My dear friend Nikki's Birhtday is today!

So I don't normally post anything about my friends birthdays on my blog. I usually just send them a card, text or facebook post. Some friends get a phone call. But since I really miss one friend of mine, she is going to get a blog post. This friend is Nikki. I met her while living in Salt Lake. We meet because of our dogs and I am so happy that chance exchange of information led to such a fun friendship. I have known her for almost a year, and she has turned into a very good friend of mine. She is honest and blunt when it comes to telling you how things are and she doesn't hold back her true feelings. She is funny and witty, and carefree. We share a lot of the same ideas and we can talk for hours, which we have done in the past. She listens to whatever you are saying, and always has some point of view to add to any situation. We have grown to be good friends and I miss her dearly. She was always up for a girls night of dinner and a movie with the dogs, or just simply taking the dogs for a walk around tanner or hiking in the canyon. I just wish that she and her husband John and thier dogs would just move here! Or like she mentioned if I could only just clone her the world would be perfect. I hope she is having a wonderful birthday today, and I wish I was there to tell her in person and give her a big hug! I really do miss her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIKKI

Some FUN news!

So a few blog posts back I mentioned that Bryan came out for an interview with HP. Well he came out on very short notice. He called me at noonish on a Wednesday and told me to book him a flight out that very night. I booked it and he left work and hoped on a plane here. He interviewed with HP on Thursday June 3rd. It has been three weeks, and Bryan and I were getting worried. Well on Friday I got a call from Bryan telling me he got the job! I was so excited! He will be starting Aug 2nd. He loved the people at HP and feels that he will really fit in and actually have fun at work! I am so proud of him!

Another bit of news that happened this week was about a house. When Bryan came out for his interview on June 3rd, we decided to start putting in an offer on a home. It has also been three weeks of back and forth negotiating on the price. Well we finally settled on a purchase price on Thursday! Bryan and I were so happy the process was over and were thrilled we got it for a good price. We were still apprehensive since Bryan hadn't been extended an offer, but figured we would have 17 days from Thursday to get him one. Well to our surprise he got one the very next day!!!!!!! The 17 days is the closing period when we need to get all the home/roof/landscape/pest inspections done. So if all goes well we will have the keys on July 7th!

So after all this excitement and three weeks of our lives being up in the air, things have seemed to settle down. Now for all the planning and preparing for the move/move-in. Now I start work on Monday, and so all these inspections are going to fall during this first week which means I am going to have one full week! Wish me luck at the job, I am so nervous!!

4 words....

MY DAD LOVES KUMO

Some new photos

So I mentioned adding more pictures from graduation, so here they are:

I also kind of re-decorated my room at my parents house and put up some pictures from the wedding:

And of course I couldn't post pictures without adding one of kumo. Here he is baking himself on the deck in the 80 degree heat. He is so strange.

A little update

So life at home has been wonderful. I have been here for about four weeks and have been keeping busy! The first three weeks was scattered with interviews at Intel. I ended up having more than I expected. The interview process is a little intense with at least four hours of interviews and a couple hours of overviews/lunch. But it is all over! I got offered a job as a Component Design Engineer!
I start on June 21! Apart from the interviews I have been furiously house hunting. Yup, that is right, Bryan and I are house hunting. Now you may be wondering what is going on with Bryan?He came here last weekend to house hunt and visit. He is currently interviewing with HP and ended up coming out this weekend for an interview. Yup, two weekends in a row! So thats it for now, I am sure I will have much more news soon!!!

Graduation and other recent stuff!

