THE NEW YORK FAMILY

Holiday Happenings

2012-01-20T22:52:00.000-08:00

So I have no idea really what to write but def need some update on this thing. So ill write some recent happenings..

Lets start with this passed November-Ok so we went to Colorado for Thanksgiving and had a splended time hanging out with the york family! It is always fun to see what crazy conversations/arguments/facial hair/fights/tears etc. will go down while we are there. This year proved to be not as eventful as a few other years although we did have a new look from chris York every other day or so and one melt down by me due mostly to lack of sleep. I love visiting the York family because they are so real and act how they really are. Emily (Drews sister) does not hold back in any conversation...put her and Tim(her twin brother) together and you always get a great (sometimes embarrassing) conversation. ANYWAY- In Colorado we played lots of ultimate Frisbee, poker and games. Thanksgiving dinner was a feast as usual and Momma York NEVER lets us down. I'M talking TONS of food.

Upon returning from Colorado Drew and I took a work trip to Huatulco MX to train some guys to build a trex deck for some beach front condos. I fell in love with the little town we stayed in and how wonderful and kind the people were. I love their simplistic happy lifestyle. They are happy in their one room concrete cut outs and their jobs of selling hammocks or homemade stuffed animals. What a way to live. It was great to spend time with just drew while carter stayed with gma Jones. I even enjoyed helping build a few of the decks. I really want to go back again someday and I dunno vacation or teach the gospel..both would be awesome.

After mx we came home for a week or two and then left to my parents house (in chino hills)to spend Christmas with them. My sister Heidi and her family were in town so it was great to all play together. We swam a lot! played lots of basketball, skated a little, played at the beach and took a trip to Six flags. It was a very fun week.

We came home new years eve to spend time with our friends in SD. Partay! so excited for this new year!

THEN on January 4th for Drew's 29th birthday I took him snowboarding in Big Bear and we stayed in a fancy smanshy spa sweet for the night. Ok so it wasn't that fancy but well I thought it was going to be. GET this-Every 1/2 hour or so our heater would turn on and make this really loud "Bang Bang" noise. sounded like gun shots. we thought about turning it off but freeZing our butts off would have been far worse. It was a long night with that noise and our extremly small hard bed. but our spa worked great and it was fun to laugh about it the next day. I guess you get what you pay for huh? I am way too cheap. On the way home from our hotel we stopped and rode the alpine slides. we liked it so much we rode them twice. Happy Birthday to Drew! The lover of my life and then some.

things have calmed down a bit with the holidays being over. I spend my days with the sweetest little guy Carter. He brings so much joy into our life, it's crazy to think of what life would be without him. Life would just be dull. Its like eating vegetables all your life and then tasting chocolate for the first time. You never would think of going back to just having vegetables. OK so maybe that is a bad analogy but you get what i'm saying.. (right??)

Ok so it is late (for me)...11:24pm I should be in bed...Drew is having a man night with the brothers (and his soon to be brother n law) I am procrastinating bed time. I hate going to sleep without him. My sister in law is getting married tomorrow!! Let me just tell you how excited I am for them. SO EXCIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITEEEEEEEEEEEED! It is so awesome to see her so happy and I can't help but be happy for them too. Love is such a wonderful thing. ok off to bed I go.

confession of bad parenting

2011-10-01T17:03:00.001-07:00

The other day I fed carter around 11 and put him down for a nap. He woke up around 1 and we left to go to the post office. While at the post office he became super fussy. which is not all that uncommon these days because he is getting his pearly whites. So I continue to do my thing at the post office and let him play with my keys. After leaving the post office I decide to go shopping at Ross. I really needed some new shirts. I shop and shop and shop....baby fussing/whining/crying the entire time. I let him chew on my finger, play with toys, chew on my finger some more. Poor guy! getting teeth is really rough....the way home I stop and get gas and he continues to cry. Finally he falls asleep.

***ahhh a moment of quiet...

We get home and I transfer him to his crib. As I lay him down he begins to scream. ?? He never screams when he is transferred. Weird. I let him cry and walk into the kitchen to get a snack. It is now 4pm and I'm hungry. I grab some food and sit down. A light goes on. OH MY GOSH!!! I realize that I had never fed my child. like forgot. as in never even crossed my mind. Oh no my poor little guy. I quickly make him a bottle and sit down and feed him. I seriously was going to cry. I felt awful. He was crying and whining the entire time because he was hungry! It had been 5 hours! I am an awful parent. I mean how do you FORGET to feed your child?? I called Drew and confessed to what I had done. Carter ate and was satisfied and went right to sleep and because I felt so bad I fed him when he woke up too. Now that is some seriously bad parenting. annnnd I was doing so good.

Just pleasent

2011-09-12T22:25:00.000-07:00

written 7/20- .

Not sure what to write but the child has been napping for 3 hours and I am clear out of things to do...so i'll write...

