Soft & Chewy Candy 2

Last night Billy was helping me study for my plant diversity test I had to take this morning. He was munching on Sour Patch Kids (we have a Costco pack...thanks to my wonderful mother). I leaned over to mooch one or two and when I looked in the bag I saw this:
I was like "ohh you're saving best for last!" and he said "I was saving them for you!" Oh my goodness what a guy! He was automatically saving the best ones for me because he knew I would be mooching! Ha! I actually turned them down though since I had eaten a whole pack by myself earlier...hahaha

Soft & Chewy Candy

I went to the grocery store this evening to get a few things while Caitlin was working on homework. When I came back home, I saw this next to Caitlin on the couch...I was pretty excited because I really like Sour Patch Kids and wanted to eat some, but this is what I saw when I looked into the bag...Caitlin makes me laugh! And my favorite Sour Patch Kids are the yellow and green flavors by default. Farewell red and orange. We had a good run.

Officer Barnes

I have an exciting story to tell! I am a key witness in a police case!

It's not really that exciting. But I thought I would share anyways.

This is basically me now: Except I'm white, and a girl, and not an actual police officer.

So here is the story. I was working at Jamba the other day and this guy comes up to order and he is super sketchy and weird. I don't think anything of it. The next day I get a call from my manager asking me if I remember that guy and to describe him. So I do. Then a little while later I get a call from the BYU Police!! They ask me if I could identify this man from a bunch of photos. I say yeah I probably could. So I go into the BYU police office and talk to this official police man and pick the guy out from a bunch of pictures. They tell me the guy has been using someone else's card aka stealing! They asked me to write down my statement and sign it and everything. It was so exciting!! The police officer told me that I am a key witness in this case! He was thanking me profusely and told me how important I was in this case. It was a great day. And now I'm pretty much a detective.

Busy semester

Well I don't really have anything exciting to blog about, I just felt like blogging :) This is what Billy is doing right now...

He fell asleep watching Tarzan.

Well, this semester is going to be VERY busy. Billy has pretty much the same schedule as last semester, work all day then class all evening. I have lots of classes on MWF and none on TTh, but I work TTh during the day. Also some news thats kind of exciting...I'm now a team lead at Jamba! So I got a whole 50 cent pay raise :) But that means I also work MW nights. So I get home pretty late on those days.


On Saturday aka yesterday we had a cousin lunch with all the Sutherland cousins at P.F. Changs. That was way fun! I didn't take any pictures which is a bummer :(

Saturday night we went to Nickel City with Jen and Brandon, Hayley and Christian!That was way fun as well. I didn't take any pictures there either. Haha sorry. But I did win this sweet bling bling key chain! I was very excited about it.

It was a really good saturday.

Oh and going back in time 4 days... the 12th was our 5 month anniversary!Beautiful, right? Crazy how time keeps flying.

Ok well that's all I've got. Pretty much every single day is the same right now. I just can't wait until we are finally all done with school. Then life might get a little more fun and exciting :) But as my Grandpa always says...don't wish your life away. So I need to just enjoy school while I can I guess.


Hope everyone has a great day off tomorrow!

Christmas & New Years

Oh my, what an awesome break we had!! I wish we could rewind and do it all over again. But I just keep thinking to myself that before I know it...it will be Christmas time again. It always seems to sneak up on me.

Okay so after finals we hung out here in Provo for a few days so Billy could work. We flew home to San Diego on Wednesday the 22nd at 8-ish am! It was very early but worth it to get home at like 9:30.

We spent the next few days doing Christmassy things with the fam like Christmas Card Lane, doing a puzzle, going to see the Temple lights, watching Elf for like the 342485 time, etc. My mom already blogged about it all so I am just going to steal her pictures.

Dallin was home for Christmas and he now has a puppy, Jose, who was also home for Christmas. It is funny seeing Dallin be a daddy to his puppy. I hope if he ever has kids he doesn't treat them like he treats his dog...just sayin.

This is after we got there. Pennie would always come up and sqidge her bum right in between us. Shes so funny.

Here is Jayce with Mr. and Mrs. Clause on Christmas Card Lane. Very fun.On Thursday night aka Christmas Eve Eve, me and Billy and mom and dad went to the temple to see the lights.

Me and my bff sheep (the donkey behind me is jealous)just like last year... :)can you tell what this is? yep it's Billy attempting to capture my saweet jump. Obviously not possible.the temple looked a lot prettier than it did on our wedding day...

but thats ok!

Everyone working on the puzzle...

A cute closeupand a cute closeup of Pennie hahaAlso as a side note, it seems as though this is all the same day because I'm wearing the same clothes. It is in fact different days, I just wore this same outfit almost every day of break.

Ok moving on...Christmas eve!Christmas Eve dinner! It was DELISH. Dad already has his eyes set on those beans...

