California camping trip

On our way to Mcgrath state beach. Us at our camp site 169

400 yards from the beach, there were lots of birds and really cool marsh lands

Brooke, Johan and Timmy and I just soaking up the sun

Timmy and I with Mickey, and the Chinese theatre

Our hand prints match. Timmy's match Gary Cooper and mine match Pola Negri

Timmy and I with a Chinese samurai

Madame Tussuad wax museum: Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, and The Duke


Audrey Hepburn, Robert Redford, Cameron Diaz

Kodak theatre

Hollywood sign, Beverly Hills

Las Angeles Temple

Baby Blues BBQ

Ice cream at the harbor

Watching the sunset our last night

We say good bye to our camp site

Watching the surfers at Neptune's Net, eating fish and chips

Zuma beach (Coke commercial, and Bay watch beach)

The street where lead singer of Incubus lives, album named after street

For the passed two years I have been trying to convince Timmy to take me camping on the beach. The beach that my family and I really like is called Carlsbad. That beach got booked up like a year in advance, so we searched for a while and finally found one. Mcgrath state beach has a huge camp site. There are about 200 sites, bathrooms, and showers. We drove down on a Monday we packed up the Mazda van the night before and headed down around 6. We got there around 1 and picked our site. We wanted it to be secluded yet close to the beach. After that we went to Wal-mart, one of our 7 trips that week. Timmy and I were in charge of dinner that night we made hobo dinners. We went on a walk at the beach and then stayed up eating smores in our fire. The next day we got up and went on a run, then we got ready for the beach, we stayed all day until about 4. Then we went to Wal-mart again and picked up a few things for dinner. Brooke and Johan were in charge of dinner and ate really great fajitas. We went on another walk on the beach and went to bed. The next morning we got ready and went to Hollywood Blvd. We had a great time looking at all the stars, went to the wax museum ate a little hamburger joint, and matched our hands with the hand prints. We drove up to the Hollywood sign and looked at all the expensive homes around. On our way to Venice beach we took a drive down Rodeo, and took a detour to the Las Angeles temple. Both our parents got married there and it was cool to just walk around and get some pictures of the area. It was crazy to see peace in a city full of chaos. After that we ate at Timmy's favorite place in the world Baby blues. They have the best southern BBQ anywhere. Homemade corn bread, amazing macaroni, and perfect corn on the cob. After that we drove back down to our camp site and hit the sack. Thursday we got up and enjoyed the beach for the last time. We stayed until about 6 then ate dinner, sloppy joes, then hit the ice cream at the harbor, and raced to the see the sunset. Timmy is so romantic and I love it. It was fun to cuddle and kiss as the sun went down. That night Timmy and I were invited to talk and eat smores with our neighbors next to our camp site. A couple about our age just got married and didn't want their honeymoon to end. They were fun to talk to about where they live, where we live and just life in general. They gave us a few ideas for the next day and we ended our night around midnight. Friday we got up ate breakfast and headed down to zuma beach. We got to Neptune's net a little to early so we turned around to buy some strawberries and tomatoes. Then we headed back to the beach and sat and watched the surfers catch some waves. We ate the most delicious fish and chips and headed down to Zuma. We were told that Zuma beach is where Baywatch was filmed and where the diet coke with lime commercial was filmed. After taking a few pictures we headed to find where Brandon Boyd lives. We drove down famous Morning View drive and basically took a picture of every house haha. We weren't sure exactly which house was his. After that we took a winding road that Timmy's dad used to take as a kid and started to drive home. We couldn't help but stop at Buffalo bills and ride the big roller coaster. Brooke and I rode it when we went on our Senior trip. We forgot how scary it is and almost had a nervous breakdown while we waited for the coaster to start. After that we had a nice ride home and arrived around 10. We all had a great time and I would love to do it again.

Kelly Clarkson concert

You gotta have tattoos!!

After working a night shift I got off and went strait to Brooke's house. Her mom Kim and I drove about 4 hours to Pleasant Grove. When we finally arrived I got to see my bestest friend. It was about time, I hadn't seen her for months. I was excited to have a girls only weekend no boys (that doesn't mean we didn't talk about them.) That night we went to Wal-mart and got these sweet tattoos. We got ready for the concert and went to UVSC. There were tons of people there and we were pretty close to the front. It had rained all day and it finally stopped, we were praying that it wouldn't start up again. Before Kelly Clarkson they had a little college American Idol going on, this took forever. Finally when she got to sing she sang for a short hour and a half and we jammed the whole time. She sang really well in person. Afterwards we went home talked and slept. The next day we got up did a little shopping ate lunch and watched a movie and ate Chinese and painted our nails (girly right?) Then went to bed got up the Sunday and played Nintendo and then drove home. It was a short trip but I was really excited to spend time with Brooke.

second hand seranade and parachute

Timmy Russ and Nicole and I had a great time at the concert.

Timmy was a great husband and bought me tickets to the parachute concert. He meant to save them for a surprise but he ended up telling me when we were in a little argument. What a sweetie. We ate a taco bell for dinner and then met up with Russ and Nicole at the Sun bowl. I love all the little things Timmy does for me he is a great husband.

