Our Life as the Vegas'

Cuddles, kisses, snuggles and LOVE- That is what baby BOYS are made of.

2011-03-01T21:53:00.004-07:00

Baby Boy Vega

will be joining our little family in July of 2011. It was a hard secret to keep, but it was kept for a while. We told our families around Christmas time and it was a happy moment!

We told my side of the family on Christmas Eve. We were getting ready to go see the Christmas Lights and right before we left, I told Manuel that he had a present he needed to open, and everyone was watching...they all were expecting a beanie and some gloves. As everyone was gathered around the table watching the Man open the present, he opens a Baby Bjorn (a front baby carrier), attached to the box is a note that read "Baby Vega, coming July 2011." However, not a single soul caught on to what the gift was or what the note truly said (some will say it was hard to read because of the background of the paper), however my uncle Scot, a couple minutes after opening the gift, speaks out, not loudly, nor softly, but "Chelsea Dawn, you're going to have a baby?!" It was more of a shock to everyone than anything...but I don't understand why when all the time we were asked "when are you guys going to have a baby?"

It was a delight to share the fabulous and exciting news and be able to talk about it!

We told the Vega's around the same time as well, however a few of them knew prior to the announcement because of trickery...those Vega's know how to trick you into saying stuff....but it's rather fun because my sister-in-law Vanessa is due in June with a little boy as well, so it will be fun to have little cousins around the same age!!

December Graduation 2010

2011-03-01T21:29:00.006-07:00

Left to Right: Grandpa Ron, Grandma Carol, Grandma Nola, Dad, Mom, Chad, Chelsea, Manuel, Gordo, Consuelo, Gerardo, and Frank

A lot has happened in our life since June 2010. I figured I would update the blog of the important happenings in our life!

December Manuel graduated with his Associates Degree from BSU/CWI! It was a super exciting day. We didn't know if he would be graduating or not in December, due to some classes he was testing out of and the lack of communication a bunch of people can have. See at the beginning of Fall 2010 he was told he would need to test out of Spanish to get the credits, well he was also told to do it after he finished his first 8 week class, because the class itself was a little heavy and not so easy. So after his 8 week class, he was prepping to take the Spanish test out. He goes to the testing center, takes a test, approximately 2.5 hours long, and tests for 16 credits!! I was pretty proud, I mean the man does speak the language, it was just nerve-wrecking because it would determine his graduation or not, or so we though! So he forwards the appropriate information to the appropriate people. Only to find out that the test he could only tests out the classes and only gives him the credits pending he ACTUALLY pass the class he tested up too, NOT WHAT WE NEEDED, or WANTED. So they basically tell him to contact this professor at BSU to see if she will give him a test to 'test' his knowledge...She would have happily done it for him, had it been during the first 5 weeks of school....WHAT, so at this point, we were pretty sure he would be a 2011 rather than 2010 graduate, so we went about our life and we was working with Paula (the education god) at Micron. She figured things out, told him to return to the testing center, take the appropriate test (Thank you BSU Testing Center, for 1 not giving the proper test, and 2 taking 6 hours of my husbands life) so, after many hours of testing, he was given the correct test, and he passed :) 16 credits worth and life was golden for the Mr. Vega!

We were just talking the other night how nice it is to not have school (I will admit it though, I do miss it...at times) It is nice to reflect back on the last few years of life and how we managed through it all, class, homework, group projects, papers, tests, and all that school life entails. I think I stressed more over his school work rather than my own, because I was more of a deadline setter, and he works best on last minute prepping and doing it under pressure. At first, I couldn't handle the way he did his work, studying for tests the day of, doing project (starting) days before it was due and writing papers and finishing the night of...always stressed me out, but I did learn that that is the way he learned the best and did the bet, so I learn to adjust, it was a huge adjustment and biting of my tongue on sometimes, but he did well in school and he is a smart cookie!! One of his professors did tell him Congrats on graduating during his last class with him and told him he would miss seeing him around!

He's been called to serve!!

2010-06-01T20:13:00.005-06:00

Chace was called to the North Atlanta, Georgia Mission! He leaves tomorrow and the time has come to quickly! When he got his call, I thought June seemed forever away, and now it's tomorrow that he leaves and yesterday I wasn't quite ready to say my final goodbye for 2 years! However, I am very proud of the young man he has become and the decision to serve a mission!

(L to R: Manuel, Chelsea, Chad, Dad, Mom, Chace, Chanc, Liam, Randy and Aidan)

This memorial day weekend was dedicated to the young man and we had festivities galore!! Friday night the boys went to the movie, Saturday he went thru the Twin Falls Temple, and then we went to Johnny Carinos, where he devoured his yummy meal!! Saturday afternoon/evening involved some basketball games!! Sunday was his farewell in church! He stunned me! He made me laugh and he made me cry! He's a great guy! His talk was amazing, and I know he will be a great addition to Georgia, they better love him! The luncheon after wards was fabulous, and as always good food!!!

Monday morning bright and early, as per Chace's request, Grandma Asher made her famous maple bars!!! So we had a farewell breakfast! It was delicious and I think he stuffed himself silly with the delicious breakfast!! We went up to Aunt Betty and Uncle Keith's for lunch on Monday afternoon, which then after wards the guys went to play basketball and Frisbee!!!

After which Chace was served some tasty shrimp cocktail at the Contreras residence, which was real tasty like always!! Then at about 645 that evening, the boys decided to go to one last movie together!! Prince of Persia, only this time, Grandpa Bench, and my dad tagged along! I thought the two hours would drag on, I was hoping they would, I didn't want the time to go fast, I wanted the movie to last longer, as I could prepare my final goodbye!! Well they came home from the movie, and that was it! Manuel and I needed to start heading back to Boise! I didn't want to let go of the young man, but I wished him well, hugged him tight and shook his hand, calling him Elder Asher! Also giving him some spare change so he can hopefully call home or someone as he leaves the airport in 3 weeks!

He will make an awesome missionary and I hope the people of North Atlanta Georgia Mission love
him and take care of him! Feed him well and make sure he is happy! Here is to the next two
years Elder Chace Asher!

and I thought life would slow down...way down...

2010-03-22T21:37:00.002-06:00

If anyone reads this, thanks for having faith in me, I will come around to more posts with less time in between, one of these days...but for now, 5 months may just have to work for y'all. So ALOT has happened since the last post, and I mean alot. When I think back on 2009, I can't really think, I had one goal in mind, and goal only, and that was to Graduate!!! I was ecstatic, and couldn't wait! December 18, 2009 couldn't have came quick enough for me last year, and looking back, it flew right by me!! I am pretty sure the senior-it is set in 2008, but I really did enjoy the last year at BSU. I had some pretty fun classes, some classes that made my head hurt real bad, and just one class that brought me to tears, because it was difficult, and I definitely had to work for my A in that class. My most favorite class was MGMT 301, the professor was so down to earth, and just honestly the best professor during my college career. She taught me alot, her teaching wasn't strictly out of book, or mgmt styles completely out of the book, she brought in and took us out to real-life management scenarios! it was great. So for Graduation, Manuel bought me the sweetest present....a Cannon Rebel T1i, its truly a great camera! It's fantastic, and I love taking pictures, it's been fun!!! So on graduation day, he was snapping all sorts of pictures and loving it, while I sat with the class of 2010, (hoping I didn't slip out of my heels, while accepting my empty diploma case) I was real nervous, walking in front of thousands of people, being projected on the big screens....brings the butterflies back, and there were lots of eyes to see if I did anything. Graduation was great, the speakers were speedy fast, and delivered well-written, and thought out speeches for the fellow grads!! Those in attendance at graduation consisted of my sweet hubs, mom, dad, Grandpa, Grandma Bench, Grandma Asher, Chace, Chad, Mr. Aidan who was a champ, and my sister. after the graduation we went to GoodWood to Celebrate, it was fantastic. More family and friends were there to celebrate with me, and I couldn't Thank my family and friends enough for supporting me on this huge day! It took a while to get there, and (the husband says quite a few tears, which I wont' argue with) but I made it and that's all that matters!!! I not hold a 4 year degree...which then required me to graduate the "nanny" business and get a job. With the economy, and me not wanting to get a dead end filing job in a hospital, my family that I nannied for, offered me a job back in November to take over their Billing Manager's position in April, bc she is having a baby. The timing couldn't have been more perfect. I have been working for about 2 months, and love it. It was very stressful at first, and overwhelming, but I think I have the hang out if and love the ladies I work with and couldn't express my appreciation enough to the Dr's. Not only do I do the managing with Heidi, I also am Dr. Jones' personal assistant, and the nanny boss (I still am so much involved with the little girls). I was expecting to be done with nannying in February, but couldn't find a replacement, but we finally found the one, a few training sessions with her and I set her free. I was real sad the last day I worked, but stayed strong...for an hour. When I dropped Syd and Reese off at school, I just cried, I have been there for 4.5 years, it was difficult leaving as a nanny, but I am so thankful that I was part of their lives for so long, I love them all dearly! I had this thought in my head, that once school is over, life would slow down and it really hasn't. I mean I can't believe that in one more week, it will be April!!! I thought with not having to do homework on a nightly basis, or reading, or writing papers, that life wouldn't be so hectic...mmm I think I was completely wrong, it's just flying by, with working 5 days a week, my mind constantly thinking, and taking care of the hubs, life is great, but going by super fast!!!

My sister Chanc, had her 2nd baby on February 4th! Little Liam Asher Todd, he is so sweet, and oh so adorable. Aidan is a sweet big brother, and adorable too!!! We were able to visit Randy, Chanc, Aidan, and Liam when Liam was a little over 2 weeks, then we back last weekend, for his blessing! It was a fun family filled weekend! Mom, Dad, Chace, Chad, Grandma Asher, Manuel, myself, and Little Miss Aaliyah (cousin), all went to Moscow. We have a cousin in Washington who was having a welcome home party, so while Mom, Dad, and Grandma attended the festivity, us siblings, and cousin all hung out ! The guys played some b-ball and the girls went shopping for a few hours! it was a great day! Time always goes by so quickly, but being able to visit my sister and her family two time with in a month was great! I love her dearly~ plus seeing her little family is just an added plus!

Manuels' paintball season is in full swing---(I don't know that it's ever really stopped, hahah) He has a tournament coming up in April, somewhere in Washington, hopefully the weather is nice and WARM! ( I need to do a special post for our trip to California, where his team took 3rd PLACE) It was pretty sweet! He is taking 3 classes this semester- so far so good! He actually just finished one of the classes about a week ago, and his final project...was a sprinkler timer. It looked real confusing, and he spend lots of time working on it, and by time I mean two days cramming to get it done, finishing shortly before it was due!!! He's good at what he does though and he tried to explain it to me and that electronics stuff and me...well were not a good mix, it's just best he stick to that and I help with the English papers, which isn't bad! I am just more of a person who takes time to write papers, and he is a last minute paper writer type, so I am a little pushy, and it always seems we do it the night before...he wins!

(ps.) I was going to add pictures to this post, but I think I will do it on another day, just because it's 10:10, it took a while to download the 172 pictures from my camera, and I am tired..the pictures can wait, I will try to post them in the next couple of days!

how bout an update to the current life.

2009-10-05T08:38:00.004-06:00

wow- it has been a while since we updated the good ol' blog...my sister is coming this weekend, maybe she will re-decorate the blog for me. (wink wink). Not a lot has been going on....School started in August and it has been a crazy mad rush since. I was a little overwhelmed at first...I think each new semester I have a week long crying session, because I just can't see the end...well that held true for this semester as well. I was so overwhelmed with work and school at the beginning that I seriously would cry at anything. I can happily say that I am over that and am happy it's October. ( I feel like this is a group meeting like Shoppers Anonymous...I am Chelsea Vega, and I don't cry because of school anymore!!!) So after school started I anxiously began awaiting for the arrival of my graduation acceptance letter...ANXIOUSLY...well I finally received it last week, I was HAPPY, but a little bummed, it was the most, insincere letter of all times. It seems to me that it was a mass email to all fall 2009 graduating students. When I received my associates, they at least sent out a letter of approval ( a little more personal). I am just glad that with my 5 1/2 years worth of tuition, hard work and dedication to BSU, i received a mass email approving me for graduation....Thanks BSU- your awesome. I had a friend ask the other day if I was going to walk the line...OF COURSE. I didn't walk for the associates, I feel like taking part of commencement services is meaning to an end. A closure. and my Bachelors degree and 5 1/2 years here definitely means time to END. I will so be done with school...I can't wait. It will be time to celebrate in December :). (there I hope you all can sense my ExCiTmEnT to graduate)

Manuel got a new shift!!! He now has weekends off!!! I love it. He now works M,T,W,Thurs from 12:00 PM to 10:30 pm. What a hard shift right...getting to sleep in every day...I know i would like that. I don't mind waking up early, but I do love the days I get to sleep in. I am happy for him, I hope he likes it as much as I do...not having to stay home alone anymore at nights every 4 months. It is a bummer that he won't be getting home until 11 at night 4 days a week, but having time home on the weekends and more flexibility as to what we can do is awesome. He can now paintball on Sundaya with out having to rush home b/c he has to go to work, or not being able to go at all b/c he has had to work on Sundays.

We purchased Mtn bikes in September, and we are putting them to good use...(well he is more than me, but...) He has been up table rock like 3 or 4 times now. The first time I went with him and 2 of our friends was a little intense. I had just returned from the EAST coast, and I was tired as heck and when he got home from work, he told me we were going on a bike ride...I didn't expect an actual mtn bike ride though. it was tough terrain for this beginner, but it was fun. my chain came off once and Manuel was far ahead of me...and I had no idea what happened to my bike (haha) and it was a good think our friend Margi was close, thanks to him, I was ready to get back on in no time...I did walk the bike up quite a bit, little sleep, no watter, not in the best shape will do that too you. Manuel went again about a week 1/2 ago and told me he that one trail they one that time was a lot more difficult and he about passed out. Thankfully he made it up and back okay, and he has gone 2 times since and is loving it. We have an REI membership, he went and purchased a North Face Jacket and loves it. It's a nice jacket for biking... I was a bit jealous so I wanted to get a biking jacket as well, but REI didn't have one that I liked so after looking around a bit, I found a good deal at Marshall's and love the jacket. When we wear them, and ride our bikes....I feel a bit like a tree-hugging hippie. (not that biking and jackets have anything to do with tree-huggers, I just feel that way!)

My family is coming this weekend :) My sister, BIL- Aidan, Mom, Dad, Chace Chad. G'ma, G'pa, possibly G'ma Asher, Stacie, Aaliyah and Ashton and possibly Shaun and Deanna. I can't wait. It seems like it's been forever since I saw my family...August. I think I went the whole month of September...goodness.. I sure miss them and can't wait for this weekend it will be fun. Manuel's parents came up last week and it was a good time visiting. They came Tuesday night and brought Peaches and Tomatoes (which didn't survive...I left them in the bag and they went moldy..I was real sad...fresh garden tomatoes are my favorite) and some peppers. we got some peaches from them a few weekends ago Gerrardo (Manuel's dad met us in Twin to give us some, we had been in Jerome for a Paintball tournament) and they were delicious peaches. We just had a lot and I didn't want to waist them so I made a peach crisp (delicious) and then made the filling for peach crisp and froze them, I was happy to do that with the peaches they gave us last week as well. I have about 11 quart size containers in my freezer with peach filling for peach crisp...so happy about that. Last year I made peach jam with the peaches they gave us and it was D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G...seeing how much sugar actually goes in to making peach jam was sick, but the taste of the jam was just nasty...I don't know what happened in the process, but I don't like peach jam anymore.

In August we found out that our fridge had been leaking..so after moving the fridge, we come to find some lovely dark water spots on the floor (laminate flooring, wood)..so we pulled it up to dry the area underneath and we were hoping to not have any mold under the house. we obviously needed to replace the floor that was underneath the fridge, but matching proved to be a pain in the butt. Either it wasn't the right color, different grain, not deep enough, not wide enough...it was real annoying...so while at Home Depot on Saturday, we were introduced to a type of mat flooring, and it sure was a brilliant idea. Just to give you a visual...it's like a floor or a weight room...black, rubbery type. It pieces together like a puzzle, so Manuel cut the floor from underneath the fridge and then cut and pieced together the rubber flooring. It wasn't quite as deep as we needed so we went to Lowes and purchased some black plastic stuff. It was perfect to put on top of the rubber and it was level with the the rest of the floor and you can't even tell...and now if the fridge leaks, we won't ruin anything, and it's easy to wipe off... great and brilliant work babe, glad my the fridge is back in place and my kitchen is back in order.

Manuel and I leave for Vegas on the 16th- we didn't really do anything for our anniversary in JUNE so since he wanted to go to Vegas for a Paintball tournament we kind of justified going by including our anniversary celebration...even though he's not playing. He was asked by a team from Burley if he could play on their team..he thought about it..and said no. I was happy with the decision, although I would have been okay with him playing, I am just glad he decided not too, it would have been more money and I would have been hanging out by myself. I think with me telling him "I am not going to leave the hotel super early every morning when you leave...I will walk there later" had something to do with it. I don't know but me walking the streets of Vegas alone didn't seem to appealing. haha- he is excited some big teams are playing in this tournament so it will be fun to watch.

okay so a couple of weeks ago I was working...the cleaning ladies came to my boss's house to clean and I had returned from the grocery store. They finished their cleaning, I gave them their check and out the door they went and I went back upstairs to play with Charley. Next thing I hear in a whimpering voice "Chelsea...can you come down here" first off I didn't know who's voice it was b/c the cleaning ladies has just left and the two big kids were at school... so I get going and the cleaning lady meets me half way up the stairs..." (Cleaning lady=CL; Me-my words, CL2: another cleaning lady)

CL:"I wasn't paying attention and I hit your car..." I was shocked...how can someone hit a parked car...so I go outside and sure enough she hit my car...The bumper on the front passenger side was a mess...and she said to me
CL:"well my car is fine, but I am not sure about yours"....
Me: "well do you have insurance"
CL: "do you really want it? Can I have yours?"
CL 2: well I can crawl under your car and hit the dents out...I think it should take care of it, its a plastic bumper"
Me: "yeah I am going to need your insurance information, and my insurance has nothing to do with this, you hit me"
CL2: "Yeah I am sure I can crawl under here"
ME: "NO!!! just leave it alone, I don't want it to get messed up worse than it already it
CL: "Yeah, leave it alone."
CL: "here is my insurance, this one is expired, but I am pretty sure that I have a new copy at home"
ME: "uhmm..are you sure, I think I should call on this before you leave, just to make sure everything will be taken care of"
ME: "okay everything is current and I will get estimates"
CL: "yeah and just let me know whats going on"
ME: "yeah okay"

seriously...she was gunning it out of the drive way..I don't know why..but she seriously hit my parked car, asked for my insurance..when she asked for it- I gave it too her, just to satisfy, but really I wanted to tell her a thing or two. I don't know what she wanted it for...but oh well.

So I picked up my rental car today, because mine is going in the body shop until Wednesday... for a new bumper .... First off let me tell you, I have never rented a car before, I am under 24 and was a little intimidated going to the rental counter. I was just acting cool, like as if I knew what I was doing. I didn't really. I went up there, told him my name, gave him my DL, the credit card...and he looks at my DL, and the credit card and was like...yeah sorry I can't rent to you, I need a cc with the same name as your DL..."... I was quick to interrupt that I called last week, explaining that I was renting a car because mine was in a minor accident, but my boss was taking care of it and they told me I could use her CC if she was aware of me renting a car"... the guy at the counter "uhh...let me check with the manager" "okay everything looks good, how old are you?" Me: 24 the guy: "ohhh...(in a worried voice) uhmmm...it will charge you an extra 27 a day because your under age... Me: yeah that's fine, (seriously I thought about telling him I was 25 just to avoid the charge, but then I thought he would have checked my drivers license to confirm my age...but he didn't... the things I wish I would have known then what I found out 3 minutes into being there... Then he continues to offer me all this stuff...my response to everything was "No Thank You." I think a reservation means something. If I reserve a standard car, please just offer me the standard car, don't offer me the mid-size, or luxury, or SUV...just give me the keys, have me do the paper work and I will be glad to leave..I was in kind of a rush , I had a group meeting at 8 that i needed to get too...he was offering me all this extra stuff that I clearly didn't put on the reservation...I am a simple kind of girl, I don't need the extras. Thanks. Now I am driving a CHERRY red Chevy HHR. It's a kind of weird, but something different kind of car... I needed a car to fit 5 people. the website told me that all economy cars would only fit 4...so I went with the standard car...haha not knowing I would be driving around a mini-PT cruiser.

oh my goodness..I think that about sums up our life to this very minute. I will have to post later about the trip to the East Coast. It was a fun trip with the kids I nanny...lots of good memories and never wanting to eat crab (like a real crab) ever again, it was quite the experience.

RIP ol'Blue

2009-08-15T14:46:00.016-06:00

I know this post will make most happy, it sure makes me happy :). We finally got around to painting the house. It was suppose to happen in the July but some things came up with my father in law, that required Manuel to go out of town a few days prior to painting the house, so we canceled.

