UPDATE

we are still alive... yay!

cliff notes of the past few months

ok so in the past few months lots has happened, but not really hahaha... January, school started again. February, we celebrated valentines day. that was fun because i surprised tommy with a trip to Santa Barbara... he has never been, but now absolutely loves the city. We stayed at an adorable B&B, walked along the beach, and saw a silly lady get her lunch eaten by a seagull haha.. awesome. After that we came back to LA and back to reality.. booo. after that we've just been counting down the weeks until Tommy graduates... cuz then we don't have to be apart every other weekend. YAY!! Oh and this month we celebrated our 3 year anniversary. this was super fun because tommy surprised me with a fancy home cooked dinner. he even got dressed in his suit and i put on my prom dress haha ... we should have taken pictures... but we didn't. Anyway, that is the past few months in a nutshell. maybe i'll post pictures by themselves... or maybe i wont haha we'll see what i have time for... school is busy :)

on a side note, my sister is pregnant with a little girl who is due to be born in late july/ early august. good times....

and now... goodbye :)

tommy and his turkey leg...

this makes sense if you read my last post :)

he was really looking forward to that turkey leg

i made sure he got his leg

KAT-CHUP!

hello hello! so its been a long time... lets see what i can remember about the last few months.

so a few months back, when Tommy came down to visit... i decided that we should be spontaneous and we stopped by the mission San Juan Capistrano. It was purdy. Here is a picture of the broken mission. An earthquake caused the destruction of the mission.

we took some other pictures but i like this one cuz you can't see my pants that are way too big for me and make me look 30lbs heavier haha :) so anyway, we walked around the mission and were a little bit late to see my mommy. I really love what i saw of the town the mission is in too. it is beautiful.

so anyway, i think our capistrano trip was the last weekend tommy went out to Cali... or maybe it was the second to last before his trip out to Cali for Christmas. but in anycase, finals happened and i survived. I fell into the average for all of my classes so that was great, i don't feel incompetent... well quite as incompetent as i used to :). After finals i was able to fly back to Utah and spend time with Tommy and our family out there. the one thing i hate about Cali is that i don't get to see my utah family as much as i used to... but then in utah i don't get to see my cali/mexico family quite as much either. anyway, i got to see Utah family and i loved it. i miss everyone.

aside from seeing family, tommy and i also had the chance to go to Temple Square to see the lights. this is one of my favorite pictures of the temple that night. it is absolutely beautiful.

this is also one of my favorites. so cute.... it's tommy that makes it such a great picture :)
so after spending a wonderful week and a half in utah, tommy and i flew out to san diego together to spend Christmas with my family. Christmas eve we drove down to Mexicali and celebrated with my Abuelito and Abuelita Flores (mom's parents).

it was great to see them and the cousins and uncles and aunts :) i worry about my grandparents cuz my grandpa seems like his memory is going more and more and like his health goes with his memory. he kept thinking i was his niece that day. sometimes he knows who i am. Maybe i am getting too old for him to recognize.

so that was the 24th. on the 25th we woke up late and opened presents. after that, we went to my mom's ranch/orchard and cut oranges, tangelos, bananas, etc.

it was a beautiful day which was followed by a delicious dinner of ham, mashed potatoes, and salad. the next day, we got to do a trip to Disneyland!!! It was soooooo much fun. i never realized Disney was sooo much fun. Now that i am so close i feel like i need a year pass.... i must! it pays for its self after two uses :). anyway, we went and rode lots of rides... indiana jones, space mountian, thunder railroad, matterhorn, California sceaming, tower of terror, and i forget what else but it was great! here is the castle all decked out for Christmas.

there was a picture here of tommy chowing down on a turkey leg.... but it has disappeared. so i think i will just make it it's own post when i am done with this post :)

so days passed, we celebrated new years... tommy and i danced. and then a few days after new years.... we went to the beach! Coronado has the most beautiful sunsets... see! i love it. it was views like this that made me want to be a painter when i was a child.... and then i stunk at drawing and painting... but this is still a beautiful view.

its so pretty it makes my mommy jump for joy! or maybe it was just seeing my beautiful face for so many days hahaha just kidding :)

