THE CRAZIEST WEEK AND WEEKEND!

So this past week was hectic, so I am going to take this time to vent and complain a bit so please bare with me. first off I had to open at my work at 4:45 am 3 days in a row this week, which I am so not a fan of but whatever money is money. Second I tried to register my car in California because I live in a community where you have to have parking permits to park on the street at night and they will not give me a pass because I do not have California license plates.. lame. So I was going to try and get it registered however, it turns out because I got my car for sale by owner back in Utah when I bought it last April, I did not get charged sales tax so when the DMV near my house found out that, they told me it would be $630 bucks to register my car because the state of California was going to charge me taxes since I was not charged before when I bought the car! How ridiculously stupid and uncalled for is that?! So needless to say I walked out of their without registering it at all.. I was NOT going to pay $630 bucks to get my car registered in Cali just so I can park on my street for 2 nights of the week.. the other nights I can park in the garage because my bro-in-law Scott works graveyard shifts those nights so he does not need to park in the garage. As for the other nights I may or may not get a ticket and or towed... but so far so good and I still have my $630 bucks!

Then this weekend starting on Thursday I babysat my sister's bosses 5 little crazy kids all weekend. My sister's boss Doug and his wife went to Boston so I slept at their house and babysat their 5 kids. Thier was an 18 year old (was at scout camp most the weekend) a 14 year old girl, a 10 year old boy, a 5 year old boy and last but not least a almost 3 year old boy that is not potty trained... which equals fun, fun, fun!!
I have not really babysat since I was 14 and it was never an over night thing let alone a 4 day extravaganza.. the only kid I have really babsat hardcore is my baby neice Zoe, so this was a whole new adventure for me! Lets just say I had NO IDEA what I was getting myself into..These kids were CRAZY AND OUT OF CONTROL! It was probably the hardest thing I have done in a long time.. and it was great birth control! It definatley made me realize I am not ready for kids anytime soon... (besides the obvious reason ha)

Then last of all I had to speak in Sacrament at church on Sunday in my new singles ward here. I some how have dodged the bullet of ever having to speak in church since I started going to singles wards until now. I don't really mind public speaking though so I was not too nervous about it, I was more worried about the planning part of it because I am not one to wing it or procrastinate and since I had a crazy week last week I was freaking out about planning it and getting it done on time, but of course it all worked out and I feel like I did a pretty good job.

So there ya go that was the details of my crazy week, I have a pretty normal week this week so weeks like last week make me appreciate the normal weeks so much more!

This is how I felt this week stressed and unsure

HALLOWEEN AND FRIENDS!

So when I moved here my sister told me that it would probably take about 3 months for me to make friends and or feel like I have made it "In" with people here in Cali, and boy was she right on the money! I made friends right when I moved here, but it was not until just barley that I really started to feel like I belong and or found a "group" of friends that I could just go and hang out with. Slowly but surely I made it. Nobody can ever and will ever compare to my old crews of friends in Utah though but why not add to the group?

A bunch of us got together and went to a dance in Hunnington Beach for Halloween so that was fun. However, it ended up being a 35 and older singles dance and we had no idea, so that was definatley entertaining ha good thing there was a big group of us or else it would have been really wierd!

I bought an annual pass to Disneyland and I have actually been quite a few times recently. A bunch of people in my ward also have annual passes to disneyland so it has been fun to get a bunch of us together that have passes and go to disneyland at night which is awesome!

THANK YOU SUNNY CALIFORNIA!!

So the word on the street.. or shall I say facebook is that it SNOWED in Utah this week!! Now if I was still there I would be TICKED!! anytime it snows before Halloween when I lived in Utah I was always so mad and bitter about it.

On the bright side, I am going to be a brat for a minute and rub it in all of your faces that here in Cali this week the weather has been absolutley beautiful!! Seriously my bro in law Scott even took my niece Zoe to the beach yesterday, and where I work people are laying out by the pool! It is almost November and people are laying out? ha LOVE IT! I have never experienced this before at this time of year. Usually for me it hits the end of September and I start to hate until the end of March or April until it starts to get warm again in Utah. However, this year months mean nothing cause it will be warm or atleast luke warm all year! muaahhhh hahhaa!!

