Time Out For Woman and than some!!!

This weekend my Mom, Grandma, Aunt Cherie and I went to Time Out For Women. It was in Riverside. I had been looking forward to this event for months! It is something that us girls do ever year together. This year was no disappointment! We had wonderful speakers and great music. I was so excited to find out that Kenneth Cope was going to be doing all of the music this year. He is one of my favorite church singers. Our first speaker was Mary Ellen Edmunds. She spoke on this life being like our insurance policy into the next life. That as we follow the teaching of the gospel and commandments it is our insurance to live with God again. She is a very fun lady and has a great laugh. I really enjoyed her talk. The next speaker was Brad Wilcox. He spoke on the Atonement and how Jesus Christ has already done his part for us and that we need to do our best here on earth and Jesus will make up the rest. He had great stories and again really enjoy the message he talked on. After lunch we had two more speakers. We had first Jill Mannings. Jill is a marriage and family counselor and specializes in pornography. She addressed us on ways to keep our homes a safe guard against pornography. It was very interesting to hear everything she was saying and now bad and evil this world is. Especially the degrading and immoral things that are being done to women and child in that industry. She said that 83% of pornography comes from the United States that is on the internet. Our country is the largest producer of it. That is a scarey thought! It was a very informative talk. It opens my eyes to things I just didn't even imagine or understand. The last speaker was Emily Freeman. Once again I have to say it was a great talk. She talked on Abundance. She told a story of how she bought a wooden block that had the word abundance on it. She placed it on her coffee table and thought that was what her family needed that paticular year "abundance". Well things didn't seem to happen in her mind the way she had planned as the year went on and she didn't at first feel the abundance she had hoped for. But as she really thought about it, she realized that Heavenly Father was viewing abundance in a much different way and she was filled with blessings and had much abundance in her life. She went into great detail of the blessings in her life and stories of her family and the trials that they have went though. She is an amazing women and I learned so much from her talk. Most of her talk I was either laughing or crying. It was wonderful!! The entire conference was uplifting and so filling to my spirit!
We left the conference excited and blessed to be able to hear all the great music and speakers. Aunt Cherie had met us their and so we said our goodbyes and headed on our seperate ways. About 10 minutes into our drive home Aunt Cherie called my mom's cell phone and said she was in a car accident. She was heading down the freeway in her lane and a guy came out of control and hit her. She lost control of her van and ended up hitting the brick wall on the side of the freeway. We turned around on the freeway once we got the call since she was heading in the opposite direction than us. We got to the accident and her van was totaled! She was ok, we ended up taking her to the hospital's emergency room to be checked out. She was having chest pains, pain in her ribs and her left arm was all scraped up. But overall she was doing ok. Well we spend most of the evening at the hospital. Then we ended up bring Aunt Cherie home to my moms for the night. Then Uncle Nick came to pick her up this morning. It is so scary to be in that type of car accident. But I know she was blessed with walking away with only a few bruises!
Other than that Shane and I have been enjoying going to Disneyland with our Annual Passes. It is fun to see it all decorated for Halloween right now.
We also are heading to San Diego this coming Thursday! We are so excited to be going on a mini vacation. We are spending 4 nights at the Paradise Point for our Anniverary! Another year of marriage has past us by! I love Shane and I am so thankful to be married to such a wonderful man and a great father!

