Happy 9th Birthday Chloe!

My little sister turned 9 years old on Monday, March 30. I can't believe that she is already 9 and in 3rd grade. For her birthday we went to Disneyland as a family and had dinner at Ariel's Grotto. The food was so good, but it was so expensive. Chloe brought her best friend Brittney with her and the girls had a lot of fun. At dinner all the Disney princesses were walking around taking pictures and signing autographs for all the kids. Chloe and Brittney took pictures with Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Belle, and so did I. The next day my mom and I took Chloe shopping for her birthday. She got a lot of fun, cute clothes. I love shopping with Chloe because she is like my Barbie doll. I love you Goober!

Chloe and I at Disneyland

Blake, Chloe and I in Hawaii

Chloe's Baptism

Fun Find

My dad's cousins works for this company that sells purses. The company is called Miche Bag. If you haven't heard of it... you purchase one purse and then different covers to go with different outfits. They have about 40 different covers for the purses. I have so many purses in my closet and this is a way to cut down on the many purses. Here are some pictures of the different purse covers. If you are interested the link is on the side bar of my blog.

A New Favorite

Jared and I have experienced the best frozen yogurt ever!!!! Last night we experienced Pinkberry for the first time. It was absolutely amazing! We both loved it. We shared a plain yogurt and pomegranate yogurt swirl with raspberries. Everything was so fresh and wonderful. We are definitely going back for more. So if you haven't had Pinkberry... YOU MUST GO!!!!

We Are Moving

Some of you heard that Jared and I are moving. Well, we are! We aren't going that far. We have decided to move in with Jared's grandma in Placentia so we can save some money. We are so sad to be leaving our ward in La Habra and our apartment, but we know this is going to be the best thing for us right now in our life. Before packing things up I wanted to take some pictures of our apartment. For those that have never seen it.... here it is.....

Living Room
Kitchen

Dining Area

Bedroom

My Little Goober

This past weekend I got to spend time with my little sister. Something I don't get to do very often. I picked her up from my grandparents house on Friday and took her to Disneyland. We went on 'Its A Small World' and 'Pirates of the Carribean'. We both had a lot of fun. Small World changed a couple things in the ride. They added a lot of the Disney characters, so it was fun to sit and point ones out to each other as we went by. Pirates was alot of fun, it always is, its a classic Disney ride and we both love it!!

Chloe and I in front of The Small World.

Weekend of Love

This weekend was double special for us. First we celebrated Valentine's Day then we celebrated our Wedding Anniversary. I can't believe it has been a whole year since our wedding day. We are both looking forward to the rest of our lives together.

We had the best Valentine's Day ever!!!! On Valentine's Day last year, I went to the temple for the first time. So, we decided to go to the temple for an afternoon session. After the temple we hurried over to Olive Garden for dinner. Thankfully we didn't have to wait too long in the Valentine's Day rush. Since we got done with dinner early, we decided to go to Disneyland. I was so excited that The Small World opened up again. It was so much fun.

Valentine's Day at the Temple.
Valentine's Dinner at Olive Garden.

Valentine's Night at Disneyland in front of the castle.

It's A Small World.... I love this ride. Jared is such a good sport.

For our Anniversary we went to see the movie 'Push'. We wanted to do something outside but unfortunately it was raining. The movie was okay. It's not worth seeing in the theaters. After the movie we went to Deseret Book so Jared could get a new set of scriptures. He is so excited to start marking those ones up. For dinner we went to one of our favorite restaurants, Hibachi Steak House. We love eating there, but don't get to go that often.

Anniversary Movie Day.

Anniversary Dinner at Hibachi Steak House.

Mr. Bear wanted to come home with me...

Egypt Trip

This past winter break, Jared and I spent almost 2 weeks in Egypt. We traveled to different parts of Egypt like, Cairo, Luxor, Edfu, Aswan, and Sharm El Sheak. We had so much fun and left with a better knowledge of the Egyptian history.

Jared & I in front of the Cairo Museum

We spent our first day in Cairo, and went to the Cairo Museum. There we were able to see many different things. We saw all of the treasures that were burried in King Tut's tomb with him, we were even able to see some mummy's. It was interesting to see that some of the mummy's still had thier finger and toe nails, their teeth, and even their hair. Unfortunately we werent able to take any pictures inside the museum.

Jared and I on the large damn overlooking the Nile River.

The next morning was really tough. We had to get on a plane at 5:00am to fly to Aswan. There, we got to see a damn that was built on the Nile River and visit a temple that was dedicated to the Goddess Isis. It was amazing to learn that the temple was moved from its origional location, brick by brick, to preserve it from the Nile River. After visiting the temple we checked into our room on our cruise ship. We spent 3 nights on this small cruise ship floating down the Nile. During this time we visited more temples and eventually ended up in Luxor. I Luxor we took a carriage ride to see the different area's of the city. We saw where the rich, middle class, and poor live. While in Luxor we visited the Karnak temple, which was huge!!! It took about 2,000 years to build. At night we visited the Luxor temple, which was aboslutely beautiful!

Jared and I by a column in the Temple for the Goddess Isis.
This is a view of the Nile from our room on our cruise ship.

This is the Kom Ombo Temple.

Jared and I on New Year's Eve on our cruise.

The temple in Edfu dedicated to the God Horus.

We took a night carriage ride through Luxor.

Jared climbing a wall in one of the temples.

This was the Karnak Temple, the largest we saw.

We took a boat ride at sunset in Luxor.

This is what our boat looked like. There were so many on the river.

On our cruise they made us a cake that said "Happy Honeymoon". We had to dance also.

Jared and I in front of King Tut's tomb. His body was still inside.

The Valley of the Kings.

We came back to Cairo and had a romantic dinner on the Nile on a floating restaurant. During dinner we had a belly dancer come and perform, and a Egyptian folk dancer. The next day was the Pyramids!! They were amazing. We were able to go inside one of the pyramids. It was so hot and there was no ventilation inside. There was only one way in and one way out. However, it was so amazing to see the inside. After, we rode on a camel. I was a little nervous but it was a lot of fun. Jared got to stand up on the back of the camel, but I was too scared to do it myself. After the amazing pyramids, we saw the Mosque of Muhammed Ali. It was so beautiful, and very sacred, we had to take our shoes off while we were inside.

Romantic dinner on a floating restaurant.

A monument dedicated to a governer in Egypt.

The Pyramids!!!!

We went inside this pyramid!

Inside the pyramid. It was sooo hot!!!

This boat was found burried under one of the pyramids.

I kissed the Sphinx!!!

Jared wanted to stand on the camel... I was too scared to.

Us on the camel... maybe our Christmas picture for this year.

The mosque for Mohammed Ali.

All of Cairo!

The last place we went was Sharm El Sheikh. We loved it there! It was so beautiful. It is a resort town and every hotel is right by the Red Sea. Our resort was huge! There was a small water park, and many pools for us to relax in. The second day we were there, we had a tour to a national park where we were able to go snorkeling along the coral. It was so beautiful. There were so many different kinds of fish there. More fish than we saw in the Caribbean. We were very sad to leave that place.

Our view from our room in Sharm El Sheikh.

Sharm El Sheikh desert

Sharm El Sheikh beach.

We went snorkeling

This is where we went snorkeling.

About 4 football fields out from shore in the Red Sea.

About 4 football fields out from shore in the Red Sea.

We had so much fun in Egypt, there are so many stories to tell, but not enough room to write them all. We had amazing guides that made our stay in Egypt a very memorable one.