1st Anniversary

Wow, one year already?!? It does not seem like it was a little over a year ago Jon and I got married, yet when I think back on all the fun things we did this year it makes sense. To celebrate our one year we decided to finally use a wedding present from one of Jon's uncles which was a weekend to one of his timeshares. We picked Pinetop as our location and the planning began!

The Friday before I went to my lab in the morning ate a quick dollar lunch and headed off to home to pack up for the trip in hopes of leaving by 2. I got home with the car and Jon left to fill it up with oil and change the spark plugs. He said he'd be back in 20 minutes tops and left while I packed up my clothes and such for the weekend and then all the food. I had planned out all the meals and was very excited to make them all! Who needs culinary school when you have the internet to find fun recipes and a husband to cook for? =P So I had finished packing everything up and double checked to make sure I didn't forget anything and Jon still wasn't home, it had been half an hour so I expected him home any minute and waited anxiously for him to come....... finally half an hour later I heard him come up the apartment steps and knock on the door. I opened the door about to ask what had taken so long to find Jon holding a dozen roses and something I had longed for for years.... A 1LB REESES!!!! Really two half pounds to make it the typical two Reeses per package, but still!!!! I was sooooooo excited to see them in their massive peanut butter chocolatey goodness and eat them right there! I have no idea where he found them but it was perfect! And the roses were so pretty, speckled and gorgeous smelling! So gorgeous smelling I held them in my lap the whole time I drove to Gilbert so we could grab a few things from his parents house.

We finally made it up to Pinetop around 9:30, checked in and got settled in our room. It was such a cozy place! A fire place, ipod speakers to play music and a queen sized bed that fell out of the living room wall to snuggle on with hot chocolate while watching the fire. We were both exhausted though and soon fell asleep before we could move to the real bed in the bedroom. Some point in the early morning Jon had woken up to go to the bathroom and then came and woke me up telling me to look out the window. I crawled out of bed and opened the blinds to see snow!!! The ground and trees were covered in a layer of white fluffy snow! In fact it was snowing at that very moment! I was so excited I couldn't sleep much longer but had to get out and explore the winter wonderland outside. Here is some of what I found:

 This is from outside our window

 Outside on the porch

 A site I never thought I'd ever see, our car COVERED in snow!

These were some sweet icicles we found later on in the day

After my adventures I hurried inside to the warmth to make lemon poppy seed pancakes with blackberries and hot chocolate for breakfast. Once we had filled ourselves we drove out to see Ft. Apache and satisfy Jon's history obsession. It was cool to read about and see the different houses people stayed in but you could only go inside one house and then the rest was just walking around and reading plaques. I would have enjoyed it more if it hadn't been freezing cold and super windy outside. We also stopped by the cemetery and it was interesting to read all the names and dates and wonder how their lives were like. There were a lot of war veterans so I felt it was appropriate to remind us of remember those who served/serve our country for Veterans Day. We were finally done being outside in the freezing cold and headed back to town.

 A creek we stopped by along the way

When we got back we looked around for a good place to eat dinner and ended up going to a place called Darbie's Cafe where we had some yummy fried zucchini and shared a fancy burger and panini. We had wanted to get dessert but were WAY to full afterwards, it was delicious food though! On our way home we stopped by a redbox and got War Horse to snuggle in the couch by the fire with some sparkling cider Jon surprised me with and watch. The movie was good but man it had some rough parts to get through, even for Jon! Since we'd had time to let our stomach's settle it was time to break open the giant Reeses!!!

It was just as delectable as it looks!!! I ate one quarter and immediately wanted another so I did even though it was like 1000 calories no joke. I felt fat in thinking I could have eaten another, but after a couple minutes the richness definitely set in and I knew I couldn't eat any more, but boy was that half amazing! 

Sunday our actual anniversary I attempted to make Jon's favorite breakfast, french toast, but haven't had much practice with it since my mom never made it growing up. They were okay but kind of soggy in the middle so I'm going to have to keep practicing those. Jon was a sweetheart and still ate them without complaint. At breakfast I also gave Jon my anniversary gift to him that I had worked on the week before which was an exploding box full of pictures from the year (here is the site I used to make it, its pretty easy actually! And a huge thanks to Melanie for letting me come and borrow her tools and time!).