So far summer has been great. We went on a family reunion about 2 weeks ago to a ranch in Utah and have been playing at the beach and pool nearly every day. Carter has learned to love the pool but is still learning to love the beach...He got his first wet suit on fathers day and I can't wait to take him in the waves! He is getting more and more fun as he gets older-he smiles and laughs now at everything and tries to scoot around- (key work TRYs) I love hanging out with him but am so excited for the day that he can crawl or roll over or umm... sit up...something. That will be a good day. Till then we will continue to hang out on the floor, talk and read Dr. sues books . "one fish two fish red fish blue fish" his favorite. For some reason that is the only book that holds his attention. anyway he is such a handsome little fella and I love spending all day with him.

I also enjoy spending time with Drew...about two months after Carter had been born Drew started feeling neglected. He would say things like "you like carter more than me" or "why don't you want to stay up late and watch a movie with me?" or "why don't you love me anymore?" Obviously he knew I still loved him but clearly he needed more love than I was giving. sad...well I fixed the problem-I started putting carter to bed early! Now you may be thinking "duh, that was an easy adjustment" but No. not. that. easy. at the time, early to bed for Carter meant earlier feeding for Carter- as in 3-4am instead of 5-6am...It was hard and I was tired but let me tell you hanging out with just Drew and I each night for 2 hours was refreshing and fun. It made things better... lots better! Andrew Ryan York you were worth it.

anyway, since I am apparently going on a romantic spill about my husband ill go on...

I love spending time with Drew. We play this game Monopoly deal that our friends Jordan and Luke taught us. We are obsessed. As in we play everyday at least 3 times! we even started keeping a score chart. Whenever one of us wins it counts as $10. We made a price sheet where you can win things. For example: Back massage-$100 Dishes-$30 baby duty $40 . Get it? Yes we really did..... I hate giving back massages...that's a different subject though.

well it is now 9/12 and My carter boy is nearly 6 months and friends- he can roll really well now and he crawls.... backward. and it's great! I still love my husband, our nights together as well as monopoly deal... oh and my baby boy is more and more delightful each day.

I LOVE HIM

2011-09-02T14:20:00.000-07:00

I love being a mom

2011-05-06T16:04:00.000-07:00

So I have officially fallen in love with being a mom. I just love it! I love holding him, cuddling with him and hanging out with him all day. We talk together, sing together and cry together. I do most of the talking and singing and he does most of the crying. He likes whatever I sing and listens to me really well-he never interrupts either. We have a perfect relationship. I love that his little personality is starting to show through.

All about Carter:

*He hates to be swaddled at night and works his very hardest to break free until he is too tired to fight anymore and then falls asleep.

* Loves baths! and spas. (warm water) When I wash his hair he brings his arms back so that he can put his tiny hands in the warm water.

*Loves to lay on his belly and look around.

*Loves diaper changes. (when I change his diaper he stops crying instead of starts) strange.

*He loves to cuddle.

*refuses the pacifier if he is hungry.

*makes the loudest farts ever (must get that from Drew)

*Is a great sleeper! Most nights I get at least one 5 hour stretch. (makes for a very happy mommy.)

*Loves tummy time with Daddy.

Carter Ryan York

2011-04-04T11:23:00.000-07:00

Carter is finally home and healthy as of last Tuesday. He was born at 9:28am and was 7lb 13oz.

Because he was born at 38 weeks he had some trouble breathing and was treated with antibiotics, oxygen and a ventilator for a week in the NICU. Bringing him home for the first time was just as exciting (if not more exciting) than the day he was born. He is so far a really good baby and sleeps most nights besides waking up for feedings. The nurses told us how good he does at night and the first night he came home was a disaster- he did not sleep at all. I was not so sure what i signed up for after that...but since that first night he has been good. I am hoping he can stay that way but I guess we will see. He is seriously so fun and sweet - we LOVE him so so much. It is so fun to just sit and watch him make his silly faces and look around. The love I have for him is unexplainable. It's not the wife loves husband kind of love its different than that. I still haven't figured out how to explain it- I am sure if you are a parent you know what I mean.

When they took him to the NICU for the first night we thought it would be a one night thing and that he would be better in the morning. The following morning when we got word that he was not doing well, we went to see him and his sweet wide eyes looked up at us as he struggled for air and it killed me to see him in such a way. I broke down crying and holding his finger and telling him that it was going to be ok. I don't know if he understood me but somehow I felt like he did. Another hard thing was coming home from the hospital without him. Driving home with an empty car seat and sleeping next to an empty bassinet was not at all what we were expecting. After getting through those hard moments and maybe a few others unmentioned we accepted things for how they were and played it by ear day by day until he was able to come home.

I must say I really enjoyed my time with Drew. We would go visit carter early in the morning and then take breakfast, lunch, and dinner breaks and then go home for the night. Since the cafeteria would only give me a free lunch pass we would load up my plates with as much food as we could fit on it and get the largest dessert available. Usually it was a giant cup of pudding with cookies inside of it. One day we had a pudding vs water fight-OH our immaturity- but it was so fun! I believe I won when he ended with pudding all over his shirt, given my hair was wet but at least it wasn't brown.

