stress fracture

I have been training for a half marathon that's going to take place in South Padre on Oct 4th. My ankle started bothering me last week and I just got my results from the MRI i had yesterday. Sadly to say, I do have a stress fracture like we suspected. I'm so SAD! haha I'm still planning on running in the half marathon (I already registered for it and we also paid for the condo that we are staying in) but i won't be able to do the same training for a while. I will be doing a lot of work outs in the pool. I'm going to do whatever I can to help it heal faster! haha I REALLY want to run in the race. Oh well.. at least we have the perfect excuse for a vacation on the beach!

On to a better subject, Sept 18th is my last day of work..! I'm so excited cause I get to hang out with the girls before we take off to Utah. I'm going to miss you guys once we are gone!

American Idol..!

My friend Amber invited me to the American Idol Concert. Her parents are friends with Brooke White's mom so they got us AWESOME seats and backstage passes..!! Needless to say.. we had TONS of fun..! I felt like a teenager again (not that that wasn't too long ago) haha Thanks Amber..! =D

David Cook

Kristy Lee Cook
Brook White
David Archuleta
Michael Johns
Syesha Mercado
Chikezie
Carly Smithson
Ramiele Malubay

Ranger's game and girl's camp

Soo.. I DO have very good excuses for being a procrastinator..! haha I'm trying to finish my Independent Study class which has taken me forever to finsh (still working on it) and I will have to say Breaking Dawn took ALL my attention for a while.. more on that in a later post ;)

A couple of days ago me an Dallas went to a Ranger's game.. we went on a Wednesday ONLY because they had dollar hotdogs (if you know my hubby you'll understand why haha). The line for hotdogs was FOREVER long and you could only get 5 at a time.. so Dallas had to settle with only 3.. he says that next time he'll get 5 and I'll get 5 also. It was really fun to go. I have to admit.. I love sports.. It's so sad to think that this summer is going to be the last time that we get to go to a Ranger's game.. that's why we are trying to go to as many as possible this summer before we move to Utah.. so if anybody wants to go let us know! we'll go with you guys! =) Since I am one of the YW advisors I got to go one day to girl's camp. We didn't have camp in Mexico so it was a new cool experience for me. It was sooo much fun.! I love the girls and it was so fun to hang out with them for a whole day. We did many cool activities and I couldn't but laugh at their songs..! they are hilarious..!! I am so grateful I'm their advisor because I get to be around them, they teach me so much and they have amazing testimonies. I ABSOLUTELY love these girls.

Cruise timE..!

Dallas' dad has given us cruises instead of birthdays or Christmas presents. This is the second year that we have cruised with the family and it was so much FUN! This time we took the Mexican Riviera cruise. It went to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo. One of the highlights of our cruise was that we cruised with Richard Simmons! haha (none of the pictures that we took of him were very good that's why i didn't post any) I had no idea who he was! my first thought of him when Dallas pointed at him was that somebody was dressed in a very petite and bright outfit! haha He had dinner on the same floor and at the same time that we did so we saw him dancing on top of the table a couple of times. It was hilarious!
Our first port was Puerto Vallarta. We found an awesome guide that took us all around the city. First we went to the jungle part to see and feed the monkeys. They were so cute and smart! haha Dallas afforded to hold a snake that I was completely scared with.


After that we went to the beach and we finished our day by eating some delicious carne asada tacos =) The second port was Mazatlan. We also took a tour of the city. We stopped to watch the cliff divers and did some shopping. After that we went to a hotel that was next to the beach, the guys went body boarding and the girls hung out by the pool.


Our last port was Cabo, my favorite out of the three! In Cabo, Dallas and I took a boat ride by the famous arches and got dropped off at Lovers Beach to do some snorkeling. It was really fun! We saw lots of tuna and some other cool fish.

And we could not miss a picture of one of our formal nights! Cruises are so much fun! It was a really fun week and it was nice to get away from school, clinic and work! =) It was really fun to visit my native country. It was nice to talk in spanish again haha don't get to talk in spanish very often any more. Can't wait til our next cruie!

California

Before our cruise we decided to go to California for two days. It was a really good way to start our vacation. It was really fun and it was nice to spend the whole time together. The first day we went shopping and at night we went to Newport Beach and ate at this very cool restaurant called Newport Landing that was facing the bay. It was so pretty! I forgot the camera that night so we didn't take pictures =( It happened to be the same restaurant that Dallas went to with Adam, Cam and Ryan when they went on their cruise after their missions. Since the first time he went he hasn't stop talking about their calamari so he was really happy went we got there and he recognized that it was the same place. The second day we went to Long Beach. We walked around the beach and the water was so cold! At night we walked around the harbor and took a bunch of pictures. Oh and we managed to go to In N Out burger twice in the two days we were there. We LOVE that place!



Here we are at Long Beach.

This is at the harbor near downtown Long Beach. You could see Queen Mary from here.