We then packed avacado chicken salad sandwiches and headed off to his grandma's house in St. Johns to visit since we wouldn't be coming up for Thanksgiving with Jon's family. It was a beautiful scenic ride through the mountains and a great visit with her and her brother. She even had apples on her apple tree for the first time in years that we got to pick and take home. They are really tiny, but so sweet and crunchy I love them! We got to hear some fun stories from his grandma and then headed home when the sun started to set. 

We came home to delicious smelling chicken stew to which I added cornbread dumplings on top to cook as we went outside to try and build a snowman. The snow was still to fluffy though so it was only good for snow angel making and snow dusting each other. We couldn't play too long though because we hadn't packed any gloves and our hands were hurting after only a couple minutes but it was still fun. We warmed up with some hot chocolate and the fire and then had our stew with some more sparkling cider. Once again we were too full for dessert so we saved our wedding cheesecake for after the Muppet movie, which was super cute by the way! A great kid/family movie, we were laughing throughout so highly recommend it!

Then came the moment I was really excited for, eating our wedding cheesecake! Jon's dad didn't think it'd be any good after a year and that made Jon nervous to try it but it smelled so good I couldn't wait to dig in. We both had a bit at the same time and it was sooooo good!!! Once again Melanie for making it and keeping it in your freezer the whole year. Now I know why you were so tempted to eat it all the time. It was the perfect anniversary! I could never get tired of snuggling by a warm fire and looking at the snow outside. We ended up falling asleep in the queen bed again, don't think we ever actually slept in the real bed, I mean why would you when you can sleep by a fire???

It was such a great, relaxing weekend to just be with Jon and not have to think about school or anything but him! I did not want to go back to real life on Monday, but we did a good job distracting ourselves and didn't get home to Tucson until 10 that night. Just in time for Jon to start his four day graveyard shift.... a nice shock back to reality. Oh well, it was a great weekend and anniversary and he won't have to work those shifts much longer and soon have him by me to sleep with every night. It has been such a wonderful first year together. I'm so grateful to have him in my life and can't wait for what adventures will befall us this next year!

Halloween! Halloween! We love Hallowee-eee-eee-EEEn!!!

So October came around and I decided to try and come up with a super awesome couple's costume for me and Jon to do since it was our first Halloween together. The requirements though made it difficult to come up with because I didn't have a whole lot of time with tests and it had to be cheap too. After a couple weeks I finally saw the perfect one! The couple from UP! it would be perfect!!! Jon already had suits and that sort, we'd just need to get him glasses, me a dress, and some balloons the night of. Even Jon agreed it was a great idea so we were set. Once we had this idea though Jon brought up the fact that we could either be the old couple or the young one and he really wanted to be the cranky old man (no surprise there =P) but then most of the movie his wife is dead... a tragic movie Pixar seems to like those these days. Then an idea popped into my mind, Jon could be the old man and I could be Kevin the bird who WAS a girl it turned out. But Kevin would probably require so much time and money to create something... So I tried to push the idea out of my mind and just focus on dress ideas for the young Elle.

Finally I finished my 3 test week and even though I had a paper and a lab report to do still I needed a break and thought it the perfect time to go to Savers and get our costumes. I quickly found Jon some glasses and a perfect suit jacket for really cheap and then I headed to the dress section. No where did they have anything close to the style of dresses Elle wore in that movie! I was becoming frustrated and decided to go peruse other things they had just in case I might have been able to do Kevin. I had even secretly made a list of things Kevin would require... And to my beautiful surprise I found colored, plastic, ruffled leis and an amazing idea popped into my head. I was going to be Kevin for Halloween and I was so excited!!! I haven't had a really great idea for Halloween in years! So I slowly gathered all my supplies the rest of Thursday and Friday and even got my paper and lab report written by Friday night so that all Saturday I could work on my costume.