They hospital also had amazing ice- like the best ever- I miss it. What else-I think our favorite part about watching Carter in NICU was when he would A. get the hiccups B. sneeze C. fart D. Burp. I mean I never knew such a little guy could produce such loud noises that shake his entire body. so needless to say as hard as it was-- we made it good and came home from the hospital perhaps more prepared than we would have been had we come straight home.

We love our new and improved little family!

OUR pregnant selfs

2011-03-01T13:24:00.000-08:00

For my sister Heidi's birthday her husband agreed to fly her out to California so she could hang out with us for a few days. While she was here we celebrated our birthdays since they are only 2 days apart, threw Kellie a baby shower and took lots of pictures with our big bellies. Our babies are all due a few weeks apart so it was fun to go places together and see the looks we got from people. Especially the sees candy store! I loved spending so much time at home with the fam. and can't wait till we all (including oldest sister Jaymie) can hang out again! Here are some pics. :)

Kellie by some of the food we made for her shower.

Lighting our candels

Our pregnant selfs....

Mystery Murder Dinner

2011-02-16T10:29:00.001-08:00

Last week we were privileged to go to a mystery murder dinner with our friends Kindsay and Erik Norton to help celebrate Kindsay's birthday. We all had no idea what to expect but thought it sounded fun and funny.

After driving out to Escondido we found the restaurant in the back corner of a run down shopping center. The sign for the restaurant was only half lit up and the place looked pretty ghetto. Inside the restaurant all the actors were dressed up and in character, we took our seats along with about 25 other people.

For dinner they brought us salad, and then we got to choose our main course. Kindsay and I chose veggie lasagna (which turned out to be meat lasagna without the meat) and the boys had ribs. It was pretty tasty. While we ate, we watched the play go on around us and the murder of Red and Horn blower unravel. At the end of the play we each had a chance to guess who the killer was! Turned out it was Anabell the cook. She poisoned them with her squirrel stew. Nasty little lady.

Kindsay (who said she had no idea what was going on the entire time) made the correct guess and won tickets to their next show. wahoo! lol She also got a mug full of kisses as a gift for her birthday.

Not too bad! :) It was a funny night out and we are glad they invited us to go!! Can't wait to celebrate something else with them.

here are some fun pics.

Annabel the KILLER is the one standing between Kindsay and Erik.

SISTERS

2011-02-15T11:56:00.000-08:00

Two out of three of my sisters are preggo and we are all due a few weeks apart. Since my little sister Kellie has gotten pregnant we have had much more time to hang out and do fun things together! She may not love being pregnant...but I sure love that we get to spend more time together. A few weeks ago she came to Carlsbad to visit me and we went hiking, out to dinner and played games together! It was a blast~

In a day (as in tomorrow) my older sister Heidi will be here to visit to and we will all get to play together! I wish all my sisters lived closer so we could hang out all the time! I can't wait for our babies to be born and play together!

Me and my sister Kellie at the top of our hike!

March 22nd 2011

2011-02-09T11:01:00.000-08:00

Loving Life!

Today I went to my doctors appt. and found out that baby Carter will be here in 5 weeks!! My C-section is scheduled for Tuesday March 22nd at 8am. I am so so so so so excited!! I can't wait to hold that little boy in my arms.

He hasn't been letting me sleep much these days and I know that won't get better for a while... but at least when he's here I will be able to hold him and look at him while he keeps me awake. right??? :)

Anyways...life is going well, Drew has been really busy with work and I just got a new calling as the activity days assistant! So fun! Valentines day is coming up, as is my birthday and my sister Heidi is coming to Cali. next week! YEAH! So many fun things to look forward to. Till next time...

The start of a new year

2011-02-03T15:44:00.000-08:00

Oh hey! I'm back...yes I updated my blog yesterday and I am doing it again today too...I mean why not?

Here are some pics from our New years celebration.

This picture cracks me up!

The skinnys with the fatty in the middle. :)

Bestest friends.

My pregnant Self

2011-02-02T20:19:00.000-08:00

I should become a blogger...as in I should always have my blog updated

I mean I have plenty of time everyday.

My schedule right now consists of one or more of the following on a daily basis

A. sleep in until 9 or later

B. Walk at the beach (sometimes I stay there all day)

C. Bake whatever I am craving

D. Facebook. (for at least an hour)

E. Check to see if anyone updated their blog (thanks to all you who do...it helps fill my day)

F. Eat...Eat...Eat...and look forward to eating some more.

G. Babysit (only if I am lucky...I love when I have something semi constructive to do)

H. Watch baby Carter move around in my belly *Amazing*

I. Register for baby stuff...delete stuff...register some more...delete...etc..

J. Take baths...as in more than one...whenever I am cold or bored.

So there you have it. The pregnant Emily. People say to enjoy this time. This time of having nothing to do. nowhere to be. But really...Its getting old.

I want my baby... Only 7 more weeks!!!

So Last week I was walking at tamarack and a lady who was walking her dogs passed me by and asked if I was trying to get my baby to come? WHAT? Trying to WHAT? get my baby to come? A little offended I say,

"no I still have 8 weeks to go" Her response "OH Wow, really?" and that was it...she walked off-- and I walked off wondering if I really look that big- and well I do...thanks lady.

