Willkommen Zuhause!

Or in English, Welcome Home!

Last week my brother-in-law came home from his LDS mission.
We have not seen him for 2 years except for skype calls home on Mother's Day and Christmas.
His plane landed around 12:00am so we got to the airport around 10:00pm to make sure we got a prime spot.

He left shortly after Andrew and I were married and I feel the time went by so fast!
A lot of things have happened but not much has changed.

Here are some of the many pictures that we took + a video that I put together to capture the moments.

This Day is my Favorite Day

Today we celebrate 2 years and I can't believe it. 

And I was the first to tell him "Happy Anniversary" exactly at 12:00am.

It's always our little competition to try to be the first to wish each other whatever holiday it may be.

He tried but I distracted him and won! 

Our life together has had it's ups and downs but everyday I realize how lucky I got.

Two years ago I thought I loved him.

I had no idea.

He has shown me time and time again how perfect he is for me.

His endless patience.

How he always makes me laugh.

He is always trying to bring unity to our marriage and family.

He shows me constant affection.

How he constantly wants the best for us.

Andrew, I love you more every day.

I am happier today than I was 2 years ago, because every day since then 

means an extra day of my life with you in it.

Happy June 4th to everyone out there 

because in our little world it's a very special day.

What Happens in Vegas

For Memorial Day my parents were taking a trip down to Vegas and invited Andrew and I along. 

Of course we said yes! We are all for traveling and doing something different. 

Vegas is defiantly something else and to be honest this was probably the best Vegas experience I've had. 

Vegas always has something going on and something to see. 

 Something we loved about our trip was going to the WOW show and the name says it all.

It's somewhat like America's Got Talent- in fact some contestants from the show are in WOW. It has that 

Vegas flair but it's a good family show. You know what I mean?

I highly would recommend it. My jaw was dropped the entire time in absolute amazement. 

 ^The Bellagio hotel water show is always something we enjoy. It's a really scaled down version of World of Color 

from Disneyland but still pretty neat to see^ 

One thing that I would not recommend is Fremont street. It's more the new Vegas which I am not a fan of. 

The light ceiling was cool but that's it. Not worth it and it's not so family friendly. 

Overall we did love our Vegas vacation. We swam, we ate, we partied. 

And I'm really excited for summer which is in 2 days!!! 

Congrats to the Mrs.

Yesterday my best friend got married and I could not be happier for her.

We met our freshman year at college and I got beyond blessed to have her as a roommate. 

Our birthdays only have a day in between them so we have always celebrated our days together.

When I was on my mission we "ran into" each other when she came out to Cali for a little vacation.

No matter how many miles have been in between us she has always managed to be there for me.

We have too many memories to count.

Like how she would jump on my bed to wake me up in the middle of the night.
Or how we went to the Hunger Games midnight showing and we had classes the next day.

Or how one time I was talking to her about breaking up with a boy and then tears 

start to flow and she knew exactly what to say.
When she flew out to my wedding when she had her finals for her masters a few days later.

I scored big in the friendship department with Alyse.

Her wedding day was an absolute fairy tale and I was beaming for her all night

and I am so glad that I was able to be there and celebrate her day. She deserves it. 

 ^And here's a picture of Andrew to close this little blog post^

A Trip Around the World

On Saturday night Andrew and I hosted a super fun dinner party!

It started out with an excuse for Andrew to make his spring rolls then it evolved into an idea for 

everyone else to share some of their favorite meals. 

We have several friends who lived out of the states for a few years and we thought it 

would be so much fun to try different foods from around the world. 

Andrew and I had such a fun time putting the party together.

We enjoyed planning every detail from the background music, decorations, down to the invitation.

Andrew put this invitation together and it was way better than I ever imagined in my head. 

We got such a variety of different kinds of food.

Russia

Germany

Italy

England

Camboida

Mexico

Vietnam and 

Hawaii.

We also got pretzels and French eclairs.

European? American? Either way, so good.

We started into games and we played the couple hand game.

All the girls are blindfolded and then we bring one man at a time down the line. 

As we bring the man down we have each girl feel the man's hand and just by feeling their hand 

they need to identify if it is their husband, or not. If they claim him, the man stands behind the girl

who chose him and he's out of the running. 

This all needs to be done without feeling their arms or any jewelry. 

I was so impressed; all the women got their man correct! We then switched it and it was the men's turn to guess 

their wives hand. They all guessed correctly too! I have never seen that happen. Ever. 

We must be more touchy feely than I realized! 

I had more planned but some things fell through and people just seemed to enjoy talking.

Some games in the lounge were also brought out and played.

Thanks to everyone who came and brought their foreign dish.

We had so much fun partying and trying all these new foods. 

Happy Year of the Dog!

Remember how I was sick with the flu in Disneyland?

The next day I slept the entire day! Poor Andrew. 

We travel all the way to one of our most favorite places in the world

and I'm sick and sleeping. Awesome. But he really was the best and I 

could not have asked for anyone better. 

He got me medicine, gatorade, soda, saltine crackers, 

anything to help me feel better and get food in my body. 

I told him to try and have fun but he didn't want to travel too far in case I needed him.

(i almost cried when he said that, i mean, this guy is good).

^We went out to get pho that night. I had a tiny bowl and I think it took me 2 hours to eat!^

By the next day I was feeling much better. 

You wouldn't even be able to tell except my appetite was still so small.

Eating took awhile. 

On Saturday the Lunar New Year Celebration was still happening. 

Guys, I'm not lying when it lasts for days! We were not even in Cali 

for half of the festivities. It's crazy! We decided to take advantage and we 

went to the parade that was happening that morning as well as other Viet activities. 

We of course had to visit the beach.

Andrew and I have decided that we need to make a lot of money 

and get a beach house. That's our plan. We are currently accepting donations

and of course you could come visit us! ;) 

The rest of Saturday and on Sunday we saw a lot of people that we love!

Honestly, it's so hard to see everyone especially when there are his people and my people

and they are scattered everywhere across Orange County. 

And we missed an entire day when I was sick. 

This is so corny, but it always hurts a little bit leaving Cali

not only because of the most perfect weather 

(we were welcomed back to Utah with a snowstorm)

but THE PEOPLE! These people changed our lives. They helped us become us!

I think California will always be our second home. 

Did you hear the joke about the flu?

Well, I'm not going to tell you because I don't want to spread it around. (haha)

 ok. i'm awful at jokes, but really.

i probably did spread it around because we went to disneyland when i had the flu.

yes, you read that right. disneyland + the flu. 

Most of my day looked like this:

But we did manage to have some fun.

How can you not when you are in the happiest place on earth?

At the very beginning we rode Guardians... TWICE which I have no idea how

because the nausea was real!

At one point I went in the car and slept for a few hours which was so nice and really helped and Andrew went to Disneyland 

by himself. When I was finished with my break Andrew met me by the entrance and

we tried to have more fun by doing some of the calmer rides like Haunted Mansion and Pirates.

 We were also were able to watch some of Fantasmic. Disney is magical. 

Andrew was such a good sport throughout all of this.

He even said allowed us to leave an hour before the parked closed when I once again had to 

lie on a park bench while he did Star Tours. 

Our fake honeymoon wasn't what we expected but is sure made me grateful

for the man I married. 

Our real honeymoon is HERE and it was a much better experience :)