My problems are solved!

I found out almost a year ago that I was lactose intolerant. I would eat some cereal in the morning and then feel the milk in the pit of my stomach all day long. Some other, not so pretty, bodily functions would follow and I finally realized that I just can't tolerate milk.

Luckily mine isn't that bad. The only things I can't eat are milk, sour cream, ice cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc. However, if I wanted those things all I had to do was pop in a magic pill with my first bite. The pill would last 20-40 minutes before I needed a new one. I was amazed. I could finally eat whatever I wanted.

Exhibit A: Magic Pill

A few days ago I was browsing around online and found the real magic pill. The answer to all of my problems. A pill that is taken once a day. All I have to do is take one every morning and can eat whatever I want, all day long! For the longest time I've had to give up little bites of things. Jonathan always has ice cream or something and offers me a bite. I always respond by saying that one bite isn't worth taking a pill. Now I can take all the bites I want! And no more having to cart around 12 pills with me every day because I don't know when I'm going to eat dairy.

Exhibit B: The Real Magic Pill

The best part is that I found a site that will send me an 8 day supply for free! Although I almost want to just go to the store and get some tomorrow! But I should probably wait. (Can you tell I'm way too excited about this?)

Picture time!

I can finally post pictures! The internet at my in-laws is more reliable than at my house so I can use linux and post my pictures!!

Let's see....where to start on the trip...Milton usually has a hard time with these rides so we came prepared with sedatives from the vet. We figured if he started getting anxious we could just give him some to calm him down.

Jonathan also built a little "fence" from the front seat to the back seat so that the dogs couldn't get through. This helped tremendously! Milton didn't freak out the entire time and just stayed put in the back. It was amazing.You can kid of see the "fence" here. Chloe was actually a little worse than Milton on the trip. Funny little thing.
I love Chloe's faces.

Jonathan was glad I drove, even if it wasn't for very long.

Milton liked to pop his head around the seat to try and be comforted.

Jonathan went to probably his 4th and 5th professional baseball games ever on this trip. The first week we went to an A's game with Tom's clients and got to eat all kinds of yummy food. Then, the day before we left we went with Daniel to a Giant's game. Jonathan actually really liked the games. It was fun to just sit around and eat stadium food and enjoy each other's company.

Jonathan wasn't quite into the game at this point. He was more interested in his free burgers and diet pepsi!


The A's game wasn't really as exciting or intense as the Giant's game. The only fun things were that Alex Olson caught two balls and a cat ran into the field.


I really feel bad because I convinced Jonathan that he wouldn't be cold in shorts and flip flops. He was freezing! I learned my lesson for the Giant's game. I don't know what I was thinking!




We were dressed much more appropriately for the Giant's game, but I was still cold!

I have the best brother ever!

Mom and I did plenty of shopping and we hung out with Daniel, Sarah and Luke a ton too. We finally found Mario Kart for the Wii when we were in California and had a blast! Watch out for Sarah, she can kill you if she's got Waluigi!

I already want to go back, but instead, I think its time someone made a trip up here *hint hint*. I'm excited to see what we can do to see everybody around Christmas time.



We love you all!

A word to the wise....

Do not go on vacation with a dirty house. Seems simple right?

We had been doing a pretty good job keeping our house clean, but in the midst of packing for our trip, things got a little out of hand. Stuff got scattered. That can be expected with packing, but I didn't have time to pick it up before we left.

So we left California at 10:45 California time and started for our LONG trip home. We didn't get in until 1:30. The drive itself wasn't bad, it just took forever.

We walked in and immediately smelled....the stench. We had forgotten that this apartment smells funny. Now, before you start thinking that we're nasty dirty people or that we have bad smelling dogs....oh wait, I guess we do have stinky dogs...anyway! This smell has been here since we moved in. We have no idea where it came from. But it just smells....weird.

With the combination of the smell and the fact that the place was slightly cluttered I was ready to hop back in my car and go back to California. My mom wouldn't mind housing us for another month or two would she? She'd pretend she'd like it, but inside she'd be wishing we didn't make HER place a mess like ours was.

Anyway, since we've been home I've been a cleaning machine. Not to say that our house was a disaster before, it just needed picking up.

Every room is almost spotless. Then there's that pesky third bedroom. One bedroom is ours, one serves as an office, and then we have a third that doesn't really have a purpose. We could make it a bedroom for the dogs, but....they wouldn't sleep in there anyway. Chloe won't sleep unless she's touching some human skin. Right this minute she's right next to me. She could sleep all day.

It could be a craft room. I could put all my jewelry stuff in there so I could leave it "out" and not have to put it away every time I'm done using it.

But instead...its the junk room. There's stuff in there from the move that I didn't even know existed. That should tell me something. I should just take everything in that room and throw it out. Its obvious we don't need it. One of these days I should post a picture of it. Its pathetic.

Well, I'm sure there's more cleaning I should be doing. I'll update about the trip with pictures later. I just have to figure out how to get my pictures from my Linux drive into my Windows drive since the internet is incredibly unreliable in Linux right now.

I hope everyone is having a great summer!

We're Coming!

Tomorrow morning Jonathan and I are starting our trek to California. I am way excited to see friends and family but NOT at all excited for the drive. Usually we take the trip in two days. Jonathan really wants to do it in one. 14 hours in the car with two dogs!

We got Milton some sedatives so that he can kind of fall asleep in the back seat the whole time. Usually on this trip he sits on my lap because he gets so scared. Its awful. So hopefully with him knocked out we can have a more enjoyable ride.

