im so excited, our wedding was featured on the lovliest day!

in celebration, im making copycat cheesecake factory cheesecake! (ok i would have made it anyways!)

yesterday i spent a GORGEOUS late afternoon at the park with kramer & annie...its one of my favorite places to be especially on a nice day.

magnos still working a lot (8am-7pm) so im REALLY glad tomorrw is friday! he works on saturday but usuallly comes home early, so that makes it somewhat better:) hope everyone has a happy weekend!

memorial day weekend has come and gone...now summer can begin!

friday night i went out with my friends shannon & grant..we walked to the circle and had some drinks..it was nice to get out after a long week! Saturday we had a lazy day and decided to pig out and watch the fights in bed.

after the fight we went to the circle with my sister to get margaritas!  I only had 1 but it was strong cause i was half way drunk!

Sunday we went to my parents house for a BBQ and some badminton fun.  We played almost all day & as a result, im sunburnt!

monday was another BBQ, this time at my aunts house.  Magno had to work that day but luckily his work got BBQ catered so he was still able to enjoy it!

Things I'm Afraid to Tell You.

I've seen so many of my favorite blogs do this & im so guilty of LOVING to hear gossip, this is sorta gossip...its in the same category! & I'm always looking for new things to blog about besides my boring life, so here goes!

1. I worry CONSTANTLY.  about everything, especially things I cannot control.   It's bad.  And I havent always been that way, or at least not to this extent.  If im driving, I constantly am picking dogs running out in front of me and running them over, if im showering im thinking about falling and hitting my head, if im sleeping, im worried about the things i wont be able to control tomorrow.  im high strung to say the least.

2. im clingy.  but only with my husband.  im obsessed with being with him!  you can imagine how miserable i am now that he leaves for work at 8am and doesnt get home till 7:30 at night!  whenever he's home, i want all his free time for ME! im greedy that way.   Im secretly jealous of all the wives who have their husbands home with them at 4 pm...its like they still have a whole day with them after work! i miss magno, im a baby.

3. i dont want to be just a wife.  this probably surprises some people because im outwardly obsessed with being married & all that good stuff.  i LOVE being a homemaker(i guess thats what you call it!) but i also know that i need something else.  I'm glad i at least know what that something else is, i just have to get there.

4.im fascinated with expats.  from my understanding via two of my favorite blogs, an expat is either a person or a family who moves to a different country for a job..i could be wrong..but thats the jist of it i think.  especially the wives.  i cannot even begin to tell you how miserable id be having to move to another country with my husband the only one i know, but having him at work all day.  well, i guess i wasnt afraid to say that, its just something you didnt know:)

5. i want kids.  i say i dont, and i even think that i dont, but i know i do.  maybe like 2 of them, nothing too crazy.  not now and not soon, but we will have one eventually. sorry kramer.

and that concludes this post, which now that i wrote it, seems to be as boring as all the other posts!

why do such ridiculous things happen to me? Id like the start off with the story of our pictures.  A few months ago one of my all time favorite wedding photographers had a special on a photo shoot & since I couldn't afford her for our wedding, i figured this is my chance to get amazing pix so i signed us up for a little family photo shoot.  I spent ALL WEEK looking for the perfect outfits for us to wear, the perfect makeup...everything.  I made kramer a bow tie to wear even haha! So after spending hours getting ready on sunday we left the house at 3:45 to head over to the griffith observatory where the photo shoot was.  On the way there I heard on the radio there was gunna be a solar eclipse during out photo shoot time slot, i was like oh thats cool that will make for some really awsome pictures!  So we finally get there about 5:00, and we start to make our way up the hill to get to the actual observatory.  We waited in a HUGE line of cars but were still an hour and a half early so we just patiently waited.  Then we got to the greek theatre and saw a concert going on so we both though oh good, all these cars are going there and it will clear up afterwards.  oh how wrong we were.  The line of cars slowllllyyy climbed up the hill the entire way. it look an hour to drive about 1 mile.  apparently, every single person in LA was going to the observatory to see the eclipse.  So at 6:00 we get to the top where the observatory is and the parking lot was shut down so they told us to find street parking.  Well, we drove all the way down the hill before realizing we had already driven  almost 2 miles, and for us to walk uphill, 2 miles, in 30 minutes would be impossible.  I called the photographer but got no answer so i had a mini breakown since i was SO looking forward to these & spent so much time preparing! there was absolutely nothing we could do because there was NO parking.  So magno suggested he just drop me off and id have to take the pictures alone.  They were non refundable so it'd at least be better than nothing!  I agreed and and got out where the drop off zone was.  little did i know it was almost another mile uphill hike that id have to walk to get to the place i was supposed to meet her. so i finally get there, sweating with all my makeup running off and my hair un curling itself and i tried to find her in the THOUSANDS of people but couldnt.  i got NO reception there but she finally got a hold of me.  since i got no reception i barely heard her but i did here her say "im not there anymore".  Well, i just about threw myself off the top of that hill! After all that, she wasnt even there! I immediately started wakling back down the hill and hear what she was saying but couldnt.  I tried calling magno but got no service, so i just stood for a while, wondering why the heck i have such bad luck! I finally got a hold of magno and he came back up the hill to pick me up.  The photographer then texted me saying that she was at a park near the frwy now.  Why she didnt tell us this before spening 2 hours driving up to meet her is beyond me. but i figured as long as i get the family pix i wanted, its ok.  so we spent about another 45 minutes going down the hill again & finally got to the park.  the sun was gone already & we were both just frazzled & frustrated.  We were happy to finally be there, but when we got out of the car, the park was loaded with people playing soccer, sleeping, dogs, trash......i mean, its LA.....and i figured she'd walk us to the other side that was nicer, but nope.  right there in the middle of a soccer game, she started taking our pictures.  i was so confused so i just kept smiling.  This lady is EXTREMELY well known & expensive in the industry & i thought it would be nothing but amazing.  But she gave us no direction so we looked like idiots, and even though it was supposed to be a 30 minute shoot, only 15 minutes into it she said "ok so is there anyyhitng else you want a picture of?" im thinking, YOURE the photographer not me!! im not creative with this stuff, i dont know! so we just gave up and left.  the pictures will be ready in 2-3 weeks but im telling you now, theres no way any of them will be decent.  not even one.  We were SO glad to just be going home at that point that we just laughed it off.  im so irritated because i was SURE id have the absolute best family photos of all time but now they wont be....i know there are worse things in life but still, the whole thing was just ridiculous. So thats my rant, looks like i never will get my dream family photos!! 

