Catch up from December to March...

Wow, life has been a little on the crazy side. To catch up with some pictures and good times... While Dave and I are busy, we enjoy doing things together like watching movies, playing games, hiking, etc. We got the chance to jet down to Sedona to hike amongst the BEAUTIFUL red rock!





I forgot to mention that my really good friend, old roommate, and college classmate Jessica got married in December and I got the chance to throw her a PRINCESS bridal shower with Bridgette. We had a good time, and Dave and I enjoy having Jessica and Joseph to be our game buddies now!

Like I said, it was a Princess theme, so we were all goofs and put on Princess temporary tatoos.

And of course RING POPS!


So the weather here has been PRETTY crazy, luckily the snow is all melting and almost gone... WOO! But at one point our trash can and recycling can was being held hostage under a mound of snow that was bigger than our car...after a few weeks, the trash bags that were lining the wall in our garage started smelling BAD so we dug in, making a cave in the process.




So a new emerging hobby of mine is decorating cupcakes! I got an ADORABLE cupcake book that has decorating ideas and is pretty simple too. So I decided to make Valentine cupcakes that are supposed to look like a box of chocolates for my visiting teaching sisters. Some friends came over to decorate with me and we had a great time! We had cupcakes coming out of our ears! We were supposed to find a cute valentine box to put the cupcakes in, but I couldn't find them, so we bought regular cheap chocolate heart boxes from Walmart, and cut out the plastic holding the chocolates.


THEN we baked and frosted all the cupcakes



THEN the decorating began!


Renee is an art major, of course hers were amazing!


Dave's cupcake for me! Ahh...


The final results...



After the cupcake fun we decided to play a boardgame names Quelf. If any of you have played that game, you know it is just hilarious, and makes you do all kinds of crazy things! So this is how we all looked by the end of the game...


So one of the reasons things have been crazy lately is because I have been studying and studying and studying for my National Board Dental Hygiene Examination. They pretty much test on every class I have ever taken since I was a freshman in college. In order to get my license for dental hygiene, which means in order to get a job, I have to pass this test. NO PRESSURE... right! So I have neglected Dave, friends, cleaning, cooking, shopping etc for awhile so I could study during every free moment. Well I took the test March 18th of my Spring Break. It was long, boring test where every question had two good answers and I just had to pretty much guess which one was the best. I decided that after my test I wanted to do something fun. SO we did the Disney Give a Day, Get a Day and went down to Camp Verde with some friends to paint a church that helped children after school and Dave and I each got a free ticket!




My test was in Phoenix, so we went to Havasu that night to pick up my sisters. We left the next day (Friday) and went straight to Huntington Beach. I got to say, all of Spring Break was SUCH nice weather, until FRIDAY our BEACH DAY! We showed up and it was SO WINDY! But we braved it and were going to spend the day at the beach until the wind blew us away! So we had fun having a little sandy picnic, picking up shells, taking pictures, etc. Brooke, Liz, and Dave went and played with the huge waves in the water, I was not about to submit myself to that FREEZING water! And they sure paid for it later, being cold the whole rest of the day. Something horrible, but great, that happened while we were at the beach was we lost our keys. Dave apparently has no concept of containment (like purses) and left the keys on the sand next to some other stuff. When we were about to pack up, Dave wanted to run down at take pictures of the famous pier, so us girls packed up the camp and walked over there to meet him. While packing up we were flinging dirt all over the place cleaning our towels and such. We got over to Dave, took some pictures and started walking back to the car. On the way Dave asked where the keys were. I said that I thought he had them. And that is were the panic sets in. We decided to go back to where we were sitting by the beach and searched all over. We kept sifting through the sand, being scared that we were only covering them up more if they were there. Dave decided to go check the car and make sure they weren't inside. The girls were emptying all our stuff and searching all the bags. And meanwhile I kept sifting through the sand where we were sitting. What is touching about this story is that while we were all searching our different areas, we all said prayers (we found this out later when we were talking about it). We needed Heavenly Father's help because we had no other keys, no other way to get home, and were parked in meter parking. I open my eyes after the prayer and there is my little fry's keychain card poking out of the sand. Let me tell you, God hears and answers our prayers. I immediately had to kneel down and thank him for helping us. But anyway, here are some fun pictures of us at the beach..courtesy of Dave!

I just had to laugh so hard at this one... Brooke's "Baywatch" run... she would be mad if she knew it was on here!


My hair all up in Dave's face!


Us girlies laying out... or trying to get warm!




A few of the many shells we found


Us girls... Sister love!






The group beneath the pier...


Here we are at Disneyland. We had such a good time! Our first picture of the day on Jungle Cruise.


Other fun pics...












Now we are back to school after the fun vacation. And now I actually have time to write on our blog! Yay for being done with boards! I think I find out in 2 or 3 more weeks if I pass. YIKES!