{My father in law- has a tumor. It came on pretty quickly, the symptoms anyway, the tumor had been there for a while. He went to the ER on July 6, and was told there was a possible tumor, but he needed to go down to Salt Lake City to get more tests done. Tuesday 8/7 the family took him to Utah, and met with the Dr. and on Wednesday 8/8 he was admitted for surgery. The tumor was benign, and he is doing much better. however, the medicine he was taking for the tumor and the medicine for his high blood pressure counteracted, resulting in Diabetes, and now had to have insulin shots. They have been all over from SLC to Boise seeing Dr's. It was quite scary, but we are happy the tumor was small enough to take out through the nasal cavity, and that he recovered well.}

This last Wednesday, our friends Marc and Lyndsey came up to help paint the house. A Huge Thank YOU to them for all their hard work and help as well as Frank, Gordo and Manuel. . The painting started at about 7 on Thursday morning. I was at work and when I came home at around 2 pm, the house was PAINTED. It was kind of weird driving down the street and not seeing a blue chimney {a bittersweet moment}. When I got home, everyone was hungry so I fired up the grill and we had carne asada. It was hit and then back to work we went, only this time, we were painting the trim...can I just say what a chore it is...and I never want to paint the outside again. Manuel rented a man lift to get all the high places, we were suppose to return it by 5 pm on Thursday, but there was no way we were going to be finished, so we were able to extend the return to 9 am on Friday morning. We all worked on the house until about 6 Thursday night and then went to dinner with Manuel's brothers and friends to celebrate Hector's birthday.

Friday morning Manuel and I woke up at 5:30 to get things going. It was early.. and a little to dark outside to do much, so we went to Lowe's (who would have thought they open at 5, wow) to get a few new paintbrushes. Came back home and went to work. I have never been in a man-lift before, and since we needed to return it by 9, I decided I needed to set my fears aside and get to work. I went up with Manuel and was freaking out, not a big fan of heights, but I managed. The man lift is just too wobbly for my liking. Manuel let me down and finished all the high parts and I went to work on painting in between the trim of the house and the rain gutters. that was a chore and took me most of the day,I work on the front of the house for a good maybe 4 or 5 hours. It was tedious work and i think whoever painted the house blue was serious, and took off the rain gutters and painted them individually...not me, the paintbrush works for now :)

Our house was blue, and while we love our house, we didn't so much love the blue and either did the neighbors, but painting is no 1 or 2 hour job. As people were driving by, walking by, the neighbors were verbally expressing how much they like the new color. We got horns honked, claps, HORRAYs!, We were joking with our neighbor who used to work with Manuel that after two years of living here, we have hardly spoken to our neighbors (vice verse) but after painting our house, we have decided that they have all come out of their shells, and realize that we may not be the black sheep of the neighborhood anymore...or that they can walk outside and wont be blinded by ol' blue's brightness... Regardless, we are extremely happy and love our new color.

Finally after 2 hard days painting, and touching up, here is the finished product. With the new paint job and the rose bushes finally cut down, our house looks completely different.

Who ya gonna call...911?

2009-06-29T00:19:00.010-06:00

here are the the three of us..Don't judge, we had just returned from swimming. one thing is for sure, the three of us sure had a good time this weekend <3

Well here it is Monday morning at the late 12:19 am...I can't sleep, Miss Aaliyah Jade is fast asleep upstairs, after about 30 minutes of giggling, she is the cutest little girl-just love her little personality but she is so tomboy at the same time. She came on Friday and is here until Wednesday, when we will return to the big city of Burley :) Friday was fun, we went and picked her up in Bliss, came to Boise, did some minor shopping (BTW, she hates shopping, just keep this in mind) came to the house, watched a movie, played Basketball, took a nap, had dinner, anxiously awaited the arrival of my bestest Crystal and Kody, went to Wal-mart in the dead of the night- 10:15 and the little girl was just beat, we were all tired, but we forgot to get her a toothbrush and some toothpaste, felt bad for dragging her out that late and so Manuel gave a piggy back ride while in the store! Crystal attended Special Olympics Saturday morning, for her work, Aaliyah and I stayed behind and just relaxed at home. Manuel was sleeping b/c he had to work Saturday night. Crystal came home, took a nap, then off to more shopping we went. We were out for a good three hours at a couple different stores.

here are the fearless foursome***Manuel, Me, the old Grandpa Kody and Crystal. Kody wouldn't get up from the chair and he had a red blanket on his lap...we had to come to him to get our picture taken***

We re-decorated the kitchen this weekend, it's super cute and I love it. After Kody came home, we went to some more stores, (poor Aaliyah was done at this point), we went and visited Kody's Grandma and Great Grandma, who is 101- amazing and she looks so good- a very sweet lady, Aaliyah was pretty impressed and excited at the same time that she met someone over 100. In fact the Great Grandma is "101 and 5 months into her two's." We finished the night out by enjoying a delicious salad and pizza and yummy vanilla Dr. pepper at Smoky Mountain pizza!! This is the new decor about the sink. Love the blue plate in the middle and the Live and Laugh plates...well they are the coolest, b/c they are super light and aren't really made like a plate, they just have a cool texture to them!!

***Funny Story*** Aaliyah drew a picture of a house with smoke coming out the chimney, I told her I hope that house is not on fire! She then proceeded to draw a smoke alarm in the house that was going off, and then brought it back to me and said this house is on fire. Me a little bit on the excessive worrying side, told her I was going to dream of my house being on fire..not a good combination. So later in the night probably about 11:45 Crystal, Aaliyah and myself were just sitting on the stairs admiring all the stuff that we changed around earlier, I told them I could smell smoke and they both told me "no you can't your just worrying" I followed my nose, upstairs to the bathroom, where i sniffed outside the window and for sure I could smell smoke. Well after we turned the lights off, we could see that something on the corner/or near the corner was on fire...we could see sparks!!. So we race downstairs and frantically look for the phone and we run outside into the road, towards the fire...well we get closer to the corner and don't worry, it was just a tree with the street light. We were totally fooled. There were bugs flying around the top of the light which we believed to be the sparks from the fire. After much thought...we decided that the fire smell must have been coming from the people lighting the fireworks. When I told Manuel this story when he called from work, he interrupted me and said "who ya gonna call, 911.. It reminded me of back in time...WHO YA GONNA CALL...GHOST BUSTERS. haha, this story has made for some fun times laughing in the last 24 hours, I tell ya- it was a kicker.

Today we went swimming, it was lots of fun! We decided that after dragging Aaliyah all over the place yesterday that we had better do something totally different today. Swimming was fun. We went up to my bosses pool and we had loads of fun- I am not much of a swimmer, not one for deep ends, and definitely panic when my feet aren't touching the bottom, but I can proudly say I swam across the pool- or barely...I freaked out a couple times but it was alright, Aaliyah was my little teacher. I have never been a BIG fan of swimming and it's all b/c I am not very good at it and have this phobia of drowning. it may sound retarded but that's alright-it's me and everyone that knows me pretty good, knows my fear and today it was okay, I swam across the pool and it was good- a few minor panics but for the most part we had a good day- Manuel came with us, it was fun for him to be able to hang out with us for a little bit while Kody and Crystal were here, b/c yesterday he was sleeping, Kody was golfing, there was just no time for us to hang out- so It was fun that he was able to join us for a few hours today, but I felt bad, b/c swimming wears you out and he had to come home and go to work, so I am sure he is just beat by now!

This is the new decor for the kitchen..the clock, candle sticks, and flower vase were all in the living room above the fireplace mantle..which now sits pretty lonely. waiting for paint and a tv to be hung...but until then..

This weekend was loads of fun- it is amazing Crystal and I haven't seen each other since September when she got married. I went to Pocatello last weekend, while Manuel went to his paintball tournament in Salem, Oregon. We had fun together, it had been months since we had seen each other but it definitely didn't feel like it at all (and from the guy's perspective...we talk on the phone all the time, why do we need to see each other...boo on you) So seeing my little bestest two weekends in a row has been fantastic and it will be more fantastic if I can see her over the 4th of July..because we will be around, she will be around..so hopefully we can be around each other, trying to convince her to go camping with us, but she's not too keen on the whole "tentin" it idea!! so we shall see.

Here is to my wonderful friend, who has a great eye for house decor on a budget---who can sometimes be considered jewish because she doesn't let her husband buy a new putter, and who wants what I want, too spend my money on stuff for the house, but will loose in an argument with the husband b/c of I don't know why, but it was explained to me earlier about that our excuses are not logical about rather spend the money on stuff for the house rather on shoes or clothes anymore...isn't it funny how life changes. Crystal and I have been through a lot, but weather it has been good or bad, we have stuck with each other and it has been wonderful. Now here is too wishing this lovely little couple good luck with finding a job, and a house in Boise/Meridian area..*oh wait...a house has been found, right down the road from me, perfect, just what they want, they don't know what it looks like, they haven't seen it, I found it after they left today, but it's perfect, b/c it's in the same neighborhood--wouldn't that be wonderful

So it's planned

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Well I just got off the phone from mi Padre and we have FINALLY set a date to paint this blue house of ours. I couldn't be more excited. July 11, 2009- which means in less than one month, I will no longer live in a blue house and we won't stand out in the neighborhood. We have had the paint for quite some time now, but once we bought it, the rain started pouring and didn't stop and well we were planning on March, but the rain hadn't stopped then either. So now, the week we paint the house it better be nice weather or I will tell mother nature a piece of my mind ;)!!

Speaking of Blue...not only is the outside blue, but the counter tops in the kitchen and the blinds are all blue...I am blued out I tell ya!! and I am very passionate about HATING vertical blinds, I think they are one of the most annoying accessories to a window anyone could ask for..so with that being said, I set out to find curtains, and a curtain rod!!! Today Manuel installed the curtain rod, and although it was a tight squeeze and a possible pain in the butt, they are up and I couldn't be happier. I love them. Now I just need to replace the blinds, the counter tops are bearable, but blue blinds, I mean some people really do color coordinate...just not my style to coordinate everything with everything you know!!

CaLiFoRnIa!!

2009-06-14T19:04:00.008-06:00

I went to California with the family I nanny for. They own an amazing house in Cardiff by the Sea, it's fun, its super close to the beach and pretty much anything you need is within walking distance, it was great. The weather was amazing, not too hot, not too cold, with the exception of the last couple of days. We flew in last Saturday (June 6) and came home last Thursday (June 11). While in California, we went to the beach, San Diego Padres vs. Arizona D-Backs baseball game, we attempted to go to a Botanical Garden, but little Reese just didn't like the idea and we ended up leaving, which was just a pain b/c while attempting to get her out of the car when we arrived, I let the seat down in the back so I could pull her out and in the process lifted a little too much and the seat came off the track, so eventuallywhen we got sick of listening to her cry we went to get back in the car and I think it took Margaret and me about 30 minutes trying to get the seat back in the right position, all the while, some children just weren't being patient, yeah I would say my nerves were being tested that day, it was the only day throughout the entire time we were in California that any major tantrums were thrown and they all just happened to be on the same day. Reese was just having a hard day, we couldn't please her if the world depended on it, with the gardens to where to eat for lunch, any place just wouldn't do, so she settled for some chips and pirate booty- what a lunch, but after the little squirt got some food in her, she straightened up and we had a jolly good time shopping for clothes and shoes :) One day we met up with the kids' uncle, cousin, and aunt and we ventured on over to Lego Land. Now if you haven't been here, I don't really think your missing much. Syd, Reese and I went on one ride together, and then Syd and I were done, the lines were much too long. Reese did one other ride with her parents, they stood in line for 45 minutes and the ride lasted less than 1 minutes. Meanwhile Syd and I were indulging our selves with Mozzarella and Basil Tomato sandwiches, they were mighty delicious. One thing that was fascinating at Lego Land, was the Aquarium, it was pretty cool, it had all sorts of different fishes, sharks, and whatever else and then at the end they have a "petting pool" with starfish, and well that's all I remember being in there, I didn't touch or pet any of the living water creatures, but Reese and Syd did-I was just disgusted, I couldn't imagine touching them. (I just realized as I was uploading pictures, not a single picture was taken with Charley Grace, she was with her mom most of the time and for most of the Padres game, which is where all these pictures were taken)

One night during the week I was able to catch up with a really good friend from high school. Kristen Pedersen, she has lived in California for about 5 years and worked like 10 minutes away from my boss's house. We planned dinner and then Margaret, Dominic, and the girls went to visit their uncle. It was perfect timing, they left about 530, Kristen picked me up about 6:15, we had a fantastic dinner at EnFuego, and lots of catching up on each other's lives and then back to the house. It was great timing b/c she came inside, I gave her a tour, we had a little candid moment and we were walking outside and the family showed up, so it was a great evening out and I just loved getting together with Kristen. I was a little nervous, just because you know how awkward it can be when you haven't seen someone for so long and then you have dinner or a get together and it's just awkward chit chat...well I was thinking that's what was going to happen, but bless Kristen's' heart, it was just like we picked up from where we left off, not missing a beat you know. To say the least, I just wish she lived closer or we could get together more often. Trying to document the moment, our little candid camera session wasn't going so swell. After like 7 photo tries, we finally landed a semi-decent one- we were laughing so hard at how hard it was to take a picture of the two of us..Good Times.

Introducing Alison Vega

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Manuel's brother, Hector and his Wife Paulina- brought the first Vega grandchild into the world!!! Alison Vega- was born March 22, 2009- ( I know, a little late on posting, but I needed a picture or two). She is the cutest little girl, and oh-so spoiled. It's so funny, b/c my mother in law stayed here in Boise for a week after the baby came home, we would be talking to her and hear the baby talking and all the sudden Consuelo (Manuel's mom) would disappear, back to Hector and Paulina's room to help with the baby, it was pretty funny. She is more alert now, and it was fun this weekend, having them over for the BBQ, although I missed out on holding her, it seemed everyone else was holding her, and I was a little sad, I love her little hands and feet, they are my favor tie on little babies. Paulina pierced her ears, she didn't take her any place to get them done, she literally did them herself- I was shocked when I found out, b/c I honestly can't imagine, trying to pierce the ear and having the baby stay still, if I ever tried (*don't worry, I don't have the courage, nor the ability*) but if I did, I would just have no luck- but she did a good job, they are even with both sides and the earrings are adorable and Alison is just a beautiful baby, with lots of f black hair and there amazing beautiful brown eyes, small eyeballs, definitely enough to fall in love with her.

Manuel and I are so lucky to have one of the cutest nephews and one of the cutest nieces- they are so much fun and we have lots of fun spoiling them!!! We love Aidan and Alison

NEW FRIDGE-

2009-05-09T22:15:00.004-06:00

I have had a love/hate relationship with the refrigerator---sometimes on good days, the fridge was nice, it would keep things cool, such as a Dr. Pepper on a hot summer day, or on a bad day when I just needed that extra boost of caffeine...other days...I would go to cook some chicken and come to find it has been defrosted and refrozen....process repeated many times- so I quickly became tired of buying freezer food and having to throw it away due to the fridge's behavior. Its an older fridge, my brother in law purchased it in 2003-white, freezer on top, fridge on bottom, you know your standard fridge. Well sometimes when one would get in the fridge, and close it behind them, the freeze would pop open, not enough to where you could see it was open, but enough to make it defrost everything. Well then it became real angry and would start freezing stuff in the refrigerator part...yep, you read that right, it would freeze like eggs, sandwich meat, applesauce, WATER, you name it, if it was in the fridge, it was bound to get frozen, first it was just towards the back of the fridge, if the items on the shelf would get pushed too far back, then then it would freeze them. But then it started freezing everything, like my Brita water container, you don't know how many times I went to get water to find nothing in the glass b/c it was just solid ice- well I would complain to Manuel that we needed a new fridge and he must have thought I was going crazy, because he never found anything wrong- until one day, when he had to pack his own lunch and when he took the food out of the fridge from the night before-it was frozen- yeah that did it right there for him...(it has been doing it to me for over a year). But long before he figured it out, I quit buying meat for the freezer, I would just buy it when I needed it, which in turn sucked b/c I don't like going to the grocery store very often, and having to do it for every dinner meal, it was becoming real annoying- and a couple times turning my sweet Grandma Carol down b/c she was offering us some beef, but I told her no, b/c it would just get ruined (Ready for it now Grandma), so we have been looking for a while online for a fridge that we liked, and I was sold on a black one, it would match the other appliances, right...so finally we find time on Wednesday to go to the store and look. We went to Best Buy, found the one we wanted, left and thought about it for a while, and then I convinced him to go back that night to get it. So we were back in the store, and look at the fridges one more time and we come across this Titanium, side by side, fridge, sweet looking, same price as the one we were set on, and then I had to go back thru the "do I really like this fridge" process. IT was perfect in every way, we decided to go for it, told the guy and he was ordering it for us and there were 4 more at Best Buys warehouse- but it wasn't letting him order a new one...so he sold us the floor model. But before we were sold, I walk to the fridge and the first thing I notice is a dent in the bottom freezer door- I was a little bummed, but no worries, I didn't care- they were giving a 10% discount on the additional clearance price- so it wasn't bad- but then after we were sold on it, he pulls it out away from the other fridges, and right along the side of it was a big scratch (Appliance employees really need to learn to take better care of the appliances they deal with, Seriously) so after much thought and a headache later, we purchased the fridge and were well on our way home. I told Manuel to call someone to come help him bring it in-so Gordo and Vanessa came over, and the two men worked real hard to get inside- they couldn't bring it thru the garage, because it wouldn't fit through the two laundry room doors, and I didn't think of the sliding glass door until they were stuck in the front door, and then I tried to take the glass door off the track, but I have no clue how to do that, so I just watched them fit it through the front door-it was sad, it didn't really fit, they had to work real hard to get it through, and during that process, mind you the fridge is still wrapped in plastic, but shoving it through the front door, somehow the plastic got cut, and the handles on the fridge, have little scratches, no worries, scratches or not, I have a new fridge and I love it.

In fact, I love it so much and am so happy- I can buy otter pops and they will be frozen and delicious, not frozen, melted, frozen..etc. I have lots of room and it's funny because when I was cleaning out the other fridge, I was throwing things away that were just old, and so our new fridge looked pretty empty- I had a door full of condiments and random odds, but the rest of it it was feeling lonely-Friday, Manuel's family called and wanted to have a BBQ and it was blast, and the fridge sure can hold alot of food :) It's full now, and it looks great- WE had another BBQ today and sure was delicious- Carne Asada is my favorito!!! *and homemade TORTILLA's too- mmm...and one other good thing- I NEVER HAVE TO BUY ANOTHER BAG OF ICE WHEN MY FAMILY COMES, ICE IS ON HAND, FILTERED WATER ON HAND-WHOHWOH!!!

Sometimes its just better to cut the middle man

2009-05-09T21:52:00.003-06:00

So- it was about 3 weeks ago, I came home from work and Manuel told me that he thought the washer was broken. I just assumed, he had messed with the settings, and it wasn't washing like usual ( He likes to push the buttons, and it's my pet peeve to hear a buzzer go off when the laundry is done). So I open the washer, and sure enough the clothes were soaking wet, (its a washer...duh) so then I was like...hmm well the spin cycle didn't run, so I set the washer to spin, and then watched for quite a while and it did nothing, then all the sudden, it starts humming, the motor was running in the washer, but the spin cycle was doing nothing...So we hung his clothes to dry, we were leaving town the next day, and didn't need to worry about it. So when we got home from Utah, it was super crazy, I had a paper due, that I had started the day it was due :) and then I was asked Manuel to look at the washer, but before he tore into it, we decided to just run the cycle and see if it would work....so I gathered some blankets to wash, started the load and we to get something to eat. Came home, I sat in front of the washer, and watched until the spin cycle started, (it was spinning during the entire wash time) so I was happy I thought it was working, happy day right...well time comes for the actual spinning, and all went silent in the house, and all I hear is the 'humming' sound...it was very sad, so Manuel takes the top of the washer off and starts reading the code manual...trying to figure out what was wrong. It wasn't until the next day, when him and Franky figure out what part needed to be replaced. I was happy when the discovered the problem, and after searching for the part on the Internet, I was pleased with the price, it was $50 to get the part, plus shipping. So on Wednesday, I called around to some repair places here in Boise area, and there was one place that had the part in stock but for almost $90----(I totally would have if my husband wouldn't have already seen the price on the Internet)... So I call the Internet store that had the part, and asked for a faster shipping- b/c the regular ship was between 4-6 days...not going to fly, I hate laundry piling up...so I ordered the part, purchased the faster shipping method- which was fed-ex home delivery, product expected within 2-3 days...right this is a Wednesday, I was thinking by Friday or Saturday we should have the part...they told me I would receive an e-mail confirmation with the tracking code...never received it! So I decided to call Friday afternoon, and the gentlemen on the phone told me "we received the part this morning and it will be shipped out momentarily"...Me thinking momentarily is that afternoon- logical right...well that night when we got home, I still had no e-mail confirmation. I called Saturday afternoon, and another gentlemen told me "We received it Friday, it will be shipped out Monday morning". I was so mad, b/c I was expecting it to be shipped Friday grr...so I vented to a few people, it was non-sense. SO after complaining to my husband, he decided to call Monday- he calls and low and behold guess what they tell him "It has shipped from our warehouse and we should receive it at our place Tuesday and we will get it shipped out to you as soon as we can, sorry for the delay, its taking so long."...WHAT??? When Manuel told me I was so mad, b/c not only had two different guys told me the product was at their place, but it still wasn't shipped out. So apparently Manuel let the gentlemen know he was mad that it had taken this long, and they had told me a different story, so I get home Monday night from class and I had an e-mail saying it had been shipped...now I was real confused b/c the gentlemen that Manuel spoke to said it hadn't been received in their place...so how were they able to ship it out that same day, when it wasn't coming in until their Tuesday shipment??? weird...but any who...8 days later, we received the part. I am just wondering why would a company have a part posted, for sale, but then order it from another company...have a customer order the part, then they order it from another place, have the other place ship it to the place where the customer purchased, and then the seller will sent it to the customer...why not just freaking have the place that has the dang part, send it to the customer- it would reduce a customers heart rate and head aches...seriously sometimes it's just better to cut the middle man out!!! I came home from class Thursday morning, and my washer was running, and spinning like a GEM!!! three weeks worth of laundry, a helpful husband, the laundry is all washed....still sitting in the dryer and laundry basket waiting to be folded, but at least we have a wardrobe again- and I couldn't be happier

One about the easter eggs..sorry for the overload

2009-04-13T23:15:00.004-06:00

Friday I needed to go to the store to grab a few things...well while I was there I decided I wanted to color Easter eggs. I don't remember that last time I did this. SO I buy the coloring kit, get the eggs, super excited for Manuel and Zen to join me (Zen is the cousin, if you didn't know). So when I get home to the two guys sitting on the couch, I told them my plan for the night- and they didn't seem like they were buying it. In fact the words out of their mouths "Who are we coloring them for, there are no kids"...US duh...So after I made dinner, and then dessert, I cleaned the kitchen while the eggs were boiling. Manuel and Zen were in the garage lifting weights, laughing, messing around with the paintball stuff, and I decided I wasn't going to interrupt them to do something they probably didn't want to, so I started dying the eggs my self- 10 to be exact, got a little bored doing it alone. Then they came in to see the eggs on the counter and there response to me was " Sweet, what do we do now" ... Well nothing b/c you guys didn't seem to fascinated by my idea earlier...hello- but lucky for them I decided to boil the last 4 eggs b/c I just didn't think I would use them anytime soon- So between the two of them, they each got 2 eggs to color and they took it seriously. It was fun to do, and to watch them do it as well. The kit I bought, also had some paint in it, but as I was painting my eggs I realized 2 things: 1) the paint sucked, and there weren't any paint brushes, they had little suction type things (can't think of the word right now, its late) and 2) the PAINT WAS SMELLY, oh my gosh, it was sick, I felt like I should have been painting a car..it smelt a little lethal- but all in all- the eggs turned out fun- even with out the paint!!!

arghh..it was two months ago.

