Vacation, Day 3

Monday morning in Provo started off late (for us anyway). Bri had to work from 8-5 and Greg went to work early in the morning but was back by about 8. Our first activity was to take the scooters and have lunch at the BYU Creamery. We picked up Bri from the hospital that she works at and rode over there.


It was a delicious lunch!
In Utah, there is no helmet law so I didn't wear a helmet (we were just on scooters Dad!) but it was crazy to see people on motorcycles with no helmets. That was a little too dangerous for me.
After lunch we dropped Bri back at work and headed to the Provo temple. It was closed but we stopped to look anyways.


Right across the street from the temple is the MTC. Greg, Scott and I went there to volunteer in the Teaching Resource Center in Spanish. The coordinators assign you to a room that resembles a living room and then you act as though you are investigators. The missionaries come to your door and you talk to them in Spanish about yourselves, there are different roles that you play for each companionship (you are smokers and the missionaries tracted into you; you are recently baptized and the missionaries are following up with you; etc.). It was a very spiritual experience. We worked through 4 companionships and then it was time to get going.


This a statue of missionaries on bicycles at the MTC. Scott remembered it and wanted a picture.
That evening we took our dinner of hotdogs and smores to a park near a river and had a campfire.


We were almost eaten alive by mosquitos, but it was a lot of fun.


Scott and Greg showed off their roasting skills.


I showed off my marshmallow muffin making skills (ie lack of roasting skills).


Bri and I chatted most of the time, we also sang some of our favorite old songs with the iHome...Scott and Greg asked for encore after encore ;)
It was the perfect ending to a fun filled adventure with our friends.

We had a great time in Provo. Thanks for letting us visit you guys Greg and Bri! We loved every minute of it!

Vacation, Day 1-2

From August 1-11 Scott and I took a vacation with my family. For us it began in Provo, Utah where we visited our great friends Greg and Bri! They live in Wymount on the BYU campus and put us up in their spare room. We had a great time with them.
We left on Saturday at 1:30 pm. We arrived August 2nd, Sunday morning at 12:30 AM (the drive took 9 1/2 hours) and hit the hay. Sunday we went to church with them (thankfully it was at 11). It was amazing to see so many young married couples in one place. Scott and I thought it was funny that it was so loud in the chapel (lots of small children). That afternoon Greg and Scott BBQ-ed and Bri and I caught up on everything. She also showed me how to "Shop Smart" which I will blog about later.


We took their scooters to a pond at the end of BYU campus and fed the ducks,


then took a tour of BYU via scooters. It was a lot of fun!
Interesting fact about me...I only applied to 2 univeristies, Redlands and Provo. I got into both but ultimately decided on Redlands. I was excited to walk around BYU and imagine what might have been :) After we got back, we just relaxed and rested from our long drive through Utah.

Our Anniversary!!!

On July 15 we celebrated our 3 year anniversary!!! I know! It's crazy!
We didn't want to do anything too big because we had friends coming from Provo the following weekend and we wanted to have money to have fun with them.
Our favorite restaurant is Macaroni Grill, so we headed there first. I always get the shrimp alfredo, but Scott and our waiter said I should try something different so I got one of their new Mediterranean dishes. It was not great!!! I wish I could remember what it is called so I can warn you against it, but it has chicken and shrimp, big round pasta, and mushrooms. It didn't taste like anything so I was not happy! Luckily, Scott shared his meal with me and we took it home to be eaten by one of the boys at my parent's house. For our 2008 anniversary we went to the same Macaroni Grill and our waitress was one of the opera style singers. We told her it was our anniversary and she sang Ave Maria for us (I cried). She was there again this year and our waiter told her it was our anniversary and she came and sang to us again (this time no tears). It was amazing again. On our way out of the restaurant, the older couple sitting in the booth next to us told us it was their anniversary too. They said that they would meet us here next year on the 15th at 6pm for our anniversaries and we could celebrate together. It was wierd, but neat!
After that we went to a 66ers game (minor league) and had a good time there.
It was great! I am so happy and thankful for my wonderful Scott!

Presenting....Oscar De La Hoya and Harry

Scott brought home another dog....a boxer puppy that we named Oscar De La Hoya. Scott got him from a lady up in Oak Glen. She found him about 3 1/2 weeks before that and was unable to keep him after no one came forward to claim him. So we started harboring another dog! He loveed playing with Sammy and is a really energetic dog....but there was a problem. We now had 6 dogs in our backyard:

Our dogs (Santa, Sammy, Frederico),

my grandpa's old as dirt mini poodle (Spunky),

the dog we are trying to find a home for (Harry),

and the boxer (Oscar).