Update

Well life has been crazy busy for us the last few months and looks like that will continue for the next few months! In my last post I wrote that we were heading to Utah for Wyatt's Baptism! So I will start with that!
For labor day weekend we drove to Utah with my parents. It took most of the day on Friday to get up there. We had fun on our road trip though! I got pulled over about 2 miles from my in-laws house on the freeway! But was lucky to be given only a warning to not speed! We got up on Saturday and had a relaxing morning and then headed to the baptism in the afternoon! The baptism was perfect! It was such a special event in all our lives but mostly for Shane and Wyatt. I feel so lucky to have a husband that honors his priesthood and was able to use his priesthood to baptize Wyatt!
After the baptism Wyatt's mom had a nice party for him at the church. It was so nice for Wyatt to have us celebrate this special day for him! When that ended we were able to go back to Gary and Diane's and spend some time with Wyatt! We watched the BYU football game and just had fun as a family!
On Sunday we were able to be together again with the family and attend our new nephew Easton's blessing. Afterwards we went back to Gary and Diane's for a early lunch and then headed out of town! We drove Sunday night to St. George and then we drove back to California the next day! It was a fast weekend but we sure enjoyed the time we were able to spend with family and friends and also to share in Wyatt's special day! Shane and I are so proud of him for his decision to be baptized and follow Christ's example! He is a great young man and I am proud to have him as my step son!!
Since the baptism we have been busy here in California! It seems like every weekend we have a family event or plans! In September we had a family get together and we also have my nephew Corbin's 2nd birthday party! We bought a new car! We got a BMW 325 e. It is used but it will hopefully be a good car for Shane! We were able to go to an Angel's baseball game, that was so fun! I am a huge baseball fan and it is so fun to actually go to the game!
For the month of October-last night we had a big temple event for our stake at the Redlands Temple. It has been in the works for the last few months. We were as a stake suspose to gather names to take to the temple. Our stake had the entire temple reserved the entire afternoon and evening just for our stake! We had youth there to do baptisms and adults there to do everything else! In August Shane and I were called to be the family history consultants in our ward to help prepare the members for this event. It has been a great experience to have this calling and involved in this event. It was wonderful to attend the temple yesterday. We had over 400 members of our stake there. It was just an awesome experience. As a family we are already preparing to take more family names through the first Saturday in November. We are so excited to get this work done for our family members!!
Also another big event for this weekend, Shane is shooting his first wedding down here today! He is doing it as I am typing this post! He is an awesome photographer and I am so proud of him!
Other events for the month-we have souper saturday craft day at church next Saturday. The following weekend my mom, grandma, aunt and I are going to Time out for Women that is in Riverside this year. Then the fourth weekend of the month Shane and I are going to San Diego for four nights! This past Janurary I received a free four night stay at the Paradise Point on our FAM trip when I worked for Get Away Today Vacations. So Shane and I decided we would use it for our anniversary. It is going to be our fifth anniversay in just a couple of weeks. Time has gone by fast. I am excited for us to have this nice getaway! I love San Diego!! After that we have Halloween weekend and lots of plans also! My list could go on and on with all the upcoming plans! I will try to be better and post more often as these events happen!
I have pictures to post also but not sure where to find them on the computer. I need to ask Shane!
We are still loving being here in California! We are mostly enjoying the weather. It is nice as fall is here and winter is coming not to have to stress about the snow!

Wyatt's Baptism

We have had a busy weekend getting ready for Wyatt's Baptism next weekend. This is the day Shane has been looking forward to for 8 years. He is so excited to be able to baptism him! I am so blessed to have a husband that is worthy of the priesthood, that honors his priesthood, and uses his priesthood to do good. It truely blesses our lives! We are leaving early Friday morning to drive up to Utah and we return to California on Monday. It will be so nice to have a short work week and then have a 4 day vacation to Utah and than another short work week! I will feel everyone in on the detail next week. But we don't want to miss inviting family and friends that want to share in Wyatt's special day!
Wyatt's Baptism is at the Roy West Stake Center at 2270 West 4800 South Roy Utah. It on Saturday September 5th at 2pm. We hope to see all family and friend there!

Where did the summer go?

This summer has gone by so fast! We have been so busy! We work all week and never see each other. Shane and I are on opposite schedules right now. I work 8am-5pm and he works 1pm-10:30pm. It is crazy! So the weekends we try to fit everything in and spend as much time as possible with each other!

The past couple of weekends we have been able to find some together time. We have went to the movies, the beach and to dinner. This past weekend we had Micheal for his last weekend before school starts. We decided to have our end of the year beach party Friday afternoon and evening. It was fun. The ocean water was warm and Shane spent the entire time we were there in the water trying to surf! It was fun watching him. We also took Corbin and he had so much fun just playing in the sand.

This next weekend we are going to go to the Orange County marketplace, we need to shop for Wyatt birthday presents and hopefully do a few other fun things together.

We only have a couple of weeks before Wyatt's Baptism! We are so excited to come to Utah and to have Shane baptism Wyatt! This is a day that Shane has been looking forward to for a long time!

I have posted a few pictures! Enjoy!!

New Job

Well I think I have landed myself a new job. It is a amazing story though. Last week I got a call from a dental office in Irvine. When I talked to the office they wanted to know if I lived close by in Orange County. Well they can see on my resume that I live in Corona. So I said no and that was it. They didn't want to interview me. So call is ended. Then this Tuesday I get a call from the same dental office and they did not talk about where I lived but just said that the doctor wanted to set up an interview with me at my availability.
I go in on Wednesday for the interview with the doctor. We are discussing where I worked before like normal and he is asking a lot about what I did at the previous dental office I worked for. At the end he tells me that he is really good friends with the previous dentist. He also said that he would tell him hi for me when he called him.
So I am not stupid and I am still good friends with Dr. Hsu. So I came home and call him. I had to leave a message. Not more than an hour later Dr. Hsu called me back. He said that he had just received a message from the other doctor but wanted to call me first. So he was asking me if I wanted the job. I said that I did, that it would be a good opportunity. So he basically told me that if I wanted the job than he would make it happen for me. That he was really good friends with this doctor and he could get me the job. So I thanked him and ended the call.
So about 30 minutes later I get a call from the doctor I interviewed with and he had me come in today for a working interview and to see from there. Well the day went good and I am to report back in on Monday.
I feel so blessed. I know that Heavenly Father is watching out for me. I also know that you need to remain in good contact with past friends and employers. I am so glad that I have remained good friends with Dr. Hsu. I am also thankful for his influence in all this and for the good things he told the doctor about me. I feel so blessed today. What a difference a day makes. I am excited to not have to interview anymore. That is a blessing in itself.
Months ago I knew it was the right decision to move to California and that Heavenly Father was behind our move down here. Even though it was a difficult decision to make. It was extremely difficult to leave Wyatt in Utah. We still struggle with that. But we are starting to see light of why we are here and the blessings that go with doing the right thing when it doesn't make since.
I am truly blessed!!!

