Happy Birthday Dad!

My dad turns the big 5-0 today! He is a great man.

• My Dad is loyal-but don't get on his bad side:)
• My Dad is a good leader both in and out of church. Since I was Four he has not sat with us in Sacrament meeting because his callings required him to be elsewhere
• My Dad loves to serve. He has always taken care of the widows in our ward. Our family would often go over and sing, clean, or just visit with them.
• My Dad is very funny. He's always telling jokes and making people laugh
• My Dad loves music and has a beautiful bass voice.
• My Dad is a hard worker and can fix just about anything
• My Dad is a master BBQ-er, he makes the best tri-tip
• My Dad loves people he is a very social guy, we are always the last ones to leave places because he knows everyone and has to talk to them
• My Dad loves his family very much

Happy Birthday Dad! I love you!!

(not the best picture but hey you gotta work with what you got)

Wordless Wednesday

Hello and Goodbye

I've already spent much of my house cleaning time on the Internet so I'll keep it brief. I just found out yesterday that I'll be teaching a class this semester at El Camino College-yeah! Would have been nice to have more notice but nevertheless I'm stoked!

In other news my friend Amber just started a blog! Check it out

http://www.carlandamber.blogspot.com/

And lastly here's a shout out to Kaitlyn who's off to be. why. you. on Sunday. Sure gonna miss ya toots! Have fun in P-town! (Megan and Kaitlyn in Nauvoo)

Wordless Wednesday

What my clothes are saying about my eating habits...

Efficiency is Essential

This week is going to be crazy. I keep hoping things will slow down one day...yeah right!

MY WEEK:

Mon-Cousins sweet 16 birthday party

Tue- Enrichment

Wed- Young Women's & John's band has a performance (see picture 1)

Thur- Home Teaching (there's a chance I may be going to see Michael Buble)

Fri-Girls Camp

Sat- Wedding reception and hang out with Kevin and Sarah

Sun-Church (I'm teaching), Debbie's graduation (see picture 2), and we're house sitting

Those are just the scheduled events. Somewhere in there I need to go to work for 8 hrs/day, do laundry, clean my house (my sister in law and two nieces are coming next week), do church stuff, pay bills....you know the usual!! What makes it extra tricky is not getting home from work till 6:30 pm. How do working mom's do it. It's only John and I and it gets intense. breath. It will all get done, I may be doing it at 11 p.m. but it will get done.

What a boring post. I am not a fan of complaining posts, I hope it doesn't sound that way. I'm not looking for sympathy just needed to talk/type it out.

John's band-Backing Wisconsin

Some of the gang at Claim Jumper

Back row: Anthony (Janae's boy friend), Cory ( Kerilynn's boyfriend), Weston, John Front row: Janae, me, Debbie aka Beautiful Queen, Kerilynn, Mom

A quick summary

John and I went to San Diego for the weekend. the last time we went away by ourselves was our honeymoon nearly 3 years ago! It was great. My cousin's husband's family (take a moment to figure that one out) has a condo they let us stay in for free! Thank you Zamudio's!

We went to the beach, rode bikes around the bay, ate, went to Gaslamp, ate, went to the bodies exhibit (totally wicked), went to the temple, ate.... I didn't take too many pictures and still don't have the internet at home so they won't be posted till later. Here are some of the things we did...

went here

went to the movies and saw:

**It was fabulous. I left singing and dancing. I also have a little crush on Zac Effron

Went to the wrong movie theater on Fri. night so this was our back up date:

Ate delicious pizookies, cotton candy and golden spoon(not pictured)

It was a great weekend most of all it was just fun to be with John. He started school today so it was fun to have one last hoorah before school starts. See ya in Dec sweetie!

There's No Place Like Home

After being gone for two long weeks I'm finally back!! The first week was our stake's youth conference in Utah and then after an eventful week there it was off to San Fransisco for work. More details and pictures to come. Here are some highlights:

Saw Wicked for the 2nd time with my whole family courtesy of Debbie the Beautiful Queen

FINISHED!! I laughed, I cried, I'm done!

So happy to be back home with: