Hiking & HAPPINESS!!!

So these past few days have been very interesting & full of adventure! Wednesday started with waking up at 1 am & never going back to sleep because I had a nightmare my alarm clock didn't go off and I missed my boards exam in Anaheim that morning at 8. Long story short, I ended up making it to the test and 7 hours later was done with what I thought was the end of my life because I honestly didn't know if I had passed or not. Scores come out every Thursday so I was very skeptical about going on an 18 mile hike with Andy & some of his classmates that day because all I wanted to do was wait by the computer to find out if I passed or failed. Long story short, I decided to go, that way if I did fail I'd at least be by a cliff to jump off! As we climbed higher up the mountain, one of Andy's friends got reception on his cell phone, so we decided to check the internet for my score. As he was accessing the website, I literally started crying & thought I was going to throw up, I was so scared. Andy & his buddies captured the whole thing with pics and video, pretty funny!

Now for the adventure...after the 7 of us reached the summit, we all started trecking back down in groups of 2 0r 3 at slightly different paces. At sunset only 5 of us were at the bottom. It was getting really dark so Andy started hiking back up the mountain to look for the other 2 friends. After about 1.5 miles up he ran into a trail runner who had told him our friends were about 6 more miles up the mountain and one of them was hurt. Andy got down as fast as he could to go get search & rescue. We thought they would get a helicopter or something but they said it was too dangerous for anyone to go in their until daylight hit. We were freaking out, Andy and the runner were going to run up the mountain with blankets & help get them out but the Sherff wouldn't let them go because then the rescue team would have to rescue 4 people instead of 2. Finally, after a lot of prayers, our 2 friends made it out at 3:30am after hiking since 7am the day before! It was a crazy day!

P.S. YAY for being done with school and that stupid mountain! Hooray for Andy, he has nice Jen back again, evil Jen has been around for the past 2 or 3 weeks and he asked her to start sleeping in the backyard in a tent until she finished taking boards. HaHa!

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AFTER

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! warning: super long post

It's our two year anniversary today!  I can't believe it!  These last two years have flown by.  This might sound weird but when we got married I started PA school two weeks after and I never thought it would end but it has and we made it  and now we've already been married 2 years, I'm done with school and Andy is in PT school.  Crazy how time just flies by when you never think you're going to get to the next phase in your life.  I am so thankful to have such a great husband, I couldn't have asked for a more supporting, understanding guy.  I'm not sure if Andy really knew what he was getting into when we got married, especially with me starting school and all.  He has been fabulous!  He's cooked more meals for us on the past 2 years than I have, spent weekend nights watching movies on his laptop with headphones so I could have silence while I studied, been woken up with my crazy sleep talking and water throwing in the middle of the night, he's helped me get through a lot of stressful times when I didn't think I'd be able to get through school.  Sorry if all it seems I've been writing about is school, but that has been our life since we've been married!  I love you babe, happy 2 years, you survived JenJolley!

Anyways, what else have we been up to?  Andy got us tickets to the Jack Johnson/Rogue Wave concert last weekend and it was awesome!  I have never seen Jack live, I was in heaven!  If you don't know who Rogue Wave is you should look them up because they are the bomb dot com, seriously I love them! 

Friday night we went to the D'backs vs. Dodgers game since they were in LA.  I of course put on my D'backs hat to support my home team!  Andy looked at me funny and said "I don't know if you should wear that, the Dodgers fans are pretty ruthless, I've heard they throw ice at people cheering for the other team".  I thought whatever they will not, and said to Andy "If they throw ice at me I'll just throw my Nalgene bottle at their head"!  So we get to the stadium and still Andy is encouraging me not to wear it inside but I didn't care because I think I'm really tough and all.  We were sitting in our seats and I had to go to the bathroom so bad!  All the sudden

 our whole section stand up and starts booing and yelling at this guy walking up the stairs who was wearing a D'backs jersey!  I was so scared, I was about to pee my pants, but I did not want to walk through the stands getting yelled at!  Guess Andy was right, as usual.  Needless to say

, the stupid D'backs got slaughtered, oh well they'll still win the NL!

Last but not least i can't forget to wish my favorite sis a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  She just joined the blogging world, I am so proud of her!  She was kind enough to share her birthday with us on our wedding day!  I am so thankful to have such a fabulous sister, she is so talented

, I look up to her so much.  She is such a great wife and very fun mom!  

I Survived JAWS!

Yay! I didn't get eaten by any sharks this weekend during my triathlon! I was seriously so scared to do the swim in the ocean. I kept picturing my self diving though a wave straight into a sharks mouth. Shark week on the discovery channel really didn't help! The triathlon was seriously so much fun! I will never run another marathon after doing a tri. If any of yourunners are sick of the same training everyday, train for a triathlon...I highly recommend it! I trained with a friend of mine and we did the race together, it was so great to have a training partner. We made a weekend out of it and went totheSan Diego zoo after the race with our hubbies since we were fairly close by ( thanks for the annual passes Kyle & Jenny, we'll pose as you anytime). The zoo was cool, but I definately don't recommend walking around the hot zoo after any kind of strenous physical activity...I looked and felt like death. Plus the fact that I'm not a huge animal lover didn't really help my wanting to be there. I just think most of the animals at the zoo are so stinky & ugly, it's so over rated.(well to me at least) Yea, you definately will never find me rallying for P.E.T.A. Then my college roommate of all 4 glorious years at EWU, was in LA for a wedding so Andy & I got to meet up with her and her hubby! It was so fun to see her, she's is like a sister to me. I love ya Beth!

