Getting Bigger

Riley (our kitten) has grown a lot since my last picture of her. So I thought I would post a more recent christmas picture of her.

Merry Christmas

I hope everybody had a very nice Christmas and enjoyed spending time with their families. I would have to say this Christmas season went way too fast but I still enjoyed it. The day before Christmas eve Trace and I visited Thoroughbred St in Rancho Cucamonga, where the whole street is decorated with Christmas lights and people sell hot coco and cookies. There was even some carolers and a boy playing Christmas music on the Piano. I had to work Christmas Eve that was kind of a bummer but I went over to my parents house after so we could celebrate moms birthday. We opened presents and had pie. Christmas day was really fun. We exchanged gifts in the morning then had breakfast. For the rest of the day Matty and everybody else played the wii (one of his Christmas gifts). We had dinner later in the day and then Trace and I went to see Sherlock Holmes. We then went back to the house after that and played Wii some more :)
And oh I got an IPod touch from trace and I have not set it down since he gave it to me.
Here is a little video I put together of pictures from this Christmas season

Birthdays!

Happy late birthday to my nephews Jordan and Calvin. Jordan's birthday was actually yesterday the 14th and Calvins was on the 12th. They are so big :) Hope you had a very fun birthday!

Decorations

Stacey and I have been decoarting our balcony at the apartments. There is a competition in the complex with who ever has the best decorations wins a lot of money so we tried our hardest with our decorations.

Halloween!

I love Halloween it is probably one of my favorite holidays. I went to Universal Studios Haunt earlier this month with Stacey, Michelle, Sarah, Trace, David, and Josh. The mazes were great and the scarers were awesome. If any of you have ever been to Universal Studios, you know about the back lot tour, well for the haunt fest they take you down there and they let you loose and you walk while being scared :) There was this one clown with a chainsaw that went up to my boyfriend and I and put the chainsaw in between his leg and then starts walking away and says, "Oops missed, sorry it was such a small package" Oh it was great. This week we are going to the Haunt at Knotts so we will see which one is better.

I got Glasses

Yup! I am now a four eyed nerd with braces :)

Finally!

So I have always wanted a cat but never got one. So about a month after we moved into the apartment a friend of Stacey's found abandoned kittens in the field next to their house and we were able to take one. We got a girl kitten and named her Riley. Me and Stacey share custody of her :) She is a very playful kitten and loves to attack you at four in the morning when you are sleeping :) She does have her sweet moments. She loves to drink your water out of your cup, she will fall asleep on your lap when watching television . She also likes to chase and wag her tail and she also meets us at the door when we come home. When we first got her she had to be bottle fed because she was so young but not soon after she was able to start eating kitten formula mixed in with kitten food and now she is old enough to eat just kitten food alone.

Apartment Living

At the beginning of August, Stacey, Amy, and I got our own place. We moved into Mount Vista Apartments. We are in a three bedroom and on the upper level. Its pretty living on your own but home is still missed.

The first picture is my room. Wow it is actually clean :) The second one is mine and Stacey's bathroom. Amy has the master bedroom so she has her own bathroom. The third one is the dining room and then the last one is the living room. We got very lucky with our furniture. The couches were bought for us by Ryan (Stacey's boyfriend) for twenty dollars. The coffee table my parents found. We have a big screen television that was given to us by my boyfriend's parents. We got the refrigerator from my dad, he got it from his work. The microwave was a gift to us from my grandma and the dining room table was a gift to us from my boyfriend. So we were very lucky :)

Sin City

In July Stacey, Michelle, David, and I all went up to Vegas to visit Michelle's family. We spent the weekend there and we went to the lake rode on sea-doos and then we went to the strip. I have not been there in a long time and a lot has changed.

Michelle, Stacey, and I. In the car after loading up the boat and sea-doos.

Getting ready to go on the strip and then that is all of us waiting outside of the Bellagio to see the water show. That night it actually started raining. We ended up seeing this show, the show at TI, we went into Paris and Cesar's Palace. I have never been in those Casinos, they were pretty neat.

Have not done this in a while

Wow the fourth of July was my last post. I have been really busy with school and work. And in August I moved into an apartment with one of my best friends and Amy. So that took a lot of my time too. I will post pictures of everything i have done since July today.

Happy Fourth of July.

I hope everybody enjoyed their Fourth of July. Since the Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays I had to do something this year. I threw a little Fourth of July BBQ and later in the afternoon we went to the fair grounds and saw fireworks. Kyle came down from navy training in Illinois and sis was home for the weekend so they got to celebrate with us. The grand finale of the fireworks at the fair grounds were pretty awesome but we did have a large group of rude people standing so close to our blankets that they were literally sitting on my parents laps. Other then that the day was pretty good.