Christmas day was so fun. Back when I was trying to decide if Billy and I should get married, I am pretty sure I had a spiritual impression in the form of a thought come to mind of how fun it would be to have Billy at my house at Christmas time. That thought was one of the things that I held on to that helped me decide to get married. If that makes sense. And that thought came true! It was such a fun day, and I was so glad to have Billy there to share in it.

Jayce got us a bowl.

Derek wearing the "Future Missionary" tag we got him while eating Christmas morning breakfast :)Pennie is such a spaz on Christmas it's hilarious. She LOVES opening presents! And somehow she knows when it's Christmas day. Christmas Eve she would just stand by the tree and quitely whine while looking up at her presents (that we have to put up in the branches or else she will tear them open). It's so funny. Christmas morning was so fun when she finally got to open them!This is her guarding the bone I got her. Don't even think about coming near her when she is chewing on it...she will stare at you and growl and show her teeth. My parents got Billy the "The B Book". (Billy Barnes)We got Jayce and Cody this awesome fully automatic nerf gun. It was definately a hit. (literally. haha i'm hilarious)

Ok so that was Christmas! It was a great day full of fun and family! I love my family!

So then on the 26th, Sunday, we drove up to Brea to go to church with Billy's sister Jenny and Jason and cute Sierra and Whitney. It was really fun visiting with them and i'm sad I didn't take any pictures :( The funniest thing was that Sierra wanted to play with me and whenever I would leave the room to go talk with the grown-ups for a while, I would hear Sierra from her room saying "Auntie Caaaaaittttlinnnnn" and so I'd go back in her room and play cash register with her :) Whitney was also so cute and funny! I'm so lucky I inheirited the cutest nieces in the world.

Sunday afternoon/evening was the Sutherland Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa's house. That was a blast as usual. The food was delish and it was so fun to see everyone. I also kept thinking about how fun it was that Billy was there with me.

On Monday morning the whole family headed back up to San Clemente to take some family pictures at the beach. That was hectic. After we got home, me and Bill packed up and hit the road to Arizona!

So even though Bruce is a professional photographer and everyone in Billy's family has really fun cameras, I got barely any pictures from the trip! Can you believe that. But since this is kind of like a journal, I'm just going to write about what we did so I don't forget :) Feel free to skip over this part if you're only here for the pictures! So the rest of that week was filled with lots of relaxing, movie-watching, and niece-playing. Unfortunately one of the first nights we were there, I think Tuesday night, Dieter got some chicken or something stuck in his throat and had to go to the ER! But lucky for us, that meant Bruce and Karen and therefore me and Billy got to watch Maddison :)

Such a cutie, right?? Jody told us if we bribe her with chocolate...she would like us (she's nervous around strangers). So that's exactly what we did. She eventually got used to us a little...notice the hair :) (Maddison's, not mine)

She would only let us read to her because I think she forgot who was there when she was engulfed in a good book like "Dinner Time" or "More Bugs in Boxes". So those few days that Dieter had to spend in the hospital were filled with lots of playing with Maddison, watching Pride and Prejudice (the 6 hour version), and watching other movies like Salt and also some home movies. Jon and Kara and new baby Scarlett came down and stayed at Bruce and Karen's as well to hang out with everyone. Scarlett is such a beautiful baby! It was so fun to meet her and hold her and hang out with them. Dieter survived, fortunately, and we were all able to hang out and play games a few times.

On New Years Eve, Billy's Uncle Kent and Aunt Nina came and celebrated with us. We had a very interesting New Years with them. Nina is from Russia and they have some very funky traditions over there. This year is apparently the year of the rabbit, so we had lots of food items welcoming the rabbit into the home. We had to eat dinner at 11 pm because if you have an abundant table at midnight, then you will have abundance in the new year. We had to eat 12 grapes at midnight and make a wish on each of them. We did a lot of other funky things too, all welcoming the year of the rabbit and saying farewell to the year of the tiger.

Billy with the table spread, post dinner...and holding two little bunnies

After midnight Nina had this game that we all played. We split up into 2 teams and had to pass a match box from one person's nose to the next. It was very awkward to say the least.

Nina, wearing all white and metallic to honor the rabbit, instructing us on how to play the game.

Billy passing the box off to his mom. Haha!

Group shot

January 2nd we drove back to SD, spent the evening and part of the next day there, then headed back up here to miserable, snowy Utah.

Billy pulled out his old guitar while we were supposed to be getting changed and packing and leaving...he's still got mad skillz!

We suprised my brothers and bought them a new N64 since ours is broken, and we spent some good time playing Super Smash Brothers before we had to come back.

Ok sorry the end of this is kind of random. This has taken me forever to do and now I need to go do other things like eat brownies. Sorry it's so long! It was a great break. Now we're back to lame school and work. Ok bye!