I Love Sushi!

I Love Sushi!

This weekend I went to my friend Jane bachelorette party. She is soon to be married to my best friend Justin Cooper. Unfortunitly I am unable to go to their wedding for wayne and I will be in Denver watching Giants vs. Broncos game. To many this may seem selfish to choose a football game over a friends wedding... but the tickets/hotels/traveling plans were made months ago, and I would regret not spending my first thanksgiving married with my husband. So on Thanksgiving, when you are all enjoying your turkey, stuffing, yams, roles, and pumpkin pie, you can think of how we are in the freezing cold, cheering our Giants on! Anyway, last night we went to Happy Sumo, a quaint little sushi bar that is absolutly AMAZING! We enjoyed watching Jane open her lingerie, and other exciting little trinkets. It is always fun to get away for a girls night. 

Today: Wayne and I went to a coworkers suprise party at I Love Sushi. Once again amazing, and ironic to eat sushi two nights in a row. I never eat sushi since my husband gags at the thought of fish...... I LOVE FISH! one of our small dilemmas. However, if thats the only problem in our marriage... I will settle:) Oh but I must say I was proud of Wayne tonight, he did eat some shrimp, and  crab that was in my sushi roll tonight.... WAY TO GO WAYNE!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Late Halloween everyone! We had a wonderful halloween weekend. We Started off our Friday night by having our friend's Todd and Jenny come over. We went and enjoyed some Sweet Home Chicago Pizza, then we stopped by a cute pumpkin patch by our house and picked us up some pumpkins. Later that night we enjoyed carving them, watching a scary movie, (The Grudge) and eating popcorn. That was the first scary movie I have seen in a year, and it didn't do to well for me, especially cause Wayne fell asleep on the floor, and left me on the couch ALONE! But besides that, a perfect night!

On Saturday, Halloween day, we enjoyed catching up on some household duties, running errands, and getting some lunch. We unfortunately don't have a front door, or Children, so we didn't have much to contribute to this festive holiday. To make up for our shortcomings, we decided to dress Otis up in last years cowboy outfit, and take him walking around the neighborhood. We saw many children from our ward, and they all seemed to love Otis the cowboy. We then headed up to Wayne's uncles to pass out some candy, and just enjoy talking. I always get excited to pass out candy since growing up we never got too.... but I do remember whoever did come to our house was in for a large candy bar treat. Anyway, thats was the extent of our night. A very relaxing Halloween day. Our first together married. We enjoyed it, and hope everyone else enjoyed theirs as well. Looking forward to hearing about them!

More Segregation Please....

So i've totally been slacking on my blog updates.... I will be writing a lot more this weekend when I have more spare time, but I just wanted to quickly post this for a little amusement. It made me laugh, and at the same time proves just how real it is.......

“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!”

"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!"

-George Wallace

Now I don't know how true this quote is... but I do know it sure stands today, just look at my students! They are awesome though, and I love them. Oh and I thought I'd throw in this picture of us and our tie dye shirts we made... Pretty Sweet huh? Just a fun little art project we did. Anyway, more updates on our lives soon to come!

Happy Birthday Wade Hill!

Today is Wayne's dad's birthday. Wade Hill would be turning 67 today. He is remembered by many. Although I did not have the privilege of really knowing Wade, I have seen in the eyes of his wife Hien, his 4 children, and many others, that he was a man with pure integrity. He showed love to everyone he knew, and was a wonderful father and husband. I love hearing stories of Wade, and seeing what an example he has made on Wayne. Although Wayne doesn't believe it, Wayne is becoming more and more like his dad everyday. I am so grateful that Wayne was raised by such loving parents. Thank you Wade! Happy Birthday! We miss you! and Love you so much!

Today is another birthday as well! Otis! Otis is now 28 years old in dog years, which means he's the oldest in the family. I declared him the man of the house today.... Happy Birthday Otis!

Birthday Weekend!

On monday I turned 22! Wow I am getting so old... haha. However, Wayne had Work and school till 9pm so we celebrated my birthday the weekend before. On thursday night wayne asked if I was packed. I was like Packed? For what? And he said we would be leaving Friday around 2 so make sure I had a swim suit and comfortable shoes. I wasn't allowed to know where we were going, but I am really excited! Wayne didn't know, but all i wanted was a weekend away. Friday we drove for 31/2 hours to a small one horse town. It was called Bryce Town. We were going to Bryce Canyon! I had always wanted to go. we first checked into our awesome hotel. It was brand new, so classy and absolutly perfect. It was off season so there was no one there. We walked around the little town looking at the shops, and went to a fabulous bbq buffet. Such good food! I definitly recommend it to everyone. We then went back to our hotel, and went hot tubbing. It was perfect. It was pretty chilly outside so it made it so fun. It really was the perfect night. The next day we woke up ate a wonderful breakfast and went up to the Bryce. I couldn't believe how unbelievable it was! I'd never seen anything like it. Wayne and I enjoyed walking around taking pictures, and noticing how we were the youngest people there! We finally had to get back home so we stopped in a small town ate some lunch and were on our way. I love being married to Wayne because he always is planning such fun things for us to do. He is the BEST! I LOVE YOU WAYNE HILL! Thanks for the wonderful birthday!

You never realize what you have, until you see what others don't have...

A little update on our current lives.... Wayne and I have been SUPER busy lately. Our days consist of work and school. Asleep by 10pm and up by 6am. Weekends we just want to relax and clean the apartment. I now feel like a true old married couple, just missing the kids. I have been really enjoying my new job as a teachers assistant. I work with high risk junior high students that are currently into gangs, drugs, and everything else you can imagine. Although this may scare some people to work with these kinds of kids, I for one love it! They are all 13, 14 years olds, stuck in foster homes, and have had horrible upbringings. They view life as a dead end and don't really think about a future. They should be in 8th grade, but some can't even read, let alone TRY to read. Everyday at lunch they tell me all their reasons for going to "DT" which is jail for kids. One kid tried killing his grandpa cause he was abusing his wife. That same kid bit the crap out of a cop for taking his mom away for drugs. One of my favorite girls, we call her princess because she really is such a sweetheart, she is only 13 years old and says next year she wants to have a baby with her boyfriend bo bo. Bo bo is in a gang and they aren't allowed to see each other. I later found out that in her entire history of family, everyone women had a child BEFORE they were 14 years old. They took her out and put her in foster care to help break the cycle. Hopefully it will work and her plan for next year will vanish. Before I started, the teacher i assist told me to be careful, these kids don't have real mothers and will attach themselves to me. I have already noticed them doing so. They are so sweet to me, joke around with me, and always want to hear about my current, and past life. To many people these children are dangerous, and should be locked up. To me they are sweet, smart children, just in need of someone who truly cares. Having a job like this shows me how wonderful my life is. I could have been placed in a home with parents who were abusive, addicted to drugs, and didn't care about me. Instead, I was placed with parents that show more love then a child could ask for. Thanks mom and dad. You are amazing. There may not be hope for the children I work with, but I can't do my part and teach them that their is more out there, and that they don't have to live in hell forever. Well, theres a little update on my job. More stories to come!

Family Photos

Wayne and I stayed up all night looking at our families from years back in time.... We noticed that the Nordstrom Girls all look quite similar. But everyone looks great in their new hair styles. Can you tell who is who???