That was just too many dogs for our tiny house and backyard. SO we needed to find Oscar (and Harry) a home. Plus, I am semi-allergic to dogs, I have allergies at first and then I adjust and am fine. With Oscar, however, he gave me hives wherever he licked me.

So we were desperate to find him a home. We looked for about a week and then found out that Scott's brother, Jeff, would possibly want a new dog. So we called him and talked to him (and so did Scott's sister Shannon, Thanks!) and he said that he would take Oscar! Yay!

So we placed our first dog in a new home!!!! My dog rescue business has begun!

The next dog we are looking to place is Harry, a sweet, housebroken, non shedding terrier mix with the largest head you have ever seen :) If anyone is interested, let me know. Harry just wants a good home!

Scott's EMT Graduation

So Scott graduated from the EMT program at Crafton Hills College on May 20th. It was a while ago, but my life has been crazy and I haven't had time to document it :) He was 4th in his class of 30! I am sooooo proud of him! He worked hard, having study groups at our house every Wednesday and Sunday night, and he studied all the time! He got to help present a plaque from his class to his professor. He passed the EMT National Registry a week or so later and is now a certified EMT! If you need medical help, just let him know :)

Goodbye Mr. Weiners

Ouvre (isn't that French for goodbye, Spencer?) Wesley Weiners. We've loved having you in our home and sharing in our fun times.
For those of you who don't know the story, Wesley Weiners is a $1,200 Puggle (pug, beagle mix) that my sister's roommate, Xochie, bought at the beginning of last school year. They live out in an apartment near Cal State Fullerton, and never really got around to paying their pet deposit for him. He destroyed their carpet with pee and poop, and Xochie was told it was them or the dog. Rosie, my sis, came in February and asked Scott and I if we would take him until the end of the school year when Xochie could take him home to Northern Cali to live with her parents. We said yes (of course) and he arrived the next week.

His real name is just Wesley, but everyone calls him Mr. Weiners because of the movie Mean Girls. You know the scene where Cady is planning to get to Gretchen so she has some candy cane grams delivered to herself? As the Santa is passing out the candy canes, he's sayin who they're for and when he gets to Gretchen Weiners, he says "And none for Gretchen Weiners, bye" Well, Wesley used to be (and still is if you aren't looking) a food stealer. He'll take it from your hand, plate, table, etc. So Rosie and Xochie used to push him away from their food and say "And none for Wesley Weiners, bye" thus the name was born.

In his 3 month stay with us, he has managed to destroy 4 shoes, pee on numerous household items, and cause a ruckus with all of his barking nonstop. He loves to sniff faces (Scott hates that) and steal any type of paper product that he can chew.

BUT....we have loved the friend and playmate that he has been for our Sammy dog and the never ending entertainment that their playfights have provided. He leaves tomorrow afternoon to go back to Fullerton with Xochie, who heads home on Friday. I know everyone else in my family is happy, and I can't say that I'm not, because he is a handful, but I will miss him terribly.
He'll have fun in Norhtern Cali and have more room to move about, but I hope that he an Sammy won't be too down that they are being split up. He's a goofball and slightly deranged, but he became part of our family and I am sad to see him leave. Adios and good luck Mr. Weiners.
BFF

High Desert Adventure

So Saturday we went up to Adelanto for a motorcycle stunt show and safety fair. It was at the High Desert Mavericks stadium parking lot. We got there a little late so we missed the safety fair, but the stunt show was pretty cool. Rome and Randie, a tandem stunt team, were there showcasing all of the cool stunts that they do. We took a picture with them, though Randie apparently didn't have a shirt with her, just her bikini, so I'm not putting that picture on here :)

Our tickets to the stunt show also got us into the Mavericks game that night at 7:05, unfortunately, the show ended at about 1:50 so we had a lot of time to kill. We went to the mall in Victorville and walked around for a while. We decided to see a movie and chose X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It was neat, though I wanted to see more cool mutant powers :)
Our friends, Ian and Jenn came up to the game and brought their new baby girl, McKenna. She is only a week and a half old but is sooooo cute. They just moved back here from Iowa and this is the first time that we've gotten to see them since they've been back. It was a good game, they were down by 5 in the 8th inning and came back to only lose by 1 in the 9th. We had a great time spending the day in the desert!

That's us with new baby McKenna!