10 Months!

Yesterday we hit our 10 month anniversary! I can't believe it has already been 10 months since we've been married! At times it feels like we've been married forever and other times it feels like it was just yesterday!

Here are a few pictures to share a few of our favorite moments we've shared together! 

One Day Trip to Salt Lake for a Jazz Game

Ice Skating

Making our beautiful table and finding chairs that match perfectly!

Buying Our New Car!

Getting Married in The Logan Temple on May 21st 2010

Learning How to Rope!

Watching Sheldon's Basketball Games

Golfing/Good Rexburg Weather!

Camping at the Uintah's 

Shel Driving a School Bus!

Tubing With the Family

OH My!! There are so many memories I want to share...But there are So many to choose from!  These are just a few of the things that have made these past 10 months the most wonderful months!  We love being married and we grow closer and fall more in love everyday!! 

LOVE YOU SHEL!

Reaching New Heights!

This last week I did something I never thought I could do!! It may seem silly to others but to me this was a huge achievement...I flew on an airplane all by myself!  Flying is scary in the first place, but doing it all by myself was taking it to the next level! 

San Jose Airport

I was getting on this airplane to travel home to Utah to visit my family and be there for my cousin Kyle's homecoming!  I was excited to see my family, but Sheldon couldn't get work off so that meant leaving him behind!  In the 10 months that we have been married I have never been away from my husband! WOW! So I was sad to leave him. The flight to Utah was okay, I was on a smaller plane so there was turbulence and my stomach didn't appreciate that but we landed and I was good!

SLC Airport

When I got into the airport I headed out to meet my dad...but was stopped by a crowd of people all trying to get out of the airport.  The gates were closed and they weren't letting anyone in or out of the airport!  We found out there had been some kind of security breach and we were stuck there.  I had to wait for an hour before they let us leave...and it ended up that they guy they were looking for didn't even have what they thought he did!! Oh well..I didn't think I could go on a trip without some kind of incident!

It was a great trip, but I was so happy to come back to My Sheldon!! Being away just reminded me of how much I love him and need him...He told me I can't leave him ever again (I think he missed me too)!! Now it's back to California for 4 more weeks!

SHARKS!

Yes...San Jose is the home of the Sharks Hockey team.  We were able to get tickets through Sheldon's work and it was a really fun date night!  When I first think of hockey I think of mean, tough, scary, smelly, aggressive MEN!..My thoughts haven't changed!!  But I do have a greater appreciation for those that can make ice skating look like a piece of CAKE! They are able to skate like crazy while shoving others around and hitting a little black puck.  So even though I think they are still scary and way too mean....I THOUGHT IT WAS SWEET!

Sheldon is now convinced that he should be a hockey player...I think I'm okay with him just watching it!  It didn't take much for those hot headed men to start putting choke holds on people that get in their way and swinging their long sticks at each other, I'd rather keep my husband in one piece!!

It was pretty exciting to be apart of a crowd that was going CrAzY!  The Sharks played the Vancouver Canucks and they are ranked best in the league...so we really did see a great game.  Our Sharks played a hard game, tying it up with only a minute left in the game...holding out through overtime and then loosing in the shoot out! It was really exciting and I'm glad we had the opportunity to go out and experience a little of San Jose!  We will probably be Shark fans for the rest of our lives now....just because we saw them once, I'm going to get matching shirts so we can show our support! (haha)

Zmudowski!!

Zmudowski is a beautiful beach!  If you ever come to California and you want to go to a beach that is low key and amazing...Zmudowski is your place!  One Sunday afternoon we decided to visit this beach, not really knowing what to expect.  Our GPS was certain the road to the beach went straight through a field of strawberries....We were in the middle of no where...looking for a beach that the GPS couldn't find...this is where I start to panic a little bit!  I'm so grateful Sheldon is always calm and knows how to fix everything!  We went out to the main road, and a few miles down there was a sign that said...Zmudowski State Beach! IT REALLY DOES EXIST!  We followed these dirt roads (which were kind of sketchy) that lead us to a dead end with a large sand hill.  We were nervous our little adventure was going to be lame, but changed our minds after we reached the top of the sand hill and saw this......

...A beautiful beach that wasn’t crowded with people enjoying the warm sun and sea breeze!

We had so much fun looking for sea shells and sand dollars!  Sheldon was like a little kid running around in the ocean, splashing around digging in the sand. 

It ended up being a wonderful Sunday afternoon! Relaxin on the beach enjoying the company of my best friend! 

