2 Years and San Francisco

Kaden and I have been married for two years now! I can not believe how fast time has gone by. When we were first got married we talked about things we wanted to do in the next 2 years. Pretty much i can only remember a few of them because of course we are terrible at writing anything down or making goals, so they were just ideas. The ones i remember were that we will buy a house, i will be graduating, we will start having kids, We will both have awesome cars, and i am sure being ridiculous rich was somewhere in there too since we thought we would be having kids ha. Luckily we do own our very own amazing house, but everything else is still a ways away. Ha i am now not graduating until April of 2013, we probably wont have kids for awhile, i am driving the same car that i had in high school and Kaden no longer has his awesome truck and we really are about as poor as possible with going to school and owning a house, but we absolutely love our lives together right now! We were just talking last night about how weird it was that just last year we were living in Aunt Diannes trailer fighting over who got to take a shower first because there was only enough hot water to last for one person. We have had some pretty good experiences and some really hard times but we both agree that we wouldn't trade the past two years for anything because we have both learned so much and grown up so much. Honestly if the first 2 years of your marriage really are supposed to be your hardest then we have succeeded and i can not wait to see how awesome the rest of marriage is.


San Francisco! Yes, again. I know we go all of the time but that is because we love it! And it helps that is pretty inexpensive, and very easy to get around, and there is quite a bit to do. This time we went with my family. It wasn't really an anniversary trip but it was fun going with my parents and sisters. We did a lot of shopping and a lot of eating. Honestly i crave the food there so much and all i have wanted since got home is some good soup, since we really ate soup like every day. Before we went i had been pretty sick, all of the kids at work were sick, and our home teachers brought their daughter over who had croup. So the day we left i actually felt a lot better, until we got on the plain. I had no idea that flying when you were sick could be such a miserable experience. I literally felt like i had been punched in the face once we landed in San Francisco and our first night there i ended up having to go to an emergency doctors visit. I had a sinus infection and he said i was lucky that i my ear drum didn't explode from the plain ride. I ended being on a ridiculous amount of medication and Afrin 5 times a day the hole time we were so i would be able to fly home.  That was not the best experience, but i learned a lot of awesome tricks to keep from getting sick from the doctor. He was expensive but the best doctor i had ever been too. Not even kidding if we ever end up moving to San Francisco he will totally be my main doctor. Anyways, more about San Francisco. On Friday we got to see Mary Kate and Allen, and it was so much fun catching up with them. We walked around the warf with them and then later that night my sisters went shopping while the rest of us snacked at a little bar in union square. We had a lot of fun spending the day with them, i know Sarah misses Mary Kate so much so it was so nice to see them. Dad did a little splurging on the trip and bought all of us girls including Mary Kate and Grandma  a pearl from one of those pearl places were we choose an oyster and open it up yourself. It was fun doing that and all of pearls turned out different, it was pretty cool. Saturday my dad and hannah and katie went to the exploritorium while me, my mom, kaden and sarah got on a bus and road out to the beach. Kaden and I had never been to that part of town and it was such a nice day it was perfect. We went to the cliff house and took pictures, and we ate lunch at a little hotel cafe that was right across from the beach. They had the best chicken strips Kaden and I have ever had. After that we met up with my dad and the girls at the Golden Gate bridge. We took the bus,and they walked the entire way from the exploritorium, i have no idea how they did it because it really is probably like a 5 mile walk all along the beach and then up a huge steep hill. They were troopers though and were still ready to eat at Scomas after. Sunday we just hung out around Union Square. Kaden and my mom and i fell in love with Bristol Farms and searched around in there for awhile. It is like a miniature whole foods and we bought some of the weirdest stuff to eat before we got on the plain, including chocolate covered bacon. No one liked it except for Sarah. Our flight back was nice, i had to wear an earplug for the flight and until we got back to the valley but i slept almost the entire time and that is always nice. Kaden and I had so much fun and we have a hole list of ideas for next time we go, but we decided we will never do a midsemester trip again. It was way too hard trying to catch up once we  got home, and the next family trip we do, we are thinking a cruise would be nice. :)

