This is a video of Chase reading the book I made him for our anniversary. It cuts off before the end, but enjoy it anyway!
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Our Exchange Student
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On July 26th we got our Korean exchange student that is going to live with my family for the next 10 months! Her name is Yeong-Hye (Young-Heh) and she is 15 and a sophomore in high school. She arrived on Saturday and started school on Monday and then on Tuesday, my parents left for Hawaii, so I was left here to assimilate her to American culture...!
The week was actually really great and Chase and I both bonded with her really well. One night Colin had a friend over and we all went outside and after a failed badminton attempt (too windy!) we ended up playing an excellent game of croquet in which I got poison and killed everyone! Yeong-Hye actually did really well and Colin only blew his stack a few times. After a few days in high school, we pulled Yeong-Hye out on a pre-arranged absence to transfer her to an intensive English program for two weeks. Hopefully that will be long enough for her to understand her teachers better! Overall she is a joy to have and Aubrey is so enthralled by her that she is Aubrey's new favorite and I get left alone whenever she is around.
The week was actually really great and Chase and I both bonded with her really well. One night Colin had a friend over and we all went outside and after a failed badminton attempt (too windy!) we ended up playing an excellent game of croquet in which I got poison and killed everyone! Yeong-Hye actually did really well and Colin only blew his stack a few times. After a few days in high school, we pulled Yeong-Hye out on a pre-arranged absence to transfer her to an intensive English program for two weeks. Hopefully that will be long enough for her to understand her teachers better! Overall she is a joy to have and Aubrey is so enthralled by her that she is Aubrey's new favorite and I get left alone whenever she is around.
Chase's Family Reunion
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Last weekend was Chase's family reunion in Avila Beach. It was a lot of fun and good to meet all his extended family again. When you meet them of course they always remember me and say that we met at my wedding, but I met so many people! I told Chase this and he just said "Welcome to my world" and I got no sympathy at all! I guess it just shows me that I should be more sensitive to his situation here in Lodi. We got there Thursday night and went out to dinner with everyone at a restaurant with AMAZING fish tacos. I guess all my worrying was for nothing because as soon as we sat down talking to everyone was totally natural and fun. I love his relatives! Friday everyone went to Morro Bay which was about 45 minutes away from our hotel and went whale watching. We saw a lot of whales and it was cool except it took like 5 hours and on the way back everyone got sick and 3 people barfed!
This is Morro rock and Chase!
Alex and Ashlee seeing the whales, I must've just missed a picture of the whales!
And Chase on the open ocean.
That night back in Avila Beach we walked around the local farmers market and bought food for dinner and dessert. We ate on the pier and it was so fun, I want to go to farmer's markets every day!
This is us on the pier, poor Chase got roasted on the whale boat. Who knew that you could get burned on an overcast day??
After the farmers market that night we went down the beach a little ways and had a bonfire and roasted smores. This was the time for everyone to tell stories about Chase's Grandma and just talk and enjoy themselves without worrying about throwing up like we did on the boat! Haha.
Us at the bonfire.
The next day we went to Morro Bay again and went to a restaurant called the Coffee Pot for breakfast and met the owner who is this amazing guy who wrote the book Double Luck about his own life growing up as a Chinese orphan. Then everyone went out on kayaks in the bay for a couple hours. I was paranoid about getting wet but Chase was nice and didn't splash me at all, so it was really fun! Then that night we had a BBQ at our hotel for Grandma's birthday and everyone gave her presents. Sunday was the last day and we checked out of our hotel room and went to Grandma's house in San Luis Obispo for a delicious brunch and then to church in her ward. It was so small we basically doubled it with the 15 or so people that came to church with her! Then we drove home in time to celebrate my mom's birthday with dinner. The weekend ended up being tons of fun and I enjoyed spending time with all of Chase's relatives, hopefully we'll be able to visit some of them before the summer is over!
This is Morro rock and Chase!
Alex and Ashlee seeing the whales, I must've just missed a picture of the whales!
And Chase on the open ocean.
That night back in Avila Beach we walked around the local farmers market and bought food for dinner and dessert. We ate on the pier and it was so fun, I want to go to farmer's markets every day!This is us on the pier, poor Chase got roasted on the whale boat. Who knew that you could get burned on an overcast day??
After the farmers market that night we went down the beach a little ways and had a bonfire and roasted smores. This was the time for everyone to tell stories about Chase's Grandma and just talk and enjoy themselves without worrying about throwing up like we did on the boat! Haha.
Us at the bonfire.