2009-04-13T22:33:00.008-06:00

So Valentines this year was extra special- the guys were in charge and they did an amazing job- SO it took "weeks" of planning- lots of little meeting at Hooters over some wings and drinks- I guess it gets their brains thinkin or something- SO they planned a fantastic evening- UNFORGETTABLE that's for sure and I am almost sure it's UNBEATABLE TOO!

All the girls were to be at Frank's house at 7 on the dot- well Vanessa and I had quite the eventful day- We wanted to be in charge of the dessert, so we made Chocolate Fondue and all the good dippings to go along (Pineapple, Shortcake, Cinnamon lips, Strawberries). WE had just left the store and Gordo called asking us to go get some Goblets, so we decided that since we just left Wal-Mart, we would go to Fred Meyer's and get the glasses. So we get there, no such luck, so back to Wal-Mart we go- purchased and out the door we went. On to making the chocolate fondue. It turned out great, just took a little longer than we had anticipated. So we both started getting ready at about 5:30- enough time right- Frank's house was minutes away from Vanessa and Gordo's so we thought we were good on time. We should have been the first one's there, we were the closest, and yet we were the last ones' and everyone was waiting on us!!! We just had a few minor difficulties with hair and what not- being rushed is never a good thing. So we show up and we were told to wait in the "waiting room" (aka OFFICE). later we were then Escorted to our tables by our husbands/date- where fresh salads awaited. All the while, it was dark with minimal lighting, music playing in the background, ROMANTIC I tell ya. A little while later, Dinner was served, followed by the delectable Chocolate fondue, which might I add, super delicious. While just sitting at our tables, mingling amongst the crowd (might I add there were 7 couples) the men start saying "the duck has landed, the duck as landed" they all take off outside and us ladies are just wondering what the heck-. so They come in to get us and we go out to

(Dave, Magi,Manuel,Gordo, Franky, Javier, & Frank)

A STRETCH LIMO- it was amazing. Perfect for the night too- White! We drove around town for 2 hours. Obviously, there were a few bathroom stops and it was so funny b/c we stopped the first time I Think at a gas station- Mind you we were all dressed up- not like PROM, but obviously for a special occasion- the ladies were standing in line, and behind us are some drunk girls- very obnoxious drunk girls- who kept referring to us as the "prom group"- when we told them time and time again, it was Valentines- I am pretty sure they were date-less, seeing that it was probably 1030 and they were waisted to no end- anyway, as there were many girls, needing to go to the bathroom, I come out and was faced with the drunk girls trying to cut the line and use the

(Kacy, Anna, Vanessa, Adriana, Me, Saira, Veronica)

restroom- Anna nicely told them that it wasn't there turn and the still all 4 of them went in to the restroom and started giggling- like drunk girls obviously...acting dumb- so with the four of them in their, all of us and the people behind us were a little annoyed b/c they were taking their sweet time- but they left their one and only sober friend out of the bathroom- and she kept apologizing- It was funny when they came out, b/c I am sure there was at least 2 girls that were with us that wanted to kick their butts, plus everyone else that was waiting in line behind us- it was comical for the night- Anyway back to the limo- like I said we drove around for 2 hours, and then we were dropped off to go Salsa Dancing!!! it was fun, even though I am not that good- it's so fun to get out and dance once in a while- I want to take lessons-We danced the night away- almost closing the bar down-It was a great night and made for some sore toes :)

(somewhat of a picture of most of the limo)

It was spectacular- the guys really showed us up forever- I don't know if the girls will be able to top this one for next year-it's going to be tough.

WRITER COMMENTS: I KNOW THIS IS TWO MONTHS OVER DUE...but better late than never!!!

I'm not dragging him...We are DRAGGING EACH OTHER

2009-04-13T22:18:00.003-06:00

Just so you know, it's not all me who wants to go to this young beauty's concert- Manuel is just as eager as I am. It was a very stressful morning March 21- come 10 AM. I was trying to get ready for the day, and snatch up a pair of these tickets that were said to be sold out in 10 minutes. I was ready to bring on the fight-(not really, who am I kidding, the joy of buying tickets from home) So the night before, I created my account on ICTICKETS.com so I could ease he process right...well it was still chaotic. The tickets went on sale at 10 am, and instantly their server went down and was down for quite a while. I was getting so fed up with clicking continue to only receive an error page, so I called Manuel upstairs to try and purchase them while I finished getting ready. 24 minutes later, we were the prouder purchasers, of floor tickets to TAYLOR SWIFT. I was so happy- b/c while I was trying to purchase them, and all the error pages I was getting, I was telling myself it was just not going to happen. but then it did- and YAHOO!!!

The day they came in the mail- I posted them up on on the fridge. {STORY TIME} I hate my refrigerator- the freezer sucks, it will freeze and un-freeze when it pleases- the fridge part, well it things get put in a certain place, they freeze too- it makes for some mad moments when I go to cook and some of the ingredients or vegetables or what not are frozen. Anyway so I have been telling Manuel of the issue for quite some time and I am just fed up right.. {END FRIDGE STORY} SO with the fridge issue in your mind, I put the tickets on the fridge with magnets, so when Manuel got home, I was sitting at the table {ACTING A LITTLE BUMMED} and I told him to look at the fridge. He instantly says "what's wrong with it now" and all I said was just look at it...thinking he would catch the green/white tickets smack dab in the middle of the white face fridge...he looks at the freeze, looks at the fridge and still doesn't notice the tickets, so I tell him to look on the fridge not at the issues it's having and he started dancing {he's gonna be mad that I posted that} oh well..it was funny- I love that we share the same interests in music...mostly his country lovin style too- b/c lets face it, I love country music, and love singing right along, with the songs I know of course.

It's funny b/c he just told me a story tonight of a lady he works with, when he told his fellow colleagues he was going to Taylor Swift, this lady said that I was probably dragging him...and his reply to her [the first time he told me the story] was that "She's not dragging me, I am dragging her" but really we are dragging each other, and not really DRAGGING, WE Cant wait to go- WE WILL BE LIVIN OUR LOVE SONG on MAY 17th and it can't come quick enough...it's my little school is over for the semester relief type of thing!!

It's Easter and alot has happened..a little bit of everything

2009-04-12T22:11:00.007-06:00

So...I know it has been so long since anything has been said on here- I apologize. Life is just crazy, and I have been wanting to blog for such the longest time, but it just hasn't happened. So with it being Easter today, I was planning on getting caught up on some major housecleaning, homework, and my plan was to download/upload some pictures and blog...had my day planned. I thought I was going to be alone for Easter, and I was little bummed, b/c I don't ever remember being alone on Easter- but I was a little bummed, but excited to get caught up on somethings, but then my sweet Sister in law VANESSA called me up and asked me to come over. My in-laws came up to Boise this weekend, so I actually spent the entire day with them, it was fun!

Since the last blog- we have been blessed with a new addition to the Vega family! A GIRL!!!! She's adorable and oh so tiny and I love her- she's so fun to hold, and has the most prettiest hair---as Manuel would put it, "she has the silkiest hair ever!" Alyson Vega was born March 22, 2009 to Hector and Paulina- so now we have 1 nephew and 1 niece we get to spoil- She's a lot of fun b/c she's the first grandchild on the Vega side, and I don't think my mother in law could be happier- She's a proud ABUELITA (Grandma).. As you can tell my espanol is increasing muy picito-hah (Spelling in Spanish, not so much yet)

For Spring Break- WE WENT TO MOSCOW!!! it was a much needed little vacation, and I couldn't have picked a better place...Why Moscow?? Well b/c Chanc, Randy, and Aidan are there- and it was so much fun to spend 4 days with them- I loved it. I love my sister and wish she lived closer- --We went to Moscow in the middle of the week and spend lots of time laughing and eating and game playing. Wish we had more time, but Spring Break only last a darn week- bummer. While we were there we went to the States most Interesting Store- TRI-State- I have to tell you- Wednesday after we arrived, Chanc needed to deliver some goodies to a few of her friends so I tagged along. As we were driving, we passed by Tri-State and it literally says "States Most Interesting Store" on the sign, so of course I was rather intrigued, but not only b/c of the name, this store is attached to an ACE HARDWARE STORE- WEIRD. That my friends is why I wanted to check it out, which store could possibly be attached to an Ace? When I think of Ace, I think of Burley, and Ace is an awfully weird place I think- it has almost anything and everything from tools to wedding gifts. Anyway, Tri-State was pretty cool though- didn't find anything worth buying- but just checking it out was cool. So we did a little shopping in the little mall there in Moscow, went to Winco more times in one day than I ever have probably in one month--weird I know--ON Saturday we drove up to Spokane- We had never been there and I gotta tell ya I was a little skeptical when we arrived. The part we drove in thru and out thru were very odd- almost white trash city. I remember seeing a lot of garbage bags out on people's yards, it's as if the yards are there dumpsters. Downtown Spokane is gorgeous though, lots of green trees, parks, buildings, old ones too :) It was raining most of the time we were there and we had planned on going to some botanical gardens I think, but instead we just hit up the mall and walked around and what not- Drove back to Moscow and it started snowing on the way there- CRAZY! Ordered Smoky Mountain- and played Balderdash-my new favorite game!! Sunday we woke up rather early b/c Manuel had planned on stopping in Ontario to practice with the team and when Manuel looks outside, it was covered with like 5 inches with snow- so that made for a very eventful, me freaking out b/c the guy behind us was too close, drive to Lewiston, which is only about 4o miles away from Moscow, but don't worry it took us close to 2 hours to get there. The roads were so covered over, we weren't sure if we were on the road- but once we got down into Lewiston, it was so green and so calm...weird how the snow just lapsed right over that town :) Moscow was pretty fun, we plan on going back this summer to go on a camping trip- one reason we went to Moscow was for the little man's 1st Birthday- it was a great party too- We invited Cousin Callie over and we just had ourselves a jolly old time- between hamburgers, home-made onion rings- we were rollin!!! Then we had to add in the home-made birthday cake- it was an ice cream cake roll- and Aidan devoured it, it was too good not too though, it was Delicious. he had no problem eating it either :) Can't believe he is 1 now, time went by quickly, but he's a great little guy-

oh dear....

2009-02-04T21:48:00.001-07:00

I forgot to tag people in my "10 happy things" post...so if your feeling a little sluggish, or a little behind on blogging, I would say names of a few people who could use an update or two, but whose pointing fingers anyway? My aunt tagged me for this and then wrote on my blog that she tagged me and I could use an update. So here's to all you out of dater bloggers...update and make it a happy one :)

Now don't ya'll panic

2009-02-04T18:44:00.003-07:00

I know I know...I haven't been posting as regularly..there is a reason. School has started up for the two of us and I am exhausted. So the week before school started I was signed up to take a psych class on Saturdays, I received the syllabus and panicked, it was just a tid of over the top too much for me. So I got out of that class and replaced it with another class, Gender 301, reading the description it was about the psychology aspect why men and women do the things they do and what have you. I showed up the first day of school, it was a night class, which was a major bummer, I haven't had to have night classes in so long, I wasn't looking forward to it. Anyway, I go to class, hear the mundane stuff for the up-teenth time and then we are on our way to talk about the things this class is about. Well after much discussion I came to realize I was in a class full of men and women who liked men and women (ie. men vs men, women vs. women) ya get the point. Now I have no problem with any one's sexual orientation, its their life, I have friends that choose to be that way, I have no problem, the problem I had was sitting in a class for 3 hours listening to the way they think and having to deal with that all semester long, just didn't cut it for me, and trying to figure out why they think that way, then them pushing their thoughts on me, just, Plus it was a service learning class so 1o hrs a wk with an agency in the community, creating a project and carrying it out to the community, while it may have been fun to work with the communities it was just too much for me. Plus you couldn't pick your own agency, they chose for you and most of them had to do with Gay/Lesbian excepts Planned parenthood, which would have been my preferred choice, but she told us she made the final decision on which one we were put in and I wasn't taking any risks here. So that night, I got out 15 minutes later...ahhh I felt so claustrophobic in that class room I was running for the door. Anyway I dropped the class and added a non-verbal communication class. Now...that is a shocker for me as well, because I don't like communication classes, but last semester I have a required comm interviewing class and loved it and so I decided to give this non-verbal one a try, and now I am stuck with it but I think it will be good.

Manuel is taking classes this semester too. English 102 and an electronics class. So far so good, although it was really funny because he has to read for 102 and the other night I left him alone downstairs so he could read and I was talking on the phone. I came down later and he said he was going to bed.. I asked if he read and he said no, I wasn't down to push him...hah. He's so funny. I went up stairs to talk so I wouldn't but him and he could do his homework...I don't blame him though, I am not much of a reader myself. I put it off till the last minute.

That's our lives in a nutshell. both working, and school...life is just a little busy right now. I am already counting down the days until spring break..that is just bad, b/c I have been counting since the first day which was the 20th of January. It seems to be going by rather quickly though, which is good.

I will try to update more often-

10 happy things

2009-02-04T17:45:00.004-07:00

I was tagged by my Aunt Lacy You are supposed to list 10 things that make you happy.

1. Spending time with my husband.

2. Knowing that school is coming to an end at the end of this year...what a great way to end the year!

3. Spending time with both sides of the family. They are so different in so many ways, that either family we are with, we are sure to have a good time.

4. Cooking makes me happy, even though I don't do it nearly enough like I should I still love making dinner for the man, and hearing him say he loves it even when I don't think it looks good or looks like the picture...I have issues when I cook with pictures, I think I have expectations to meet apparently.

5. Dr. Pepper and licorice ropes...absolute fav!

6. Vacations with my husband. I think of our honeymoon and our cruise all the time.

7. Talking on the phone to anyone who wants to talk...especially my sister, we can talk for hours and laugh about things

8. Having my dad call me out of the blue to see how my day is going!

9. My mom calling me and laughing...or calling me late at night and leaving me messages singing me..that one she will never live down and you can guarantee it makes me smile, laugh each time I think about.

10. My little brothers asking when I am coming home again, because they want to see me.

There are many things that make me extremely happy, but these are just a few random ones that I am sure you all needed to know :)

New for 2009..Chelsea Vega, RHIT

2009-01-05T22:50:00.006-07:00

So, since I graduated last May, I have been eligible to sit for the RHIT exam, (Registered Health Information Technician).. I kept putting it off, I wanted to take it during the summer, but didn't want to find the time to study, plus I wasn't registered to take it yet, then I registered in August, hoping to take it in October before school got crazy and I forgot all I needed to know. Well that didn't happen b/c school got crazy and lots of group projects were given and I didn't have time at all to study for this dang test. So I scheduled for January 2. It came quicker than I thought, but since school let out Dec. 18, I have been studying for this test like crazy. I was nervous for it the night before but when I woke up on Friday, I felt like I could have conquered the world, until I sat down to take the dang thing, then I got anxious, nervous and tired all in one. It was a 3.5 hour test, and I ended at 2.5 hours, knowing that I was doomed. It had an option where I could mark some questions then return to them later if time permitted. well I had plenty of time after I finished all 150 questions,(even though the paper says 130...I took 150, for some reason 20 don't count...) so I returned to the questions I was unsure of and I kept changing answer after answer, I was so unsure of how I wanted/needed to answer them. So after I changed a few, I called it quits. I have let that little game control my mind too many times and I have learned if I change the answer from what I first thought, it will just hurt me more than anything. So I closed the exam and walked out. I signed out, grabbed my things while the lady was printing my score out, then another test take came out and said her test was not working, so the worker told me to hold on. I paced the floor back and forth, for what seemed like forever, I was so ready to know my score and so ready not to see it either, I didn't know how I felt about it. She finally came back out and looked at the paper, punched it, signed and handed it too me "your all finished Chelsea" ...I scanned that paper up and down until I found "Congratulations on passing the exam" (Side note...Blogger is being real annoying right now, so just imagine that the picture at the top of this post is posted right here k...b/c that's how I had planned on putting it..but it's being a real bugger.)

I was so ecstatic. I passed. I was so happy. I called Manuel, he was half asleep, told him it was time to celebrate...his idea of celebrating at that point in time was for me to come home and finally get some sleep, b.c I didn't sleep the night before and he woke up at 4 that morning. I then called my sister, my mom and finally my dad answered. He was pouring concrete, but more than happy to hear me say I passed and he was very supportive. Later came the phone calls to Crystal, Elaine, Chanc and Mom. It was a good day. Especially after I was able to get a few hours of sleep, it took me a while to wind down, but it eventually came and then after the nap, we went shopping, I purchased some cute decor for the living room, we went to dinner my fav (Mongolian BBQ, with the best Dr. Pepper in town) and then we met up with some friends and went to a movie.

Now 12 more months of school...and I will graduate with my Bachelors and life will be grand...Happy New Year everyone, I wish you the best of luck in everything that you all do, good health, and a happy home.

Where to begin....

2009-01-05T21:06:00.019-07:00

I have so much to catch up on...hopefully I get it all in. So School got out December 18 and what a relief that was, I was so ready for it be over, it was one of those dreadful semesters with lots and lots of work, and group projects, it was crazy. Then that night, Chanc, Randy, and Aidan came and I was so happy to have guests, especially those 3. They stayed until Sunday and we had lots of fun. Chanc and I hit the mall for a few exchanges, we met up with Kasey, Raylynne, and Callie for dinner on Friday night at Famous Daves, in lieu of Randy finishing a semester :) It was pretty good. Manuel had an instinct to buy Rock Band, so after dinner him, Kasey and Randy took off to Best Buy and us girls plus A-man went to see Raylynne's new house, and then we came back home and played a little guitar hero until the band showed up then it was super from that point, after we got the mic working that is. Saturday we just hung around the house, then went and did a little Santa shopping for Aidan and then we came back and made an oh-so-delicious mock salad from Costa Vida, fresh with Cilantro Lime Dressing, it was AMAZING. Loved it-. Sunday the Todd's went to Burley. Manuel had to work on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and I had to work till Wednesday night, which was kind of a bummer being Christmas even n' all and it made for a nasty drive home. Christmas Eve day I brought Syd, Reese, Zoey and Charley over so they could open their presents from us and we could play...it was fun.

(Me, Reese, Zoey, Sydney, and little Charley Grace)

That night Manuel, Gordo and myself left Boise at about 11 and didn't get in to Burley until 4 A.M. it was crazy. We stopped to help a guy who had slid off the road, it looked like he had been there for a while(actually Manuel and Gordo, I just stayed in the nice warm truck, but I felt very bad that they were out there in the cold). We didn't have a tow-rope so there wasn't much we could do, but after he told the guys that he had called 9-1-1 to send some help, we waited with him, until another truck stopped by us and told us they had a rope, so Manuel and Gordo went back out to help pull him back on to the road, it took a while, the first attempt the rope broke, but he was able to get free...poor guy was getting ready to sleep in his car, he was waiting for a long time for emergency vehicles to respond and nothing...that's Burley for you though, they have "other" priorities, forget about helping when it's actually needed. The freeway should have seriously been closed, it was so bad out there. The guy who we helped was off the road just a little bit after Kasota Road exit and it took an additional 45 minutes almost to get to Burley, which is 14 miles away. It was a white out and it was very scary.

Christmas Morning- Manuel wanted to wake everyone up when we settled in for the night, after getting everything brought in from the truck. I was wanting to go to sleep but was wide awake, but after much begging we finally slept for a few hours and we (actually I did) woke up at about 8-I still didn't want to get out of bed then, but everyone was waiting on me (oops) We had a great Christmas, it was fun being with family and as always we were spoiled. Manuel got new paintball pants, a new jersey, a REAL-Cowboy shirt zick kit for his paintball gun, Blu-Ray DVDs (Batman begins, and Nacho Libre)

Manuel and his "real" cowboy shirt.