Saturday morning I woke up extra early and started my pumpkin chilli for the chilli cook off part of the Halloween party and then headed off to work with all my supplies. Throughout the day when I wasn't on stand guarding for the swim team's invitational I was hot gluing on the leis to a shirt with the help of one of my lifeguard buddies. It turned out perfect! Then thanks to Monica and Jen, the lifeguard, I had some sweet make up and ideas of how to put it on for the night. As soon as we were done cleaning up after those gross kids I ran home, showered, drove to Gilbert to finally be with Jon again (he had been babysitting his siblings all week, of course on one of the hardest weeks of my semester =P), hurriedly we got dressed and ready and headed off for the party!

We looked pretty awesome, don't you think??? I was so happy it turned out! And we even won best over all for the chilli =D Then on actual Halloween we dressed up again though not quite so convincing and got to have $2 booritos at Chipotle and handed out candy corn sugar cookies to trick-or-treaters. I love Halloween!!!

A Nasty Situation

Soooo this may get a little gross, sorry. Just a forewarning.

About six months after Jon and I got married I felt a little bit of left over glue stuck to my head (Monica did my hair for the wedding and glued in hair extensions so she could do more with my hair and it looked beautiful!). I had tried so hard to wash all the glue out with shampoo for days following the wedding but it was so hard to get out! Frustrated that some was still attached to my head six months after the fact, I quickly picked at it until it came off. Throughout the week I would be running my hand through my hair and find yet another spot, and then the next time another! Each time I would pick the glue off. The most frustrating part was the fact that the glue would suddenly reappear in spots that I had already picked off. What in the world was going on?!? At first I thought maybe just some glue and stayed stuck on, but eventually I began to realize I had probably caused a scab when I picked off the glue the first time and wasn't allowing these scabs to heal over. So I left them alone hoping they would disappear.

They didn't... From my habit of constantly checking my hair I soon began to notice these weird scab-like things spreading along the back of my head. Jon examined them for me and guessed that I probably had some genetic condition his dad and brother had. Apparently there was no cure for it, the condition would just gradually fade away and come back as it pleased. This was not a very outlook for me especially when I soon found out that my mom appeared to have something similar to it.

I would have been fine if my condition was similar to theirs, but it wasn't. It wasn't some little dandruff like flakes on my scalp. They were huge, hard and thick. The best way I can think to describe it, which is what I often imagined was happening was that the skin on my scalp was hardening and flaking off in huge chunks, leaving behind the flesh of my head underneath it. I thought this because I could feel the giant flakes and tried to explore under them but they were so hard and hurt to bend back even a little I could never really feel what was underneath. And it hurt to touch them, bend them back.

After showers my hair would stick to the softness of them and I would have to decrust it from the thick flakes as it dried to prevent the back of my head from looking like I was balding or some disgusting creature. I don't think people ever noticed thankfully but if you even touched the back of my head you would have felt those sharp things. It also made doing my hair fairly difficult. I'd want to put it half up with some bobby pins but they prevented me from sliding them in without feeling like I was ripping my scalp off. So I'd usually just stick with my hair down or in a pony tail. I was grateful for one thing though, the condition I had never spread to my entire scalp, just a circle right at the back. That was just one good thought I had as this tore down my self confidence a bit.

I was just so self conscious about it. My mother in law offered to braid my hair for me once, when it was in the earlier stages of growing, since I was having some difficulty (surprise surprise I still haven't perfected that art on myself =P). I let her do it feeling that she wouldn't run into any of the spots, but low and behold she did. All I could think of was how grossed out she must have been, but too polite to say anything she kept going bless her heart. Also in the earlier stages I got my hair cut and the whole time I just wondered how grossed out the lady must have been and the story she would tell to her coworkers later about it. Needless to say I haven't gotten a hair cut since, especially since it got worse.

