LVN school

School has started once again. I love the busy schedule but i miss going on random trips to visit family and friends. My life consists of school, work and studying. I think i did more reading the first month of school than ive ever done. This was the first badge of books i bought..

Here goes the next year of my life! :/

Mike's Birthday Party

Mike is such a lucky guy. Our anniversary is on the 17th and his birthday is on the 19th..that's double the celebration! This year I wanted to throw him a birthday party. It was going to be surprise but it was too tricky to hide everything from him so he knew about it. All he knew really was that there was going to be food and friends. I took care of the rest. It was such a great day! I had a few months to prepare so I was able to enjoy it too instead of scrambling around at the last minute. The theme was Hawaiian Luau.

Joel helping me set up the day prior

The food table was very delicious!

Isaac was super excited his mom let him have ROOT BEER!

Scott and the beautiful miss baby Sophia

For dinner we had steak kabobs, fruit kabobs, potatoe salad, pasta salad and other goodies. So yummy!

Thanks Karin and family for coming even though they had JUST arrived to California after a long flight.

 Great times with friends and family!

Karin throwing up gang signs at baby Eva? ;)

 Stephanie and baby Logan

 Ga and Papa. Oh we love them!

 The new generation of YSA ward

 To keep the luau theme going I made some pineapple upside down cakes. Don't let the presentation fool you, they were DELICIOUS!!

 Mike had a great time, he was all smiles the whole time. He thanked me at the end of the night for throwing such a great party and said he had had a great time. Anything for you hubs!

 I wonder what he wished  for? Hope it comes true!

 My mom drove all the way from home to be at Mike's party. Thanks mom it meant alot!

 The birthday boy got lots of treats from the Skidmores including his favorite, diet coke!. From mom and dad he got a new tent to take to all of the scout camp outs.

 I gave him a sleeping bag to go along with the camp theme :)

 Thanks to all our friends and family who came out to the party! Mike had a great time

Just wanted to show proof of what wonderful friends we have that helped clean up in a matter of minutes. And thanks papa for setting up all those chairs and tables too!



Happy Birthday Michael!



First Anniversary

I can't believe how fast time has gone by. I can't believe that Michael and i have grown even closer and have gotten to known each other so much more. He is just such an incredible husband and I love him so much. I am happy that we made the right decision to get married in the San Diego Temple for time and all eternity.

Some Things I love about Mike:

-He thinks i'm better and smarter than i really am
-He is nice to EVERYONE
-If i'm having a bad day he has something funny to say/dance to cheer me up
-He massages my feet even though he just got home from a long day at work
-He has a strong testimony and always honors his priesthood
-He helps others without being asked
-He always wants to know what I think
-He bought me a beautiful house and works hard to provide for our needs
-He always pushes me to be better
-He thinks i'm beautiful no matter what i'm wearing
-Every single day before going to work he gives me a kiss and tells me he loves me
-He picked ME to spend forever with

I couldn't have chosen any one more perfect for me. He is my everything. I can't imagine life without him now that I actually met him. I look forward to growing old together. I told Mike he's not ever allowed to die before me, I just couldn't live with that. Adoro a mi ojitos de cielo!

Here are some Randome pictures of us:

Where it all started: Mike and I met in Institute because we were both in the council. I thought he was a geeky boy when i first saw him but because i'm so nice i wanted to be everyone's friend so we started talking. This was to his advantage. Apparently he had already had his eyes set on me before this Institute overnighter.

This was one of the first dances we went to. It was a traffic light dance. Green was for single. Yellow was for dating and Red was for taken. We were both wearing green. This was also to his advantage. I believe this was were he got my cell phone number. From here we started texting. Then he started giving me rides to church firesides and activities.

 This was one of the "activities" he gave me a ride to. It was a 66ers game.

Then he started coming over to my house and go swimming with my roomates. He started coming over and hanging out with us more and more.

