Trip to San Diego!

I keep a calendar on my work desk, right by my computer. At the end of every month, I tear off that paper with the month that has past. I feel like I'm tearing off another month every day now. I feel like it was just February, just March. But HELLO, here is May. It's a scary thing. I remember being 16, sitting in my room, thinking, "When am I going to be out of high school?" Then I wake up what feels like, a week later, and I'm married, graduated from college, and working at KSL. I'm a grown-up! Just is crazy sometimes to think where the time has gone.

Anyway, in February, for my b-day, Jason surprised me with a trip to Oceanside, Cali. I was so excited! It was something to look forward to, 5 days just to hang out with Jas. Sounded like paradise to me! We flew out there on Valentine's Day, excited to enjoy a few days, just Jas and I. (This post may be picture overload, but I want to remember the details!)

We were all done going through security, and we saw random people getting frisked.  Jason kept saying "We already went through security, why do they have to search people again?" I said "Just try not to look suspicious Jas!" Next thing we know, one of the security guys is pointing to Jason to get an extra frisk. I told Jas it was because he is tall! I hurried and snapped a pic.

So excited to be on vacation!

We had some time to kill before we could check-in to the hotel. So we grabbed some Mexican Food, (Jason loves his breakfast burritos), and went to see Safe Haven (it was Valentine's Day you know.) I liked it a lot. Anything with Tad Hamilton in it, is alright by me.

The beach down from where we stayed had a long pier, about a mile out over the Ocean.  We walked out to the end almost every night. It was beautiful.  At the very end of the pier, was Ruby's Diner, a delish burger restaurant, with the best shakes I've ever had. We spent Valentine's Day eating delicious burgers, sharing an oreo shake, while staring out at the Ocean.

Valentine's Day Attire.

The beautiful view we had!

Running on the beach is one of my absolute favorite things!

One night, we ate coconut shrimp at the Crab Shack, just off the Arena. There were the biggest yachts, I've ever seen! There was the prettiest sunset and delicious food.

Reading on the beautiful beach!

Jas didn't really want to go (he hates amusement parks.) He did it for me!

Universal Studios!

Jurassic Park!

The things we did to entertain ourselves in line!

Our good friend Richard

One of the best parts of our vacation was meeting this nice man. His name was Richard.  Jas & I had read about this amazing place to have brunch.  We read that if you don't get there before 9am, that you would be waiting at least an hour. We got there at 9:05(oops). After about 15 minutes waiting, they sat us at the bar, next to Richard. He knew everyone at that worked at the restaurant, all the waitresses and cooks. He kept telling the waitresses how pretty they looked, and how they glowed. Everyone loved him.  He turned to me and said "Wow, you must be an actress. Those colors look amazing on you."  We got into talking and he came here every single day for breakfast. His wife had passed away a few years before.  He told us that he met her on an airplane. She was a stewardess. She kept bringing him coca cola's. By the time they landed, he had to pee so bad, she had to walk him off the plane to the bathroom. He showed us a picture of her in his wallet. He was the sweetest old man. Fought in war his whole life, climbing up the rung and becoming a general. His life story was amazing. We were getting ready to leave and asked for the check, but Richard had already paid for it. We said "Richard, you didn't have to do that?" All he said was, "Do what?" "I don't know what you are talking about." He also paid for another person's check (a marine who he had met the day before).  Experiences like these make me want to be a better person. When you meet someone, who makes you want to make the world a better place. Next time I go to Oceanside, I'm going to go to that place to look for Richard, and also to have the amazing banana nut french toast!

The trip was amazing, and I'm so grateful to Jason for taking me on it. Love you Jas!

Quotes that make me smile!

Sometimes, I'm on pinterest, and I see these amazing quotes that either scream ME, or make me want to be a better person.  A lot of these quotes come from Kate Spade (obsessed with anything Kate Spade).

Jason and I went to the REAL Game tonight. I'm in charge of running the KSL Deals Booth when Spring starts. It was really fun, but a lot of work. It was worth it when I saw where our tickets were. We sat in the front row, right by one of the corner kick flags! Even though REAL lost to LA Galaxy, it was still an awesome night.

