Marine Corps Ball

Last night was the annual Marine Birthday Party. or in other words the Marine Corps Ball.
It was fun. It was a huge banquet with a very good 4 course meal and some speakers and a lot of dancing.
It was fun to get all dressed up and go out with people.

These are our friends. Roger and Ranya on my right and her little sister Ruth from England came out to go with our friend Levi.

I love Deric in his uniform! He doesn't get to wear his dress blue's very often, so its fun when he does! and heck I never get to wear fancy dresses anymore. and yes that is my prom dress from almost 4 years ago! hahah I was so proud of my self for FINALLY fitting into it.


We were super tired! It was a long night.

Long Over due.

These are the before pictures of our apartment. WAY TOOOOO MANY BOXES.

Kitchen

Living Room

AFTER!!!! its still not done! so don't judge me! but it looks better than the before.

hahah our closet is kinda crazy but we don't have dressers right now! So EVERYTHING goes in here right now.

OH man do I LOVE these towels. They make our bathroom so beautiful!!!

We have a bar! I can't wait to get stools so we can have somewhere else to eat besides the couches.

I love all of the colors of dishes we have!! Its so fun!

Entry

Living Room

On Halloween our ward had a really super fun activity! Sarah Palin(Megan) showed up and just HAD to get a picture with the Marines.

In our ward we are refereed to as the "Marines". Its pretty funny.

Our ward is awesome and there are a lot of really fun people. A lot of young married couples which is a lot of fun for us.




We are doing great here in Irvine! I start working full time Monday the 1st and am super excited. The family is awesome, and they are going to keep me very busy while Deric is deployed.
We have the Marine Corps Ball tomorrow night and I will hopefully remember to take a lot of pictures.

By the way. TWILIGHT comes out this Friday. We aren't going to the opening at midnight but we are trying to get in soon. If you haven't started to read Twilight yet, you should. Its so fun and is written very. Such a good escape. I am re-reading the 1st book!!!! So go get it. My mom is even listening to them on tape from the Library!!!

Blog Jumping

So I was doodling around on some blogs today and ran across this awesome blog!
http://betterhomeinteriors.blogspot.com/
and guess what? They give away a lot of cool decorations. Who wouldn't like that!! So you should go check it out!

VOTE!

I can not believe its November 4Th already and we will soon have a new President.
To be honest I am very scared at what today's outcomes will be.

In California there is a huge proposition going around called Prop 8. Its to keep the law stating that Marriage is between ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. It is a HUGE thing here. Our church has been doing many things to help this Prop pass, but there are also many other people out there that don't want that to happen and they are using all of their might to stop it. Which makes me very sad. We have been praying and fasting very hard these last couple of weeks that we have been down here that this proposition passes. But we will find out tonight.

I can't wait for elections to be over, that is all that you see on TV down here. Commercials about different props and Obama and McCain EVERYWHERE. I am so ready for this to be all over and things settled down again. It has been very interesting.

We are all moved in to our Apartment. Since I don't work as of right now, EVERYTHING is out of boxes and put away. I couldn't stand having boxes everywhere and having nothing in its place. I think I got that from Stacy. hahaha. Its a good thing though. Deric was very happy when he came home to see everything put away. Because when he left at 3:30 yesterday morning it was a DISASTER!
I think I have a job down here now as a nanny for 2 little kids. The family is great and its very close by, which is nice. I get the chance to babysit them tonight to get the hang out of it. I am hoping it sticks and I can get this job full time.


Well, that's about it for today! I have LOADS of laundry to be doing. If anyone wants our address please let me know!!!

MOVING!

Guess what!

We finally our moving into our new apartment! Its perfect. Small but perfect.
The nice thing is that it has its own security system in the apartment, super nice kitchen and washer and dryer in it. But it is under 700 square feet, so it will be hard getting used to being in such a small area.
But it is a super nice apartment complex too, 2 nice big pools and a very nice area to BBQ with a huge fire place outside. It is awesome! I will be putting pictures up soon! If you want to see it right now here is a line
www.rental-living.com/serrano
Pictures soon!!!!!

Wedding Pictures.

Tuesday Tuesday!

I had the best photographer EVER for our wedding!

Here are two pictures that she sent me so far! Hopefully by the end of the week I will have more. And maybe just maybe we will have an apartment! So hopefully those pictures will be up too!!!!