Just dreaming of a less busy, and more busy life

Do you think that would be too much to ask for a little extra time in the day? It seems like just when i think life is busy it gets even busier and my organizational skills and procrastination skills both try to take over. This week so far i have gone to work, gone to class, gone to work, worked out, and then came home to do online class and homework. Literally every day seems to feel like this. Greg Mortenson came to the school on Tuesday, and I got to help be in charge of Ushering in the 2000 people that came to listen to him and it was a great experience. I realized how much i love managing things, and how badly i really would like to do something drastic to help the world in a big way. Sadly though i did not have enough time to meet Greg Mortenson even though there was a 2 hour book signing after and i could have probably gone straight to the front of the line. Right after Convocations ends i have class and i have a huge practicum assignment due tomorrow that i have been working on with a group and couldn't miss, not even to meet Greg Mortenson. I am pretty sad that i didn't just take that opportunity to shake his hand, but i think that i also realized that somehow i can make time for everything. I know that im crazy busy right now but that life isn't going to slow down anytime soon. Hopefully it just keeps getting busier. And if i do ever do something drastic to help the world i will be a thousand times more busy then. (Yes, i do somehow plan on doing something to help the world in a big way.) Last night i told Kaden that i wanted to go to Afghanistan someday to see all of the schools that have been built and the progress that has been made in women's education, not anytime soon, but someday. He said he wouldn't go but that i could ha so im adding that to the list of somedays. I also told Kaden how inspired i have felt by some of the convocations that i have been able to go to and by this one and he said okay so how bout you open schools all over the world and i will  earn money racing to help pay for them. Ha Ha i love my husband. At least he would think of a way to support me if i really did it. Anyways though, i have three papers due in the morning that i haven't started yet. Tonight is definitely the night where my procrastination is winning.

Feeling So Blessed!

This year I set goals keeping in mind all of the things that could have made last year better for me. I decided I overall wanted to improve myself spiritually first, mentally second and physically third. I think physically and mentally go hand in hand but spiritually needs to be my main priority overall. I feel like if I don't do better in that area then I can't even start to improve in the other two. It isn't even the end of January yet and I am seeing so many great blessings come from keeping up with my goals. I feel the spirit all the time now and have been surrounded by amazing people. I have been blessed with the opportuniny of seeing several of my closest friends and getting to spend time with them. I have had some very emotional but amazing conversations with people that I barely get to talk too and I have been blessed with the strength to focus and enjoy my classes even when I have had migranes and I have been blessed with the strength to keep up with my busy schedule and still find time to eat healthy and work out regularly.

Whitney and Braden's Wedding

This past weekend i had the opportunity to travel up to Bountiful for one of my very Best Friends wedding. I went with Sarah and Sarany. Honestly i am not quite sure what i was expecting, but i was very excited to spend Whitney's special day with her. She was my first close friend who was married in the temple and that i was able to go through with. We left on Thursday and had some fun at her bridal shower that night, then we were invited to stay at her husbands parents house for the night. I honestly instantly fell in love with them. They were so sweet and so out going i felt so comfortable and at home with them. Friday the three of us (me, sarah, and sarany) went down to Provo to run some errands, eat at kneaders and catch up with a couple of old friends.  Then it was back to Bountiful to go through with Whitney while she took out her endowments. I don't even know how to describe how amazing this was. The spirit was so strong through the entire session and i felt just overwhelmed with happiness for her. While we spent some time together in the Temple i couldn't help but think of how proud of her i was and how ecstatic i was that she was now able to receive the blessings of the Temple. She was so prepared for this to see someone so close to me go through was just amazing. The next morning while Whitney and Braden were sealed to one another i felt the same way. How amazing is it be able to be married for time and all eternity and to really know you will be with your spouse forever! Watching the two of them be married really reminded me of just how grateful i am to have an eternal marriage with Kaden. The weekend was very spiritual for me, but i was also just a lot of fun. Friday night we decorated for the reception and then Saturday there was a luncheon and the reception. I ate way too much and got way to little sleep, but i loved every minute of it. I got to hang out with a few old friends which was so nice, and got to think of so many fun times i used to have. I even visited raintree which was a blast, we played kinect and im pretty sure i need one now. Oh and i got so play with a Sugar glider, tyler and jon have some and they are so cute! If i can convince kaden for us to have some, i will. Next weekend is an open house in the valley, and i am pretty excited for that too. I cant wait to decorate again and see the Happy Couple.

New Year, New Goals

Every year that Kaden and I have spent new years together, which has now been the past two years, we have said that we would set goals for the year together and then February comes and it has never happened and so we say lets set goals on our anniversary, then next thing you know its Christmas and we never set goals and the New Year is a week away. So i decided that this year im setting out to set some goals myself and Kaden looked them over and said they sounded good. I knew if i never wrote them down, they would never happen, so not only am i writing them down, i am posting them as well. I have divided them up into categories and tried to make goals that are high, but achievable.

Goals for 2011

Spiritual goals- attend church every Sunday (and stay all three hours), go to the temple at least once a month, read scriptures every morning, and say prayers morning and night.

Family goals- make more time for each other ( have at least two date nights a month), write Luke, support our brothers, sisters, and nieces in their activities, spend more time with Hannah and Katie.

School goals- Get straight A's next semester, get awarded an education scholarship, start substitute teaching, volunteer in elementary classrooms, finish all required classes to go into the block.

Health- work out 3+  days a week, cook dinner instead of eating out, make weekly menus, lose 10 pounds, do a good run out side at least once a week.

Places to Go- San Francisco in February, Alaska in June, Visit Jimi and Heather when school gets out, Tahoe for the 4th of July.