sara's graduation

Since January, I had been counting down the days until April so I could take a few days of work and celebrate Sara's graduation from BYU! Darn little rascal didn't even come to my graduation but love her anyway! But before the festivities we also got to celebrate the life of Grandpa Mont. 

It was so great being with family and reminiscing through photos and music. 

Also it was the first time I played my violin in about a year.....still got it!

 Love us some Grandma Ivie! 

& 

Baby Enzo!

It was a whirlwind of a day + flying in from San Diego at 4am did not help so we crashed hard!

The next day we had a family luncheon to celebrate our little Sara. We had yummy food of course and watched a slideshow of baby Sara pics. 

Then we headed to BYU commencement to hear Elder Holland speak. 

We got to see the fam because Michael graduated from BYU Law School and Jenni's fiance Ben graduated as well. 

And we got to see our bff Abby before she left for Portland!

 The next day baby girl got her diploma graduating from the School of Communications with an emphasis in advertising and a business minor! 

 Fam photo in front of the HBLL where Sara worked most of her BYU days. 

 So proud of you SARA! You're a smart cookie and I can't wait to see where life takes you!

wils ft. the wetsuit tragedy

Hi, and welcome back to another sappy post of love and appreciation for Samuel. 

Also known as WILS--Why I Love Sam.  Previous "wils" posts are here here here and here. 

So last weekend after a long, busy week of work and school; the sun was out, a nice 80 degrees, and we were both just so ready to go surfing for the first time of 2018! Like soooo pumped! 

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We loaded up the party van with the gear and headed to the beach. It actually took a while to get there too because the crowds were out and finally ready to soak up the sun too. We get to the beach and realize my wetsuits are definitely not in the van, (the water is a good 60 degrees so I wasn't about to just hop on in) we probably left them at home duh! so a little frustrated at myself for waisting precious Saturday Sam time, we turned around and drove all the way back home to get them.

 After tearing apart the apartment searching everywhere (people our apartment is a good 700 square feet, not much room to hide or loose anything) we still can't find them! 

Long story short, we realize they had to have been stolen out of the van, bless the van's heart but that thing is old and not like Fort Knox so either we left a door unlocked or someone just craftily broke in.

You guys I was DEVASTATED! I probably bawled my eyes out for a good hour. 

And I know it's just stuff that can be replaced but 

1. That floral wetsuit WAS my most prized possession (besides my wedding ring). 

Pathetic I know but that thing brought me so much happiness.
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2. Not only did my favorite wetsuit get stolen but so did my winter suit that I was supposed to wear and that thing was not cheap! $190 at least!

3. I got my floral wetsuit on sale in 2016 for $50 and it was last one available in that style.

4. Great, now I have to buy 2 new wetsuits when I already had them. DUMB!

Ok here's the best part, while I was bawling and feeling sorry for myself Sammy was scouring the internet for a replacement. I thought it would be hopeless to find the exact style and print because it's 2 years old and they come out with new styles every year. 

But you guys!! Look what came in the mail today! 

Sam is too good to me! Not only did he find the last one ever, in the whole entire internet world, it was my size!! And this is big for him because he HATES spending money. But he knows how to make me happy even though he spent $100 on a $50 wetsuit we used to own...Love him to pieces! 
And that my friends is Why I Love Sam. 

april

April has been flying by and we've just been trying to survive work and finals. It has literally been a blur of a month....I just went grocery shopping for the first time this month and it's the 20th (we've been surviving on water and pb&js but then we ran out of peanut butter...) and I did the laundry for the first time in who knows when. I feel like I haven't had one minute to calm down because so many things are happening, which is totally dramatic because when I look back at the pictures of the month so far we DID actually do some fun things. 

Went on a fun Good Friday date with Sammy to a burger place with bomb onion rings and then took a stroll along the beach. 

Went to the Koons' Annual Easter Eggstravaganza in between conference sessions for an egg toss, egg hunt & egg drop. We went up to campus for the egg drop but had to bribe a campus cop to let us go through with it. Sam and I definitely lost with the only egg splat of the whole group but it was a fun time with our wardie friends. 

 Went to our friend Ryan's birthday beach bbq and while Sam played with his law school peeps, I played with their dogs.

Saw a pretty sunset while eating dinner at a beachfront bar with mama who was in town for her Easter Break. She also helped me bring and make dinner for a lady in the ward and then treats for mutual. 

 We've been trying to go running every Tuesday and Thursday after work but some weeks we do better than others.

Went to Sam's law school professor's Coronado condo (behind us) for Sunday brunch & mimosas, minus the mimosas. Then we hit up the beach for a little sun. 

Took my girlies to the temple for baptisms. 

Had a tragic Saturday involving stolen wetsuits read more here. But then Sam took me out to lunch at our favorite place with my favorite cute walls.

April's definitely not over yet and there are some exciting things to come like our 4 year anniversary and Sara's BYU graduation!

march

March has been an interesting month. It seems like the days at work are sooooo long and brutal and I'm exhausted every day when I get home. But on the other hand, the days are flying by and I can't believe that the month is almost over! Even though the days seem endless, with no end in sight, we've had some fun days here and there. 

First, Sam visited me at work one Friday to get his teethies cleaned and we had tons of fun like always. 

Then because we both usually finish work early on Fridays we stopped by the beach for a little day date together! And it was actually warm! We've been having some cold, windy days lately which is making me so ready for summer waves!

Second, Sam had his very last spring break! But because he's the business school has a different spring break he still had classes + his weekend classes. Major bummer!! But luckily we got to spend Wednesday afternoon together. We went to Lemonade for lunch then visited the Children's Pool in La Jolla to see the baby seals during pupping season. It's hard to find things we've never done in San Diego but this was a first! Then we went to the temple. 

Third, we got to see the Tippetts and go to dinner with them!

Fourth, Dad came to visit for less than 24 hours but because Sam had classes over the weekend I was happy to have the company. We really wanted to go to the Carlsbad Flower Fields but they weren't fully in bloom yet and it was raining a little bit so we decided to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park. Then we went to the Botanical Garden and had a mexican food in Old Town for lunch. 

Fifth, it was Sam's 29th birthday! We both had work and after school was over at 5:30, Sam had to go back to work and was there until 8:30. But we were able to go to the Cheesecake Factory for a late dinner date. But then poor baby boy got sick and was up all night long. So not the best birthday but there's always next year right? We didn't get a picture on his actual birthday so here's a cute baby one...