So we thought we should update.

We just wanted to post an update on our blog.  Once again, I don't feel it important for the rest of you to know what is going on in our private life, I will lower my defenses, give in to this posting thing just this one time.  I repeat, just this one time, from this point on, I will attempt to update you on our current situation.  So hang on tight here we go.  

Jess and I are just fine.

There you have it, have a good day.  

Olivia Areli Olsen

Today is my little Sobrina's birthday! This was Olivia on her birthday 1 year ago. She is the sweetest, most beautiful little girl in the whole world! I can't believe that she's 2 years old already! I remember Areli being pregnant, and the day that she was born! Now she's 2 years old, and has quite the personality :) I just wanted to give a shout out to my little niece and let her know how much we love her! Happy Birthday OLI!

Love,

Tia Jessica and Tio Jolel ;)

Long time no see...

So, I know that I've been really really bad at keeping up with the blog. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, "two months is really long". I agree. So, just a quick update.

MARCH

I said that I would post some pictures from St. Patrick's day. Here they are:

I get a lot of grief for dressing up being 21 years old, but I JUST LOVE IT! So much fun!

Joel and I also went to St. George for a dance competition, and after that we went to Disneyland!! I'm so obsessed...Joel and I got Season Passes to Disneyland...We're planning on going again in about 2 or 3 weekends. My dad came with us too, and we played so much Toy Story that now we rock at it! :) I just LOVE Disney! We bought another Monopoly, and our current count is 6...I have his awful fetish...I feel that every time that I see a new version of Monopoly I feel that is an entirely new game, and I am drawn to buy it. I have an obsession. Monopoly. Disneyland.

APRIL

Easter was wonderful. No pictures sorry, but Joel did buy me this awesome case for my phone and clip for it. LOVE IT! It is so nice :) I don't ever feel bad because it has this amazingly thick hard case to protect it. I had another competition in April, and it went well.

Joel and I went to one of Spencer's lacrosse games and I can't tell you how fun lacrosse is to watch! He is the best goalie ever! If you ever get a chance to watch a lacrosse game, DO IT!

Wearing Green

I absolutely love St. Patrick's Day! I know that a lot of people only think about this wonderful holiday being a day to drink; however, this is definately the best holiday to dress up! I know that if people actually remember the holiday, they will wear the occasional green shirt, but I do the entire schpeal...5 green shirts layered, 2 green pants, green in my hair, green shoes, green finger and toenails, and green make-up! People always say that I over do the green, but I'm just making up for the lack of everyone else. I do, infact, have Irish ancestors which you can obviously tell by the look of my red hair and white white skin ;) But, I am definately proud of where I came from, and really enjoy the excuse to dress like a leprechaun. So, make sure to drink your green milk, and eat your Lucky Charms. Maybe this will be your lucky day!


*Don't worry! I'll be sure to post the pictures soon :)*

Wanna Ride Bikes?

Hello my fellow friends family and what not. This is Joel, work was going very very slow today, and I thought that I would write a blog, But I had no idea what to write about. I had an audition up at the U for the school of Music, and I'm hoping that I find out tonight how I did. I also went bike shopping over the weekend with Jess. Though I didn't buy one, I am very excited to say that I found a bike that caught my eye, and possibly will become property of the Alba family soon enough. What I'm looking for is a bit of a road/mtn bike. I found a nice Specialized, called a Cross Trail, it looks nice, and I think I'm going to go for it, This is the bike.


While I was comparing bikes, and what not, I decided that I wanted to find out what happened to a certain bike line called Fat Chance Bikes, I was curious because my dad got a Wicked Fat Chance a long time ago, and I heard a lot of people thought those where amazing bikes. So I did a little research and found out that Chris Chance, the owner and creator of Fat City Cycles, sold the company to who knows who, and moved out of Massachusetts to New York. When this happened a whole bunch of people who worked for Mr. Chance didn't get hired, or didn't go with the company, and decided to build there own company. They created Independent Fabrication Bikes. I have to tell you, these guys are insane, I started looking through the website, and I decided that when I became rich and famous, I would buy one. I think there cheapest one is like $2k so it'll be a while before I buy one, but all I can say is that if I buy one it will be the following bike.



