Updateeeee

Well. It's been a longggg time.

To start off, our fish- Franco- died 2 days after we got him..I think he might have died from a heart attack cause he just shook wayyyy too much to be normal.

On a better note! I started a new full time job at a doctor's office. It's lots of fun, just keeps me super busy and makes me exhausted at the end of the day. I work with a lot of nice, fun people.

Jon and I start school in about 2 weeks. He is going to be taking 14 credits. I however, am only going to be taking 6 credits. I was going to be taking 12 credits, but no one told us about the $3,000 tacked on if you take 7+ credits. So...only 6 credits for me! One class is criminal justice and the other one is human and family development! Yay! But yeah, I'll have residency in May so I can take summer courses to make up the credits I couldn't take this first year.

Life is pretty crazy right about now though. Getting used to all the changes and everything, but it's a lot of fun. Except when Jon has to work the night shift. Then I leave at 7:30 and get home at 5:30 while he goes to work at 1 and gets home about 10. Luckily I go straight from work to his work to see him while he is on his lunch break. So..we at least get a little bit of time together...but that's pretty much how it's been lately. We don't get too much time together. Of course I do get Saturdays and Sundays off so whenever he isn't at work we're together. But this is just the beginning of life, so we can figure out how to do this all without missing each other too badly.

Last weekend we went to Arizona for my niece, Jayne's, baptism! She was so gorgeous! My little girl all grown up! I miss my family so much, I can't wait to see them again. I have such a great family! They are so supportive! That includes my new family too!

Oh and including in new family, Meg- my sister- is due October 24th!!! Yayyy!! I'm so excited to have little Skeeter Houston Bowman in our growing family! :)

Well..I don't know when I'll be able to write next..but that's the update!

Franco, our new addition.

We got a fish! His name is Franco, and he is a gold fantail fish. We believe he may have ADD..but we're not quite sure..He kinda twitches uncontrollably. BUT! That's what made us get him, he was perfect for us! He has a nice fish bowl with colorful rocks, a cute plant, a little sign that says- NO PESCAR!, and a cute bridge that he likes to swim under and over! He is just having the time of his life having his own pad all to himself! We are planning on saving a fish from a friend's ex, but we are not sure when we will be getting him.

This Sunday we are celebrating Franco's birthday! Mom and Dad Lee are going to be coming over for sour cream chicken enchiladas! I think we'll get him fish food for his birthday, he really likes food. Another reason why he is perfect for our family. :)

So there's the update for the newest member of our little family! Here are some pictures of our cute little Franco. The first one is a close up. The next is a picture of him and his new home. :)

First Sunday Teaching the 5 Year Olds!!!

So where should I start..I taught then about how choosing the right makes us happy! They were so cute! They participated, but I think that is mostly because they wanted the yummy brownies I made..treats + kids = good participation! But really, they know a lot about making right choices! They got to make the sad/happy face and I would read a scenario and they would have to say if that would make them happy or sad..and then how to make things better. They were so adorable! I love them so much, and it's only been one lesson! They sing all the songs in singing time and are just so reverent! They really are so fun.

Oh! and I just looked outside! It's raining, just thought I'd throw that in there! So anyways! Next week is going to be a great lesson! I'm super excited for this calling! I love being in singing time with all the little kids and taking care of them when they need help. I'm really really glad I've chosen to become a Preschool teacher..this just makes me even more sure of it! Well, that's all I got! If anyone has any ideas that I could use in my class, please let me know! I'd appreciate it a lot! Thanks!!

Our Honeymoon!

So! I realized that I didn't say anything about our wonderful honeymoon! We went to DISNEYLAND and CALIFORNIA ADVENTURES! It was so fun, just! being kids again! We had so much fun visiting the princesses in Disneyland, and the Cars section in California Adventures!


Of course we had to take the shot of us in front of the mickey head near the front of the park!

Snow White! I was so excited to meet her! She was such a nice princess!

Sleeping Beauty, Jayne's (my oldest niece) favorite princess.
Mulan! I know, I've never seen her anywhere at Disneyland before! It was so fun to meet her! She was always one of my favorites growing up!
Mator...doesn't he just look so cool??

