Family fun over the summer....

We've been able to do lots of fun things with tommy's family and also mine. Some of our activities have included, beach camping, playing games, San Diego, temple, weddings, arizona, san jose, birthdays, funerals, and just making memories together....=)

Marriage Life...

Since its been so long since I've written its hard to believe that I have been married for 5 months and 3 days. I can't believe how fast the time passes. We have definitely had our share of trials and struggles but I am grateful we have been able to experience it together. I can honestly say that I love tommy more and more everyday. I am grateful for the gospel in my life and I have faith that heavenly father wont give us anything we cant handle. I have loved being able to start our little family and trying to start traditions that are important to us. One of my favorites so far has been f.h.e. together just the 2 of us. Its so special to me and it really means alot. I hope when we have children we will continue to make that apart of our weekly routines. Another thing I have loved is doing little projects and cooking together. Its something that brings us closer together and its fun. We just get to talk and get to know each other better. Its great because Tommy loves it just as much as I do. Even since we have been married we have started playing lots of games with my family. Golf and Spades would have to be some of our favorites. Tommy gets so competitive and its really fun to watch him. Life is good and I love my eternal companion. 

Bryce finally came home...

Our family was finally to all be together again after about 4 years apart. It has been alot of fun. When he first came home we had a super fun beach camping trip. Its one of the things our family loves to do together. Its so much fun to spend time with one another.

I love my grandma...

My grandma just passed away on August 13th, 2012. Im so grateful to have the gospel and the understanding that I will see her again. She is someone I have always had a great love for. She is so special to me and I'm going to miss her so much. She is one of the most thoughtful, loving, caring, kind people I know. She loved everyone and she always showed it. I will forever be grateful she was able to come to my wedding and share that special day with me. I'm grateful for her kind heart and her testimony. She was someone who always remembered what you loved and got you your favorites to show you that love. She will be missed but I'm grateful she is in a better place now. When she was going we were able to be around her and sing hymns around. When she was able to talk to us she was sharing her testimony still. She was talking to caitie on the phone and told her she loved her. then she said im grateful that we can be together forever and shes grateful for the savior. She always loved God and showed it.

Our wedding....Los Angeles Temple

So lets just say I have been a bad writer on the blog. it has been too long and I need to be better about journaling and keeping track with my life. I'm going to try to recap on a few things in the last few months.

March 17th, 2012 will forever be a special day to me. I got to marry my best friend. So our wedding day was lots of fun. It started off a little wet but by the end of the night we all had such a fun time. It was raining so hard and traffic on the freeway was really bad. Traffic going to L.A. is always bad but with the rain it was even worse. Once we got to the temple it felt so peaceful inside. I had to wait for over an hour for my husband to finally make it. He finally did though. It felt so good to be in the celestial room and know that I would be with him forever. It was nice to have so much family and good friends there to support us and share our special day with us. We got lucky right when we came out of the temple the rain stopped for a bit, but it was FREEZING taking the pictures. The wind was blowing and it was cold. We ended up getting lots of great shots together although I wish we had some more family shots due to the weather we weren't able to. (I was so scared the rain would come back.) Afterwards we headed back to the church in upland and had the most fun reception. We had such a good line of friends and siblings. We just had fun. It was a good night. I was surprised when all the groomsmen did some fun dancing for me. It was great. And I had to conquer my fears and do a Polynesian dance for my husband. I was so SCARED. Its something I will never do again but it is a memory and I'm proud of myself for actually doing it. When we were dating I use to tell Tommy he would have to pick someone else to marry if he wanted them to do that at his wedding. As it got closer to us being married his brother explained to me that I really did have to  dance at our wedding because of tradition. I finally agreed. I know it meant alot to Tommy so I just did it. Its funny because my good friend Rachel was so patient with me and she taught me everything. She was such a good teacher. When The time came and I got up there I forgot everything. I just did some moves I remembered over and over again. I loved being able to dance with Tommy and watch him dance for me. It meant alot to me as well. It was fun for my daddy daughter dance I had my sisters join me and my dad and it was fun all being together.One of the most special things to me is that my grandpa don came to the temple and he and my grandma Lorianne came to my reception. Tears filled my eyes when I saw them because I know it was an easy thing for them to be there. With all there medical problems at the time it really took alot but they made it. we danced with both of them in their wheel chairs and they loved it.  A little fun memory I don't want to forget is going to walmart  after our reception. We had to get a few things and I walked in with my wedding dress and all. It was a super fun day and one I never want to forget.

Picking out the ring...

