Zumba

Have you ever done Zumba?

Zumba at 4EverybodyFitness

For the first time ever I tried Zumba, this past Tuesday. Our RS activity this week was Zumba and then smoothies afterwards. I was fun, besides the fact that someone in RS thought it was a good idea to go around and take pictures of us while we were dancing? Hello, what are they thinking, first off most women don't want their picture taken and second, no one wants their picture taken when they are red faced, sweating, and looking stupid. Anyways...

So after the class the lady, who is my stake and has a workout studio, said that she was looking for free babysitters for the studio, all you have to do is babysit one hour a week and you get to take classes for free at her studio.

So you are looking at the new Thursday morning babysitter. I figured that for an hour of my time I could work out almost everyday for an hour free. Since her classes are $10 a class it's like paying me $10-60, depending on how many classes I attend, an hour. Plus, she doesn't only teach Zumba, she also teaches R.I.P.P.E.D., Pilates, Yoga, Barbell Blast, Turbo Kick, and Hip Hop Hustle.

How's that for a kick in the pants to get started on working out!

50 Questions to Ask your Spouse on a Date Night

I came across a website that had 50 Questions to Ask your Spouse on a Date Night So in light of it being Valentines I thought I would post them. On the site they say "Don’t try to tackle too many in one setting. It’s actually best if you just get through a few but really talk in detail." So I figure the next time my husband and I are sitting down to eat I am going to ask him a few.

1. What are your 5 favorite foods, with the most favorite first?

2. What are your 5 favorite kinds of meals, with the most favorite first?

3. What are your 5 favorite desserts, with the most favorite first?

4. What are your 5 favorite restaurants, with the most favorite first?

5. What is your favorite color?

6. What are your 5 favorite hobbies, with the most favorite first?

7. What are your 5 favorite recreations, with the most favorite first?

8. What are your 5 favorite sources of reading, with the most favorite first?

9. What gifts do you like?

10. What is your favorite books(s) of the Bible [Book of Mormon]? Why?

11. What is your favorite verse(s) of the Bible [Book of Mormon]? Why?

12. What is your favorite song?

13. What makes you the most fulfilled or happiest as a woman/man?

14. What makes you the most fulfilled or happiest as a wife/husband?

15. What makes you the most fulfilled or happiest as a mother/father?

16. What makes you saddest as a woman/man?

17. What makes you saddest as a wife/husband?

18. What makes you saddest as a mother/father?

19. What do you fear the most?

20. What other fears do you have?

21. What do you look forward to the most?

22. How much sleep do you need?

23. What do you consider to be your skills?

24. What do you believe to be your spiritual gifts?

25. What are your weaknesses?

26. To ask wife: What things (personal, home, car, etc.) need repairing?

To ask husband: What things around the home need to be cleaned?

27. To ask wife: With what chores and responsibilities do you like my help?

To ask husband: How can I make it easier for you to lead our family?

28. What caresses do you enjoy the most?

29. What caresses do you enjoy the least?

30. What action of mine provides you the greatest sexual pleasure?

31. What other things stimulate you sexually?

32. At what times do you need assurance of my love the most?

33. How can that love be shown?

34. What can I do that will make it easier to discuss and work on areas or problems that are uncomfortable to you?

35. What concerns do you have that I do not seem interested in?

36. What things do I do that irritate you?

37. What desires do you have that we haven’t discussed?

38. What do you enjoy doing with me, with the most enjoyable first?

39. What things can I do that show my appreciation of you?

40. What varying desires (spiritual, physical, emotional, intellectual, social, worth,

appreciations, recreational, security, etc.) would you like me to provide?

41. To ask wife: In what ways would you like me to protect you (physically, spiritually, socially, emotionally)?

To ask husband: In what ways would you like me to respect and reverence you?

42. In what ways would you like me to sacrifice for you?

43. What things do you see by my actions that I place first in my life?

44. What implied or unspoken desires and wishes of yours would you like for me to

fulfill?

45. What concerns and interests of yours would you like me to support?

46. How much time would be good for us to spend together each day?

47. In helping family members to use their skills and develop their abilities, what

motivating factors would be helpful for me to use?

48. What can I do that provides the greatest comfort and encouragement for you when

you are hurt, fearful, anxious or worried?

49. What personal habits do I have that you would like changed?

50. What ways demonstrate to you that you are a very important person who is as important or more important than I am?

Adoption Process Again

Many of you may not know that when we moved we had to start our adoption process all over again. With the county it is a very lengthy process and takes about a year to get approved and then it can take up to two years before you are high enough on the adoption list to start getting calls.

Well now that I am done with my student teaching I decided to get started on getting the adoption process started. So I was looking at Riverside County's orientation classes and they are only offered once a month on Friday from 9am to 2pm. What the heck!! During the day only and only once a month!! Like Robert can ever make that with his new job and both parents have to be there.