Their eyes move back and forth, it's pretty cool!

! And of course, LIGHTNING MCQUEEN!!
A Happy Place, such a fun little spot to take pictures.

We also took pictures with Donald Duck, Chip from Chip & Dale, Pooh, Tigger, and Goofy. We had so much fun going around and riding our favorite rides together. We even shared our love of churros! They were so delicious! Jon even bought me the biggest pickle I think I've ever seen! I couldn't even finish it, but it was good! We even got to find out some tricks of Disneyland from our friends Bianca & Alex (who just so happened to be on their honeymoon at Disneyland the same time we were) so we got to spend some time with them too. But they took us to the tortilla shop in California Adventures where they are making fresh tortillas all day and you can get a free one! They were so delicious!

Jon and I got to go, for our first time ever, (mine because it's always been closed whenever we went, and his because he was too small last time he was there) Tower of Terror! It was soooo much fun! We screamed and had a good time, I was holding onto Jon's arm so tight! But we had so many good and fun adventures and memories there together. It was the best way we could've started out our new life together!!

Jon's Birthday + More!

Well. This week has been all over the place. I can't even remember much that happened. So we'll just start with Thursday:

Jon and his buddy, Tyson, went golfing in the morning and then he headed off to work. While his dad and I went to lunch and spent some quality time together. It was fun.

After he got off of work, we met up and went to the Pepper concert at the Knitting Factory. It was a lot of fun! We went to breakfast after with some friends and just had a good time. The next day aka Friday: JON'S BIRTHDAY!!! He's officially 23! We spent the morning together and I made him his favorite muffins, cranberry orange! They were absolutely delicious! After that, we went down to Gardnerville and I spent more time with Dad and Jon went golfing with his buddy, Nic. After that we went to the Gardnerville track and Jon got to ride! His good friend Jaime was kind enough to let him borrow his bike and they went out and tore it up. Literally, Jon and Nic had a slight collision and Nic did a front handspring over his handle bars. Jon flew in the air, landed on his head, and rolled. Luckily! He has a VERY good neck brace that took care of the impact and so no harm was done to them. Besides a little soreness. They took the bikes back to the pits and bent them back into shape! They were out riding again shortly! Hahaha..oh the adventures of riding. They had a really great day spending time together! It was fun to see Jon ride a track after 3 1/2 years! He hasn't really lost his smoothness on the bike, and he's so fast! We couldn't get a good picture of him! But hey, my husband is just a speedster! Haha, he's awesome, love the heck out of him! But it was really a great time, Mom and Dad Lee came out and we just had a lot of fun together. Jon, of course, was showing off his goon riding for me...he's just the cutest thing! After the riding we went back to Mom and Dad Lee's house, ordered pizza, and watched the Sandlot. We spent the night, obviously, cause we were just too tired and Jon was just so exhausted that we wouldn't have made it back to Sparks safely. But, we woke up and had bday cake for breakfast! It was fun. Now we are back home and Jon has to work later today, so he is just relaxing and taking it easy till then.

The AND MORE part of this all is:

it's my niece, Jayne's, birthday! She's is 8 years old! She's getting baptized August 7th! We are going down there for that and our friend, Jake's, farewell the 8th. We are so excited to spend that special day with Jayner's. She's just such a sweet and special spirit and child of our Heavenly Father. She's so gracious, kind, and sweet. She is such an example, at times, to us. We love her sooooo much! And we couldn't have wanted her to be any different than she is! Happy birthday and we love you Jayne!

Lots of Stuff

Where do I even start?