Speaking of enjoyable rides....our car is very bumpy. Its been more like a boat than a car since I bought it in 2005. So today we had the new struts put on. I laughed the whole way home because it was just so smooth! It was money definitely well spent!

I'm sitting here trying to think of what else to say and my mind is clouded by the fact that I am absolutely dreading the drive tomorrow. We can drive around town without a purpose and realize we've been driving for 3 hours. But the second we get in the car and realize that we're stuck in the car for that long I get very anxious. It'll all be worth it to see everyone though! Its a good thing we're staying for about two weeks because there's just so many people to see!

We're 2!

So on Tuesday, Jonathan and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary! Time flies so quickly! But at the same time it feels like we've been married for 7 years.

I meant to make this post say...Tuesday night, but I've been so busy with finals (side note, we're done with finals and projects and will be headed to California probably on Wednesday!)

The night before our wedding I slept better than I have in my entire life. My mom was concerned I would be a nervous wreck (and she had every right to think so, I've led her to believe I'm a nervous wreck my entire life) and so she wanted to give me half of a sleeping pill. I politely declined, telling her I'd like to be conscious for my wedding. I fell asleep faster than ever before. My mom on the other hand, took the pill and the next day had a migraine. I told her! :)

Usually when I get up early, and especially when I'm anxious about something I get a stomach ache. So I was terrified that I was going to be feeling sick the morning of while I was getting my hair done and everything. But I was calm, cool and collected. Absolutely nothing was phasing me. It was wonderful.

We headed off to the temple and were sealed without a glitch. It was the most amazing day of my life. After I put on my wedding dress and got ready to see Jonathan I can still remember my mom telling me something along the lines of..."just so you know, your flowers aren't quite what you expected them to be, but they're beautiful anyway"...doesn't she know me well! The one thing she warned me about is the one thing I still have a little bit of frustration over! If I could do it all again, I'd make sure I got the flowers I asked for! But really, my wedding was amazing and I'm so happy with how everything turned out.

So this year, Jonathan and I decided that we weren't going to exchange gifts until sometime in California because we just didn't have time with finals and everything. But anyone who really knows me knows that I couldn't really do that. So after my classes on Monday I went out and just got some "starter" gifts. Mostly things we would have gotten him regardless-like some t-shirts and socks.

We went to school and I took a test and then it was off to sushi! Jonathan doesn't get to eat sushi as often as he'd like so we took advantage of the fact that it was our anniversary and splurged a bit.

I'm still not quite sure what else we'll do in California to celebrate, but I know we'll have fun.

Here's a few pictures of our wonderful wedding, now two years ago.

Excited? To take a test?

Never in my life did I think I was excited to take a test. But yesterday I was.

I've been taking a nutrition for young children class this semester that I've really enjoyed. Our last section was on food safety. I've been totally intrigued and disgusted at the same time! There are a lot of things people do at home that are so dangerous with food.

So like I said, I had a test yesterday and if I got at least 80% I would get some certificate of food safety for Idaho. I don't know exactly what it was called, but I was excited!

I got a 92%! I only missed 4 questions (and I still don't have a clue which ones they were).

So that's out of the way. Now I have 2 spanish tests this week (including a comprehensive final), a family interaction test, a nutrition project and lots of Spanish homework. I really should be doing homework, but I can't seem to get the motivation.

And after the semester is over....we're going to California! It'll be really nice because we'll have our car so we can stay as long as we want and go where ever we want without having to borrow a car. I'm really excited.

Yay!

Because Margaret said so :)

I talked to Jonathan's aunt Margaret today and she told me I needed to update my blog, so here I am!

This will likely be a long one, a lot has happened.

So the 19th was my birthday! My mom and her husband Tom came up to visit and we had a lot of fun.

Jonathan woke me up with breakfast in bed. It was so sweet of him to do. A few days before my birthday I had been craving a Jack in the Box breakfast croissant thing and so he got me one :)

Chloe had fun basking in the sun that morning as well. She was really cute.







So I went off to school-my second ever birthday being in school, the first being summer school before freshman year-and was really excited to be done.

We had dinner at Jonathan's parent's house that night and we had a lot of fun and I got a lot of great stuff. Everyone was so generous.Dave and Melissa got me some glass pearls to use with my beading. I've used them a TON and love what they add to my jewelry.

The next day J, Mom and Tom and I went and played mini-golf. We had quite a lot of fun.

So that was my birthday. The next week my dad and his wife came for dinner on their way back from a vacation. I cooked them dinner and our house was boiling! They came through on a day that was 102 outside! It was SO warm out. Yikes!

Now we're just trying to get through school and finals. Nothing should be too bad, projects will be worse than finals. But after that we're on our way to California! I'm so excited, except not about the trip. Milton gets anxious on long car rides and tries to sit on my lap the entire time. Its not exactly fun for my legs :/

About every other weekend I end up making a ton of jewelry. Last weekend I think I made at least 15 things. I've put them all up on etsy, but I haven't seemed to get many bites. Oh well, I guess they can just become gifts.

I've been busy making an invitation for Kalyn's baby shower in a couple weeks. That's what the look like. This jpg is a little fuzzy, but they won't really be. I think if you click it you can see it bigger.

Our 2nd anniversary is on the 15th and its my year to come up with something. I figure we'll do a little something here on the 15th and then do something bigger in California once we get out there. I just can't figure out what to do! If anyone has any ideas, I'd love them!

I feel like I'm missing something, but I can't seem to put my finger on it. If I figure it out, I guess I'll come back and blog more.