CAli vacay....Day 1

After a semi-long about 8 hour drive to cali...we made it!

we stayed at jared's aunt and uncle's house. It was SO nice of them to house us like that.

we hung out that night, played some games, ate some great food and got prepared for our adventures the next day...

we went walking down the star sidewalk!

there were lots of people.

then we stopped at the chinese theatre and saw the hand/footprints of the stars.

k couldn't quite get her's to fit into shirley temples. lol

pic of john wayne for drew's grandpa!

The Harry Potter cast!! YES! it includes their wands. seriously!

my hand is the exact same size as hermionie's.....(emma watson to be precise)

saw the roosevelt hotel....it's like riiight across the street.

our family shot....nice face on drew :/ best we could get thou!

us at the mall....can you see the TINY unfocused HOLLYWOOD sign in the background?? yeah i know... my face here? I'm actually pissed because I told this lady to go by so she didn't have to wait for us to take our pic....and she wasn't staring at me the whole time. ugh. hate that. but no she refused. so i felt rushed and was already irritable.

Jared and Amber...and the bit of the baby bump!

then we went down to the LA temple. We have a good friend who is serving a mission there in the LA visitor center area. We thought maybe we could run into her and say hi, give a hug. but nope.... so sad. we did leave a note for her. That was cool. I miss my Hermana Schumacher!

The temple is closed for renovations anyway so we couldn't go in. that's ok. nice to see it from the outside.

drew REALLY wanted to go to the beach, so we went to the Santa Monica pier. Of course, he didn't bring a suit. so we just walked the pier.

our family shot.

us <3

so pretty!

it was a really nice, warm day out. there was lots of people there.

the water was so pretty! such a great color.

she loved the water and beach.

she has a semi-obsession with birds. she always wants to touch them. she chases after them all the time. she never gets to pet them though.

we tested out this sandbox area. she did well in the sand. we had hope that tomorrow when we went to the beach she would do well.

picnik fun

so i uploaded some of these vacay pics to picnik and then had some fun!

i love it!

most of these pics are from my brother's camera, but I took

the last two are my camera.

with my love!

yes, i took this....i <3 him!

k found a feather. she was too busy playing in the "sandbox" to bother looking at me.

oh well

here, you can see she has lottts of fun in the sand. trying to bury herself :)

A+L of course!

my cheeeziness

our new header!

i LOve this one. she's such a cutie!

M.I.A.

Sorry I have been M.I.A....I've been on vacation.

part of it was just summer laziness and fatigue.

The other.....

just at the beach!!

chillin :)

so blog posts to come, lots!

with TONS of pics. because that's how we do.

we had a wedding, and the beach, and lots of fun and exciting stuff....

canvas heart wreath

So I am finally posting about my canvas wreath.

I LOVE it!

i used this tutorial....it is my first ever hot glue gun project.

ever!

I had fun making it, it only took about 1 naptime to complete (3 hours)

I love how bright and fun it is.

plus i added some fun yellow striped fabric flowers.

LOVE

i am thinking i still need to add a ribbon for it to hang from.

miiiight get around to that.

now....it's our naptime :)

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update

this is how the child came out of her room one day after her nap....

notice the shoes? lol. don't worry, the diaper is unused.

seriously, thou?

How did i get SO far behind with everything!

ugh.

I'm guessing it's because every night this week we have been having our Harry Potter marathon (the hubs and I love all things HP.)

I've been busy cooking, cleaning, taking care of the little one and trying to fit in my P90x workouts this week....and you know? I kept up with my P90x! yes!!

I'm pretty excited to share with you some of the things that went on this week, including some cake pops, shepard's pie pockets, caramel popcorn, and sewing projects.

But, alas, i'm still trying to recover....i have like 4 unfinished projects, loads of laundry to do, and a list about a mile long (*sigh*)

plus...

Tonight is our ward campout! And I am really excited about it! I love my ward. it's so much fun! I am a bit sad that about 4 families are graduating and moving out (that i know of.) but that's ok. they need to be elsewhere. and we will have more families/couples move in!

Sunday is our first lesson teaching in Sunday School....well, it's a marriage and family relations course that is taught during the same time as Sunday School. It's going to be great!

I guess that's it for right now

hope you all have a great weekend!

<3

4th weekend

some pictures from our fun fourth weekend.

it was also pretty exhausting.

but wayyy worth it.

k loved having her capri suns to carry around. (pic from the next day)

she made herself at home right away.

we didn't take any pics of that friday for some reason...?

we got to Smith's trout haven at about 3 and set up our tents. then amber and jared got there and we helped them set up.

drew was excited to go fishing. we tried, but the sign had hours on it...turns out we could have ignored the sign. oh well.

we had some yummy tin foil dinners and headed to bed,

it was a cold night.

soooo cold.

i couldn't sleep i was so cold. we weren't exactly prepared for that. for some reason we thought it would be warmer.

k slept fine. she had her fleece footie pjs on and lots of blankets on her air matress.

the next day, after a tin foil breakfast we got all sunscreened up to go to the water park! yay!

we have no pics there...but really, you don't need to see me in a swimsuit. lol

k had tons of fun. she has that swimmers thing to help her float...i dunno what it's called. but she loved being able to swim around like a big girl.

after some naps in our tents drew tried to go fishing again

it was HOT out in the sunny areas.

bleh

no fish were caught

so we went to dinner in town

burgers and fries, a corndog and ice cream/shakes :) yummm

after we got back, k got her pole ready

then, this was my view for a while.

and this...

you can see ambers little mama belly emerging there. it's cute.

daddy caught a fish

they were both VERY excited!

then mama caught a fish too!

FUNN!!

k, of course, wanted to "touch a fish"

she loved it

mine is bigger! hhahah!!

amber and jared!

the men, preparing the fish

they also ate it after, it was pretty good.

that night was cold again, but we slept IN our sleeping bags and did better

the next day we were out of there by about 930

that sunday we did nothing...napped, sat on the couch, ate and watched the casey anthony closing arguments, and a movie (Black Swan-a&j have that clearplay which edits out parts you don't want to see or hear.....meaning it turns an R movie into PG13!....awesome! i have to get one!)

on monday, the 4th miss k got to finally open her package from grandma and grandpa!

she LOVES stickers...and sunglasses. she is crazy!

she is SOOO funny!

seriously.

she loves to be the center of attention and loves to make you laugh.

this face....makes us laugh. she usually uses it when she say "kendall do it" (in a deep altered voice)

she was all ready to go somewhere.....

and she stayed home. lol

mommy and amber went to get pedicures, we woke so late (a planned sleep-in) so we missed the parade. we were all too tired to deal with the vendors and crowds.

we did meet at olive garden for a YUMMMy lunch.

we were FULL.

so we went to the mall to walk it off, where else?

drew got some new sunglasses and we all stopped at see's candy for some goodies to take home while we watched tv and hung out

she loves her aunt amber and uncle jared....by this day she was calling them the right name. lol. she kept mixing them up. hahaha.

after her nap she was in rare form....she punched me in the face...really!

we think it was something she picked up while watching mommy do P90x-kempo. lol.

loves her uncle CJ. they got to hang out a little :)

they have lots of fun!

then, after ks bath we headed out... but we got some pics first....hmmmm guess we should've before her bath, while we were all dressed for the 4th. oh well.

and amber and jareds pic

we had tons of fun...and were SO exhausted afterwards.

plus i got sick. ugh.