let it snow

tuesday after a longg day of work. i headed up to BIG BEAR. BYMYSELF. sometime i like to just get away and go on a little trip with me myself and I. The drive up was seamless, no snowy roads, no fish tailing and no traffic. Pandora served me with the perfect road trip music. to be perfectly honest the whole trip was not going to be solo. i meet up with my friend (for blogging purposes we will call him snowman) who lives up in bear. the purpose of the trip was to go snowboarding. and we went.

(i wore snowman's cloths. i was just a Little big thuged out)

(snowing.)

it even snowed on while we were up there. it was honestly such a fun trip. it was part of my make it happen week. what is making it happen. well if you have something you want to do, and you have the time and money. go do it!! enough if and's or maybes.

JUST GO

a day with my mom

if you didn't know.
my mom is brazilian.
she has three best friends. who are also brazilian
living the american dream.

(ofelia, me, my mom)
so my mother's friend ofelia cam down from oregon to visit.
they invited me along for a day trip.
we decided to take advantage of the nice weather and go to Coronado for the day

(hi fiving the seuss man himself)

the hotel del coronado had a display of dr. seuss status. they were so fun.
if you have little one's in SD i'd defiantly recommend taking them for some MOO MOO's ice cream
and a stroll around the backside of the del.

after Coronado we headed to little italy.
were you can in no doubt find san diego's BEST Italian food.
we went to mona lisa smile.
and it was simply amazing.

when we finally got home.
we passed out.
it was a good day.

the beggining.

So that last time i wrote.

i was lost.
trying to figure out what to do next.
which lead to the job search of all job searches.
craiglist, company websites, recruiters were all utilized.
i was on the lookout for my next step.
destined to find something that WAS DESTINED for ME at this very time in my life.

then i found something.
something kinda like gold.
(the next two months will be the best of my life.)

Core Power Yoga Teacher Training.
basically it's a 8 week course for me to become yoga certified.
at the most amazing yoga studio EVER. Which just so happens to offer hot yoga too. (told you it was amazing)
and i just so happen to get to do all the yoga i want and no additional charge.
I'll be learning the theories and postures of yoga.
and after the program i'll be a certified yoga instructor.
sweet.

i feel like i'm living a dream.
and all my hopes and dreams are coming true.

it may not be exactly how i expect or plan.
but i'm certain. it's the bomb.
o yea i forgot to mention.
i gave LDSBC a jingle. they are differing my enrollment until Winter semester

one picture

Only One
(me and Aimee)

only one picture.
that's all we have to remember from our past mexico trip.
my camera's battery died right when i turned in on :[ tragic indeed.
don't worry we had five manly guys with us to protect us.

anywho. mexico was so much fun. the theater. was REDICULOUSLY nice.
best movie experience EVER i don't know if i'll want to watch a movie any other way.
we also stopped in some sketchy ally that kyle's dad took us to for
street tacos. they were good but not going to lie.. i've had better
however, mi encanta mexico.
i really want to go back.
best part. i can. it's only 40 minutes from home.

it just keeps getting better.

MEXICOOO

tonight we are going here:

it's an ultra luxurius movie theature in mexico.
we will also be eating street tacos
and going bowling.

viva la MEXICO.
pictures from the actual adventure to follow.

hopping

Happy Easter

(tulips always remind me of easter)

currently spending my easter at work

enjoying conference. so far saturday afternoon session

has been my favorite.

and i missing my family's easter tradition

of picnicing, and kite flying a the ranch.

a valentines day to remember

so who couldn't love shania's lepord print jumper.

well the last post was a result of my valentines day.

which just so happen to be very special.

i woke up and went to work just like every sunday.

got off of work.

hurried over to church.

relief society was lovely.. then came sacrament. i went over to sit with some new girls in the ward who i didn't really know. my old friend (i'll tell you why he is my old friend in later in on in this story.) text me and told me to sit down by his scriptures. so i did. he talked way too much during sacrament and i got peeved. the speakers were on fire and the spirit was being felt. I told him to stop. he didn't speak for the rest of the meeting. THANK YOU. the meeting ended and just like every valentines day in the 4th ward the elder's gave use heart shaped brownies. he insisted on giving on to me. okay we're friends.... so i go home.

needless to say this "friend" surprises me with a valentines day gift

complete with see's candy and a blanket

(at his condo he has some blankets his mom made..

i ABSOLUTELY LOVE them.

so he had his mom make me one in my favorite color)

needless to say it was sweet and kind.

but i was shocked. we had never spoken about being valentines and i in NO way felt that way towards him. butt after his little surprise i did feel obligate to spend the evening with him. he suggested a picnic watching the sun set at my favorite beach. UMM hello we're friends. soo soorry but that was just not going to happen. my dearest roommate was going to be baking a plethora of goods that evening. So we joined in on that. Now he lives at the turtle bay villas so naturally once all the other boys dates were dying down they wanted to top off the evening by going hot tubing. We went and swam for a bit... then he dropped me home. I had work at 6 in the morning and it was around 10:40. i wanted to get to sleep. he wanted to kiss me. he tried. i denied. he got all butt hurt and decided we needed to have a talk. he said that it would be pointless to hang out if he wasn't getting anything. he didn't want to be my friend anymore. just because i wouldn't kiss him. seriously?

and sorry my perception of utah boys did just get a little worse.

though he didn't wear pink abercrombie polos, plaid shorts, pukka shell necklace,

and nike shoes when he had no intentions of running.

he was your grade A provo boy (from st. george).

in disguse

i'm sorry.

i'm not a girl who can be bought.

money comes and money goes.

but love lasts an eternity.

andy breaks his femur

Andy Pierce breaks his femur
after falling off of a 17-18 foot waves
at sunset beach.

and me, stef, and melissa decide to go to the hospital to visit hime this morning.
the accident happened yesterday around sunset.