I got a new laptop --I dropped my Toshiba a few months ago by tripping over the cord, and ever since then this line has magically appeared on the screen, it would go away sometime if we moved the screen back and forth, but lately, I would turn the computer on and the screen would be black with all sorts of lines across the screen, I could see the computer was thinking because of the way the line were moving but I would have to turn it off and then restart it or take the battery out and then start it up. So we decided it would be best to get a laptop before my Toshiba completely went out. So Manuel purchased a Sony Vaio and I am pretty pleased. Its' a nice laptop, and it works great. So then this past Friday morning, Manuel went down stairs to get on the Toshiba (see...it was his computer now, b/c I got a new one) and the Toshiba is done with I think, we have turned it on, off, removed the battery, repeat by like 10 times and nothing still. It's kind of sad, it was a great laptop, definately been used though and put to the test a few time :( oops, I need and hope to be more careful, it was an awful incident, I couldn't believe how clumsy I had been. So back to presents, I also got a new coat from the Buckle, ---story time again---I told Manuel I wanted him to get me a little something that would surprise me b/c I haven't had a Christmas surprise in a while, he kept telling me there was nothing else to get me that he could think of..but I think he did a great job by surprising me with this cute, army green, fur hooded coat, it's oh-so adorable and I just love it. It was an excellent surprise/present and I think he should continue the tradition of surprising me. I also got Zumba workout DVDs and a Christmas plate and some snowflake hanging signs, which are adorable.

(My "lovely, un-presentable, Self, with the cute snowflake signs made by my sweet n' talented sister Chanc)

If any of you know my dad, it's a rare thing to catch a picture of him with a serious face, but that's what's great about my dad, he has a personality that is like no other, and I love taking pictures of my mother trying to figure out technology, she is very smart and so funny when she uses camera's she cracks me up!! Very great, generous, loving, caring mother and father that I have. Love you guys!

Christmas was definitely a white one, in the middle of opening gifts, G'Pa and G'ma Bench, along with Shaun and Deanna came out and G'pa needed to get the cows in, apparently with all the snow, they became "drifted In" so Manuel, Chace, Chad, and Shaun went to help G'pa and when they came back to the house, they were inside for just a few minutes then all of the sudden this little Dodge neon thought they could make their way thru all the snow in front of our house and with drifts so high (I have never seen so much snow in Burley) they became high centered...and for dodge neon's they don't have any tow handles apparently from what I learned last night, but I kind of figured that when all the guys were out in the middle of the road, digging the car out with shovels, and the four-wheeler. That person who was driving, said they thought they could make it thru, so get this...they stopped completely right before the drift, then gunned it....and viola, they sure made it all right....right on TOP of all that snow....it was pretty funny.

Crazy snow in Burley. You can see in the first picture that the snow covers the entire trampoline, almost....Thanks for taking pictures Randy, so I could use them too :)

I didn't get pictures of my brothers alone or even looking at the camera...shoot. Chace looks very intrigued at something, he received a new Ipod Nano from "Santa" and lots of other fun things and clothes and here is Chad opening a present...he left his "Santa" present to open very last, it was a Air Soft Gun along with some more fun things and clothes.

Randy, Chanc and Aidan Todd, I love this little family. Aidan is so cute and I loved being able to spend some time with him. While they were here in Boise, he didn't want to sleep one night, so Chanc and Randy left him with me and we had fun for the while that they were gone..they went to get some ice cream and then we were going to watch Mama Mia...It was great fun!

We wanted to play rock band 2 with all the family, so Manuel brought all the equipment...only to find out that we left the actual game in our Wii here in Meridian...We tried a few different places but to no avail, it was no where to be found. So we settled for Disney's wii sing it...--The mic that Manuel bought the night he bought the system, was crappy, it was wireless, but would hook up and then disconnect when ever it darn well pleased, so he took it back but couldn't find a different mic, so he thought he would buy me Disney's wii sing it...it was nothing that I was hoping the songs to be, they are definitely a little too "kiddish" for me, but it was fun none- the less with the kids at Grandma's....My not-so-little Brother, Chace totally rocked at singing, he is a fabulous singer anyway, but dang, he sure can sing like the Jonas Brothers, and he is very very good at it. So any ladies looking to have your heart melted by an oh -so Handsome boy, call Chace, he is the MAN!~~ (Chace there was a lady that posted she needed a Jonas Brother imitator for her daugther's 12th b-day party...thought about sending her an email with your number....hehe)

Friday-was just a low-key day. I had Aaliyah Jade with me whom I love having, she is my little side-kick when I am in town and I love every minute of. She's adorable, but we got ready, had lunch at TACO BANDIDO and then I dropped the guys plus Aaliyah off to play some B-ball and then I headed to Grandma's to hang with Chanc. We were there for the most part of the day, then we went to Grandma Asher's to visit and that was fun b/c I got to visit with my aunt's and cousins from Utah whom I rarely see, so it was fun. That night Manuel and I went to Marc and Lyndsey's to hang out but I wasn't feeling so good, so I was pretty bummed I zonked out on the couch and then Manuel woke me up and we went home.

Saturday---got up at 730 and make the trek back to Boise, it was sad leaving, we had so much fun with Family, but Manuel had to work that night.

I think I captured everything...funny how I remember all of that, but it was great time spent with Family, I just wish there were more time for us to be home, and enjoy every one's company and have fun.

We can add one to the blogging family....

2008-12-14T11:48:00.003-07:00

Hello all!!! I have some very exciting news to share with you....Raylynne and Kasey have officially became "BLOGGERS" much to Kasey's dismay...(but he will soon love to appreciate it) anyway I wasn't sure how anyone would find her blog so I decided to do a post and share it with all the family... www.kaseyandraylynne.blogspot.com

I hope you all enjoy.

Holiday Cheer

2008-12-02T18:49:00.002-07:00

So I will make this my final post for the day and possibly for a while. I feel like I have updated everyone and then some. My Grandma sent me an email of this, so I thought instead of sending out emails, because I am not a big fan of forwarding things, I thought I would post it and this way anyonne who wants to do it can copy and paste it on their blogs.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I love wrapping paper, but if I happen to find the perfect gift bag that works too.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial, I am terribly scared of spiders and I think they will infest my home if I bring in a real tree...{although when I was sharing this tid-bit of info with Manuel, I think he may have thought I was crazy}
3. When do you put up the tree? The day after Thanksgiving if possible.
4. When do you take the tree down? mmm...usually right after Christmas, this year it will probably be after New Years weekend.
5. Do you like eggnog? Not a big fan, I hear its like drinking a pureed cheeseburger.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? probably my Teddy Rubxin bear...I saw one at Costco in Twin a month ago and was shocked he came out again..it's been a long time
7. Hardest person to buy for? I have too many to list.
8. Easiest person to buy for? This year, probably my nephew, Aidan.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, it's brand-new :)
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, definately
11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I honestly don't think I have received a bad gift, but one year I guess I was really emphasizing I wanted a Winny the Pooh bear and all my christmas presents that year turned out to be Winny the pooh somehow. I received the bear, a sweatshirt and some overalls with him on there as well. I think I was definitely over him real fast and now I don't even think he's anybit of a funny/cute thing at all.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? All of them.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? mmm...I usually start in November, early December.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not so much on this one
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? my Fathers oh so delicious YAMS...can't wait!
16. Lights on the tree? White ones
17. Favorite Christmas song? I think I pretty much love them all and start listening right after Halloween
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel to good Ol' Burley
9. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Yes, dasher, dancer, prancer,vixen, comet, cupid, donner, blitzen, and of course, Rudolph
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Rustic Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? Before marrying my family would open gifts on Christmas Eve at Grandma Asher's house then open our on Christmas with the Bench Side. Now that I am married, I try to fit it all in, but last year we opened the gifts my mother and father in-law gave us on Christmas Eve.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Crowds, traffic and the rudeness of people. 23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I have pine cone strands, red bead strands, little red bells, a rustic star, and a few ornaments collected over the year
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Dad's Yams would do, but I would probably be rolling home if that's all I ate. Ham, Yams, Salad, Rolls, Mashed Potatoes, Corn/beans, Pie
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Hopefully Santa got my letter or Ques: I would like a Cuisinart Kitchen Mixer, Black please. Maybe a new pair of shoes, my favorite ones are ripping from the sole...I noticed yesterday.
26. Who is most likely to respond to this? .Anyone feeling the holiday cheer.
27. Who is most likely NOT to respond to this? The Grinch

I almost forgot...

2008-12-02T18:44:00.003-07:00

This is the Nativity Scene set that my parents bought us. It's so cute. I really want the entire Willow Tree Nativity Scene set..but as I was checking prices yesterday....it was like $317...yeah I think my little one will satisfy me. It's a southwestern style...it's fun and definitely fits our household

Saturday 11/22/2008

2008-12-02T17:46:00.009-07:00

(Us at Fremont Street)

(Vanessa and Gordo-Gambling their little hearts away)

(Frank-trying his lucky hand at the machines)

Friday Night 11/21/2008

2008-12-02T17:28:00.006-07:00

(Manuel and I at the Excalibur)

(Vanessa and Gordo at the Excalibur)

(Vanessa and I at the Salsa Cantina)

Girls out for the Evening

(B-Shannon, Anna(bride) Vanessa

F-Me, Adriana, Liset(?), Trish)

Happy Holidays!

2008-12-01T21:52:00.002-07:00

{Warning: Long post ahead without any pictures. I thought I would update, but the camera is in Manuel's truck and he is at work. I will post the pictures later}

Well Thanksgiving break is over and I am just now starting to tell you all about it. I am sad that it went by so fast, but I was pretty busy and well..only a few more weeks of this nonsense called School for a while. I must say that starting in January, I am officially a Senior at BSU...whoop whoop..that makes me happy.

So Thanksgiving break started off with a bang...a long drive to Vegas to see a really good friend of Manuel's get Married. It was great fun. The Vega brother minus one clan plus two wives were on the road at 4 a.m. Friday November 21. I was so excited to get out of Boise and to be able to spend time with Manuel without the interruption of homework, I couldn't sleep before we left, I was busy packing, checking my list to make sure I didn't forget anything, packing more, and doing little odd ended things, 3 A.m arrived rather quick and we left to go get the other travelers. I thought sleeping in the car was a good idea, I could hardly sleep though, it just wasn't as comfy as a bed would have been. The drive to Las Vegas, was rather boring, it's such a long drive and not very exciting. The talks between us all were rather entertaining. We arrived in Vegas around 12 p.m I think on Friday and tried to take a nap before the evenings festivities but instead we got ready and went to some casino's, walked around and then the girls and guys split for the evening. The girls went and saw Thunder from Down Under, and that was an experience in itself. It was rather comical seeing all the crazy single women going well crazy and some of the brides to be were rather touchy with the Aussies and our group, we were just calm...seeing that we had probably never seen anything like that before, it was fun. It didn't start off so well, Vanessa and I got put at the end of the table and well everyone else sat in front of us and we were having a hard time seeing, but that didn't stop the laughter, we got lots of laughing in at the old brides to be and some of the rather un-shy ones as well. People amaze me, honestly. After the show, Vanessa, Ana (the bride to be) and my self went dancing. IT was fun, although there were some creepy men at the club and wouldn't leave us alone. there was one guy who was watching us, so we moved, he moved as well. we then decided to step off the dance floor and check our phones, well lo-n-behold, the man made his way to the bar, perfect eye contact to where we were standing. FREAK- honestly. We decided to meet up with the other girls and we went to Salsa Cantina, the girls danced, and Vanessa and I decided to head to the hotel, we were exhausted. Good thing we left then, because the other girls stayed out till 5, crazy dancers! So back to us leaving...we decided we needed to get some snacks for our hotel, so we walked to Walgreen's for some water and pop. WE then decided we would just take a cab from there to our hotel. Well the guy was obviously in a hurry to get back because he was driving all crazy and freaking me out, he was honestly the first cab ride I took with out Manuel and he was also the scariest. So Vanessa and I weren't quite sure on how to get back to our hotel, but we knew that some of the streets, would just result in us having to turn around. He was rather a rude man too, we would tell him where to go and he thought he knew the way, turns out we knew better than him. so when we finally got to the hotel, it was $8.10, I gave him a 20 and I told him I wanted $11 back...when I said that he repeated $11, $11..Me- the oh so nice person at times, said yes 11. He was the worst and most rude cab driver ever, he deserved his .90 cent tip, Jack-...I didn't count the change, thinking he would give me 11 back,...come to find out he didn't think .90 cents was good enough, so he took $2 and gave me $9 back, but I didn't realize until the morning. He was like a cab driver in a scary movie that would take the ladies down some dead end road and attack them and leave them there in the dark...that type of guy, scary right?

Saturday, we laid around, ordered pizza, then got ready for the wedding. We went, after which went and sat at a bar to watch BSU win yet another game then we met up with the newlyweds for dinner at a delicious buffet with my favorite, Crab legs and Shrimp. DELISH! We split after that and the Vega's found themselves on Fremont Street. I can't believe Manuel and I never made it over there when we were there last year for our honeymoon. We were in Vegas for a week and the strip was all we saw. IT was so awesome the light show above us was pretty cool, the music and the entertainment. We finally got a call from some of the other wedding guests and they were dancing so we decided to go meet up with them. There was a little miscommunication between Manuel and Franky, we took a $20 cab ride to the Palms hotel to meet up with them when in-fact, they were at the Las Palmas, which was right by Fremont street. So Franky came and picked us up and then we went back to our hotel and hung out, we never did go dancing which was sad because Vanessa and I really wanted to. That weekend went by way to fast and wish we had longer time to spend in Vegas, there were things we wanted to do, but no time to do it in. It was fun while it lasted.

Now on to Thanksgiving. My in-laws came up to Boise on Thursday morning so we had Thanksgiving Dinner at Manuel's brother Frank's house. It was a great day. It started on Wednesday when I needed to make 3 pies and then I needed to take stuffing and the rolls on Thursday. Being the Martha Stuart I am, I decided I would make the pie crusts, (the time I made them with Vanessa, the first batch I made, well it just didn't turn out at all), I made the dough, followed the directions to put it in the fridge for at least an hour. When I returned to roll it out, it was hard as a rock. I let it sit out for a while, rolled them and one of the pie crusts turned out and the other just kept crumbling as I was rolling. So I made another batch, in the meantime, I made the pumpkin filling, sliced the apples for the apple pie and made the chocolate filling for the chocolate pie. I must say for my first time making these pies, they turned out pretty well. With only one mishap with one pie crust. Anyway, besides that the food was amazing and the company was even better. I love being around family, especially this time of year. It makes me reflect on all the things I have to be thankful for. I am so thankful for my husband and the hard work he does for us, how he has an abundance of patience for me, I hear I can be a tough one to deal with at times ;) and the unconditional loves he shows me I Love him .I am also thankful for Family. They all make me smile and I love the time I get to spend with them.

Friday was my first experience with shopping on Black Friday, I have never been a fan of the crowds the day after Thanksgiving. I fell asleep on the couch, and Manuel woke me up around 4 asking if I still wanted to go, I first said no, but then realized I didn't want to be home alone, so I tagged along. It was rather crazy, I have never seen so many people at one store at one time. We went to Wal-Mart for a blu-ray player. WE found them and planted our feet. Manuel kept telling me to move aside because things go crazy when they let the items loose. So about 5 minutes before they opened the items I moved back and watched all the crazed sleep deprived shoppers. IT was rather comical. Manuel did get the player but after a few attempts of grabbing the same ones as some other shoppers, he decided to duck low and take from the bottom. he got and we were on our way. He wanted to get Iron man on Blu-ray so we searched the store but to no avail we couldn't find it. So we stood in line to make our purchase. We then headed over to Circuit city to see what they had, (only because Linens-n-things wasn't open yet) We headed over to Best Buy, went to Breakfast, went back to Linens-n-things, then we were going to go home but we made one last stop at Ross for an HDMI cable. The Dvd player didn't come with one and these cables run from $30-125 and Manuel remembers he saw on at Ross a couple weeks ago for around $10. So we waited for them to open hoping they would still have it so we wouldn't have to buy the more expensive cables. We couldn't find one but then Manuel moved a few items and one was hiding behind some ear phones or something. We got lucky! An awesome deal on a blu-ray dvd player and a cheap cable! Whoop whoop! WE were home around 8:15 and we landed ourselves on the couch to watch a new movie and nap. (Yes, Manuel hooked the player up as soon as we got home)

My parents and brothers stopped on Saturday on their way back to Burley. They went and spent Thanksgiving with Chanc, Randy, and Aidan. They had lots of fun up there and couldn't stop talking about the little guy, I can't wait until they come home for Christmas, so we can spend some quality time with him ( I mean Chanc and Randy too). After some delicious Sweet and Sour chicken, Mom needed to meet with my cousin Aaron to buy him some shirts for his mission, so we all tagged along, glad I did. We went to Desert Book and I bought a few Christmas presents and then I absolutely fell in love with this little nativity scene set, it was so adorable. I was set to go back next week to purchase it, I had already spent enough there in one night. Well to my surprise, Mom and Dad bought it for us and she set it up as soon as we got home, except it took me like 3 hours to realize and the only reason I looked was because Chace spilled his drink and I looked over in that direction. I was super excited {I will take a picture of it and post it later}.

Well that's all in the long-kind of nutshell version of our lives. It went by so quickly and I have school tomorrow. I didn't do as much homework as planned over the break and I think I might have caused a little stress in my life but hey I have 6 days of actual school left and I can't wait...only thing is after school gets out I am studying my little butt off because I take a test at the beginning of the year...wish me luck.

a picture-less post with random tid bits of information

2008-11-02T20:38:00.003-07:00

Well...Hello-it’s been a while since my last post- just a quick recap of what's happened over the last couple of weeks. Manuel had volunteered to leave Micron, because of the lay-offs, he signed his papers and we were soon to be Micron free, which came with a load of mixed emotions...less money, him possibly going to Texas to help with Hurricane Ike, leaving me here in Idaho, those were the downers, him being home at nights with me (if he stayed in Idaho), more time with him, and we would make the financial issues work....well while I was in California, I received a phone call from him, telling me has some good news, He got a call with a job offer in Fab 4 at Micron. I was so excited; it meant he wasn't leaving to Texas, which I was really depressed about. SO he started his new shift tonight. The one thing I don't really like about this shift, is he works every other Saturday, but hey I will take that any day over him leaving me here. I guess all in all...everything worked out the way it was suppose to.

Halloween has come and gone...it sure went by fast. We had a little party with some friends, and it was ALOT of FUN! Manuel was a Rodeo Clown, and I was a disco dancer, or a hippie, or the chick from Austin Powers...I just know I had a GROOVY dress...ha-ha! It was a lot of fun though, I must say, Manuel’s idea of a rodeo clown was a hit! It was definitely the best one at the party I do believe; I may be a little bias though ;).

ON Saturday, we made a quick trip to Burley to pick up our new washer and dryer from Ron and Heathers, and to see Chace's play that night. At first I didn't think Manuel would like it, (finding out he didn't watch in High School when they put it on for the school) I was happy he went with me and he ENJOYED It! and I must say, my little brother Chace, well not so little, but he looked so tough and did a great job! The night before he stepped in for a kid that was not able to make it to the play and I hear he did an excellent job! I want to rent the movie now!

School is going great, just can't wait till this semester is over. All the little mundane assignments, frankly I am getting so sick of them...can't wait till this college career of mine is over. I have 11 classes left until I am done. December of 2009 can't come soon enough....it's sad...it's still over a year and I am so EXCITED.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner...and Vanessa and I will be testing our pie making skills out. We want to make an array of pies including, Pumpkin, my favorite, I think a pecan pie will be in the plan, and there was a couple others, but I can't remember. So if you have any tips on making home made pies, leave me a comment because this is a new thing for both of us and we might just need all the help we can get.

In 3 weeks we will be heading to sin city! Our really good friend and his fiancé are getting married in Vegas and we will be attending. Manuel's brothers and wives, and girlfriend will be attending the pre-marriage festivities and then the wedding. Manuel and I can't wait for our mini-vacation.

On another note...I have some weird food allergies...one is peanuts...I can eat cashews in moderation (which is nice, because they are good) but any other peanut/nut related food item has odd reactions in my mouth...sometimes I just can't resist the Salty peanuts and eat them hoping the reaction wont be bad..but to no avail each and every time I get sores in my mouth like no other....I always hear about if your child is allergic to something, if you re-introduce it to them in other food items, in small amounts, increasing each time, they will become *un* allergic to the item....it apparently doesn't work with me...

I have never been a fan of pumpkin seeds. I tried them for the first time maybe 3 years ago, I didn't like them. We made them ourselves so they weren't as seasoned as I like things. So yesterday on our way back to Boise, I bought some seasoned pumpkin seeds. I like to buy sunflower seeds, not to eat the seed, but to just suck the seasoning off then spit them out *sorry if that grosses you out* I planned on doing the same thing with pumpkin seeds! They were pretty good, I even managed to crack them open and eat the seeds, not too bad. I had maybe a handful, that's all I had before I fell asleep...well we got home and my mouth was so sore, looked in the mirror and my mouth is full of those dang sores... apparently I just have weird allergic reactions to odd things....

Meet the "pumpkinettes"

2008-10-15T11:05:00.004-06:00

(these pumpkins found a new place! On top of my Table!. I must say this little towel has come in handy a few times! It is from Jessica Westerberg's wedding. Thanks)

On Monday, Raylynne called and wanted to hang out so we planned a cousin night for Tuesday night! So we met at Guadalara, had us some tasty food then we headed off to the pumpkin patch! It was so fun, and so in expensive! Raylynne was on the look out for a big pumpkin so she could make her scarecrow and I just wanted some little one to put on the kitchen table and out by the front door! The prices as the Korn Maze are a steal! The most you pay for any pumpkin, no matter how big it is, is $6. They have a size chart, which ever whole your pumpkin can fit all the way thru is how much you pay! I got all 8 of my pumpkinettes for .50 cents a piece, I made out of there with $4!! it was a bargain. I want to go back to get some big ones so Manuel can carve and I am thinking about painting my big one this year.