Finally after dealing with this for a couple months I finally found the time to set up a general doctor's appointment with the UofA Campus Health. I was embarrassed to have to show the doctor my ugly head and was terrified at the same time it would be what Jon thought and there wouldn't be any treatment. But lo and behold it wasn't!!! I was SOOO happy!!!! I wouldn't have to live as some gross creature feared by all my whole life! He gave me a steroid ointment to rub in my head once a day and shampoo to rub in before showering. Jon was so wonderful to put the ointment on my head every night, I know it wasn't the prettiest thing he's seen from me but he offered and never complained about helping me out with that every night. In fact he offered the very first time! I was so grateful.

 After the first two days of the treatment there was little improvement but then the third and fourth day it was HUGE improvement. The only down side with this improvement was a seemed to be losing a TON of hair. At the beginning of the third day I thought not much of it as I pulled some flakes that had detached off and they took a bit of hair with them. But then when I showered, globs of hair came off on my hands when I was washing my hair. Then it happened again the fourth day and I was afraid by the end I would have a big bald spot where I had been applying the ointment. I always wondered how cancer patients dealt with losing their hair and never thought I could handle it, this proved that fact I believe. I was beginning to become devastated again, but luckily after the fourth day the dramatic loss of hair stopped.

Now after a week of pony tails to hide the greasy ointment spot on my head that wouldn't wash out I have my scalp back!!! Its an amazing feeling to run my fingers through my hair again and not feel that nasty crusty stuff! I'm gradually washing out the ointment and soon I'll be able to wear my hair down conscious free! I am sooo grateful that there was a treatment for what I had and that it actually worked! I'm also extremely thankful to all Jon did in helping me with everything through this especially put on the ointment every night.

Hope it wasn't too gross, I just had to get out everything I've been through with this and writing it in my journal would have taken forever.

Where did all the summertime go?

Summer. The months I look forward to and now their gone. I expected to be working two jobs with only Sundays to really relax and enjoy myself, along with my mother's amazing homemade ice creams. Looking back I actually got to do quite a lot of fun things which I wasn't expecting. Here's the list of funness:

* Honeymooning (Disneyland, California Adventure, Six Flags and Vegas)
* Biathlon with my sisters (Who have now surpassed me in doing a triathlon, along with Scott. They are amazing! Maybe next year I wont be so poor and experience the pain and suffering too. Except I'll opt out on doing it with strep/bronchitis like Melanie =P)
* Warp Tour (Though ridiculously hot, me and Jon had quite a blast and got to see some fun bands like New Found Glory and Yellow Card)
* Vegas trip with the Patterson's (We got to stay in a Presidential Suite in the Cosmo! It was pretty dang fancy. They had some nice food and fun pools. Also got to walk the strip and see some cool sites like the Belagio fountain. Then on the way home we stopped by and walked around the Hoover Dam which I would never want to fall down from! I'm starting to see Mom in myself as I shied away from getting to close to the edge. It was super windy okay? But I forced myself to not chicken out =P)
* Made homemade ice cream myself! (I made peach ice cream for a church ice cream party that turned out delicious! And then had some left over half-and-half to make some chocolate peanut butter for a friend get together. That one was AMAZING!!! But also super rich so you couldn't eat a lot, probably a good thing though.)
* Random trip to Sedona (A family friend of Jon and also our bishop randomly offered us to stay for the weekend at their timeshare in Sedona, since for some reason unknown they couldn't go. Never been before so of course we said yes! We hauled along Jon's friend Jason and his girlfriend to our adventure. For the one day we had we decided to go to Slide Rock, which I've wanted to go since hearing about such an awesome place my Senior year of highschool. It was even better than what I imagined though it looked nothing like what I had. It was gorgeous and so much fun! We all had our share of slips and falls too. After around two hours of bruising, scraping and freezing our bodies we decided it was time to go. Definitely recommend this place to anyone with time in Sedona! But probably only for summer and the afternoon during then because the water was super cold.)
* Finally set up my house (As I said in the last post, I finally got some free time to clean and finally organize my apartment to look like a home. A home!!! I love it so much!)
* Made real dinners (This is what I was most excited/loved doing this summer and will greatly miss it! Sunday I guess I can have time but it was really nice to do three to four times a week.)

