Winter Holidays

Happy Holidays

These are all things I did not blog about this winter. Winter is cold, and I always want to snuggle up and watch movies with my free time, not blog. Anyway they are NOT in order but since the first snow fall to now these are things I would have blogged about :)

Christmas Tree Shopping

Alicia's Baby Shower

It was a lot of fun and we had a great turn out. Everyone was so helpful and it turned out really great! We can't wait for baby Madeline to get here.

College Gameday and many Utah games with Kalyn, she was so nice to let me use her husbands tickets when he was working, which was every game. It was such a blast!

GO UTES!

Zoo Lights, and hanging with my nieces and nephew! They bring so much joy to our family, I love them so much!

Many date nights with Trev :)

Halloween

Haunted House

Carving Pumpkins

Cowboys and Indian's Dance with SIGMA

Girls Day out with Bella was quite the adventure. A boy pushed her off the slide and it was a really scary moment, she fell on her head. She seemed to be ok after I got her Ice-cream and a princess from the Disney store. She is so much fun and is so sweet. I  was actually telling her how stupid the boy was for pusing her off the slide and she said "Tossy we don't say that word" haha she even keeps me in line! I love her so much!

Game nights lately have been so much fun! Sometimes it's with my parents or all of our friends and they are so much fun. I have to keep on record that Mallory and I DESTROYED Trevor and Pete at Catch Phrase,

We won 6 Games they won 1 game

Girls nights out..... Birthday Dinner's

Our Annual Christmas Party

Fun Chrismas activities such as;

Temple Square lights and making gingerbread houses

Jazz games!!

GO JAZZ

Mallory and Pete throw the best parties! This is a new tradition that she started an ugly sweater party!

Hopefully next year I will be able to host it so Mal doesn't have to do all the work, I am sure grateful she is willing too though.

Such a fun group of friends!

I sure am grateful to have such a fun group to hang out with and have fun parties with. They are all so much fun and so festive, we all get into it and that is the best part!

I had such an amazing christmas. I feel like I am so blessed and I have such an amazing family! I got the best christmas presents and I am obsessed with my new;

Kindle

GPS

Digital Photo Frame

Purse

Clothes

Perfume

I must have been a good girl because I sure got spoiled.

So now for the new year! GIVE IT UP FOR 2011!!!!!!!!!!

I am so excited for a new year and a fresh start! I know it is going to be such a great year and I hope to accomplish all of my goals.

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!



Californiaaaaaaaa

This was over fall break... oooops

This post is late....

better late than never

So I grew up going to florida beaches, then through high school I lived in VA so I went to East coast beaches.. I went to california maybe once or twice but never to be a beach bum. We would stop by the beach for maybe a day and I always hated it. It seemed too cold and what in the heck SeaWeed?? That was unheard of in Florida... anyway I really wanted to go explore California. Like always people always bail when I plan a fall break or spring break... but this time at least Trevor followed through. He has cousins that live in long beach that were so nice to let us stay with him. It was such a perfect vacation! On our way down we stayed at Erin and Neals, sadly they were not there :( but Pete, Mal, and Hads were staying there for the weekend as well. We went to Vegas and did some great H&M shopping :) We also laid out at a pool called Tahiti Village, I had stayed there a while back with some girl friends and I knew just how to get in haha you would have never known we weren't timeshare owners.

Vegas Baby

So my camera deleted my other pictures from Vegas :( so I have none with Mal or Pete or Hads ... sad.

The next day Trev and I headed of to California! It was such a fun road trip.. I thought Long Beach was so much further then it was but it wasn't a bad drive at all. Trev and I had things on our list we wanted to do but the best part was that we had no set plans. We did what we wanted to do when we wanted to do it :)

The first day we went to Olvero Street in downtown LA ... Trevor loved it! He went to Mexico on his mission and he said they had all of the same things. Clothes... cups... candy... food... people walking around singing sweet mexican tunes! It was a lot of fun!

Then we headed to Venice Beach.. talk about the best people watching in the world! We could not stop laughing! After being beach bums all day, we took the long board on the board walk.. Trev is a professional... I sucked!

After that we went to the Santa Monica Pier! We had such a great day of sunshine but then it started to get a little muggy.... it was so fun just being in a different atmosphere.. being in a place with all these tourists. I loved it... this is when I started to fall in love with California. A change of heart you could say.....