With that said- I cannot wait to be skinny again...actually more so than that I just can't wait to be able to do things. fun things...normal things...you know like, surf, breathe when I sit down, not be exhausted from a 40 min walk in the morning, being able to put on my shoes without falling over, not peeing every 10 minutes, fitting into my clothes.

Things like that!

But I guess this is just how it's supposed to be. This is what its all about. I know I won't regret it. The minute I see my baby boys face I will know that he was worth it completely. SO I WAIT...

NOTE TO SELF AND OTHER PREGNANT WOMEN-

A. Paddle boarding Is hard for normal people.

B. Paddle boarding is even harder when pregnant.

I tried...and tried... and tried... and although I was able to stand up I never could catch a wave with out falling over. So I sat down and rode waves like that. It was fun just to be in the warm ocean.

OH BOY!

2010-10-27T20:59:00.000-07:00

(Little Drew on the left and our new little Man down below at 16 weeks.)

So blogging is second to facebooking so for many of you (most) my blog is Old news Sorry!

But just for the fun of it and the few of you who don't see my facebook.......

We are having a BOY!!! yup thats right-A male child!

I am so excited to meet this little dude- I already saw him suck his thumb and wave hello and I just know we are going to be great friends. I get to be his mommy and feel so so so lucky!

Drew is thrilled!! When we saw the little duke on the screen he pointed and yelled " I Knew it was a Boy!!" and then called several people to let them know his big accomplishment. oh how I love him. - his dream of an all boys family baseball team is coming true. haha (right)

Anyway- My belly is growing now at what seems to be a very fast pace. I was not showing at all 2 weeks ago and now it has started somehow to make its way out in front. Its STRANGE the whole baby growing in the belly thing but really really COOL. I like it... I think.... for now. Yes. can't wait to meet this little guy.

On a somewhat different note: Drew is out of town for something really cool. HE is in a gazebo building contest for the DIY network. yes as in TV...

...I have a movie star husband.

But really though... he is in Colorado competing against 2 other gazebo builders for $10,000!!!

OH HOW I MISS HIM. . . BUT YOU GOTTA SACRIFICE TO BE FAMOUS RIGHT?

so kidding but i'm proud of him and can't wait to seehow he does! ill let you all know when it airs.

well i think thats all the exciting news for now. oh ya we went on a cruise but ill tell more about that next time. sneak preview below :

My eggo is prego

2010-10-02T11:12:00.000-07:00

So it's taken me a while to finally get this post up but We are pregnant!!! and so excited! I am due April 3rd 2011 and will find out the sex of the child sometime in November so I'll keep you updated.

Drew is hoping for a Boy (of course)- so he can teach him to be a baseball player, surfer, etc... but he assures me that he will be most happy if we get a sweet little girl. However, he already talks to the child inside me as if it's a boy. Hopefully if it's a girl she's not offended.

As far as how I am feeling- I feel great. I have had a few nights of an upset stomach where I feel starving but nothing sounds good. and only thrown up 4 times (i'm sure you all wanted to know that) I feel very very fortunate to have not been throwing up non-stop like I hear many people do. I think I make up for the sick part though in the peeing department- I PEE ALL THE TIME!! no joke like 4 times a night or more! (can you say lack of sleep?) and All day! like every hour. But I think it will definitely be worth it. enough said.

We are super excited to meet this little one in what seems like forever, but I am sure the time will come soon!

oh and the cake. --When I found out I was pregnant I made a cake for Drew to tell him the news. for some reason it was something I had said I was going to do from day one so I did it. He was so so so excited when he saw the cake his reaction was something like this, "a cake? The cake!!? like..your pregnant?? really there's a baby inside you? it worked??!!" and so on lol I was laughing/feeling ready to cry too haha. Oh fun!

So there you have it- WE just made it through the first trimester and so far so good!! I'll keep you posted! :)

Food... Friends....Fireworks...

2010-07-08T15:21:00.000-07:00

Fourth of July was rad!! We went to see baby gunner get blessed, taught our primary class, went to Kim and Eliots and had a feast, ate lots and lots of red, white and blue cake, played a lil game of baseball, took some kiddys to a nearby swing, and ended the night with a rockin firework show from a nearby golf course.

WE Love America!!!

Silly Husband

Caribbean Love

2010-06-07T09:19:00.001-07:00

Last week we were able to go on a rockin trip to st. martin. We went with our friends Kindsay and Erik and had an absolute blast. We snorkeled a good part of the time, rode motor scooters around the island, played games at night, shopped, ate ALOT, played on a platform and play boat on our beach, drank virgin drinks, swam in the pool, kayaked in a giant storm and loved being free of work for the week! Here are some pics

For more pics visit Kindsays blog http://foundfortune.blogspot.com/

Anniversary, Graduation and Fun

2010-05-18T08:36:00.000-07:00

So a lot has been going on these days. This passed Saturday was our 1st year anniversary! woohoo we made it a year. :) AND My graduation from college~ (finally)

So for our our anniversary we went to an angels game the night before and got to see sweet fireworks and then the following day had a fun graduation breakfast with family. My parents came down and we surfed pretty much all day! It was awesome! Then that night drew and I went to our favorite sushi place. TODO SUSHI! It was a perfect, simple day.