The next day we went to Morro Bay again and went to a restaurant called the Coffee Pot for breakfast and met the owner who is this amazing guy who wrote the book Double Luck about his own life growing up as a Chinese orphan. Then everyone went out on kayaks in the bay for a couple hours. I was paranoid about getting wet but Chase was nice and didn't splash me at all, so it was really fun! Then that night we had a BBQ at our hotel for Grandma's birthday and everyone gave her presents. Sunday was the last day and we checked out of our hotel room and went to Grandma's house in San Luis Obispo for a delicious brunch and then to church in her ward. It was so small we basically doubled it with the 15 or so people that came to church with her! Then we drove home in time to celebrate my mom's birthday with dinner. The weekend ended up being tons of fun and I enjoyed spending time with all of Chase's relatives, hopefully we'll be able to visit some of them before the summer is over!
Our summer.
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This summer has been really crazy. We moved to California with my family so Chase could "work", but we've ended up going on so many trips, it truly is a summer vacation! Chase has been interning at my dad's engineering company and he says he's gaining a lot of experience. I didn't get a job so I could help my mom take care of Aubrey and my Grandpa who lives with us. He has Parkinson's disease and some dementia so it's IMPOSSIBLE to leave him alone at the house. There is some outside help, but she can't live here so either my mom or I have to be here pretty much all the time. It's fun to play with Aubrey everyday though! My mom says we can't have too much fun because she remembers EVERYTHING and she'll want to play like that everyday!
Aubrey and I swinging, one of her favorite activities. She might look scared, but she's not!
Besides that we've had some fun vacations! It started when we left Utah and drove to Bakersfield to see Chase's family.
Chase's dad had to set the timer and run to get in the pic.. haha. It was really fun spending time with them and we even got to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary!
Chase got me a huge present for my birthday and it ended up being an amazing new set of pots! He was just as happy as I was.
For our anniversary I made Chase a book called "Our Story" and it told the story of how we met until we got married. I tried to upload a video of Chase reading it but it wasn't working, I'll try again later.
After Bakersfield we drove to Monterey for the weekend as a present from Chase :) We went to the pier Friday night and the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Saturday. It was so fun! I don't know why I haven't tried this being married thing earlier! Haha.
This is a pic of us on the pier.
Here we are outside the aquarium... I bet Chase thinks he's pretty lucky!
After the weekend we finally headed into Lodi for the summer. Besides watching Aubrey and spending time with my mom, we've also been camping for memorial weekend, gone to Bako again for Ashlee's graduation, had numerous BBQ's, had a reception for Beth's wedding, and gone to the desert for a week! Here are some of our favorite pics from the desert trip.
All us girls in the truck about to drive out to the dry lake bed. Somehow Beth managed to get into the picture too!
On the dry lake bed with my honey :) We were setting up for the bowling ball cannon, and be "we" I mean the boys dug the hole while the girls watched.
Out with the shotguns. Chase was amazing, I only looked it... haha.
Fireworks. Chase was getting creative with the bottle rockets, shooting them from his fly.
I was okay shooting them from a bush.
Aubrey and I swinging, one of her favorite activities. She might look scared, but she's not!
Besides that we've had some fun vacations! It started when we left Utah and drove to Bakersfield to see Chase's family.
Chase's dad had to set the timer and run to get in the pic.. haha. It was really fun spending time with them and we even got to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary!
Chase got me a huge present for my birthday and it ended up being an amazing new set of pots! He was just as happy as I was.
For our anniversary I made Chase a book called "Our Story" and it told the story of how we met until we got married. I tried to upload a video of Chase reading it but it wasn't working, I'll try again later.After Bakersfield we drove to Monterey for the weekend as a present from Chase :) We went to the pier Friday night and the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Saturday. It was so fun! I don't know why I haven't tried this being married thing earlier! Haha.
This is a pic of us on the pier.
Here we are outside the aquarium... I bet Chase thinks he's pretty lucky!After the weekend we finally headed into Lodi for the summer. Besides watching Aubrey and spending time with my mom, we've also been camping for memorial weekend, gone to Bako again for Ashlee's graduation, had numerous BBQ's, had a reception for Beth's wedding, and gone to the desert for a week! Here are some of our favorite pics from the desert trip.
All us girls in the truck about to drive out to the dry lake bed. Somehow Beth managed to get into the picture too!
On the dry lake bed with my honey :) We were setting up for the bowling ball cannon, and be "we" I mean the boys dug the hole while the girls watched.
