Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July everyone! I had to work until 6pm, but after work, I went home and picked up Shugo. I was hoping that he would be ok with the fireworks cause I know dogs freak out with that stuff. So we walked around for a while, and then sat down. Once the fireworks started he was definitely scared. He got up and was trying to back away, pulling on me a lot. I pulled him close to me away from everyone else a bit so he wouldn't jump on them in fear. He sat with me and was shaking a bit, staring very wide eyed at the fireworks. After about five minutes though he settled down and was fine. He laid down and stopped shaking. In the beginning there were kind of a lot, but then they weren't doing too many at once. Every now and then they did a lot and he would start to shake again, but he did really good. I am really glad I brought him cause it was fun, and good training for him.

So now I am home and I just talked with Jonathan on Skype. Cami is so cute... she gave the funniest look while looking at the computer. So stinkin' cute. I actually think that face reminds me of David... we have that old Christmas video of him standing directly in front of the camera unwrapping a girlish gift that Jon gave him... he was not so happy and I swaer he had the same confused chubby look on his face. Awesome :)

I hope you all have a great 4th! Get out and see some fireworks! Just to clarify... obviously Japan does not celebrate the holiday and I was watching the fireworks on base :) just in case anyone was confused :)

A beard... only when he is gone

So apparently on the ship they were selling these $5 you can grow your beard out thingys... Brian said he didn't buy one at first cause he didn't want to look sloppy even if it was ok, but.... then people were making it into a contest to see who could grow the best beard. Of course he could win... he' super hairy! So he bought one and look at it grow! I don't know, but something about a little scruff on a man is sexy.... and especially if they are in uniform :) Of course by the time he ever gets home he will, I am sure, be shaving. LAME.

I am not sure why but his nose in the top pic looks enormous... must be the lighting. But what did I tell ya about him "smiling with his eyes" Hilarious!

Three Years...

Of course I have to throw this in here last... a little backwards, but one other super cool thing about Brian is he can grow a beard! (that is before he joined the Navy anyway...) By the way... I don't think I am really THAT short... he had to have been standing on a snowball or something.


Yes it is amazing! It has been THREE YEARS! Wow... time flys. So let's see... Three years ago we lived in Santa Barbara and got married. Since then we have moved around a bit and had ALOT of changes and even more adventures! I don't really feel like typing our long life story, so I am going to have a ton of pictures instead. Brian is out to sea right now of course so I am here with Shugo. I was going to go riding to celebrate, but it is raining :( But tonight I am going to dinner with a friend to celebrate. We have no idea when brian is coming back. There schedule is always changing. One day they might be coming home soon and the next they plan to be out for another month. So, no worries, whenever he decides to come back we will celebrate then!
Some great things about Brian that you all may not know are.... first he loves ice cream as much as I do :D Yay! I realize this is not ice cream... but somehow I don't think I have any pics of him with ice cream... I don't know how that is possible.
Of course he has to get along with my horse. Though he is not a rider, he will go out with me to ride once in a while and he has definitely done some stall cleaning and feeding :) And Almond seems to like him.
Of course we graduated together.... this was right before our 1 year anniversary. Yay, for getting our degrees, but we still have so much to learn :)
He jumps off a bridge when I tell him to :)


He likes to "smile with his eyes" (his words not mine).
He clearly always loved Sandy, even when she was wet and slobbery :)
He even risked his life to save hers once. This was on our failed first anniversary trip. It's a hilarious story... we wanted to go camping where we could be near a lake to swim in... of course me being new to SoCal I didn't realize how lame it was and that there were no lakes you could swim in. We ended up in freaking Nevada (In July) pretty much almost killing Sandy with 115 degree weather. Once we got to the lake things were better, but in the pic below... to the right there was some mud. ALOT of mud. Brian and I swam to the other side of this little spot. Sandy of course did not like to swim much so she was going to walk around. Well... little did she know that the mud there was like quick sand, and being a St. Bernard she sunk fast. The more she struggled, the deeper she got. Brian was very quick to rescue her though. He did a nice army crawl through the mud keeping low so he wouldn't sink in himself, and got her out. Some other people there at the lake also jumped in the mud to help out. It was the NASTIEST smelling mud you could imagine. SO BAD. But luckily we were at a lake and Brian and Sandy were able to rinse off and all was fine.
He likes to be silly and dress up once in a while for me :)
He is GREAT at mowing the lawn :)

And best of all! He hates mushrooms as much as I do! So yay for our three years of marriage. No kids yet and I HIGHLY doubt there will be any on our fourth year either.... it's at least not in our plans :)

Canyoning!

