Jason and Liz

We dont have a recent picture of both of us that will work for the blog so until I can upload some pictures here is one of us apart which is kind of fitting because that is how we have spent this whole year.

WOW

So it has been almost 2 months since my last post.....the reason is that Jason decided to take the computer with him on the ship and I have been using my phone for everything and blogging on a phone is not as fun....

ANYWAYS I have a lot to blog about and lots of pictures to post so give me a couple of days on my friends computer and I will get things posted.

Jason will be giving me back my computer on OCTOBER 9TH!!!!!

Temple

We had just left disney land and they were going to spend the night with me so we stopped by the temple and they were so excited to see Aunt Elizabeth's Temple.

It has been FOREVER

So sorry I have not updated my blog.... Life is a bit crazy and I have not had much to blog about. I do want to say I had a lot of fun putting together a friends baby shower. I will post pictures when I get them. My camera is dead and so I have to wait for friends to email the pictures to me.

Jason is busy with the Navy and doing everything to get his ship ready. He is on the PCU-Dewy and is enjoying life. We don't like how much time we are spending apart but are dealing with it as it comes.

A funny story, the other day one of my friends asked me if I could babysit for a friend of hers. I told that would be great. My friend said that she would have her call me. Well she called and her name sounded so familiar Dee Espinoza. I asked her if her husband was in the Navy and she said yes. (I was thinking her husband was on the JPJ with Jason) She told me her husband is the XO on the PCU Dewy.....what a small world and how crazy is that. So I babysat Jason's XO's kid, I was a little nervous because that is Jason's boss but it went well and the boy was really sweet. \

Life is just going and going and I hope that soon we can start a family, but for now we are dealing with life as it comes at us. :) LOVE YOU ALL!!!! :)

Pictures

I finally have posted more pictures sorry it has taken so long. I hope you all enjoy these!!
All of these are pictures from here in San Diego!

Easter Morning

Since conference last week and with Easter being this week I have had the Savior on my mind this week. As I was being lazy this morning I was thinking about my relationship with my Heavenly Father and Savior. I thought about a lot of things and the one thing that has been on my mind lately is being alone when Jason leaves next week. I have cried many times worrying about being alone at night or just feeling like I have no one close to me. This morning as I was pondering this I remembered Elder Hollands talk this last week on how we have all felt alone at times and his recount of the days leading up to the Saviors atonement. He gave such a beautiful account of this time and such a strong and touching testimony of what our Savior when through for us.

So as I sat here this morning I felt an overwhelming comfort and peace that I am NOT alone, none of us are EVER alone. Jesus Christ is our Savior and he suffered for our sins he felt all of our pain. As I think about this upcoming week when I have to say goodbye to Jason and the pain that it will cause me, its a great comfort to know that I can always turn to my Savior because he knows how I feel and he will be with me and guide and comfort me while Jason is away.

I just felt like it was appropriate for me to post my feelings and such a beautiful Easter morning. I love all of my family and I am so grateful for Jason and all he does for me. I will miss him terrible but I am so blessed to know of the Savior and that I am not alone and never will be.

Wisdom Teeth

So I had my Wisdom Teeth removed on Wednesday Afternoon. I wen to the dentist on Tuesday and she said I had to get them removed ASAP bc they were pushing my teeth together and causing all my pain. She gave me a number of the oral surgeon and I called them and made and emergency appointment. I did not know that dentist had emergency list.

Anyways I made the appointment for Wednesday morning and I went with out eating anything bc your not supposed to eat anything for 8 hours before the appointment. I met with the doc at 8 and they said they could not take them out until 4. So I was like okay....what do I do the rest of the day??? He said just don't eat anything and then come back at 4. So I left took Jason back to work and then went to park day because I had to do something to keep my mind off of how hungry I was.

By the time it was surgery time my blood sugar was getting low and I was just wanting it all to be over with. I went back and they put an IV in me and all this stuff and then the nurse asked me to open my mouth before i feel asleep. That would be the last thing I remember, until I woke up at home on the couch at 9:45 that night. I HATE not remembering anything its the worst feeling in the world. All in all I am okay not to much swelling and the pain is dulled by the vicodin ( i really hate this medicine I can not imagine why people get addicted to it).

So my teeth are out and now I can go back to the dentist for my root canal! I am just glad I could get it done while Jason was still here! Love you all!

Roast

So I know this is a weird title, but I thought I would write about a tradition in my family. For as long as I can remember my parents and brothers would put a roast in the over before church and then when we came home from church it would be ready and we would all sit down and eat within 30 minutes of walking through the door. When Jason and I started to date and then got married he would always be there for that Sunday tradition and loved it. So we decided we would continue on with it. Well our first year of marriage we did not need to worry about cooking on Sunday for ourselves we would just go to his Mom's house who would cook us an AMAZING roast. When we moved to Florida I decided I would try and cook the roast. The first time I tried I tried it my parents way, I put in the over just like they did and left for church. I did not think about the fact that my roast was 3 times SMALLER then the roast they would cook for 10 to 20 of us. :)

Anyways to get to the point of walking down memory lane. I have attempted 4 Roast since we have been married and I have ruined all 4 of them. So today I decided I will attempt again since I have made all the mistakes in the past. I wanted to try it my parents way again so I put in the oven to brown and walked away. About 10 minutes later I noticed all this smoke in the apartment and decided that the roast was probably brown so I went over to check on it and opened the oven. This is when i noticed the OVEN WAS ON FIRE! So I put out the fire and opened all the windows in the apartment and the door. I pulled the roast out that was not on fire and decided to cook it on the stove top like my Mother-in-Law. I started it on the stove and forgot I had just taken the pan out of a 500 degree oven and what did I do I grab the pan with my bare hand and now I have a burn. SO I will finish cooking this roast and I will NEVER attempt to cook one AGAIN! I will just have to wait until my Mom or Mom-in-Law wants to visit to get one.

