Weekend Trip to California

David and I planned to take a quick "one-dayer" trip up to Big Bear to try out the new snowboards we had gotten, but since I officially have the weekends off :) we decided to make it into a romantic weekend for the two of us! We flew into San Diego instead of Ontario and stayed were able to stay on my Mom's boat. The first night we ate at Island Pasta and Moo Time Creamery, which has been a tradition for us since 1st visiting Coronado. The next morning we woke up quite early and took the agonizing 3 hour, twisting and winding, drive up to Big Bear. We had the greatest time snowboarding and we both LOVED our new boards, so it was definitley worth the 6 hours of driving on some of the scariest road ever! That rest of the weekend we did a lot of eating at our favorite places in Coronado, and actually were able to spend some time together...which has been rare for us the last few years... :)

**The very spot we were married 6 1/2 months earlier**

Girls Weekend in Colorado!

Ashley and I visited one of our best girlfriends in CO for the weekend and had the most amazing time! I have never laughed so hard, for so long, in a very long time! We visited the New Belgium and Budweiser Breweries and spent a day hiking in the Rocky Mountain National Park, which is beautiful! We also had a few drinks along the way... :)

A goodbye to one fabulous lady...

Jane Overstreet

May 23, 1916- February 2, 2009

It has taken me a long time to be able to write this due to the fact that my Great-Grandmother's passing was hard for me to take. I was with her when she passed away and I had become very close to her in the few years before hand.

She was one fabulous woman! :) Although she was 92 she was still living on her own and if it was not for my Grandma prying her beloved Buick keys from her hand she would have still been driving. She always had to look her best and was neatly dressed, was prefectly ironed, and accessorized to the "T" even while spending the day at the grocery store. She was always cracking joke and asking why she had to be in rehab, after her first broken hip, with so many old people and even after breaking her second hip a few weeks later, she refused to eat anything but chocolate cake! I guess she deserved to eat chocolate cake at that point! :) I would love visiting her for lunch and going through all of her photo albums from when she was young...she constantly amazed me when we would go through every picture and she would remember each person, even if they had not been someone close to her, and she was only 8-10 years old in some of the pictures! In my last few visits with her she would constantly say how great of a family she has, how she was so blessed that we are all so close, and I always was sure to remind her that it was all because of her! :)

After thinking about things I have come to be at peace with the fact that she was extremely blessed in life and in death and she made sure to pass a lot of her blessings onto her family... thank you Great-Grandma...we love you and miss you so much!

Park City

We had the greatest, and probably the funniest, vacation ever in Park City, Utah with our friends Ali and Todd. Our group ended up getting bigger and crazier as the days went on, and the stories of Martin the "guy from the shuttle" and Shad and Kelly "the craziest drunks we have ever encountered" make us laugh every time we think of them...

My New Blog...

I love how many of my friends have been creating blogs to share their ideas, their passions, and just the fabulous things in their lives, so I have decided to do the same! I am constantly thinking of new creative ways to do things and to become even more thrifty, so I thought I would share them...
I would love to share ideas of other's, so let me know of any fabulous ideas you have!

http://www.lovelifeandhome.blogspot.com/

Tagged!

6 Quirky Things About Me:

1. I have a slight obsession with making everything in my home perfect...most likely because I work in model homes all day. I literally have to have magazines in perfect piles on my coffee table, candles burning, bows tied around my towels in my guest bath, etc...

2. For some reason I tend to make things up...an example, I will say "hey David, didn't we have such and such...", and he will look at me like I am crazy, and I realize that I either dreamed it up, or just literally made it up in my head! :)

3. I, like Haley, must change out of my clothes and shoes and into my pajamas as soon as I get home. I will literally go shower as soon as I set my purse down, get into my pj's, and then cook dinner...That way I can just relax and eventually crawl into bed without having to go through all the trouble of getting ready for bed when I am half asleep...

4. I love kids, and no matter where I am, I bend down to their level and talk to them face to face. I call all little girls "princess" and all little boys "handsome" without thinking and some of them do tend to get scared of me!

5. I get hungry every two hours and it is so crazy that I actually have bags of trail mix in my car so that I can feed my hunger at anytime. If I am hungry for too long I become a huge grouch...

6. When I asked David to come up with one quirky thing about me he said "you always have to be doing something!". I literally cannot sit at home on my day off...I have to have my whole day planned out and am constantly on the go. I get bored very easily, so keep myself going, which David is going to hate once we start having day's off together! :)

I tag: Christy

GO CARDINALS!

Superbowl here we come!!!

I have to say that I am one SUPER excited Cardinals Fan! I have not been able to stop smiling since their win against Philly, which was one nerve-wracking afternoon!

GO CARDINALS!! :)