Tattoo

Well today I went and got my first tattoo. All I can say is wow I got a really painful place to put it. I got it on the top of my foot and the tattoo artist said that the foot is one of the most painful spots. I went with Stacey, Michelle, and Nicole to get my tattoo done. Stacey also got her first tattoo which was on the foot and Michelle got her third tattoo on her wrist. No tats for Nicole! My tattoo artist was really cool and fun which made the process a little bit better. He told me what to expect and that it will hurt, which I liked because at-least he was honest. It was really painful and towards the end it got pretty unbearable but luckily it ended soon after that. My foot swelled up a pretty good size and was in a lot of pain after that tattoo was finished. It has gone down but it still hurts. Even though the tattoo hurt a lot I am glad I got it. It is a very elegant tattoo and is an artwork that I am glad will be with me forever but I do not think I will go get another one :)

At the beginning.

Stacey getting hers done and Michelle.

Me during sitting with Nicole. Yes the tattoo artist is flipping off the camera.

The end product.

Three years

Well Trace and I celebrated our three year anniversary yesterday. We both had to work so we kind of split up our activities. Friday we went to Silverwood lake and then came back and went and saw Night at the Museum. He had to work that night so we couldn't do much more. Then yesterday we went out to lunch and then went and saw another movie, Fighting. (we watch a lot of movies). it was a very good two days and i am glad that i have spent my last three years with him and looking forward to many more :) Trace and I went we got up there

We went hiking. Found some pretty cool stuff. We found tadpoles. Trace has never seen those.

Some Pretty flowers.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mothers day to my wondeful mother, Grandma, Sissy, and Marsha. (and all the mothers out there)
Hope your mothers day was great.
Love,
Amber.

A year older

It was Matthew's sixth birthday yesterday and he celebrated it by going to Chuckie Cheese and then coming home where he opened up presents and had some cupcakes and ice cream. He got martin matter, bubbles, some games, goggles and scuba gear for the pool and a lot of other stuff.
Happy late birthday Matthew!
Amber

Beach camping

Classes were out this week because of spring break so we all decided to plan a little camping trip.

We got a campsite at San Clemente State Park and stayed a night. It was Trace, Josh, Nicki, Stacey, Kyle, Michelle, David, and I who all stayed the night and then Amy, Cameron, Nicole, and Ryan were up there for the day. The camping was pretty cool, it was my first big spring break plans with all my friends. We were up there on Monday and then went to Hunnigton beach on Tuesday after we packed up from San Clemente. Everything went pretty smoothly if you minus the parking tickets we got for parking in a spot that our parking passes did not cover and Stacey's battery dying on Tuesday :) All in all it was still a pretty good time.

Plain White T's

Well the concert went down without a hitch the other night. We drove up there and ate at subway before where a old guy whistled at Michelle, Stacey, Amy, and I. Then we went and stood in like for like an hour and half to get in. We were pretty close to the stage when we finally got in. There was two bands playing before them, Vedera and Danger Radio. Danger Radio was awesome, I had never heard them before so it was pretty cool. Plain White T's was awesome! At the end they were throwing out picks and drum sticks. Stacey caught a pick and then Michelle almost got a drum stick and i was pretty close to getting a pick too but didn't. We had a lot of fun and are hopefully going back in May to see Relient K play. The singer from Plain White T's
Singer and Guitarist
Us waiting in line.

Concert

Tomorrow myself, Michelle, Stacey, and Amy are all taking a drive to Pomona to the Glass House to see a concert. We are going to see the Plain White T's. It is going to be really cool. I have only been to two concerts before but one was really small and thrown together at the County Fair, it was lifehouse. Then I saw Celine Dion with the sisters and mom. So it shall be fun tomorrow. Ill put pictures up soon.
Here is one of their songs that has been stuck in my head forever.

OLD MEN!

Happy birthday bobo from Me, Amy, Dj, Sis, Matthew, Mom and Dad.
your getting old.. hopefully you still have some hair left :) just messing.
Hope your birthday goes well and you have a great day

and happy late birthday to Dj who turned 20 on Monday. He is no longer a teenager :)

We're going back in time.

Well I have been meaning to post these for a while but i have not had the chance to. I had the chance to dress up as i guess the eighties. Michelle had a little thing at her house where everyone had to dress up. I think all the outfits came out very good. Here are some pictures from her house.

Stacey, Me, and Michelle
Thats me.
Then here is stacey

Michelle and David.

It finally came!

Well the Twilight DVD came out today. I went last night to Wal-Mart to get it but there was a line out the door and I thought it was a little ridiculous, so my mom saw it this morning at Target and just grabbed it :) I spent today watching it and all the extras. Poor Trace he had to sit through it with me but he is a trooper. I can not wait until the Next movie comes out, New Moon. It will be very good.

Words

Best video I have seen lately.

I am in love with the song If I were a boy by Beyonce So I find this video very funny.
ENJOY!