We stopped by walmart and got him some get well goodies
including some sponge bath materials
games such as in room basket ball, nerf, bubbles
some goodie food
and some beach blow ups.

(andy and his x-ray)(the girls and andy)

keep him in your prayers and we hope that
he gets better soon

girls night out

Meet my new roomate

her name is sydney and she's a doll
and LOVES hello kitty.
we went out to town and got some yummy thai food
at phuket thai. which was amazingly inexpensive and really nice.
(everything was under $10)

this is Melissa and Stephanie.
they live are both from georgia.
and they are 2 more of my house mates.
(there's 5 in all. 3 bedrooms)

and we like palm trees


love these girls.
and love girls nights.

a lucky visitor

Alex comesto Hawaii
and i negelect
my homework
to go have fun with him for the week he is here

(i get to take him to a really sweet beach where they film lost)

(the trees are a little bigger here)(we like to make faces while chillin at the beach)

(finally got to go to valley of the temples.. there's LOTS of mosquitoes!)

(buddaaa)
(north shore bike ride. the best ever.)(he's good at taking pictures.)
(went to pearl harbor. the tickets where sold out so we took pictures and explored other areas.)
(GUNS.nuff said.)
(darrrlings)
(after cheesecake factory in honolulu we watched some of the street performers. EVEN held some birds.)(a sunday visit to the visitor center)

(laie temple)

it was the best having him here.
he really is the world's sweetest boy.
i'm going to miss him

tooddless to kauai then san diegoo lil.
seee you soon!

happy new years

HAPPYYY
NEW YEARS

it's 2010

and i got to spend the last day of 2009
with alex. we had an eventful night.

(first he took me to watch the sunset at sunset cliffs on point loma. it was a beautiful sunset)

(next we went to north park. and took lots of pictures)

(then we had an AMAZING dinner at spread. its all vegitarian and OOo so delicious.)we had some time before the dance started so we walked around balboa park and drove around san diegoo

(getting sweaty at the dance..he is the cutest lil in those glasses)

the boobear gave me
one of the best new years hands down
love him lots.

buhh bye 2009 you were fun.

family

the boo, dispite the abundance of naughties
and the lack of anything really he can eat
suggested a visit to
crystal cove cafe in newport
while we spent time up there with his parents.

his mom suggested i try the
THE FRENCH TOAST
and OOO my it is AMAZING tryy it sometime

: ] well i'm off for a little more holiday fun.
hope your having just as much fun as i am!
toddles.

pipe masters

pipe masters was a lot of fun.
here's some pictures.
my camera wasn't zoooming in on the surferboys
so sorry no surf ones.

(i pod and beach = joy.)

(alyssa,me,kelsey.. they are the cutes reindeer ever)

(bye bye roomiee girl we'll still have to beach it!)

(My chair loveee it.)

Mele Kalikimaka
in 12 days

thanksgiving the day

thanksgiving 2009.

what a day what a day.
let's see. started out with me waking up way early.
so what do i do. just take it easy. RELAX.
it's a HOLIDAY. so that means no school stuff. : ]

after waking up and mozzing around the house. watching the girls bake their pies for the ward party. it was time for me to get ready. get ready for what you might ask. well for my second viewing of twilight of course.

(you may not be able to tell from this picture but Todd is WAY more excited to see new moon than me : ])

i went with todd. todd's ward rented out the Laie theature for their ward to watch New Moon, and Todd invited me to go along with them. and since i was already planning on seeing it today. seeing it with todd for FREE sounded like a good deal. It was most wonderful the second time around. but i'm not going to lie i could tell that Jacob was a 17 year old actor in real life.. and that made mee feel a little less into it. Also this second time around i feel even more in love with Edward's character... k nuff about twilight already your probably bored to death and thinking why in the world is chellyyy writing about the same kind of stuff 13 year old girls obsess over?

next it was off to the ward thanksgiving party. let me first off say I LOVE BYU-H 4th ward. I've been in it for a little over a year and it is the sweetest and most loving ward i have ever been in. and they definatly know how to through a good party. here's some snippity snapps from the event: (berry and birthday boy brian fukafuka)
(some of the roomies. ashley,alexis, kelsey)

(me and becca. the girls thinks she's pasty. serriously?!?! soo tan!)
(mr. clark. gotta love his C.R. shirt and flag shorts.)
(bishop's wife, me and bishop)

i'm doing another post with all the thing that i am thankful for.... but since Bishop's picture is right here i'd like to express my gratitude for the wonderful man . thank you bishop as well as your wife. for all that you two do for us, all of your counsel, guidance and support. Our bishop such a sweet loving bishop we are truly blessed to have you serving the 4th ward for almost 6 sweet years. The spirit that he has invoked in our ward is heartwarming and i am truly grateful for all that he has done.

.. so after a scrumptious meal it was time for a little NORTH SHORE thanksgiving sessions in the sun. (that's a bit of a mouthful.. whew!) the beach was pretty much prefect light breeze, bright sun, itty bitty sign of clouds and GIANT waves.

(triple crown surf competition.)

(perfection)
(PEACE (those tourist taught me well))
(and a pretty sunset)

with a sunset like that how could there not be a million things to be thankful for.


happy thanksgiving 2009