 

The rest of the trip was a lot of the same thing. We went to different beaches everyday. Hunington Beach was our favorite! We loved the beach... the pier... the surfers.... the shopping.. and it just had a great vibe. If either one of us ever own a beach house in california it would def. be at Hunington Beach.



 

One tradition we did start.. was everyday we ate lunch on the water... we ate at a few pier's or just at restaurants that had a view of the Ocean. It was fun everyday deciding where we were going to eat :)

Ruby's was our favorite! The restaurant at the end of the Hunington Beach Pier. On our way to eat lunch we saw TUNZ of dolphins. We watched them play for about an hour then we got seated at our table and we could still see them from where we ate. It was so much fun and they had great hamburgers and shakes!! YUM!!

 

If you know my love for animals you would understand the SEA WORLD was one of the highlights of my trip for sure. It is my dream to work there and work with the sea lions. They are so flipping cute and so smart!. San Diego seemed like a lot of fun, I was sad we only got to spend 1 day their but 5th avenue in downtown SD was such a hopping place. We had dinner and did some more shopping :).



It was such a great trip, we got to see friends and family and be together a lot. I don't think we had 1 fight believe it or not haha. I didn't know what to expect becuase it was my first time spending that much time with trevor... I think it was 10 days :) but all I can say is I for sure just fell for him more. I hope we can go back again next year!

 

Yvette and Glenn were such kind generous people to let us stay with them. Also Erin and Neal, I feel so lucky to have such great friends. I wish they all lived really close so we could spend more time together but no matter how much time goes by without spending time together its always the same when we finally do. I am so lucky and blessed for all the amazing people in my life, I really couldn't ask for any better.

This was something we saw on our long road trip... Seriously how would you like to tell someone... Oh just get off the zzyzs road exit. No big deal.

2011 anybody?

I have been such a terrible blogger lately,
I get on to post pictures about my weekend and write about it, then I find myself doing homework. Or getting on facebook, or blog stalking and I never get around to it. I figured out that I have so many emotions going on inside me and sometimes I am scared to get on here because I know I will just write about them. I share all my feelings on here and I know I have already shared too much in the past and thats ok, but there is something about writing to yourself and something else about writing when you know other people may see it. They are both good to do that is for sure.
I have so much to be grateful for and this time of year its so easy to share it.
I am thankful for...
My parents
All of my family
Trevor
My friends
School
Primary Childrens Medical Center
My heavenly father
The atonement
Food and Clothing
A home
My car
My health
My mind
and soo much more. As easy as it is to be thankful its been a rough year. I am counting down the days that I can finally say 2010 is officially over and here is to 2011. Somedays I think I have cried so much that I won't ever do it again and then it comes again. As happy as I am, and as good as life is... no one can tell you when you are healed. No one knows when you will forget about the past, not even yourself.
I came to the realization that sometimes I think I am scared to forget, scared that if I don't breakdown every once in a while then its proof that I have officially forgotten something that meant so much to me at one point in my life.
Thanksgiving was great :)
I cant wait for christmas
Let it be 2011 already :)

I want it Wednesday!

VACATION!!!!!!!! 

Not only do I want it... Im going to get it! 

Fall break officially starts in 2 days! I feel in great need of a vacation... being a poor college student once again I am shocked and excited to take such a fun vacation for the whole week!!! 

Kicking it off in St. Geezy, I can't to be with all of my friends and have a good time. You know Vegas shopping is in the plans and maybe a little serendipity :) 

Then its off to CALIFORNIA! 

So I have never really explored california which is weird because we live so close and so many people come to vacation there. But because my mom is for Florida I have spend several summers there. Now I know it won't compare to Siesta Key Beach or seeing my lovely Cuban family that I miss so much but I am so excited to go to all the places in California that I have never been too 

Don't worry I have been to Disney World ... just not Disney Land so I am pumped

San Diego

Coronodo Island 

I am ready to buy some legit handmade mexican good on Olvera Street in L.A. 

We get to stay in Long Beach, CA and explore so much of SO CO haha! 

These are just a few things on the agenda! I am so ready for 9 days of vacation! 

As for everything else in life, I love to sit in the library on campus. Put on some headphone and listen to sweet tunes while I do my homework Nelly has impressed me I can't help but share my joy of this song. 

sooo come on now if you ever loved somebody put your hands up 

Really I hope you have all heard this song, its old now but I love it 

Life is good 

School is great

I can't believe its already October, I can't wait for this month to pass. 

Stay tuned.... 

Nelly - Just A Dream