Moore than Meets the Eye: Fun with Husband

Anniversary

Three Years!!!

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This guy.

I'm forever grateful I married him.

I know I'll be saying this every year, but we continue to know each other better and better.

Growing up can be difficult, but I'm SO glad I get to go through it with Jensen.

He's so positive. He's taught me to look at life in a more optimistic way.

I feel like I've become more mature and confident in myself since we've been married.

I know he's ALWAYS there to support and help me.

He's also there to be fair and objective to teach me things about life which I really appreciate, because he knows it will make me more happy.
He's humble and patient with me. And vise verse haha ;-)

Also, if anyone knows Jensen well, they know that he is the king of quotes. I swear he watches something ONCE, and he know ALL the quotes. I have no idea how he does it!!
He remembers the most random phrases too. Quotes from commercials, movies, TV shows, what have you. He has a very quick, serious, and sarcastic sense of humor.
Which I find hilarious (obviously) and I wanted to be like that too.
I admire how he never gets offended easily, which is something I have been working on (such a girl thing to do right?? And I didn't grow up with brothers)
Now I have to say that I'm much better at being sarcastic and can totally think quick on my feet like him :-) It's so funny because I was terrible with quotes before we were married. I could barely remember anything.
I was really slow at quoting the few lines I could recall, but it's really funny and amazing how you can totally change the way you think. We've had lots of good laughs :-)

I also really love that he's a great communicator. I wasn't before we were married, and I'm still working on it. But I've definitely improved with that too.
Even though learning can be hard sometimes, I'm thankful that I get to learn and grow with him.

I love that he is my best friend. We can talk about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Anything gospel related, stuff about life and marriage, etc. I even talk with him about my makeup, hair, and nails. And he has no idea about any of that stuff but still listens sweetly. And I do the same when he goes on about sports and starts speaking football/basketball vernacular. I've even made an effort to know basketball players, since I care more about that than football since he's a basketball player.
We have funny nicknames for some of them haha.

I love him so much. Can't believe how blessed I am. So grateful I chose him for eternity. I don't know how I'd survive without him. I need him. Always.
And I know that he needs me and he loves me. We are perfect for each other.

Now here are some pictures!

This was our present to each other this year!

It's from the tiny little Silhouette Studio on Main Street.

I wanted something timeless and that would last forever (they even give you an extra copy just in case).

And it was definitely cheaper and more classy looking than the caricatures.

I love seeing the fall decor!!

Haunted Mansion is legit right now. Not sure I'll like it as much without the scary Nightmare Before Christmas theme.

(I think it's really spooky right now cause of the spiders!! Eeee!)

We went to the beloved Cheesecake Factory for our anniversary as well. I had been telling Jensen for like the past month that I've been craving fried mac and cheese.
I ate so much. It was wonderful. Such a lovely anniversary!

P.S. Yup. I said sayonara to my blonde hair! FOREVER.
I didn't like it the first day I got it done, but then after a week I really started to love it.
I was so sick of seeing my dark roots as a blonde like even a week after getting my hair done. I couldn't take it anymore! So now I LOVE MY HAIR COLOR.
I actually cringe a little looking at pictures of me blonde because I actually feel so much prettier as a brunette.
I know. It's crazy because I was blonde for so long.
I thought I was "prettier" as a blonde. NOPE not anymore.
I love how natural looking it is and Jensen says it brings out my green eyes :-)
This is me. I was born with this color. So now I'm owning it.

Stay Classy,

Disneyland

Downtown Disney

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Disneyland

Summer Break

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First of all, I revamped my blog!! I finally learned how to on my own haha. Though I love pink, I really needed a break from it.

So this time I really "branched out" and used its cousin, peach. I'm so adventurous huh??

Second, I started a blog with my lovely sisters-in-law! We've got lots of recipes, crafts, and homemaking ideas coming your way! Link is to the left.

On to the updates. We just got done with Jensen's 3 week summer break.

It was AWESOME!

Three weeks is SO much better than two. Two weeks felt like nothing, but obviously it's better than nothing.

