Sacramento

We ate at this Mexican Restaraunt for my birthday and it made me sick!

Me with Sweetpea and Valerie at Maggie's house
On a nice walk in Davis with Maggs and her girls
Maggie, me and Caitlyn! Sweetpea ran into the photo
In Old Sacramento with Maggs!
Me and Sweetpea with silly hats on!

For my 26th Birthday I decided to make a weekend trip up to Sacramento to visit my best friend I met my freshman year in college. My other really good friend also lives there and the 3 of us were great friends in college. Brandon also flew into Sacramento for an interview at the hospital there which is what motivated me to make this trip. It was so great to see Maggie and her 2 cute kids Sweetpea and Valeri as well as Caitlyn and her cute little girl Jocelyn. Its strange to think that not too long ago the 3 of us were single and in college together! The weather was wonderful and the sun even came out! It was a breathe of fresh air to get away from the snow for a few days.

Brad Paisley, Birthday and More!

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to go to the Brad Paisley concert with my mom and 2 sisters. Over the last few years we have made it a tradition to go to at least one country concert a year. We are also concert snobs and have to sit on the floor! (Thanks to Stubhub.com). December 2006 was the first time seeing Brad in concert and that is when I fell in love with his music!! (The real reason back then for going to his concert was that Carrie Underwood opened for him). Anyway, this time around we were really excited. My little sister Katie and I walked right up to the front of the stage when Brad came out and got to stay there the entire concert! It was a lot of fun and I probably took way to many photos. Katie and I both got high fives from Brad Paisley too! He is an amazing performer and can play the guitar like no other. :)

Frustrations

I have not been this frustrated in a very long time. Let me explain. First of all, today my family went to the MTC and dropped my little brother Ben off. I took my new camera with me and got some amazing priceless photos. As I came home later today, I tried to upload the pictures from my memory card. For some reason, it wouldnt work. I spend 2 hours on it very frustrated trying to get it to work. After that long, I decided to go upstairs and use my old laptop to upload the photos. For some reason, the computer couldnt read that any photos had been taken. It said the memory card was empty. The only option it gave me was to format the card. Not wanting to take that risk, I went back downstairs and put the card back into the camera. I "supossedly" put a lock on the pictures so they couldnt get deleted, but the disk ended up getting formatted and now ALL of my PRICELESS PHOTOS of my brother are gone, and I wont see him again for 2 years.
Lesson learned???? If you get a new memory card, FORMAT IT FIRST before taking photos :****(

A New Year

Christmas ended up being really great. It was different this year spending it between 2 families, but ended up working out really well. Christmas Eve Brandon and I slept at his parents house. His family celebrates each year with German traditions, such as lighting candles on the tree, a traditional dinner, singing songs and lots of games! The fun ended around 1:30AM just in time to get a little sleep before waking up early to drive up to Logan. Luckily, Brandon's twin and his wife were leaving the next morning so the 4 of us got up early and left. I was happy we made it in time to my parents house to open presents. The greatest part about everything was actually being able to spend time with Brandon! With his extremely busy schedule during a typical week we only get to see each other a few times for an hour here and an hour there. So, two full days was great!!! New Years he worked of course, but I was able to drive up to my parents cabin in Bear Lake and spend the night with my family. It was great because we all went skiing New Years Day!!

LAST weekend was also wonderful. Brandon and I got to go up to Logan and spend some time with my family. My little brother Ben went through the temple for the first time because next week he will be entering the MTC and leaving to serve a 2 year mission to Paraguay. We spent Friday and Saturday night at my parents house which was great!! I brought the Wii up and we ended up playing that thing for hours. ALSO, I got a new camera for my birthday!! Brandon and I picked it out at Best Buy. I am really excited about it because my old camera was 3 years old and kind of out of date. Technically, my BDAY isnt for another week, by my mom let me have it early :) Here are a few photos from it. I need to figure out how to use the red eye reduction. This camera is way more high tech than my last one, so it will take some learning. Of course my cute nephews were with us. Brandon taught Carter how to play Wii sports!