There is nothing better than getting to hang out with your best friend all day!! I love you DREW!!!

P.S. Some fun things that we have done lately are snowboard with Jeremy and Ashley, go to the river with our friends from church and go to balboa park with Kindsay and Erik.

Its so fun to have so many friends to do fun things with. We really love you all.

Bring your wife to work day

2010-04-16T21:53:00.000-07:00

So last Friday I was fortunate enough not to have anything going on...so I decided that I would go to work with Drew!!

This is what we built, YES I worked the entire time and Drew actually loved my help! From 12:00-6:30!

My very first deck.

I see lots of fun Fridays in the future. :)

Before....

AFTER!!

Kauai

2010-04-07T12:50:00.000-07:00

Drew and I have had a goal to hike Napali coast in Kauai since we got married. We said that we would not have children until this goal was accomplished. I am excited to say that WE DID IT! Over my spring break we climbed and conquered. The trip all together was 22 miles. 11 there and 11 back. We did the trip in just two days for a few reasons...1 being that our destination was not the secluded, romantic beach we thought it would be.

When arriving at our beautiful destination(which it was beautiful) we noticed camp sites set up everywhere in the trees, these were not your normal camp sites... these were long term campers...HIPPIES is what I call them. I think its safe to assume that they lived off of fruit trees and drugs with an occasional drink from the natural waterfall nearby.

soooo...Where would we set up camp???? well on the beach with the other tourists of course. Only the locals lived in the trees.

As we scarfed down oreos, pop tarts and rested on a rock on the beach, a naked man walked out with his book in hand (you know just a typical day for him) ready to read in the daylight. WHAT??? I was so shocked. what is he doing? where are his clothes??? Then a little later another guy came out naked to bathe in the ocean..huh?

BUT THEN...

NAKED GIRLS!! I thought it couldn't get worse than a naked man but a naked girl was way worse..I mean hello??? My husband is right there! what was she thinking?? well if that wasn't bad enough things got a little more interesting when she started

HULLA HOOPING NAKED!!! (not just like one sway of the hips hulla hooping) LIKE FOR 2 HOURS SHE DID THIS!. Can you say distracting??? Men gathered around her to watch. but not mine. He didn't want to watch...;) right...

ANYWAY...more came out later and took pics naked and so on..but that was the first reason we wanted to leave. the others included..Wanting to do more in Kauai, running out of food,and boredom...so we left the next morning at 6am.

The beauty of the hike kept me going!! It was truly awesome to be in the middle of this rain forest and on the edge of cliffs overlooking the blue ocean. I could hardly walk when we got back and had a blister the size of my big toe on my big toe. pain! but we made it home and it was an awesome experience! I love that I can do so many fun things with my best friend Drew! Marriage is great...and Now we can have babies! :)

other things we did in Kauai were kayaking, cliff jumping, rope swinging, hiked to a waterfall, snorkeled and took a boat tour around Napali coast. The week was awesome! Thank you Drew for spending all of your credit card points so we could go. Love you~

This makes me laugh

2010-03-21T18:23:00.001-07:00

So These pics are from my sister Heidi's blog. This is robbie pulling the kids in the wagon. I cant get over how funny this is. Look at austins grip as they are all falling. Oh and Robbies face cracks me up to. Thanks for the laugh sis. Love you. Miss you!

So cute!

My musical husband.

2010-03-08T08:59:00.000-08:00

So Drew really knows how to make me laugh and he usually does this by singing silly songs. He is very talented at making up words to songs. I love that he has been totally himself since the day we met. Never afraid to perform. :) Listen for yourself. I found this video from last year. We are on the way to Utah I believe.

Oh also something else that Drew does that cracks me up is that he can change any item into a guitar. Now that takes talent! I love my silly husband.

Real guitar (old school)

Towel guitar

Real guitar

golf guitar

Real guitar

level guitar

The red light runner....

2010-02-11T13:27:00.001-08:00

About a week and half ago I was hit extremely hard by what i call a "red light runner" some chick wasn't paying attention while she was driving and failed to notice that her light was red and that mine was green. by the time I realized that she was a red light runner it was way too late. My eyes caught hers...my mouth dropped open...I braced myself..and EXPECTED to die.

as she hit me at full speed i felt the car go up sideways and as the car came back on all fours my head hit the window rather hard...

BUT..... a moment of relief came to me when i realized that i was still alive and ok. I checked for blood...none. felt my legs.....good touched my head....a bit tender.

then hysteria set in and I realized that i was still in the middle of the intersection.(you've all seen the movies where they get hit again right?) i tried to open my door but it wouldn't open (obviously right)I climbed out the other side of the car and frantically looked for my phone...I finally found it in the crack on the other side of the car (where most everything had flown to)

I got out of the car...and...WALKED IN FRONT OF TRAFFIC. thank goodness for the construction workers and there stop signs. I probably would have been hit.

I sat on the middle of the intersection on a cement divider for a while balling my eyes out. Then came to grips and called my sweet husband.