We went to Disneyland twice. Once by ourselves and the second with family! Then we pretty much just stayed in San Marcos the rest of the break haha. We'd come back up just to go to our ward here. We also did fun things like: play tennis couple times (he beat me both times), we did weigh lifting together, went to the temple and the beach. Then Jensen went to Arizona for a couple days to see his some of his family and then I went with my parents to visit my sister in Rancho Cucamonga. It was fun! But I missed him ha.

I went to yoga with my mom couple times, we saw Guardians of the Galaxy, which was good! Nothing like Avengers, obviously, but still well done. We also saw When the Game Stands Tall which was good, even though it's a football movie ;)

I played the piano A LOT at my parents' house. I so badly wish I had one of my own :(

We are sad that our fun vacation had to end, but these pictures make us happy :)

At the start of Splash Mountain! Props to Savannah for getting us all in the picture WHILE the ride was already going! That's tricky stuff dude. I can barely hold my phone still while sitting on the couch.

HAHA I'd say right about here is when we all start freaking out, except Ashleigh hahaha! And kudos to her for posing all cute and calm while going down the drop!! (not to mention that day was her birthday!)

So when we all got off the ride and you go look at your picture afterwards, when I saw my husband's face (way in the back of the log) I WAS DYING LAUGHING UNCONTROLLABLY. People around us prolly thought I was crazy. It's cool, bruh.

On Thunder Mountain! Like 10 seconds before the ride started going.

My mom's wreath I made for her birthday!

Also, I love the Lindsey Sterling station on Pandora. I have it going right now. She's unbelievably talented. I love it because they're instrumentals. It's genius how she combines classical with a hip hop beat. And I don't have to worry about gross lyrics!

She's LDS too! Pretty cool stuff.

Stay classy,

Family

Picture Overload

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Fun with Husband

Summertime Travels

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Hi peeps! Time for another update. First is a very random picture from last

Christmas that was just sitting in my phone doing nothing and I didn't even realize! My mom took it after church. Had to do some editing because the sun was blaring in our eyes.

Before the Fourth, we went to Hermosa Beach in LA with a friend of Jensen's from school who lives there. It's a very beautiful and HUGE beach! There's so much sand! Jensen and I think that's the difference between LA and San Diego beaches, LA beaches have much more and much prettier looking sand.

This picture doesn't do it justice. The sand was like, white! We walked all the out to the end of the pier and on one side of us we could see Malibu (told Jensen I wanted to see Tony Stark's house). The view was very pretty! There were lots of cute, beachy shack looking shops too. The beach is my friend.

The next week I went to Fresno (Central CA) with my family for a funeral. My grandpa passed away a few weeks ago :-( Fortunately, it was not unexpected. He was fighting a long, hard battle of diabetes and just lots of physical frailities due to old age.

I haven't had a picture of me and my sisters since like...my WEDDING day!! That's a long time. Jensen couldn't come because his school has very strict attendance. It felt so weird traveling without him because we ALWAYS travel together. But I was with my entire family so that was pretty cool!

Sisters at the cemetery (believe it or not, this picture was taken just seconds after we were all crying!) Since my granpda served in the Navy, they did the 21 Guns Salute which was AMAZING. I absolutely love this country. I love that the miliary are trained to give their highest respect to the Amercian Flag and are willing to die to defend it.

So incredible. It gives me such a warm, fuzzy feeling being patriotic :-)

Mel and I eatin' some grub!

Sent this to my honey while I was in Fresno :-) So now he's famous there and I have a whole city name after me in Nor Cal!

Then we drove home on the 4th of July and Jensen and I went straight to Valley Center for a big party! I don't have any pictures of that (dang it).

But, nonetheless, it was a very busy and fun weekend :-)

Did I already mention I'm the Ward Organist and Choir Pianist? I love my callings. I absolutely love being able to keep playing the piano. I REALLY wish I had a piano! *sigh* Someday.

I'll try to take more pictures of dinners and desserts I make!

And just more pictures in general haha.