c is for Celebrate {happy memorial day}

happy memorial day!
So nice to celebrate and honor all who have served our wonderful country. Milwaukee finally decided that its summer and the weather is starting to heat up. Humidity hates me.. I get the worst headaches! But I can't complain cause I can finally feel the sun :)

For our date night on Friday, scotty and I went to the new pirate movie. Bad idea. Even though it was so well done and had amazing actors.. the plot was boring, predictable, and long. They really need to stop making those pirate movies, please.

It was rainy Saturday and I don't really remember all that I did. Probably the usual- cleaned, worked out, went grocery shopping, talked with my mom/one of my sisters & watched friends.

Had a wonderful Sunday. I made lasagna and rhodes rolls for dinner and took a nap.

So nice to have a day off of work!! Wish I was with family to celebrate the holiday.. .

I went swimming with some of my girls and if felt so good to lay out.

Scott and I bbq brats for dinner. yum check out our hot neighbor. he always sits on the porch with his shirt off, drinking a beer. nast. but he is really friendly and chatty. Look at our lil grill.. its a champ.

My cute hubs eating our fav baked cheetos. Excited for more summer nights :)

{happy friday}

When I walked around the hospital at work everyone says "Happy Friday" Not sure if its just a milwaukee thing but I now I catch myself saying it every week. I love how everyone is SO much happier on Friday. Seriously the best day (of my work week) It doesn't matter if its still 30 degrees at the end of May... its FRIDAY :) Wisconsin is seriously so gorgeous when its not in a deep freeze. Its so green here, my plan is to take tons of pics this weekend so get ready blog buddies. Hope you all have a fabulous memorial day weekend!! Someone please get some SUN for me...

B is for bryanna

SHOUT HooRAY

happy birthday to my lil sis Bryanna!

I can't believe your 20!!! I am so lucky and so blessed to have such an amazing sister/bff. Wish I could celebrate with you. Its holidays like these that I wish I was home.. I would bake you a cake, give you a huge bday hug, have a dance party, quote disney lines, challenge you to wii mj, and embarrass you in front of all your friends (you know, that really tall one) Remember your super sweet 16.. lol. Hope you were able to go out and get at least 3 free dinners since your living in provo now. I love how close we have gotten throughout the years. You truly are such a great example to me of kindness and spirituality. You can always make me laugh and have cool stories for me- like the one when you were walking down the street. Thanks for being you!

Here's to anything year... Hope you have a fabulous birthday!

Let me know if you get any good mail (not from me but from that red headed kid).

One year older and wiser too, happy birthday to you!!

luf you BNard

xoxo

(ps i posted in purple cause its justin biebers fav color)

A is for aspire

so I was reading some of my friends blogs and apparently the thing to do is make a post for each letter of the alphabet. Kinda silly but maybe it will help me blog more. I love to vent and give updates to my many followers (hi mom) but every time I get on my blog I draw a huge blank. If i don't have cool pics to add or exciting news, I dont share. I swear my life is not as boring as my same old same old posts make it out to be. So warning: ignore if if it gets annoying but I'm going try it out...

Yesterday one of my cute young women gave her lesson on talents. We went around the room and shared a few talents that we have and some talents we wish we had. Explaining that we were given our talents for a purpose and we need not be envious of others but to share our talents. I feel like this lesson was written for me. I've struggled the last couple years with finding out my talents. For my whole life my identity was based on what I did (soccer player, cheerleader, student, nanny...) But when I moved out here I lost all of that. I am now "a wife of a med student". LAME I can't settle on that... its just not my personality. I know theres a lot more to that statement that I am undermining BUT I have struggled with the lack of talent. I am a very independent person and I don't want my identity based on my husbands. I was having this conversation with scotty last night... he kept asking "well what do you want to be better at" LONG story short- my new goal is to ASPIRE to be a better wife/daughter/sister/friend/coworker ever day. I can't just sit back and complain about my lack of strengths.. instead I have to recognize what I can improve on and focus on getting better. I have a lot of areas in which this can apply.. But its too overwhelming right now to think of something huge (like learning another language) so I am just going to focus on some smaller aspirations... I think I'm pretty hard on myself so I'm going start with being more positive :)