I love Fall! I love Halloween. Last year I was so excited to get some trick o treaters at our house, I went over board with the candy I think. But this year we are having a party and so hopefully lots of people come and we get some little kids this time. Some of the party planners want to scare the little kids, but I put a stop to that...all the little ones need is to be scared out of their costumes, it will scar them for life!!! haha!

Tagged by Stephanie

2008-10-13T21:35:00.003-06:00

Here's how to play:
1. Link your tagger and list rules on your blog
2. Share 7 random/weird facts about yourself
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post leaving names and links to their blogs
4. Let them know they have been tagged by commenting on their blog

1.I don't like eating chicken off the bone...So you wont be seeing me at any KFC porkin down on some of the colonel sweet county fried chicken...SiCk.

2. I love Dr. Pepper and a licorice rope...Sad to say that I don't drink the DP as much anymore, but I am so proud of myself, I use to have one every day now it's like maybe once or twice a week...WHOA!

3. I don't like using port-a-potties or rest areas. I am deathly terrified. 1 not so funny story and 2 funny stories
* Reason why? well when my family was at the Stadium of Fire in Provo, UT..some teenagers,(I assume who were drunk b/c honestly, this is really cruel) decided they would tip me over in the port-a-potty. Sick, I remember like it was yesterday, I was wearing a blue striped sweater from Sears and some Old Navy overalls...why I remember things like this is beyond me, maybe because it was the outfit that I was in when I scarred for life.

*When we were in Pocatello for on my sister Chanc's softball game, we were at the field, with bathrooms similar to rest area's...so I wandered off and went to some strangers house and asked if I could use her restroom :) I am so lucky to be alive...I was probably 12 or 13, so really I "knew"better but I couldn't sit on the shiny silver toilet....I get chills every time i think of the things.

* Recently* we were in Boise playing ultimate Frisbee and I really needed to use the restroom, so Manuel took me over to the "square of toilets" you know the shacks, and he went into the men's, I go into the women's, I get in to one stall and see the shiny silver toilet, I ran out crying. Manuel comes out and was like that was quick, and realized I was a little teary eyed and we laughed, I have quite some fear...
^^apparently I only like white ceramic toilets, that's all :)^^

4. I love to sit by the heater when it's on, cover myself in a blanket and lay down- I like to capture the heat so I stay warm!! ( who doesn't?)

5. I am no animal lover. I think animals are disgusting...some say I will change when I have little ones, but I tell you I won't, I think its really gross when people pet them, especially the really shedding type kind of dogs, because you get the hair on your hands, let alone, dog skin doesn't spell pretty, no matter how many time you bathe the things. I also think its gross when people are dog sleepers, letting the dog in the bed with them....gag me
^^ Not to mention I am pretty much scared of any animal (especially cats, they really freak me out, they are weird creatures). I am okay with my boss dog Otto but I hate it when he touches my pant leg with his face and I hate the feel of his fur when I am getting ready to walk him ,I have to put his shock collar on...the feeling is DiSgUsTiNg!!!

6.At night when I am alone, and I am going upstairs to bed, I always have the hall light on going up the stairs, even though there is light, I always run up the stairs as if someone were chasing me...then I leave all the lights on upstairs (that being the ones that are already on...hall light, bedroom light, bath light and closet light,....seesh that's a lot of lights) I leave them all on until I am ready to jump in bed...I HATE THE DARK...I also sleep with the TV on at night so I feel that the "company" (a.k.a. TV) will protect me or if there were to ever be a robber in my house, it might think we are still awake...mUwahahah!

7. Okay...I am a white girl with some issue...I can't say TORTILLA with out rolling the "r" and making the "ll" silent... so I pronounce like this "Tortiyya" I don't even know if you could even understand how i say it...ok ok... I say it like my husband...I may not know a whole lot of Spanish, but I sure say "Tortilla" like a Mexican :) *Disclaimer...not to be taken offensively, I am married to Manuel remember, I am sure I say a few things with the Spanish accent now, Tortilla is just one that has been the subject of laughter lately

Okay I tag...

Chanc
Linda
Lacey
Lacy
Lindsey G
Lyndsey W
McKinzie

YoU hAvE gOt To Be KiDdInG--

2008-10-12T01:41:00.002-06:00

What will they think of next....seriously this did give me a good laugh tonight, I read it on someone else's blog but it's worth reading. Honestly how could the FDA approve this...good thing I don't really like Ben & Jerry's, but if I did, I definitely don't anymore.

Our Saturday night fun comes from laughing about this article from the Chicago Tribune. Tell me this is a joke...PLEASE let this be a joke. Continue reading after the article...In a highly unusual break from the normally sane and practical modus operandi of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animals' rights organization has petitioned the successful and highly visible ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's to replace the cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk.PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves. PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health."The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."It's hard to argue that 'the breast is best,' so I polled the office for some ideas for flavors that Ben & Jerry's might make with human breast milk.How would you like to wrap your lips around a scoop of: 'Titty Tiramisu' or maybe, 'Mammary Macadamia Nut.' If that doesn't titillate you, you might want to try, 'Fudgie Juggs', 'Nippley Neapolitan', or 'Racky Road?'

While I was laughing about the ice cream names, I can't imagine digging a big ol' spoon of sweet "breast milked" Ice-Cream...not exactly something I find to be of interest.......Nasty
It's is crazy to believe that some nursing mothers will sell their breast milk, you know making it their job, to other mothers of babies. I understand that giving the children the best nourishment, but not from another women...GrOsS

Furnace issues

2008-10-10T23:35:00.002-06:00

So this week we figured out our furnace wasn't working to its potential :( the coldest time I swear too. So Manuel and Frank figured it must be the ignitor b/c the heater would turn on but no heat, it just blew air..and not hot air, which was an issue with me. So Wednesday Manuel fixed the ignitor problem (we bought a new one :)) Tonight we purchased and installed a new thermostat...it's pretty sweet. It's a flushed mount thermostat, so it doesn't stick out, it even with the wall. So while Manuel went to chat with some old buddies from work on their lunch break, I sat at home trying to figure the thing out, it's digital, it's programmable, there fore its a piece of confusing work for me. I set it, but I know my husband will reset it because it will be too hot for him.(while he was gone, I turned it up to 76 and was enjoying my nice warm house, until he called, I turned it down, then right before he got home it shut off because it's met it's "targeted temp", which was 72 or 70, can't really remember...but it was nice and warm while it lasted.
* When I moved into my 2nd apartment here in Boise, we didn't have to pay utilities and my room had it's very own thermostat , meaning I could make it how ever hot or cold I would like, without affecting Nancy or Claudia's room, oh I was in heaven, not having to pay for it was even more of a great thing, I had the room set at 80 most of the time and it was heaven, if only I could just have free utilities now, well at least Free HEAT*

Anyway, after about an hour of trying to figure out how the programmable features work , I gave up, it's too confusing, all I need to know is how to turn the temp up and how to shut it off...that's all :)

B-I-N-G-O and that's what we did tonight!

2008-10-10T23:12:00.002-06:00

So for family night tonight, we went to Pizza Hut for some good grub and some funny laughs then we helped ourselves to a night of B-I-N-G-O FUN! We went to this place where they play Bingo and it was alright! (although next time I go, I think i Will take a hair net, a bunny suit (micron suits haha, and a face mask) I dislike with a strong passion the smell of smoke, let alone the smell of smoke on me, it's something I really dislike (Mom, you should be proud, I didn't say your most "hated" word...hahah) with that said...So this place is kind of awkward, exactly how I pictured it, Bingo, a geriatric unit smokin there lives away. You purchase your Bingo cards and your ink to dot the numbers called. Take a seat, and get rollin. Now our issue tonight was that we showed up in the middle of game 11, tried catching up and in reality, we would have increased our chances of winning, if we would have gone when they first opened up (note to self: show up at 6:30, so you can play all 13 or 14 games) So we even had to pay full price, $13, and we only have like 4 games to play oh well! It was a great night of doing something out of the ordinary and even though I was gung-ho on winning(who invented "gung-ho" anyway, its a little piece of random vocabulary I use now and then when I am feeling a little discombobulated) I lost every game, my brother-in-law Frank, on the other hand, won $40 (Who is very excited to be returning next week, hahah)! I would classify us in the "adventurous" category, we were in deed, the youngest in the group tonight and I was just hoping (a little too much) to win so I could bring home the dough (one of the games was worth $1000 if you called bingo/blackout before the caller called out 51 different numbers), that's a lot of dough for only spending $13 per game session!!!

Apparently Traffic Violations take a back seat in my life!

2008-10-10T22:56:00.005-06:00

So I am just letting you all know that if you don't' hear from me, it may be due to the fact that I will be hand-cuffed when I turn my "traffic violation payment" in...Why? oh well because it will only be 3 days late. Whether I mail it or "hand" deliver it, still 3 days late. How could I have forgotten about this, I mean it starred me down every time I went near the fridge. So today, just had to be the day I realized that it was due on the 10th, not the 15th. I know it's my responsibility to know when my ticket is due, but since Sept. 19, (they day I received the dang thing) I kept thinking the 15th. Why the 15th, I have no reason, except for the fact that the officer would kindly gave me the ticket, said "now ma'am you have from Oct 3-Oct 15, to make this payment or appear before the judge" okay, now I am a person who doesn't forget easily, the 15th it is :). until today, when I just happened to think, oh I should take it off the fridge right now and write the check and put in the mailbox so it may arrive early :) (always like to be on time with things, apparently traffic violations take a back seat in my life) So when I was looking for the address, right there, it says Oct 3- Oct 10th...WHHHHHAT??? It's Oct 10, at 6:35 p.m, what am I going to do...I freaked out, put my Jacket, as if I were going to take my ticket right then...(really we were headed out for a night of pizza and bingo) and I just stood there shaking my head, freaking out as if I were going to be put in jail...I don't know what happens when you don't pay your ticket on time, and if there is a little grace period, but hopefully nothing will come of this, and if it does, well this will be in-deed, my first/last time of paying something late and lets hope it will be my last ticket I receive. anyway, well the ticket and my payment are ready to be mailed. Hopefully I will be seeing my check go thru the bank next week, before you see my mug shot on this website (by the way, I have always wondered how you add links to words, but I just figured it out and I am super excited)

p.s. I won't be "handing"my payment in , I am mailing it. my brother in law tongight told me thats what will happen to me...or maybe it was my sister in law, anywho, that's why I am mailing it, they will have to catch me first.. {Insert Evil Laugh here}

Why is it called "canning" when you are actually "jarring"?

2008-09-22T01:34:00.006-06:00

Last weekend, my mother-in-law sent up a bunch of "goodies" There were Tamales, Molé, Tortillas, a sack full of tomatoes, and peppers from her garden, and some tomatillos. I didn't exactly know what to do with the tomatoes since I am the only one that really likes to eat them anyway, they were going bad faster than I could eat them. So I got an itch to make salsa...not just make the dang salsa, but to also can the salsa. There are firsts for everything and this my friends, was my first time ever canning. It was a real-tiring process trying to find the dang mason jars, Walmart, I managed to get to 3 different ones and to all my luck they were sold out. When we were in Caldwell on Saturday, I stopped at Albertsons and to my surprise they LOTS of them. I purchased 2/12 packs thinking I would be making a lot. So this morning when I woke up, I started first thing. Boiled the tomatoes, drained them, boiled the tomatillos, cut the onion and chopped the cilantro, and viola! I was ready to blend the heck out of all this fresh produce. After attempting the first batch, Manuel woke up, (thank heavens, b/c he is a salt lover and I am not, and I need to add salt to the mixture, my little shake just wasn't enough) any way he sampled almost all of the batches. after getting all the jars filled, (to my surprise, with everything I had, it only filled 7 jars, I was shocked from the looks of all the stuff we had, I thought we would have more) I put them in the pot to seal the deal. I let them boil in the water for a long time just because I wasn't keeping track of time and so every time I would check on them I would "plan" to give them just 20 more minutes, but then I never managed to look at the clock at this point in time. So I am pretty sure they were in the pot for well over an hour or so. (obviously, I don't exactly follow rules. It said not to disturbed the jars with in 12-24 hours of canning...but I had to get a picture and they had cooled by now, I don't (hopefully not) think I hurt anything)
Oh well, I don't think it hurt any thing. When you can, the lids are not suppose to pop back up when you push in the center of them. when I pulled the jars out only 2 popped back at me. But throughout the day, they have sealed and not a single one of the seven pop back and I think my results are pretty good for being a first timer. Now, I haven't tried the salsa since they have been sealed, it says to wait 12-24 hours before messing with them, possibly tomorrow I will have some. Hopefully it tastes good... I am pretty proud of my-self. Now if I could can peaches. I am sure I could but with what I hear, it gets pretty messy and I just don't know if I am ready to conquer that on my own, doing the salsa was messy enough :)

One last note: Sorry if this blog seems to over use the (,) comma, I just finished an assignment for my Business Communication class that was dealing with commas, so now that I have been doing that for the last 45 minutes, I think the comma usage is instilled in my head for the time being :)

One more item of business, I love that I can still spell correctly at 2 AM...Spell Checker is just trying to correctly spell words its not recognizing. SWEET

Chelsea and the Horrible day turned good by a nice note, Blow Pops and a Dr. Pepper

2008-09-19T20:26:00.007-06:00

I am sure there have been worse days than this one, but as of right now, it's was awful. Work started at 7 in the AM...so just to give you an idea of what time I woke up (5:45 AM) anyway.. Work with the kids was fine, minus the incident with not wanting to go to school, yelling, fighting, being late to school..what a morning. So I took Margaret and family to the airport, on my way back I was definitely not all with it and I came over the bridge by BSU and apparently I was going 45. Couldn't tell, Acura's drive so smooth...not so much, I should have been paying better attention. So as soon as I come down, I hear it...a siren...lights in the mirror and him motioning for me to turn down the street instead of pulling over. Great. He was very polite...a little to polite in speaking but a hard core officer. I couldn't find my license but I could tell him the number, (Am I the only one who has the drivers license # memorized, b/c when I said that, he was like, "hmm...really?") He was probably thinking "this girl must be a trouble-maker" haha. not really. So as he is writing my information down (such as eye color, hair color, weight,) I find the license. As soon as I hand it too him , he looks at me and says "well, here it says you are 5'3", you said you were 5''4". I respond, "I said that?, I don't remember you asking my height". "oh, your right, I was thinking of asking that question" You know, I wonder how much police officers can get away with saying they asked and accusing the "violator" of lying, resulting in a bigger fine. arrgg. Thanks to my great Listening skills and a little defensive attitude I have, I set the man right :). Anyway, well because I was going 45 in a 30 zone, I was fined $75....if I had been 1 mile over (46), my fine would have been $140...holy crap. He warned I was near the boiling point. I really never speed, I am usually a good driver, very attentive, but my mind definitely wasn't with me at the moment. So this resulted in some tears because I couldn't believe I let my self do that, and I was a bit "teary-eyed" at the drive thru at the bank. No, not at a pull-up to the window and see the teller face-to-face, one with a TV, a camera and speaker. I thought I was playing it cool when she first came on, I just said hello, fine thanks", not really making eye contact... So when she returned my receipt, she came back on and said "Chelsea, I am sending your receipt along with a little treat, I hope you have a better day." Oh I was a bit more teary, just b/c I think I was more embarrassed than anything, but she was a big sweetheart. There are those in life who just make ya so mad, because of their rudeness, but then there are the sweet ones, which you don't find a lot of anymore, a lot of bitter people out there, but when you find one, they sure are sweet. She also wrote a little note on the receipt and I think I will post it on the fridge for a while. Because really, I knew life would be okay after I received this.

FLASHBACK: So when I was coming to Boise a few years back with Stephanie and Hilary, I was speeding 90 in a 75 so Steph could get to a restroom, I see lights, (out of no-where again, cops sure are sneaky, usually I am cop detector.) anyway, that ticket, oh my lands was like $175,( I was seriously in the boiling then) and here I am pouting about a $75 one, well let me explain, that was like 5 years ago, meaning I think my record is, well was clean, now I have this on me :(

I think what brought a bigger smile to my face was that I was special enough to get BLOW POPS, not just a dum-dum or a Safe-T-pop, I got 3 BLOW POPS (Apple, Watermelon, Strawberry), not a bad selection if I do say so my self. So if you my friend are a teller at US BANK, that wrote a sweet note to "Cheer-up" a customer, I sure do appreciate it. Keep it up, because that technique definitely works on a girl like me. Anyway, then my dear husband took me for Dr. Pepper..it sure was delicious with that hamburger I had as well (bad I know)

K & C Taylor...tied the knot (FINALLY)

2008-09-14T01:05:00.012-06:00

My "bestest" recently got married in La Marada, California. It was a great weekend, lots of laughs and girl time. I flew out Friday morning and was in California by 1030 and away we went to cleaning, decorating, cleaning, and the list goes on. Crystal and Kody's wedding was pretty, fun and stressful all at the same time. All I can say, is that I am glad it's over. We had lots to do and little time. Crystal and her family had been there the whole week and had done alot of things but we had to do the final touches and the things that must be done last. It was fun I loved hanging out with her family, they are second to mine and I just feel right at home with them :) Since Manuel was unable to go, I stayed at the hotel with Crystal, Sandy, Christine Friday night then Sandy, Christine and Holly stayed with me Saturday night. I was never alone, which is a good thing. I am glad the Taylor's are one now, it's about dang time. Since the wedding took place in California, we had an open house in Burley tonight. IT was almost just as stressful :) haha! We had the open house at Grandma and Grandpa's house. It turned out to be a wonderful night. Grandpa kept saying how beautiful his yard looked. IT did look pretty dang cute back there with Orange, creams and browns. BEAUTIFUL! And of course we had to decorate the car, so I took the liberty of sending the kids to the store to get the stuff so we could decorate, it was lots of fun, except my brilliant idea of whip cream didn't do the deed. It melted...Stupid me, where did I ever get that idea from? Enjoy the pictures...

Califonia Wedding and a working windshield system..

2008-09-04T14:07:00.004-06:00

So tomorrow bright and early (or should I say DARK and Early) I am heading to California. Manuel will drop me off at the airport at 5:30 am ish. One of my very very close friends is getting married and decided California would be the best place for her nuptials. And after 6 years of these two dating(I might be wrong on the years of dating, but it's been 3 years of being engaged), I don't care where it happens, just so it happens :). It will be exciting although I am sad because Manuel isn't going. He was originally going to have to work, but since he took it upon himself to volunteer for a shift switch, they are giving me Saturday and Sunday off, so he can be ready for Monday's new shift. Although I really him to go, I will miss him like crazy, but will be glad that when I get home Sunday night, *HOPEFULLY* my windshield wiper system will be fixed. I finally picked the part up yesterday and I am so happy for Manuel to fix it. If you recall, I would have to say my windshield wipers are one the best features in the car...I am dork but I love having a squeaky clean windshield, and due to the fact that the motor part was broke in the little accident on the freeway involving a piece of metal, my windshield is sure squeaky and not clean...(squeaky I say, b/c I sometimes forget that there is no fluid in there and I push the windshield wipers button to work and I just get squeaks from the rubber rubbing against the dry, bug infested, dirty windshield.

Rotten little buggers...

2008-09-04T13:52:00.003-06:00

So as I was getting ready for work Wednesday morning, Manuel called and asked me if I realized that we had been T.P'd...hahah seriously...I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would have to deal with Toilet papered yards until my yonder years when my children's friends pull pranks. Boy was I wrong, although the TP was very minimal it was an easy clean up but just reflecting back on my years...I went TP'ing a couple times, I remember one time we were in desperate need to TP my neighbors that mom took the crowd in to town to buy toilet paper, but it was Burley and no stores stay open really late, except for the gas stations, I remember thinking...dang this toilet paper is expensive. Us girls came up with enough money to buy a pack while some went to the bathroom and took a roll or two, I am sure it went un-noticed but I must say that was probably the best TP'ing job I have ever witnessed. Good thing they didn't know who did it and we weren't called to come clean it up unlike some one I know (hehhmmm..Initials C.N.T.). Luckily our little prankster or should I say PRANKSTERS got off easy. Maybe our little TP'ing friend heard about our new paint purchase and wanted to pay one last tribute to Good Ol' Blue...haha

We will part with the BLUE and go with the NEW

2008-09-01T22:25:00.006-06:00

Can I just tell you that September 1st (today) is/was the best day of September and a day I have been awaiting to happen for quite some time. What is this suspense you ask??? MY HOUSE WILL NO LONGER BE BLUE. You know a year in a half ago, when I first drove by my then soon to be house, I cried... I cried in the car coming down the street before I even saw the house, because I could see the chimney and it was blue, very blue. I cried because it reminded me of a porta-potty and anyone who knows me knows that I am deathly terrified of the dang things. The color has definitely worn on me and I don't mind it anymore, but still terrified of porta-potties. Anyway, today we bought the paint, it will be probably another month before we get it painted, due to the fact that we have stuff going on every weekend in September, but none-the-less, it will be changed shortly. So you can all anticipate the change and we will definitely be posting pictures.