So anyway time came for us to drive up to Los Angeles cuz school was starting and i need to be there. so tommy hung out at the apartment while i went to school. poor guy was bored to death but i decided on my day off that we should go see the walk of fame.... and so we did. there we found my Tom Hanks on the walk of fame.... here is a picture of one of the few times tommy doesn't mind being Tom Hanks. haha :)

so that was break.... now we are both back at school and working hard. looking forward to late april/ early may so that we can be together for long time :). i can't wait. hopefully tommy can find a job he enjoys here in los angeles or in the close vicinity. in the mean time... our two week visits will continue and we will continue to look forward to the future. YAY!! i'm so excited. anyway that was what has happened in the past few months. that and learning that my sister is pregnant. she (my sister) is due july 28th.... yay!!! i'm going to be an aunt to a little one that will call me Tia Aileen! strange... but totally awesome. anyway... life is pretty good and i am super excited to continue my learning and getting closer to become a dentist! yay! and for tommy to be a computer scientist!!! double yay!!!

testweek #1 down, many more to go

so the first set of exams of my four year dental school career are officially over. I hope i did well, but we'll find out once scores are given. It is nice to have them over with and to have a few days to recoup. I will be recouping in San Diego, where i don't have to cook a meal and will have people to talk to hahah :) I need to start being a bit more social :) Anyway, i'll be there and hopefully i do some fun stuffs... and if not, i'll be with my mommy and brother so it's ok.... maybe i'll go see Mario Lopez at the Borders in Eastlake.... hahaha.. but then i'll have to buy his kids book.... hm... decisions decisions... anyway, it feels good to be done with exams, however it doesn't feel good to know that there are many more ahead of me... and some that will be a trillion times more stressful... so that was my week... ... Don't forget to wish my Tommy a happy birthday this sunday.... Yay for him being born! haha. ok the end!

so busy...

so it's been a while since I've posted on here. I've been pretty busy with school stuff... and when i'm not busy... i'm sleepy hahaha. always something :) anyway, not much has happened on my end. just school and school work. I've had the chance to drill out plastic teeth and fill them back up with gray wax. they look pretty ok. not perfect, but they will do. I'm excited for when i get to actually drill out a cavity... that will be a scary yet awesome day!

anyway tommy has been down to visit and I have flown up to visit. The past few times he has come down we have gone to go see my mom.... i don't think we will be able to do that next time since midterms will be the next week.

so on a random note, tommy and i have decided what we will be for Halloween... he is going to be Nightwing... and i'm going to be Huntress.... hopefully the stuff for our costumes come in on time. anyway here are pictures of what the costumes might look like. you can probably guess who is who....

i know, we are nerds... haha but i'm ok with that.... anyway, i'm off to do more school work... yay for learning!

bienvenidos a Los Angeles

So we've made the move... well kinda... haha we've half moved to los angeles. I am starting dental school at the university of southern california while Tommy is back in utah finishing up his degree at the U. It's tough, but with the help of modern technology the time apart doesn't seem so bad. i love web cams and being able to see my love every night :D it's good times.

so anyway, i live in a studio apartment... and it is actually quite spacious. once we got it all organized, it kinda feels cozy. It works for what it is :) any who, here are some pictures....

here is my bedroom/office... you can see billy and dwight chillaxin on the bed/couch

this is my slightly messy living room/bedroom/office

notice that emperor's new groove is playing on the TV....

and this is my kitchen/dinning area.. nice and cozy.

yea so that is basically my home for the next year and Tommy's home every other weekend... unless we go down to my mommy's house.. which has been happening alot.... but anyway it took us like two weeks to get everything together in the apartment cuz we were down in san diego alot. The weekend before orientation started we had my cousin's wedding to go to in El Centro... so cute! they both looked so happy!

so the next week was orientation... it was a lot of fun, i met a lot of new people and felt different than 95% of the people around me. haha its fun times. anyway at the end of last week we had a white coat ceremony where we all got out white coats.... and here is mine before the ceremony....

it says USC school of dentistry, century club, incoming class of 2009

they had a nice little presentation and then had us put our coats on and read an oath... woo hoo and here i am after with my mommy......

say hello to doctor and doctor... haha well will be doctor and is a doctor :P

so that's been life. this week was more of an orientation to what school will be like. I like the problem based learning cuz that's how i have always learned best was looking up an answer and applying it. anyway... i'm off to pay attention to my hubby bubby and read some learning needs packets.... LOVE YA MISS YA!!!