Easter And Life Here.

So Conference weekend was pretty great for us! We've been pretty busy lately doing a bunch of stuff. Brady of course studying and me getting ready to start school. I'm actually starting a class tomorrow morning! YAY I'm excited!!!! I'm taking a swimming class Tomorrow through the ending of May. I need to learn how to swim better for one and because now that we have a pool I'm going to want to swim laps and exercise in it. Plus I want to be a better swimmer for my kids when they come... in like 4 or 5 years. (Yep we've decided to wait longer so that we can get through school and get better jobs to be more financially stable.) So not too much has changed here, Brady is still busy studying and learning Chinese all the time and I'm just decorating our apt, going out with the Sister Missionaries, reading, and doing my own thing. I'm really excited to get into school again. Even if the only class I'll be taking for the next 2 months is a swimming class. That just means I'm that much closer to going full-time again starting on June 14 :) YAY!!! School!!!! Homework!!! Learning!!!! I'm so excited!!! Conference was.... pretty much... AMAZING!!! I loved it!! It was the first time I watched it over the Internet but it was live so it wasn't too much different! Easter was good for us. We got an early Easter present as a couple, Some furniture for our Balcony as well as this really pretty plant and pot that actually sits on the table now so that it can still get a little bit of sunlight lol or else it doesn't get any.... And then this weekend because we aren't with family to celebrate Easter we celebrated with some of our friends tonight. We had the Adam's (Shaun, Lisa, and their daughter Isabelle) and the Cardenas's (Manny and Melissa) They are two couples that are in our ward and that live by us. One in our complex and one in the complex next to us. They are awesome. We hosted it at our place and I did the main dish. A family recipe of chicken and rice in the crock-pot (Thanks mom it was a big hit! Just like the enchiladas that I make :) The Adam's brought some fresh homemade dinner rolls and the Cardenas's brought a yummy Turtle pie for dessert. It was lots of fun. It was the first time Brady and I have done anything with the Cardenas's so we got to know them better. Yesterday we bought another new book self because ours were just looking too cluttered because there were two many books on the shelves and stuff and I still haven't put all my books and stuff out yet.... But I was able to do cute little things on each shelf now too so I like it... and having the smaller one actually makes our living room seem bigger too. Here are the changes and the new things in our apt.... This is our new little bookshelf. It has only Church stuff on it that we've collected then some statues and a picture on top. (Can you believe that little white thing on the wall is the only heater we have for our entire apt? crazy huh?!?!? it's like a little space heater except it the wall... It's such a pain!!) This is our shelf that's in between the entertainment center and the desk. On the second to top those are a picture from our wedding reception and then our MARRIAGE FOR TIME AND ETERNITY Certificate from the temple from our Sealing. This one is the one by the kitchen. on the second to top shelf is a little memoir thing for our wedding. It has our guest book, and invite to the wedding, one of our two cake toppers (the other is on our entertainment center) our cake knife and server, a picture of our whole family (his and mine) and then a picture of me my maid of honor/BFF and my little flower girl(her daughter)(one of my flower girls that is :) there's another close up on there of that shelf. (You'll also see our balcony chairs right next to it... yeah it's been raining almost solid for the past like 6 days so we haven't been able to use our balcony recently lol) This is my "Family" Wall. It's in my entrance hallway. There are some new family pictures of Brady and I after we were married. And then a picture of us and my family and us and his family. It's nice to have that up and have that be the first thing we see when we come home. (There's a further away shot too that shows our little door hanger thing that my mom bought me awhile ago) We also got a new little stand thing for our Microwave and appliances finally so we have a counter again... (not very big haha but still)!!! My new Sentsy thing on top of the micro. YAY!!! I love it!!! As well as a new cute pendulum clock that's hanging over by where my apron hangs... Well other than that not too much different in our apt. One other thing I wanted to write about is our Friends Cory and Joy: Last Sunday they took us boating out in the bay on his sail boat. It was way fun! They are great friends and awesome people! Besides our apt Manager Laurie (Who's AWESOME!) They were our first friends in our complex! (By the way yes it's way big like 50 apartments all together) We do dinner every now and then and it's great fun!!!! (I actually am going to be posting an Online AD for Cory for his business next week on here probably so check it out!) While we were boating we seen a whole TON of seals and sea otters. It was great! We actually watched two huge male seals probably weighed a ton each, have a territorial fight over this spot to lay down under the dock. It was awesome they were yelling at each other and stuff it was great. There were a ton on this rock island as well. I'll post some pics but you can't see them too well.. The pic is of one of the docs that there were big male seals but I guess my phone didn't save pics of the rock island thingy so next time I'm down there I'll take more pics. (Just know that the ones with all the rocks (at least when I post them) there was at least one seal (mostly female the males were all up on the docks lounging around) per rock on the lower level the most we seen stacked (like dog piled on one another) on one rock was 5 if I remember right. So for these pics though... Look under the blue sign under the doc... You can kinda see a couple of the big males all up there... and yes there get clear up there alone they jump really high out of the water! It's amazing and you can only see a few here but they are all over under the docs... I couldn't video tape the fight because it was so chilly I couldn't feel me hands anymore by that time....(stupid disorder ugh.) (And yes that boat is called the Little Mermaid it made me smile! For my family who knows why that's something to me lol)


It's pretty cool we see a lot of wild life where we live, we usually see at least 3 deer a day too... Brady sees them on base more than me because he's there every day but there are usually some around by where we live too! It's great out here! Just cold and rainy lately :) Well I better get going it's late and I need to get up early tomorrow for school!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!! LOVE TO YOU ALL!!!!
~Love Kimberly