cAliFoRniA!!!

This is what happened the whole trip down to California. The two boys slept the whole drive, Tim drove the entire time, and I kept Tim awake




















Tim's parents rented out a big house that fit all of us for the whole week. It was only a few miles from the beach.




























Tim and I walked down the beach and watched the sunset. We walked to a pier a ways down and we could see dolphins swimming around. That was only my second time seeing wild dolphins so i was way excited!

























SEAWORLD

We LOVED seaworld! It's so crazy to me that they can train all these animals like the whales and dolphins to do all these cool tricks. It was really interesting learning about all the sea animals. Some are really scary!





SAN DIEGO ZOO!

The zoo was also way fun to go see! It was huge! There's some weird looking animals though!




The last day in California we went to the beach. It was really cloudy and kinda chilly so i didn't want to get in the water, i only stuck my feet in. Tim was brave and got all the way in. While him and some of the other boys were swimming i saw some dolphins barely further out then they were! (That makes my 3rd time seeing wild dolphins, plus they were so close so it was awesome!) I tried getting a picture put you couldn't tell at all.

Easters

Saturday before Easter we were invited to color Easter eggs with Kenny, Marlyse, and William. Everyone made some really cool ones. Tim was taking a test and got done at 2 but had to be at work at 3 so we had to hurry which was a bummer! I'm no good at making cool eggs! next year i wanna have more time and try doing something better! It was still way fun though!




Our Easter turned out really fun. We woke up a little late for church and headed over and realized we were actually right on time cause it was stake conference. After sitting there for an hour Tim said he needed to go to the bathroom so he left. well probably 20 minutes later i started thinking 'what the heck is taking so long' so i looked at my phone and had a text from Tim that there was a line for the bathroom so he decided to just go home! He's such a cheater! He ended up taking half an hour cause i'm sure he was there eating and taking his time, and texting people telling them how sneaky his plan was.

I decided to try making ham for Easter dinner cause i had never done one before. We invited my family to come over for the dinner. It all turned out really good thank goodness. I made an easter egg hunt for everyone also. Tim was going around the house before people got there saying how many eggs he could see but then he ended up being the only one who couldn't find all his eggs and i had to show him where they were. That's what he gets! Thanks for hanging out with us everyone!

Little Kicks

My brother Ryan had a gig down here in provo with his band 'little kicks' My parents, Brianna and a two of her friends came down and we all went together. In front of the building there were some kids doing free drawings of you but they were hiding in a box. Brianna and her friend wanted one so the kid drew one of them and hands it to them and it's like this little kid drawing! It was so so funny and we couldn't stop laughing. I really hope the kid was doing it as a joke cause if not we probably hurt his feelings by laughing so hard. oh well the truth hurts sometimes, right?
Ryans band was fun to watch and i was glad i was able to go! Tim had a flag football game he was playing in at the same time so he couldn't come. On our way home i got a text from Tim's brother saying 'your husband is the man' and so when me and my family got to my house Tim was there pretty much jumping up and down about his awesome catch that won the game. Kenny his brother threw a long pass and tim dove in the endzone to catch it and won with like 30 seconds left or something. I hope i told it right! Anyways i was really proud of him!

Also, at work we had a bet for the NCAA tournament and i won It!! I was so excited cause i never have good luck with things like that. It ended being between me and my boss for the final game so that made it that much better! I got two movie tickets for winning. My boss Steve threw in a $30 off coupon for an EZ chair at office max, he thought he was pretty funny.

First BBQ of the year...with friends

On Thursay we had a little BBQ with some of our friends at our house. It was so much fun cause we have not gotten together with everyone in a long time. We all made some delicious food and had really good peach cobbler. The boys played a little bit of Wii but we mostly just talked and caught up on things. We finally have a baby in the group now so all us girls of course had to take turns holding baby Cade! Thanks everybody who came! Hopefully we can do it again soon.

Our Missionary!

Michael left for Chile two weeks ago now. William, Tim's brother works at the MTC so he sent some pics of when he saw michael before he left. I was way excited when he sent me these pics. The one is with William the Saturday before he left i believe and the one of him alone is the actual day he left which was Monday. Tim was very excited cause he gave Michael that tie he's wearing. Tim wore it on his mission also. He's loving it down there so far and time has been going by so fast!

