Jensen got accepted into the chiropractic school in Los Angeles!!!!!! Southern California University of Health Sciences. We're so excited!!! He's worked incredibly hard and I'm very grateful and proud he got in!! I'm wayyy happy we will be in So Cal again!!! He starts in January 2014. In August we're pretty sure we'll both be able to get time off of work and go down to Anaheim and look for apartments. And visit our families of course. Yay! :-)

It's funny, because now we're both busy but I feel like we work together more. Like, before I would do everything by myself. I would clean the house, laundry, cook dinner, and go fetch groceries by myself (I'll give him a bit more credit. Occasionally he would help me with cleaning up dinner which was very helpful) But I can't do groceries during the week since we only have one car and he needs it in the mornings. So we go get them together on Saturday mornings now. And now Jensen helps me with making dinner because I come home later than him. So we do more things together even though we're more busy, ya know? It sorta sounds contradictory, but we're busy together. I LOVE IT! I'm very grateful for all he does for me. 

I love my honey-honey very much :-)

Last Friday I found out that I got that job at Nu Skin as a beauty adviser!! We're so excited! I guess I really sold 'em on that foundation primer ;-) My schedule is similar to Jensen's. 

He works 1-6 and I'll be working 2:30-7:30. And I LOVE that my schedule is set. That is incredibly rare in retail. Normally they give you whatever stupid hours and you can never have a life (which I've certainly had to live through with multiple jobs). But I've paid my dues and now I get a great schedule! We really need to get Jensen a bike. I'll have to work like maybe 1 Saturday a month but sometimes Jensen gets e-mails where they ask for volunteers at the product store and so Jensen can work with me on Saturdays!! We can be together AND make money! I'M SO HAPPY AND EXCITED! Nu Skin is an incredible company who actually treats its employees very well. We're very blessed. Thank you Nu Skin.

Well I just decided to blog again! Not much happens here so that's why I don't blog a lot.

Let's see. I had an interview with Nu Skin (where Jensen works) yesterday. And yes I used my husband as a reference :-) The position is a part time beauty adviser at their product store. HA. No matter how hard I try to get some sort of Receptionist job full time somewhere, I seem to be pulled back into the beauty industry. But I don't even know if I have the job yet. 

They'll let me know by like next Wednesday. This would be a great job because my hours are set, which was my problem at Macy's. 

Oh, and this is funny. So during my interview (there's 3 people interviewing me-one of them being Jensen's manager), the other manager gives me a sales pitch. She asks me to try to sell my favorite beauty product to them, whatever that may be.

 Now the questions they asked me before this one I felt like I just totally BSed them, but when they asked me this one, I got really excited inside and had a "I GOT THIS" feeling haha! 

So I started telling them about this foundation primer that I actually just bought like a couple weeks ago and that I've LOVED ever since I got it in the mail. 

I was telling them stuff like, "Okay so my favorite product is my foundation primer. It makes my foundation go on like butter! It helps your foundation stay on all day, because you know it can come off of clothes easily but a primer helps your foundation adhere to your skin. Its helps your skin stay matte all day, helps cover acne scars, and I just love it!" 

And then one of the girls that is interviewing me goes,"Which primer is this??" 

And we all started laughing! It was funny. 

But that's not even the funniest part.

Later I get texts from Jensen and he's like, "The girls here want to know which primer you use." And then today I get another text from him and he's like "Now she wants to know which foundation works well with this primer."

HAHA! Wow did I sell them or did I sell them?! ;-)

Looking back I feel like I could have said so much more that I love about it, but I get really nervous during interviews, so I kept it short due to...my mind going completely blank.

What's really funny to me was that I was totally honest. Every single thing I said about that primer is true. After I got it in the mail last week, I put it on, and then as I was putting on my foundation, I was seriously thinking "Oh my word my foundation goes on like butter!!" 

And I used to think that foundation primer was pointless! I thought I wouldn't see or feel a difference. For years I never cared to use it, until I just decided to give it a try a couple weeks ago. Now I feel dumb because all those years my foundation didn't look as good as it could have. Oh well. I've got lots of years to wear it! 

What else is goin' on. Jensen is more than half way done with this Spring semester! He's such a hard worker. Oh and I've started working out, like on a regular basis. And I'm SO SORE. Like it even hurts to sit because you have to use your quads to sit down. But I'd like to be able to run in 5k races again. I did a couple in high school and they were really fun! And you get prizes afterwards lol, but that's not my motivation :-) I'd just like to get in really good shape again.

I'm beyond grateful that the weather is WARM and there is SUN!! That makes me happy. This turned out to be a much longer post than I thought.

This may sound funny, but I think the other night I just realized I'm really becoming an adult. 

And it was kinda freaking me out a smidge.

It was actually both me and Jensen realizing we're truly becoming adults and growing up and making kind of scary decisions.

But hey, at least we're making them together right?? :-) 

So before Sunday night, we both thought that we wouldn't be going to Chiropractic School until April 2014...because we both thought that's when spring semester starts. 

