Mother's Day 2008

Girls Day Out!!!

- Me, My Mommy, & My Grandma set out on our very own girls day out. We headed to Ventura for shopping, eating and more shopping :D

(the picture above is my cute grandma and my wonderful mommy once we arrived in Ventura)

(above is a picture of Ventura's Bay. I thought this was pretty! It did scare me however to think about how much fish is there. For those who don't know.. I'm so afraid of fish)

-after walking and mostly shopping, we headed over to the Ventura Pier and ate lunch at Ericcson's. It was delicious. Even thought everything mostly involved fish YUCK. My Grandma and my Mommy both got themselves a $55 lobster tail.. how nasty huh...LOL. It was funny. They made fun of me because I just ordered a salad w/ Chicken..LOL

(above is my grandma and her lobster.. she wore a sticker I gave her that said "my grandkids love me."
(above is my mommy and her lobster)
(me and my yummy salad with NO fish.. but my chicken looks like a starfish..LOL)









-After eating lunch we headed back to the shops we were at before lunch. We went for coffee and pastries.. but we shopped some more...LOL. The best store we went into was "The Hat Store". By the pictures below you can just imagine how much fun we had. Enjoy and don't laugh at me too hard in my airplane picture..LOL

-After we were done being silly we headed over to this little shop where we sat down and had coffee and bread pudding. Afterwards we had our little photo time at the end of the day.

-After that we headed home. I would have to say that was the best Mother's Day I have ever spend with my Mommy and My Grandma. We are thinking of making it a tradition. And also thinking about doing it on Father's Day...LOL LOL.

I hope everyone had a great mother's day! Mothers are one of the best things the God created. I love them so much. Not all mommy's are perfect.. but perfect or not they will always love you. And that is why they deserve so much :D

SMILE!!

Yesterday while I was at work a patient came in with some flowers. I was sitting behind the charts eatting my lunch and I over heard him chatting with the front desk. He brought 2 little things of flowers for the front desk and gave them to Rachel while he kept one and told her, "this one is for Marissa", it was a pink rose. After I was done eatting I came out and he gave me the rose. He told me he gave it to me because I smiled at him the last time he came in. I said thank you ... and told me that I should always have a smile on my face.

I called Ryan and told him that some 52 years old was hitting on his girlfriend .. but his response was, "your smile can do that to people"...LOL. It was a little thing that made my day.

So Proud!!

WAY TO GO HUNNY!!! COULDN'T BE ANY PROUDER THEN I AM!! I LOVE YOU!!



Not to long after Ryan and I started dating, we both started to go back to school. We are pretty good at pushing each other to do better in life. So he made a dream or I'll say goal to get into Berkeley or UCLA for Mechanical Engineering.
He applied to:

• UC Irvine
• UC San Deigo
• UC Northridge
• UCLA
• UC Berkeley

Now out of all 5 of the schools... HE GOT INTO ALL OF THEM!!!

I can't explain how proud of him I am. It's an amazing feeling watching the one you love accomplish so much. He had to work very hard and proved to a lot of people they were wrong. Now he has a big decision. It's between UCLA and UC Berkeley. Berkeley looks like their giving him a lot more money then UCLA, but UCLA is a lot closer to home and he is afraid and scared of the dramatic change it will cause in his life to more to San Fransico. I love him and will be there for him no matter what school he decides to go to.