Liberty Family Trip

Me Timmy and Russ and Nicole at the Temple




Timmy and I at the Salt Lake Temple

Just hanging with Hailee




Happy Brenden

It's wet Timmy you have to give me a piggy



Just cruising out to the beach

Madison and I just relaxing

The family at the temple



Lexi and Madison walking to the temple

The okurh temple


cute hailee so afraid of the fireworks but can't help but love them
My honey and I just loven the fireworks

This month just flew by the second week of July we went to Liberty with Timmy's family. We had a really great time.

sunday
Timmy and I left after I got off of work we followed Russ and Nicole up...well they ended up following us up (sorry russ your slow). They looked pretty funny, he was pulling a big trailer with his little tacoma. After jamming out to Timmy's country music and a little old school punk rock we finally made it to grandma's. We slept in the front room, and we were excited to get some sleep after the long drive up.
monday
We got up monday morning ate some tomato sandwhiches and went to the new temple open house. I would spell the name of it but it's a wierd one. It was really cool, I had never been to a temple open house before. I know the kids liked it but they really liked the cookies and water afterwards. Next to the temple there was really cool neighborhood I really liked the houses maybe one day I can have a house like one of those. After that we went to Rubios and had some good food.....fish tacos yummy. Once we got done we went up to the house and just relaxed, it was beautiful and the weather was perfect. Madison and I just relaxed on the hammok until dinner. Jo and Bud made speghetti it was good.
tuesday
We got up in the morning for some pancakes and headed downt to Pineview lake. It was really fun! Timmy and I drove the tacoma with the little fishing boat on the back and Porter and Ry went with us. Once we got loaded up in the lake we got moven..oh yeah 9 miles an hour woohoo!! Once Aaron got his boat loaded they beat us to the beach where we hung out. He made some pretty wicked wakes and we almost flipped after that Porter said "It's ok if we would have flipped I would have saved Ry, Timmy thats why it's good to have a big boat." What good older brother. We hung out on shore for a while and played in the shallow water with the kids for a while. Russ took the kids in the fishing boat while Aaron took different people on the tube. I went with mom and Bonnie we had a good time the more comfortable we got the faster Aaron went. A couple of times Bonnie and I almost fell out. With mom's motherly instincts she pulled us back in. Timmy rode with Jo and Jason. The tube hit a big wake the tube jumped and Jason fell out of the tube. We ate sandwhiches and afterward went back to the house. You could tell we got a little sunburned so we put aloe on and we were good to go. Timmy, me, Paul and Heather were in charge of dinner that night. We made hambergers and hot dogs, and then played some sweet volleyball games. It was really fun especially since none of us are professionals (well except for Christie, mom, and heather) a few times pregnant heather went diving for the ball, she sacrificed herself much more than I did, but I am learning.
wednesday
Everyone this day did something different. We pilled in with Jason and Jo and went to Ikea with Nicole, Russ, and Bonnie and Aaron and the kids. I LOVE Ikea. It is defenetely on my favorite stores list. Top 5 for sure. We ate some meatballs and then shopped. I got a few picture frames for some things I had at the house. After that we went to Temple square. We got there before everyone so we waited with miss hailee for a while. We went to the tabernacle and walked around to the builings and went on a tour of the conference center. Timmy had never been in there and I was excited to go back. It is a very beautiful building and it was worth seeing. After getting a few pictures at the temple we went to find food. All I wanted was cheese and a Coke, I am a sucker for both. Well we couldn't find any cheese so we went to Boston's gourmet pizza. We ordered queso with chips, and mediteranean fondue....YES cheese, and of course a Coke and pizza. It was really good and we ate our self full. That night I was pooped I checked in early and slept great.
thursday
This day we went to the airforce base. I thought it would be boring but it wasn't, it was really fun to read about all the people who helped serve our country. The most interesting thing was reading about the courages women in the airforce. I once thought I was going to join the airforce, my plan was to be a nurse in the airforce...never happened. Anyway we went to a great mexican resturant afterwards and had a great strawberry daquori it was good and Ry and Braid liked it as well :) We hung out at the house for a few hours then ate Pizza my most favorite food. Then played volleyball again. I was still bruised from the nights before so I didn't play the whole time. I got to play with the babies :) After that we ate some cookies thanks nicole and russ, then hit the sack.
friday
I wasn't ready to go home so we went shopping at another one of favorite stores Forever 21 and my baby bought me 5 shirts thanks honey! Then we ate at Applebees :( I wasn't to happy about that especially because they don't have Coke but I was willing to eat there and it was good. Then we went to grandma's house and helped grandpa with the sprinklers. Then we went to visit grandma in the hospital, we were all worried about her and hope she gets better soon. Then we went home and went to bed.

So overall I thought we had an awesome time with the family. We did a lot of things and I got to know his family a lot better. There was a little drama thats true but what do you expect with 24 of us in the family. It's only getting bigger we are going to have to find a bigger place to stay in the next year or so, maybe I will be pregnant or have a baby (don't count on it though)