Utah Pictures!!

I've been promising pictures...So here they are! We had so much fun on this trip! Austin is sooo adorable!!!

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I'm Back!!!

Vacation was amazing!!!!!!! I had so much fun with my handsome man and his sweet family! We spent every day together and I looved every second of it! I'll post pictures sometime tomorrow, for now I'll just say: I loved my mini vacation and most of all...spending every minute with my Bumbo!(new nick name) Stay sweet my friends!

PS: Hey Anneliese, I'm Back! :D

2.5 days until...

UTAH!
I am sooo excited for Utah!
I'm already packing! So far, here are our plans:
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Friday: Start driving at 4AM...Arrive around 3PM. Go to JDawgz as soon as we arrive! [I'm not gunna eat all day, just so I can enjoy Jdawgz!] JDawgz has the BEST hotdogs ever!!! So after that, we're probably gunna hang out with Ry's family and get settled in :)
Saturday: We're planning on walking around BYU, going to the campus store, going to Desseret, stoping by JDawgz one more time, and then dinner with Ry's Fambam at Texas Roadhouse, and then after that we're going to the temple to sit and watch the fireworks.
Sunday: Church with Holly :) and after that just hang out with Ry's Fambam! And enjoy Austin!
Monday: We have a parade in the morning and a BBQ after. We might go swimming in the afternoon! For dinner, we might drive to SLC and have dinner at Lonestar Taqueria. About a week ago, I saw this place on Diners, Drive In's and Dives and I wrote down the name! they're supposed to have the best tacos...so we'll see! lol :)
Tuesday: We might take a tour of Dave's work, he works for the church news...so that should be fun! :) Later on that day, we want to stop by the MTC to volunteer :)
Wednesday: We drive home... :/

We have a pretty busy vacation lol :) I'm so excited!!!
I'll take plenty of pictures!

June June June

June has been good to me :)
On June 5th Ryan and I went to Cafe Rio! It was our 16 Monthaversary. I love Cafe Rio =] I was a little dissapointed the first time I tried it, but I Love it now :) Anyways, I'm so excited! Next week we're gunna be going to Utah!! yay! We're going for 4th of July weekend! I'm so excited to see Austin! :) It'll be a nice way to start July!

So, back to June! We've been pretty busy! On June 11th, we went to a Dodgers Game! It was so fun! I looove Dodger games! On Saturday [the 12th] We went to Anneliese's graduation and later on that evening we went to her Grad Party!

 It was so much fun! I love hanging out with my friends! I wish we did it more often! It's just so difficult with conflicting schedules! On the 18th we went to dinner, the Covina Farmers Market, and to a movie with Becca and Mahinor. Double dates with them are always fun! We watched the Karate Kid, It was a good movie, but I still prefer the original. The next day, Lisa and Michelle had planned a chocolate dipping day with the girls from young women, but No one showed up to help! Only one person and she was a leader! And they had a TON of stuff to dip! So we went over and helped them for a bit :) After that, Ryan and I went to the mall to buy Ry's dad his gift for Fathers Day! We got him a new pair of shoes, a polo, and a button up shirt! After shopping, we went to Ry's house and watched the original Karate Kid :) On father's day, Ry went with me to church and after that I went over to his house to have dinner :)  Here are some pictures:

Oh and here's is my baby Noah!

This Friday, We have a double date with Robert and Gaby! I'm excited about that :) And on Saturday... Ryan has band practice and after that I'm not sure what we will be doing. I'll update! :)

XoXo!

Chocolate Covered Friday

Hello :)

It's a Friday night and I'm at home! Sounds like my single days...haha :) But it's all good! I enjoy staying home. I haven't stayed home on a Friday night in a LONG time! So today was a pretty relaxing day, I went to work from 9-1 [it wasn't too busy] then after work I went to try on the bridesmaid dress, but the lady wasn't there and didn't notify me that she would be gone sooo I drove over to her house for nothing! On my way home I had to buy some white chocolate so I went to Food4Less and after that I stopped by the Teriyaki Place that i Love, and I came home to have lunch with Oreo :) He likes chicken...so I shared lol. I watched some TV and ended up falling asleep..lol. Sooo I woke up and started working on the Chocolate covered pretzels for my sister's baby shower tomorrow. I made about 70 pretzels, really yummy :) I'm not a fan of chocolate so I didn't have any, but my mom said they were delicious! I also practiced making the tux strawberries and they actually turned out nice! Ill post a picture :) It's really blurry because I took it with my cell phone. SO! I finally finished everything and decided to come up to my room and watch a movie I rented. I had planned on making it a girls night with my mom and sister, but my sister took off to her bf's house to spend the night...while I was taking a nap. So..I'll be watching it alone :/ oh well.
As for My Ry...he seems to be having fun in Utah. He bought a Wii! amazing. lol he's not the type to spend money on video games... I haven't talked to him much today, we've only talked for like 30 minutes, and they were all 5 minute conversations :( But, at least I know he's having fun! I really miss him, but it's nice to spend some time apart so that we can appreciate the time we have together. SoOo yeah. That's my Friday! Tomorrow I'll be waking up early to make the chocolate covered strawberries for the baby shower and then I'll be watching Conference! My mom will be going to the shower, but I'm gunna stay home. In the evening I'll be hanging out with my friend Anneliese! yay :) She's been my friend since 1st grade! we live like a block away from each other. So I'm looking forward to that! I'll post pics soon!