HOLA!

Sorry for the no pic post, but I've become extremely camera lazy!  Well, not much new has been going on with us.  Andy is officially home less than I which is pretty much never!  He's doing great and rockin' school, I'm so proud!  I just finished my OB-GYN rotation...all I can say is great experience but glad its over, I'm sick of being up for 24 hours at a time.  Next I'm off to the PSYCH ward, where I'll probably fit in very nicely with all the patients.  We had a nice relaxing 4th of July, went on a hike and watched movies and slept, it was much needed.  My fam took their annual trip to Carlsbad last week so we escaped there over the weekend.  Andy had to come back on Sunday for school, but I suddenly thought I was becoming ill and was forced to call in sick so I could stay on the beach for another day!  I finally got the nerves to sign up for my boards, Sept 12th is the official date so please keep me in your prayers, I need them!  Andy has the next week off of school after I take boards so we're going to go on a cruise to Mexico (Andy should feel right at home) for our anniversary/end of school celebration!  Thank you student loans, I can't wait to pay you back!  Anyone who has been on a cruise feel free to leave first time cruiser advice...I'm so excited!  I miss all of your guys, I feel like I haven't seen anyone in forever!

P.S. Just in case you were wondering and couldn't guess who made those awesome Angel's bobble heads of us...it was Andy, not I!  

Mr. & Mrs. Martin

CONGRADUATION!

Yay I graduated from PA school! SIKE! No really, our retarded school held a graduation for us on Father's Day to tease us & think we are done and have finally escaped from hell...but no we actually still have 2 months of clinical rotations left! basically, our program which we pay over 40 G a year to attend is too cheap to hold a seperate graduation for us when our program is officially done in August. It was kind of funny because everybody's family is so excited for them but all of us students looked like we were tired and couldn't care less. The good news is I'm finally done with the rotation from hell and now I get to do PAPs and deliver babies from nasty ching chongs at the county hospital for the next month, whoo hoo! All in all though it was fun weekend...Andy's parents came from

Washington, they are the best! My fam came from AZ, we all went to BJs for dinner and hung out, played games, went to Huntington Beach and stuff!

I got a cute cake for Father's day and my CONGRADUATION

as I like to call it (yes the word is in Jen's Dictionary but no one else's). We were all in the family room opening some grad gifts from the fam when we noticed Brigham (my 2 yr old nephew) was missing. Of course, we look over at the kitchen table and he was just sitting there all by himself going to town eating the uncut cake with his hands! He is so dang cute! The

kid could survive off cookies, cake, and ketchup (yes ketchup) if my sis would let him. I've never seen a kid who loves sweets so much. I think he takes after me.

Andy started physical therapy school Tuesday! I am so excited and proud of him! Of course I had to take a first day of school pic like my mom use to take of me every year, so cheesy! Way to go babe, 3 more years and you'll be Doc Martin!

WARNING!

I am officially an SPF PSYCHO!  Ever since my clinical rotation in dermatology seeing the nasty after effects of sun damage I apply sunscreen every morning as soon as I get out of the shower.  I started with spf 15, moved onto 50 and have worked my way up to 70!  Yes, this is coming from a girl who worships the sun, grew up playing tennis all day in the sun never wearing sunscreen so I could be as dark as possible.  My coach in college warned me I'd turn to leather when I was 40 if I kept hitting up the tanning bed after practice bet I never cared til now!

I went to a plastic surgery and cosmetic injectables conference last week (not because I'm getting the boob job I've always dreamed of) but so i can do botox and other procedures once I graduate.  Anyways, they had this machine you stick your face in and it scans your skin and shows you all the sun damage, dark spot, wrinkles, and what you'll look like in 5-10 yrs  without using sunscreen!  I freaked of course, especially since my new obsession with spf!  Honestly, its not worth being tan now so you look like your 60 years old when you're 40.  Its not worth having nasty scars on your face from skin cancer removal with the perma red skin look, wrinkles, and keratoses all over your arms, its so ugly!   

     I of course have been lecturing everyone about the sun!  Today I told one of my sun goddess gorgeous friends who never wears sunscreen she needs to wear it while she's at the beach this week and she said, oh I know I need to start ...I'm going to wear 15 with oil on top!  Gotta love it!

P.S.  My previously Joe Dirt looking husband finally shaved that nasty fu man chu just in time for my graduation Sunday...what a sweetheart!  I told him I did not want him in any pics with that thing but he didn't really seem to care so I for sure thought it was here to stay.  I got home from the hospital late and he was in bed, I reached over and felt a clean shaven face and wanted to jump for joy, it was the best part of my day!