Ricardo & Kylie

Life has been crazy since Easter I guess, since that's the last time I updated our blog! That's really not a good excuse, but luckily we have great friends who are more on top of things than we are, so I'm going to cross-reference a few other blogs in this entry. Since April A LOT has happened! First, in April I ran my first half marathon and Ricardo ran his first marathon. Ricardo ran the race with my dad and I ran with our good friends Carrie and Andrew and Sam. We had a really great time! There's something about running in the race atmosphere that's just so fun. Ricardo couldn't quite catch my dad (he's speedy!), but he is more motivated now to run again FASTER and I may be running another half with some friends from PA school in November! See Carrie's blog for pictures of the race! P.S. Carrie and Andrew will always be our favorite running partners. We miss them! http://http//thetoolsons.blogspot.com/2010/04/we-did-it.html The next weekend, the rest...

Happy Easter!! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. We thought we'd take this time to update on the last few holidays, since it's been awhile. :) For Valentine's Day we made fondue for dinner. My family always has this for Christmas Eve, so we thought we'd keep up the tradition, just a little late. We had cheese for dinner and chocolate for dessert and it was YUMMY. We had a great time spending the day together and taking a little break from our busy life. For St. Patrick's Day we wore green (so hard for Kylie :), made Shepherd's Pie, and green pistachio cake for dessert. I made that cake two years ago with my good friend Lindsey for St. Patrick's Day and I remembered it so fondly that I thought my husband deserved to have it too. He is quickly beginning to love all of my holiday festivities, because it always means good food! Today we celebrated Easter by attending General Conference, making my mom's Easter rolls, and dying Easter eggs. Ric...

I really thought that after I graduated I'd have so much free time and I'd update our blog all the time. That hasn't really happened! Turns out that real life is just as busy as school! TONS has happened since Christmas...so I will try to keep this concise. 1. We MOVED! We are officially living in Salt Lake City! At first it was really strange to not be living in Provo, but we're pretty used to our new life now. We do miss our friends in Provo, but luckily the trek there isn't too far! Ricardo is finishing up his dental school prerequisites at the University of Utah and I am working at Watson Pharmaceuticals in their research lab. We are living right downtown, a few blocks east of Trolley Square. We couldn't have asked for a better location. It takes us five minutes to get to school and work and neither of us has ever lived so close to the freeway ever (especially Ricardo). Despite that, our neighborhood is really quiet. It doesn't really feel like we live d...

We can't believe Christmas is over and that our whole apartment is now packed up in boxes. We move to Salt Lake in 3 days, so our New Years was spent packing and preparing for the big move. Details on our new place when we move in! Our Christmas was wonderful! Neither of us has had a white Christmas for a long time, so it definitely felt different, but we had fun nonetheless. On Christmas Eve we cooked up a big dinner of Cornish hens and potatoes. We wanted turkey, but one turkey was way too much for the two of us, so we got the hens instead. They were delicious! Our big feast: On Christmas Eve we made up lots of traditions we hope to keep up in the future. Basically, whatever we were doing we made into a tradition. So one of our new traditions is wearing pajamas for Christmas Eve dinner: Here is our acclaimed Christmas tree. By the time Christmas rolled around it was kind of wilting, but we loved it anyway: I told my mom and sister that Ricardo needed socks for Christmas. He ended...

December has been a fun and exciting month for us. It seems like big events are happening left and right! As of yesterday we have been married for 4 months! Yesterday was also the first time we forgot our anniversary. Usually we do something special on that day, but yesterday we totally spaced it until about 9:30 at night. So our celebration yesterday consisted of hot fudge sundaes (see below). I am definitely a list person (inherited from my mother), so I'm going to do another listing post. Here's what's new with us: 1. The first big thing in December was Ricardo's birthday! He got some cool presents: a fishing rod from me, a sweater, candy, and a Christmas movie from my mom (my favorite one, conveniently enough), and a nice dinner out from his parents (which we utilized during finals week). For lunch that day we went to this Thai place that I found online. We both love Thai food, but it's hard to find cheap, quality stuff. We went to this place called Spicy Thai i...

Wow, we are not good bloggers so far. A whole month and a half has gone by! Well...since we last posted, a few big things have happened. 1. Ricardo got a job! He is the manager of the Hickory Farms and Lehi Roller Mills kiosks at the Provo Towne Center Mall. It's the perfect job because it ends at Christmas when we move and his hours are great. He loves flirting with old ladies all day and selling them cheese and it has paid off. His mall is doing much better than all the rest! 2. Kylie got two interviews for PA school (so far)! In 2 weeks she is going to Glendale, Arizona to interview at Midwestern University and in January she gets to go home to Florida to interview at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale. 3. We celebrated our first Halloween together. We were Lucy and Ricky Ricardo and hosted a Halloween party at our house, which consisted of the boys bobbing for apples and the girls eating caramel apples. 4. Ricardo has been able to fit some fishing into his schedule...

Due to popular demand, we have decided to create our very own blog. We're thinking this will force us to take more pictures (or steal pictures of ourselves that other people take). :) Lots of eventful stuff has happened this week. First, we finally got our wedding photos! We immediately went shopping for some picture frames and finished decorating our house. For those of you who haven't seen the pictures yet, our photographer's website is jleighphoto.com and the event code is kyliericardo. Below are some of our favorites! Second, we had our first family disaster last night. We came home from dinner at Andrew and Carrie's and Ricardo decided he wanted some french fries. So we set a pot of oil to boil while we got ready to go to Ashley and Lane's to carve pumpkins. Suddenly we remembered about the oil when we saw smoke emanating from the kitchen! Kylie turned off the stove and instantly the pot burst into flames. There was smoke everywhere and our fire alarm was blari...