I guess we're used to BYU and how they actually follow the seasons. 

BYU actually has a winter semester that starts in January which I know is weird.

But normally, SPRING semester starts in JANUARY. NOT APRIL.

I should have known that since I did a year of college in California before I got married.

Well it's a good thing it hit us then because holy cow we need to get crackin' on applying now. And sometime this summer/early fall we'll probably call a bishop in Whittier and ask about housing, as well as look online A LOT.

I doubt we'll be able to take a trip down and look around for apartments until Jensen graduates in December since he's going to school spring and summer.

Plus it's making us nervous about loans and how we'll pay rent each month and buy stuff we need.

I'm sure it will all work out. 

Maybe the fact that we don't know what we're doing is making us nervous, but once we figure it out it will be better and will feel normal.

I know lots of people go through this, but to us new people it's nerve-racking at the moment.

We've had a couple days to take it in and we're scared but excited at the same time!

It's actually kind of thrilling to move to the next stage in life, scary, but thrilling, because we'll be together and we'll always have each other :-) 

That's what marriage is all about right? 

Having one exciting, clueless, thrilling, nerve-racking, beautiful adventure with your best friend!

Jensen and I had a lot of fun in San Diego with our families during Christmas break! I'm really glad we were able to go.

Lots of yummy food, shopping, movies, fun with family, shopping, presents, games, and shopping.

 Now it's back to real life. 

As of right now, it is 9 degrees outside. 

NINE FREAKING DEGREES.

 Horrendous.

Yet, yesterday I still had to go grocery shopping, bundled up in all my layers with my snow boots, gloves, and a scarf. 

Not to mention tights under jeans.

And even then I found that I need to wear two pairs of socks, or one pair or really thick socks. 

I pretty much always wear two pairs of everything, even sitting inside right now I'm wearing multiple layers.

Since I'll be dressing this way until April I decided to try to still feel cute and get used to this wardrobe change.

I remembered pinning "40 Different Ways of Tying a Scarf" on my Pinterest, so I looked at it yesterday and tried out a bunch of them.  

I have 3 favorites-click on them if you wanna see:

1. "Four in Hand"

2. "Double Wrap French Knot"  

3."Double Scarf Loop Knot" 

(Except I won't use two scarves, just only tie the infinity scarf in a knot)

 I'm kind of a pro with tying scarves now.

It made me really happy, I told Jensen about it when he got home from work.

Oh, it's the little things :-)

 I found random pictures from a few months ago on Jensen's phone that we forgot about so here they are!

 Yeah, I'm wearing the same shirt. 

It's my favorite long sleeve.

 This makes me wanna go back to blonde really bad.

 Talk about undecisive! Annoying, huh? Lol :-) 

I should eat and do laundry now.

 

It's been awhile! I've been so busy. Especially last week. I worked a ton last week! Including a 10 hour Black Friday shift. Ouch. Yeah, not fun.

But Thanksgiving was good. Delicious food! We went to Jensen's grandma's house. His parents and sister came up and stayed with us. It was fun! 
I wasn't around much because I was always at work.

We couldn't go down to San Diego because of my job :-(
Sorry, I'm grateful to have a job and yet sometimes I can barely stand it. 
Guess that goes with pretty much every job though.

We don't know if we'll be able to go home for Christmas. 

Just writing that, I could cry.  

I talked with my manager and she said that she'll try to do something where my shifts will be advertised so others can pick them up.

The ONLY way that we'll be able to come down is if people cover my shifts.

But for some reason Macy's isn't hiring very many people. I have no idea why.

My counter manager said Macy's is desperate for people, so maybe people just aren't applying. Great. So there are lots of shifts, and not very many people.

I won't even know my schedule until two weeks ahead of time. So we're waiting. 
We won't know anything for another 2 weeks. 

And I'm going to nicely tell my manager again about getting that time off really soon.

 Pleeeeeease let my husband and I be with our families for Christmas!! 

  
In the meantime, I just beat Donkey Kong tonight. So now I need another video game lol. 
I don't know why I love the Wii so much. No other game console is more fun to me.  
So I'm very grateful for that when Jensen is busy with homework. 

What else, we just became Netflix users recently! We started watching the show Once Upon a Time. It's so good! I love that it's all about fairytale characters. 
I love anything fairytale/Disneyland-ish.

I can never make up my mind about my hair color. I got some lowlights in, but now I want to go back to blonde.  I don't like the maintenance, that's why I got lowlights. 
But I feel prettier blonde. 
Isn't that funny? It's nowhere near my natural hair color lol.
I have to deal with either darker roots, or darker hair... I might take the the darker roots, because overall I'll still be blonde. 
I started getting highlights when I was 12. So I was blonde for years and became so comfortable with it. Anything else feels weird to me. 
Plus I'm so white right now and these lowlights aren't helping. 

Sorry about my girly rantings! I think I'll go to sleep now.
  

I decided to give my blog a makeover. Why is pink, black, and white and even a hint of gray such a cute color combination? I've always loved those colors together. Anything with pink, really.

