Lost and Found

I found this old post that I thought I posted.
I found it labeled as a draft.
I decided to go ahead and post it since I thought it was pretty funny.
This is from November 2011.
Enjoy!



The person up next to bat was really good.
The new girl just ate it on the way to home plate.
This is me after I fell

We started playing on a Co-ed softball team in Burbank with my work. 

It's been so much fun and I'm happy that we get to play. 

I love sports and I'm very competitive. 

Softball/Baseball is one sport that I have never really played before.

I really wanted to hit a home run but we all know that would never happen because

I am out of shape!

When I was up to bat I made it to 1st base. 
When the next person when up they hit the ball & I ran to 2nd as fast as I could. 
I was safe but the person who was up to bat didn't make it.

He went up and hit the ball so hard and I started running.
I was running as fast as I possibly could.
I touched 3rd and people are yelling at me to keep running so I keep going.
I see home plate and I'm excited because I've never made it to home before. 
I'm almost there and then something happens.
I don't know how it happened but the next thing I know I'm on the ground.
I fell before I made it home and I fell hard.
I can't believe that this is really happening. 
Of course I would fall while something amazing is about to happen.
I feel someone pick me up off the ground and basically carry me to home plate.
It was my co-worker who was up to bat and caught up to me.
He couldn't make it home until I did.
I can't stop laughing and my co-workers are cracking up but at the same time they all feel so bad for me.

I felt bad for JR. He must have been so embarrassed of his clumsy wife.
Story of my life!!!
My old roommates can probably tell you about the times I've either fallen down the stairs, ran into walls or
tripped on something.
You would think that because I fall so much that my body would have tough skin or something.
Nope!! 
I bruise so easily it's sad.

After I fell

I was bleeding a lot so JR bandaged me up and we didn't get a picture of the scrap until about a week later

A week after. Still bruised and my scrape was healing nicely :)

Holiday 2011

It look's like I need to catch up on blogging

I had written out a catch up blog

It was perfect!!

 I had included all these pictures and then our power went out &

It wasn't just for a few hours.

We were without power for 5 days

It was so sad

This is what our neighborhood looked like 

This is all just houses away from us

We lost all our food in the refrigerator and freezer.

After I lost all the hard work I put into that post I kinda gave up.

This is my attempt to get into it again and continue to blog

Some of these pictures were taken on the diPhone and others on JR's camera.

 I'm sorry about the horrible quality of some of the pictures.

I will start the blogging with the Holidays

Halloween 2011

Thanksgiving 2011

We spent thanksgiving together.

Just us

Mr. & Mrs.

In our new home 

TOGETHER!!!

Something I have been learning to do since we have been married is cook.

Since we would be having thanksgiving at home that meant having to cook dinner

So I went to the store and they were sold out of turkey!! 

Even those little turkey slices!!!

We bought the next best thing

STEAK!!!

Here is our yummy dinner

Christmas 2011

Christmas was so much fun!!!

It was our first Christmas as Mr. & Mrs.

We bought our first tree and decorated it together.

We spent Christmas Eve with my siblings at my brothers house 

& then we came home to have our very own Christmas and exchange gifts with each other. 

We had so much fun watching each other open gifts.

 I made us Christmas themed pancakes for breakfast

We went to church in the morning and had lunch at Jorge's sister's house.

 Finished it off with Dinner at the Tia's house. 

We loved spending it with family.

New Years 2012

We spent NYE with our good friends.

Austen & Kaira are new parents to the cutest little boy.

We had a really great time hanging out and ringing in 2012!

I've spent holidays with JR before but spending is as husband and wife sure was great!

I love being married to this wonderful man

He is so good to me and I get to have him for eternity

How did I get so LUCKY!!!

Thank You JR for making the holiday's even better!!!

I Love you!

- The Mrs.

It's Official...I'm a Mrs.!!!

I'm Married!!!