And that was summer! I miss it already, but for now bring on the school and homework, all 20 credits of it. Hopefully I survive...

Free Time!!!!!

August 1st was my last day of lifeguarding and while it was bittersweet, I was more excited for the 'sweet' part, FREE TIME!!! I was finally only going to be working 20 hours instead of 56 which would mean I could get home at 11 and get cleaning/ setting up my apartment done. Something I have been dreaming of doing since we moved in and never really got to 'move in.' So yesterday I cleaned up the living room and not having nails just set our pictures on top of the couches. It actually looks pretty good. There is so much clear space and with the pictures its starting to look like a home! I'm so excited. Then today I'm working on the kitchen. I got the table and around the table all cleared off so now I can actually use it to help when cooking or doing dishes which will be SO nice! We still don't have chairs, but we do have two comfy love seats to sit on =)

Tomorrow I will tackle the bathroom, then Friday I will organize our room, and Saturday will be the closet. I'M SO EXCITED!!! Now I can have people over and actually have a homely looking apartment. So come on over, the door is open!

Oooooh what a night!

Points to anyone who got the song I was trying to refer to here =P

Anyways it was a crazy night. I had big plans to make Spicy Chicken Rigatoni for dinner tonight and was super excited about it. I had everything going great, the ground red pepper and minced garlic were smelling so wonderful and it was nice and rainy outside when all of the sudden... the power went off. So the stove got cold just in the middle of me cooking my chicken. Luckily it didn't last long and the chicken was done cooking in no time. Now to add the marinara sauce... oh wait we don't have any! I had bought a lot and Jon never wants spaghetti so it never crossed my mind he would have used it all up with his mini pizza making. So I ran to the store and bought some marinara sauce in a can since it was the cheapest.

Get home all excited to finally get this made, because the chicken cooking in the seasonings smelled SOOO GOOD!!! I take the can to our electric can opener that Jon had gotten at Goodwill. I secretly hate that thing because I can never get it to work on my first try and this time was no different... except this time it decided I broke it. Frustrated I stormed off to the dollar store where Jon claimed they had manual can openers, the kind I prefer. Luckily they did but not for a dollar which was lame because that's the point of being a 99cent store right? But it was still a good price for what it was and I headed home wondering what other mishap would befall me next. Thankfully there were none! Once home I quickly reheated the stove, added the marinara sauce along with alfredo and got to eat! It was soooo yummy! Making it was a terror but way worth it! If you want to try it, which you really should, here is the link: http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/2423433-Spicy-Chicken-Rigatoni?full_recipe=true

Finally the End!

So we drove to Six Flags a little sad that it was super windy outside and due to the wind they had several of the awesome rides closed. It wasn't a packed day at Six Flags at all but they decided to only run one coaster per ride which made the lines insanely long and lots of people upset. We still got to ride on some fun ones but yeah the lines were ridiculous.

We did the water rafting ride and Jon had the perfect spot to get completely soaked, I was a tad jealous. Then we rode on the Riddler, the Batman ride (which I think they also have in Texas), the old wooden coaster which didn't hurt or jerk you around as much as the one in Texas so it was more enjoyable. Then they had that super tall one with the huge initial drop and I kept my eyes open when you go through the arch thing at the end! I had tried that on the Texas one a couple years ago but never could do it! That one also made me almost black out. I was kind of freaking out, but then I found out it did that to pretty much everyone.
 The last ride we did was the Tatsu which Jon said was one of his top favorites (his other two favorites were closed for the whole day sadly). It was weird to be facing down thinking if that hold on you gave out you'd just drop down and smash your face in, but it was probably my favorite ride of the day! I turned to talk to Jon about how awesome it was when he said, "I think my keys got sucked out..." I hoped he just couldn't feel them at the time and they were really there, but upon getting off he found he really didn't have keys. We talked to a lady that worked the ride and she directed us to the lost and found. There we filled out a receipt about the lost item and then waited the next hour and a half for them to close the park and search the ride. We said a prayer together that they would find them. I don't know what would have happened if they didn't because I had conveniently left the spare key in my bag in the car =P So we entertained ourselves with looking through the souvenir shop and finally we got our keys back. YAAAAYYYY!!!! A huge relief.

