Mormon Night

Every year, the Seattle Mariners have a Mormon night. Zac and I got a group of our friends together and went. It was a lot of fun! We even got free t-shirts. :) We ended up seeing people from BYU and from our last ward in Bellevue from two years ago. When you are Mormon the world can be quite small. The weather was beautiful and you couldn't beat the view of downtown from our seats. 

Phew.....Where did September go? The last month has been a complete whirlwind. Here is a quick recap of what is up......

• Zac finally finished his internship! Woohoo! I love having him home and I love having a car again.
• We went home to beautiful Arizona because Lindsey came home! It was so great to see her and see all of my siblings. We are just a bunch of goof balls when we get together. We were finally all together for the first time since 2011. I am so lucky to have such fun siblings that all get along. I never would have thought of it when I 10 and my brother steal my barbies just to tease me. Lindsey looked amazing and just shined! She gave a wonderful talk and you can tell that she was an amazing missionary. The weekend was just too short. 
• I am now a full-time Wellness Specialist! I even went on my first business trip last week. Watch out! I have a big girl job. 
• Zac and I went to a Dodgers game. I will never ever live in LA because traffic is awful. But the game was fun. Because of traffic, we missed out on some awesome snuggies, I mean sleeved blankets....
• Zac started his last quarter of school ever last week! 
• We joined the coolest thing ever.....meal swaps. Us and three of our friends take turns making a meal, then everyone picks up a enough food for their family. So Zac and I only have to cook like three times a week now. It is great. 
• My city league volleyball team dominated the championship! Say hello to the two time defending champs. 
• Zac and I finished our infertility testing and they didn't find anything, giving us the official diagnosis of unexplained infertility. I am happy that they didn't find any problems, but it would be nice to have a problem to work with. So for now, I will be taking a drug called Clomid. They gave us three months before we move on to the next step...I am just hoping that it isn't three months of disappointment. 

Zac and I celebrated our four year anniversary a little late because he was in LA. It took me out to eat and this pretty cool restaurant.

Dodgers Game 

The Champs! 

Celebrating this girl's birthday! 

Special thanks to Kristin for taking family pictures while we were home. :) 

And now for your musical enjoyment.....my awesome nephew, Porter.

Smarty Pants

Sorry, I have been MIA on updating my blog on recent happenings. There have been some new and some exciting changes. Zac will be interning in LA this summer with KPFF. Which is the same company that he interned with last summer. It is a great opportunity for him to learn a lot more about his field. He will be living with his grandpa during the week then he will drive back down on the weekends. Definitely not the ideal situation, but I just have to remember that this will all pay off when Zac gets his first job. :)

Also, along the same lines, Zac has been offered research!! Woohoo! He and the professor will be writing the proposal and they will find out if it gets funding mid-July. If it gets funded that means that Zac will graduate in March. If it doesn't get funded then he will graduate in December as originally planned. Either way, it is pretty awesome. Maybe it is because I am his wife, but I think he is super smart and I love him to death. Anyways, enough of that! Here a few pics of what we have been up to lately. 

Camping over memorial weekend. I actually used our dutch oven and made some great peach cobbler. 

This cutie came and visited! Elise, Eric and Porter came to visit and it was great to see them! We were so happy to see them. I miss living so close by. 

A while ago.....BYU Men's Volleyball came to town (or LA) for the NCAA Championship. We drove up to cheer them on and ran into Zac's cousins. We had to get a picture with the picture of Zac's uncle, Peter in the Pauley Pavilion at UCLA.

Happenings

Wow....It has been awhile since I last posted. I think I have an ok excuse though. I dropped my camera that I have had since I was 16 and it broke. :( Sad day. So if anyone has any good recommendations for a  digital camera that is not very expensive please let me know. In the mean time I have been using Zac's camera from his mission and, well, it just isn't as good. Oh well, it will have to do for now. 

Zac and I are still enjoying CA and the beautiful weather. But I am afraid I am turning into a wimp. Whenever it gets below 60 degrees, I think it is freezing. Zac is neck deep in school. He his doing so well and I love to brag about my incredibly smart husband. I am enjoying working for ACI and using my degree. It keeps me very busy and I like it.

I hardly see Zac during the week because he has night classes and HW so we try to make the most of our weekends. We have had some pretty fun dates. 

Nickel City! Who does not love winning tickets you get to trade in for candy and plastic army guys?!

Gonzaga Basketball came to town and according to Zac "they are the best and it is impossible to get tickets to their games in Spokane". It made me miss going to the Marriott Center to watch my BYU Cougars. Gonzaga won and we had a lot of fun cheering with all the other Zag fans there. 

Zac and I signed up for a Ragnar race in April. I am so stoked! It is a 200 mile relay race  with 12 people on a team. For our training run on Saturday we decided to run up a mountain. Needless to say, I am sore and I ended up walking most of it. But the view at the top was pretty incredible. 

You can see the ocean in the distance and a little bit of Mexico on the left. 

While Zac is away at school in the evenings I work on my crafty projects. :) This is my most recent one. I don't know what it is about orange right now, but I just love it. I found this little cabinet thing out by the dumpster so I turned it into a night stand. I think it turned out pretty cute.