To the man of my DREAMS

We were married at The Los Angeles Temple

It was beautiful

&

now I get to spend Eternity with this Handsome man

right here

It really was the best day of my life

Married life has been so much fun 

We have be able to spend lots of time together because

I got a new JOB!!!

No more Sunday-Thursday, 12pm-9pm shifts with an hour commute each way. 

 I started about 2 days after my honeymoon :) 

It really is an amazing story the way it happened but I'll leave that for another post.

So all this happened the week of my wedding.

Talk about STRESS!!!

Oh and to add some more stress to my wedding countdown.

 My poor mother was in a car accident about 2 weeks before my wedding. 

She was taken to the hospital. She almost broke her wrist and they didn't find out until after the wedding that she had torn some ligaments in her arm and that's why it wasn't healing. 

So my Matron of Honor/Big sister/ My rock

was starting to have contraction the week of my wedding. 

She was such a trooper and thankfully Izzy decided to wait until after the wedding to make her Debut.

Isn't she a cutie?!?!?!

I promise i'll upload better pictures when I get them off our camera.

We also had another baby join our family.

My Sister-in-Law, Lilian, had a cute baby boy.

Check him out...

He came almost 1 month early which is why he looks so tiny.

JR's phone rang super early Sunday morning. Lilian called to let us know her water broke.

Her husband works nights so we rushed over to help out by watching little E & big J so that they could head to the hospital.

She was in the hospital for a few days since they were trying to keep the baby inside for as long as possible. 

They weren't sure if he was done cooking yet.

JR & I had Little E with us until they came home with baby. 

He was so good with us. We were happy and were able to get a feel of what it would be like if we had kids. It was fun and E is such a good boy.

It was really nice to be able to watch him for those few days.

It sure is different having a 2 year old around day and night.

Thanks for being such a good nephew.

We Love you E.

I almost forgot ....

Just in case anyone was wondering where we went on our honeymoon.

Drum Roll Please...

HAWAII!!!

I know, I know.

You all already knew.

We can all thank Facebook and my diPhone for the status update/ play by play of my life.

It was AMAZING!!!

I'll write a separate post about our Honeymoon and add pictures too but for now

enjoy these pictures.

As you can tell my life has been a little hectic and busy.

That's why I haven't been blogging.

Please forgive me.

I've had several friends ask me to please start blogging again.

This post for you!

You know who you are ;) 

I promise I'll be good from now on

I really have missed blogging.

Less then one month left

Life has been busy.
 I started a new job 3 weeks ago and I now have to commute to work.
 It's been pretty stressful for me. The past few years I've lived so close to work. I was spoiled and now I have to drive 1 hour to get to work. It's been hard but so far I really like my new co-workers and job. I've had less time to work on anything wedding related. That has been one of my biggest challenges. Finding time to do wedding stuff! Today during my lunch break I worked on favors :)  I will say that I LOVE my iPhone or diPhone as I like to call it. I can check my e-mail and search for anything I need. Thank you JR for buying me my first diPhone. I'm addicted and I don't know what I would do with out it.  

  

Since the last time I blogged I am happy to announce that we finally finished the invitations. We have amazing friends!! They came over one night to help us put them together and it was such a huge help. I've learned that I am horrible at asking for help. I always feel so bad. I don't want to bother anyone or burden them in any way so I was just doing things by myself or with the help of JR. One Sunday our friend B offered to help us and recruited other friends to come over and help us. It was all done in about 2 hours. It was awesome!  Advice to all the Brides reading this....

Just ask for help.
 Ask me :) 
I really do love  helping with wedding and
 I would be more then happy to help out. 

 I would like to take the chance to apologize to those we were not able to invite. It was so hard figuring out our guest list. We had limited seating available at our venue and a tight budget. We do thank you for the continued support that everyone has given us and ask that you continue to support us.  

Please don't think that we don't value your friendship because we truly do.