I hope all has enjoyed this story as I am typing it I am laughing and I had a good laugh with my Dad. Lets just say I think today Jason is missing the simple and easy roast that my parents and his mom makes. :) Hugs and Kisses to all who read this! :)

Life in San Diego

I was just reading my last update and everything has changed since that update so I think it is time for me to explain whats going on again.

First we are still in this month to month apartment. We went to move on base and found out that the place we were moving into had NO KITCHEN! So we decided that we would rather stay in this apartment with a kitchen then live on base. The house hunting is coming along, we have now made 10 offers and 4 have been accepted and our favorite one is supposed to get back to us Monday and let us know if we can go into escrow! So keep your fingers crossed that we can.

Second is that Jason is still leaving but the bad news is, is that he has to leave in April instead of May and he is on a ship to the middle east for 3 months. After that they will fly him to Mississippi to be with his ship. The total time for this deployment is about 6-8 months. We hope he will be back for Christmas. So I am really hoping we get this house because I am not looking forward to living in this horrible apartment by myself!

All in all life is treating us well. We are loving the beautiful weather here in San Diego and I am enjoying getting to know all of the wonderful women in our ward. We miss all of our family and friends and wish we could see them! We both keep saying that San Diego would be perfect if we could get our family and friends to move here. Lots of love to all of you!!!! :)

Update from San Diego

Okay so it has been a long time since I have updated my blog. Jason and I are in San Diego and are loving it. We both are missing our family and friends terribly, but are starting to make some friends.

We have been in a 30 day apartment for the last 28 days and HATE it...our neighbors are always getting picked up by the police and the baby next door to us is ALWAYS crying and they just yell at it. It is so sad and scares me at the same time. SO, we are moving tomorrow onto the base tomorrow and I hope it will be better.

I'm sure your wondering why all this temporary housing...well we are in the process of find a house...NOT FUN...this process takes a lot longer then I thought! We have made 4 offers 2 have been rejected and 2 are pending...so we will see. I am going to meet with our amazing realtor on Monday to look at 8 more homes. Please keep us in your prayers we are NEEDING to get into a house soon.

The reason for needing to be in a home so soon is because the Navy is putting Jason on a ship at the end of this month (maybe), but he will be leaving for Mississippi on May 24Th for like 6 months. So I would like to be settled before he leaves. Plus I really want to get out of a suitcase! I don't want to sound like I am complaining, BUT 8 months of living out of suitcases is NOT FUN!

I will be posting pictures soon of our trip out to CA. I hope that I will be posting pictures of the home that we get! :)

Jason

I am so excited for JASON, he found out that he will be the Honor Grad today and finish at the top of his class. He has worked so hard for this with non stop preparing. He is going to get a letter sent to his CO on his ship stating that he was the honor grad. This letter is going to stay on his record forever. Again I am so proud of him!

Slideshow

Okay so should have taken more pictures of the beautiful snow that landed on the frozen water....BUT it has just been WAY TO COLD to go outside. I miss Florida and can't wait to move to San Diego. I am sorry to all for shorting you on the beautiful pictures I could have if I would have gone out and endured the cold... Enjoy the ones from the parking lot at the hotel... :)

Snow Brrrr

Jason is AMAZING

Not only is Jason the most caring and amazing husband, he is also very intelligent and VERY humble....I have to keep reminding him how amazing he is. Right now we are in Rhode Island for his last 3 weeks of training. He has 2 tests within the 3 weeks and he has to get a 90 or better on the first and on the second he has to get a 95 or higher.

Well today he went to take his first test and one of Jason's classmates told Jason that he would fail the test because he said that Jason was not studying the right material... So Jason was really worried. Well Jason took the test and he only missed one question, but got both bonus questions right. His final score was a 102 and he had the highest test score in the class. Only 13 out of the 25 students in the class passed. Let’s just say when the teacher announced that Jason was the highest scorer the other guy did not have much more to say! I am so proud of him and I am so thankful that he loves his new job.

One more story...this one is kind of funny. They have had a lot of class time, but one day they got into this simulator so they could practice driving a ship. The instructor told them that when they drive the ship there is not much of difference between the simulator and the real ship. So needless to say he was excited. He said that he was doing really great and then they had a guy (in the simulator not a real person) go over board. They all had to turn their ships around to go save the guy. Jason got his ship turned around but could not slow down in enough time and ran right over his guy....

All I have to say is that I hope I never fall over board on Jason's ship...ha-ha... He was able to try it again and did a great job and did NOT kill the guy this time. I am sure the guy is very grateful for that. All in all he is doing amazing and he loves it. He got to go into the simulator again two nights ago and he said that he did amazing with hardly any mistakes...He will get to go again tonight to get more practice in the driving of the ship.

I would like to thank all of the family and friends who have kept us in your prayers.

SNOW

Yes it is snowing....I have not seen snow in 3 years....It is so beautiful...but COLD! I will post pictures tomorrow!! I feel bad because my nieces Courtney and Emily wanted snow so bad for christmas and Im sitting here hating it and they are crying for it...I would trade places with them in a second. All I have to say is SAN DIEGO HERE WE COME!!!!

DRIVING..........

I am SO SICK of the CAR!!! I have driven back and forth from Florida to Rhode Island for the last 4 to 6 months. Today we made the trip from DC to RI and had to drive in SNOW for the first time. It was safe and we arrived at our hotel that is going to be home for the next 3 weeks. I have never wanted to put my cloths on hangers and in drawers more then I do right now. WE have not had our own place since May. We are both excited for these next 3 weeks to get over with so we can get on our way to our NEW HOME SAN DIEGO!!!