A Day in the Life of Olivia!

I can't believe it! We have been in California for 7 weeks....and we only have 7 more to go!  Before we know it we will be back to little ol' Rexburg.  I'm not going to lie...I'm kind of excited for the structure that comes with going to school and having a schedule.  I'm going a little CrAzY!!!  I'm embarrassed of my daily routine: 

Wake up

Take Sheldon to the train 

Go home and sleep a little longer

Read scriptures/eat breakfast

Go for a walk

Do homework.................................

Read a book…paint my nails….go grocery shopping…..

Try to find things to do until Sheldon gets home anywhere between 9-12pm…

I've always wondered what it would be like to have absolutely nothing to do...and now that I have it I don't know how much longer I can take it!  I am taking a few online classes, so that keeps me pretty busy, but you can only do so much homework in one day.  I'm starting to explore the area more, I found two great malls and a shopping outlet....But I don't want to spend all of Sheldon's hard earned money!  This picture is gross, but this is my desk (where I do most of my homework)...and Sheldon thought it was funny that we had all three laptops out....Silicon Valley...what can you expect, we gotta try to keep up!

Sheldon thought he would cure my boredom by giving me a honey-do list (I thought I was the one who gave out honey-do lists!!)  So I am now learning how to do our taxes!! Sheldon does taxes every day, so now I'm experiencing a little of what he does, and I'm actually enjoying it! ...this is a picture of me inaction doing our taxes!

I was nervous to come out here at first, and I still miss home at times but I'm grateful for the experience! I'm learning so much about myself and about different places.  It can only help me become a better person...I hope!

Monterey California Adventure!

    Last weekend Sheldon had to work Saturday and Sunday....and this weekend he was FREE!! I was so excited to get to spend two whole days with him!  We decided to not waste a single minute and explore beautiful California a little bit.  We headed out to Monterey (it's only an hour drive south of San Jose).  We've been told that the beaches are beautiful here, and they have a huge aquarium.        

           

The ocean amazes me still!  Sheldon and I could sit and watch the waves crash up against the shore for hours!  I guess one reason why we love it so much is because it's so mysterious, we really don't know much about it and you can't see what lies beneath it's deep blue surface!

It was so warm Sheldon decided to pull out his shorts and flip flops...his legs were happy to finally see a few sun rays!

We parked in town and walked along a path that takes you from one side of the beach to the other.  Here we are standing in front of the boat harbor.

The Aquarium was fascinating! Ive never seen so many different sea creatures. We saw otters and sea horses, jelly fish, flamingos, penguins, TONS of fish, sharks, sting rays, star fish, an octopus, and many other things!  This is one of my favorite pictures.....

They had a tank of jelly fish that looked like they glow in the dark! It was pretty amazing how these boneless, brainless creatures float around.  Here are a few other pictures of things we saw....

These fish were so crazy weird!  They looked like they had been stepped on and squished...they were completely flat, with two little funky eyes on the top.  They were cool because they looked just like the rocks.

I was so excited to see penguins!  They are such interesting birds... 

This little guy was probably our favorite part of the whole aquarium.  This is a bat sting ray, and they will let you touch them without stinging you.  It was kind of scary to stick your hand in the water with this funny looking creature, but it was SWEET!  They are really soft and almost squishy.  I actually got to feed one!! This lady gave me a squid head that I held in the water, and when the sting ray came up he sucked it right out of my fingers!

The beach was beautiful!!....

...and the sun set was amazing!!

What a great weekend! I hadn't realized how much I had missed Sheldon's company! Thought of the day...Don't take for granted the ones you love most!

My New Friend.....

 This is my new friend Tuxedo! She is a little chiwawa who LOVES to play with Sheldon and I!!  I kind of like her because she doesn't bark all the time, and she is kind of cute!

In the  morning when she wakes up she comes and sits in front of our bedroom door with her nose to the floor trying to find us...and then she starts scratching on the door and wimpering...thats when I give in.  She love to lick EVERYTHING!  Sheldon likes to tease her to death by sticking his tongue out at her...and then she trys to grab it.

It's kind of nice having someone to play with during the day while Sheldon is gone....One day I will convince Sheldon to get e a puppy!!

Sheldon is working hard and is loving it! I think the company like's him too...because they keep him there really late!  They keep giving him more projects to do which is good because he is getting all the experience wanted!!  I don't get to see him a lot, but I get him for eternity!!!