Summer time!

I've done so much since last time I wrote in my blog. Just wanted to write something really short because I don't have lots of time. First of all, I went to PERU!!!! I LOVE Peru sooooo much <3 I've been in the States for about 10 years and it was my second time going back to my country :) Thanks to my parents we had an amazing vacation this summer. I went with my whole family which made it even better. We were a big group- 4 siblings + my husband + parents + grandma. It was the first time Danny was getting out of the country so he was super excited and didn't know what to expect. We went to Lima, Cuzco, and Trujillo. I grew up in Lima but I was born in Trujillo (even though I didn't really live there). I got to see my family that is still in Peru. Danny got to meet lots of family. He really enjoyed it. His Spanish got pretty good too. I was so proud of him :) We need to keep it up so whenever we go back again he can be completely fluent. I had never been to Cuzco before. We went for 4 days. We all go so sick lol. A lot of people get "soroche" which is an altitude sickness. It's okay...we are all still alive! We went to Machu Picchu. It was BEAUTIFUL! and I can finally say YES when somebody asks me "Have you been to Machu Picchu before? hahaha. Some people are always surprised when I tell them I'm from Peru but I've never been to Machu Picchu. Anyways, we spend the last week in Trujillo. We got to see a lot of family from my dad's side of the family. I had so much fun :) Danny also got to try lots of Peruvian food. He was very happy. I might write more details of my trip to Peru later but I don't have much time right now.

After we got back from Peru, I spent a 1.5 weeks with my family in Texas. It was so much fun. Danny and Ron had to go back to Utah. We got to do some fun stuff when I was there. My family got their first pet. We got 3 little fish. They are so cute! I wonder how big they are going to get when we go back home for Christmas break. We also went bowling. It was so fun playing with my siblings. We also went to the movies to watch Despicable me 2- such cute and fun movie. We spent time at home just chilling and doing random stuff. It was nice to have a break. I haven't taken a break from school for a few years so a vacation was very much needed. 

After a week and a half, I was missing my husband lots and lots. I got back to Utah the day before his birthday. haha. Not enough time to plan something nice for his birthday but it all worked out at the end. Danny decided that he wasn't going to work that day. We slept in till like 10am. hahah Yep. pretty weird. We went on a short run. (For those who don't know my husband very well, he is a runner and he loves running every morning. and for those who don't know this about me, I hate running. I'm the worst runner ever and I don't enjoy it yet). Danny had asked me to run with him for his birthday. How am I supposed to say no to that? yep. I went running with him. I was so tired before running and after the run. I felt like my energy for the day was gone. At least Danny was happy lol. Then I made a delicious breakfast for him and invited Ron to eat with us. It was more like a lunch since we ate it at like 11:30am. After breakfast, we went to the running store for Danny to pick his birthday present. I told Ron to come with us because I knew Ron was going to make everything more exciting for Danny. (Danny has been training Ron for a few months, so they both enjoy running). Danny was so excited to get new running shoes. He was in need of running shoes since we were engaged I think lol. Lucky for him, there were a couple of discounts for Pioneer weekend. 1st pair of shoes -30% off, 2nd -40% off, 3rd - 60% off. My plan was to get him only one pair of running shoes since they are usually $100 or +. But because they were on sale he got 2 and convinced Ron to get a pair of running shoes with the 60% off. Well... we spend like 2 hours in the running store. At least, Danny was happy. Then we went to the Temple. It was so nice :) Then we went to Nadine's house to have some cake with her and family. Nadine and Danny are siblings- 5 years apart but they share the same birthday. Then, I took Danny to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. He loves their steak. That's all we did for his birthday. But then I had a little party for him at our place on Saturday. Most people were out of town for the summer but we still got to hang out with some friends. I should have taken pictures but I forgot :( Oh well... thanks everybody who came! (Ron, Jordan, Kevin, Mike&Aleisha, Mikal, Josh&Luisa, Nadine, Miriam, Elisa and a couple other people). 

Well... summer is great! Life is fun. I'm very grateful for all the things that I've been able to do so far :)