OK, first of all this is not a picture of me... or my friend... I have no idea who this person is :) It's just a picture off the website SO! We went Canyoning last Sunday and had a BLAST! It was super super fun :) We went with a trip through the base. We basically put on these super thick wetsuits hiked up a mountain a bit (which is really hard to do when in a wetsuit), and then we go through little canyons and slid down waterfalls, jump off rocks, and float along with the water. It was a lot of fun, and sadly we did not get any pictures. They talked me out of bringing our little point and shoot cause it could've got squished by rocks...

So the highest part we went down was about a 40 ft waterfall. They lowered us halfway on a rope and then let us slide down the rest of it. Super fun! There were a couple spots where they let us jump off a bunch of times. I did my first front flip ever :) I actually did it 3 times, but Brian only saw once...

I have to say the first and last time I ever attempted it was at Ron and Cindy's house on their little diving board. Of course I was there with my brothers, Randy, and David (can't remember if you were there Jon). So they were egging me on to try a flip, and they told me to just tuck my legs. So what did I do? I jumped in the air and tucked my legs too much. I kneed myself in the face and got a bloody nose almost drowning myself in the process. I of course was not happy about it and the boys thought it was hysterical, but what else would brothers think? Do any of you guys remember that?

Anyway, this time... no bloody nose :) Yay for me! And on one waterfall Brian and I slid down together and backwards. Lots of fun aside from the fact that Brian landed on top of me and then I got pushed to the other side which meant I had to go behind the waterfall to get out... which should have been fine cause I did that another time, but this time, the waterfall hit me and pretty much landed on my eyeball and of course pushed me under and then I surfaced on the correct side of it. Fun Fun Fun :) I would go every day if I could, but it is kinda pricey... hopefully we will go one more time this summer.

Sad Story

So last night I was walking Shugo. I have classes this week and am getting home late so it was dark. We are walking around and I see a little frog. He was so cute and neon green. Seriously, it was the greenest frog I have ever seen! Shugo is sniffing it and I am making sure he doesn't eat it. Then, I hear a scooter coming. We are on a very narrow road, maybe 6 feet wide. So I step to the side to let him pass and... squish! No more froggy :( I should've stepped to the other side of the road cause then he would've swerved the other direction and Mr. Frog would still be alive. I think he was trying to get to the rice field... so sad. I tried to take a pic with my phone, but the street light was not bright enough.

Vote for me!!! Never mind...

OK so I entered this igoogle contest and I need your votes! I am not sure how much weight the votes carry, but just go vote anyway! I know they have there own judges, but there has to be a reason for the votes. So please GO VOTE I am not exactly sure where to vote, but if you go to this site it says come back to vote on June 11th. If I win I get to go to London and I also receive $7,500!! Which would be SUPER helpful in paying off some ugly student loans! GO VOTE NOW

Thank you!

OK so I just looked on the voting page and apparently I did not even make it to the top 36 which is lame cause a lot of them really suck and I should have at least made it to the top 36. It made me feel a bit like I was in Brooks again. Weird. So nevermind... I already lost :)

So things are pretty slow around here. Nothing special is going on. No exciting news. No bike crashes, no getting lost, there's just not much to update. We are in the nice rainy season of June. Somehow, for the last three days I had the car (cause Brian was gone) and it was sunny the whole freaking time... now that I have to bike in to work it is pouring. Lame. So right now our lives consist of work and Shugo, eating, sleeping, and I am studying for my class. Pretty dang exciting. Actually, something to look forward to is we are going on a canyoning trip on Sunday. Yahoo! I am really excited and I think it will be tons of fun :) So look forward to pictures and stories of that :)

Since I have no story I chose a random pic that I had... no I didn't eat that. None of us did... ew.