Finally he decided to ask me to be his girlfriend after like 4 months! This was our first Valentines day. Funny story. He texted me to find out my address a month before and i didn't think anything of it so i didn't pay attention to see if i gave him the right address. Apparently I haden't and on valentines day a lady and her son came to my door and said here, these are your flowers. I was so confused, Umm thanks? 5 minutes later Mike walked into my door and said a lady a couple of apartments down had gotten my flowers. Thankfully she was nice and called the number on the box. Mike talked to her and told her the correct apartement number. He had to come over and make sure the lady had really delivered them. He still laughs at me till this day for giving him my wrong apartment number.

At marsix's farewell party. My family all has been very nice to michael and have made him part of the family. I love that!

Sometimes I think Michael is not listening but he always is. One day I was going off about how i've never gone fishing. The next day Mike took me to get a new fishing pool and bate and we went fishing and riding up the mountain. He's such a good listener.

 Fun times driving to my mom's with Michael. I love that I can be myself (a total goofball) around him.

Mike making me breakfast on a saturday morning. Usually this is what i wake up to every Sunday morning.

I love that Michael is always making me try new things. I didn't think it was that fun to ride on a quad, then he couldn't get me off it.

 This is a honey moon picture. We spent a week at Huntington. Here we are driving a tandem bike by the beach.

 We went to Disneyland and had dinner for one of our honey moon nights. I saw these cute hats and had to take a picture of us.

 For Michael's birthday we went to Universal Studios. I can't believe we've spent 3 birthdays together. Crazy

 This is a dating picture. Like I said, I can be a total dork around him and he still loves me.

 Disneyland. While we were daring Mike bought me a Disneyland pass which we used quite often. We love going ever chance we get. Here he is kicking my butt on buzz.

 Michael is hillarious. He's always making me laugh even when i'm supposed to be in a grouchy mood I just can't.

 Dad has most of our engagement pictures on his computer but I found this one. He did such a great job. I should post more. This was is so cute. Love it!

I love my Michael with all my heart! I still get so excited when he walks in the door from work. I'm so lucky i'm' in love with my best friend!! <3<3

Javy's wedding

My best guy friend in highschool hot hitched! So happy for him. We shared such great memories, duets, and laughs in highschool. I was so excited that he had found the girl to spend the rest of his life with. Mike and i made a weekend trip down to be there for the special day. At the reception it was like a highschool reunion. I loved seeing all my old band geek friends, and i was amazed to see how much they drink now and how much fatter we all have gotten :-D
Kinda hard to see the pictures cause my iphone didnt do well with the "mood lighting"

This is Alex. As you can see by the goofy face hes pretty crazy guy. We spent most of pur highschool years together from mutual, band early practice, morning seminary, school, band sectionals after school, football games, school and church dances. We got to know each other pretttty well

After the party we went out for dessert
Since we didnt want to go across the border to spend the night and then cross again for church we just rented a hotel. In the morning we met my mom at church. Since we were hungry and again didnt want to cross the border just to have lunch we went to home town buffet.joel came back with us and for the first time drove back the whole way. Its nice to have such an enthusiastic driver with his permit drive us around ;)

BirthDAY

Michael turned the big 2-6 this year. This is the third birthday i have shared with him. I remember going over to his house for his 24th. I didnt want to go because i didnt know anybody and there was always a ton of people at his house. Now its so much different and i love it. Its nice to know ALL those people. But anyways, mikes birthday fell on a tuesday so we werent able to do much. Though i worked monday till midnight i was happy to wake up at 5 and cook him some birthday breakfast. Mike woke up in a great mood by the way. Maybe it was cause he woke up to the smell of breakfast.

I also made him an extra delicious lunch when he came home. Mike was all smiles and i knew he was having a great day because he wouldnt stop talking :-D he was just happy that i "went all out" for him
After work i asked where he wanted to go eat, after thirty minutes of "i dont know ill go wherever" we went to Rosamaria's. It was Joels first time, good stuff as usual


For mutual i baked some Brownies to celebrate "brother stewarts" birthday

Finally our night ended with taking funny mutual boys home. Its fun to see how much the boys like michael. Theyre always following him around everywhere.We were all laughing so hard i couldnt get a good picture. It was a fun night.

I will later post pictures of michaels birthday luau i threw him.