HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

Today is Daniel and I's very first Anniversary! Yes, oh yes one year ago today Daniel and I were married in the LA temple... here's some pictures to remember that awesome day! What a handsome husband I have! It's been a great year so far. In some ways it feels like we've been married a lot longer than a year but the excitement of being together still makes us feel like we were just married. So this is us 1 year after the wedding. Weeee!!! Here's to the start of what will definitely be another wonderful year together. :)

Daniel's 1st day back at School!

Today is the first day of school for UCSB! For those of you who don't know Daniel is studying Music (emphasis in Voice-mostly Opera, classical and choral singing) and he only has one year left to finish his bachelors degree. He started school here right after high school and finished 3 years then decided to take a break from school to serve a mission. Everyone in school thought he was crazy for wanting to leave with only 1 year left, but if he had finished and not gone on a mission when he did we would never have met. So I'm pretty grateful he left when he did :)

When Daniel got home from serving in Indonesia he wanted to go right back into school and get his degree finished, but that wasn't what happened. He found out he needed a certain class in order to finish his degree, but that class was only offered every 2 years! He still had 1 more year to wait....so he waited, got married in the meantime and is now FINALLY able to take that class and finish his degree.

It's funny how things workout. Sometimes you plan on something and think you have a pretty good idea of how it will turn out then life takes you in a completely different direction. In the end it always turns out to be what you need. Maybe not necessarily what you expected or sometimes even what you want, but it always works out for the best.

So this post is dedicated to my awesome husband whom I'm so proud of and love more than anything!

Aku mencintaimu!!

The Musical Road

Yesterday Daniel and I traveled down to Lancaster, CA (about a 2hr drive from Santa Barbara) to visit Daniel's mother and oldest sister and her family. It turned out to be really fun (except for the whole 'driving in a hot car for 2 hours while huge pregnant' thing!) While we were there Daniel's sister told us about this "musical road" not too far away from her house. I guess Honda made a commercial and they created a series of grooves on the road that when you go over the top of them they give off a certain sound each and it plays music!! It actually plays the Lone Ranger theme song, (The William Tell Overture) but because the grooves were designed specifically for the Honda Civic tires the notes sound a little flat when other cars go over the top of them. Sounds kinda crazy but it was WAY neat to do. There are only like 3 other roads like this in the entire world: Japan, South Korea, and Holland. Daniel's niece Kayla drove us, along with his mom and his other niece Veronica and nephew Jake. It was a good time on a Monday night!!

I guess the residents of that area got so sick of all the cars driving over and over and OVER along that strip of road that they complained and the city is paving over it soon. Oh well, at least Daniel and I had a chance to go over the musical road before it's gone forever!!!

Red Hair!

So I was in the store the other day and my annoying pregnancy hormones got the best of me and I decided to dye my hair. I at least had enough sense at the time to pick a washout color just in case I didn't like it, but I'm still laughing at the sheer randomness of my thought. I've never wanted to dye my hair before. I love getting my hair highlighted but all in all I've always been happy having blonde hair. So needless to say my husband was pretty shocked when he came home from work that night to a carrot head!! Yes, oh yes...I dyed my hair RED!!!

I actually think it turned out pretty good considering the fact that I've never done anything like this before in my life so I had no idea what I was doing. When I was in High School I was in the play Anne of Green Gables (I was Anne) and I had to wear a wig. My hair totally reminds me of the wig I wore for that play. :)

Even though my crazy pregnancy hormones got the best of me I'm still glad I did it. It's fun to experiment with change sometimes. All in all I'm glad I did it!! :)

IT'S A BOY!!

JUST KIDDING!... False alarm.
Over the weekend I had a big scare....my water leaked!! I was getting dressed after taking a shower on Saturday when it happened. Daniel had already left for work so I was home alone. My first thought was that I had accidentally (how do I put this delicately...) 'gone to the bathroom' but it felt different. I decided it was nothing and I should go on with my day until about 1/2 hour later when I started to feel some contractions. I had to run to the bank so I was up and walking around which made it worse. I called my husband and told him what happened and he immediately got off of work and we went to the hospital to get evaluated. We were at the hospital for a few hours while they ran some tests and monitored the baby. I was really nervous about all of this because I'm barely 35 weeks. The nurse said not to worry because if I did have the baby right now that things would be ok, but he'd still be small and what if he was too small, or what if his lungs weren't fully developed, or what if, what if, what if??! I tried to stay calm which was really hard when I had monitors connected to me and I was laying in one of the most uncomfortable beds ever!!...but it really helped that my husband was there with me reassuring me that everything was going to be fine. I have the best husband in the world! Man, I love him so much!! :)

The nurse finally came in and said that everything seemed ok and that I was free to go home. I didn't have any other signs of leakage or anything so I wasn't technically in labor but she did say to be careful because I was still having a lot of contractions. They recommended that I stay off my feet and rest for the next couple of weeks and not do anything that could speed up the process! So I'm not technically on bedrest or anything but I do have to take it easy.

What a silly little boy! I think he did that just to freak his mommy out!! I will tell you one thing...having that experience was a good practice run for Daniel and I. We both were totally unprepared for it. We didn't even have a bag ready to go to the hospital with. At least now we'll be better prepared for when the time REALLY does comes! ;)