Dallas' birthday!

So Dallas' birthday was Monday the 19th. We didn't plan anything until that Monday morning. We asked everybody to join us at Spring Creek Barbeque. Even though we didn't invite everybody to come til that morning they still came and it was really fun! Dallas was trying to get as much free food as he could haha he got free fries and extra ribs just because it was his birthday haha! He makes me laugh sometimes but I adore him! He is the best =). Love ya honey!

Tagged..!

Three tag.... I have to write down 3 of each: joys, fears, goals, current obsession/projects, and random facts.

3 joys: My family, my friends and the Gospel =)

3 fears: SOmething bad happening to Dallas, sharks and snakes (if they are in my dreams, they become nightmares!) 

3 goals: Finish my degree, start a family, help Dallas start his practice. 

3 current obsession/projects: Anything that Stephenie Meyers writes, she is so goood! I just finished The Host and highly recommend it! =) Number one project is to finish my online BYU ECON class which is taking me forever! and start the habit of working out again after six weeks of total laziness.

3 random facts: LOVE to dance and pretend to sing, when i was 10 years old I was in a local TV commercial in Mexico, this one is very cheesy but I like the Disney Channel, my favorite show from there is Hannah Montana haha!

I tagg Lupita, Lorena and Kristin =)

My 22nd birthday!

My birthday was almost a month ago! I'm horrible at blogging! sorry.. i'll work on that. My birthday was April 16th. My cute and awesome friends took me to lunch to chili's. Jen was in town from Oregon so she got to go with Carly! It was really fun. It is always fun to go out with friends! Dallas surprised me with flowers, a coupon for a shopping spree, delicious cheescake and New Moon. Ok.. so a lot of people already know.. but I am sooo adicted to the Twilight series and it's all my sister-in-law's fault! she got me hooked on them haha I absolutely LOVE these books! I read all three of them in less than 3 weeks.. and that was because Dallas was always telling me that I was neglecting him..haha if not.. I would've stay glued to the book!

Ok so the saturday after, a bunch of us went to celebrate my birthday at BJ's and afterwards we headed for some rockband at the Phillip's house. I had so much fun and it was kind of sad to realize that this was my last birthday in Texas! Tori and I have birthdays 5 days apart so we had it all figured out on how to celebrate our birthdays for a whole week and get as many free desserts as we could, too bad that this was the last time we'll be in Texas for my birthday.

It was so nice to see Jen while she was in town. We all kept saying that it felt like if she hadn't moved yet. Me and Dallas are so grateful for the awesome friends that we have in Texas that when December comes, it's going to be hard to leave our big Texas family behind. I can see why it is so hard for the ones that already left. We miss you all! =)

The Tenderness of the Lord

Sometimes we don't really understand why things happen in our lives but having the Gospel gives us an understanding that things happen for a reason, the Lord has a plan for us, and even though it may be hard to understand it, it helps us to become better people and gain a stronger testimony. On April 4th I had a midwife appointment. For no obvious reason I was a little nervous the whole morning. When we got there, the midwife couldn't find the baby's heartbeat so she sent us immediately to the hospital to get a sonogram. When we got there they were already waiting for us and they admitted me into the hospital as a patient. When they finally did the sonogram they found that the baby had passed away so the doctor decided to induce me so I could have a normal delivery. Brody was still-born on Saturday April 5th around 7:45 a.m. He was 14 inches long and weighed 13 oz. It had been several days since he had passed away. His umbilical cord had twisted so much that it caused a kink in it blocking the flow of blood and nutrients. We were heartbroken and extremely sad but we were comforted by the Spirit knowing that he was such a special spirit that didn't need to come to this earth to be tested. We felt the love of family and friends. We will always be so grateful for their support and their love. Dallas' dad flew us to Utah so we could bury Brody there. We held a very small graveside at the American Fork Cemetery on April 11th. 

We are very grateful for the understanding of the Gospel. We know that this experience, even though it is very hard, is going to help us become better people. We have a better understanding of the atonement and we feel the love that our Heavenly Father has for us. We have been comforted in so many ways and we have felt peace in our hearts to know the power of being sealed in the temple will allow us to all be together forever, if we can but endure.

We don't know how to express the love and the gratitude that we have for our family and friends, for their support and their love that they have given us in this time of need. Thank you so much for your prayers, we have felt them and they have given us peace and comfort. One of our sweet friends shared a quote from the prophet Joseph Smith that gave us much comfort, "The Lord takes many away, even in infancy, that they may escape the envy of man, and the sorrows and evils of this present world; they were too pure, too lovely, to live on earth; therefore, if rightly considered, instead of mourning we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from evil, and we shall soon have them again..."