half way there

hey blogging world sorry its been awhile (I know I said I would get in the habit of updating more!) but I have some exciting news!... no not that exciting BUT scotty is officially done with his second year of med school :) Its been a rough last couple of months while he was super busy taking his hardest classes he'll ever have to take. For one, he had to learn over 700 drugs for Pharm. and his final was 30 pages & 4 hours long. I don't know how he does it but I am so proud of him for completely the first half with honors and a positive attitude. One of my favorite qualities of scott is his positive personality. He could have had the worst day in lectures, in a creepy cramped room studying for 14 hrs alone, lack of quality food, zero sleep, walking to and from school and still coming home at 11:00pm as happy as can be knowing that he is going to be studying more into the late hours. Sure it might just be him putting on a good face sometimes but I love how he still has the energy to be so optimistic. He will be an amazing doctor one day...

But don't forget about me ;) its hard being a wife of a med student. I know a lot of ya'll can relate. Minus our quick dinner dates on Friday, I hardly ever saw Scott this past semester. Its frustrating being married and not having the perks of married life. Some weeks it felt like I was single except for the occasional time I would be woken up at night to some person snoring in my bed. I don't remember him coming to bed in the late hours of night but for the minutes of me being awake I would realize that I actually had a husband. I ate dinner alone, I went to bed alone, I woke up alone. I can't complain too much (minus living away from home.. If we stayed in Utah this situation would be so much better!!!) I'm lucky to have a job that keeps me busy, a nice gym that fills most nights, being apart of young womens which helps me look forward to planning things, and my wisconsin girls. But life is going to get a little (a little) better now.

Scotty takes the step 1 boards June 18. So talk to me after then, basically the only thing that changes now is he comes home at 9 instead of 11. But hey those 2 hours are better then nothing! I missed my hubs!

Miss Jackson {if your nasty}

Yes its true. I saw Janet Jackson in concert!! I know.. I still feel like it was a dream and I have to remind myself that I was actually there. Having two older sisters that were obsessed with Janet I was raised listening to her songs. I just have the fondest memories of my older sisters dancing to rhythm nation, escapade, miss you much, when I think of you, black cat, nasty, if, thats the way love goes... . I was in jr high when velvet rope came out and I remember jamming out to together again, all for you, you dont know what you got til its gone, scream, I get so lonely, again, together again... just to name a few. It was her Number Ones Tour Up Close & Personal.. and it was- we were so close to Janet herself and it was very intimate. No big productions with costume changes or light shows.. just Janet in jeans and a black tank, some back up dances/vocals and her band. She sang all of my favorite songs and we all knew every word. Easily the best concert I have ever seen and its going to be hard to beat the amazingness of that night. Sadly my oldest sis Daycia couldn't come cause she is prego and due in June. My sisters and I had this vacay planned for months so the anticipation of waiting those last couple days to get there almost killed me. But at last I flew in late into sunny Las Vegas... pictures explain the rest

Margaritaville, like 2 am my time. Such a fun night!



I have to post a pic of Rio... I was able to spend the rest of the week in Utah and hangout with my family and see a lot of my friends. It was SO nice to be in my old surroundings and the comfort of home. I meet up with some of my gamma girls at a yogurt shop (the thing in ut is frozen yogurt... froyos are everywhere! delish) I saw my old friend ash, went out to dinner with my ward girls (congrats Mags on your engagement and Mia on being pregs), went out to breakfast with britt and saw her cute baby for the first time, went to rio ago with my bestie cuz Hayley and she (like always) made me laugh so hard over random things, went to a very inappropriate play with my sis and parents.. awkward lol, and spent quality time with my family!, did I mention went shopping and ate out everyday. Even though I missed my hub like crazy it was nice to be able to see everyone and catch up with old friends :) I LOVE going home and forgetting that I have been living in milwaukee for the past two years. Such a needed break.

Goodbye mountains... Its hard to be back but we are almost half way done with med school!

Happy Mothers Day

I LoVe my mom. Its hard living away during such holidays but I was so lucky to have been able to go home the week before and spend time with my maja. Yes thats what I call my mother... Not sure how I came up with maja, I think it was a combination of the tiger on Lion King and that camp song "Hello maddah, Hello fadduh". (Sorry mom I was like 5 and the nick name just stuck. ) Seriously have the greatest mom in the world! I'm so blessed to have been raised by such an incredible woman. She has always been such a good example to me of pure Christ-like LOVE. I am who I am today because of her.. Happy Mothers Day Maja!