-Steph

October Fun :)

Hello :)

Ive been horrible at updating this! There has been so much goin on!!! For starters, we went to Utah for Confrence weekend!!! It was so much fun! We stayed with Holly and Dave! [Thank you so much!!] they were wonderful! We left on Thursday at 4AM, and we arrived in Utah around 3PM that day. Utah is the complete opposite of Cali! I loved it =] I wouldn't mind transfering to BYU and living in Provo. It is sooo nice and so clean! On Thursday we went to the mall, and drove aound being tourists! On Friday we woke up and went over to BYU so that Ryan can give me a tour! i LOVED it! We went to the BYU store and i bought a nice hoodie! Right after BYU, we went over to Jdawgs!! The BEST hot dog stand EVER! yumm!!! I want them to cater my wedding!!!! lol Oh! on Thursday night we went to Brick Oven and had some BBQ chicken pizza! omg...delicious!!! it was amazing!!! It seems like we did a lot of eating in Utah...lol anyways, it was worth it! Another place that we HAD to go to was Cafe Rio. Ryan always talks about this place! He always says that its better than Chipotle, which I don't agree with! The food at Cafe Rio was good, but I haven't craved it....so that means I didn't like it THAT much. lol =] Sorry Ry... oh and! its a bit expensive! Chipotle still owns my heart! Sidenote: The people that work at Chipotle know us! lol they know our order!!!!! isnt that sad? lol they hook it UP when we come in :) i love it! We actually went today...lol Anyways, back to Utah! hmm on Friday we went to volunteer at the MTC! i LOVED it! i wish we could have done it again, but they're not open for volunteers on the weekend. I definately want to go back again! Later on that same day, we went to Cafe Rio with Andrew Wiggins [Ry's mission friend] he's sooo nice! I really liked him! After dinner, we went to Ryan's mission reunion! yay! it was so much fun to see his mission friends =] After the reunion, we went to a BYU game! I had fun! Everyone was so friendly and kind! AND there was no cussing! lol strange huh? nothing like a dodger game! lol so yeah. fun day! After the game we met up with Ry's friends and we went to Sammie's, a place that makes shakes out of pieces of pies. I didnt try it...im not a huge fan of sweets. So that was Friday! On Saturday... We stayed at Holly's and watched confrence. We went to get Jdawgs in between sessions! lol =] yumm! And later that day we went to the church store and bought some scriptures. That night, we went to dinner with Holly at a Buffet called...hmm chuck-a-rama [i think]. it was delicious! but! it gave Ryan gas....so it was an interesting drive home! lol We stopped by Macey's and bought some waffle making stuff so we can have a waffle dinner with Ryan's friends! Soooo on Sunday, we went to Salt Lake City and walked around Temple Square! i LOVED it! =] I really enjoyed it a lot! We watched conference inside the Tabernacle. It was neat :) I loved SLC! Ryan gave me a wonderful tour of the major buildings! I enjoyed every minute of it! After Salt Lake, we went back to Holly's and relaxed a bit and worked on our homework [yes we had homework! ew]. Later that day, we had dinner at Holly's. We had yummy lasagna and Tyler and his gf Becca came over :) We met her for the first time. She's really sweet. After dinner, we went to Margo's house [Ryan's friend] and Ry made them M&M waffles. it was sooo nice to meet his friends. Catherine is really sweet! i really like her! After the waffle party, Ry gave me a tour of Provo at night! we went to the temple and just talked outside. It was great :) i LOVED it!!! The next day, we came home! On our way home we stopped by St George to have lunch with Nate at Cafe Rio! It was fun to catch up with Nate. Ryan and him really hit it off lol ;). So...that was pretty much it! we stopped by AMPM on our way home! yay! and i worked on Ryan's paper in the car. Surprisingly...i didnt get sick. lol he got a great grade ;) I didn't get such a great grade....but thats ok. :) Well, That was about it! i am very gratefull that I was able to spend time with my boo! it was so great to see him ALL day! I cant get tired of him! its impossible! I love you babe! thanks for an amazing vacation!

Goodnight!!!

-Steph

Aquabats and more!

Hello :)

I'm a horrible blogger...lol [not as bad as Ryan though...hehe] SOOOOOOOOO! I went to my very first Aquabats Show! oh....my.....goodness! their fans are CRAZY! lol there was a girl dressed up like pikachu. ?!?! yes...and she was handing out cookies! It was a very unique experience. lol I had fun! even though I got beat up in the crowd! lol :( my shoulder is bruised up! My arm has another bruise...im just sore all around! Ryan kept me company for most of the night, he only left me alone for like 3 songs. I just stood in the back...lol like a loser! but anyway, It was fun! :) Corndog went with us but we lost him as soon as they started playing. Overall: great experience!


School is going great! Speech is pretty easy, Marriage and Family is...common sense. I think as a member of the church, school seems easier! Speaking in public is no issue because the church encourages us to speak in public since primary! I feel very blessed :)

On a side note...I'm considering going back to my Spanish ward. It's not that I don't enjoy the singles ward. I love it there! But...I just feel so "at home" in my Spanish ward. So...I'm not sure, but its definitely a topic in my prayers :)

OH!!! Ryan and I are going to Utah for conference weekend!!!!!!! yay!!!!! it's going to be my first time!!! I'm soooo EXCITED! :) Michelle is coming with us, so it should be so fun! She's a sweetheart! We will be leaving on Thursday the 1st of October @ 3AM...and coming back on Monday. I got Ry and I some tickets for a BYU football game! yay! :) I'll take plenty of pictures!

Well....I'm off to bed. Im soooo tired! today was my long day.... :/

Good News: I know what I'm getting Ryan for Xmas! :)


LOVE,
Steph