The police showed up took a report and i waited for the tow truck driver as well as my prince to show up.

FINALLY THEY BOTH ARRIVED. it was so nice to fall into drew's arms safe and sound. The rest of the day was perfect..he took me out to lunch and then to get my head and back checked out.

At the doctor they had me do those finger to nose drills and decided that My head is good!!(good job doc.) I am currently getting my back fixed but i'm alive and well and so grateful I was not hurt worse. THANK YOU HEAVENLY FATHER.

unfortunately my car is toast. We are working on getting new one very soon. let me know if you have any good ideas!

side note: I was very bothered that the girl who hit me never even got out of her car to say "hey girl are you ok..or sorry...or SOMETHING!" it later occurred to me that she may have been hurt and that it was very selfish of me for not asking if she was ok. SORRY red light runner...but be more careful next time.

safe and sound together :)

LOVE

2010-01-31T17:44:00.000-08:00

One day while Drew was gone to work I made him a pretty "I love Drew" picture. I left it up on the computer so he would see it when he got home. I had to leave to go visit a friend and when I came back he had written on the picture. Then I wrote-then he wrote on and on and this is what it turned out to be.

We really love each other a lot i guess. :)

mexico, Police, and time shares

2010-01-15T17:37:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday DREW!! So on January 4th my favorite person had his 27th... birthday so we celebrated by going to Mexico. I love you Drew!

So as you heard- last week we went on a trip to Mazatlan Mexico! It was awesome~ we stayed at a super sweet resort a few minutes out of town. Our resort was full fun things. Pools-Iguanas-Flamingos-swans-geckos and what not. Outside of the resort was dirty and not so pleasant..so we stayed at the resort most of the time. Anyway while we were there we went zip lining, swimming, snorkeling, and off roading. A total blast with my lover.

Here is the fun part- On our way home from our trip we had a 5 hour lay over in cabo san lucas. So what did we decide to do? Go to the beach of course. We went and found the taxi service area for the airport and asked how much to go to the beach. They told us it would be 80 dollars to go to Cabo beach.

OUTRAGEOUS price right?? so we asked them if there was a closer beach we could go to. They told us san jose beach was 20 min away and would cost us 15 dollars. We talked about it and decided to go for it. We got in the taxi and made small talk with the Mexican- told him when our flight was and where we were from yada yada. Then we stopped at the bank to get some cash before we arrived at the beach. Drew gets back in the car and asks how much 15 dollars is in pesos.

The Mexican driver says 500 pesos.... WHAT?? Drew says "no no--- 500 pesos is about 50 dollars and you said it would be 15 dollars" The taxi driver and him began to argue in Spanish back and forth and Drew tells him to pull over because WE ARE NOT paying him 50 dollars.... He refuses to pull over because we were almost there, and insisted that we pay or else he would call the police.

When we arrived at the beach I got out of the car with hopes the situation would disappear- but of course it didn't.

Drew starts to get out of the car but continues to argue with the taxi driver. He tells the taxi driver that we wont pay him 500 pesos but gives him 200 pesos with hopes to satisfy him. The taxi driver then picks up his phone and tells Drew that he is calling the police. Drew makes a sassy remark and says, "well make sure to tell them that you lied."

WE BOTH TOOK OFF RUNNING down the beach. We went pretty far down the beach and then decided it would be best to hide in a resort and take our clothes off(we had swimsuits underneath) so we would be unrecognizable. We walked into a resort signed our name on the towel list and got some towels.

We hid for a while and saw no police but I was freaked out!!! wonder if we get put in Mexican jail??? never to be seen again! What if they're waiting for us at the Airport?? What if? what if? what if?

Anyway obviously we made it home safe because im writing this blog but man alive when we got to the airport we had to lay low and watch out for the cops. I felt so much relief once we got on the airplane back to America! I think we will be staying away from mexico for a while.

Drew Lays low in cabo.

Story #2

So a few days ago we went to a time share presentation so that we could get a FREE trip to Hawaii!!! On our way there we talked about how funny it would be if they talked us into buying one but swore to eachother that would not happen. About two hours into the presentation the guy left for a minute and I turned to Drew and said "this isn't even a good deal" Drew says "ya it is...I want to buy one- but of course were not going to." After he had told me that I started paying more attention and asking many questions about the time share.

...When they asked if we wanted to buy one i exclaimed "YES!" He said "umm can i please talk to my wife alone for a minute." We talked about the cool things about it and if we could afford it and so on....We finally came to a conclusion at 3pm that day (6 hours from the time we had gotten there) that we WERE GOING TO BUY IT...AND WE DID! so now we have our own time share and I guess we will work on getting a house later.

After all isn't vacationing a priority???? Our first vacation will be to the Bahamas sometime this year.... and to make matters even better they gave us free flights there and free golf at Welk resort for an entire year!! woohoo!!

Friends its time to get together and go on a vacation!:)

THE END!

December nights!

2009-12-21T11:11:00.001-08:00

A while back we attended December nights at balboa park. It was lots of fun but super crowded. Here are some pics. :)

WERE HAVING A.....