Its called the Steel Deluxe it looks like a sick bike. The cool thing about the company, is that they still hand make all of there bikes, they do all the custom work and what not, and they customize the paint for you too! I would totally do a Neon Brown color, And have it say Brown Pride in Ghetto Letters on the frame. If your feeling up to buying one of your own, they have a large selection of bikes that you can choose from, the web page is http://www.ifbikes.com/ take a look at there stuff its absolutely awesome! And if your gutsy, buy one, (donations are open to the poor brown kid fund, currently 0 contributions)

Dinner, Basil, and a Movie...twice.

So, I've been in primary for a year with my little sunbeams and because I've been in primary, I don't know anyone in the ward except my sunbeams parents. It's not a bad thing that I know them, just a bad thing I don't really know anyone else. So, lucky for me, last week Sister Thelin asked us over for dinner the next Sunday. We went over yesterday, and it was so so so much fun! I really like them a lot! She made lasagna and put fresh basil on the top..SO GOOD! I think my jacket is going to smell like basil forever, but it was so worth it. She has a little boy named Oliver, and he is so cute :)
The rest of the weekend went well as usual. Joel and I went to Heber for practice on Saturday and it was snowing up a storm. Poor Mike. On his way to Heber, he hit a patch of ice and ran into the barrier in provo canyon. Not only did he destroy his brand new bumper, a cop drove by and gave him a ticket for not controlling the car on a mountain road! WHAT?! What does that even mean? He got a ticket for hitting black ice. Stupid cops. Hate cops.

Joel and I went and saw PUSH twice this weekend...I confess..I love it! It was such a cool movie! I know it got bad reviews, but I just love it!
Not really anything else going on. I'm sick with a stupid cough and really hoping it's going away soon. Most importantly, Joel has his audition for the Music Major program at the U on the 28th! Keep your fingers crossed! Just kidding. I'm sure that he is going to do amazing! He is going to love taking classes in a subject he has such a passion for :) I'm so happy for him!

The Weekend

The weekend was wonderful, as it usually is. Saturday Joel and I slept in, and then went to my parents to play Guitar Hero World Tour with Mike and Spencer. It was awesome! I love that game! Then at 430 Joel and Mike and I went to Kelsey's house because she was having a Scencity party, but we just wanted to see our friends. We saw Nicki and her little boy Keegan. He is getting so so big, and Nicki looks great. We also got to see Josh and Erica, which was awesome! After that, Mike went to pick up his date for the night - Kat - and went Laser Questing!! I LOVE LASER QUESTING! It was so awesome...Joel and I are so bad...Mike barely got second by 20 points! Only 2 more shots and he would have won! Dang...Afterward, Joel and I went to grab some pizza and Jarritos to eat while we watched WALL-E. Unfortunately we had to leave in the middle of the movie to go and pick up my parents at the airport because they were at a convention in LA.
Sunday we went to church and my little sunbeams were so so good! We talked about saying our prayers, and they were so responsive! At the end we had about five minutes and I asked them what game they would like to play and they all wanted head, shoulders, knees and toes. Chase screams out, "We have to do it so so fast! Faster than a dinosaur can run!" HAHA I love my sunbeams! Andrew was pouty when he came in and after about 10 minutes I told him that I had fishies (Swedish fish). He looks at me and says, "I really like that. How many can I have? This many?" -as he holds is arms out as far as he can stretch. So cute. My mom wanted us to make Sopes on for dinner, and that turned out great! Then we finally got to watch the season premiere of LOST! SO HAPPY! We couldn't see it together because mom and dad were in LA. It was wonderful! Well, it turned out to be a nice weekend.