Another big thing that has happened is WE FOUND A PLACE!!! I'm so excited! I move in about 2 weeks and JR will be moving in right after we get married. I can't wait to get things inside the house and getting it all organized and decorated. JR has started getting some things ready. He has a dresser and shelf he is currently staining so it looks nice in our new place :) 

 This is the Before and I'll post the after on my next post if he is finished with it. 

In other great news..... MOM is here :)

She flew in last week and has been staying with my sister

 She is happy to be here. She gets to see her cute grandchildren. 

My nephew was born last year and she never got the chance to meet him so that was nice that she gets to hold and cuddle with him now. 

He is such a cute baby!!  

All of my nieces and nephews are cute. My 2 adorable nieces are our flower girls and they LOVE the flower girl dresses they are so excitied that they are going to get to wear them at Tia's wedding :)  

If you ask  Lou Lou, my niece, what we are celebrating she will tell you 

"Tia's wedding"

 She also thinks every single bridal magazine and wedding dress is Tia's. 

Soon I will get to have 2 more nephews!! JR has 2 nephews now and they are so great! We really love them and enjoy spending time with them.

Well I have a busy weekend ahead of me. My bridal shower is tomorrow morning and I'm so excited. It's finally starting to hit me. I'm getting married!! I was telling my bridesmaids how It still hasn't really hit me that I'm getting married but I think by tomorrow morning it will all become real to me :)

I can't wait to become Mrs. R 

The Venue

 When we first got engaged we started thinking about different places we can have the wedding. We decided on having it at the Pasadena Stake center. It's the Church building JR grew up attending. He was baptized in that building so it had special meaning. About a year or so ago they started some construction on the building. It was supposed to be finished in December but it wasn't. We thought that by August 27th it should be done. No problem, right?? Well its still not done :( Jorge and I decided that we can't take the risk of sending out invites and having to call everyone and tell them things have changed if the building wasn't finished. The building might be done by August 27th we just can't take the risk. We were very sad about this choice we made but we had to do it. We have plenty of buildings in our area. We had made a back up list of our favorite buildings. We started calling them. They were all booked :( Can you believe it!! Our back up's were booked!!

We started searching online for different locations and options. I made a list and started e-mailing and calling them for prices and availability.  Most of them were already booked. We are less then 2 months away and I knew this would probably happen. The places that were not booked were about $100 a head and parking was about $10-$20 a person and don't forget about the tip! 

 I was becoming very stressed and nervous. How am I going to pull off this wedding with out a location.

 I called a few more places and found some better prices and then stumbled across this hidden gem! I had attended a wedding there once already and knew it was nice. We booked a same day appointment to meet with one of the consultants. We were very impressed and so happy because they were available and local! 

What started out as a wedding nightmare turned into a wedding blessing! 

Now the reason I say that is because before we were basically doing a DIY wedding. I also had a lot of different vendors to deal with. Chairs, Linens, Flatware,Glassware, tenting, Dance floor and a bunch of other things you don't realize you need until you are planning a wedding.  At our new venue they offer almost everything. I wont be worried if the dance floor guy arrived on time and if it is setting up correctly or is the chair people brought the exact amount I need.

 The venue has everything !!

YAY!!

 I can take pictures in peace :) 

I was in tears trying to figure out what we were going to do and now I feel relief.

This also means our guest list is getting a lot tighter which makes us very sad. We only are able to have so many people inside our venue. We can't exceed a certain amount and I won't be able to get great deals on stuff like cider.

 Can you believe a bottle of cider costs $18.00!!

Yes it's true.

How I wish I could just go to Costco and pay $10 for 4 bottles.

Our venue doesn't allow any outside food or drinks. 

with the exception of out wedding cake.

So this is partly why I've been bad about blogging. 

I hope you understand.

Here is another engagement picture.

JR would take me for rides on his motorcycle across this bridge.

I LOVE this bridge and was so excited to take our engagement pictures on it!

We hope to go back and have some more pictures taken maybe after our wedding.

Isn't JR so handsome?

How did I get so lucky?

