My Graduate

We're back in Utah....just got here a few hours ago and let's just say that drive home was not fun! Not only did packing suck but the GPS had us go back a very weird and wrong way and a 12 hour drive turned into 19 hours and then we stayed a night in some ghetto and I mean ghetto hotel! My dad said one day we'll laugh about this...I think the day before forever will be too soon! Haha just kidding!
Anyways Blake graduated from Hartnell with his AA with an emphasis in Behavioral and Social Science with honors....whatever that means haha...Blake doesn't really know! The graduation was REALLY long and to top everything off...they translated everything in spanish! Only in Salinas! Blake now wishes he didn't tell his teammate he'd walk in graduation with him but whatever. My friend Racheal took some pics of him in his cap and gown and I love them!

Congrats babe!

Alcatraz

We went to San Francisco to go to the night tour at Alcatraz! It was so fun to go to the city and see Alcatraz...we took over a 100 pictures easily but I will just share a few! Alcatraz from the boatThe city
Rows of cells
A typical cell...it's so tiny

Blake in an isolation cell

Alcatraz is amazing....I learned so much and we had tons of fun! If you are ever in San Fran it's a must see!

Ryo's Baptism

Our son Ryo was baptized on Saturday the 10th. It was such an amazing day and we are so proud of Ryo. Beau baptized Ryo and Blake and Chris gave talks on baptism and the Holy Ghost while I shed a few tears. Then on Sunday Coach Vasher confirmed him. It's amazing to see baptisms but when adults make the decision to come to church, to fast and pray about the church, read the Book of Mormon, and then commit to bapstism because they know it's true the Spirit seems to be extra strong and overwhelming!

Ryo & Beau
The Elders with Ryo
People from the team and Bishop taking a picture of me
That night we went out to dinner and then went to the movie Date Night...which is hilarious...we recommend it!

So long, farewell, and sooo behind!

I've sucked at updating. I don't really know why because I still read everyones blogs but when it came to ours I kept thinking of all the things that I need to blog about and as the days went on, the list got longer, and I continued to push blogging aside. But since Blake is out of town for a few days I'm taking the spare time for a quick update! Blake's basketball season ended and sadly they didn't get into the tournament. But Blake was All Conference again so that was good. :) The day we found out they didn't get in the tournament, Blake's teammate started to split...buncha mamas boys! Haha! That night our bishop took us all out to eat at the Hometown Buffet and after we went back to our place and played games and had our last party with some of the guys! Game night was hilarious! Imagine playing word games with a Japanese guy who doesn't really understand the english language...I got a serious ab workout from laughing that night!

Ryo, Blake, me, Darrin, and Chris outside of HTB
Family photo :)

The whole (well most) of the team with our bishop and some of his kids!

Now that the season is over Blake has been working out and studying alot! We are kinda just playing the waiting game of what schools want him and what schools fit us well. Blake went down to So. Cal a few weekends ago to play in front of a lot of 4 year coaches and then on Tuesday he left to Colorado for an official visit. We have our options we like...we'll see where we end up next year!!! It's all pretty exciting and quite the adventure!

Other then that not much else is going on...I've been working away and the weather here has been beautiful! Mid 70's in March...I can get use to this!

Parent's Visit

Last week my parents came to visit us! It was so good to have them here and show them around. They also got to see Blake play!

Me and Blake at Texas Roadhouse
Me and my mama

Hartnell playing Gavilan...we won by the way!

At the beach

Blake's team is doing pretty well and they have 3 games left til the end of the season. This season has gone by pretty fast! So crazy!

Also on the 4th of January it was Ryo's birthday! We made him a cake and I think this picture is hilarious with the guys wearing sombreros.

D.j, Colton, Beau, and Ryo

Goodbye 2009...Welcome 2010

Is anyone else still having trouble writing 2010 down instead of 2009?? I still am...I've been on a blogging haitus for awhile since we have been super busy! A lady in my department moved to another one so we are short a person and the hospital doesn't want to hire on another person. So my friend Christina and I pick up her hours as well as have our normal hours. So I have been working around 100 hours a pay period and well, have been super tired! But I figured I need to jot things down quickly before I get too far behind. Christmas was fun this year with just the two of us. It was super weird to not be with our families but what can you do?? Anyways Christmas Eve we played catch at the park (yeah it was like 70 degrees that day) and then did my family tradition of getting pizza and buffalo wings and watching Christmas movies in our new Christmas p.j's. I had to work that night so before I went Blake's family called so we could play the family Deal or No Deal. Last year we sucked and only won $35 and this year we were determined to make at least $200. The range is from .1 - $1500. And we won $350 :) It was so nerve racking I don't know how the people on the real show handle it. And out amount was not nearly as much! On Christmas we woke up and read from Luke the story of Christs birth and then opened presents! Well the remainig ones since we had opened 2 each before. We're bad when it comes to giving gifts. And then we went to breakfast with his teammate Ryo. I had to work again and then after we went over to our friends Ian and Crystal and had dinner and played games all night! It was fun! On New Year's we had some Chinese for dinner and then went over to another friends house and played games and ate junk food and rang in the new year. New Years Eve

Blake has been busy with basketball and they have won there last 3 games. Reedly (57-55), DeAnza (63-54) , and Gavilan (75-68). Blake went through kind of a slump before but he definitely picked it up the last 2 games with 18 points and then 30+ points in the last one! They are now ranked 14th in the state and have a game tonight against #8 San Jose City.

Anyways that was a quick ramble on whats going on.

Hope everyone is doing well!