It seems like every time we try to take a few steps forward with adoption we get pushed back a mile. So now it looks like we wont be able to even just go to the mandatory orientation until Mach 30th!! To say the least I am very perturbed right now.

My Trip to Utah

My new Nephew

 My niece at her ice skating lessons

 My new nephew again, he is so cute! I got to hold him multiple times a day, it was awesome.

 My Mom and her 8th grandson son.

My childhood best friend drove down from Idaho to see me.

New Year

Awwwe, It is a new year and I have been so busy that I haven't had time to blog one bit.

I finished my student teaching finally. I just have to re-due my TPA and then I will receive my teaching credential.

I went to Utah for a week and a half to help out my sister-in-law with her 4th baby, got to take my nieces to school and ice skating lessons, got to visit with my family, and got to see my childhood friend. Mom and Dad came down from Alaska, Rashelle and Alex came down from Idaho, and Boyd flew up from Texas. Oh and Rashelle is pregnant and due in September.

While in Utah Adam, Dad, Rashelle, Alex, and I went paintballing. It was super fun.

Adam - paintballing

My sweet nephew

ME

From left to right: Alex (Rashelle's Husband), Rashelle, Adam, Dad, and Me

My hand got shot 3 different times. During one of the games it started swelling and I had to take my ring off before it got stuck for good.

I miss my family and am so glad that I got to spend time with them before my next set of classes start up again.

Commuting

So I am now staying with friends in their second bedroom in San Diego while I finish my teaching credential.

I have been commuting to Corona on weekends to see Robert and the puppies. Being far away from Robert has been hard but it helps being around such wonderful friends. Plus, homework keeps me super busy so I don't have time to sit around a moop.

Last weekend on my way to Corona I was in a car accident. I am ok and so is the truck but the lady, who hit me, bumper was smashed in. When I go out of the car she was so apologetic and asked me right away if I was ok and I told her I was and then I looked at the damage. She said that her two kids were fighting in the back seat and she was telling them to knock it off when all the traffic came to a stand still on the freeway. I asked her if she wanted me to go get my insurance card and she said that since it was her fault she didn't need mine and that she wasn't going to fix her car. I told her that there was no visible damage on my vehicle so I wasn't going to report it and the lady hugged me and said thank you. She asked me one more time if I was sure I was ok before we both got in our vehicles and drove off.

Robert isn't very happy with me because I didn't grab her information just in case there is non-visible damage on the truck. I am a little sore from being hit but I don't feel bad about not getting the info, plus the lady seemed so relieved that I wasn't going to report the accident to her insurance. I know I was wrong to not grab her info but nothing I can do about it now.

School is stressing me out. I feel like I am always either at school teaching or doing homework for school. I know people feel like I am ignoring them but I not trying to, I am just loaded down with school work. So sorry guys, I do love you! i will be done soon....well in June.

Officially Moved

So these past couple of weeks and weekends have been full of packing and loading our stuff out of our apartment here in San Diego and unpacking it into our house in Corona. Then over Thanksgiving weekend, instead of having Turkey, mash potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and all the other good stuff, we cleaned, scrubbed, painted, and shampooed the carpets of our old apartment (no stop) Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I was bummed at first with not getting Thanksgiving dinner and not getting to go black Friday shopping, but I am ok with it now.

So ya, the weekend before last a crazy/not funny/funny/humbling thing happened to us. We had loaded up our friends trailer and truck and were on our way to Corona when we started to hear funny noises and the truck started to jerk a bit. So we pulled over and Robert check a few things and said everything seemed fine. (BTW before leaving San Diego we had prayed that we would get to Corona and back.) So we drive some more and now as we are going up a hill the engine was revving but the trucks speed was dropping and it wouldn't change gears. So we ended up pulling over because Robert thought he should check the transmission fluid. So he checked it and it was so empty that nothing registered on the dip stick (crazy thing also was that same morning he had checked the oil and same thing it was empty too, he had to put 5 quarts of oil in the truck and it takes 6). Luckily some friends of ours were on their way to a concert up north and had been following behind us, so they took Robert to a store and he put fluid in the truck and we started driving again. But a little ways down the road it began acting up again so we pulled over, in the middle of no where. We didn't know what to do so we prayed and then started making phone calls. After a few hours, a amazing friend from Corona showed up and took the trailer to our house in Corona. Then we attempted to limp the truck along to Corona and while all this was going on wonderful friends from San Diego drove up to Corona to pick us up and drive us back to San Diego. So our prayers were answered, just not in the way we had expected.

I am so thankful that we have so many wonderful and caring friends that are willing to drop what they are doing and help out at a minutes notice. These last few weeks I have really been humbled by peoples kindness. I am extremely sad to be leaving San Diego and the many kindred spirits we have met here but I am hopefully that this change in our life will open many more blessings into our lives and we will have the opportunity to share the kindness that has been shown to us with others..