Happy Birthday Ryan!

Ryan turned 24 today! 

Here are some pictures of what happened today!

Ryan received a "U" Lanyard to use for work...

and a new shirt!

He also got this awesome Popcorn Machine! He's been wanting one for the longest time, so now he finally has one!

We had some people over to play games and hang out, and we had some of Ryan's favorite foods, fruit snacks, Swedish fish, Laffy Taffy, Pink Lemonade and of course Popcorn from the new machine!

Ryan's cool Batman Cupcake Cake!

Ryan and our niece Emma.

Ryan blowing out his candles.

We had a lot of fun playing Warewolf and some other games and now Ryan is off playing some video games with Greg, Derek and Ricky. So I think I would say that Ryan has had a pretty good Birthday today, at least I hope he did! I love you Ryan and can't wait for the years to come!

Valentine's Day!

For Valentine's Day I woke up to go to work to find that Ryan had washed my car before I woke up, that in itself was a great way to start out the day! 

Later that morning, Ryan sent me flowers to work and they were very pretty!

Ryan and I were able to have lunch during my lunch break and after work we headed to Tucanos for a nice Valentine's dinner. There were sooo many people there and the wait time was 2 hours, luckily Ryan and I had made reservations. When they seated us, we sat down and 30 seconds later, a couple came back from the salad bar to sit down where the waitress had just seated us, at their table. It was kind of awkward for a second, the couple was like, "Uh, what the? uh, where do we go now?" And they went to get a waitress, and they had to find a different spot for them. That's how busy it was, that the second someone got up from a table or I guess both of them, they thought that they were gone and gave the table to someone else, kinda funny. 

We had the usual Tucanos meal plus some specialty items that they served for Valentine's Day and some Chocolate covered strawberries, it was way good!

Besides Ryan getting me Flowers and cleaning the car, he also surprised me with a new camera, I know, I'm way spoiled. I was so surprised that he had gotten a camera and told him that it wasn't an even Valentine's at all. I had litterally gotten him a HUGE box of Laffy Taffy from Costco, which has like 200 pieces of candy in it and that was it. I told him that we could only spend $10 on each other, and what does he do? Buy a camera. Eh, I'm not complaining though, I've been complaining about our lame camera forever and I'm happy that we finally have a camera that will take pictures and not eat AAA batteries every day (no joke, we replaced the batteries everytime we used it, the camera obviously didn't want to work anymore) Now we have a new Black Canon PowerShot Camera. Yay!

So this Valentine's Day was awesome, to say the least! In the words of Katy Perry, I'm glad that "Every February, You'll be my Valentine!" I love you Ryan!

P.S.-Since Ryan did outshine me with stuff this Valentine's Day, I did end up getting him Quelf during my lunch break, now we have to break in our new game and play it with people! Yay for new games!

Dang you Jacie :)

 Apparently I was "tagged" on my friend Jacie's Blog to do 15 interesting things about yourself in your next blog post, so here I go!

1. All my life, I've always had a fan blowing on me at night. Growing up, I shared a room with my sisters and I would always have the "swamp cooler" on, even if it blew dead and alive bugs into our room/on our bed. Ryan gets cold and hates having the fan on, but after a year and a half of being married, he's finally realized that I'm not gonna change and switch off the fan, even if it's below 0 outside.

2. My dad is an identical twin and he and my uncle played little ricky on "I love Lucy" from the age of 6 months to 4 years old.

I'm pretty sure my Dad is the one on the right.

3. Growing up, I had a big trampoline that was dug into the ground and we pilled up the dirt around it and covered it was ghetto carpet to make hills to jump onto the tramp. My brothers also made a pretty sweet volleyball court with nice sand in it and we got a few years out of it, until the wasps decided to make their nests in the sand. Good times.

4. My senior year of high school, I practically lived at my friend Max's house (also Nicole's, Dylan's and Bethany's) for days/weeks at a time, not because of family issues, just because it was closer to school once we moved to Baldwin Park.

5. I had a full head of dark black hair when I was born.

6. My favorite Band has always been Weezer because it makes me think of my brothers Brigham and Serge blasting Weezer's Blue Album during Volleyball/Trampoline Parties.

7. I have the worst memory in the world, but I can remember everything about April 18, 2008 like it was yesterday, that was the day that one of my best friends was killed by a drunk driver.

