Easter!

Easter was great. I teach 10 year old boys in my primary class for church and it was so awesome to get to teach the Easter lesson. These boys are so smart and they could have taught it to me but it was special for me to get to talk to them about the Savior. I love teaching their class and being reminded of how simple the gospel is. After church we headed over to the park for our usual Easter lunch at the park. I love being with family and eating some good grub. These are a few pictures from the day.

Look mom I found a dollar!!

Palm Springs Weekend!

This past week J and I were talking about how great it would be to get away for our anniversary. This year our anniversary is on a Tuesday, so we dreamed about getting away for an entire weekend together. Low and behold, at the dinner last week my parents declared that they got us a hotel in Palm Springs for our anniversary!!! What!!! You would have thought I won the lottery...no joke. I was jumping around and acting like a giddy 5 year old. A whole weekend away with my hubby..yay! I called in sick to my work on Friday...shhhh and we were off! We went straight to our hotel, checked in and went right down to the pool.  I have to admit that it has been a hard transition going from being a student with a very flexible schedule to working full time and being inside an office from 9-6 everyday. I miss being outside. Anyway, we were laying out by the pool for literally 5 minutes and what do you know, I get stung by a bee. All of those who know me, know that I'm allergic to bee stings. My arm began to swell and itch. It got HUGE. It was red and swollen all weekend. I took a few benadryl and I was out for the night. On Saturday we woke up and took a walk. We found the cutest cafe where we got a cinnamon roll and hot chocolate. We spent the day laying by the pool, swimming and relaxing. We ate a lot of good food and spent a lot of quality time together. It was just what I needed to re-charge! On our actual anniversary we might do a little somethin somethin...so I will blog about that later. 

 The view from our hotel room. 

 My view at breakfast.

Family

I love my family. Family is such an important part of my life! I have been blessed with such an amazing, supportive family. Not too mention, I married into a family just as great as my own. They are such awesome people and I continue to be amazed by them. This weekend I listened to LDS General Conference and a re-occuring theme through out the conference was family. I love being reminded of the importance of family!

Scenes from this week

Last week was a great week. My Dad works out of town A LOT and last week he was home all week! Naturally, we partied! We celebrated my older brother's birthday. We went to dinner, watched movies, went to baseball games and talked a lot. I love my family SO much....like it's kind of ridiculous! I love hanging out with them all the time. They are my best friends. I'm really lucky to have a family where we all get along :) The weeks have been going by SO fast lately. I have been doing a lot of fun projects like invitations and logos and all that good stuff. We are keeping busy over here and we are just grateful to be in the sunshine. Until next time...  :)

The last few pictures are pictures from around the house. p.s. my my mom and I bought some raised flower beds from Costco because we are going to have a LEGIT garden this year. I'm so excited!!

2 months ago....

 Yep, so 2 months ago I graduated from college and I'm blogging about it right now. I never thought I would be one of those people was blogging about Christmas in July but I am. Life happens haha. Anyway, graduating was kind of a big deal for me. It was something I always wanted to do and it was something that I pretty much knew I was going to accomplish at some point but it until it happened, I didn't realize how much it meant to me. That sentence seriously doesn't make sense haha. It just felt amazing to work hard towards a goal and then accomplish it. Late nights studying and stressing over presentations and projects...it was all for a purpose. I received my diploma in the mail and it sits on our fireplace as I type. It was a pretty special day and I'm glad my parents and my in-laws came into town to be with me! Life as of lately has been nothing out of the ordinary except that we found out my brother and SIL are having a baby boy due August 22nd. I am obsessed with being an aunt! It's the best! Welp, until next time.

Lately I've been neglecting this blog for a good reason. I got a full-time job!!! I'm still getting used to working full-time and I am now realizing how good I had it in college. College was fun and I got to be creative. I had time to blog and hang out with J but now I am working full-time and doing freelance graphic design jobs on the side. The little free time I have these days is spent hanging out with J AWAY from the computer. I think about blogging and I take pictures for my blog but sitting down to actually blog...yeah. We are loving our life in California and we still can't get over the amazing weather. I grew up here but being away for 4 years, you forget how amazing this place is. I guess I will let some pictures do the talking and I promise to be back soon!

The view from my parents backyard.