Waiting and hoping they find our keys

After that we went and grabbed a fast dinner at Burger King and some slushies at 7Eleven (the slushies were a bad idea because now Jon is hooked on them). Then we headed off to Vegas baby! We got to our fancy hotel at around 12:30 and crashed into bed. Three theme parks in three days is exhausting! I think we're probably good now until we have kids old enough to go.

South Point Hotel

The next morning we decided to relax in the sweet jacuzzi the hotel had. I waited for Jon to go get his swim suit out of the car, but I guess he'd forgotten it so I lent him my shorts and let me tell you he looked hilarious! I wish I had the camera but then he still would have refused me to take a picture. He said it was super weird to wear something that "hugged his curves". After the pool we quickly went and showered and signed out by noon. We went back in for their all you could eat buffet at 6 bucks for each of us. THERE WAS SO MUCH FOOD!!! They had seafood, Asian, Italian, Mexican, BBQ, a salad and soup bar, and last but not least two huge shelves of fancy cakes, cheesecakes, mousse, tarts, and much more! For all you could eat! I took little servings and still didn't get to try half the things I wanted to. I didn't even really have room for dessert but I made room for one mousse slice. Needless to say we both rolled ourselves out of there and weren't hungry for the rest of the day.

We then went and explored the strip, which was nice and relaxing compared to the crazy rush of theme parks the past three days. We wandered around M&M world, Coca Cola store, saw Bumblebee and Jack Sparrow. Went through the Bellagio with all its crazy, beautiful flower statues and contorted chocolate fountains. We also wandered around Ceasar's Palace which was gorgeous! Our favorite part was the aquarium and the funny sting rays that were floating around and putting their mouths on the glass.We also tried to tour through a chocolate factory but got there too late so maybe the next time we go.

Girls vs Guys bathroom =)

And finally it was time to head home! It was an amazing and fun honeymoon full of many memories both good and bad, but that's what makes them fun right?!? Well now I can finally post about other things =P

Disneyland!!!

So the next morning we woke up, signed out and grabbed a couple doughnuts they had as their complimentary breakfast and headed off to the happiest place on earth! We waited at the rope and rushed off to get first in line to Space Mountain. I did not enjoy this running since I was sore from the day before and running three days before (I'm in the process of getting back in shape and yeah it was pathetic I was sore). Space Mountain we found out was closed for the time being and then the Matterhorn was closed until June. We were sad about the Matterhorn but at least later in the day we got to come back and ride Space Mountain a ton of times.

 These guys were so funny because they were so mean 

to all the people and even went to a concession stand 

demanding a drink!

We did all of the usual rides, Indiana Jones, The Jungle River, Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain, Nemo, and even all the little ones like the Tea Cups and Roger Rabbits. The whole while Jon would read up on his phone accidents that happened on the rides and some on the ones we were about to go to. There are some intense stories! Luckily we rode everything in safety.

On Splash Mountain

We rode Space Tours twice because we heard the ride was different each time you went. The second time we were beginning our awesome space tour, they announced as usual that a rebel spy was on board. Pictures began to flash on the screen and suddenly stopped on a picture of me! When in the world had they taken that picture??? It was when we were sitting down waiting but I had no idea they had taken it! Little to say that made the ride even more fun, and yes I was kept safe.

Then a funny story when we were riding in the Haunted Mansion it kept stopping in the middle which we concluded was them boarding handicap people onto the conveyer-belted seats. When we were stopped at one point an announcement came on stating for everyone to keep their hands to themselves and that we were all being monitored. Me and Jon looked at each other puzzled and then a few seconds later the voice came on more fervent, that they could see us and knew what we were doing so to keep our hands to ourselves. Some couple must have been getting comfortable =P We had a good laugh at that.

And this time Jon whooped me on the Buzz Lightyear shooting ride. 