Friday morning we filled up with gas and on our way to the Celebrity Pro/Am tournament in Tahoe the truck started making really weird noises and doing this weird bucking thing. Well, Jon figured it was just really bad gas from the no name gas station. So we did all we could to fix it for the time being until we could get down to Mom and Dad Lee's house in Gardnerville, NV. Well, Jon and his dad tried some stuff to fix it, but it was still making the bucking noise and not sounding so good. So, we ended up taking his dad's jeep home. We went to meet up with his dad for dinner and to trade back cars. His dad had spent pretty much the entire afternoon driving the truck around trying to get rid of the bad gas. But of course, when you want the truck to get bad gas mileage and run it out, it doesn't! So he kept it Saturday night to take it up and down the grade on his way back home. Sunday morning he came over and the truck was still not sounding so good so Dad Lee decided to have us keep his jeep till he got back from a business trip in Arizona so that he could fix it for us. (He can fix anything, handyman of handymen!) So that's our car troubles for now..

But yesterday, Sunday, Jon and I had to give talks in Sacrament meeting. Mine was on: I am a child of God. It went well. Jon's was on: The Restoration, what it means to me. He did absolutely fabulous! He's such a great speaker/teacher!

We took a nice walk down to the park and then back home. It was nice just to be able to walk hand in hand and talk about different things. We still learn something new about each other every day! And I hope that keeps going on for the rest of our lives.

Today: We are going to take some things to TMCC (the community college) so we can keep things rolling for the fall. Later on Jon has work and I am going to take in an application to a retail store later on. I've never worked in retail and I'm not sure if it's my cup of hot chocolate. But it's worth a shot! I need to break out of my box and get some things going in life. I am also going to go into a restaurant for their open interview hours today. I had a little interview last week with a restaurant, but they had just hired 2 new people. But good news! They told me to come back in in about a month (if I'm still looking for a job) because they will have openings then, so that's a start! At least they didn't reject me! So that's always something to look forward to if nothing comes up till then.

Things are going well for us. Jon is liking his job, and he has a lot of responsibility. He comes home absolutely exhausted, but all of his hard work will definitely pay off. We are excited to keep things for school rolling. Life is just good right now. But, then again, it always has been.

eh.. :/

So I am going out applying for jobs.. honestly, it scares the heck out of me. But, I need to do it so I will have something that will get me out of the apartment. And help me interact with people so I won't get so lonely all the time when Jon is at work.

I guess it's time to grow up right? eh.. yeah. So off I go, into the wild blue yonder! Flying high...okay okay, just kidding. But really, I'm leaving to go take my resume into a restaurant that I applied for online..wish me luck :/...

Yeah..that's all I got..

Oh man...

So yesterday Jon and I just kind of took our time and studied for the Accuplacer Test at TMCC (Truckee Meadows Community College) where we will be starting out this fall. Well, I helped Jon with his Math and I thought I was going to be all good until we got to the College Math Section..oh my goodness..I seriously needed my soul (a paper that we had in pre-calc in highschool that helped soooooo much on everything). But then I decided that it would be better to start out lower and review stuff in a class then get into like pre-calculus again and just fail out. But then we get to the test and I'm feeling pretty good about the English portion, except my computer (the only one in the entire lab) was making a beeping noise that they told me couldn't be turned off. So I was all distracted and what not. I didn't do too bad, I hate writing on the spot essays and so I did okay on that section. And then it comes to the Math section, I had maybe two easy ones out of twenty! Yeah! All of them were College Math questions! I had noooo idea! And when I would do it the way that I was suppose to, the answers were all jacked up. It was just bad..So can you say- yeah, Sara is going to be in first grade Math!

Luckily though, I already have English 101 done with so even though I'm horrible at writing, I don't have to start out low.

But man, Jon schooled me in everything! He even got a point more than me in Math and that's not even his subject he's good at! He got like 18 more points than me in English and his essay was in their words- amazing. He is seriously going to have to help me in English and I'll probably have to help him in Math, if he ever stops being a genius! My goodness, I certainly married above me for sure.

