To My California Boy:

Happy Birthday!

on decembereleventhtwothousandandten

(late post because we were constantly together till now. i'm not mad.)

22 reasons why i love yur fayce:

(in no particular order)

1. You're a Mac junkie.

2. When I'm stressed and crying you hug me and tell me I'm beautiful. Then you proceed to systematically bring down every reason I give you to be stressed. It's awesome.

3. Your sense of humor is hilarious and you can always make me laugh (and when you laugh you close one eye and your shoulders shake, its adorable).

4. You love the beach as much as I do and I know we'll make it to Hawaii.

5. You'll watch girly movies with me.

6. You'll randomly pick me up/spin me around/dance/battle royale with me.

7. You're totally hot.

8. You like doing rad things like building forts.

9. Your favorite superhero is Aquaman.

10. You always do the dishes even when its not your turn.

11. Your winks.

12. You are a fantastic kisser.

13. I can talk to you about anything.

14. You always get excited to tell me new things about technology even when I have no clue what you're talking about.

15. You have such an amazingly strong testimony and are one of the hardest workers I've ever met.

16. You picked 25 for your lacrosse number because you like Christmas.

17. You're probably the only one who could ever challenge me at Harry Potter trivia (I'd still win.)

18. You get really, really upset at Utah drivers.

19. You get this look on your face when you think you're being sneaky.

20. We're so awesome together we've had multiple songs written about us. But seriously. We have.

21. You're the most chilled out person I know.

22. I love every second that I'm with you. You are my best friend and I can't wait to grow old and wrinkly (prune-y?) on our surfboards together.

I LOVE YOU!

(no pictures because blogger is being dumb...anyone else having that problem?)

Sunday Love

Sunday was pretty average.

Except for when the Bishop entered our SS class and said

"President Monson will be with us in sacrament meeting today, so can we get to our seats a little early?"

um what?

Apparently his grandson is in our ward and was blessing his baby.

Who knew!

Of course I immediately started tearing up. The spirit was so strong the whole testimony meeting.

At the end he got up and said a few words.

Made a few jokes.

And basically said, don't worry about anything. If you are doing the Lord's will, he's got your back.

Which is of course exactly what I needed to hear.

I also would like to share this poem with you.

Because I think its beautiful and paints such a fantastic picture in my mind

(I'll bet he was singing and dancing)

Morning Person

Vassar Miller

God, best at making in the morning tossed

stars and planets, singing and dancing, rolled

Saturn's rings spinning and humming, twirled the earth

so hard it coughed and spat the moon up, brilliant

bubble floating around it for good, stretched holy

hands till birds in nervous sparks flew forth from

them and beasts - lizards, big and little, apes,

lions, elephants, dogs and cats cavorting,

tumbling over themselves, dizzy with joy when

God made us in the morning too, both man

and woman, leaving Adam no time for

sleep so nimbly was Eve bouncing out of

his side till as night came everything and

everybody, growing tired, declined, sat

down in one soft descended Hallelujah.

You can't tell me that's not wonderful.

And I'll leave you with this:

us in our hats from our Christmas poppers

(just like in Harry Potter)

I feel...

content.

Right now.

This moment in time.

I feel

Peace.

I am sitting next to my favorite reading lamp.

Looking at my christmas tree.

Listening to my julesy.

Waiting for my California Boy to come home.

I feel clean.

I feel healthy.

I feel strong.

I feel beautiful.

I have so much going on, so much to get stressed about, to get done.

I don't care.

I am happy.

Weekend Recap...

of the last two months.

Wha???

I am a terrible blogger.

Well.

Its most likely because of all the

AWESOME STUFF

We have been doing these past two months.

We drove to California and stayed for a w h o l e w e e k.

It was b-e-a-utiful.

We went surfing.

And ate sushi on the beach.

And hung out with the awesome Richard's family.

And went to the same Mexican restaurant three times in the same week.

We watched non-scary Halloween related movies.

