Anniversary Numero Trés

Leading up to our 3rd year anniversary, we decided we probably shouldn't do anything too exciting so that we could increase our savings....Then about a week before we decided to do it anyways :) And I'm glad we did. I found a coupon on Groupon for a good deal on a cute lil suite in Ojai, CA. We decided, sure, why not! So last minute road trip was planned to go to Ojai and travel up the coast, hit San Fran and then head home. So here's some pictures of our exciting little adventure!

The first leg was to Mesquite, NE late Wed night after work. Thursday we woke up and went the rest of the way to Ojai.

 



Ojai was cute little town close to Ventura. After driving up quite a distance, it was a sudden dissent into a beautiful green farming town with lots of winding roads. Awesome! We to a Lodge there for dinner and Ty got a stake that was 30+ $$$. But oh my, was it delicious! My dinner was quite alright as well. Then we traveled to Ventura to walk the beach and the pier at nigh. It was their county fair so there ended up being fireworks over the ocean...awesome! The next day we were going to go the fair...but it was quite a bit to just go in. So we walked around and enjoyed the area instead :)

 

 

And we went to the beach...But it was quite chilly so we didn't go in very far...

 

 

 

That afternoon we hit up a Golf Course in Ojai, Soule Park Golf Course. I'm glad that I found out I liked golfing, because this was quite enjoyable indeed. AND after 4 you get a super huge discount and get as many holes in as you can before they close. It was beautiful. I sucked...but Ty sure did good!

 

 

Then we started to head up the coast at sundown, which was of course, gorgeous. And spent the night in a little town along the way. Next stop...San Fran!

 

 

Once again, we didn't really have any plans. So we moseyed around and ate on Fisherman's Warf, rode the Trolley, did some sight-seeing, hit up Chinatown (Where we ended up parking!...Never again) and stopped by Candlestick Park. It was their Red and Gold game, but of course they were sold out of the free tickets, but at least we got to see it and all of their fans before the stadium changes. Then we went across the Golden Gate and started the longest leg of the journey...back to Utah.

 

Oh, and I didn't get any pictures, of course, but we stopped at a Go Car place on the way home. Not your typical Go Car, Super fast go cars and tight corners. OH SO FUN!









Catch Up

So I was going to upload a bunch of pictures from the last little bit, but I got interrupted and now I can't find my SD card! It's gone, lost. Oh well. We'll just have to suffer through with words. As of late a few fun things have happened...I finally graduated! It was a wonderful day, the ceremony was a bit long because we have a HUGE college, but a couple hours later I was finished forever and let me tell you, it feels good :) Also, Charles had her cute lil babe. Cora is seriously the cutest little girl ever. I love her. Just like I love my other niece who just moved to Pennsylvania! Crazy. I'm super jealous of them but I'll miss their little family so much.

Oh, and Trevor and Tanner graduated from high school, which means my mom and dad have no one left in high school. And soon, they won't have anyone left at home! Trevor leaves on July 31st for the San Fernando Mission and Tanner leaves 3 weeks later to Utica New York! Then...9 months later Haden will be home. Lots of missions, but super cool.

For my birthday I went shopping at City Creek with Dawna, my mamma-in-law, & Dawna's mamma-in-law and sis-in-law and their girls. K...so it wasn't really for my birthday, it was a girls day for Dawna before she headed out...but it was still fun! And it was the day before my actual birthday so we're counting it. Also, I got a little treat from the Cheesecake Factory (where we had lunch) and it had a candle in it...yummm. Then Ty came down and we went to Red Lobster and saw Star Trek 2 (AMAZING!!!) I'm not an old treky fan...but these last 2 movies I LOVE.

I quit the library too...ahhh! I've worked there for a few years now so it's weird to think I won't be going there anymore, but I got a full time job at ICON with day hours so I'll actually get to see Tyler, YAYYY. I'm excited to have every night free. The thought of getting home at 5 everyday is super cool because that's usually when Tyler gets home. I usually go in at 5...so we miss each other completely. But no more! Here's to a big girl job.

Birthday & a Baby Shower

This last weekend Tyler's sister, Dawna, had to work the graveyard shift. Her husband regularly works graveyard, which meant that they needed someone to watch their cute little girl. Luckily, we were available so we got to have a sleepover! Reese didn't get to our house 'til late Friday night, but we were still able to make some yummy cupcakes before bedtime. We asked her where she wanted to sleep (unfortunately we couldn't find the plug for our air mattress after the move :() so her options were limited. She chose to sleep with us which concerned me at first. Last time she slept with us, I quickly found out that she is a Kung Foo master in her sleep. I thought about her flailing arms and decided that she could sleep on the end instead of between me and Ty. And it was great. No arms to the face this time! It makes me happy that we still have our california king bed because all 3 of could fit our pillows no problem. It was a good thing that we all slept well because the next morning she had a basketball game. Tyler was nice enough to make us some french toast and then we hurried out the door to her Jr. Jazz game and to meet her parents. Oh my, it was hilarious. Watching 6-year-olds run around the court trying to dribble the ball and make baskets is wonderful.

 

After that we hurried home so that I could finish making the cupcakes that we needed for the night. Luckily Reese had helped me start them but I still had another batch to make! We were headed to Malad for my Grandpa Jensen's 80th Birthday party and my sisters baby shower. So I also threw together this cute little diaper cycle. I followed the tutorial that I found on Pinterest from this blog here. 

 

Yes, we had a little photo shoot. It just turned out sooo much better than I thought! The tutorial was awesome and saved me a lot of time too! We finally got to Malad and my grandpa was very surprised by the little party we threw him. We just had it at a restaurant in Malad called The Dude Ranch. It was pretty tasty--minus the fries, they were so so. But they were able to feed all of the family that showed up! 

Then we headed to my Aunt's house for the baby shower. Unfortunately my camera ran out of room on the card so I only got one picture :( And of course it's a blurry one. haha

 She got lots of cute stuff though! This was a quilt that my Aunt Kellianne made, it is amazing. Super super cute. I can't wait to meet my new cute little niece! While we were shopping for the motorcycle supplies at Wal Mart Tyler mentioned 2 things. First off, that it was the first time he had ever been in the baby section of wally world and that it made him nervous for days to come because everything is soo expensive. Secondly he said that he thought we would be making more visits to Lehi once little Corra comes along...he's right ;)