OUR NEW CAR! :)

We are so excited- we got a new car! It's a 2007 Nissan Murano. We LOVE it.... I hope that's not bad haha. Since I got my job a year ago.. we started to save money to buy Dallas a truck for graduation. Well.. we got pregnant along the way and so we got thinking that it is more practical to buy an SUV, they are a lot safer than my car and since I'll be driving with the baby more often, my sweet hubby decided to sacrifice his truck.  We found an awesome deal on this Murano, the internet sells guy messed up and posted it for the wrong price (~$5K less than they were selling it for) but they said they would honor the price...we had sold the tiburon unexpectedly (we put it on craigslist thinking that it would take a few weeks to sell and it sold in a few days, so as a side note, if you need to sell anything, craigslist is awesome) and then with the money we had saved we put down a good down payment on it. One of the greatest things we love about it is that it's an AWD and since we are going back to Utah, we felt like that was a must have. Once we bought it, Dallas begged me to get the "baby on board" sticker, he was really cute and excited about it. Long story short, we are really grateful to now have a car that we feel like we can trust our new baby in and we're hoping it will be a great car for a very long time. 

It's a BOY!

We were so excited when we went to do the sonogram. It's so cool to think that there's a little baby inside my belly. I finally felt the baby move like two weeks ago and it's awesome. The nurse said that the baby was very good size, he is a little over a pound now, so he is growing really good and according to the schedule. It was very easy to tell his gender! She showed us on the screen and asked us.. "So what do you think you're having?" It was SO obvious. I turned around to look at Dallas' face and he was so excited. He wanted a boy so bad. He just wanted to make sure that he had his boy. Before we found out it was a boy he kept making comments that we were not going to stop having kids until we get a boy. Yeah right.. like he is the one going through pregnancy! haha It was so fun to look at him move. We got a perfect picture of his arm and hand, it looked like he was waving. We also got a picture of his foot. It was very exciting to see our baby! Now I can't wait until he is here!

Here is a picture of our baby, sorry is so blurry, we took with our camera, I was too lazy to scan it. Sorry..
Here is me at 21 weeks which is exactly today. I know I'm not showing very much but the midwife said that the baby is definitely growing and everything is good. I am just waiting for my belly to pop out from one day to another. 

My Valentine

For Valentine's Day my sweet husband prepared a very romantic dinner. When I got home from work he had the apartment full of candles and he had a 3 course fondue meal ready! It was so cute and romantic! He put a lot of work into it. We started with the cheese fondue. It was sooo good. Then we continued with the meat part. He marinated chicken and beef and cut some vegetables so we could fry them. He also prepared the sauces were you can dip your meat after is cooked. The last part was the chocolate fondue. Of course we were so full by then but I couldn't say no! We dipped strawberries, kiwi, pineapple and mango. Everything was so good. Since it takes so long to eat, he thought of everything and he surprised me with one of my favorite movies so we could watch it while we ate. I loved everything that he did and it was a really fun night. I have to say I wasn't as romantic and didn't do something cool like he did but I gave him a cool present that he loved =) that makes me feel a little better. 

Update

I know, I know.. I'm horrible at updating the blog! I promise I'll try harder to keep up with it. 

I'll start with Christmas.. almost two months ago. For Christmas we went to Utah to spend it with our family. The drive was not fun AT ALL. We decided not to drive just to save money because flight tickets were so expensive. Not too far away from Dallas, around 4 hours, I was driving and got pulled over!! The officer was so rude! and said that I was driving faster than I really was. Anyhow, I got my first ticket ($200 worth). I felt soooooo bad! I didn't save us very much money at all. We drove non stop from Texas to Utah which is a very LONG drive (20 hours). Before we got to Monticello it was snowing really bad. The roads were horrible and we had to drive less than 40 miles an hour all the way through Moab. We were so tired and glad when we finally got to Dallas' dad's house. 

The last time I saw my mom before that was for our wedding.. almost two years ago. My mom and my siblings came up to Utah and it was so much fun. It was shocking to see how much my brothers have grown. My 15th year old brother is now taller than me! It was so fun to see our families. Every time we go back we realize how much we miss it there and how much we miss our families. Dallas' brother Dusty had guitar hero and it was the first time me and Dallas played. It was so much fun! my brothers also got addicted to it. 

Dallas' mom took this picture of us and my family and it is one of my favorites. 

(P.S. anyone in Utah looking for a good photographer Dallas' mom is really good and gives family and friend discounts.)


We also got on Dallas' dad hot tub. They just moved into a house in Lindon which they remodeled and it looks gorgeous. They did an awesome job.


We also went to temple square so my family could see the lights. We watched the movie about the prophet Joseph Smith and it was amazing.

Before going to Utah, the Sillito's, Hirschi's and us went to a little town not far from Dallas to watch the representation of  Bethlehem. It was so cool but I swear it was one of the coldest nights in Texas history. They were giving free hot chocolate, it never tasted so good. 

The representation was awesome, they had camels and people were dressed and acted like if there really were living in those times. Whenever we would take pictures they would say "what is that lightning box?" it was pretty funny.