SO GOOD BYE BLUE HOUSE

AND HELLO TO THE NEW PAINT :)

Now, hopefully the colors are right, like we wanted them and I won’t be disappointed. I must say, I wish that we didn't have to go thru this b/c it was like heck deciding which color to use. Now I know that we have an Association here in this neighborhood, and I know that we are suppose to ask permission to paint...but I have no idea how to even contact the association I have googled and phone booked them and nothing has popped up, at least I tried. I am sure it won't be a problem, because trust me; we definitely do stand out in the neighborhood like a sore thumb. I don't really like the idea of asking "permission" from someone else to paint my house when we are the owners here; I don’t need permission for something like that. Funny story as to why I don't think it will be that big of deal to not get "Permission." Last year before we moved in, I was here cleaning the house and Vanessa was my company at the moment and I knew Gordo was coming to pick her up and the doorbell rang...we assumed it was Gordo but looked out window and it was different man. I answered it and he asked me if he could paint my house, he gave his card and all...I am still convinced that it was the Association that sent him because supposedly he lives in the neighborhood. Mmm... a little odd but funny. I was embarrassed, I knew this house was a bit "unique" if you will, but I was already having a hard time dealing with the color let alone having someone else point out that my house needed painted...

Patience Patience Patience

Summers over...what?

2008-08-24T16:20:00.005-06:00

So Summer is coming to an end here in the Vega household, like wise all over. I don't exactly know how I feel about this. I on one hand wish I could just work and not have to study..I thoroughly enjoyed myself this summer..on the other hand, I am ready to get school started...because really I have 3 semesters left until I am done forever... I think. Today I made the mistake of going to Wal-mart, Manuel and I needed a few items for school and it was crazy. there was one mom just throwing notebooks at her kid telling him to be quiet, (poor thing, it's not his fault) I wanted to punch her, really because she was acting so ridiculous, if she wants to save her self the stress and huffing and puffing....she needs to learn to go shopping a little earlier next year, not the day before school starts. Then there was another lady....who just liked to push people around with her cart... She was real rude...who does that and who doesn't realize it and why wouldn't she realize and apologize...oh the looks from people were hilarious. I enjoyed my self although I think I am crazy for going the day before it all starts as well, but I gotta tell ya, if I had gone earlier, I wouldn't have been able to blog about crazy wal-mart shoppers. I love it though. Buying new notebooks, binders(I usually try and re-use my binders from previous years, but I thought since I have my degree in Health info Mgmt, I might use my notes, information and other random ramblings I was given last year, they might just come in handy...when I need them too) pencils, pens, paper, is something that I look forward to going back to school...all so fresh...and clothes too. I still need to do that type of shopping, perhaps tomorrow after work.

Warning: LONG POST

2008-08-24T15:35:00.007-06:00

Well...where to begin? On August 13, Chanc, Randy and Aidan decided to come to Boise, 2 days before I was actually expecting them(they were coming for Marissa's wedding) but I was glad they chose to come early ( I think I begged enough and my sister gave in...Love ya) While they were here, we laughed alot and chatted, it was great time with them just to ourselves and I am going to admit it... I didn't get enough of Aidan, he is such a cute little guy and boy does he love to jump. He was jumping away in his little jumper and it was so adorable, he makes me tired just watching him jump, but I love it. It was a bummer because the first couple of days they were here, I had to work and so did Manuel, and when we were with them in the evenings, they hours just flew by to quickly.

Friday, we headed off to Burley (funny: my family comes to stay at my house in Boise...we stayed in my parents house in Burley...odd) Manuel had a tournament in Burley on Saturday. After getting my hair done, and I made it over to the tournament, sat in my chair..i realized I was alone. Usually my family is there and Manuel's parents will stop by for a little while, but since my family was in Boise I was alone. But to my surprise and such a happy surprise, my in-laws came and stayed the whole time. It was great having them there and watching there son. Manuel's team took 2nd place, which is pretty good seeing that one player decided to ditch the team the night before and one other player was playing while he was sick. They did Awesome still. I am getting a little sad....Paintball season is over. I sometimes complain that it takes Manuel from me on Sundays, but I love the tournaments and watching him play, he is an amazing player...I on the other hand try to take as many pictures of him playing as I can, I have snapped some pretty sweet ones. I remember last year at one of the burley tournaments, I walked over to his field, took some pictures and was walking back to the canopy and I got hit in the head with a paintball...it hurt..and I don't know how he can endure the pain, I am baby... I have had 2 balls to the head and one to the nose...I think that I am good not playing. The tournament ended at 5:00 and then we rushed to Boise to make it to my cousin Marissa's wedding reception. We got there at 835...sweet 25 minutes to enjoy the blissful day of marriage for the happy couple :) It was a busy day.

Sunday, was Chace's 18th Birthday...I am getting old, I can't believe he is 18 still...The Asher clan, The Todd's, Bell's, Bench's and Vega's all went to Roaring Springs!! It was such a fun day, I had a blast, took the camera but didn't find time for pictures, the water was what we were all about. It was fun because while were in line for one the slide rides, Margaret and the girls were there, so after a while Manuel and I took the girls and the Bell kids, Chace and Chad and we went all over the place. Syd talked me into doing the Boomerang...NEVER AGAIN. IT was the scariest ride I have ever been on, but now at least I can say I have been on it...Right Syd? One on the slides, every time Manuel and I went on the blue one I think, we were about to exit into the pool and it would always flip over on us...resulting in Manuel flipping over me, pushing me to the bottom of the pool and me getting road rash. But when we would go on the other slide, nothing. We came out just fine. Even Mom, Dad Chanc, Randy went down the blue slide and nothing happened to them...WEIRD. It was a great day and then we ended it by coming to my house and having cake and Ice Cream in Celebration of Chace and Bradyn's B-days.

Monday- Chanc thought that I needed to work on my digital scrap booking skills and that's what we did pretty much all day I would say. Mom took the boy's shopping for school clothes and Manuel tagged along. Dad, Randy, Chanc, Aidan and myself stayed home. Rather relaxing, minus the power going out twice, odd. Then in the afternoon, Dad, Chace Chad Randy Manuel, Scot, Bradyn, Aaliyah, Kolby went to Huck Jam in Nampa. Tony Hawk was there. Mom, Chanc, Stacie, Ashton, Aidan and myself went to dinner and were going to go shopping but that didn't happen. We went to Smoky Mtn. It was sure Delicious. I love that place and Chanc had mentioned that it is one of the top 10 pizza places to eat in America :) After dinner, the guys called and said they were home, so we came home and hung out side for a while until Mom and Dad and boys, and Scot and Stacie and kids left for Exit-208. It was such a fun filled weekend.

Monday night...one last evening with the A-man...Manuel and I soaked it all up... we just couldn't get enough. We opted to take the little guy while his parents packed up because they were going to be leaving Tuesday morning. It was fun and I think he enjoyed hanging out with us rather than going to sleep like his mom wanted

(Ashton...sporting a pirates bandanna..such a stud)

(The guys were playing alot of hackie-sack)

Grandpa and Grandma with Aidan

Tuesday...I left for work, Manuel was sleeping, Chanc was getting ready and her two boys were sleeping....I get home from work...Manuel was awake...the Todd's were gone, it was sad, I instantly missed having them. I hope they move to Boise, so we can hang out more often. Chanc: I just don't think we would fit in Sandpoint...It seems a little small too me and I thought we already made plans for you to live next door to me in BOISE and our kids will grow up to be the best of friends...remember...now quit changing your mind on me...I am not liking that.

Friday night we had Family Vega night. We went bowling. It was alot of fun...I definitely have some bowlers of a family though. Gordo, Vanessa and Megan were totally kicking out butts. I did manage to break 100 each time though, the first game was 101 and it only went up-hill from there...I am contemplating joining a league...I think I would be an asset to some one's team (haha). It was fun hanging out with them and we definitely need to do it more often.

Interested in Hair Removal?

2008-08-11T17:14:00.005-06:00

So I have mentioned in the past that I am doing Laser Hair Removal for the Dr's I Nanny for. I have posted the prices for what we do and I know it may seem a bit pricey but we do payments, it's not at all up front costs, although you get a bonus if you pay up front for the package you want to purchase you will get an additional 20% off. It's great for birthdays, anniversaries, and for those I love you and would like you hairless kind of gifts :) (hahah) Bare Naked Ladies is for the ladies pricing and Idaho Manskaping is for the Men. So if you or anyone you know is interested in Laser Hair Removal, let me know and I will give them the info. If you want to schedule an appointment you can simply email me at m_c_vega@yahoo.com with your contact info and I will be more than happy to give you more information.

I am not sure if you can read the prices very clear, double click the picture to enlarge.

My First Tag

2008-08-11T16:14:00.004-06:00

So apparently in the blogging world...Tags are a must :)

4 people I Love: Manuel, and the rest of my family...I have lots :)

4 places I visit over and over: Asher's, Vega's, Walmart, Target'

4 people I text/email on a regular basis: Manuel, Crystal, Chace, Chad

4 favorite foods: Prime Rib, Shrimp, Sweet n Sour Chicken (my new favorite Recipe), Mexican food

4 places I'd rather be: Puerta Vallarta, Cruise (oh the joy of being at Sea), Burley, hanging with family

4 things I'd rather be doing: hmm..I should be studying but since that's not exactly what I wanna do: Planning a vacation would be nice, playing Ultimate Frisbee, Playing volleyball in the sand :), hanging with the family

4 Movies I watch over and over: oh man there are quite a few but..just some of them are Bring it on, My Best Friends Wedding, Paintball video's of the husband, She's the Man

4 TV shows I watch over and over: Scrubs, George Lopez, Tori and Dean (I am addicted), Friends, and just for the record...Sex in the City

4 Bands I love: Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Taylor Swift, Black Eyed Peas

4 Songs I love: Our Song--Taylor Swift, I loved her first--Heartland, So in Love--Tori and Dean, Black Velvet--Melissa Etheridge

4 People I tag: Chanc, Steph, Lacey, Lacy.

SO IN LOVE

2008-08-09T16:41:00.002-06:00

SO recently I have become an addict...to Tori and Dean..Home Sweet Hollywood...I love the show and I dont think I have ever been so into watching a season of a show...but this show will do it for me..now Chanc I may have had the Days of our lives addiction for a while, but you must know I quit recording the stupid show...I dont know why I ever wasted my time..hahh... Anyway I dont really like the music video they have going on but I love the song...so enjoy the first of Tori Spelling singing...

What's happened recently...

2008-08-03T16:48:00.003-06:00

Well I have be MIA in the blogging world for well a month Update...Advantix the bug sprayer company is awesome.. I saw one tiny very tiny spider the other day, other than that it's all I have seen, and I am impressed I think we will keep them around. Vanessa and Gordo (my Brother-in-law) finally tied the knot... It was a beautiful day, I cried, Vanessa was a gorgeous bride and I am so happy to have her as a sister-in-law. It's crazy to think that we are family now. We went to school together, cheered together, I have lived with her since December 2003, minus 3 months in 2004, and now she's a married woman and I couldn't be happier. Ya know...I use to think I was picture crazy, any time we had anywhere to go, whether it were down town, or anything, I was always the one to have my camera...lately I have been SLACKING. OH I had my camera at the wedding...and the battery was there too just not together together I should say. Manuel had the battery in his suite pocket...my camera you ask..in the car. argghhh! SO I have only one picture of the entire day at the moment..I am sure we will be getting some from Hector (the photographer) soon. So I guess enjoy this picture and I will post more when we get more.

L To R: Eric, Erica, Chelsea, Manuel

Some good news...I am happy to announce that Manuel will have weekends off. It's a funny thing on Tuesday night I told him I wish that he worked the same days as his brothers just because they work opposite days than Manuel and it's always so hard to get together with them. Well Wednesday morning, Manuel called and told me that some one came and asked for a volunteer to switch to A/B shift (Sun, Mon, Tues, and every other Wed). He currently works C/D shift (every other Wed, Thurs, Fri, and Sat), so after much consideration...more on his part than mine, I am all for it, he has volunteered to go. I did however has a mishap in forgetting about Paintball for a moment when he told me about the switch...I hope his team is willing to work with him on this and maybe hold practices on Saturdays now b/c starting in Sept. he wont be able to make it on Sundays. So I guess sometimes little silent wishes do come true

Finally a graduate...but back in the fall

2008-08-03T16:35:00.004-06:00

I don't know if I like the idea of going back to school, I have been enjoying my summer all too well and have forgotten what it's like being a student...then I remembered I kept telling myself that even before school got out for the summer I was going to study my Heine' off to take my test as soon as I received my diploma...well I finally received my diploma, it was a week late, but I only would have cared that it was a week late if I had actually studied for my test and was ready, but to my dismay I have studied but only for like 4 hours...I think I have 3 chapters in my book completed and I have like 14 to go or something like that...the book is currently in my car...a good place. I guess this week while the family I nanny for is on vacation guess who gets to study their heart out because If I don't take it with in the next month....or I guess school starts in 3 weeks I think it may be a bit difficult to study for my major test and do all the other tedious assignments assigned once school starts...I don't know if I am good at juggling that kind of material all at once and plus just because this test I take gives me the credentials...and costs around $300 I better study and pass it all in one time..I guess I should get started..

Out with the old..in this new DRESSER

2008-08-03T16:18:00.003-06:00

So after living out of the 3 drawer, clear containers all my married life, we decided, (well I actually decided) it was time for a dresser. I am so glad we purchased this one. After much consideration and to our dear friend Franky, we scored awesome on this deal. At first I was going to settle with one from Target, it was around $250, 6 drawers. Franky works for Macy's downtown, and he mentioned to us that there were some dressers that were on clearance, we went and looked but to my dismay, I didn't like the colors, I like the dark Mahogany colors and they didn't have exactly what I wanted on display and I wasn't going to purchase one that I didn't like even if the price was right because all that would happen is I would probably use it for a while then decide I really don't like it then spend more money on the one I want. So Franky disappeared for a while and then came back and told me he found one that he thinks I am going to like....Ta...dah....he is so awesome, I looked at it, looked at the price....and then decided yes. It was originally $1500, and the mirror that goes along with it was $500, but with Franky's employee discount (THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH) our purchase came to $424. We paid him in advance and then he made the purchase, otherwise we would have spent 2000 and I wasn't willing...I love it though. It has 9 drawers and I also got rid of a lot of stuff when I putting our stuff away, other wise it wouldn't have all fit..so good thing I didn't try to go for a 6 drawer dresser or else we would have been in out of space.

PS...sorry I really don't like pictures when there is a mirror involved and you see the photographer...like myself in the mirror taking the pictures...but I couldn't take it without the mirror in the picture, so I guess we will just deal with it. Also as you can see in the mirror right behind me are the containers that have been housing our clothes that didn't belong in the closet.

MR.ADVANTIX PEST CONTROL SELLER

2008-07-01T17:26:00.002-06:00

THANK YOU and a million more...I HOPE IT WORKS. SO yesterday after we got home from Camping, my nap was interrupted by the doorbell. SO come to find out that it was pest control...well last time someone came to my door, they were selling meat and lets just say I let them in, let them do the spill, then I let them go, telling them to come back later for the husband. Well I made sure we were gone, I just can't say no thanks! so yesterday as he said he was with Advantix, I knew I needed to just say "we aren't interested right now" wait...I did say that...then I let him talk to Manuel. I knew I wanted the house sprayed but didn't really know how good this was and if it was worth it. Well some chattin and a few 45 minutes later and 4 more seasons of pest control to go....My house is sprayed...it will only be in a matter of time the disgusting little things will be gone....mostly. I can already see a creepy pile of dead ants over by the garage door and it makes me smile. I do not know how on this planet, when I was little kid, I could play with spiders, carry mice in my pocket, ONLY to SCARE MY MOM ( LOVE YOU MOM) and worms and lady bugs and Rollie Pollies....SSSiiiickkkkkk. But thanks BABE and PEST CONTROL SELLER.

One YEAR STRONGER....Forever more to go <3

2008-07-01T17:08:00.009-06:00

We celebrated our anniversary on Monday. Crazy to think that it has already been a year. Went by so quickly, but I guess the saying is right, "Time Flies, when you are havin fun". That's what we do and that's how we roll. Manuel is always so active he keeps me pretty busy. Laughing at his funny jokes, stories he tells and the memories we share. I love this guy and I am glad that I chose to be with him for the rest of my life :) Let me tell ya, I definitely agree with whoever told me marriage isn't a cakewalk, it has been difficult at times but we have gotten thru the mud and let me tell ya, I have learned a lot from him and how stubborn I have been, but in the end we always still and forever will love each other. Now this may come as a shocker to everyone but I wanted to go camping...don’t ask me where it came from because if you know me, well not having a bed and running water isn't exactly what I call FUN. But I really wanted to go and what better time than for our anniversary to go camping. I waited for him Sunday to get done paintballing then we headed out, I was so excited I got everything put together. I wanted to take the four-wheeler but our ramps are not at our house and well lifting the thing into the back of the truck was out of the question but I chuckled as he tried (Love ya babe) We went up towards Idaho City, some guys told us to go to Robie Creek but I felt like we would have been camping in someone’s back yard or that some strange thing might eat us alive, so we turned out of there and went more towards Idaho City, about 17 miles before we saw a couple campers and thought we would give this road a try, LUCKY US, we landed a sweet site for the night right by the water :) We set the tent up, got the fire going *and let me add...the fire this guy can make is pretty amazing*, played a few rounds of Phase 10 and then something hit me and I was ready to go home, I was dealing okay with the little bugs but when a big bug hit me, I decided I like camping until the bugs come out...gross....but I managed thru the night. Manuel was laughing because well let me tell you some interesting yet random facts of myself...I don’t like sunscreen unless it's coconut scented...and I still hate the feel of it on my skin, and I for a FACT hate the smell and feel of insect repellent on my skin...so imagine me getting sprayed...what little I even spray on...but as the husband said to me...it's either this or West Nile...okay so I let him spray a little more but I still was...I don’t know what word to use but it's disgusting. So We cooked ourselves up some mighty fine camping food....Foil Dinners. We love them :) then we had some delicious s’mores, after...I mean way after dinner was over and we were thinking to ourselves how are we going to roast the marshmallows? we don’t have any twigs, I don’t think the tree branches with green/yellowish stuff would have settled very well in our stomach and well...I wouldn't have done that anyway...ahh...we brought a knife for protection, lets use that...oh the s’mores were ohhhh so delicious and well worth the thinking and wait :) Monday we woke up, ate some cinnamon twists that I made and some yogurt then packed up and decided we would drive more down the road to see what it was all about, well come to find out we found some awesome camping sites. One that I like to call "Creek side property" it was perfect, so next time we go, I would like to go there then I can let my feel play in the water and not worry what bugs might be crawling out of the bushes next to me. You see that's how our original camp site was; it was this little tiny area you could walk thru to get to the water but to close to the bushes for me. We also found a beach area that when MOM and DAD come up to Boise with the BOAT,and the rest of the gang, they have a boat dock and a beach sandy area that would work great, a blocked off shallow area and its more secluded but I also saw more private boat docks that would work too, I just love the sand on my feet :). We made it home safe and sound...nothing happened to us camping...which we were a little worried camping alone but we survived and will hopefully do it again. We went to the movie later in the day GET SMART....love the movie..Steve is just a funny man. We then finished the night off by going to dinner at the ICHIBAN.. YUMMY!!!! I LOVE BEING MARRIED, I LOVE BEING A WIFE AND MOST OF ALL I LOVE JOSE MANUEL, CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT FOREVER WITH YOU!!!! I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK MANUEL

The Good ol'Altima

2008-06-29T17:41:00.005-06:00

Friday as were driving out of Boise, a car ran something over and when that happened it flew back and we ran over it. there was no way of avoiding this item due to the fact we were in the fast lane, and there were cars next too us as well, so we couldn't have dodged it. So bam...we run over it and Manuel thought that he left it behind. Until I heard a sound that sounded like my front tire was flat... so we get pulled over and I get out of the car (Manuel told me to stay in, but really I wanted to see what happened to my car) So I get out of the car and I hear liquid pouring out rapidly, I was freaked, I don't know much about cars, but I think I know that if something sounds funny or something is leaking something must be wrong. Well when pulled out the item that we hit, this is what we found. It's like a metal piece from a back of an older car, it definitely took a toll' on the good ol' Nissan. The leakage problem that was going on just happened to be the Windshield washer fluid container and it barely missed the tire. Little did I know that if it would have got the front tire, the car would have rolled, I learned something and just one more thing to be afraid of while driving. I am just happy that nothing happened to us, that we were safe and nothing to damaging happened to the car, thank goodness. We do have a hole in the front bumper where it went thru and Manuel is not sure if it punctured the container of if it just popped the bottom lid off, we should probably take a look at that because I tell ya, having a dirty windshield sucks and especially since I think my windshield wipers rock, I miss being able to use them...they still work, I just don't like the sound of them on a dry windshield......shhhhrieeekkkkk....

