January - June 2008

Okay update so far this year. I got a new job at the University. I work with online degree programs now. It has been wonderful so far. We are at the development stages of it so i'm in the trenches with getting things up and running. The best thing about the job is the students. I teach a one credit class that is mandatory for the program and I get to know all of the students that participate in the online degree. They are just sooo grateful for the chance to finish their degree. Many are stay at home moms that quit school to raise their babies and have moved for the husband's career. They just have great spirits and determination and it is so rewarding to be apart of this new venture. About 2 weeks after I started the job, my mom and my sister in law Julie all took a week off from work and went to New York for a girls weekend. It was a blast! It was non-stop activities each day. We would go sightseeing during the day, and then at night we would go and watch a Broadway show. We saw Jersey Boys, Wicked and Phantom. We went to Brooklyn, Jersey, and all over Manhattan. It was too much fun. Oh we even went to a Yankees Met's game. What an experience! The fans were sooo entertaining.

The most exciting news I have to share this year is that when I got home from New York I found out that I am pregnant! I'm still in shock by it and can hardly believe that it has finally happened. Tahri and I will be having our little addition in January. It seems so far away, but hopefully the time will go by fast. I've been miserable the last couple of weeks, but things are starting to get better. I think the best part of it is that my two sister in laws Lanayia and Kira are also expecting. Lanayia will have her baby in October, and then I'll have mine in January and we think Kira will have hers a couple weeks after me. So it is sooo fun being pregnant together. They are probably so sick of me because I panic about every little thing. :) But they never show it, they are sooo good to me.

2007

Okay so I'm horrible. I started this thing in January 2008 and only got through July 2006. Too much has happended from then until now, so i'll just do a quick update on the past year and a half. We moved to Idaho in August of 2006. I started working for BYU-Idaho as an International Advisor and Tahri was taking classes and working for his company in Arizona from home. It was a really good set up for us, with my benefits Tahri was getting his school paid for, and he was at home working and doing my to do lists. :) He also started building our home. I was still working on my thesis at San Diego State University, and in April of 2007 I graduated with my masters in Postsecondary Educational Leadership. Oh it was a big weight lifted off my shoulders. For graduation Tahri bought me the perfect gift. My baby girl Chanel. Oh i just love her! She is a long haired pug, full of attitude and never ending energy.

We moved into our new home that summer. Tahri built us a beautiful home.

We went to Hawaii for my cousin Jeneka's wedding and got to see so many family members that we hadn't seen in awhile. It was also Julie's birthday so we all went to a concert to see Fiji and the Whalers. It was a fun quick trip!

My parents came to visit us for the Christmas holidays and I hosted my first dinner party at the house. It turned out perfectly, mainly because my mom planned and cooked everything. :) I just showed her where everything was in the kitchen. ha! Don't you just love moms. I think those are the highlights of 2007.

July 2006

We went to California again in July because my baby brother was getting married. He and his wife were together for like 10 or 11 years before they finally got married. It was a beautiful day. Julie rode in on a white carriage with the sun hitting the blue ocean as she rode in. Josh was crying like a big baby, it was the cutest thing i had ever seen. As the sun went down, we moved into the reception hall and partied like rock stars. :) It was so awesome to see all the of our family from all over. While we were there, Tahri and I decided that we need to make our way back to this beautiful city.

May 2006

In May we got to go to watch 2 Sun's game. My parents got us tickets to see the spurs vs. sun's game. Eva Longoria was there cheering on her man, and Tahri was constantly watching the big screen for them to show her. Whatever! Then my friend Melody and her husband came down to visit, so we went to watch the lakers vs. the sun's game. Both were really fun to watch. I had to wear orange both times to support the sun's. Just wanted to mention that so it didn't look like i was wearing the same thing to both games. ha! Also for my birthday Tahri got us tickets to the Keith Sweat concert, so we finally got to go. He played all the good songs that we remembered from high school. This was a really fun month. Oh yeah, and Kira and Rick came to visit us that month too. For valentine's day Rick surprised Kira with two tickets to Phoenix. They loved getting out of the cold for a little bit but missed their babies like crazy. We had a blast with them though.

Feburary 2006

For my birthday/valentine's day we went up to Flagstaff Arizona. We stopped off in Sedona on our way home. It is suppose to be very beautiful, and everyone said to stop there so we did. The views were so nice, and the town was really cute. Flagstaff was really cold. It even snowed while we were there and we were sooo glad that we didn't get that kind of weather in Phoenix. The time away was fun, but I think Tahri wished i was more of a "nautre" girl. He wanted to stop and enjoy all the different beautiful landscapes, and i was complaining about how cold it was, and how it all looked the same. ha, I know i'm a loser. :) Then on my actual birthday I had dinner with some friends because Tahri had class until about 10 that night. But he brought me home a cake, some balloons and some presents. I love birthdays!

Christmas 2005

Tahri's mom and two brothers came out to visit us after we got settled in, we went to the temple to look at the lights. But that is about all we did, ha. We spend the whole weekend watching episodes of 24. We couldn't get enough of it. Then we drove up to Oceanside to spend the last Christmas in the Oceanside house. It was a good and sad time. Davyne planned this wonder Christmas dinner at a beach house. We had the best prime rib dinner and then we played games around the bonfire. It was a good time. But before we left I put up our own tree and a few decorations.

Our First Home

After we were married we moved to Phoenix,
Arizona. We found this cute 2bed/2bath townhouse. We were about a 2 minute drive to the downtown area where there was really good shopping and food. The downside was that we lived pretty far from the only family we had there. But it was a good location because it was the midpoint from were we both worked. Tahri loved being in Phoenix, but me not so much.