin to come to the end of the busy season at work so we have started to plan our summer vacation to Washington to do some camping and visit friends and family and see new babies ( BABY Q)
We have also began to look at apartments and it is exciting! I have missed having my own place- we are SO SO SO appreciative of my parents and their huge generous hearts for giving us so much! We just miss being the married grown ups. I also miss my crock-pot :)
I have begun my training for the Ragnar Relay Race that I will be running in September and so far so good. My body is trying to get used to running since I NEVER run and strongly dislike it. I just put in some good tunes and then it is bearable.
Till next time my friends...

Yes we are still alive

Well, these past months have been busy and hard. We found out for the second time that we have not gotten into dental school. This is becoming a very long process and is really hard emotionally. But after much prayer, fasting and study we have decided to once again re-apply, 3rd time is a charm right? Lets hope so, we feel this is what we should be doing and are doing everything in our power to make it happen. It will be interesting to find out exactly what Heavenly Father's plan is for us right now, let me tell you since we started this process over 2 years ago I can see some serious growth in Jared and I. Perspective has changed and wants and needs have be re-evaluated.
  Enough with the sad...we have also decided that it is time to move out of my parents house. Thank you parents for your INSANE  amount of generosity but we miss our stuff and our own place. We had originally planned to only be with my parents for 7 months, but a year and a half later plans have changed. who would have thought that I would miss things like Kitchen appliances? Ha... weird, well that's it for us, we are extremely boring, we get up go to work come home study go to bed... that's it. Can't wait for summer to start so we can take a vacation.
 I decided to try a new hobby- Jewelry making. So far i really enjoy it, i spent several hours at Joann's Fabric store picking out materials that I would need. I also spend a lot of time on this website looking at beads.

www.glitzme.com

I love beads- I spend all our hard earned money on them... I have hundreds of them and i just love to stare at them so this is why i decided to try jewelry making so i didn't feel like i was wasting money just buying beads to look at them. haha

I have no new pictures to post, so here is a picture that i found on our computer of the inside of our wedding invitation- i just loved them...

 

Cruise

We went on a Mexican Riviera cruise with Jared's family. It was a BLAST!!! We visited Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta.  Here are a few pictures I need to upload from my camara but here are a few to suffice.

Towel folding! I bought the book and I love it. there are so many animals that you can buy!
Jared and I are already planning our next cruise on this wonderful ship. Anyone want to join us next year?

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/ships/home.do?cS=NAVBAR&pnav=2&snav=4

Oasis of the Sea!!! I am so excited!

Picture Blog

I don't feel like writing much so here are some pictures to describe our recent happenings, enjoy!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas we sure did!

Will post again after we return from our MEXICAN CRUISE!!!!!