Numero Uno SHELLY

2008-06-29T17:10:00.006-06:00

Once again, Manuel and his team took first place in Shelly, Idaho. It was the first time for tournaments to be held there and the guy did a good job, the fields were set up great, and enough room for the spectator sport :). Chace and Dad played, this tournament however, I didn't get any pictures of their team :( next time. So it started Friday, we headed over to Shelly after Manuel and I got off work, first stop...Taco Bandido, always a must...I love that place. We made it to Shelly around 10:30, went to the field, which by the way, was really hard to find in the dark, we dropped Dave off and then we went on our long journey of trying to find our hotel. My aunt told me to look for the Hospital or "H" signs...uhmmm the way we took, no H signs were around, it was awful, we were both tired and lost in Idaho Falls..hahah...we stopped and got some directions, they were okay but we still had to navigate ourselves, taking turns we weren't sure where they would take us... We finally found it and I don't know if I even hit the pillow before I was asleep, we were both so tired. Saturday started off with breakfast (Go Hampton Inn's Fake EGGS...blahhh), then the guys left for the field, I took a lil'nap, then got ready and mom and I were off to the field. Once again feeling a little lost bc the directions I had, ummm no streets were found off of there. So I just made it some how to the main street then I remembered where to go from there. Once at the field, we were watching games from the start- Crystal and Kody came, and it was really funny, because I forgot to tell Crys, that sometimes the balls come thru the net and you sometimes get hit, well she was standing by Dad's truck and moved to the side and bam...a ball pinned her, she didn't get hit, although it hit Dad's shiny white truck and then splatted on her hair. Andy and Lacey came over as well. We had quite the crowd, if there was an award given for the teams with the most spectators, I think Crusade Red, Crusade Blue and Verdict would definitely win. It's so fun getting a bunch of people to watch, I love all the family time, glad Dad and Chace are hooked for now. So Crusade Red dominated and they had to prove it twice. The game that they first won, well it went over by 2 minutes and the opposing team protested, even with the protest, and another match, Crusade red still dominated, it was exciting. When Crusade Red team members get fired up, you might as well give up. It was a day of victory for us :) After they awards were given, all the gang gathered at the hotel and decided we were going to eat at TGI Fridays, Manuel and I piled in with Crystal and Kody, mom and dad followed along with Milan's family. Well Kody googled TGI Fridays on his phone and oh my gosh...we were driving around forever, we were following the directions but who in this knows where we ended up, not at the restaurant that's for sure. After driving around for a bit, dad finally got the directions and we found it just fine. Dinner was great, Thanks DAD! and it was fun how we had Mom's "50th Birthday" hahha, good one Kody! They came out singing happy birthday and all and she was just laughing, good times. SO once we left the restaurant, come to find out the hotel was just 2 minutes away from TGI Fridays, I don't trust Google anymore, it got us lost too many times that weekend.

The Weekend!

2008-06-10T21:55:00.008-06:00

SO this last weekend, I headed to Burley, so I could go to Utah with my family for my nephew, Aidan's blessing. It was great to be able to see him and my sister and brother-in-law, it had been a while. So Friday I headed to Burley in the afternoon, it was hard leaving with out Manuel, he had to work and wasn't able to make it for the blessing. So I got to Burley, had my mom pick me up so I could get my car serviced and we went and picked up a baby shower present. IT was fun hanging out with my mom, we had some great laughs that day. So Friday night, we went to Upper Crust with the rest of the family, and after which Aaliyah and Ashton came home with me, I was surprised that Ashton wanted to stay the night, but what a kid he is, he managed to make it thru the entire night. It was fun having the two of them. Brayden on the other hand just wanted to hang with his parents :). SO on to Saturday, we made it Utah, and how fun was that. Aidan has gotten so big in the last month, just heavier is all. Still my cutest nephew. The blessing was great, and his outfit came from the Philippines, which was pretty cool, he looked so sweet and innocent of all things. After some wonderful food, great desserts, and lots of chatting, we headed back to BURLEY. Ashton and Aaliyah fell fast asleep, and the rest of us watched movies on the way home. We took the kids to Grandma and Grandpa's and the boys all got in the hot-tub, me I just stuck my feet in, but after feeling the warm water, I just had to feel the new hot tub out, it was amazing. I think I sat in there for an hour, Chace, Chad and Brayden are pretty entertaining and not too mention the hot-tub kept me content, it was nice. Aaliyah stayed the night with me again, I love going home and having her hang out with me. She is a wild sleeper though, but still a cutie! This trip home, being alone and all, it was great to have a lil'side-kick with me at all times.

Time to get "Carried"away

2008-05-31T10:30:00.003-06:00

Last night, Vanessa and I went to the long awaited Sex in the City, the movie!! It was great, although I thought we were super excited and couldn't wait for it too come, other girls in the city of Boise were way over the top...most dressed up as if they were starring in the movie themselves :) and the whole while we were waiting for the movie to start, flashes were going off left and right. I mean, all these girls were taking pictures, and then I took some picture for some strangers, but they were all having a good time!! oh and the best part...once the movie actually started after the million previews, the crowd started clapping...Vanessa and I felt a little out of place, just a little, I mean we are big fans, we own all the seasons, and I still watch it when it comes on TV, but I didn't feel the need to clap when it started, and the wave...the wave started when the starting song started...WOW!!! IT was such a great movie though, I am talking Manuel into taking me so he can watch it and understand it's greatness and not a show just for girls...the guys went to Iron Man last night, but I just know it doesn't hold up to SATC :)

Long awaited UPDATE!!!!

2008-05-29T10:25:00.004-06:00

(this picture-Boise Burn Game)

My oh my have I been a bit of a slacker, but I have plenty of reasons/excuses as to why I have not blogged in a REALLY long time. First and for most, SCHOOL! it's over and has been for 2 weeks, but until it was over, it consumed my life. It's nice not having to worry about what is due tomorrow or what test I need to study for...although I do have a test at the end of summer I have to take..eek! Okay on to the next reason I haven't blogged in a while....it was my birthday and my sweet husband planned a dinner for me, he invited lots of people and we all met at Texas Roadhouse....Manuel and I went at 7 so we could for sure get an area where all 16 of us could sit...They are the worst for big parties..So we tell them that at 8 we will be with 16 people and we need an area big enough...well finally at 930 or maybe a little closer to 10...we got seated. The area they sat us, there was a party before us and they told us at the beginning that this party looked like "talkers" so 3 hours later, they decided to leave. It's funny, I guess at restaurant's people are classified at "talkers" or "non-talkers" I fall into both categories, but probably the talker one the most :) SO it was a great dinner, and good company! Thanks to everyone who came out! On to the next....On Saturday, Marc and Lyndsey were here, so we lounged around, ate lunch at TGI Friday, then when Manuel came home from Work, we left again for downtown Boise. We went to the Boise Burn game , it's arena football, it was pretty cool. The picture above is taken at the Boise Burn Game! We had a great night! After the game, we went to Old Chicago, the girls sat and chatted while the guys played Pool! Night ended about 1:30 AM after Lynds and I played Donkey Conga and then a round of Guitar Hero! DAY 3 of the Weekend :) Sunday! Jessica and Sander came back to Boise from Greenleaf to come eat lunch with us, so Marc, Lynds, Manuel and myself went to Fiesta Guadalajara, it was pretty good, then we to Indiana Jones, I feel like I have been watching movie after movie (b/c last week we went and watched Iron man, which by the way it was pretty good) then we have been renting movies like crazy) So after Indiana Jones, everyone parted. Manuel and I went with some other friends to another friends birthday! it was fun! It was fun filled friend weekend :) I have been recuperating all week though, it was tiring :)

( L to R: Lyndsey, Gretchen, myself at Old Chicago)

Life has been good for the two of us though! Manuel got a promotion at Work! He is super excited about! Oh my gosh I even forgot to Post this, his team took FIRST PLACE in the Ontario Paintball Tournament! That was 2 weekends ago! It was fun, Mom and Dad, the boys came up! Dad, Chace and Brandon played as well! They had fun, and I think Dad is finally getting hooked :) IT was stinking hot though that day and it was tough staying out of the sun, but I didn't get sunburned...I got sunburned the next day at Softball Practice...super bad. Yeah that's rights, I am playing softball with Manuel and his work buddies! It's difficult when you haven't played in a really long time, but it's going to be so fun playing together! Well that's our life in a nutshell....I guess! Hopefully I can be a little better and update this more often than 1 time a month :) Here is Manuel and I at Old Chicago trying to figure out what to eat...I wanted Tomatoes and Mozzarella and he wanted the trio....We split the trio and he turned his nose away from the tomatoes but they sure were delicious :)

"Remember who loves you"

2008-04-23T22:39:00.007-06:00

My very sweet Great Grandma Caroline passed away on Tuesday, and it was such a bittersweet day. She has been wanting to leave this world for quite some time but because she had such a bitter attitude towards being as old as she was and still living, I would always tell her that heavenly father didn't want to take someone so bitter as her, she would always tell me, "You're right Chelsea, I wont talk about it again." She was such a wonderful lady and my favorite. I loved her so much, and I realized she was such an important part of my life when I moved to Boise. If I was in need to talk to someone, late at night, I knew I could call Great Grandma and she would be so happy to just have a phone call ( and probably the only one awake at around 11 at night that wouldn't mind the phone ringing). From 2004-2007, we spent welcoming in the New Year together over the phone, Grandma always stayed up really late and I can tell you that every phone call ended with "Always remember who loves you Chelsea, I do" This last New Years was different, I couldn't call Great Grandma, because she had moved to Highland Estates and she always fell asleep around 9. It was definitely different, but I was glad that I knew she was taken good care of. I loved going to Burley to visit Great Grandma, I would always "Surprise"her,because she would be so happy too see me. Sometimes I would call her and be talking to her on the phone when I walked in to her house and those moments I will never forget, she was always so surprised and made me feel loved. I will miss her dearly, but I know she is in a better place. The last time I saw her, we were taking her to the Dr., she was fighting everything in life, eating, sleeping, and LIFE. She was miserable and I knew that the time was coming for her. When I found out a couple weeks ago when the paintball tournament in Burley was going to be for Manuel, I was so excited because I finally was going to have time to go home and visit with her. I had some big plans for us, I was just going to visit her for a long time because I missed her. I miss her playing with my hair (Manuel plays with my hair too and , Great Grandma always would ask me if he still plays with my hair and if I like it as much still) I had it in my head that this would probably be the last time I would see her because all the news I had been hearing from the family, she wasn't doing very good. My plans changed on Tuesday, and I know they changed for the best, I am glad she is home, and where she has wanted to be for several years.

school....

2008-04-03T12:03:00.001-06:00

School... I will have my Associates degree this may, in one month!!! wheww..this semester has been crazy but I am finally seeing a little light at the end of the tunnel. I am registering for fall classes tomorrow and I was so oh I don't know lost as too what I should do because I can get my Bachelors degree with the same stuff I am doing, but then some people were putting in my head that because I want to Manage a Doctors office one day eventually in my life time that I should get a business degree.I am glad I went and spoke to my advisor because with my bachelors degree and a little experience under my belt I can manage one day. I didn't need to take extra classes to get a business minor or get a business degree... I can do it all with my degree I have now. I am so happy because I am expected to Graduate in Dec 2009...I have 3 more semesters to do the adios BSU! Thanks to everyone support of hearing me complain about school....okay I think that goes to two people; my wonderful husband who has to put up with me because he lives with me and I don't think there is a way around not having to put up with and to my sister who always just listens and gives great advice.

Our little nephew: Aidan Thomas Todd

2008-04-03T11:50:00.004-06:00

Chanc and Randy had their little baby on Monday morning at 7:40. We became an Aunt and an Uncle, and we are so excited. he weighed 7 lbs 7 0z and he was 20 in. He is so precious. Manuel and I ended up going to Moscow with my parents. it was to surprise them because I kept telling Chanc I didn't know when I would be able to come and visit. It was great to see Aidan on the first day of his life. He is so cute and we miss him so much, it was a long day but definitely worth all the driving to see him.

This day started out "Wii" ley beautiful!

2008-03-30T10:31:00.003-06:00

a couple of weeks ago I had a dream that I was at Toy "R" Us and I was being fought for a Wii...I had bought the very last one and some guy was beating me up to steal it from me...so today I thought I will go to Toy R Us to see if they have any Wii's in, because from an anonymous source, they told me that they get there shipments in on Saturdays and my best day would be Sundays. So I got up, got ready, and went...not thinking anyone would be there...to my surprise there were 3 people in front of me. I get in line...mind you this is the first line I have ever stood in before to buy something...so it was pretty exciting, awkward and yeah...so they open the doors and I rush by. I was younger than all the people I should be walking fast...I went back to the game department to only find myself lost...I have been wanting...I mean we have been wanting a Wii for a really long time so now that I am faced in a store with the possibility of them having it..I felt totally lost; I don’t know where to look on the shelves, then the comforting voice of "May we help you?" Oh yes...Do you have any Wii's? "Yes we do, come on up here" to my surprise there were 3 people working in the game department and each person had like 3 wii's..that was quite a few..the checker said seeing they have been getting any in lately... I was so happy I was shaking and so excited to get home to wake up Manuel even though he had only been sleeping for 3 1/2 hours...I knew he would be excited. I think I am more excited though because I am fully awake and wasn’t bombarded with my excitement while sleeping.

Foosball anyone...

2008-03-29T23:57:00.005-06:00

So today my in-laws came up. Manuel had to go to work and I only had plans of ordering a personal pan pizza from Smokey Mountain....Pineapple and Mushroom anyone...when his parents were kind enough to invite me over to the Vega Brothers house for dinner.hmmm homemade food with company or pizza alone in my house....I went..only after falling down the stairs with mop and water in tow...hahah funny story and funny to picture too. I went over to some home cooked food, rice, tortilla, beans and this cabbage salad with cilantro, jalapeno, tomato and well cabbage of course...I love it it's delicious. All the brothers were there and there girlfriends too so it was nice to catch up and chat..seeing we don't get to do that too often...it was fun, I helped Vanessa make some cards for her cousins...okay all I actually did was put 4 stickers on and then tie the bows for them all, fun times! His parents are staying the night here tonight so it's been fun to have their company. We got home around 1030 I think then his Dad and I played a couple rounds of Foosball...being his first time at the game, he sure put up a good one. Manuel told me to kick his butt in the game, I think I got beat :( Then I got his mom to join in the fun, it was fun. well...just a little update....oh and I finished my paper...I am so proud :)

Visitors...Burley...Spring Break...over already....

2008-03-28T22:03:00.002-06:00

hello all. My o' my time is sure flying by!!! So not much is new but it has been spring break this week and a much needed one, all said and done. I can't even explain how stressed I was last week, I don't think I can remember much, it was all up in tears, so much to do and so little time. Last week we med my mom half way to pick up the little guys...wait not so little anymore, Chace and Chad came to visit Wed-Sun. I felt pretty bad because I just wanted to hang out with them but I had school, work, and clinicals...no time to play for me. But we did play Phase 10 and boy that sure has some memories, teaching boys how to play a game I was sure they would have known how to already, it was fun...i realized I am not good at explaining the rules, during the game Chace would ask me a question and this was my response, "Oh yes, I forgot to mention that part..." I Hope the boys had fun, and come back real soon to visit..I think they got spoiled, being able to play the X-Box when ever they wanted...Mom needs to break out her cards with the boys so they can give me a good play next time. Mom and Dad were planning on coming up to get the boys but Dad had to work, so we offered to take them home and I was more than happy to get away, even to Burley I get joy of leaving. We got in later Sunday night but Chace and I played a few Wii bowling games, I wish I could bowl that good in real life geeshh!!! Then Monday I was visiting with Grandma A, always a nice visit, then I was visiting with Grandma Caroline, sweet little lady, so much life behind her. She needed to go to the doctor so mom and Stacie took her, and I took Stacie's kids, it was fun. I never feel like we have enough time when we are in town, it always go by so fast. We went to dinner, then went out to mom and dad's and played some more the wii...it was "wii.eely"exciting...thanks Manuel for the great laugh, I love the husband, he always is coming up with some funny things to say....
I can't believe it's Friday already though, because it sure has gone by quickly, it always does though. I have a 4 page paper to write and I think I have a page...just got spring fever and it's hard to get back in the mode of school work. It's not due till next Friday but my goal is too have it done by Saturday....that's tomorrow...reason being because I want to spend time with my husband on Sunday, our deal is I don't have my paper done, he CAN go paintballing, because if I don't have it done and he's home, I will just put it off so I can hang out with him, but If i have it done before Sunday rolls around, then he CANT go paintballing and I get to relax the day away with him with no real big worries...(just minor ones of what do I have that's due next...) it's always something, but I am definitely in a rut with the paper, getting it all into words, is hard at this moment. I think I will sleep on it tonight and then go at it tomorrow. So it's almost April and then May which means school is over. I am debating on what to do in life...I get my associates degree in May, taking my test in the summer...I have until July 21, that's when they mail out the diplomas, I need to have my diploma to take my test, I want to take the test as soon as possible...I have from May 16 to July 21 to study for a test...sounds simple right...we shall see. I have plans on going back to school in the fall but also the sound of not having to go back in the fall sounds good too. We shall see.... so apparently new things have bee popping up because I was just going to post a little update...it ended up to be a really long story. G'night all.

It's about time for an update

2008-03-15T13:59:00.013-06:00

I have a lot to do today but why not update the blog instead? that's always better than studying or do my homework...right? RIGHT!! Last month, we went on a 7 day cruise to MEXICO. The first day Sunday, we got on board about 3 ish and then had a mandatory safety drill, and dinner- the day was pretty much over, we were exhausted from flying to California and everything, I think we just went back to our room. Monday however, Lyndsey and I had homework to do and we thought Monday was the day to do it all since we were at see all day. After I got my homework done, I was worry free, It was so nice knowing that I just had the rest of the week to relax and have fun. Mexico is beautiful. The ports we stopped at were Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, & Puerto Vallarta. Cabo was the first stop, after starting the cruise on Sunday, getting off the ship on Tuesday morning was top priority for us, we wanted to get off and explore. We had to take tenders to the port at Cabo, they just dropped the anchor in the middle of the ocean, then the little tenders just dropped us off at the port. Our first goal was to find a store with a fax machine, we had some information that needed to get back to Boise. So we find one, interesting because it was ran by a Japanese and the computers that were in there, they were in Japanese too..Funny. So next we off to find a place to eat, done! Next off to find something to do, after walking around forever, we went on a glass bottom boat tour. We saw the coral underneath and it was pretty amazing, and all the fish. Then he took us to see some seals, cool but stinky...and then all crabs crawling around them. The favorite of Cabo was the beach, they had the best beach sand my feet have ever been in, (compared to California Beaches) CABO was beautiful but too much a touristy site for me. Next Stop, MAZATLAN- what a crazy city that place is. We took a taxi to go to the downtown area, I still don't know how we didn't see many car accidents, because they drive so crazy there, I was holding on for dear life, (if any one who knows me I probably hold on to dear life anyways when driving with someone in busy areas, I freak out) any who, we walked around then and then went to the beach, I hung out around the cabana, while Manuel, Marc and Lyndsey went boogie boarding. Mazatlan is a big place with lots of people. Peurto Vallarta was my absolute favorite, and I think both of us cant wait to go back there. It was a day of glory. We rented what I like to call a "Unimog" but I think in reality it's a golf cart supped up with four wheeler wheel. IT was a blast. Lynds and I had the 2 back seats, and the boys took turns driving. IT was a blast, we almost got ran off the road a few times but it was well worth it. We took that thing to Wal-mart, that was the first stop we made in Puerto Vallarta, it was something we were accustomed to, well we thought, we had to turn our bags in for security, Wal-mart in Boise was nothing like it. It was great fun though, they have stuff our Wal-marts would never carry. So anyway, we really wanted to find a beach, so we found one, although it was a deserted beach, with lots of rocks, we just saw a beach sign and away we went, it was fun, it was almost like four wheeling but unimogging (hahah) So we actually drove farther down and went to a pretty awesome place, it was beach and a little town. They had sand sculptures on the beach, the detail those people spend on the sculptures is amazing and all for tips, it's not a job for them. Definitely talented though. We were trying to find this water park area, but no luck just finding ourselves to enter a highway, which Manuel says is not like our usual highway/freeways where if you find your going the wrong direction or you have passed an exit, we can just wait until the next emergency turn around and go back, NO Mexico's are like long lasting, not equal or flat across the line, there is no spots to turn around in for a long time, and plus they go crazy fast and little UNI couldn't go but only 10 mph or so. Hahah we got in the bus line a few times and the buses were like right there, I swear Lynds and I could touch the front of the bus if we really wanted. and they thought they were funny when they would get that close, Not so much to us though. We saw some pretty amazing hotels in this place, and cheap too, I know this one hotel, had like 3 bedroom hotel houses for like $45 a night. that's cheap.

So since this was the last stop on it was Thursday, that meant that we had Friday and Saturday at Sea. We just planned to lounge around and play games. Lynds and I went dancing, went to a towel folding seminar. they had great shows on the ship, I personally like the dancers, and the mix with dance and singing. Those were my favorites. Adult Comedy/Magic Shows/Comedy shows(for all ages) were available. We did however have Karaoke Night, Lyndsey and I sang a duet, "Your the one that I want" from Grease, I now have never sang Karaoke before and was scared, The host of the karaoke told us that the Sandra's part would be one color and Danny's singing part would be one color.....we start singing and well both parts were the same color. Yes I know the song, I sing the song, but not in front of people and well it was horrendous but hilarious. We had a good time with it that's for sure. The host of the show however had to comment on girls from Idaho don't know how to differentiate on the guy or girl part...RUDE. We had fun however.

The cruise was lots of fun, and lots of food. and not gross food, GOOD FOOD. It was definitely a change when we got back from eating wonderful meals 7 days and then actually having to decided on what to cook for dinner. We had great company with us and fun times and memories that will last forever, any one up for Puerto Vallarta, b/c I am ready anytime to go back :)

These aren't all the pictures, we have lots, but it just occurred to me, we didn't take any pictures of our boat. we have a video of our room but that's it. oh and the dining room as well.

