New Favorite Game

so tyler's new favortie game is Scrabble...and i decided that i despise that little checkered gameboard and all it's happy letters! tyler said he had never played scrabble before in his life (which i find hard to believe b/c i know i've played with ben and sarah and tyler...there in their tiny little apartment on the living room floor...)

so in the first two times that he's played he's beat me soundly...Sarah...i really need you to come and play a game with him and score like 500 points or something! i like playing it better when it's me and ben just being stupid and trying to keep sarah from getting so many blasted points!!! but when it's just me losing by a ton of points to little mr i've never played this game before it makes me feel like my vocabulary is that of a two year old!!! he always steals the places i want to put down letters...like tonight...i could have scored like 39 points on a three letter word and he took the spot so there went my big score!!!

but he likes playing the game...it's nice to find a game he likes to play...it's a step towards having people over to play games!!!!!!!!!! yeah!!!

once again...the next time we're all together sarah...i would like for you to play scrabble with tyler...it's make me feel better (but then again, now i know how ben has felt all these years losing scrabble to his spouse...albeit i'm sure sarah's words are always these non normal words like all the rest of the world uses...they're all really smart words!!!)

Rocky Point, August 2008

so i'm finally going to get to put up pictures and tell about our awesome trip down to rocky point!!!

There we are on the beach! But moving on, we had this awesome one bedroom one bathroom condo. If i can ever figure it out i'll put the video of it that i took on here...the balcony had a perfect view of the ocean which we were right on...well, we were right on the beach.

We got there on friday night, the first of august and we left there on the 6th, the wednesday following. it was so nice not to have anything to do but what we wanted to do! and we got to eat all the mexican food and panaderia bread that we wanted to!!! this bread is the most delicious stuff i've ever had in my life! i've found one in tucson...well, at least the address to one so tyler and i are going to have to check it out sometime.

saturday morning we went and got full body massages at the spa inside out resort. so nice and relaxing!!! we then went and played on the beach for a bit. it was slightly windy and so the waves were nice and high! i wish i coud have gotten a picture of this one time when tyler was in the water playing in the waves...he got hit by this big one and got tumbled in the water. i saw him get hit and then the next thing i saw was his feet up and out of the water! we were laughing so hard it hurt!

one of the nights we went on this dinner cruise...it was okay until i got really kind of motion sick...i just felt really sick and the water was really choppy so that didn't help at all! one of the guys on the boat cut up a lime and saturated it with salt and told me (tyler really since he was speaking in spanish) that i needed to eat all these little salty lime pieces and i would feel better...it kind of helped but i still felt bad for the rest of the time. it wasn't really fun at all for either of us even if i hadn't gotten sick. they served all the beer and margaritas people could drink free of charge (so you can imagine how many drunk people there were on this boat) but they charged us for our waters!!! stupid but oh well, we won't be doing that again!

we went parasailing, those pictures are on a disposable waterproof camera i have yet to get developed...so check back later for some of those images. it was really fun though b/c tyler and i went up together and we were really high above the ocean. it was so nice and peaceful and the view was great!!! tyler and i were debated whether we'd be able to get my dad to do that (if we're ever able to convince him to come down to mexico to begin with!!!)

we rode the banana boats, that picture is on the waterproof camera too. i took it from the water after i fell off! tyler told the guys we wanted to go fast so boy did the driver of the boat go fast! we both fell off once each and it was so much fun!

we watched movies at night, went out to the beach a few times to lie down and look at all the stars. i know tyler didn't believe my but i swear we could see part of the milky way! it was awesome! so many stars!

we had all the street tacos we could eat! those things are delicious and i'm having a craving for them right now since i'm talking about them...we know of a little van we can go get some out of here in town if we need to...which we might need to tonight b/c those sound really good right now!!!

i can't think of much else about the trip. it was just a load of fun and i am so glad that melissa introduced me to the Sonoran Spa resort there in rocky point. it's awesome and so beautiful there!!! so now i'm just going to add some more pictures from the trip!

Random Update

so my mom says that i don't update this thing as much as i should...i'm not sure what all i could write on here seeing as how all tyler and i are doing right now is working and working...

i got to go to a long time friend's wedding reception last night and it was so good. angela went with and it was pretty funny b/c the reception was literally at this castle! the invite said it was as the castle at ashley manor and we had no idea what this place was. i was driving and as we came around this corner angela was all "so i'm thinking that that's probably it", i looked over and there's this castle all lit up and off to the side. we laughed so hard for a while b/c it's so random!!!

angela introduced me to the ikea store today...i cannot wait until tyler and i have a house of our own that i can decorate!!! they've got so many cute things there that i would love to use...someday!