We had a wonderful anniversary. We went out to Olive Garden (my favorite restaurant ever). And I surprised Jensen at work with balloons in my hand :-) His reaction was priceless. He got kinda wide eyed and couldn't believe what he was seeing for a second! So it was nice to see his little desk and stuff. Normally I wouldn't be allowed to go past the front lobby, but I coincidentally walked in at the same time as he manager and she let me come up with her and see Jensen :-)

Well, today is very cold and rainy. It's already snowing a ton in the mountains. I can't stand the cold. I miss the San Diego sun. Jensen laughed when I told him I'm going to be a snuggly teddy bear and hibernate for six months. 
He thinks I'm kidding. Joke's on him.

Bye honey, I love you! See you at Conference in April! Lol

Life goes on, and I still have to go to work this afternoon. 

I'm so glad this semester is halfway over now. It's been insane. Jensen taking 15 credits and working 30 hours a week is miserable. I rarely see him. We have such a conflict because one on hand, we want to be done with BYU like, tomorrow. But then we miss each other dearly. 
So it's like, be done with BYU quicker and never see each other? Or be done a semester later and spend a little more time together now?  
We're thinking the second one. The first one is too hard on us. We need time together and have a little fun while we're up here. Both options are really hard, but we hope the second one will be just a little bit more bearable.

It was yesterday when this really hit us that we can't cram in more classes in one year and never see each other. We had such an incredible anniversary that yesterday I started bawling when Jensen was about to go to work because we wouldn't be able to see each other until after 9pm when I got off work. Jensen was even getting a little teary eyed. It's really hard for us to be away from each other all day. I just love being with him so much and being held in his warm, loving arms. Even if he's just here doing homework, at least he's HERE.

Tracy, you guys have been married a year now, aren't you used to being away from each other all day?  
 NO. He is my life. I'll probably never be used to it, but I have to live with it anyway because we still have to go to work and/or school. 

Sorry, I didn't mean for this post to be so sad. I know we need to do what needs to be done. It's just hard sometimes.


Here, let's try to end on a little bit more positive note :-)

I love him so much.







 

     Hi! Let's catch up on our lives here again. So Jensen started school a couple weeks ago. He's taking 15 credits and working 30 hours a week. He's pretty crazy busy. 
And I just got a job at Macy's as a Clinique Consultant! It's pretty good so far! I'm brand new so I'm learning the ropes, but it's so fun to be around skincare and makeup all day!
 I've always loved makeup and beauty products :-)  
We were so blessed for me to get this job because normally I would have to start in some other department and work my way up to Cosmetics, but I got it right off the bat! 
Such a huge blessing for us.

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     What else has happened...we went to Lagoon one night for just a couple hours. Jensen got two free tickets from Nu Skin. Lagoon is basically like a Utah version of Six Flags and Hurricane Harbor in one park (except I wont lie, not as much fun as those two parks because most of Lagoon's rides are just the spinning around and around kind which I can not go on), but I met some of Jensen's co workers and drove the best go karts ever! I love go karts. That's much more fun than the ones at Boomers actually :-) It's an hour away from Provo and I had work early the next morning so we couldn't stay long. 
I was able to sneak in a couple pictures though! 

On the Chairlift!  Please excuse my hair...I didn't care about doing it that day.  I look a lot different with my bangs up.

View from the Chairlift...all of these pictures are taken on the Chairlift.

Our view facing forward...gorgeous weather that day.

An attempt to take a picture over my shoulder of what was behind us...without dropping the camera.

Lots of really pretty waterfalls scattered throughout the park! I love waterfalls.

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     So then last Monday was the game between the Raiders and the Chargers. 
Before I met Jensen I grew up a Chargers girl, even had my Chargers t-shirt! My dad has always been a loyal fan. He has his Chargers license plate, beach towel, and lightning bolt Cornhole boards with complementary yellow and blue corn bags.  
I was pretty surprised when I discovered while Jensen and I were dating that he and his family are great Raiders fans. I knew I had to get rid of my Chargers t-shirt because I wanted to impress Jensen, as I knew that he was going to be my husband and I wanted to be a supportive future wife :-)

Thus, leading me to buy:
1) a Raiders car sticker which we still have on our car to this day 
2) this Raiders t-shirt and 
3) Raiders pajama pants to match 
(Got 'em at Victoria's Secret during their Pink NFL Collection sale if you're curious. 
And they have all 32 teams).



This was us before we went over to our friends' house for dinner and watched the game. Yeah I know they lost, but at least we're not fair-weather fans. It's funny, that's not even his shirt, it's actually Hunter's. So I need to get Jensen his own Raiders shirt! 
(Christmas gift from me? I think so!) 

Oh and the picture? My parents got it for us!  
My dad said he had nothing to do with it and it was all my mom's idea lol.
( Thanks Dad for being such a good sport :-) )


It's getting cooler outside and I'm excited because fall is my favorite season and our first year anniversary is next month!
I seem to always publish a post right before dinner. And we're starving, but I'll post again soon!!