8. I never change in front of people. I've had friends since forever, and they still haven't really ever seen me change in front of them, I'm just weird like that.

9. Whenever I hear the song, "God Be With You Til We Meet Again", I think of funerals and it makes me want to cry.

10. I've always been attracted to the bigger, muscular, Football type of guy and for some reason Samoan's, but lets just say, Ryan's not Samoan, but I wouldn't have it any other way :)

11. When I was younger, I used to hate being in a pool alone because I thought that a shark was gonna get me, so if I was ever the last one in the pool I would always run out as fast as I could. Oh man, I just typed that and laughed out loud, how ridiculous hahaha

12. This is kind of similar to Jacie's straw thing, but whenever I go back home and eat at this hole in the wall, Mexican Restaurant, Patty's, I fold my number stub the exact same way. Fold it in half, and half again, but then unfold them and fold it into a triangle (if that makes sense...)

13. I never in a million years thought that I would be married by the age of 20, and before a lot of my other friends growing up.

14. I'm pretty sure that I've only said 5 bad words in my whole life and every time I did say a bad word, it never sounded right coming out of my mouth.

15. I love singing Alto. I'm not the best at it and if I don't know a song, I can't really site read too well, but I love singing Alto and don't think I could sing the Soprano part of any song even if I tried.

Ok, well apparently I get to choose some people to do this on their blog, if they dare to. It was actually pretty hard thinking of 15 things, but I challenge Nicole, Alyssa, Kammy, Kimber and pretty much anyone else who reads this blog to do the same thing on your next blog post it was fun trying to think of different things.

Movin' on Up!

Training was annoying, hard, exhausting, stressful, frustrating, long, trying, emotional and so much more, but it is finally over! I moved up to the second floor and onto a team today! Woot woot! 

 

That means that I have to start learning a COMPLETELY different script, (why they don't teach us the actual script during training is beyond me) but it's progress! I had a little meeting with my Team Leader and he was saying that my Trainer told him that he sees the most potential in me out of anyone that has come out of training the last month. Which I'm way flattered, and surprised, mainly because my trainer hasn't said anything nice to me or about me this whole time during training, but I guess he treats the ones with the most potential the worst? haha I don't know how that makes sense, but that's how they roll. So, I'm excited to start the next "phase" of this job. 

On a side note, I get home from work tonight to find Ryan had made Homemade Chicken Alfredo (which was AMAZING!) and he made a Valentine's Cake, just because. How lucky am I? Extremely. The little things can really go a long way.

Getting behind

 Long story short, our laptop screen got cracked by this cutie!

He's growing up so fast! He's not even my kid, but he seriously is growing up too fast!

Anyways, so the laptop has been in the shop for the last few days, so I haven't been able to check anything online for the last few days. I don't really care about my email or Facebook, but I hate getting behind on ready blogs! It's only been a few days and I'm way behind on some people's blogs, lame!! 

As far as everything else goes, work is good/bad. It's the hardest most simple job I've had, but it is definitely emotionally draining some days. I'm getting better, which is good, but I've got a long way to go. We went from a training group of 25 to having only 14 people left on week 4 (people have quit). Yesterday they told one girl that she isn't cut out for this job and her last day is tomorrow (kinda intense). 

My Assistant Trainer, who is a woman (which in this company there are only like maybe 20 woman doing this job, so it's a man's world) has been helping me one-on-one for the last two days and has even taken time out of her schedule to record herself, so I can listen to how she does the script, which is pretty cool. It's nice to know that she believes in me with this line of work, but in some ways, I wish I wasn't cut out for it, cuz it is so difficult. But she's told me a few times already that she knows I'm gonna do well with this, I've just got to stick with it. So that's a little update on work. 

An update on everything else...

Earlier this week I was able to go to Kara and Jeremy's during my lunch break to hang out with Kara cuz they live like 1 mile away from where I work. We had some fun talking and watching "19 Kids and Counting". Hopefully it will become a weekly thing being able to hang out with her, definitely mixes things up!

Random note:
Here are some pictures of my newest nephew Coal! He was born January 18, 2011.

A day after he was born...

He's only 2 and a half weeks old now, and he already looks so big! What a cutie!

Hopefully everyone else is doing awesome and hopefully I'll be able to catch up on reading people's blogs soon!