Other than that our weekend started off pretty good cause we were able to have date night on friday. we went to down town disney for my favorite pizza & walking around.  i had wanted to go there to go to sephora to get a pretty lipstick for our gorgeous family photos....hahaha which u wont even see in the pix because it melted off my face on the hike up the hill! 

at legoland on our date night

this i took at the top of the hill when i had no service and stood there hating the whole day!

this i took on the way up the hill when magno got all crazy watching people cut in the line up the hill hahaah

and this was kramer before we left, he was excited but an hour into the 3 hour car ride he was over it. 

heres a little bit of what weve been up to lately.

this is tomato, the crazy thumb cat who lives outside our new(and old!) place..shes so cute!

i made kramer a bow tie collar just because its so stinkin cute

we finally brought over the washer and dryer, immediately after, the washing machine broke & gushed water all over the kitchen.

i made another pinterest craft....egg carton flowers for our white string lights

i was graced with my husbands presence on a weekday, so so rare! he quit his current job & got a whole day off since he didnt start his new job till the following monday. 

so he finally got to meet sweet hazel girl!

for mothers day we got my mom a bird bath for the yard & we brought magnos mom over her favorite meal & movies.

kramer is adjusting to his new/old home:)

magnos been getting off around 4 everyday this week which for us is REALLY early plus the weather has been amazing so we went to the circle and had dinner together for the first time in months and months! we only stayed about 20 minutes so it was a short dinner date but still nice:)

I did it! I bit the bullet & repainted the room I just painted a few weeks ago.  It wasn't that bad & it sure it a whole lot better!! So here is our new bedroom.  Its cramped because we had to fit a whole apartment into one room basically....almost all our stuff is in the garage stored away but we had to be able to fit our everyday stuff we need into a teeny tiny bedroom.  So far its working..i've always said, no matter how small your space is everything will fit if its organized!! We still have a few things to do, but its looking a lot better.

This is the wall to the left when you walk it.  We added another bar for clothes in the closet, and we took off the doors and added curtains. i like to be able to see all my stuff!  The bookcase is just more storage, and of course I have to see my wedding dress at all times!;)

 This is the wall directly to your right when you walk in...nothing exciting just the tv and the dresser.

This is just a close up of my desk, its directly in front of you when you walk in.

This is the wall on your far right when you walk in which has a view of the backyard..i wanna put a bird feeder or something near my window so i can see & hear birdies all day!:)

and finally, this is the very back wall, first thing u see when you walk in.

its home for now!:)

so even though it was unplanned & totally chaotic, we moved!! yep, again. this is our 6th move in 5 years.  totally normal, right?  NOT!!!!! For 2 people who HATE moving as much as we do, we sure do it a lot.  Anyways, heres how this move came about.  Like I mentioned a few posts ago, Magno is going to be starting another job.  In his position, even though he gets paid hourly, he also gets paid commission, & it takes a while for the commission to kick in once he starts the job.  So, coming off an already hard financial position from his crazy job year, we were both worried that staying in irvine wouldn't be the smartest choice because of how high rent is alone.  We want to have more of a cushion so that money is that last thing he's worried about going into this new job, where he will be working 10 hours a day 6 days a week.  So, we decided to move back to orange into the apartment we left from last September.  My sister still lives there & had a somewhat spare bedroom, so we decided that would be a good option for us, at least for the summer while Magno gets his groove at the new job.  It also works out perfectly because my sister works for a school, so her income is cut in half over the summer when school is out.  So I think its just one of those things where everything seemed to work, so we just did it!  Our apartment lease in irvine wasnt up until the end of July though, so I posted an ad on Craigslist to see if somebody wanted to sublet it from us.  Low and behold, they did!  On Thursday I went to hang out with my friend at downtown disney and I came home to this.

Not only did the new renters want it, but they needed us to be out by Saturday!!! I panicked a little, but got straight to work.  Magno had to work all day Friday so that didn't help, but I had our friend Hector there with me all day luckily.  This is what it lookedl like by Friday night.  Poor kramer, his eyes say HELP ME!!!

On Saturday night at midnight, this is what it looked like.

we lucked out and the same people who wanted our apartment also wanted our couch, so we sold that & didnt have to move it, win win!! On sunday morning we woke up and magno took one last trip to the irvine apartment to drop off keys and stuff like that.  Then we dropped everyting & ignored the fact that the entire new apartment looked like a bomb went off and went to see the avengers with my parents and our moving helper hector:) It was SUCH a good movie.  Then, back to reality.  So today, Monday night, this is what our new room rooms like.  This is the same room I helped my sister paint yellow just a few weeks ago, not having any clue we would move in here! So now, I'm gunna try to live with the yellow walls but I already hate it so Im thinking i'll have to paint it haha.  Here it is now, totally cluttered, all of our stuff is just HERE, but not where it belongs! So thats where I'll be working on this whole week.

and heres the color i plan on painting the bedroom as soon as i get enough energy.