Okay so this is something I really dont want to forget cause I think its cute. So we went to az to see tommys brother edward. we had such a fun time with his little family and the night before we left I had told tommy that the next day i wanted to go shopping. Just the 2 of us. Since he had gotten home we really hadnt been able to spend much time just the 2 of us. So much family to be with. Which was fun dont get me wrong but we need some time alone too.That morning as we were getting ready to leave tommy said he wanted to watch a movie. I was sad because I had been looking forward to shopping with him but I realize how much he loves movies and he hasnt seen so many since his mission. So I was just gonna let him watch it and leave a little later then I wanted to. He took a shower and told me he wasnt going to watch the movie and that we were going to go shopping. I just felt so special. Like really he didnt have to do that. It was very considerate of him and honestly made me feel a little selfish and bratty.ha ha..hes so nice to me... So on the way home we did some shopping. We didnt get very far. We went to the mall like 5 minutes from his brothers house. So the first store we come tois a diamond store and tommy was like lets look in there. So i was like yeah this is so fun I really never have looked at rings and never tommy and I together. So we looked and the first place we went i saw the ring I loved. The man his name was ryan who was showing us around was so nice and helpful. So he showed us some other rings but I really loved the first one I tried on. (funny thing about this is I loved the first wedding dress I tried on and it ended up being the dress I got as well. just a little side note.) So we went to a few more ring places but nothing else caught my eye and no one else was as nice as ryan. I ended up going to pacsun which was having a major sale. I was sooo excited and looking around alot. Tommy said he was gonna go to a shoe store real quick but he would be right back...he ended up rushing back to the ring store and told ryan he wanted to buy the ring right then and there and to hurry..HE asked how tommy got rid of me and he said I was in the dressing room. ha ha...so he bought the ring. OKay funny thing I saw him talking to the lady at pacsun, well i thought he was just asking her for a shoe size but he was really telling her that he just bought a ring and to please hide it in the shoe box. I thought that was a clever idea. I can be nosey sometimes and I would have noticed the ring in his pocket for sure. So I love my ring and it was so fun to be able to pick it out. I love tommy and im so grateful to be able to call him mine. He really is so good to me.

Im engaged...

So on Jan 6th 2012 tommy and I headed down to san diego to visit his brother tui in the navy. We were planning on this for a while since my cousin was getting married the next day in the san diego temple. We figured it would be fun to see him and then we wouldnt have to leave home so early. As I was getting off work I called Tommy to make sure he would be ready to go and he said lets go to the beach. Something fun about tommy is he is spontaneous and likes to change up the plans sometimes. Its good for be since I'm a planner and like to know whats going on. I think were good for each other that way. =) anyways. to make a long story short tui was expecting us so we ended up going to san diego as planned not the huntington beach as tommy was planning. We first drove to this area by the water that was full of fog and looked a little creepy if you ask me. Tommy told me to keep driving and we ended up going to this beautiful beach that was by a hotel that looked like a castle. It was perfect. By the water, and rocks and not too many people around which was just what I wanted. I really had no idea this was coming. We sat by the water and listen to the waves and enjoyed the beach. Then tommy told me he had something. He pulled out an ipod with speakers and turned on a song and told me he wanted to dance. Its called next to you by christ brown. Before he had told me this song makes him think of me and it was alreadt special to me. It was funny because as we were trying to dance to it we couldnt really since it wasnt that slow. We were laughing but I kept telling tommy how cute he was to do something like that. Then he told me that we should leave. So we started to pack everything up. So we did and then tommy told me we should go for a walk. At this point I thought something was up. Why would he tell me we should leave then go for a walk. He didnt seem nervous the whole time he was calm and so normal. So then when we were walking I was wondering what was going on so I wasnt really paying attention to what he was saying and I wish I was. He was telling me how much he loved me and etc. Thats really all I remember. Then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. It was so cute. I loved every minute of it. We will soon be married very soon on march 17th 2012. I cant wait for the day when I can finally be together for time and all eternity with my very best friend. It was very special that the next day we were able to go to the san diego temple and sit in the celestial room together and I just felt so at peace and I thought of the day that I too could soon be there with tommy making those sacred promises and blessings. =)

Tommys homecoming..

Wow my goal of writing on here weekly has for sure failed. Life has been so busy but great.,..let me first share that tommys homecoming was so amazing..I love being able to just be in his presence. When I first saw him at the airport I wasnt sure if it was going to be awkward but it only lasted about 5 minutes as he greeted his family first. Then he asked to take a picture with me. I knew he wasnt going to be weird around me. We took his straight to the stake presidents house where he was released. It felt like we just started right where we left off. Because of his timing coming home and me working at schools it ended up that they had christmas breaks around the same time so i only had to take a couple days off and I was lucky enough to spend a good 2 1/2 weeks just doing fun stuff together. We got to spend time in san jose tommys home town for the first time together which was alot of fun. We were able to go to utah to the temple with lots of people from my mission and we even had lunch with the jones who served in tommys ward when he was a child. They have really been like grandparents to tommy. We even got to spend time with my cousins jareds family. They were nice enough to let us stay with them and caitie was off work so she even came along which was lots of fun. We enjoyed celebrating christmas with my family a few days early which was sooo much fun. I loved every minute of it.l Then we headed back to san jose to spend christmas with tommys family which was also amazing. It was so good to be with the family. After we came back to my family to spend a few days. We were lucky to have beautiful weather and got to ride bikes at the beach which is something I really love so much. Then we headed to az to visit tommys brother, sister-n-law and the cutest niece ever miss kyleigh. They made us feel so welcome and it was just alot of fun. Then it was time to head back home to get back to work and start up pathways through byu-i which I must say I love so much. Its so spiritual which I have ever experienced as I attended school and I love that tommy and I get to do it together. Its fun to work on the hw together and be able to attend institute each week together. I have mostly loved just being able to have my best friend around me again to laugh and joke and talk about whatevers.