Out with the shotguns. Chase was amazing, I only looked it... haha.
Fireworks. Chase was getting creative with the bottle rockets, shooting them from his fly.
I was okay shooting them from a bush.
President's Weekend
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So our President's day weekend ended up being pretty amazing. Thursday was of course Valentine's day but the day before Chase and I were sitting on the couch watching TV and suddenly he turned to me and said, "Did you get my present yet?" Well I thought he meant did I receive a present that he had given me, so I looked very confused but then he said "you didn't get me anything!?" I said, "Ohhhh... no I didn't." We agreed we weren't doing presents for Valentine's! So the next day I did some emergency shopping and that night he took me to McGrath's Fish house and it was delicious :) He ended up giving me a chocolate mill and I him a sweeeeet sweater (it was made out of bamboo).
Saturday we went on a ward temple trip to the Manti Temple. I was so glad we went because I know we never would have gone all the way out to Manti otherwise. Even driving up to it was so beautiful.
Monday we went snowboarding up at sundance. Chase had never been before so I was so excited to take him! He was really good and I hardly ever had to wait for him to catch up. When most people hear you're going snowboarding for the first time they always say "Get ready for a horrible day!" I don't know why they would say that though, it's still fun, even though you can't go too fast. Chase ended up really liking it and hopefully we can go again soon. He made the comment to me that I didn't even fall the whole day and I said it's because I was being a chicken and I never went too fast. But still, I guess not falling means I'm amazing.
So I have one quick story before I finish. I'm sad to say that Chase has officially crossed the border between man and nerd today. He's been dancing on the edge for awhile but his awesome coolness has always held him on the man side of the line. Today we were walking onto campus and Chase was talking about a trebuchet that he is planning on building for an engineering competition (strike one) and he was saying how he wanted to go to the machine shop and drill holes all along the arm so that it would be extra lightweight (strike two) and then he actually uttered these words, "Now if my calculations are right..." Right when he said it I stopped him mid sentence and I said, do you realize what phrase you just used?? Strike three, you're out!
Saturday we went on a ward temple trip to the Manti Temple. I was so glad we went because I know we never would have gone all the way out to Manti otherwise. Even driving up to it was so beautiful.
Monday we went snowboarding up at sundance. Chase had never been before so I was so excited to take him! He was really good and I hardly ever had to wait for him to catch up. When most people hear you're going snowboarding for the first time they always say "Get ready for a horrible day!" I don't know why they would say that though, it's still fun, even though you can't go too fast. Chase ended up really liking it and hopefully we can go again soon. He made the comment to me that I didn't even fall the whole day and I said it's because I was being a chicken and I never went too fast. But still, I guess not falling means I'm amazing.
So I have one quick story before I finish. I'm sad to say that Chase has officially crossed the border between man and nerd today. He's been dancing on the edge for awhile but his awesome coolness has always held him on the man side of the line. Today we were walking onto campus and Chase was talking about a trebuchet that he is planning on building for an engineering competition (strike one) and he was saying how he wanted to go to the machine shop and drill holes all along the arm so that it would be extra lightweight (strike two) and then he actually uttered these words, "Now if my calculations are right..." Right when he said it I stopped him mid sentence and I said, do you realize what phrase you just used?? Strike three, you're out!
You're Late!
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So after wasting away yet another Saturday, I finally convinced Chase to get dressed as it is now 5:15 pm. To be fair it's not all his fault, but it doesn't matter how long you take to get ready as long as you finish first right? Then you can justly boss the other around and say things like "I'm always waiting for you!" and "I knew you would make us late..." This might not be the best way to behave towards your spouse but I can only follow the example set by my parents. I remember just this Christmas when Dad, Chase and I, Noelle, Colin and Aubrey were supposed to leave for the desert at 8:30 am. I must admit I was not ready until 9, but it turned out that my Dad was getting ready the entire morning, working on his plane and packing the car. In the meantime to stave off bordem, I offered to help Noelle add music to her new ipod. Finally around 10 or 10:30 my Dad got into the car and was ready to go. Well I spent the next 2 minutes finishing the ipod and ran out to the car. Immediately I was assaulted with my dad yelling about how he was ready and we were still running around making him late! Well the irony of the situation was just so overwhelming to me I couldn't even say anything, I just sat in the back and shook my head and laughed. With that example, what can i say? Well I better go because I just realized that I don't have mascara or shoes on and when Chase is finally ready, if I'm not ready to go he will turn the tables and start giving me crap for making him late. Ohhh, the irony.
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