2009-12-19T10:47:00.000-08:00

BLAST!!!!

Christmas is coming soon and I am super excited!! Oh and I actually was able to send out Christmas cards Yeah!

YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE IT....

2009-11-13T10:10:00.000-08:00

Drew and I have started a tradition of running/biking every morning at 6am. Yup thats right...It is awesome! to me it is like a dream come true... weird I know...

you see before I got married I had always thought that running with my husband was something that we would do... it had never occurred to me that perhaps my husband would not enjoy running. Why wouldn't he? well when drew and I got married he did not like to run or workout at a gym SOO...

I GAVE IT UP...

Surfing, mountain biking, and other FUN sports is what we would have to do for exercise..to be quite honest this was way better than running or working out at the gym. the thought occurred to me----why did I ever run?

THEN ONE DAY...

drew begged me to support his weight loss efforts of an all Medifast diet...
-no -no -no- I would not support that ridiculous diet again...you see its not that the diet doesn't work, it does! but it's what i would call a temporary diet...once you stop eating there food- you gain back all the weight- AND to make matters worse, a hungry husband is so unpleasant. been there, done that. NOT AGAIN!

WE ARGUED...BACK AND FORTH-BACK AND FORTH...and i think...i think...

I GOT THROUGH TO HIM!!!

DREW SAYS- "lets start running tomorrow morning..early!" really? for real? you mean it? I was shocked, excited, and in unbelief...but

IT HAPPENED!

we woke up and ran and have been doing so for the last three weeks and I love it and so does he! AMAZING! life just got a little better and I have a dang good husband...

HERE ARE SOME PICS OF WHAT HE WANTS TO LOOK LIKE SOON! I like how he looks now... but...either way...:)

Livin life

2009-10-21T11:35:00.000-07:00

sometimes I feel blogging is a waste of time- how many people really read it anyway... Or do people read it? Maybe...

Anyway-I am at school-where i pretty much live most of my life. I don't mind being here, in fact I enjoy coming- its the hw that's the killer- the essays and tests and all that. But anyway, here I am...just reading over some friends blogs and thinking how fun it is when they update them...maybe my followers (the 4 of you) are bored with my blog. YES. I mean its got to be boring looking and reading the same thing over and over again...

right?? I think so.

Vacation...We went on more. The first 2 weekends of October we spent cruisen to cabo and wake boarding at the river. It was awesome! On our cruise we went parasailing, snorkeling, shopping and climbing up big rocks. It was so hot and humid and yet rainy too. Parasailing was very scary for me but Drew surprisingly loved it. Most of our time on the cruise was spent trying to walk straight...we were in a storm pretty much the entire cruise. We could not tell who was drunk and who was not..For about a week after the cruise we still felt like the ground was moving. Overall it was an awesome trip and my favorite part was getting to play with my wonderful husband!

The following week we went to the river! May I say Drew is getting very good on the wakeboard. It was a fun week relaxing and spending time with the Parents. We went rope swinging, skiing, wakeboarding, swimming and took walks along the rail road tracks. My dad had this great idea to place pennys and dimes on the rail road so the train would flatten them. This was most entertaining.

What else...

well drew and I are thinking about moving to a new complex- not for sure but thinking...our lease is up in Feb. and we figure this is the only time we will be able to live as close to the beach as we want... and the beach, well its wonderful. I mean how cool would it be to walk outside and the beach be right there?? Pretty neat.

oh also Drew is working on getting his Contractors license so that one day in the far away future he can build our home! OK well that's not really why hes getting it but he would like to do that. He hopes to either get in a partnership with Jesse or start his own business! I am so proud of him!

side note- We are already on season six of the show 24 and I'm not sure what we are going to watch once we finish. Any ideas???

Pictures to come

SOO HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT TO HAVE?

2009-09-13T16:36:00.000-07:00

SO WHEN DREW AND I GOT MARRIED HE TOLD ME "I WANT 12 KIDS!!" HAHA YEAH RIGHT. I FIGURED I COULD HANDLE 6 MAYBE 7 MAX. WELL AS TIME HAS GONE ON WE HAVE HAD MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP OUT WITH OUR FRIENDS LITTLE ONES. EVERY TIME WE LEAVE FROM HANGING OUT WITH THEM WE RE-THINK ABOUT HOW MANY WE COULD ACTUALLY HANDLE. WELL IT HAPPENED AGAIN TODAY. WE HAD KIM COME TO CHURCH WITH US TODAY SO WE COULD HELP OUT WITH HER 3 KIDS (ELLIOT IS OUT OF TOWN FOR BUSINESS). AS THEY SCREAMED, CRAWLED UNDER THE BENCHES, AND CHUCKED TOYS 4 ROWS BACK, WE BEGAN ASSESSING ONCE AGAIN. DREW LEANS OVER TO ME AND SAYS "SOO HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT TO HAVE?" WE BOTH JUST LAUGHED. YOU SEE WE KNOW WE WANT TO HAVE KIDS AND WE'LL PROBABLY JUST START HAVING THEM AND NOT THINK TWICE-BUT ITS JUST SO FUN TO LAUGH ABOUT IT NOW... BECAUSE I JUST KNOW THAT SOMEDAY I AM GOING TO BE THAT CRAZY MOM TRYING TO HANDLE THEM ALL. CAN'T WAIT!