Those stupid laserguns you can tell where you're pointing to because everyone else has them flashing around! =P

We got hungry like an hour after our doughnuts, they were not a filling breakfast sadly so we suffered through the hunger until 3:30 when I got my traditional bread soup bowl and Jon faced the all you could eat BBQ in a restaurant in Frontier Land (thanks to Preston and Monica for paying for that!). He ended up eating five pieces of chicken, 16 ribs, a bowl of beans, cornbread, and probably a half gallon of water. Wow!

Also on one of our walks through Frontier Land we ran across a very peculiar turkey. He stood in the corner closest to the people of his enclosure and tried to eat his top gobbler. That's all he did. It was hillarious if you saw it and he only stopped when some random people came by clapping at him. To this he turned  his head in confusion to them and waddle on over to stare. When they left he went right back to his spot trying to eat his gobbler.

We finally got out of Disneyland around 10:30 and drove up to a hotel near Six Flags where we would spend our next day of the honeymoon.

Honeymoon Day 2!

So the second day we left Jon's uncle and aunt's house and headed to California Adventure. I was the most excited because I hadn't ever been there before. When we got there Jon immediately grabbed a map and began planning out our route of rides. We first ran off to the California Screamin' roller-coaster which was super fun. I think we ended up going on that one like four times through out the day. After like the third time we went to look at our picture and I freaked out because Jon's face was the most terrifying thing ever! Later his dad said he looked like an escaped murder convict which I thought fit well.

We hurried all day from ride to ride getting fast passes when we could and we hit every ride we wanted to with some extra rounds in there. But finally at around 4 we were tired of all the walking and decided to watch the Aladdin show they had going on. When we sat down, Jon reached into one of his pockets and pulled it out covered in sunscreen. I had just used it around an hour and half ago and put the cap safely on and he put it in his pocket. On one of the more recent rides the cap must have popped off and squeezed out all the contents into his pocket. I felt sooooo bad! I asked to make sure he had another pair of shorts with him in the car. He'd brought two shirts for the trip so I figured he'd also have another pair, but no he didn't. What a boy =P We still enjoyed the show along with the rest of the day, especially the awesome water/laser/fire show they had at night. But as soon as we got to our hotel I did my best at washing out as much of the sunscreen from his shorts as I could and I was surprised that I was able to wash out a lot of it. Luckily by morning his shorts had mostly dried and the pocket wasn't so greasy looking any more. We were ready to tackle Disneyland! (Which will be in another post because I don't have the patience to write any more =P)

Waiting for the water show

This is suppose to be Ariel

Ready to go in!

I beat Jon at the Toy Story shooting ride =)

Entertaining ourselves before Aladdin by putting flowers in my shoe's holes

Going on the California Screamin' again...

And here is the escaped murder convict

Day 1 of the Honeymoon =)

So finally after all the craziness of school life was over and Jon was all graduated we took off for our way over due honeymoon. First stop we had was Sunday in Carlsbad with Jon's aunt and uncle, Mike and Kathy. They had just given us a fancy looking bread maker so we figured we'd make them a loaf to say thanks. I have never used one of these things before so I was VERY careful to follow all the instructions and include all the ingredients in the correct order. I checked over everything multiple times just to make sure. I pressed all the buttons and it was started. I thought it was funny that they had the yeast put in last on top of the flour, not with the water and sugar... and when it was suppose to be mixing it wasn't. I made sure once again that everything was right there wasn't any step I was missing. Jon came in and checked it out and also pointed out it wasn't mixing at all. But I had done everything right! I figured maybe it just took a long time so not wanting to ruin anything I let the bread maker do its thing. Well I woke up in the middle of the night to a thin dense flour patty with a thick powdering of flour and a spot of yeast on top. It didn't mix, it didn't work. Useless directions! Hopefully I'll figure it out sometime but now that I have yeast I can at least make real bread for calzones and pizzas instead of biskets =P