Spring Clothes I Want and Need!

I don't know what happened to me. I didn't used to really like fashion. I was a t-shirt jeans kinda girl. Maybe it was the influence of my sister, or my all the sudden liking of fashion blogs that got me, but in the past 4-5 years, I have started to LOVE fashion. I love seeing all the up and coming trends. I love applying these trends, using what I have in my closet. It is really fun that you can express yourself through fashion. I dress how I'm feeling and if I love my outfit, I feel more confident. These are my top 6 must-have trends & items I need to find for spring.

1. Baseball Caps
I have always been a hat kind of girl. Growing up, I always envied that boys could wake up late in the morning, roll out of bed, throw on clothes and a baseball hat.  Girls can do it too now! BOO YA.

Leather + Hat = Amazing

2. Vertical Stripes
I have been wanting some vertical striped pants for a long time. I haven't decided if they will look good on me yet (I'm crossing my fingers). But I LOVE them. I'm not sure how extreme of a stripe I want to go.

3. Stripes for days!
Stripes have been around for a long time now. But I love the fact that it is now cute to mix and match different kinds of stripes. Don't know if I'd go that extreme, but something I LOVE about this outfit.

4.  Toe Capped Heels & Flats

I need some killer heels for work and comfy flats for spring & summer! 

5. Leather Pencil for Spring

Love taking leather and wearing it in Spring as well. I've wanted a leather skirt for awhile now.

6. Platinum Blonde Hair

Love it...want it.

My name is Emily and I'm addicted to Books...

To be specific, I am addicted to futuristic books, with a killer love story(this is the most important factor), and a kick-A heroine, no not like the drug.  A chick that is the hero.  Seriously, the books that I have been obsessing over lately have all of these in common.  This is the spiral that happens when I'm into a good book.

1. I start reading and can't really do anything else but read the book. I read the book while I exercise, I stay up WAY too late reading this book, I even dream about the book.
2. My nails become non-existant. Because I'm so into this book, I bite all of my nails off. Seriously, until they bleed. Jason always has to slap my hand away.
3. My husband Jason gets to watch a lot more sports. He says, "hey, aren't you really into your book?" I immediately start reading and he turns on the March Madness.
4. As soon as I finish the book, these things happen:
      a. I immediately google to see if the book is being made into a movie or tv series.
      b. I search and download the sequel.
      c. I cry because I'm way too engrossed in the story and the characters and don't want it to be over.
      d. If they are being made into a movie, when the movie comes out, I may or may not photoshop my
          face onto the movie poster with the male characters. I know it's terrifying. It just happens.

The Hunger Games

Twilight before I switched to Team Jacob

In case you were wondering, these are the books that I have read in the past couple months that I highly recommend.

1. The Host by Stephanie Meyers-Seriously, if you haven't read this, do it. It is really good. I'm not talking about the "Good Books" we all thought the twilight series were. Years later, we re-read them, and know better. I'm talking about, get past the first 100 pages and you will be fully engrossed in this awesome book. FYI...this movie comes out this weekend. Way too excited.

2. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi-Just read it. I'm starting the second novel in the series "Unravel Me" tonight.
3. Legend by Marie Lu
4. Unearthly Series by Cynthia Hand (By far my fave)
5. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks-one of the best ones of his I've read so far.

If you have any suggestions of books I should read, let me know. I'm on the prowl for some new ones!

Remember that one time I blogged? Me Neither.

I know, I know....I haven't written in 8, almost 9 months. That's ridiculous, lazy, and I have to stop this.  But if you look back at my blog posts up to this point (only like 6 posts), I always say "sorry I haven't written in so long!" But this time, I mean business. I want to write. I like to write. Even though I'm not the best at it, I'm going to start doing it because I love it.  So here it goes. My goal will be set. Write on this blog at least once a week.  I'm not going to try to catch up and tell you what has happened in the last 9 months, I'm just going to start anew. Here we go. Follow if you want. That would be nice. But if you don't, that's totally fine, because I think this blog is more for me than anyone.

xoxo,

-Em

This is my "I mean business" pose.