MY TALENTED HUSBAND

2009-09-13T16:09:00.000-07:00

THIS PAST WEEK DREW CAME UP WITH THIS GREAT IDEA TO BUILD A SHELF FOR BOOKS AND SUCH. HE USED SOME TIGER WOOD FROM AN OLD JOB AND BEGAN HIS PROJECT. I TEXTED HIM WHILE AT SCHOOL AND ASKED HOW IT WAS COMING ALONG...THE TEXT I RECEIVED SAID "GREAT. YOU WILL PROBABLY GET TO HELP!" REALLY I GET TO HELP???? LUCKY ME! HA I DID END UP GETTING TO HELP OIL IT WHEN I CAME HOME FROM WORK. WE PUT IT ON TOP OF THE DESK AND IT LOOKS AWESOME! WAY TO GO DREW! I HAVE SUCH A TALENTED HUSBAND. :)

Vacations!!

2009-09-06T14:08:00.000-07:00

SO DREW AND I LOVE TO VACATION. I THINK WE VACATIONED LIKE 5 WEEKS OUT OF THE SUMMER. IT WAS GREAT! WE HAVE A PLAN TO GO ON A VACATION EVERY MONTH FOR AS LONG AS WE CAN...SO FAR WE ARE BOOKED UNTIL JANUARY. SOME OF THE VACATIONS WE HAVE BEEN ON ARE, BACKPACKING IN IDYLLWILD, COLORADO RIVER, HONEYMOON TO CANADA, FAMILY REUNION TO THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS,YOSEMITE AND LAKE TAHOE WITH PIERCES, AND UTAH. WE ARE GETTING REALLY EXCITED FOR OUR UPCOMING VACATION WHICH IS A CRUISE TO MEXICO. WE DECIDED TO DO THIS SINCE OUR HONEYMOON CRUISE WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO MEXICO. I CAN'T WAIT!!

LETS SEE SO I HAVE STARTED SCHOOL AT CAL STATE SAN MARCOS ONCE AGAIN FOR THE LAST TIME AND I CANT WAIT TO BE DONE! I BELIEVE THIS SEMESTER WILL BE VERY CHALLENGING. LOTS OF READING! DREW HAS BEEN BUSY WITH WORK AND WE JUST KEEP PRAYING THAT IT KEEPS UP! I LOVE THAT HE IS SO PASSIONATE AND GOOD AT WHAT HE DOES. HE LOVES TO SHOW ME PICTURES OF DECKS HE HAS BUILT AND LOVES TALKING FUTURE BUSINESS PLANS. I THINK WE ARE FINALLY GETTING SETTLED IN TO OUR LOVELY APT. AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE PICTURES ON THE WALL NOW. NOW ALL I NEED IS INSURANCE...SPEAKING OF INSURANCE- I OBTAINED THIS AWFUL RASH THAT DESTROYED MY FACE AND I HAVE BEEN WAITING WAITING WAITING FOR INSURANCE COVERAGE BUT I WOKE UP ONE MORNING WITH SORES UNDER MY EYES AND UGLINESS AND COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE...I WENT TO THE DERMATOLOGIST AND NOW AM WAITING FOR THE MOMENT I CAN SHOW MY FACE AGAIN. THE END.

MOMS BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW!! I HAVE TO SAY THAT I HAVE THE BEST MOM IN THE WORLD. SHE IS MY BEST FRIENDS AND I LOVE THAT I CAN CALL HER AND TALK TO HER ABOUT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING! THANKS FOR ALWAYS BEING THERE! I LOVE YOU!!

SWEET MARRIAGE

2009-09-04T08:54:00.000-07:00

HELLO FRIENDS! SO I GOT REALLY FRUSTRATED WITH THIS BLOGGING BUSINESS ONE DAY AND I DECIDED TO DELETE EVERYTHING! I JUST COULDNT GET MY BLOG TO LOOK AS COOL AS OTHERS...I EXPLAINED TO DREW THAT I HAD GOTTEN RID OF ALL OF THE POSTINGS BECUASE I JUST DIDNT KNOW HOW TO DO IT. (HE JUST LAUGHED) A FEW DAYS LATER I CAME HOME TO FIND MY DEAR HUSBAND BLOGGING!!! HE HAS A WORK BLOG AND KNOWS EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT-AND HE DIDNT EVEN EXPLAIN TO ME HOW TO DO IT...WELL ILL SHOW HIM. HAHA SO HERE I GO AGAIN

ON MAY 15TH ME AND MY BEST FRIEND ANDREW RYAN YORK WERE SEALED IN THE SAN DIEGO TEMPLE FOR ALL TIME AND ETERNITY! (THATS A LONG TIME) WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY IT WAS! MARRIED LIFE HAS BEEN GREAT! HERE ARE SOME PICS FROM THE WEDDING. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED MAKE IT SUCH A PERFECT DAY FOR US!!