Miss America 2008

2008-01-26T20:02:00.001-07:00

I haven't watched the Miss America Pagenant in a really long time, I mean a long time. It seems it has become a very in-formatl pagaenat. I mean just the host was the guy off E-Tonight, not that he was bad, but I was expecting to see the guy who does the A.M show with Kelly Rippa, I am having brain spasms tonight, homework has started and I am thinking way to much for way too long :) Anyway, and to top it off it was on the TLC channel, last time I watched it, it aired on ABC or NBC. It was just a weird program they put on there, it was Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, too bad Mom and Dad werent there an extra day. I remember when I was younger I always looked forward to watching it and this week I was looking forward to it when I first heard it was going to be on, I dont think that is the case now, I feel like I wasted 2 hours watching it, I guess I realized it was a bor when it was like 45 minutes into the air. hmm...just my thought, Miss America is very pretty and has a beautiful voice.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANUEL

2008-01-25T23:39:00.000-07:00

So today, my dearest Husband, Manuel, turned 25. Yes indeed it's true, all of his friends at work today were trying to guess his age, it made him feel good, they were guessing 22, 23, I was laughing, I know I will one day be there, but come on my husband, is 1/4 of a century old. I really wanted to get a Wii for him for his b-day but FYI for all those Wii wanters out there, be wanting for a while, impossible to find, unless you pay 450, sorry. So I think we will keep a look out, but I bought him a shirt, Season 1 of Simpson's, it's on now to collect the whole set. They were on sale tonight at Shopko for $20, so I started him off, I got him some sweet treats, plus on Wednesday night, I made him a Chocolate cake (DELICIOUS) and I sang to him all by self, and well accidentally blew out the #5 candle, (I had a 2 and 5) but no worries I lit that thing back up for him and blew em'out and made a wish. He also got a Paintball Mask that he has been wanting for a long time. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART, hope it was great, except the work part. I took him dinner tonight, Mongolian BBQ, mmm, except they were like eying me the whole time I was making it, (maybe b/c I got there like 10 minutes before they closed) so it wasn't as "saucy" as usual but it was still edible. Well here is picture of us together earlier this evening when I took him dinner, he doesn't like taking pictures and I love it, so I make him take them with me, how silly it would have been to post a picture of my self on his birthday post.

On the side note, Life is great here, school started this week. I am taking 18 credits, the most ever, holy cow, Manuel is taking a class at Micron, and working hard. I also started my Internship, I work 8 weeks at Horizon Health (Dr's I nanny for) and then sometime in March I believe I will be at St. Al's Behavioral Health Center. It's fun so far, I did some insurance claims yesterday and some coding, it's cool in actual office settings, other than school, they make it so boring and so detail, that I wasn't expecting it to be as it was yesterday, FUN! When I leave for our cruise, I will be missing 2 tests that week, one professor is being cool and letting me take it when I return, and on the other one, well, she is being a bit strict, ridiculous if you ask me, but hopefully she pulls through, otherwise I will have to talk to the head of the department, I think since I talked to her on the first day, she would be understanding, but not so far. Well that's life from the Vega's so far, The grass is covered white and our house is still blue. Have a good night!

just when I thought I had said enough

2008-01-19T21:51:00.000-07:00

Okay so I guess the last post I didnt say enough (imagine that) okay so this last thursday, Manuel had to fly to Salt Lake to get his passport, it's pretty crazy, he flew there and got his passport the very same day, I had to wait 6 weeks, Crazy. Anyway it was a pretty exhausting day for him but fun at the same time, after he went to the Mexican Consolate (Passport place) he met up with his friend Tyrell Weedop, they spent the day together at Ty's work and just had a good ol time. Then TY took Manuel to the airport (Thanks Ty) So we now both have our passports, we are ready to head on the ship. In 3 weeks, I cant believe and now am expierencing a tid bit of what most would call anxiety. I freak out when I think I am going to be sleeping on a ship that is going in the water, hmm..thats all I will say. I am excited to see Mexico but cant wait until I get to experience where Manuel grew up, that will be in a long time, I would really like to go this year, but dont know if his family is going. we are going to Mazatlan, Cabo, and Puerto Vallarta (SP?) 7 day cruise. Nice, missing school, work, and enjoying a week with my husband. Happy Valentines :) Okay and on another note, Today my cousin Raylynne and I spent the afternoon, eating lunch and watching The Bucket List, such a good movie, although one I didnt cry in, amazing b/c It was a good movie with a sad happy ending, maybe I cried too much at PS I love you. After the movie today, we went to this little cafe that had Gelato, it was so good, even though we went in there looking for some hot chocolate, even though they had it, we opted for the Gelato, great choice. Soon it will be Manuel's Birthday, he will be 25. A quarter of a century YOUNG (LOVE YA BABE). Crazy to think. I dont know what to get him though, it's a tough buy for a boy who endulges in Paintball, and I think he owns everything possible. On second thought probably not but somedays its seems like that when all his stuff over crowds the living room. Allright, enough for now.

What a great weekend

2008-01-19T21:18:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I have posted. So Life is going like crazy. Seems like school just ended yet its starting on again on Tuesday! It's my last semester before I have my degree then I will go back and get another degree in Management I guess is what I have decided to do. I have a huge test to take this summer hopefully it goes well, just a semester of studying of 1 1/2 years of knowledge, to get some credentials behind my name. What ever it takes these days! So to end the break I went to visit my friend in Pocatello. It has been like 2 1/2 years since I last visited her at her place so I decided what a better time, right before school starts. I went home last friday and got my hair done, Amy weaved some dark blonde into, I really like the different look and have gotten many compliments. Then I headed to Pocatello, it was great to see and get to visit with Crystal and Kody. Friday night was just spent catching up and laughing, it was fun, Saturday started off with running late for a pedicure at the mall, a light snack, some shopping, then home to make Crab Salad, and Chocolate Chip cookies (Which by the way were pretty healthy, they are from a company call Lehi Roller Mills, pretty good, but by no means are these people in it for there customers apparently, we had to call them b/c the recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of their cookie mix, well we wanted to make the whole thing, but came up like a 1/2 cup short of the mix, so we call to see if what was going on, well all they said was that there ""should have been 5 cups of mix." Not a single oh well I am sorry for the inconvience, let us send you a complimentary mix, nothing. the cookies turned out great though.)(the picture is over Crystal eating the delicious cookie, she was such a stinker with any pictures I wanted to take of us) anyway back to the visit. Saturday we decided to go to Lava Hot Springs, problem though, I didnt have a swimming suit. So I went thru Crystal's stash found a top and some shorts, well we get to Lava, amazing might I just add, I love the place, we go to the dressing room, to find Crystal's swimming top and her shorts, my tank top, a pair of shorts, but no swimming suit top. Funny story, I ended up just wearing my tank top, and shorts,. iT was a great time and wish we lived closer so we could hang out more, same goes for my sister, I wish she lived closer, I had a dream the other night we lived an hour away from each other and it was so much fun, lots easier to visit each other. Sunday I drove back to Burley for a while to visit everyone, then I headed back to Boise. It was a great weekend with Manuel, I didnt work on Monday or Tuesday so we got to spend every moment together, doesnt happene very often. I loved it so much, we hung out at home and went to a couple movies, The Golden Compass, which was really good, I didnt think I would like it but it turned out pretty good. Monday night we went bowling, pitty party for me, I bowled 1/2 a game before my back gave up on me, GO FIGURE, what's new, but I still bolwed for antoher game until someone else showed up to make the teams even, it just sucks, A new back would be great. Tuesday we went to PS I Love you, what a great movie, it makes you realize you never know when it could be your loved ones or your own last day. What a great movie, I noticed that alot of good movies come out at the same time then a lot of crappy movies come out at the same time, needless to say, there are lots of movies I want to see right now.

Happy 2008!

2008-01-04T21:27:00.001-07:00

So Happy New years as well. I thought since I am updating the blog about Christmas why not New Years, since I am home alone. Manuel started working Nights again, so for the next 4 months, I will be alone on the weekends, it kind of stinks, but I'm okay. But the wind is going a 100 miles tonight and there seems to be some sounds outside I dont always associate with the wind but I keep telling my self they are so with that being said. Happy New Year. Our friends came up to ring in the the new year with us, Jasper, Gretchen, Marc and Lyndsey,it was fun and tiring all at the same time. Sad to see the holidays end but we are glad to be welcoming in the new year. WE all went downtown to dinner then we went dancing. It was fun. WE went to a club here in Boise and we rode the mechanical bull, it was an adventure that's for sure and can't see myself making a career out of it. We were actually signed up for couples bull riding the best couple that rode would win $500, after we did our practice, well let's just say.it was fun but we ended up leaving.

With all this in mind,

Reasons we like to look back to the year 2007

1. We became the Vega's on June 30, 2007

2. We celebrated our new life together for a week in Vegas

3. we moved in to a blue house, will never forget driving by with Mom and Kelly :(

4. We found out we are going to an aunt and uncle.

5. Manuel got a new job at the beginning of the year.

6. Chelsea was accepted in to her program at BSU.

7. We got a new car!

Happy 2008! .

Happy Late Holidays

2008-01-04T20:52:00.000-07:00

Well, I can't believe the holidays are now officially over. It ended this morning when Chanc and Randy left my house bound for Moscow :( I missed them when they walked out the door. these past couple of weeks have been so exciting with all the family time, holiday festivities and fun! It all started December 22, Mom and myself threw Chanc a baby shower, it was a lot of fun and it turned out great, although I felt so stressed with it being right after finals, I felt that I was very un-prepared until the baby shower ended and it was a success. Chanc got lots of fun stuff and they have a good start for the little guy! Only three months and he will be here. I can't wait. Christmas was great as well. IT was so nice being able to spend the holidays with family. I seriously dont know how I could ever not have family around for the holidays, I hope I will alwasy have family around, they bring love, joy and happiness to the great days! We drove up to Rock Creek to see the christmas lights, it was cold, but we managed to walk through and they even had a camel this year. I haven't been there in a really long time, it was fun. The entire family went and then we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's for Chilli and Cinnamon Rolls, mmm...yummy. Manuel and I got spoiled for christmas. He got a pair of Pumas, dye-lock lids for paintball, a wonderful back massager with heat :), clothes, cologne, Santa left Pirates of the Carriabean 2 for Manuel, but I realized it when it was too late, Christmas morning. But no worries, he got it exchanged. Silly Santa. He also got some Spy Sundglasses, that look pretty sweet on him! This seems to be the only picture of him taken while we were opening gifts sorry babe! I was given gift cards, pizza stone :) Bread Maker :) Shoes and money for business clothes! it was a wonderful christmas. We spent time with both families and it was wonderful, I took time off of work so we had extra time in burley which was good! We hope everyone had a great holiday season! The night ended by playing our 2nd Annual Bingo games, it was great fun, lots of funny gifts and well it's Bingo! here is picture of the family, referred as the ATV's (Asher's Todd's and Vega's) from now on guys :)

Our First Christmas

2007-12-11T13:28:00.001-07:00

While shopping on Sunday with the family at Bed Bath and Beyond, I bought this cute christmas tree ornament, it's so cute and fun. definately adds to the christmas tree decor!

Idaho Manskaping & Idaho Street Medi-spa

2007-12-11T13:23:00.000-07:00

So the family I nanny for, they are starting to do laser hair removal in the Dr. office, and I thought it sounded like a cool thing, so I will be getting trained soon and start doing that on the side I guess.. I am not sure of the hours i will be working especially next semester when I start my clinicals, school again and still nannying.. it will be a juggle but that's how life goes.
So if you have thought about getting laser hair removal come to me, during training I need a guinea pig or 2 and actually Manuel is one ( I opted for him to be a guinea..haha He loves me) so maybe one more person, then I also get family discounts. So tell me if you would like to have it done, I can't wait to get it done on me imagine, the life of no shaving :) hahah

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

2007-12-11T13:09:00.000-07:00

Wow, time ha gone by quickly since the last post, and I have been slackin in the blogging world. oh well. I am here! I just wanted to post a picture of the christmas tree, it's cute and sorry the picture is a bit blurry but that would be my reason for asking "santa"for a new camera! So we have had a lot of family with us lately. This last week Stacie came to stay with us because she had class all week at the hospital, it was very fun having her around. I hope she enjoyed her self, she could have either stayed at a hotel by herself but she chose to stay with us and it was a wise choice, we had fun laughing, shopping, laughing, eating and well we just enjoyed ourselves. Then Friday she was planning on leaving but the roads were bad so Mom and Dad were coming so they brought Scot and the kids, they stayed the night with us then left saturday morning. We had a house full and it was wondeful and the kids had a lot of fun. We contiuned our weekend with more shopping and more shopping. Dad was being the handyman around our house, and it was nice of him for doing it all. We appreciate it DAD!

Soon it will be Christmas time and we will be spending with the families in Burley. I am happy Manuel has the day off, so we get to spend a couple of days in Burley together, and along with my sister and her husband, we will all be home together, i dont remember the last time that happened..since the wedding that is...maybe last christmas :) okay so not too long ago but it doesnt'happen very often. I am throwing Chanc a Baby shower on Dec. 22, it's early but it's the only time allowed before Randy starts school again in January and Chanc wont be coming home after that until the baby is born. I can't believe I am going to be an aunt- We are super excited and all I have to say is that I think he is going to be one spoiled baby on the Asher side...mom and dad have began the spoiling war, seeing who can spoil him more and he's not even here. Oh what his parents have to look forward too.

Daylight savings rocks my world :)

2007-11-04T09:09:00.000-07:00

Rocks my world, that's right, what a silly saying I must say. anyway point of this story, I love daylight savings time, especially in the fall, when we are all blessed with an extra hour of sleep. I love it when I wake up and look at the clock and think...ahh...another hour or two...lately I have been waking up at 4:30 AM, ít's not the most exciting thing but oh well, I eventually fall back asleep. I dont neccessairly like the time change in the spring because I am always so dang exhausted. oh well, life goes on. It's sunday and I feel a little misplaced because I didn't go out to the field with Manuel, which is odd because I usally go, but today I must get things done, (Laundry) see I usually clean and do all laundry that has piled up over the last couple of days (I do laundry like 2 or 3 times a week..but not this week) anyway I would have had it all done Satruday but I was working. We were supposed to go to the BSU/San Jose State Game but it failed, my boss had 50 yard line tickets, she was delivering a baby and well...the kids didn't want to go to the game...I did. Oh well we went to the Bee Movie, I would tell you about it but the baby and I took a nap..it was great, thats what happens when your exhausted. I think I slept for like maybe 20 minutes but who knows it could have been for longer. I tell ya though, when I woke up I was refreshed, must have been what I needed. I worked until 6- I am not use to working long days anymore, I mean my work day consists of 4 hours or so...so when I work all day, I dont mind, but I can totally tell the difference, that's all.
We went to dinner last night. You know it was wonderful, because we took the truck..we haven't been in the truck in a long time, since we got my new car, he drives my old car and we park the truck, it's expensive on gas. oh well, we took it, it was fun to drive in it for a while, he apparently has missed driving it because I wanted Chineese food which is just down the road and well we passed the place and I asked where were we going, and he said, "lets go to Milwuakee street, and eat over there, let's go for a drive" so we drove over by the mall and we ate at TGI Fridays. Which by the way we put our name on the list and well...they never called us and they kept calling people to be seated that came in after us...well I was getting just a little annoyed at this fact then two girls came in, put their name on the list, sat down, waited 2 minutes and they were called...not cool....but the girls were super nice and asked if we were here before them and then the waitress was like"uh...do you guys have your name on the list." so we were seated, had an enjoyable dinner, delectable stake...it was alright, and a good time...We went without cell phones, which is nice because sometimes they interrupt....as nice as they are to have, its so nice to just leave them at home once in a while, doesnt happen very often for Manuel but I like leaving mine at home, might be surprising for those of you that know i like to talk alot :) this is one random story.

2007-11-01T22:31:00.000-06:00

So as you all know Manuel is an avid paintballer and he is on team CRUSADE from Ontario. This isn't from his most recent tournament but it's from one held in the great state of Idaho in a little town called Burley. Yes that's right, Burley hosts some pretty amazing paintball tournaments. This is the husband in action, he's got lots of paintball equipment that seems to be taking up a little space in my living room as of the late. But it's alright because it's what he enjoys. Man the blogs are just coming out of me today Chanc, you should really be enjoying yourself.

Halloween, trick or treaters...not in Meridian

2007-11-01T16:09:00.000-06:00

Okay so I just have to say this, I was so excited to have trick-or-treaters this year, we bought some large amounts of candy, thinking since we live in a neighborhood, in a house and not in an apartment, we would get the little ones to our door. We bought 2 bags of candy plus 3 more little regualr bags of candy from the grocery store because I thought what we bought the night before didn't include my favorite chocolate bars, so I also bought my favorite chocolate bars...anyway needless to say, we got maybe 10 people to our door. I was just handing out hand fulls because I was disappointed we didn't get as many as I was anticipating. It was funny because this one kid only wanted one (1) piece of cany, what kid does that, Kudos to his mom, anyway, I insisted that he take what I give him and he was so polite saying No thanks, save it for the rest, and I just said, "listen I have lots please.".guess who won the battle? Yes that's right I did. So if you are ever in need, yes indeed I have the candy.

I just had this thought run into my head... when I was in high school, I was at my friend Stephanie's house on one halloween night, we answered to the trick-or-treaters with Marshmallows in our mouth with some bunny saying, I forgot the saying but I know everytime I said Bunny I had to put a marshmallow in my mouth and try to finish it without laughing...me not laughing was almost impossible.. just a random thought!

A long time coming

2007-11-01T15:50:00.000-06:00

So I am just a hypocrite in this blogging world. I have now recommened this blogging life to 2 people telling how wonderful it is to be kept up-to-date on friends and families lives, coming from me who has not blogged since August. I feel as though I am a lousy (sp?) sales woman who wouldn't make it in the industry. I apologize and to the people I have referred this business too but I hope they join because its now my goal to blog more.
WOW! where has life gone. I have been blessed with 4 months of Marital Bliss. It's been truly amazing and feel so lucky. We have both been so busy with work, school and well ourself time that time has just been flying by. Manuel participated in a Paintball tournament the first weekend in October and his team (Crusade Blue) took 3rd. for the day, See this tournament was a series tournament, the first tourney just happened to land on our wedding day and of course Manuel couldnt make it but his team (Crusade Red) I think went and they did pretty good. So anyway, Manuels team took 3rd for the day(since it was his first time playing in this series) and Crusade Red took 2nd for the series. I thought they did pretty good. Its always fun being the paintballers wife, I love going to the tournaments and watching and being the support. I love it and I am glad he does something the loves. T
Too bad there arent any more until the spring, but dont worry, Practice is still going strong as ever. I thought life would slow down but I dont think it will.

Okay so now we made a trip to see Chanc and Randy and it was so much fun. It started off Friday (October 19th), we took off at 7 and pulled in at around 12 a.m. I do believe. It was a long drive but I actually managed to stay awake the whole drive, which is amazing becaue well it just is. So when we got there I was so happy to see the Todds' because it had been a while and I was just so excited to see my sister and her pregnant self. The night was filled with chatting and giggles and then we went to sleep. Manuel, Chace, Chad and myself had a sleepover in the living room, Mom and Dad were at the hotel. On Saturday we got up and I chatted with Chanc until the boys were awake (Randy was awake, he was trying to finish his paper) then Mom and Dad came over, we had lunch and Callie joined us on our adventure to Couer D'Alene. We went to this pretty amazing Ice Cream place, Gooeys, Great ice cream. We had some fun times there, especially Chace and his Magic tricks being tricked on me. I was so embarrassed I fell for them, I laughed so hard, and cried...dont know if was because I was shocked or mortified..either way it was still pretty funny, good job Chace! Then we did a little shopping and then Olive Garden it was, where we had yet another funny encounter. Trying to get the wait staff to sing happy birthday to Chanc, then her leaving, me stealing her purse, her thinking she lost her mind, and then me feeling guilty the next day when she woke up and finally admitted to my devlish act. it was just a weekend filled of excitement, lots of good time and laughs, Great spending time with the family, and well...lots of driving. The end. I should publish this :)

Oh Life!

2007-08-14T00:22:00.000-06:00

Okay so life has been fabulous lately. I finally figured out how to use this blog, THANKS CHANC! With being newlyweds, having a new house and just trying to relax a little before life becomes somewhat a little more busy with school starting soon, time has just flown by. Since we have been married, we have been blessed with guests! I love when guest come, because I love the company and love that I have room for them as well. Also trying to put things here and there, ya know trying to make it feel a little more homely. Apparently I have been busy because I have not updated this blog in a while and well...yes it's for you chanc, because you were almost to give up on me :( but let me tell ya slugger, I am pullin' thru for you :) I am new to this digital scrapbooking thing but it's pretty much the best thing..after I learn it all anyway it will be the best thing.

Just Beginning

2007-07-16T12:04:00.001-06:00

So here we are creating a blog so our families can keep up with us! We just got married on June 30, 2007! What a wonderful day, we were both so worried about how the wedding would turn out because of our cultures but to our dismay it turned out to be a really great day, only one small problem..I almost forgot to pick up the flowers :) We then set off for our honeymoon to Las Vegas! It was both our first time there so we were pretty excited but didn't know we were going in the middle of the hottest time of the year. It reached up to 117 almost everyday. We just did alot of sight seeing. The first big thing we went to was the Stratosphere and oh my gosh...there are some brave people out there, we could never do rides that high in the air...maybe we are chickens but it was scarry just being at the very top of the place let alone getting on the rides...I dont think so. For the week we were there we went to all the hotels, we went to a few shows, Tournament of the Kings was both our favorites, eating with your hands isn't all that bad :) Our trip came to an end on Saturday but we were both ready to get out of there we had seen everything and we were so stinkin hot, we were ready to back to the wonderful weather Idaho gives us ;) We had a layover in Salt Lake so Randy and Chanc picked us up and we went to Cafe Rio, and met mom and Chace there, it was so great to see them. When we got to Boise, we came to our house and realized how much unpacking we had to do. A girl sure does collect alot of 4 years...I dont think it's junk but...Manuel thinks it is. hahha. Here I am on July 17, it took me a week to get everything put away and then Mom brought up some more presents so now I need to find a place for all that stuff. We have been married for 17 days and I wouldn't trade it for anything. It's alot of fun. My favorite part is coming HOME to my HUSBAND. I will post more soon, maybe some pictures of our house... until then Adiós!