Long Time no See

Shelly Losee Carr and fam. came to visit us in Cali last week. She is one of my favorite companions from the mission days. We actually celebrated 2 Christmas's together, and I only had two Christmas's on the mission. We met each other in the MTC. She was headed to the Munich mission and I to the Austrian mission. We roomed on the same floor in the MTC and got to know each other. Half way through our missions, the two area's were combined to one and we served together during the 2nd Christmas season in Salzburg. We had some fun times!!
Her husband "Lig", who is just as cool as she is, had a conference in San Fran. Shelly and her two adorable kids came too. I don't have a lot of pic's from the visit, but here's a few from this week and the mission too. This week we did some sight seeing, she stayed a night at our place, came to my work baby shower and had too much fun. Shelly, I loved hanging you again!

Another year older and wiser too

I really love the girls I work with. Dr. Miyatake is an excellent oral surgeon with extensive education and great business plans and ethics. My coworkers have become real good friends! We all work really hard and share the load regardless of the duty. We do like to joke around sometimes that the less experience surgical assisting staff members will have to assist a surgery all by themselves and nonsense like that, but it just helps us appreciate those who really know what their doing in their jobs. Well during lunch yesterday the girls brought out a cake for me. It wasn't exactly my birthday, but we still celebrated it with a cake. UMMM Yummieeeee.

A New Watch

James and I have a favorite Thai restaurant in our old town called Kau Sarn. I particularly love the dessert sticky rice and mango dish. Our new town has a Thai restaurant with food just as good. Turns out the two restaurants are owned by brothers. They also own a store that sells Thai dresses, paintings, and . . . watches. This watch was in a glass case at the Thai restaurant and apparently James noticed me oogling it last time we went out to eat. Yesterday evening, after an extremely long day at work, I came home to the smell of pumpkin curry and sticky rice. In the center of our living room on the table I had takeout sticky rice and mango waiting with a brand new watch. (The living room had been cleaned as well). What a awesome surprise!! not to mention what an awesome husband, thanks Jimmy. I love my new watch.

House up date

It's like playing in a really big sand box right now. Lot's of digging. We even rented big tools to do it for us. It's hard to imagine where everything is going to go, but we've built a retaining wall in the back that will give us some flat area for a back yard. There is a lot of poison oak on the property and James is deathly allergic to the stuff. He's been itching for weeks. We had to cut some trees down and James got his tree climbing in. We're in the process of grading the land, getting soil reports, making sure the ground it solid enough that our house wont slide when we're done. Last weekend we tied rebar for the piers that will go in the ground for the foundation. There are about 60 foundation piers to stick in the ground.

Baby Bump.

I thought I would post a photo of my developing belly. I'm sure all the women w/ kids can relate to the new experience I am having. It's getting difficult to put my socks on in the morning. If I drop something, it's just more convenient to have someone else pick it up. All my cloths are getting stretched to the max, or I can't even attempt to zip, or button them up. Boy this is fun. . . It is fun to feel the baby kick though.

House Prodject

Ever since James and I moved to Cali., We dreamed of Living in Richmond forever, (J/K), James planned on building a house in Orinda. Last weekend we got a little closer to our goal. James and I now own land, in a city called Orinda, CA. James and I moved to Orinda mid June. We now spend every extra moment except Sundays and regular paid jobs to work on the house project. We hope to have a house on the land some day.

Last weekend James and I went to Utah for a little family and friends visit. We had so much fun at Uncle Dave's Wedding, high school reunion, and a baby shower for me. It was great to see everyone again!! I left town on Friday, went to a wedding bbq Friday night and saw family. Mom and I took a stroll in the morning around the Flat Iron Mesa track early Saturday morning. Jan and I dropped by the high school reunion during lunch. Crazy to see all the people who used to be familiar faces. Dave's wedding was held in his back yard and was very beautiful!! We saw tons of family and friends. It was nice to catch up. James flew in, and arrived just after the wedding for the reception and a Sunday movie with his grandpa in Provo, Ut. He is the sweetest of Grandpa's. It was nice to get away for just a moment to revisit our Provo stomping grounds and experience the nostalgia of a moment in the history of the life of James and Bekah. On Monday Mom invited my girlfriends over for a baby shower. It was really fun to sit and talk about kids and hang out with the greatest friends in the world, minus one Jeni. I didn't want to leave. Thanks everyone for coming and for the gifts.