Jump ahead to now

Just thought I'd give a quick view of what our life has seen in the last week. These are pictures and videos from my phone. 

Silly selfies

Exploring the trails that are so close to where we live!

Great roots!

Levitating leaves

Daring log crossing

Daring log pondering

Silly selfies II

Sweet Hannah

Bros

Bros 'n Bugs

Jessi w/ another update

I just updated our personal blog with pics. from Arizona and my bump. If anyone wants any of the pictures from the hikes we went on or the nativity let me know. I can e mail or put them on facebook?! Whichever would work easiest!

B & J & Baby G

So this is the only picture I have of my bump on my computer. Imagine this, but twice as big now! The other pictures are on my camera still and I'm being lazy. :) It's definately "popped" to us tho. We feel baby G movin all the time now! Such a neat feeling! (We call her baby G for baby girl)This was at 17 1/2 weeks, currently I'm 19 weeks.

I went to Georgia just over a week ago to visit my mom and dad. We had a BLAST! We went baby shopping and spent hours in the store Buy Buy Baby learning all about the best car seats and strollers! I feel so educated now! :) There was a tornado 60 miles north of Atlanta while we were there so we drove up to see some of the damage. When I got back to California Lesley took me to Sea World with 2 of the grandkids. SO MUCH FUN! I love the animals there! They are so beautiful! Other than that I work in the temple with Lesley Friday mornings. Still running/walking most days, staying busy by hanging out with Lesley and running errands with her. She has been SO awesome and kind to me. Brad LOVES the internship!! Learns more there everyday than he has in all of his college education. Loves all the guys at the office, so he looks forward to going into work. He has a flexible schedule so he's able to come home early some days and we can chill and go do stuff around San Diego. It's So pretty here and we are so grateful we're not in Rexburg for the winter! :) Love you guys up there, but I love the weather and scenery here much better.

The Briggski's

So I thought I would post since no one has in a while- so here's an update with us!

Ryan and I are both in school. We aren't working we are both taking 17 credits so our schedules are busy with homework, tests, quizzes, and 20 min naps. We love hanging out with nillerd and J.T., it is so fun to see nellie's cute little baby bump (jessi and natalie-lets see pictures) i mostly like it because she is finally has a bigger belly than me! haha jk jk Ryan and i went skiing and snowboarding this weekend-thanks my more the Christmas day pass. It was a lot of fun, i snowboarded and Ry went skiing at the end we decided to switch and go down a diamond (not my idea) lets just say it was rough and i hat skiing- Ryan will probably say the same about snowboarding. Overall though it was really fun. Ryan graduates next July with his bachelors in Exercise Science WOOHOO! He has worked so hard and now he is so close! I am going to try to finish as well I only have about 23 credits left so I am going to bust through them next semester and try to finish up because we are moving to WA...I am pretty sure. We both feel really good about moving there and Ryan starting a program to get MRI certified and then go to school for either Radiology or Nuclear Medicine. (I know you guys probably are confused because it was PT then PA and now this- but i feel really good about him doing these and if it changes again then it changes again-we will figure it out. ) But i think he will do great at either of those and I didn't think I would be excited to move to WA or for Ryan to start the program but I am happy and excited. I hopefully can get a job (as well as ryan) in WA. I hope to still do dental hygiene but for now I think we have to put that aside for a while until we make some money and ryan has started school again, if things dont work out which i hope they do work out- i kind of want to be a health educator/specialist and work with international public health issues or be a Personal trainer haha. but for now who knows what will happen. Anyways we love life and miss all you guys and hope everyone is doing great! 

P.S. i have class and didn't have time to check my spelling so sorry in advance! haha I tag all of you to post something!

Sock it to ya!

Noelle and Ryan were in charge of the games for Sat. night. It was a Sock Showdown. This video was the most intense battle fighting for the title of Sock king. The last ones standing were Dru, Justin, and Jon (Ben was out for the night due to an unfortunate encounter with a nut). 

  After the initial battle, we had a few one-on-one battles with spouses.

                                                                     Ryan vs. Noelle

                                                                   Brad vs. Jessi 

Jon vs. Nicole

Justin vs. Nellie 

                                                                        Dad vs. Mom 

                                                            Just for fun, Noelle vs. Jessi

                                             The crowned and reigning Sock King is JUSTIN.

A Night from Samoa

Justin and Nellie were in charge of teaching us some dances from Samoa, he He Mele No Lilo and the Haka. The boys were very impressed with the girls as were the girls equally impressed with the boys. 

Thanks for sharing Nellie and Justin!! 

They Are Here!

My pictures have finally come! Some are posted on facebook and the rest on on this website... http://atogisala.photobiz.com/cart/gallery.cfm if you need the password it is love. We look weird in some but for the most part I love them! She did an awesome job! Hope you enjoy!

BIG things are coming!

( ryan and i won matching shirts at the suns game earlier this week... i thought it was appropriate due to the circumstances! haha)

It's official i am engaged and will be married to Ryan Briggs March 16, 2012! BOO-YA! i am soooo excited and couldn't be happier. He proposed friday night December 30th during a long walk we had been on at the gilbert riparian and he popped the question! I was shocked i for sure thought he would wait till i went to seattle. it was a total surprise and i loved it, and i loved the ring he did a great job, and i just love him! He is truly amazing and i am just so happy! I cant wait for you all to meet him!!!!

The Best Day Ever!

I'M ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Man!!!!!