私の思考で祈り、

whats been on my mind...the people of japan. I will always have a place in my heart for the beautiful country of japan and my cheerful japanese friends. When I was 17 I got a scholarship to be a youth ambassador and spent an entire summer traveling around Japan and living with a Japanese host family in the gorgeous city of Akita. It was an adventure, I didn't speak Japanese and was literally the farthest away from home I probably ever will be... but I fell in love with the japanese people. I taught english in one of the highschools and made life long friends with some of the girls.

On March 11, 2011 their lives completely changed...

Can you even imagine?!? My thoughts and prays have been with them since this day... THANK THE LORD for technology. Through facebook and emails I found out that my cousin and his family and my Japan friends and family were ok. I was so happy to hear that my cousin and his family were able to fly back home to ut acouple days after and are all recovering and safe. Yukiko was able to keep me and the rest of her friends updated on what was going on through her stats on facebook. One of my other close japanese girl friend, Harurka, had one of her other friends find me on facebook to tell me that she was safe :) I seriously cried when I got that message. Later, when she finally had access to the Internet, she told me she spent a night alone in her apartment in Tokyo.. scared, cold, and hungry... she didn't even know if her family members were safe. Luckily she heard from them in the morning and everyone was ok. Whole cities were destroyed and washed away. How terrifying. And now some are still not safe because of all the after shocks, radiation exposure, lack of shelter and food, and just fear of starting completely over- some with their reality completey changed and the death of loved ones. I know all of you have read the news about this horrible disaster in japan but I just wanted to express my love to all my japanese friends!! Still thinking and praying for you every day!

It makes me think are scott and I prepared for an emergency.. Is our 72 hr pack updated and 3 month food storage sufficient?

tv zombie

Since we are living on a tight budget we decided that we couldn't afford cable and I have been forced to watch the basic channels for the past two years. LOL that really sounds pathetic.. but when your used to having every channel and Tvo its a hard adjustment. Plus it gets boring out here and unfortunately tv has been one of my main source of entertainment, esp this past winter. I wish I could say that I spend most of my nights reading but when you are home alone for hours you need a distraction or even just back ground noise. As my oldest sis calls it, referring to my neices- I've become a tv zombie. One day I will have the power again to rewind or fast forward tv.. one day.

remember my last post when I said "I even stayed up late to watch friends" well no more 1 am late nights for me...

Best bday present. Thanks katie :)

{birthday weekend}

I can't believe I'm now 24!

Crazy but exciting. I have one good year left in me til I hit my mid 20's..eek. Looking back at this past year I realize that I have grown so much. Time has gone by fast but its important to reflect on the past and how I can make my next year of my life even better. I am so blessed to be surrounded with family and friends that support and love me. Minus being with family...

I had a great weekend :)

My birthday was on a friday this year and I was able to take off work! I slept in, relaxed, got my hair done at a nice salon, scotty took me out to eat at Maggianos (delish), went shopping.. scotty spoiled me- he surprised me with this purse I have been eyeing at this cute boutiquey store Francesca's, and ate my fav icecream cake from baskin robbins. I even stayed up super late to watch friends while scott passed out on the couch (poor guy is so stressed right now with exams coming up.. but I was so happy he spent the whole night with me) I got tons of calls and texts and fbs from friends and family that put a huge smile on my face. It was a fabulous day.

On Sat I spent the day with my girls... Jen and I went shopping and went to the gym. We meet up with Jess and Allison and saw Beastly (hilariously cheesy) That night Danielle and Kelly had planned a hot tub birthday celebration.. It felt so nice to get in my swimsuit and go hot tubing with my girls.. I just love them! The things we end up talking about... girls are hilarious.

We got Katy Perry tickets for summerfest!! Ah.. Can't wait to go to that concert!!

Conference was amazing.. I seriously loved so many of the talks. Right now I can only remember "You can't see the view until you make the climb" "have a 'To Be' checklist'... I am excited to review/read them again. The Jackmans had their traditional Sunday morning conference crepes :) and I spent the rest of the day in my pjs relaxing and listening to the inspired words.

*sorry crappy iphone pic. More pictures to come..