Week Two with Wyatt here

Well this past week went by so fast. Today Shane and I were discussing this weeks plans and he started to tear up when he realized that this is Wyatt's last week with us. I just reminded he to just take one day at a time and enjoy this week as much as possible.

Well here is the last weeks recap. On monday we took Wyatt to the park down the street that had water squirters. It was so fun for him. On Tuesday we just went swimming in the pool in the morning. Then in the afternoon Papa, Wyatt and I went up to Bakersfield to pick up Micheal. The boys were so excited to see each other. Micheal gave Wyatt a bear hug and picked him up and was swinging him around. On Wednesday we had another swim day and a relaxed play day. Then on Thursday we went to Disneyland. This was Shane, Wyatt and my third day and my Mom, Micheal, and Corbin's first day. It was so fun. We got on so many rides. It was also my birthday. I got a gift card from disney since they were doing the celebration gift this year. We had fun using that. For my birthday my parents got me summer clothes, Shane and Wyatt gave me a gift certificate to get a pedicure, and with some of my Disney gift card I bought a new purse. It was a fun day and a great way to celebrate my birthday. On friday we got up late and had a lazy morning and then the boy's went to the park again to enjoy the water squirters. Later that night we went to the Miguel's at Dos Lagos to have my birthday dinner. On Saturday it was 4th of July and one of my favorite holiday's! We got up and went out to my aunt and uncles house it Palmdale. We had all the family there for a fun day of swimming and a bar-b-que. We then left in time to get home to see the fireworks. On Sunday we went to our favorite beach Corona Del Mar in the afternoon. It was a busy week and so much fun. Shane, Micheal, mom, and Brad are all sunburnt. Wyatt and I were lucky this time to not be burnt! I am getting a nice tan and I love it!
So we are on to week #3. We have some plans for the week. My mom took this week off. We still have a day at Wild Rivers water park that the boy will be surprised about and a movie day and swimming of course. It will go by fast I am sure but we are just trying to enjoy every minute Wyatt is here with us!! I have so many pictures to post but I have not downloaded them to the computer yet. Hopefully I will have those on my next post!!

Wyatt Invades California!!

We have had a busy week with Wyatt here. I decided that I would do a one week recap for each week that Wyatt is here.
Shane and Wyatt arrived in California on Monday morning. Wyatt was so excited to finally be in California and excited for his summer vacation to begin. We did not do too much monday. We came back to the house and played. On tuesday we went to the movies and went swimming. Wednesday we went swimming again. Then on Thursday we went to Disneyland. We decided that we would focus the day in Disney's California Adventure. It was such a fun day. We got to go on so many rides, some for the first time. Wyatt was finally tall enough for California Screamin. He loved it!! We went on it 2 times, tried for a third but the ride broke down before we were able to get on. After DCA closed we headed over to Disneyland for fireworks and a few more rides. On friday we were so tired that we stayed around the house. Corbin was over for the day so the boys went swimming again and just played together. On Saturday it was back to Disneyland. This time we focused the day at Disneyland. We went on all our favorite rides. Wyatt got picked to do the Jedi Training Academy. That was the highlight of his day, maybe his life!!! It was a fun day.
Today we went to church and then headed to San Diego to pick Chad and Wendy up at the San Diego Airport. They are going on a cruise today for the week. It was fun to see them and we went to lunch and then dropped them off at the cruise ship. I really hope they have a great time on their cruise!! After that we headed back home but stopped to see Grandma and Grandpa on the way.
That pretty much sums up our first week with Wyatt here. We are having so much fun! But time is flying by! This next week Micheal comes down to play and we are going to Disney for one last day, on my birthday! We have some fun things planned for the 4th. It will be another busy fun filled week! I will post pictures as soon and I get them loaded onto the computer.