So as many of you already know...yesterday was probably best day of my life! Around 5 o'clock my sister Noelle gets a phone call from my dad saying his car died by tempe town lakes and he needed some help. So we hoped in the car and headed that way. We arrived and my dad asked me to get the jumper cables in the back of his truck. When I get back there the love of my life, Justin Togisala, was lying in the bed of the truck! I was so delighted to see him! I jumped in the back and gave him a big hug! Next he asked if I wanted to go on a walk. Of course I said yes. Then we went on the paddle boats and after paddling a while we turned the boat around to watch the sunset. We just sat there talking and listening to music, then he pulled out the ring and asked the question! After I said yes he reached behind him and pulled out sparkling cider and fresh strawberries and some cute little brownies. He is an awesome guy and I am so lucky to have him in my life! Love you all!

WATCH THIS

Hey guys! You have to watch this! I found it on youtube and it is hilarious! Just click the link! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQpbzQ6gzs

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween Everyone! This past week Rexburg had a pumpkin carving competition and these are some of them....

This is Yoda and I think Darth Mal

This is Monsters Inc. You can't really tell but there is a door swinging open and Boo is peaking out.

This is my favorite! This is the Joker! The picture doesn't do it justice at all! There is so much detail! I wish I had a better camera!

This one is also super awesome! It is a dragon head! Sweet huh?!

Well I hope you enjoyed them! Wish I had a better camera to do them justice, but oh well! Love you all!

Howdy to All Ya'lls

What can I say other than Ben is REALLY diggin' this Texas thing!

Sending Ya'll lots of love from Tejas!

Happy Father's Day!

I ment to put this up earlier, I just haven't had time to! I think your awesome dad!

Just click on the link! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZa7hU6tP_s

Just a little taste of our semester!

So this is my second and 1/2 (if you count when i was here in the summer) semester and so far it has been just peachy! School has kept me busy especially these past few and the next two for sure will be hectic with midterms! I have very much enjoyed living with nellie this semester, i don't know what i would do without her silliness, late nights of non stop laughter, pranking each other, making dinner, or breakfast together, picnics with jessi :) and just acting really weird! ha ha i also love having brad and jessi around, they are always looking out for me, and inviting me to fun hikes with them and making sure i have food in my belly..thanks by the way. also me,nellie and jessi have planned a sleepover! i am really excited although poor bradley will have to suffer through our dance party/tie dye shirt making/ fingernail painting/ chick flick party! They are also so good to listen to me and nellie vent about our roommates, school, friends, whatever. And they are just really cute!haha anyways somethings nellie and i have been up to..i have joined a co-ed volleyball team as well as a soccer team, Nellie, brad, and jessi are all on a ultimate frisbee team! i am the secretary in my relief society and nellie is the FHE coordinator for the ward, looking for a job is endless..i am going to start going back to the plasma center (wish me luck, that place scares me) my cooking is improving but i cant say i really have done to much, still sticking to the turkey and cheese sandwiches and nellie mac'n cheese, the boys are all after nellie! she seriously is so stinkin pretty and amazing and she doesn't even realize it, 2 of our FHE brothers are after her! she is just the best! some of my new favorite things are...taking naps or doing homework at the park (when its sunny), going to zumba, pulling pranks on my roommates (i cant say they say the same). Speaking of roommates, my roommates are all from idaho but one which is from georgia. nellie and i like them all, some more than others...but we have fun and its all good! ha ha Sorry this isn't that exciting of a post but thats whats been going on! enjoy the pics

Apartment 101!

So nellie and i have LOVED living together! this is a tour of our apartment! Please excuse the mess! The day i took pictures wasn't the cleanest it has been :)

This right here is my favorite! theres not much yet but its growing! this is door the entrance to our room! we often leave each other random notes of just whatever or of where we are! They usually really weird and always make us laugh! you probably don't think it is but we always get a good kick out of it!

Dedicated to J-diggity

I promised Jessica a million years ago that I would post pictures of our home on the blog for the parade of homes series. I didn't do it at first because we were supposed to be moving into a home, and then when that didn't work out we were going to move next door, but then we didn't. We have also been playing musical rooms, my room up stairs and then downstairs and then back upstairs (This is why none of the rooms and the basement have any decor on the walls).  Well I am finally doing it. So here ya go.

Front of apartment (B-for Backus)

View of the "Great room" from front door.

Living room side

Dining room side

Kitchen

Children's room (yes that is a black sheet hanging on the window. It gets dark so late here).

Master bedroom

Basement-playroom side

Basement-Family room side

basement-office

The shared back yard

Well that's it. We of course have bathrooms and a laundry room but I couldn't get good pictures of those. Just imagine your typical bathroom and laundry room and you will have had the whole tour.

We Got it!!!

They called this afternoon and said the house is ours (to rent)!!!!! We feel so blessed!

Hoping and Waiting!!!

After 3 days of SEARCHING we were so blessed in the last hours of our time in Austin to find this home. We are just hoping and praying our application will be approved and accepted. If so we'll be living here SOON! It is in a cul-de-sac with a park nearby and just a teeny bit farther a community water park with water slides! A very pretty and quiet neighborhood...

Happy Mother's Day/Birthday!

Mom! I hope you are having a one heck of a day! I just wanted to tell you how much I love and appreciate you. I was reading the scriptures the other day and came across a verse or two that reminded me of you. It's in Moroni 7:45-46 and I exchanged the word charity for mothers so it goes like this...."And mothers suffereth long, and are kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Wherefore, my brethren, if ye have not mothers, ye are nothing, for mothers never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto your mothers..." This is how I feel about you mom. I love you! Happy Mother's Day and Happy Birthday!