Child Education

So not only have i been counting down the days till the Twilight DVD comes out(Nine more days) and if you don't know what Twilight is then shame on you :) I have also been very busy with classes. I am taking a class for childhood education and I enjoy it a lot. I am doing very well and I do not mind doing work unlike my work for history and math :). So I finally decided what my major is going to be DRUM ROLL please... Early Childhood Education. I am going to be getting my AA and then hopefully be transferring to a University. All you need is a AA to get a job as a preschool teacher or a child care provider but I might want to further it and go on. So yup thought I would share that little tid bit of information to whoever reads this because nothing else has been going on in my life.
I did go to the drive in last week with Stacey, kyle, and Trace though. We saw Taken and the Uninvited but that is pretty much about it.

Transformers 2

Can not wait until this movie comes out.

Second Semester

On Wednesday my second semester of college started. I am taking four classes, which is fourteen credits so i am considered a full time student. I am taking Hostory 117, English 101, Math 90, and Child Dvl/Education 110 and that one is online. So i will be pretty busy this semester. The first day went allright, so i hope the rest of the semester is like that.

Well valentines day passes this last weekend. Happy Late Valentines I guess! Trace woke me up with Pink Roses then took me out to breakfast at Denny's. Then we wathched a couple movies then headed to the grocery store. I got to pick out whatever dinner items I wanted and we took them back to his house and we made dinner together. I ended up choosing spaghetti with french bread. Then we finished up with a carton of ice cream, I got peppermint and he got some ice cream sandwhich thing.
So all in all, even though we stayed at home, it was a good valentines day.

Update

So not a lot of things have been going on with my life lately. I find myself with a lot of free time because i was unable to take winter classes at the college but i will start up again with classes in about two weeks.
Disneyland
I went to Disneyland on Wednesday, where it was extremely hot (I was dressed for winter with boots and a long sleeve) and there were no lines. Trace and I literally walked up to both thunder mountain and space mountain and got onto the rides. I think the longest wait was fifteen/twenty minutes and that was for the Finding Nemo ride. That ride was awesome and for those of who don't know it used to be The Submarine Voyage that shut down in 1998 and then re-opened just this past year to the theme of Finding Nemo. At the end of the night, they performed Fantasmic which in my opinion the best show ever. So Disneyland was awesome and always will be and for some reason my family has an obsession for Disneyland, guess it runs in our blood.
Books
For those of you who do not know I enjoy reading. I just finished the Twilight Saga, which contains, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, for the second time yesterday. Then went and saw the movie for the third time today. I went and bought two more books, one a very chessy romance novel and the other one is "Perfect You", which I found under the teen section, so i guess it is classified as that.
Movies
So i also love to watch Movies. Like i Mentioned earlier i have seen the Twilight movie three times since January. It starts Robert Pattison and Kristen Stewart (Edward and Bella). Some other movies I have seen are Bride Wars, Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway are the bestfriends gone rivals in this movie. It was a total chick flick so i went and saw it with Michelle and Stacey. Trace took me to go and see Push which stars Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Camille Belle and a lot of actors i have never seen before. That was also a good movie, very action packed

So as you can tell not much going on. Hopefully when school starts up I will not have as much time on my hand :)

Happy fifth birthday Kaylee!

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Kaylee
Happy birthday to you!!!!

Hope your birthday went great!
Love,
Nana, Grandpa, Daniel, Amy, Jackie, Matthew, Dakota, and I.

SOOOOO

Nothing new has been going on around here, but i am going to Disneyland tomorrow with Trace. YAY! It is my gift from him for our two year anniversary and that was about nine months ago :) So pictures should be up soon!

Crash Landing

So i thought this was kind of an interesting story. Yesterday, January 15th, 2009, a airplane had to crash in the hudson river because a flock of canadian gesse hit the plane and the engines causing them to blow out. The pilot made a very remarkable crash landing in the river and everything wsa kept in tack. All of the passangers and crew on board all survived without any injuries. All i have to say is WOW.

Vampires and Werewolfs

Well my friend Stacey and I have become hooked on the Twilight series. It all began with her giving my the first book in the series for christmas and it has been Vampire galore ever since :)The Series has four books published, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. There is a fifth book but has not been in published, it is the first book just in Edward's point of view and not Bella's (main characters) I love these books because its not the typical cliche Vampires. They don't sleep in coffins, only come out at night, can be killed by a stake in the heart or any of the other typical Vampire stuff. They are much like humans just with a little twist :)There are many fictional twists to the book, like the vampires and werewolfs (that come later in the series). The one major theme of the books is of course, the love story between Bella and Edward. Bella being a human and Edward a vampire, you can see the controversy in just that alone. I am currenty on the Fourth book of the series, Breaking Dawn, and am almost done with it. I can not wait till the other movies come out and hopefully the fifth book of the series.
Some of you probably know what it is for those of you who do not, here is a trailer of the First movie, Twilight.