On Valentine's Day Zac and I will have been married for 3 1/2 years. I am so lucky to married to such a great guy. Because of Zac, we have had so many great adventures. You never know what life is going to throw at you next, but I know I can do anything as long as I have my best friend by my side. 

A True Seattle Experience

Can you believe it that July is almost over? I can't. This summer has flown by. The weather here has been beautiful the last little while. Now I know why people love Seattle in the summer. It isn't scorching hot and it is beautiful! A little while ago Zac and I got to go to a Mariners game. I was a little skeptical about going to a baseball game probably because I find baseball to be one of the most boring sports ever. But I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun Zac and I had. And believe it or not but the Mariners actually won! For those of you not familiar with Baseball, the Seattle Mariners are one of the worst teams in Major League Baseball.  So it was a pretty big deal.

No Seattle experience would be complete without a trip to Ivars. Ivars is a fast food Fish n' Chips chain in the Seattle area. It was okay. ( Don't tell any Seattlens, but I thought it tasted just the same as those fish fillets you buy at the grocery store). I think the highlight of this experience was eating on a flowing dock on Lake Washington. 

Zac and I have about a month and a half left here and I can honestly say that I will be sad to leave. I think I have fallen in love with the Northwest. Of course, it will never replace Arizona. Arizona will always have my heart. :) 

Tonight I played my last intramural soccer game ever. Depressing. I have been on an intramural team every semester that there was soccer with the exception of one ever since I came to BYU. I love soccer. I remember how hard it was when soccer was over in High School but at least I had the intramurals to look forward too. Hopefully, wherever Zac and I end up they have a women's city league. I hope you enjoy some of the  pictures of my past teams. I wish I had taken a picture of this last team I was on. It was made up mostly of people from St. Johns. Intramurals....you treated me well, you will be greatly missed. Here is to all the great times I had playing soccer. :)

BYU vs. Gonzaga

This past Thursday has been a long awaited day in the Vidmar household. This past Thursday was the BYU / Gonzaga basketball game at the Marriott Center. Because Zac grew up in Spokane, he is a sworn Gonzaga fan until death, even if they are playing the school that is giving him is education and the school that his wife is a fan of. Zac went all out for this game. He bought real tickets (you can't wear the other team's stuff if you sit in the student section). We showed up an hour and half early (to watch Gonzaga warm up). And even when BYU was whooping the Zags, he stayed faithful. I wore my BYU gear and Zac his GU gear. After BYU defeated the Zags, I for one was extremely happy, but it still felt as if we had lost because Zac was so sad. All I know is that I hope Zac and I don't have to cheer for two opposing teams for anything else. Go BYU! 

Dunk! 

Hey look it's Cecil! Woosh, Cecil! 

Three day weekends are heaven

I would just like to thank Martin Luther King Jr. I am thankful for the sacrifices he made that changed America. But I am also thankful that because of him I got a day off of school! Woohoo! This weekend was extra great because 1. I had very little homework  2. It reached 52 degrees on Monday and 3. NO SCHOOL!!! I started off my weekend by sleeping in! I love sleep! Over the weekend Zac and I went to a BYU hockey game and I got really domestic and made some wonderful zucchini bread and banana bread. I also got to go running outside on Monday because of the beautiful weather. It so much better than running in the Smith Field House with all those stinky people. : ) Yep, I think it is safe to say it was an A+ weekend.

Fall Fun!

I have been pretty bad at blogging lately. School is crazy busy and it is hard to find the time to blog about it! So what have I been up to here at the Y besides school?!

First off Intramurals!!! Oh how I love to play soccer. These are my team's jerseys. We are named Copyright because we are so good we are copyrighted! haha! Not really, but I think it is funny. We are doing ok, we have won 2 and lost 2 so hopefully we will win our next one. 

Next football! Normally this would be exciting and fun but BYU  doesn't have that great of a team this year. But it is still fun to go to hang out with friends. 

These guys were sitting next to us. I thought their suits were pretty cool. 

Next Homecoming! Zac took me to the Outer space dance.  They had a free photo booth. We had a ton of fun taking pictures in it! 

Nice props huh?!

Zac took me to a REAL Salt Lake soccer game. It was so much fun! I love  soccer so this was just a prefect thing for him to take me too. 

Today Zac and I took a drive up the Alpine Loop to look at the leaves. A lot of the leaves had already fallen off but it was still a beautiful drive. We only got out of the car once to take pictures because it was so cold! I am not ready for it to be cold yet. 

Summer Fun!

This past Saturday Zac took me to the Orem Owls minor league baseball game. Around half the field is a big hill which you bring a blanket and sit on the grass and watch the game. Normally I don't like baseball but I had a blast! It was just so fun to sit there and talk to Zac and watch the game. After the game they even had a free firework show! I don't know what I am going to do when school starts again and I actually have to work hard. This summer has been so nice. Zac and I have had so much fun together! We will celebrate our one year anniversary this Saturday. I am the luckiest girl in the whole world to have Zac in my life!

My Handsome Husband!

Look! Even the mascot has a girlfriend.