Late Nights

Since I still don't have a job (UGH!). A couple days ago I went through all of my photos on my computer and deleted a whole bunch of random pictures to free up so more space on my computer. As I was looking through all of these pictures I realized how many pictures I have with Mary! We always took the weirdest pictures and it was always so much fun!!! I thought I would post some of these pictures just because....


PS we didn't know those guys, Mary convinced them to take a picture with me. We thought they looked very interesting in their greaser outfits, they were just hanging out in the In-N-Out parking lot.


Yes we would go out in public wearing these outfits, mostly just to Dairy Queen in Rexburg.

I sent one of these gothic pictures to Tim when we were first dating, i'm surprised this didn't scare him away.


Sorry Mary if I embarrassed you by these pictures, I just couldn't resist.

I miss my niece

I went home to visit my family about two weeks ago. Jared came home from his mission! I spent a little over a week there. Most of the time I just played with my niece, Abella. Every time Tim and I go home to visit she is always so shy around us but since I stayed for so long she was no longer shy around me, it is so cute because she talks TONS! So Abella calls me Panessa, it probably wouldn't have stuck except that Jocelyn totally encouraged it and now i'm pretty sure Abella really thinks that is my name. Basically what happened is...My mom has a picture of me on her fridge and my picture is in a Princess frame, so whenever my family would ask Abella who was in the picture she would say princess ness and I guess one day it morphed into Panessa. So instead of Jocelyn correcting Abella she encouraged her and now I am Panessa. I miss Abella and sometimes when I am bored I want a baby also, but that is probably not the best reason to have babies....

Pleasanton

We have finally made our last drive from Orange County to the Bay Area. We ate at the in-n-out along I-5 for the last time (we ate there every time we drove up). I am so excited that we are officially moved in to our new apartment in Pleasanton, but it is also sad that we won't be going back to Southern California after the summer. It is time for us to move on and hopefully we'll be moving on to Portland soon. Pleasanton is the 4th place we have lived since we have been married!!

Photos part 2

Ok part 2. The other post was way too long, who really wants to read a blog that is as long a a novel, ok maybe a short story? Basically I left off at spring break. Tim had a week off of school so we went to Utah and Omaha. We had so much fun! I love being around family. It was so much fun being able to spend time with Tim's Mom and with Bill and Chiara. I love being able to play with my nephews. They are so much fun and I kinda want to move there just so I can play with them whenever I want! While we were in Utah my Mom called me from Hawaii (totally jealous), and she told me that my older sister Jessica was in Utah also, I had NO IDEA!! It would have been awful if i didn't find out till weeks later that she was in Utah at the same time as me. We also found out that we were like 5 min away from each other, so weird. So we met up and went to the Mount Timpanogos temple, it was windy so that isn't the best picture ever. We also had time to meet up with Chad, who recently moved to Utah. Also we saw Amy, America, and Tyler. We had a Arrested Development Marathon and played some Wii.

From Utah we flew to Omaha to Jon and Lacie's wedding, it was a lot of fun. We were able to hang out with the Gibson family and I finally met Jen and Monty and their kids. It was a really short trip but it was fun. Our flights were really early, so I took Chiara's advice and just slept in the airport. Well this post was a lot shorter and hopefully we will get more pictures soon. Oh! So the last picture is a little random but it is a candid shot of the guys and I think it is so perfect, except for maybe Ryan's closed eyes!!! Steve's look is just so typical, basically I love this picture!!!
We have done a lot of traveling lately and it seems like there is no end in sight. You might think that is a good thing but lately we have been driving to the Oakland area every weekend and it is not fun at all. We are doing this for Pinnacle and summer installs, Tim is a tech for them, so for the next couple weeks we have two apartmenst, its weird. There are two perks of course. First Tim is making great money and Second we get to move in stages, I really like this because I don't have to do it all in a week instead I get to do it over a month.

Photos

I have not blogged in a while and mostly I blame it on the fact that I don't have internet at home, but since I do now...kinda. I am going to write a post. Mostly this post is going to be pictures and they will help show what we have been up to. So we went to Portland to visit Steve and Michelle, and Steve's family. I have never been to Portland and it was sunny for me the whole time, I think it rained once for about 5 min. I'm sure Tim prayed very hard for the weather to be nice. He wants me to love Portland like he does. We went to the beach and it was really really windy but it was really pretty. I was kinda shocked, I know that sounds mean but i'm spoiled with California beaches. When we were at the beach we went into and arcade and there I found my favorite game!!! Police Trainer!!! I used to play this game with Lisa when we would play mini golf at the mine shaft. When I was in high school I was a life guard and they would give us $5 of fun money in each pay check and they had this game so I would always play it!! One time I was playing the game and the screen froze, I reported it and the next day it was GONE! Basically I broke it and I was so sad! This is a pretty old game so I never thought I would find the original version, they did have a newer version also. While we were there we found a new game also, it is called Deal or No Deal, yep just like the game show. It is a lot of fun! You get to pick the brief cases and you can win TONS of tickets. I really enjoyed going to Portland, It was a lot of fun and it was really nice being able to hang out with married friends, even though it will be weird when they have a baby!! Basically I'm just jealous. We were also able to spend a lot of time at the Gibson's house (Steve's parents). I never really realized how close Tim is to their family.

A couple weekends later America and Amber came to visit. We had so much fun!! We rented a hotel room in LA and I showed them my favorite shopping place, the Alley. The only thing we didn't get to do is get Milkshakes...I'm so obsessed with this milkshake shop in LA, it's amazing...mmm. We had a bon fire and had a lot of fun hanging out before Amber left on her mission.

A couple weekends after that we went to San Diego to visit Tim's Aunt. She took us on a tour of the USS Midway. It was so HUGE, I'm claustrophobic and during some spots I kinda got nervous but it
wasn't too bad, as long as I could keep walking. I could never live on a ship like that! Later the night we met up with her son, Adam, and ate dinner. When we went back to her house Tim and Adam made our dinner for the next night. Adam is a chef and I think Tim had a lot of fun helping him in the Kitchen. Little known fact: Tim is a better cook than me, well when he follows the directions. Also...I really wanted to take a picture on this chair in the ship but when I took a picture it was not as cute as Tim's picture. Ugh! Tim loves taking goofy pictures, he becomes someone totally different when he is behind a camera, anyone who has watched his videos with Steve and Jon knows this!!

I think the next weekend was when my sisters, Jasmine and Jocelyn came. It was Jasmine's birthday and Jocelyn was going off to Rexburg so they came to have fun before she was off to The Burg. We went to Disneyland which was so much fun!! Jasmine hurt her foot a day earlier so we got a wheelchair. Having a wheelchair at Disneyland is absolutely amazing!! You get to the front of the line so fast. The wait for space mountain is a 60-90 min wait and we waited 15 min!! We were able to do everything at both parks in one day! Wheelchairs are amazing.
We also went to The Alley and we decided that everyone hated us and tried to rip us off because we are white, basically they thought Jasmine was loaded so they wouldn't barter with her...it was really annoying. That weekend I FINALLY got another of my FAVORITE milkshakes!!! I know, I know, I talk about them way too much but if you had one you would too. When we were in LA we decided to wait in line for a Pink's hot dog. Basically, they are famous and they have some crazy creations, I think Jocelyn's had onion rings on it. Right next to the hot dog place was a vintage store and I got some really really cute 7 jeans for super cheap I think they were $25, they were exactly what I had been looking for in other stores!

Well I have more pictures but this blog is ridiculously long and I need a break so I will post Part 2 soon. Soon meaning a couple of days not a month, promise! Why do I love the exclamation marks?? I don't know why...