St Patty's Day

On St Patricks day i totally forgot that morning til i went to work and realized i had no green on! Luckily my friend at work had some earring making stuff there and some green beads so i made us both a pair so we wouldn't get pinched.
Later that day Tim was very cute and brought me some jamba juice and everyone in my office said he was their favorite! He's so good to me! After work i decided to at least make some sort of green dinner to celebrate. Waffles seemed the easiest so i did that along with green milk. We had a soccer game later and i got a horrible stomach ache so i don't think my green waffles were the brightest idea. oh well, it was a fun st patricks day! and Happy Birthday to Robyn today also!



Also, on Saturday i bought Twilight and Tim watched it with me and actually really liked it! He said his favorite part was the baseball scene. After the movie he asked me why Edward all a sudden become so protective of Bella so i tried describing how he just got this obsession with her and stuff. Then he said "so it's kinda like a dog and it's bone. Edward being the dog and Bella being the bone because he's obsessed and protective of her! He's such a dork! I'm glad he is though cause he makes me laugh all the time!

A visit from the Claytons!

Tim's sister Becky and her husband Dan along with their four kids Brayden, Aubrey, Julianna, and Bryce who live in Missouri came out to visit for a week. Me and Tim both were gone most the time working and Tim also had school so we just got to hang out at night when we got home. All their kids are really funny and it was a lot of fun to have them here. They all loved Hadley and kept giving her kisses and hugs the whole week. The claytons stayed here with Tim's parents for the week. They only had one bathroom for them all to use down there so they would sometimes come up to use ours. One time i was sitting on our couch watching tv and thought maybe i heard someone come up but i wasn't sure. i then heard a door shut so i thought they had just gone back down so i didn't think anything of it. A few minutes later i kinda hear someone but i didn't think anybody had really come up and i knew i had toilet paper in the bathroom so i didn't think it would be coming from my bathroom so i just figured it was coming from downstairs. Then like five minutes after that i hear this loud cry so then i figured i better had check. i went to the bathroom and knocked on the door and Bryce was in there so i asked if he was ok and he said he couldn't reach the toilet paper. I felt so so bad but at the same time it was really funny! After that i told Becky and Tim and they said he had done that a few times and i guess just kept forgetting each time he came up to use that bathroom. i ended up getting a extra toilet paper stand we have and put it closer to the toilet so it wouldn't happen again.





While they were here visiting Josh had to have his wisdom teeth out. Tim was down there when he came home so he of course took some pictures of him and sent it to me, Will, Marlyse, and Kenny.
The kids were kinda shy around me at first but towards the end of their trip they started warming up to me. Tim was working the night before they left so it was just me there when i got home after work. Aubrey, Julianna, and Bryce all came up and played with me until it was time for dinner. Julianna who warmed up to me the most came and sat on my lap after dinner. She was so cute and would snuggle up to me and sometimes give me a kiss on my neck. She stayed there for so long she was falling asleep on my lap. It was so much fun having them all come and hang out for a week. It's crazy to see how much each of their kids change from each time we see them. We wish they would move back out here already!

Finally a warm day!

On Saturday Me and Tim both had the entire day off to do whatever we wanted! It ended up being really warm outside also which made it so much better! Tim has been dying to go golfing all winter. I got him a new club for Christmas that he's been wanting to use also so we decided to go to the driving range. Tim is real good but I could not hit worth anything. Some balls it took me like ten swings to finally hit it! It was really embarrassing and i tried acting like i was just doing practice swings each time i missed the ball so all the people around us wouldn't think i was actually that retarded. After we used up the bucket of balls we went over to the practice putting part and i did alright there so i felt a little better about the day!

For our actual Valentines Day i just made a little dinner for when Tim got off work at eleven that night. He came home and surprised me with some very pretty flowers and one long stem red rose!

Our early Valentines Day

Tim was scheduled to work for Valentines Day so he took me on a little one night getaway to the Little America in Salt Lake. We walked to the joseph Smith Building to eat out for dinner. Tim was wanting to go the 'the roof' restaurant becuase he wanted to go somewhere really nice for the occasion. We got there and found out is $37 a person so i told him no way! So we went across the hall and ate at the Garden restaurant. We decided to get some dessert to spoil ourselves since we chose the cheaper restaurant. When the waitress came at the end and asked us if we wanted some dessert we told her we would and so she said ok and walked away to what we thought was to get the dessert menu. She came back like five minutes later with our bill and asked us again if we wanted dessert saying she couldn't remember what we had said, so we told her yes again. But then she continued to set the bill on our table while me and Tim are looking at eachother kinda confused what she was doing. We decided our waitress was sorta an idiot so we just paid and decided to go elsewhere for dessert. We walked back to our hotel to the restaurants there to look for dessert and finally we got it! It was really nice to get away but it always is a bummer coming back!