Anyways so we headed off bright and early Sunday morning for Carlsbad. I drove my longest ever from Tucson to Yuma taking about 3 and a half hours. I was pretty proud of myself. Then Jon took over so he could deal with crazy California traffic. We got to the windmills and there was one that wasn't working and was facing backwards. Jon thought it would make a great picture to share with all of his friends, "The retarded windmill" but upon taking a couple shots I realized that you couldn't tell that one wasn't moving because us muggles don't have moving pictures like in Harry Potter. We had a good laugh at our blondness there. We finally reached Carlsbad around two and had a wonderful lunch with Mike and Kathy, but sleep over came us so we headed off to sleep and woke up just in time for the lunar eclipse! Mike had a telescope with a filter so we could look through there, plus they had some sweet eclipse glasses and towards the end the clouds covered it just enough that we could look right at it. It was pretty awesome! And little did we know when it was done that two hours had gone by! Mike and Kathy were super easy to talk to the whole night long. They made us some awesome soft taco/burrito things and then me and Jon went to rest up for our next three day adventure of theme parks.

                                                             Fun times driving in the car

                                           Can you find which one is the retarded windmill???

Birthday Spoils!!!

So yesterday (now April 5th cuz I took forever =P) was Jon's 24th birthday and if I wasn't in school and had all the time in the world I would have spoiled him rotten with foods and such, but alas I had lots of homework and even an organic chemistry test but I put that studying off til later that night anyways =P. So if I'd had my way I would have gotten Jon two dozen doughnuts since he turned two dozen years old! Then I wanted to make him homemade twix since that's his favorite candy or cheesecake, or lemon bars... but no time. I also wanted to make him lunch but I had no time for that either. Or even for the traditional smiley face pancakes for breakfast. He loves sushi so it would have been great to take him out for some or at least some kind of Asian diner. BUT none of this happened.

So instead of doughnuts, (I knew he wouldn't eat all that and I did not want to help him either) I just went to Dunkin Doughnuts to get him two dozen doughnut holes instead. Turns out they sell them by 25's... so I popped one in my mouth and called it good =). Then for lunch he had some coupons for free smoothies at a new place on campus so we decided to go check it out. Turns out it also included a free herbal tea and some body test. We passed on the body test, don't need to be told I'm fat =P Jon got the peach herbal tea (tasted nasty...) and I got the raspberry which was way better than his peach. I felt so bad, but we still had delicious smoothies! Jon got strawberry cheesecake which was super powdery but I guess he loves that so he devoured his smoothie and I got the Reese's. MMMMMMM! I figured it was all healthy so why not? It was sooo good and not that powdery. I was so full after!

Then after our last class we headed home to relax for a bit before going tooooo... THE GASLIGHT!!! I had been DYING to take him there for MONTHS and I had booked our tickets way back in December, I was so excited and had been waiting in agony for this day. It was so hard not to just take him when I thought of the idea. They always have fun shows and every one I wanted to take him too. Anyways we headed out, sat right up front in the middle, ordered pizza and the show began! It was the Three Musketeers and so at the beginning was a lot of, "We are the Three Musketeeeeers!" or "One for all and all for one!" Those two lines were repeated about ten times in the first five minutes and the strained look on Jon's face to keep his smile made me nervous. But once the plot was set and the action began rolling the repeating stopped and he actually laughed and had fun! I was ECSTATIC! It was soo much fun, Prince Louie the 14th was hillarious, along with King Louie. The villains had such a fun time with their job and my favorite was probably the Princess of Spain and her immediate love for Louie. You just have to go see the show it was amazing!

So after the show we headed home talking and laughing about all the actors and how great the show was (oh yeah and the old guy is STILL there! I love him!). But good days can never last long and it was off to studying Organic Chemistry right after we got home. I ended up getting a 51 on that test but the class average was a 45 so I think I did pretty good =P Anyways Jon's birthday was a wonderful day full of fun times and I hope he had as great of time as I did. 

What I do in my Mold Class...

The Beginning?

So I decided to start a blog... don't really know how this all works but maybe over the summer it will be fun when I have more time. We'll see! And we'll also see if anyone notices its creation and lame title =P