So I graduated! I have already gotten my grades for the semester and I passed so that means I should be getting my diploma in the mail soon! Things have been hectic to say the least recently. I had finals last week, along with graduation and various emails and phone calls from Intel. I then moved home to Granite Bay on Saturday, and now I am preparing for a week full of interviews. Everything is changing so fast. Just two weeks ago I wasn't thinking I had any interest from Intel and I didn't know what I was going to do. Well know I've got a bunch of interviews and I have moved. Moving wasn't that bad besides the fact that I didn't have much time to pack. The drive was nice and my Mom and I just chatted away the 10 hour drive and laughed at kumo being a dummy. It has finally hit me that I have moved.... I know that sounds odd, but I didn't really have a chance to say goodbye since it all happened so fast. I got to say goodbye to my really good friend Nikki though, and I am going to miss her tons! I really do hope we stay in touch and visit each other as often as we can! So Bryan is still in Salt Lake working at the Law Firm. He is going to stay at our apartment until he gets a job here. I am hoping he gets offered one here soon because it is lonely without him. Last night I think I rolled over to cuddle him and just got a bunch of pillows :( Anyhow I wish I had more pictures of graduation because we took a ton, but I was sick and didn't take any. So I have to get the pictures from Dad, Bruce and Carla.....so yeah thats the update! Hope everyone is enjoying the nice Spring weather!

Kumo's new tags

So I ordered some tags a week or so ago for Kumo. He has a harness and a chain that he wears when we are out and so I got him a tag for each. They are engraved on the back with his information. They are just so cute I had to post a picture of them. They are called Red Dingo tags and you can get them on amazon!

more polish!

Alright so these are the last photos I am going to post about nail polish. I have told myself I can no longer look. So as of the finish of this post I am no longer going to sit here looking at polishes, or at least I am really going to try not to.....

Can You Tapas This?

Give Me Moori!
Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow

Yes... I Can-Can

Nails!

So lately I have been getting my nails done again. I started with the usual pink and white acrylics. I had those for a month or so and got really sick of the long length. I really wanted to have really short fake nails and have them look at real as possible. So I had her shorten them dramatically and had them painted. I have never been bold enough for dark colors, but she put a very dark purple almost black color on my nails and I fell in love! Here are some of my favorites! PS- these are not my nails, I sniped the photos from online. They are also all OPI colors.

Siberian Nights

Russian Navy

Mystery

Midnight in Moscow

Merry Midnight

Light my Sapphire

Holiday Glow
Black Cherry Chutney

Baby it's coal outside

All A-Bordeaux A Sled!

Last few weeks....

Well the last few weeks for Bryan and I have been quite busy. So here is an update on what we have been doing!

Samantha’s Wedding
One of my really good friends got married on March 19th. My parents, Jessica(best friend) and I traveled to Scottsdale Arizona, and stayed for the whole weekend. I had never met her husband Jonathan before since he lives in England so it was nice to finally meet him. They met while Samantha was doing a semester abroad. The wedding was great, and the best man’s speech was hilarious!


½ Marathon Training
As many of you know I have been training for a half marathon. Well on March 18th, the day before Samantha’s wedding I ran 7 miles and made really good time, but my knee was killing me. I was limping around for the wedding and was really starting to worry about my knee. Well after the wedding I traveled back to Granite Bay to have some quality time with my parents and get some much needed appointments taken care of (got my hair done, yay!). Well I continued to run while at home, my Mom biked while I ran. My Mom mentioned along with Bryan that I should go get my knee looked at. So I went to an orthopedist, and ultimately got referred to a physical therapist. The good news is that there is NOTHING wrong with my knee, I just have a really tight IT band(muscle that goes from your hip to your knee and attaches to your outer kneecap) and I have a very weak vastus medialis ( inner quad muscle that attaches to the inner kneecap). So basically my kneecap is being pulled to the outside every step I take. So I have lots of stretching and exercises I have to do every day and it seems to be getting better.

Island Park
So while I went to Samantha’s wedding Bryan got to go to Island Park with his family. They have made it a yearly trip and snowmobiling is a must. This weekend was shorter than last with Bryan and his family going up late Friday afternoon are returning early Sunday.
Intel Interview
So I had my first Intel interview. It was over the phone and I was so nervous. I have been applying to Intel in Folsom since December and this is my first response from anyone at the company. The interview went well, but next time I will be more prepared. He asked a bunch of technical questions and I realized I needed to brush up on the basics a bit since I haven’t had an intro computer engineering course in a few years.

Snow in April!
Well last night it snowed a ton here. It felt like winter all over again. So this morning I took the pup to Tanner for some fun in the snow. We haven’t been to Tanner in a month of so since it has been so muddy. Kumo was so excited, he started whining as soon as we got on the freeway.