Here comes the Graduate!!!

We finally made it to graduation. It was a perfect day the weather couldn't have been better. Not a cloud in the sky a slight breeze and the warm sun, the stadium was jammed packed. We had to get there about three hours early just to get a seat it was great.

I am so incredibly proud of you Gerret you did an amazing job this last year and a half and really faced some difficult challenges academically but pulled through and grew in so many ways. Iam so glad to have been here with you and watch you accomplish something great that will help you in our future in ways that we can't even imagine right now. I love you so much babe this has been an awesome year. Although it was tuff at times I am Lucky to have been able to share this with you.

Congratulations Graduate!

The Best Feeling.....

So my last day at work was Friday May 16. For the last year I have been working at Cayuga Medical center as a hospital aide in the operating room. It was a very interesting experience needless to say i have seen some very scary and unusual things there. I am soooooo happy to say that i finally don't have to work there any longer, most know that i hated my job I was very mistreated and stretched to the max. They were really short staffed so I had to do more work than I should have had for the position that I was in. Ithaca really doesn't have many jobs, so you either work at the hospital or Cornell not much to choose from.

I ended up with the hospital believe me I would have left after the first month but it's SO incredible hard to find jobs in this town when you find something you have to keep it. It was the best feeling to me to walk out those door and know I never have to come back and work there again it was priceless to me, Iam sure for those who have had to deal with a job that you just despise completely understand the feeling, it's great!!.

I did meet some really cool people though that made the difference for me while working at the hospital. We went out for a little goodbye party on Friday night. Aside from all the negative comments I have made in the past about this place I will miss some of the people that I worked with. Thank you so much for helping me get through this year at work, I can honestly say it was one of the hardest and emotional jobs I have ever had.

Happy Birthday Gerret!!!

Happy Happy Birthday Gerret!

It was on Monday May 5 Cinco De Mayo! We where able to do a surprise birthday BBQ party for him without him finding out, which was awesome. He was completely clueless and didn't even see it coming. I will admit I am proud of myself for keeping it a secret, well i only had to keep it a secret for 24 hours but that was hard enough. I can't hold stuff like that in it's just to hard for me plus I just get to excited to have it happen already. Thank you all for making this work out so well in such short amount of time. the only thing i didn't do was take pictures of everything so I only have one picture, I will have to try to snag some from other people. I know this is written past Gerrets Birthday but I wanted to post it anyways. We have been so incredibly busy with work for me and school for Gerret that I haven't had the time to do much with the post so better late then never right.

We are on the count down only 17 day left and two finals for Gerret till we leave Ithaca New York and start on our long drive back to sunny San Diego which we are happy to announce that we are moving back to. Unfortunately we are still figuring out the job situation so until then we will keep you posted.

Okay so there are somethings that we will miss about Ithaca the summers are amazing this is the time to be here, all the out door activities that you can do the hikes the lake the gorges it really is fun, the fall is beautiful there is just so many colors everywhere, and most importantly the friends and relationships that we have created while here at Cornell. We are so thankful for the friends that we have made here I don't know what we would have done with out them especially through the 7 months of the insane winter here. We will miss you terribly=(..

Cookie Monster!!!!

Boston Trip!

We decided to go to Boston for the end of our spring break this last week. We needed to get out of Ithaca and have some new scenery, plus it was our one year anniversary! Our good friends Ben and Lexie came too. We had a great time and I must say it was a trip to remember. We started off in Salem, Massachusetts and went to the Salem witch museum and learned about how witches were prosecuted for the Salem witch trials. That was interesting because there were a bunch of girls who had nothing better to do than to go around pretending to be possessed and accusing people of practicing witchcraft and then the accused ended up getting hanged. Pretty sick huh?
We had lunch at "Cilantro", the best Mexican Resturant we've had in a while. You can't find authetic mexican food in Ithaca. We went to "The Tomb", which was an interactive Egyptian adventure where you have to figure out with your group how to decode riddles and challenges presented by the Pharaoh by using all your wits. That was really fun, I enjoyed it, and I recommend it if you ever go to Boston. We walked on the Freedom Trail, had lunch at Cheers, where everyone knows your name, but that was a lie cause no one knew our names; what a joke...... We went through Paul Revere's house, went to the U.S.S. Constitution museum, and saw the naval ships in the Harbor. We then had dinner in Little Italy where everyone looked like they were related in the restaurant, toured Harvard, and went to the Boston Temple for pictures. We walked around Fenway Park where Babe Ruth and Ted Williams played. It was cool because everything was still authentic looking, and we wish we could have gone to a game. That would have been awesome. Well, I could safely say by the end of the trip that both Lexie and I were set on moving to Boston. It's a beautiful city with so much to do, and eat, and there is great shopping as well. Unfortunately, we weren't able to do much shopping considering the fact that we are still poor college students. Here are some pictures of our trip. Hope you enjoy them.

Be careful what you say. Someone may be listening. Only slightly creepy.

One Year Anniversary

Wow, today is March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, which iss our one year anniversary. I can't believe how fast the time flies. It has been one crazy and great year here in New York. I remember this time last year I was freaking out to move across the country to a place I had never heard of before and for what? Only the best guy ever! I am so grateful for Gerret and the man that he is and for allowing me to grow while having the patience that he has with me. I can be a really pessimistic person and a pain in the butt and he completely balances me out. I have truly been blessed to have him in my life and nothing has been the same since we starting dating pretty much at my brother Danny and Veronica's wedding. Life has only gotten better from that day on and continues to do so. I know this is kind of a corny tribute to my Husband but I really am just the happiest girl in the world to have him by my side. He makes every day full of laughs and great times and for those of you who know me well, that is one of my favorite things to do, just being able to laugh. He is so smart and such a hard worker. I have honestly never seen someone pull so many all-nighters. Between working technically two jobs (the sorority and the library) and taking 17 units at Cornell... you must be out of your mind or an incredible worker. I know that all his hard and diligent work and efforts will pay off in the long run.
Here is a little history about Gerret and me. We have known each other since we were in seventh grade and we were in the same family ward back in Carlsbad. In high school I had the biggest crush on him. He was a football player, really smart and really, really good looking and he of course was Mr. Popular. Everyone loved him. I was non-existent at this time of his life and I never would have thought at that point that I would end up marrying him. Heavenly Father really does have a plan for everyone. It has been amazing with him by side so far. Yeah, so we aren't the perfect couple but I feel I have the perfect guy for me and am so grateful for him every day. Happy Anniversary Gerret! Thank you for everything that you are and do!
Here are some pictures of our wedding!

Palymyra Temple

So Carlyn, a good friend of ours, came to visit for her spring break and she had never been to the Palmyra Temple or the scared grove, so we decided to take a trip up there, plus it had been a while since we had gone. It was cold and there was snow on the ground, so everything looked dead, but the grove that you can walk through still has an amazing spirit about it. Everything feels so still and peaceful, and it is just so awesome to think that that is where everything started with Joseph Smith and restoring the church. To think how far it has come and how much has been accomplished by prophets thereafter is pretty dang amazing to me. I am so grateful for the opportunity to live so close to Palmyra. There is so much church history here. We also got to go to Palmyra's Hill Cumorah visitors center where they had an exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls. We didn't get to take pictures, but it was still pretty cool to hear the history of the scrolls and all the translation that they are working on. They have also allowed LDS scholars to do research on the scrolls as well. It is so fascinating to me that we can come across something so ancient and historical in our time that has such an incredible amount of meaning for our future. Here are some pictures of the Palmyra Temple, the Joseph Smith farm, and the Sacred Grove.