Then after that we just ran a few errands and went to the pool. Then being the wonderful husband he is, he watched SYTYCD with me. He even listened to me yell at the stupid judges when they praised idiot dancers. (aka- Robert, I hate him with the passion of a thousand burning suns.) Like really, he gets paired with an amazing all-star and choreographer! He doesn't even dance the dance that great and then he pulls the sympathy card on everyone. He is so annoying! The whole dance was suppose to be about Travis and his mom and Robert turned it into- feel sorry for me and everything my mom's been through. His mother is fine now! He should have let it be Travis' shining moment as a choreographer with such an intense, beautiful piece. Ugh..I just can't stand him. I hope he is in the bottom three so he gets kicked off. He's been in the bottom three for like three weeks! There's a reason for that judges! KICK HIM OFF! They keep just weeding them out, and he NEEDS to be gone. Well. That's my opinion. Tootle Loo.

Parents Are Gone...

So today my dad and I went to the silk plants outlet! Way cool! Jon and I are going to go sometime when we know what kind of plants we want to get to finalize our house decor. After that, we went to pick up Mom from the apartment and they took me grocery shopping. I don't even know where I am going to store all of the stuff. I think I may need to rearrange our apartment a little bit to make some room for food! So excited! Thanks Mom and Dad!!! They are the best!

We then went to pick Jon up on his lunch break for some yummy lunch from Fuddruckers, again :), and I took Mom into Scheels where she tried different kinds of yummy fudge! Next time they visit, we will make time for Gelato! Dad, Mom, and I then went to get pedicures! Where I was told by a very good salesman nail technician that my toes are perfect for french tip ($10 more) haha.

But he was a nice guy who was pretty hilarious. We then came home and packed Mom and Dad up and they were on there way to go over to spend some time with Aunt Mary and Uncle Dan!

The past few days have just been full of fun and adventures! I love my parents sooooo much and we cannot wait to see them, as well as everyone in the family, next month for Jayne's baptism! Such a special day, and we get to spend it with our special princess and family!

Man, just gotta love the family and all the fun we have together!

Parents Are Here..

So my parents came into town yesterday morning. Jon had to work all day yesterday, so my parents went to church with me. It was interesting.. haha, but fun! We had a great dinner last night- cooked by yours truly- and had great conversation! I really have missed my parents. They are such amazing people! They told us all about the Central Coast wide Youth Conference they just put on and how everything went great! We were so happy for them! They put so much hard work into it!

Today my parents and I went and did some shopping and had fun, like old times, and then we had lunch at Fuddruckers with Jon on his lunch break! It was great! Soooo delicious!

My mom and I just layed out at the pool for a bit. While Dad took a nap on our very small couch. He is so funny/cute. Now we are going to pick up Jon from work and go take Mom and Dad up to see the beautiful Lake Tahoe! We are very excited to be able to spend time with them, even if it is just for a few days!!!!

Exciting Stuff Right There...

Well, Jon has to work today...bummer.

Mom and Dad Abbott are on there way here!!! So excited to see them!! It's been about a month and a half since we've seen them. But we get to see them next month too at Jayne's baptism. And then for Thanksgiving down in SLO. But I'm more than ecstatic to see them this time! I miss my mom and dad.

We are going to have a ton of fun the next day or two. The are leaving, I believe, Tuesday morning. So that's kind of a bummer, but they have to get back to their busy lives. So I guess it's okay. :)

Well. Jon and I talked about it yesterday, and for my sanity's sake, I'm going to get a job! I'm going to apply at some restaurants around the area. Since I like to help people and I like food. Why not?! So yeah, wish me luck!

I should probably finish cleaning up the house before Mom and Dad get here!

Once Upon A Time...

Jon and I met in SLO where we were living at the time and became best friends from the first night. We just got along so well and trusted one another's opinion. We dated exclusively for 3 months when we got engaged. And 5 months later, we were married. We've been married now for almost 2 months and life couldn't be better.

Our life so far has been a fun adventure. We are learning new things every day about one another. It's fun to go through life with your best friend by your side.

Jon is working at a pretty great job. It's just a lot of work on his end. He is doing such a great job there though! He's really helping them out and learning a lot about people!

We will be starting school in the fall. Jon will be going into Human Resources through the business degree route and then going into leadership consulting.

I will be going into Early Childhood Education with an emphasis in Preschool! We are both so excited to get back into school and get going on life!

Everything is so wonderful! We are really blessed.