Girls Trip to Cancun

My beautiful Mother, sisters and I went to Cancun about a month ago.  I can't tell you how amazing it was.  When we were little, my Mom promised us if we got our Young Womanhood Award, we could go on a girls trip.  A couple years later (more like 10 years later, yep I'm that old), we went on this promised girls trip. We were so excited.  All we could think of was....beach...sun....books...beach....get tan....and virgin Pina Coladas.

It didn't start out that great.  We met at the airport and went to check-in to get our tickets.  I went to scan my passport (that I hadn't looked at since I'd been on my honeymoon), and guess what? It still had my maiden name on it!  My dad had booked the flight under Davies (as he should have), but I had forgotten to go update my passport to say Davies after I got married.  It seemed really stressful at the time (I thought I was going to ruin our girls trip). Jason was nice enough to drive back to the airport with our marriage certificate, which solved all the problems....or so we thought...

We got through security and went to wait for our flight from SLC to Dallas, TX.  The flight was supposed to leave at 12:15 pm.  But to our dismay, we watched as the flight got pushed back to 3:15 pm, then 10 minutes later, it was pushed back to leave at 5:15 pm.  There was no way we were going to wait that long, so we went back out to the lady who had helped me with my passport problem.  She searched and searched for other flights we could take, but there weren't any good options.  So we went back through security to wait for our flight to take off at 5:15.  After an hour of waiting, we looked again and our flight was pushed back to 7:00 pm.  We marched back out to the same lady (she promised she wasn't sick of us), and searched for more options.  She got us on a 4:45 pm flight to Dallas (and yes, we went through security a third time!) The 4:45 pm flight made us miss our connecting flight to Cancun. That meant that when we got to Dallas, we would have to spend the night without our luggage in a crappy hotel. (We will never have another layover in Dallas...their weather is CRAZY!)  We made the best of it, got some crappy hotel food and watched "27 Dresses."  The next morning, we woke up super early, got a cab...with a really hard to understand man with a THICK accent who sang really loud the whole time and overcharged us.  We didn't care though, because getting on another flight meant we were going to be in CANCUN soon!

This is how we felt when we got to Dallas...tired and ornery!

After getting to Cancun, the rest of the trip was amazing.
1. We laid on the beach every single day.
2. We read books, drank Coca Lite (WAY better than Diet Coke here)
3. We ate quesadillas with Oaxaca cheese (YUM), guacamole and pico de gallo for lunch.
4. We walked on the beach.
5. We shopped at Zara.
6. We saw a movie (Snow White & the Huntsman). Mom and Jamie hated it...it was okay...kinda weird.
7. We got McDonalds ice cream cones every night.
8. I spent some quality time with my sisters and mom (much needed!)
9. We ate tacos al pastor.  AMAZING TACOS that we haven't eaten since we lived in Mexico.  I can't describe how delicious they were.
10. We ate at Italiannis, a restaurant my family used to always go to in Mexico.
11. Only a couple bad things happened: Jenny and I got FRIED the second day...like the worst I've ever been fried.  It was painful to sleep for the rest of the trip.  And the worst part was I was burnt in splotches.  You could see finger marks where I was trying to rub in the sunscreen. The other thing was that my stomach wasn't used to the food and I got a little sick. Not bad though!  

It was a much needed vacay with my Mom and sisters and can't wait for our next one.  Let's go to Tahiti this time eh Mom? :) Love you guys. So glad I got to spend this time with you!

Pictures from the Trip (I'm sorry, there are a ton, but I wanted to remember everything!)

Cancun=Crystal Blue Water & White Sands

Beachin' It

This day I got burnt worse than I ever had in my life.

Most Amazing Drink Ever! Tastes way better in Mexico!

Delicious Italian Food we missed from Mexico!

Cheers to Coca Lite

Who makes the best Mona Lisa? Totally me right?

Taco Grill...amazing Tacos al Pastor and soup, right on the Pier

Tacos al Pastor....droooolllllinnnggg...

Paradise

Embarking on our Zara Shopping Adventure. We went there every day, just in case they got something new!

hahaha! The jumping picture!

We went to a delicious restaurant but right beside us there was a huge tank full of creepy sharks swimming around.

Most amazing place to stay! I want to go back!