20, finally!

This has been the longest year of my life! But I am finally 20 years old! Aaron woke me up and had breakfest ready like the wonderful husband he is :-) Then he let me open my presents! I got an awesome revlon spa foot spa set, a really nice cookbook, and a new set of large print scriptures with my new name of them! Then I called my family and opened the gift from them, $25 to Old Navy!, a nice frame with a pic of the family in it, my grandpa's new book he wrote, a sign that says "i'm kind of a big deal" and the new Rascal Flatts CD! Wow, what a great birthday morning.

Then Later around 6pm we headed over to BIG JUDS burgers with some new & old friends and i loved that! it was so fun! Then headed back home and hopped on Aarons motorcycle for a little bike ride. I actually think I might like riding on it... but dont tell him that. Then we headed over to the movies cuz you get in free on your bday! So we saw KNOWING, with Nicholas Cage... Okay, if you love scary movies see it! But if you dont... yea... I totally thought it WASN'T a scary movie from the commercials and ads of the movie. I just thought it would be like the other "treasure" hunter movies Nicholas Cage has been in... but NO. I freaking cried I was so scared. Overall it was a good plot and stuff like that, but I was scared out of my pants. But hey, this was i have to say, a GREAT BIRTHDAY! All thanks to my hubby, Aaron, my Mom, and friends for coming out to dinner with us! Thanks! :) Now just wait and see what we do for my 21st! hehe

i'm dreaming again.....

The snow has left me to dream of summer again.... and instead of seeing this (this morning!):





I want to see THISSS!!!:



Oh I am So craving the beach and the waves right now. Slap me.

easter gifts!

I just love holidays, ANY kind of holiday! Cuz my Mom always mails me stuff! I love her! This year for Easter (which is on Sunday!) she gave us a cute easter bunny and easter egg cookie cutters, yummy jelly bellys (my fav.!), reese's easter bunnys (my other fav.!), and an adorable frame! Which I always love. Thanks MOM! xoxooxox.

I love celebrating easter, a wonderful time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and all he did for me! This week I've really pondered his last week of his ministry and life on earth. I thank him for all he's done for me and was willing and the only one able to pay the price for me. I am so grateful for that. I hope you all have a wonderful Easter and remember Jesus. And dont forget to eat all the candy you want! :)

Another New Toy

Yes, Aaron convinced me that he needed another toy. First was the Television, and then the scooter, then a MOTORCYCLE! Here are some pics of Aarons new love.

Aarons Mission Reunion

Aaron served a LDS Mission to Kiev, Ukraine from November 2004-2006. We recently went to his mission reunion in Murray, Utah for him to see his old mission president and companions. We made the 3-hour drive down there Friday after class. We enjoyed great food and good company. Aaron and his mission companions talked about all their great memories and the wonderful people they baptized and got to know on their mission. Aaron learned Russian and Ukrainian on his mission which neither of them he uses today except to talk to me, and I dont even understand! It's fun to listen to him talk about his mission and the good times he had there, some of which included eating 11lbs. of Snickers bars in one week (50 King Size Snickers!!), 100 Eggs in 56 HOURS!! and 2 1/2 lb. Pizza in less than one hour! And a watermellon eating contest which included a 14lb. WATERMELLON! Needless to say, he did work hard as a missionary and i'm so proud of my husband for working hard as a missionary of the Lord and being worthy. He's home now and HE'S MINE! :)

Memories...

With General Conference fast approaching this very weekend, I thought I would take a trip down memory lane and post a few pictures that I remember about my experiences with Conference. Now MOST of my memories about conference involve sitting in a nice warm couch cuddled up with a blankie and take notes for the whole weekend with my family having delicious snacks made by Mom. My first every experience actually going to Conference was with my family, October 2005 I believe. My family made the journey up to Utah because a friend had given us great seats in the 'disability' section (the usual in our family, haha). But nevertheless, they were great seats! We even got to go 'behind-the-scenes' with one of the Directors of Languages... he was in charge of getting the Closed Captioning on the TV all over the world for the Hearing Imparied. So we saw where they did that and how. Pretty cool I must say. That was a fun trip, and my 'new' brother, Luis came along. He had just been baptized but couldnt go on a mission yet because his 1 year wasnt up yet to put his papers in. Anyways, that was a fun year for Conference.
The next big experience with Conference was actually taking a road trip with a few girl friends. At first it sounded like a good idea but turned out maybe not so... The story, 4 girls, 1 car, and miles of driving. The drive up was good! We made it safely and though it rained during Conference weekend we still enjoyed it. We got GREAT tickets off the street. One of the girls, Alicia, has a huge reputation for getting the most conference tickets off the street. I think her record is 98. Needless to say we only needed 4 but then she finds her other friends and people to give them too. So we make it in and Conf. was wonderful! But on our drive back to the hotel.... we have a FLAT TIRE. Joy. So we were stuck in traffic with a flat tire for HOURSSSSS and freezing cold and raining. BUT, we made it back to the hotel safely, then got locked out. Luckily we found the key. It was definitaly one thing after another. And the story gets better. Driving now with 5 girls back home to california we're ALMOST HOME... and we RUN OVER A COYOTE! of all the things to run over, why did it have to be an animal. Why not a rock? So the worst thing was we were between 2 huge semi trucks and seriously could have gotten hurt if the car had gone out of control. The coyote looks like it had messed up the car pretty bad.. especially the radiator. So we pull over on the side of the freeway, which was really busy! And we all get out and start crying cuz we're 5 girls stranded on the side of the road at midnight. And we're ALMOST HOME! (like 2 hours) Anyways, one of the dads picks some of the girls up and takes them home and 2 other girls stay in a hotel that night while the car is getting fixed up in a shop. What a nightmare of a roadtrip. But at least we were spiritually uplifted in the meantime :) Some pictures of the roadtrip:


Our flat tire incident!

At conference!


here are some other pics:

I want to go here! hunny?

loved being near here

Our new presidency!

Pres. Monson & Frances, adorable!

gotta love these people

HILARIOUS!

miss him...

awesomeness

I am looking forward to spending the weekend at home with my hubby watching Conference and taking notes and eating fun snacks! :)