Happy Birthday!!!

So yesterday was my birthday...yeah for me!!!

Tyler got us reservations to a really nice place called The Melting Pot. It's a fondue restaurant and it was excellent! We had some carribean style cheese that they had apples, bread and fresh carrots and califlower to eat with it. Then we had our main course...we picked the mojo style of cooking and it tasted really really good! They have the fondue pot there at your table with the cheese in it at first. Then when you're done with that and your salads, they bring you the fondue pot with the flavored stuff if it to cook your meat and stuff in. The picture is of our main course before we started eating any of it. Boy was it good! You skewer a piece of food on your fondue fork and let it sit in the boiling liquid until it's done and then they have a billion different delicious dipping sauces for you to enjoy.

Then came the best part ever...the dessert. I of course went for the pure milk chocolate. I didn't need any fancy stuff (they had a limited time dessert called bananas foster or something like that so it was white chocolate with some banana stuff and caramel I think in it...) I just wanted the good ol' plain milk chocolate! And it was the best part of the night!!!! Strawberries, rice krispy treats and sponge cake! Oh it was sooo good!!!

Tyler is such a good hubby to me! I'm so glad I was able to share my 23rd birthday with such a wonderful man! Yeah to eternal marriage!!!!!!

It's been a long time coming

So I know it's been more than a month since I blogged but things have been kind of crazy here in sunny Tucson. I got through the last semester just fine (when I say last I mean the most recent one not that I've had the fortune of being done with school...) and onto my new job just fine.

I love working with the infants and toddlers at the hospital. It is such a fulfilling job!!!! My nurse preceptor is awesome and has taught me so many new things! Yeah Nicole!!!!

Tyler and I went to his brother's wedding up in Denver, Colorado. It was a very, very nice wedding there at the Denver Temple. It was also gorgeous temperature and scenery wise so I am jealous of that fact. I do like the winter weather here far too much though at the moment for us to move any where in the future to somewhere like Colorado because I don't think I would deal well with the coldness and snow! I know how to deal with the summer heat here so that's not a factor!

I learned how to to phlebotomy this week...for those of you who are not Ben, this means I now know how to draw blood!!!! So it's pretty fun and I'm pretty much awesome at it so no worries.

I cannot believe that it is past halfway thru June!!!! 2008 where have you gone?!?!?!?!?!?!? I still have so many projects that are not finished yet and I thought I would have more than plenty time to do them in this summer...sorry Tyler but it looks like they're not going to be getting done!!!!

I can't think of anything else to add...more updates later I guess when I actually have something interesting to say!

Just A Little While Longer

So things are still pretty mellow around here. I've got only one more final to take for the semester and then things'll be all done and over with! So as you can see...I'm so not studying but blogging instead!

I cannot wait for this summer. I've got that new externship job and there are so many projects that I have that I can't wait to get started (and hopefully finished!).

I can't think of anything else new that's going on...oh well!

Almost there

So school is almost over this semester and I just cannot wait!!!!! 6 more days of school spread out over the next 3 weeks. I've also only got 9 days left in the job that's I've had for the last 3.5 years. Crazy to think I won't be working in the staffing office at UMC anymore but that's alright...I get to do patient care up on the infant and toddler unit and it's going to be awesome.

I've started doing this exercise video program thing with my friend Kathie and it's kicking out butts! You wouldn't think that a combination of kickboxing, aerobics and dance would be that difficult but I work up the morning after and could hardly move because I was so sore. It's called Turbo Jam and is just crazy! We did the sculpting workout the other day and both of us had shaky legs during the end of it...way too many lunges and squats but hey...it'll be worth it when I see a difference in my backside! (A little more toned I hope!)

The dogs are still doing well, Little Louie and Tyler had a little accident today at the dog park and so Louie is now on some a pain med and is limping a little bit but he'll be ok. (Tyler called Louie over to him, Louie sprinted off to see Tyler and somehow hurt his little front leg when he jumped up to see Tyler (Tyler was squating down) and Louie really whimpered alot and the poor little guy...he couldn't put any weight on the leg and would try biting me really hard when I would go to touch his leg). He's been able to put weight on it this afternoon and stills limps around the house but he'll be alright (yeah for pain medication for the little guy...although it's just an NSAID (like ibuprofen), I think it will be enough for him.