I should be studying for an exam...

But instead I'm thinking about happy Fall memories of times long past.  This funny memory keeps popping up in my head.  When Johnny and I lived in Rain Tree Apartments he was friends with me and all of my roommies (Clarisa, Heather, Melanie, and Claire) .  He would always come and visit and entertain us.  One October evening he called to ask who was home because he had a delicious treat that he wanted to drop by.  This was not really out of the ordinary because he worked at Tropical Snow for a while and would bring us snow cones in all the different flavors to try.  I believe most of us were home that evening and we were totally excited for Johnny's treat.  He came over with an oven pan full of perfectly pefect caramel apples!  They were beautiful and layered thickly with golden caramel.  We were all very pleased with the lovely gesture.  Johnny encouraged us girls to hurry and try one and tell him what we thought.  So, we all grabbed one and were ready to dig in.  As I brought the gorgeous caramel apple to my lips I had a strange feeling.  It was do to an interesting and familiar non-apple-like aroma coming from my caramel apple.  I was very reluctant to say anything as to not offend our thoughtful friend.  However, the bewildering scent was just too strong and so I asked, "did you cook these caramel apples by some meat balls or something?" (The smell reminded me of when I used to work at this Italian deli and I would make thousands of meat balls as prep work.)  Johnny B just laughed and said, "I made them at my sisters and she was cooking dinner, so maybe."  I looked back down at my apple ready to take a bite despite the funny smell. Just before I bit in I heard my roommate scream in horror.  Claire and Clarisa  had eagerly taken huge bites out of their "caramel apples" and  had both gotten a mouth full of raw onion.
I love my husband.  Probably one of the best pranks ever pulled.  Just glad that I have a very keen sense of smell.  

Happy Halloween!

"The Brothers" (that's what Johnny and his little brother Shane (who has Downs) call themselves, they are quite the duo) were once again blissfully reunited the weekend of the 10th.  Babe (Kathy), Daddio (Monte), Mare and Shane came up and we all attended the Sacramento Temple to witness the sealing (marriage for all time and eternity-- more about LDS Temples and sealings: here) of Zach Martin, Johnny's cousin, to his beautiful bride, Lauren.  We got a little restless waiting for all the pictures to be done with, but we found ways to keep ourselves occupied!

      We went and visited the wild Turkeys! I introduced Shane to my iphone and they beacame friends quickly. There he is watching the Dean Martin Variety Show on YouTube. He was quite amazed with this mini TV that played all of his very favorite shows.

Since we were already in Santa Cruz we went to the beach for about an hour.  We saw this cool Seagull guy and of course all of these happy go lucky Sea Lions.  They just float and play their days away!  Santa Cruz is so fun beacause there is always lots to keep you entertained.  We all tried hot links (a spicy hot dog) from a stand owned buy a guy that was a "5th generation californian." Johnny and I are planning a date to go fishing off the pier and then rent beach cruisers and roam around for a while.  I really like the bay area.  Housing is expensive, but it sure is a neat place to live.  Someday I'll have to tell you how AMAZING Monteray is!  Lovin' livin' in the bay area :)

Easter, Sister and Wedding

We've had an exciting last few weeks :)

                                My sister, Leah came to visit us over her spring break!

We had fun shopping and hanging out.  This is a picture of us at a little cafe at Santana Row where we got a frothy hot cocoa and a hazelnut chocolate cake.  Note:  Can you see the insernumerable amount of acne scars or "hyper pigmentation" as they call it  all over my face?  Ya, that's from a little miracle skin care regimen called the "Oil Cleansing Method."  I'd NEVER had more than 2 zits at a time in my life until my try and find new and NATURAL skin care regimen experiment went all wrong.  Look it up,  it's very convincing!  It did work miracles with my skin for about 3 weeks, and then it all went to pot.  As a result, I'm left with these terrible scars. The dermatologist told me to quit wearing make-up and only wash my face with water.  I no longer have acne, just the scars.  Does anyone know how to get rid of acne scars?  Booooo :(

We went to the MYSTERY SPOT in Santa Cruz. Pretty cool. It's a mysterious phenomenon that occurs in this particular area in Santa Cruz. Apparently, numerous studies have been conducted and nobody can figure out what's up with the funky gravity in this area. I imagined a 45 degree lean before we went, but it turned out to be a slightly disappointing, but still cool 17 degree angle lean. Definitely worth five bucks. Plus, the mystery spot is located in a beautiful forest- like setting. We even went on a little hike before our tour. Gorgeous surroundings and fun fun to hike non-hard hikes (I’m lazy when it comes to excercise, but I really enjoy being out and about in nature, so non-hard about hikes are ideal)!

Johnny finds the look of suspicion on my face in not one, but all of the photos taken of me during our Mystery Spot tour hilarious.  What can I say?  I felt very suspicious of the "unexplainable" phenomenon of leaning abnormally far out without falling. I also thought that maybe it was a big hoax for a while, but was later convinced that it was indeed, real--and in fact, a mystery.

Late Valentine's Day Post

Since Valentine's Day was on Sunday, we celebrated more so the day b4.  We went to the San Jose Tech Museum (everyone out here talks about it as a must see).  The museum was a tad bit lame, but we had fun together : )  We ate out at Macaroni Grill for dinner and shared a delicious dessert.  I'm glad that Johnny and I were friends for so long before we started dating and got married.  He really is my best friend.   Together we have such a good time no matter what we are doing.     

Where is Paula Abdul anyway?

This article from CNN pretty much sums up my feelings toward American Idol this season:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/03/04/american.idol.season.nine/index.html?hpt=C2

Paula was the light of the show!  No, two women can not replace what Paula brought to American Idol.  Her comments were hugely more accurate and insightful than Kara's and Ellen's put together.  She just started sounding a little drunk there at the end when she said them lol.  P.S.  I love Ellen, just not on AI.  Kara, on the other hand, drives me insane!!!!!!  What a weirdo.  I'm sure she's a good person, but I hate her on AI.  I feel like she ruined the show.   Does anyone else fee like she is a phoney/trying to be cool and insightful, but not pulling it off at all/non-personalitly or doesn't know how to be and so she just acts weird/her presence on the show just seems totally and utterly unecessary?!    PLEASE give me back the good old American Idol days with the Randy, Paula and Simon trio!

Artsy Fartsy

We went to the Mission City Opera last night and saw: 

I love going to see operas, plays, musicals you name it.  I absolutley  love "the arts."  One of my favorite things about attending school at BYU was all of the awesome productions you could see for such little cost.  I saw "Oaklahoma" the musical for like 5 or 10 bucks and it was spectacular (remember Larkie)!  I also loved  watching the ballroom dance team productions.  Oh my goodness; what a show!  My husband prefers the cinema arts; also known as going to the movies over all of the other arts, but will attend other shows with me when encouraged.   My friend Lacie and I are quite a team at convincing our husbands to go to various shows with us.  We all went to see the mucical "Wicked" and to some Christams concert together and we had a good time.  However, we could not convince them to go to an upcoming ballet with us.  So, we're leaving them behind to play non-violent video games together and we're off to the ballet!