8 years yesterday!

Sonny and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary yesterday! Wow! But it has truly been a wonderful 8 years. We met at BYU in January of 2000. We were both living in the same apartment complex and met through a friend. We had a few classes together and got to know each other until the semester ended in April. We had started dating in March and Sonny decided to take a job in Palmdale as a Pest Control salesman so that we could spend the summer together in California. We dated the whole summer and into the next school year and then got engaged November 2000. We got married in the Los Angeles Temple, my favorite temple (why? hello, I'm a Cali girl!) and, of course, it was an incredible day.

Since we have been married, we have had lots of amazing experiences. Here are some of the places we have lived: Provo, Utah (where, for the last 6 months we lived there, we house sat for a family who had 1 dog, 3 cats, 2 ducks, and a chicken... absolutely loved it, except for the ducks...those suckers are so mean!) , La Verne, CA, here, and soon to be Tacoma, WA.

Here are some of the places we have traveled to together: New York City (Sonny interviewed at Columbia University), San Francisco, Washington D.C. (for an externship at Walter Reed), Washington State (also for an externship at Fort Lewis), and hopefully in 4 years, Germany (I knew I took German in high school for a reason!) And that doesn't count all the layovers during all of our flights.

Anyways, love you hun and I look forward to our fantastic future together!

I wish I was an architect...

In college, I majored in Humanities but my most favorite classes were the ones where I learned about architecture. I remember being totally and utterly amazed by so many of the structures that had been built around the world. Whenever we go out anywhere, I am always on the lookout for cool architecture. And when I see something I like, I snap a picture. Last weekend, we planned a trip to Balboa Park, San Diego to check out an event called Woofstock (I know, sounds totally lame...). Besides the fact that I LOVE dogs, I thought Tay would also have a blast seeing the tons of dogs there. Well, it turned out to be not what we expected. It was pretty much designed for families that had dogs. So we decided just to walk around the fabulous park and see the sights. Here are some of my favorites:

Easter

We spent Easter this year at my sister Sarah's house in Laguna Niguel. My parents and little sister, Elizabeth (home from BYU Idaho for spring break) were also there. My sister's husband, Rocky, also invited some of his family. We all had a terrific time and enjoyed a huge dinner together. Taylor's favorite part was playing with Sarah's miniature dachsund, Daisy. He was busy the whole time just chasing her around the house. Rocky's brother has 2 children and Taylor really had fun with them. I've noticed that Taylor really loves hanging out with older kids... it's funny to watch. He's never shy around them and actually likes to show off a little. Taylor has such a funny sense of humor. I love it! Anyways, I put together a bunch of eggs with treats in them and we had an easter egg hunt in her backyard. While putting them together, I was trying to think up something funny to put in some of the eggs. Since I was a kid, I have always loved pickles and I remembered how growing up, my Nana (what I called my dad's mother) used to put a piece of a pickle in one of the eggs. It was always a tasty little easter snack! Overall, I think I liked looking for the eggs more than Taylor. Like any other little kid, as soon as he realized there was candy in the eggs, he wasn't interested in the hunt anymore. Like I've mentioned before, Taylor lives for chocolate. We also had a fun time visiting with Bosh (oops, I mean Elizabeth!)

I forgot to mention that Taylor also got an awesome Easter basket, and yes, Sonny got one too. He insisted. A couple days before Easter, we dyed our eggs. And the next day, dyed them over again (but this time in juice and water... pretend dye!). Taylor was fascinated with dying eggs for a few days there until every last egg had broke. Altogether, it was a fun holiday with family!