Birthday Time June 28

It was my birthday last month and it was such a good birthday. I am so blessed to have so many wonderful friends and family. My birthday was on a Monday, but the Sunday before, Jimmy’s parents had a birthday dinner for me. Jimmy’s mom made delicious chicken cordon blue, rice, fruit salad and green salad. She also made dessert, this yummy lemon meringue with fresh strawberries. She is a great cook and so sweet. On Monday Jimmy woke me up before he left for work at 5:00am so I could open my birthday present. A month ago Jimmy got me a roadbike for my birthday so I already knew about that but he surprised me with some clip on shoes, highlighter color bright t-shirts and a speedometer! I am so ready to go out on the road. Jimmy’s mom and sisters took me out for breakfast. After breakfast Bonnie took me to Sacramento to get a pedicure, do some shopping and go out to lunch. We had such a fun time. Jimmy had to work but when he got home we went out for Mexican and a movie. I got a box of goodies from my parents and a card, I miss them, so it was so nice to get a little piece of home in a box. Jimmy’s parents knew that we needed a new camera so they got me one. I am so exited because our cameras have been broken for a while. It was so fun to get together with our family and friends.

San Francisco/ Kristin Came to Visit!

On June 17 Kristin made it to the Oakland Airport! I am so happy that Kristin came to visit. We were roomates in apartment 311 at the ridge and I had not seen her in about 3 years. We had so much fun while she was here. She was here from thursday thru sunday which was too short but we did so much in such little time. My friend Bonnie and I picked her up from the Airport on thursday evening, we then drove to the hotel. On friday we went to Alcatraz, we loved walking around the island and the tour was really interesting. After we headed to Lombard street in San Francisco. This street is soo windy but soo pretty. After, we did some shopping and had some food. We did soo much walking around the city and it was so cold. The temperature was about 55 degrees all day! We froze and we looked for sweaters everywhere but we didnt find any. We then headed to see Wicked, it was amazing. I loved it, we all did. It was Kristin's third time seeing it and now I understand why. On saturday we came back to Murphys and showed Kristin around, she was definetly a trooper on the steep bike ride we took her on. We showed her the biggest gold nugget and took her to see some gigantic trees. On Sunday we went to church and Kristin made a delicious fruit pizza for the ward linger longer. Then we took Kristin to the Oakland temple before we said goodbye :( It was such a fun weekend and was sad when it was over.
THANKS FOR COMING TO VISIT KRISTIN! THANKS FOR COMING WITH US BONNIE!


Lombard Street

At Pier39

Alcatraz

On The Island

At The Temple

Shooting

A couple of weeks ago our friends Bonnie and Louis took us shooting. They were great instructors and trusted us with their guns!

HAPPY GRADUATION AUDREY!

This past friday June 4 Jimmy's sister Audrey graduated from High School. She will be going to BYU-I in the fall. She is such a fun girl and I am so happy to have her as a sister. Congrats Audrey!

Helping Hands

In may as a part of a stake service project a couple of wards in the area including my ward were in charge of cleaning up and doing some maintenance on the fairgrounds. Every year there is a county fair held there and the place was in need of much work. There was about 100+ volunteers there to help. Everyone had different projects going, mowing the lawns, painting, putting ribbons on the stuff entered in the fair etc. It was so neat to see how many people showed up and the results were amazing, we worked from 8 to 12:30 and so much work got done in such a short time. The fairgrounds people were so happy , they said
" We usually pay for a bus load of prisoners to come and get the fairgrounds ready for the fair but you guys work better and faster" I was glad to hear that was the case.

Helping Hands

Sweetest Surprise

So Today is sunday and unfortunetly I am at work. I get a chance to go to church, and after I go to work. Today I barely had time to grab something to eat for lunch so I just took it to go. I work 2:30 to 8:30pm so usually I either eat after work or bring a quick dinner. I didnt bring anything for dinner this time. But, I had the nicest surprise ever. Jimmy drove down 30 min to were I work and brought me dinner! I was so happy that he did that for me. He really is the best!