Now the last couple weeks in Cali the weather was kind of lame, it rained here for a week straight and yes I was quite ticked about it... however everybody here kept telling me it was just a fluke and that it never rains here and the weather here is always usually pretty nice... so I bared with it and knew it would pass. I also figured as long as I did not have to deal with snow I could not complain too much.

So yes I will bask in the sunlight here while you all freeze in the snow...

My Parents Came to Visit!

Adorable!

Snow on the beach?

It looks like it is snowing, but it was just raining

I love them!

Beach by our house

Space Mountain!!

We look good

Mickey Mouse Disneyland Trick or Treat Party

It is amazing how much you take your parents for granted when you live with them. Now that I don't live with my mom and dad anymore I appreciate them so much more. Seriously moving out has made me realize how amazing my mom and dad truly are and how lucky I am to have them.

My mom use to drive me nuts at home in Utah at times, however now that I don't live there with her, the things that use to drive me nuts about her kinda make me laugh and miss her...wierd how that works. My dad is just so funny and handy and was able to give me a blessing this weekend and it made me so greatful for them. I love them so much!

We had alot of fun with them here and did alot of fall-ish things. We went to a pumkin patch Thursday night for Zoe, as well as a Halloween costume store to pick out costumes to wear to Disneyland's Trick or Treat party on Friday night.

Friday we went to Disneyland's Mickey Mouse Halloween party. Everybody dresses up to go, and they kick everybody else out who does not have a ticket for it out of the park. They have trick or treat stations all around Disneyland where they pass out HUGE amounts of candy, and I mean the good stuff like Gardelli chocolates, M&M's, Snickers, Milkyways, etc. We ended up getting SO much candy seriously we each had 2 huge bag fulls! It is bitter sweet because now we are going to be eating candy for months...

On Saturday we just kind of hung out and took it easy during the day. Then at night we all went to the beach and took pictures and got hot chocolate.. it was kinda cold that day, however our pictures turned out great.

My parents left on Sunday morning. They never stay that long, but it was great to spend time with them and see them again to be able to appreciate them more.

Pics of My New Life

Chasing Zoe on the beach

My huge walk-in closet

Bed side of my new room in Cali

Part of my new room

Am I Really Awake Right Now?

So..... as crazy as this sounds, it is 5:00 am right now and I have already been at work for almost a half hour, as well as been awake and up and going for an hour and a half already....depressing? a little bit ya! I work at a gym, and since most gyms open at 5:00 am, that means on the days I open I am scheduled to work at 4:45 am which means I have to wake up around 3:40 am and leave my house by 4:10 am...gross!

I do it, but not going to lie it is hard. On the nights before the morning I have to wake up at the crack of dawn, I try to be in bed by 9:30 or 10:00 pm, however for people my age in my generation that is nearly impossible to do... we are just not trained to go to bed that early!

The good thing about working so early is that I get off work by 11:00 am. However, since I work at the gym, I stay after work to get my work out in for the day, so I don't usually get done until about 1 pm, but still to be done with work and working out by 1:00 pm everyday is pretty sweet! If I have nothing going on that day and nothing that I seriously need to get done, I go home and take a much needed nap, and let me tell you what, I love my naps!

My mom however wakes up at 3:30 am every morning by choice cause she is an overachiever... she tries to accomplish the world all before she leaves for work at 7:00 am. Seriously that woman is AMAZING, a little crazy at times, but AMAZING!

So here is props to my mom, and a little venting time from me about my schedule...

ZOE MONSTER!!

So this little monster is the reason I live here... well one of the reasons..

how do you not love that face?

my new family I live with

love being an aunt

her hair keeps getting blonder and blonder

Zoe is my only niece and my first time being an aunt, she is the only granchild on my side, so she is SPOILED!! ha ha but we love it! She is hillarious, seriously this kid can't sit still for the life of her, she always has to be doing something and into something. She is not much of a cuddler because she can't just sit still with you, no way no how, she has gotta be on the go!

She now knows how to say my name...sorta.. ha she calls me "Sheee sheee" ha love it!! She can say her name now too, so cute, she says, "Zooooo---eeee" Oh she just melts my little heart! I love the fact that I live with her now. I use to have to wait every couple months until I would get to see her, and it was so hard. Therefore, I love that I get to see her and spend time with her everyday, and she knows who I am and can say my name! Needless to say I love being an aunt and living with my little Zo Zo monster!!