You Don't Always Get To Pick Who You Share Your House With!

For the last few months Jack and I have been experiencing all that people experience when they move in to their first house. We have been embarcing the cold because we don't want to play for the heater in our gas bill, we have adjusted to having to do our own dishes and laundry, and we have even enjoyed planting our first garden together. Right now we are realizing that because we have so many different types of plants in our yard we are getting a lot of different types of bugs inside the house. Now anyone who knows my husband knows that he is not the might bug fighter. He hates bugs in the house. I hear at least three times a day " Ashley!!!!....come get it!! I am getting a little worried because I did here him having a conversation with a spider in our bedroom the other day. I will keep everyone posted on my husbands health.

P.S. I always like including pictures with my blog even if they are posed. I asked Jack to give me a scared face and this is what I got. It was too funny not to post it.

A Monumentous Weekend !!

Two very exciting things happened this weekend:

Jack and I finished our first box of laundry soap. It took us three months, but we did it. I feel so grown up, with doing my own laundry and cleaning up after myself.

The other event that we celebrated this weekend is that we finally hung up something on the wall. We had been holding off scared of putting holes in the wrong place and having to live with it. It was good to finally have a weekend day off together. I made waffles for breakfast and we watched moves together most of the day. I truly love being married and having our own house together.

Grandpa re- posted

So awhile ago I blogged about my Grandpa being very sick. He has since then passed away. I have deleted the earlier blog because My sister informed me that the baby in the picture was not me and was in fact my sister. She always finds a way to at me. So I would like to write the same message and I will add a picture later when I find one that is surly me.

So after a week of worrying about my Grandpa and his health we have finally gotten the news that my Grandfather will be going home tomorrow...Yeah!!! My Grandpa is the strongest man I know. He is a family man who served in the Navy to support and provide for his family. He has taught me valuable lessons like respecting adults, no chewing gum, elbows off the table, and he also taught me to be a pretty good shot with a 22 rifle once I figured out which eye to close. He has given our whole family his great sense of humor and he is loved by us all. He is an amazing man and I am blessed to be in his family.

I love you very much Grandpa and you will always be a huge part of our family.

So many things!!!!

Life for Jack and I have been pretty busy. We both go to school a lot and work a lot too!!! In school I am in an art class where I am making pretty interesting projects. Math is going well and Jack is really enjoying his Biology class so we won't talk about his math class.
I am in the process switching stores. I will be moving from the Cerritos store to the Cypress. I will still be doing the same job just with different people. I am excited for the change but I will miss my friends.
One of my favorite activities is to take Lily outside and let her run around with the other dogs on the block. It is so funny to see the small dog and the big dogs running around with each other. All the neighbors get a good kick out of how Lily knows just how move not to get run over. Well most of the time.

We had super Saturday at church the other day and I had a blast. I made a wooden sign with Our last name on it and also learned to etch our last name in the bottom of glass pans. I really enjoy crafts.


I started my volunteering with a program in Long Beach where I mentor a child once a week for ten weeks. I am glad I'm doing this. It was fun we made bracelets and a magazine collage.
Jack is still a bike maniac. He is super skinny. He loves sweating and breathing heavy, I guess.


My uncle Albert Had his 50Th birthday and my Cousin Jenny threw him a surprise birthday party and it was awesome. Besides the expression on he his face my favorite part was that I got to be with all my cousins on my mom's side. We are going up so fast.


Jack also had a birthday I forgot to blog about. We had a good time. We got some of his friends from work and we all went rock climbing. I was able to climb up three walls which amazed me, and of course Jack was good at it. We also went out and had a good dinner and his is now 25 which means he can finally rent his very own car. Yeah.. I love him so much...
Jack and I are also looking for our first house. We are about twenty days until we go into escrow if all works out. I am excited for a new experience. We will keep posting as it all becomes more real.

Our Week Together!!!

Since my mom went to West Virginia for a week it gave Jack and I a chance to play house. I have decided that I really like being grown up and taking care of myself and our home. I want so much to me a house wife. We have a very eventful week. Of course we still worked full time so the things we did were limited. We went to six flags on Tuesday which was our two year anniversary. We had a great time, got exercise, sun and had a lot of fun. We rode all the big rides until I felt sick but of course it was worth it. We also had a romantic dinner together with of course candle light. Here are the pictures I took plus pictures of Jack on his new bike, with his dad and brother Dave.

Busy but not doing much.

Life here has been extremely busy, but not really fun. Work is still doing good even though that is where we spend most of our time. School has about two weeks left and then that should free up some time. Mostly I have pictures of how cute my puppy can be. So my husband is pretty cute he even got me flowers last week. I really do love him. We have dine a little house hunting but nothing yet in or price range and that will let us keep Lily.

Life in a Flash!!!!

Life here in the California Holler home has been very busy of course. Ashley went to her first womens conference and had a great time doing service and eatting lots of good food. I also enjoyed spending time with just the girls and taking a break form school and work. As soon as I got back from Utah I had to jump right back in to work and it was soon finals time at school. We have sence finished our finals and this school semester.Summer school starts soon so Im resting while we can. I have make three cakes for people and made some spending cash. Im also getting more skilled in my decorating with is good for me plus its a change from essay writing and office max.