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! ;)

Apartment Video

You should all be way excited to see this video!!! I finally made a video walk through of our apartment. Since the video pretty much explains the whole thing, I don't need to write anything else about it! Hope you all enjoy :)

I promised my sister I would post some pictures of our apartment to show how cute it all is!...

This is our living room. We managed to get the cabnets, entertainment center, and table and chairs for free! There was an apartment full of partiers who were evicted not far from where we live. After they kicked them out they threw all of there remaining stuff on the curb and abandoned it. Someone had posted on craigslist about all the stuff and said whoever wanted it can take it. So that's how we acquired all that stuff. The rocking chair we bought for $15 from a guy who was planning on getting his wife a new one and didn't need that one anymore...


This shows our only piece of furniture we actually brought with us...our futon! It is so incredibly comfortable and it was super easy to assemble once we got it in the house. Our doorways are so narrow that it's hard to move pretty much anything in especially something as big as a couch so we're happy we have our wonderful futon. Daniel found the desk and the black desk chair for free near the campus...

This is our kitchen. I absolutely LOVE having my own kitchen! We brought a ton of kitchen supplies with us (in my dad's van) from the wedding gifts we recieved almost a year ago. Most of them had never been opened because we had been living with family until we moved here so it was a total joy for me to open everything and cook in my very own kitchen!!...


Our Bathroom is fun because for a long time we've just had a shower with no bath, but now I have an actual tub to relax in....

The baby's room is looking pretty good. We got a bed for guests (hint hint to my family to come and visit me!!!) and an awesome white crib that we got for free also. I have a ton of baby blankets and cute clothes to make it look so cute in there! I'm so excited to become a mommy! :)...

So there ya have it! I'm totally planning on making a little video walk-through of our house later, but for now this is good enough! Hope you like it :)

Dad, Sharon and Mckenzie's Visit

It was soooooo nice to have my dad, stepmom and little sister come visit us and help us move our stuff into our new apartment. I hope they enjoyed themselves here as much as we loved having the help and the company.

Daniel left for California on Tuesday night and drove all through the night in the hot desert! I on the other hand spent Tuesday night at my sister Brittanny's house and flew to LA the next morning. It was nice being on an airplane for 2 hours rather than in a hot uncomfortable car for 12 hours! The only thing that backfired was the fact that my hands, legs and feet swelled up from the flight and I had a hard time walking for the rest of the day. :(

We spent a few hours in LA to eat lunch at Daniel's favorite restaurant "Tommy's" and checking out the famous handprints at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. I honestly have never been there before so I made sure to get a picture with the handprints of my most favorite actress of all time....Doris Day!!

We drove to Santa Barbara after that stopping to get a broom, vacuum, paper towells, and other stuff we needed for our house from Walmart. It makes me sad that the closest Walmart to us is a 45 min drive away. It's like living in Hawaii again....Walmart will just have to be my "good time on a Saturday night" from now on. Oh precious Walmart....I miss thee!!

We stayed in our apartment that night and the next sleeping on some blankets we managed to fit into the car. It was hard not having the rest of my stuff there because the house was so empty that we had no idea what to do. It was already clean, we didn't have anything else to unpack so we were happy when my Dad and Sharon showed up with the rest of the stuff. I'm still working on getting everything organized now but at least it's all here.

After we spent a little while unpacking everything we all went to dinner at a place called "Freebirds". It is kind of like Cafe Rio but without the broad selection and Freebirds is twice as big as Cafe Rio...and that's saying something! Plus they have fresh home-made Horchata that is to die for!! Sharon and Dad went back for 2nd's because they loved it so much. We then walked along the beach, got tar all over our feet, then called it a night!

The beaches here are nice execpt for the fact that oil seeps up through the sand and sticks to your feet. It comes out great with Palmolive and a scrubbie but it's still rather annoying. It's not in the water, so you'll really only get it if you walk along the sand for a long time. We were out there for like ever so we came home and had a rather "fun" time trying to get the tar off our feet. Thank goodness my husband is awesome and immediately looked up online how to get it off and we found out about the Palmolive. Worked like a charm :)

The next day we found some free furniture (which I will save that whole story for another posting because it's long and awesome!) then we went and ate at Freebirds again...I pretty much think Sharon is addicted to the Horchata!!... then we went to the Mission Museum in Downtown Santa Barbara. It was way cool. For those of you who don't know what a Mission is it's a Catholic church thing where the missionaries would live like WAY back in the day. If any of you have seen the awesomely hillarious movie "Nacho Libre" then you'll kind of know what I'm talking about. (They live in a Mission in that movie) This one was built back in the late 1700's and early 1800's so it's pretty old.

The oldest statue in California is there and it looks like a jaguar or something so we got a picture with that thing too...

The rest of the day Dad, Sharon and McKenzie played at the beach and I went home to take a nap!

Dad of course went all out to build a freaking village!!!!

All in all I think they had fun while they were here. It was Sharon's birthday so that night when they were done at the beach they came back to our apartment to clean up and say goodbye. We had rootbeer floats together and looked at the pictures we had taken together. It was really fun and then they were off. The next morning they left and made it home later on that night. I thought they would fry in the van on the way home but they went to the store and bought a ton of ice and a few spray bottles to keep themselves cool.

Thanks again Dad, Sharon, and McKenzie for all the help you gave us!!! We love you :)

Move to SB

So,we've moved to our new place here in Santa Barbara.

Obviouly that's not us in the pictures (I'm not Asian with 2 kids). But we'll get some other pictures up soon. The weather is just as nice as these pictures show. Beautiful, low 80s, constant ocean breeze. Oh, don't be jealous... well, not too jealous anyway. That's all for now! Breckenridge!