(Us = Wimps)

And ate a whole bowl of Halloween candy.

We have had movie/pizza parties on the living room floor.

Went to dinner with friends.

And had candlelit fastfood dinners.

We gathered all of our caving gear.

And drove all the way to Logan.

All the way up through the majority of Logan Canyon.

To go caving.

In a blizzard.

And we purposely pulled off the road to see if we'd get stuck.

We did.

And so we drove home.

It was hilarious.

We have celebrated Thanksgiving.

And bought our first Christmas Tree.

And maybe the most upset we have been our entire marriage

is when our Harry Potter spells app wasn't working on our iPhones

and we couldn't properly duel each other.

Little Letters

Dear blog:

I'm sorry I neglect you.

I am busy.

I'll do better.

Let's stay friends.

Dear homework:

We are sad that you are here, and interfere with our fun time.

Thanks a heap for having due dates all at the same time.

But mostly thanks for keeping us smart.

Dear crockpot:

Thank you for making me seem like a better cook than I really am.

Dear weather:

I kinda like you like this.

Don't tell Summer.

But don't get any colder ok?

Dear California:

We will see you in two days!

You have stolen my heart.

Dear Karate Kid:

I forgot how hard core you are.

Your awesomeness blows my mind.

Just like Mr. Miagi's healing hand powers.

Dear husband:

Thanks for being so hilarious.

And the best friend I've ever had.

And for putting up with my spAzinesS.

And I'm sorry I didn't make the bed.

Project: Beach

So there's this thing that I'm starting.

I am collecting sand from every beach that we go to in our lifetime.

*Las Conchas, Honeymoon Extraordinaire & Old Man's, Labor Day Fiesta*

So by the time we're 100 year old surf bums, we're going to have sand coming out of our ears.

Literally.

For more

wedding pictures and another little tribute to my Julesy go

here.

Kristin Brown is a fabulous photographer and is so much fun to work with. She has great rates and does it all, families, babies, weddings, etc. I highly recommend her.

Thanks for everything!

Weekend Highlights

Stuffing 3 large boys in the back seat of the Audi for 9 hours

Police thinking we were on pot

Surfing

Having seagulls eat Cheez-its off of Ben

Making plans to come back to California every month until December...when we move there

Using 2 entire loaves of bread for 1 lunch

Stuffing 16 people in a 3 bedroom apartment

Grind

Having a sleepover with 6 people on 3 twin beds in 1 room

Stephen snoring so loud he drove the girls to the living room floor

Rip Curl steals

9 people in 1 room silently playing Scrabble against each other on iPhones/iPod touches for over an hour.

Cal & Freda

Vacation Constipation

Seeing Mikey in his mother-in-laws suit pants at church

Deciding the celestial kingdom will be just like this trip

Sorry for the lack of pictures...I was just laughing too dang hard.

*husband being a surfie*

Wedding In Pictures

Destination: Mexico

We. Are. Stoked.

We stopped in Gila Bend AZ for the night at the...PAY LESS INN (insert Twilight theme here). 30 bucks a night! For. good. reason.

From the toneless, expressionless, Japanime watching teenage girl at the window to the sweltering hot room (mercifully we could control the a.c.) to the bathroom we held our breath in, to the floor we let nothing touch including our bare feet, the Payless Inn held nothing back in their effort to impress, but this just proved to be too much:

The glued together jigsaw puzzle held up by thumb tacks hanging on the wall.

(notice the missing pieces)

So after bidding the Payless Inn a fond farewell we continued our journey, all the while listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

(Fact: The day before we had to leave He says, "I'm sad to leave but I have to admit I'm a little bit excited to listen to Harry Potter again."

Me: "ME. TOO!")

And then we arrived. And I snapped this picture while standing on our front porch.

And so the week was filled with beach time, amazing food, relaxation, possibly a midnight skinny dip and no one on the beach for miles.

Best.

Honeymoon.

Ever.

Adios Puerto Penasco!

We love you.