San Diego Zoo Mishap

When I saw that I could get annual passes to the San Diego Zoo on Living Social for half off you better believe I put my credit card information in!  

And the date began.

You know how it takes so much time to leave the house when there are kids?  Well its just as hard when its just William and I.  Hopefully its something we will work on ;)

Either way we made it out of the house finally with a cooler filled with fruit and sandwiches etc.  (and a newly remastered playlist on my ipod AND iphone so we can play it while laying out at the beach)

 The beach picnic was AWESOME! And having our music made it even better!  

Look at that face!  Just makes you want to pinch those cheeks.

 And this picture makes you want to blot that face with oil absorbing papers.

So we laid out until I felt like I was so tan.  It wasn't until we got to the zoo that I realized I was still super white.  Whaaa.

And this is where the mishap begins.  Look at the two of us so excited to spend the rest of the day at the San Diego Zoo!

 Well after about 45 minutes of being transferred to all sorts of different lines and customer service people, someone finally had the courage to explain that the tickets we were presenting them were for the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.  What the heck?!  Tell me I'm not the only idiot that made that mistake!  Screw you Living Social!  I have been tricked!  And it would be totally fine if it was across the street, but we are talking another 45 minutes away!!!

So we decided that we would still go to the zoo only we weren't going to pay for tickets.

So this is us in front of the sign.  Oooohh....Ahhhhh....

And look!  We SPOTTED a leopard!  We didn't get too close though, we know they could be vicious. 

 And then we saw a decapitated bird.  We don't understand why they would showcase this.  We are thinking about contacting the zoo manager and complaining.  Maybe they will "refund" our tickets.

I touched a snake.  I was so scared!!!  But I felt like Britney Spears when I did.

 We went on a couple rides, this is when William was riding the mechanical bull.

 I was taking a picture of William and then suddenly this frog jumped so high it nearly hit his head!!! I can't believe I caught it in a picture!!!

 I wasn't tall enough to feed the monkeys.  Maybe next year...

 There was tons of SCAT everywhere!  This one William thought tasted like it came from a giraffe.

 After we spent the rest of our afternoon at the zoo, we headed to the gas lamp.  We had dinner and diet cokes (I got crazy with a regular coke) at the Shout House.  And then walked around downtown for a while.

 I had so much fun with him!  I am super deeply, tremendously in love.

The End.

How the Ms. turned into Mrs.

I have never been the kind of girl that grew up planning her wedding.  I wasn't against it, I totally wanted to get married, but I just didn't really put much thought into it.  

A week after I met William, the night of our first kiss (he he) I came home, opened a pinterest account and started planning OUR wedding.  I knew after ONE WEEK that I wanted to marry him and I finally turned girl and started the planning.  And of course he had no idea about any of this!  

  This is the story of the PROPOSAL!

The big diamond is a black diamond, the smaller diamond is a champagne diamond.  They are two separate rings, one band in gold, one in white gold.  

I knew it was coming.  I gave him my strict policies which were the following:

1. I must have a manicure

2. I must look pretty

3. I must have a cute outfit on

4. I must be surprised

5. There must be a hidden photographer (thanks to pinterest)

6. He must ask my Dad

Like most of you reading that he thought my list was rather ridiculous and putting too much pressure on him.

 I had a good idea he had a ring (I hacked his email account) but still wasn't EXACTLY sure.  

We had been on a week long vacation to Utah and during that time I got really sick.  We are talking the snotty nose, flem cough, watery puffy eyes kind of sick.  I knew that we were out of the anxiety range for a proposal so I could start picking my nails (I'm a picker) .  On Friday July 6th I ended my shift and he picked me up from work (my car was in the shop) and he had got me some medicine and orange juice for me, then proceeded to blindfold me.

I thought it was sexy ;), until the road started making me feel a little throw up kind of sick, and I started saliva-ing in a trash bag.  You know that feeling when you are about to throw up and spit keeps collecting in your mouth? I hate that!  Meanwhile William is singing the cutest songs to me :)

I want to point out that I DID NOT PEEK the entire drive which is extremely against my nature.  

We get out and he takes off my blindfold, but I still have to keep my eyes closed.  And he walked me to some location where we ended up sitting down on a bench (still with my eyes closed).  He tells me he is going to sing me our song.  And he does, but towards the end of the song it starts talking about wearing a ring and he leaves me side.  At this point I KNOW he is on his knee in front of me.

I start freaking out in my mind and refuse to open my eyes because I was so sure he was proposing and I didn't know what to do or where we were or what was going on (and I knew I was not looking good I mean he wiped a booger out of my nose before we sat down)!

I finally opened my eyes to my DREAM RING being put on by my finger by my DREAM MAN and I look around and we are at the LDS San Diego Temple (the place where we had our first kind-of date and possible DTR ((define the relationship)).  

Me:

OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH!

William:

You haven't responded yet

Me:

Oh ya! YES!  OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH!

And then I fell on the ground into the fetal position.

After some calming down, we headed to this AMAZING restaurant on top of a cliff in La Jolla overlooking the ocean :) 

So lets talk about the previous rules I mentioned. 

Manicure: Done. (Thanks to Jessica E. at Murrieta Day Spa who shellaced those babies)
Looking Pretty: NNNNOOOOO!
Cute Outfit: HECK No!
Surprised: COMPLETELY
Hidden Photographer: Technically no, but he had also purchased a tripod and with a little self timer action was able to get some shots :)
Permission from Dad: He asked my Dad in Utah and nearly crapped his pants three times in the process LOL

I would not have changed a thing, not even my outfit.  I LOVED it so much!  I feel so blessed to have William in my life.  I know that no matter where I was in the world, we would have found each other as cheesy as that sounds.  I am complete when I am with him.  I could not have imagined, or pinterested or designed a better man.

Meetings that end with Unibrows = LOVE

I have two jobs.  I love them both equally.  One I am pretty much by myself all day, and the other I am surrounded by really funny girls all day.  But sometimes after work hours, work time is absolutely worth it.  

We had our monthly meeting this month.  It was my first one since I have been back.  Was it productive?  Heck yes.  But productive can only last so long.  At some point the meeting needed to end.  And that is when it ended.  What was to follow would be more of a "team building experience" than money could buy.  

Whatever you are seeing here, just know that it was WAY WORSE!  

Now for a closer look at everyone:

Adrienne

 Jessica

 Daniela

 Joy

 Rachel

Feel free to vote on who had the "best look"

We finished the night with a dance party to Shakira's Hips Don't Lie.

We all went home and had funny stories, this was mine:

I pull up to William's house and he gets into my car.  Keep in mind that it is dark so at this point he still doesn't see the gravity of my "new look".

Rachel: Hey Babe!  Do you like how I did my make up today?

William: Uh (looks at me) ya it looks good.

Rachel: (confused for a second so I turn on the light in the car and don't say a word)

William: NOOOO!

Then we recorded about 24 different videos, this is the only one that would upload so this is what you get: