Protect Marriage

I have a lot to say on this issue but don't want to type it all out here....so I will just ask that if you see this, you go to this website to help protect marriage between a man and a women in California.

The entire text of Proposition 8 is as follows:
"Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California."

http://protectmarriage.com

Old Pictures from San Diego

Back in May (for my 4 day vacation in between school semesters!) I went down to San Diego to visit Danielle....I have any of the pictures on my camera so I am stealing these from Danielle! It was a great vacation and I can't wait until I can go back again!

Birthday Weekend!

So we had a great weekend! It started on Friday (My birthday!) I didn't have to work until 2:30 so my mom and I went and got manicures and pedicures and of course went shopping! Then my best friend Danielle was in town from San Diego so we met up with some friends from junior high and went out to eat at BJ's. It was a wonderful meal with wonderful company. My friends were even kind enough to tell the waitress that it was my birthday so we all got a yummy brownie pazookie (sp?) out of it! Then Saturday we went out boating with Danielle her brother and Kirk (We missed you Ash!). We had a lot of fun! Then Sunday Joseph Thomas Jackson (Saydi and Steven's) baby was blessed and they had a fabulous BBQ at their home. It was a great weekend and I can't wait for next weekend!

P.S. Shawn was super sweet on my birthday and even made me a cake! (He makes them better then I do!)

Happy Birthday to Shawn

So today Shawn turned 25! I can't believe it! He is working nights now so he was really tired today but managed to go out to lunch with me to On the Border....it was really yummy and I always have a good time hanging out with him.....well most of the time...J/K. We are going away for our birthday's next weekend...so I should have some fun pics after that! I love you Shawn and hope that you have a great birthday!

The Dark Knight

So as you can tell from our lack of blogging nothing too exciting has happened this past weekend. Shawn was in a fire class all Friday night and all day Saturday. On Friday night I went up to Girls Camp to see my YW and have been working to get done with school the rest of the time! But last night Shawn, Billy and I went and saw the Dark Knight and let me tell you...it was great! Christian Bale is super hot, Heath Ledger is hilarious...and the whole movie was just awesome! I definetley wouldn't recommend it for the younger crowd because it is kind of scary..but really good all the same!
We are really lacking on our picture taking...but we do have a couple of exciting things coming up....Billy, Shawn and my birthday's are all coming up next week so hopefully we will have some fun and exciting pictures coming up...and I will be done with school for the summer...so that will be a fun celebration in and of itself!

Self-Checkout

Have any of you ever used this? Shawn and I went to Bel-Air last night and he decided that we were going to do the "self-checkout" (I use that term very loosely since we didn't do it ourselves!) So we get up to the "self-checkout" and I look to him and say "Are you sure that you want to do this?"...knowing that in the past I have had SERIOUS issues with these machines before. And he says "Yes, it's so much faster and I don't have to talk to anyone so I like using this." So we start checking out our items and of course being the great wife I am :) ...and being a past grocery clerk I decide that I am going to help him. So he's checking and I'm bagging and hitting buttons on the screen and I look down and see that the "bagging area" is completley full...so I decide that it's time to put the bagged items into the grocery cart. Well then the machine starts beeping at us and telling us that we need to put the items back in the bagging area. So then I grab the bags again and put them back in the bagging area. Then the machine beeps again and says that there are unidentified objects in the bagging area. OK SERIOUSLY? When did it become this difficult to by some gosh darn groceries? I used to work in a grocery store....this used to be my job...and I can't even figure it out! So of course this happens a couple other times and Shawn and I are both completley annoyed with each other and both of us are being very vocal about our annoyance...so one of the store clerks comes over and explains to us how the whole system works and then clears us out of mangled mess that our machine has now become and while walking out of the store we both decide that we will never use the self-checkout line again....well when we're together anyways! Have any of you had this same problem...or are we just completley incompetent?

Lame...

So this past weekend was 4th of July! Unfortunatley I am super lame and didn't take pictures of any of it. Shawn was at the fire station on Friday and I had the day off. Friday morning I had some math homework to catch up on and then Billy and I went over to my parents. Austen and Billy played video games and I laid out and got an awesome sunburn! That evening we went down to my parent's neighbors and had a pretty fun firework show! Gotta love the neighbors and their illegal fireworks! Saturday we went to the Sacramento temple with the family. Alyssa (Shawn's cousin) is getting married in August. It's always nice to get together with everyone! Sunday was really relaxing, we both took much needed naps and spent the evening playing Rock Band with Billy! We had a pretty busy weekend visiting some other friends but it was really nice to have 3 days off! I think that every week should be this way! We hope that everyone had a fun and safe 4th of July! I promise that I will get better at taking pictures!

P.S. If you notice a lot of changes to the blog...my apologizes I am still trying to figure everything out....and finding a background that both Shawn and I agree on can be difficult! (And I thought decorating our house was hard!!!)