Wedding, Wedding & More Wedding

I'm sorry that I haven't been blogging at all!! My life has officially been consumed with this wedding. I can't believe it only 50 days away!! So I've been trying to finish up the invites and it's been very hard. I thankfully had some help on Sunday night. Thank you girls for coming over to help me tie all the ribbons.

 So this path month I have changed the location of the reception and finally had some engagement pictures taken. I have also decided on a date for my bridal shower and have finally started and almost finished the invites :) 

Sneak Peak 

at 

engagements 

What do you think?

JR and I love them and are so happy with the way everything turned out :) We have tons more and I'll have to upload it soon. Our friend Ty did these for us. We are so lucky to have her as a friend. She truly is amazing .

Thank you, Ty.

We LOVE you!

I will write some more soon. It's bed time :)

My Beautiful Bridesmaids

I can't believe how quickly the days are going by.
80 days left

 It's just so crazy! I feel so behind on everything but I'm hoping everything will work itself out. 

I finally finished asking all the girls to be my bridesmaids. It was so much fun asking them and I'm so thankful that I have such great friends that are willing to help me on the most important day of my life!

 I would like to Introduce everyone to the rest of  my Beautiful Bridesmaids.

Cassie

I've known Cassie for years now. We both grew up in the same area and have since escaped ...

Just Kidding ;)

I have know her for years now and love the friendship that we have. I have always been able to be myself with her. Jessica, Cassie and I have a great friendship and always have so much fun when we are together. It's so nice to know I have a friend like her to turn to when I need something and have no fear of what she will think of me. She never judges and always listen when needed. 

 AZ during Spring Training

 Disneyland for Jessica's Birthday

 My Birthday at LA Kings game

3 of my Bridesmaids at my Football tournament and my cute flower girl in the corner on the iPhone. I love them and check out the shirts Cassie and Jessica made! We are the Angels so they made shirts with angel wings and had my name put on the back too!! I have AMAZING friends!!

Michelle

  Michelle was one of my first people that I met when I moved out here.She invited me over for a girls night one night and she was one of the first that I told about JR and I. We had been dating for a few months and then we decided to make it official and that night I went to Michelle's and spilled the beans :)  Michelle and I currently live together and I'm so excited to have her a part of our wedding party. She has been a great help and loves to talk wedding with me which is a dream come true :) 

One of our many adventures at Disneyland

Shooting and camping in the desert

This is her and her Andrew. JR & I love them :)

Heidi Jo 

I love Heidi Jo. Isn't she Beautiful :) We are Co-captains for our girls Football team. She is one of the sweetest girls I know. I love that she is competitive like me and we give it our all while playing football. She caught the winning touchdown at our football tournament and that year we were undefeated. HJ is one of mine and JR's biggest supporters and we are so thankful for her. We both love JCrew and  wear the same size everything!! Tops, Pants and shoes!! Basically HJ is amazing! 

Heidi has the ball and the girl is trying to grab her flag.

 The poor girl eats it. Heidi is just too quick.

 Michelle, Heidi & I at a Football Pep Rally

 Me running to Heidi  because she intercepted the ball and made a touchdown!! 

Lilian

Lilian is JR's sister. She is 1 year older then him and they are very close. When JR and I started dating her and her husband invited me over for dinner one night and  they were so sweet! I felt so comfortable with them and since then we have become more then friends, we are family. We hang out with them very often and enjoy spending time with them. It's so much fun being around her and she always gives the best advice. I think we have a great friendship and am so thankful for her. 

 On our way from CA to Utah. 

 Making some yummy empanadas

 Derek's B-day Party

In Utah for New Years.

Those are my AMAZING Bridesmaids!! Aren't they Beautiful?!?!

 I'm so excited to have these girls in my life. 

 Thank you girls for everything!!

 I love you and appreciate all that you do for Jorge & I.

Thank you for all the support and always believing in us.

This is going to be so much fun!! 

Be ready to dance the night away!!