Month Long

Starting Today Matt and I are living off our food storage. I know you think we are crazy. But I have been working for a while to get it all in order and I want to make sure we have everything right. We are actually going to be living off our stored water too. (For everything except bathing and washing our hands) So starting today we are not going to be going to the grocery store and we are not going to be going out to eat.

We have a TINY place. So we have food stored in the closet under the bed, behind the bed and behind the couch. We also have some food and out water in the garage. We planned this out a little while ago to do it in September. A few things have come up that have made us want to change the month but we put our foot down and decided we aren't going to be able to choose even this much if a disaster happens.

Wish us Luck!

HB Photo Shoot!

This photo shoot was done when Stacy and Grace stayed with us the week before San Diego. Isn't Grace just a doll?!?!


When Grace is in the red shirt, these were taken after her nap while Stacy was still napping. Stacy had fallen asleep while reading a book on my bed. Her face was buried in the sheets, I had to check and make sure she was still breathing.

New Hair

I forgot to mention that while back at my cousins wedding my AWESOME Mother in Law chopped my hair off. I secretly had a heart attack when she did it but I love it now! It curls better and when I'm away from the beach it stays fairly straight. The picture is from when I was Arizona, hence the reason it is SO STRAIGHT!

The reason we went to Arizona was to see my cousin Robin get married. It was so special because she truly married her soul mate! The sealing was amazing, her grandfather was the sealer and it was so special!
The last day in Arizona we did a little photo shoot with Emily. We got some great shots! Alison this was my absolute favorite one of you two. I love the looks on your faces!

I would like to chop my leg off!

I just attempted to walked down the stairs and barely made it! You see I work out with the wonderful ladies from my complex 3 times a week and I really enjoy it! Yesterday we did the hardest workout of my life with the exception of my cross country days. It was hard for strentgh training, but not for cardio!

The order of the day:
25 assisted pull ups
50 box jumps
50 sit-ups
50 birpies (up & downs)
50 sit-ups
50 double unders with a jump rope -- I had the hardest time doing this but I pretty much jumped rope for 5 mins.
25 assisted pull ups

Diana correct me if I missed something here.

Honestly thought, even after taking my 2 weeks of running in high school I was never this sore. So ladies, if you want a honest to goodness hard work out do this! Also, keep in mind we took breaks whenever we needed, the goal was to just finish.

UGH!!!

Beach Day 5

Today was our longest beach day. We wanted to make the most of it so we ended up out there from 9 until 6:30 or 7. It was a perfect day, big waves and lots of sun!

Matt, my Chad and Joel (a family friend who goes to the beach with us every year) decided to build a castle. Then it turned into a Mayan Ruin. There were so many walker bys that stopped to take a picture of it I could hardly believe it! One guy even took about 6 pictures with his camera and a family all posed by it and asked us to take their picture! WILD I know, all over a sand castle.



Stacy asked Matt to take a family picture of them at the beach, of course Grace is the hardest person to take a picture of and this is what she ended up doing. Her best pose of the day.

The very last thing we did was wait for the water to take over the castle, while waiting we did a quick photo shoot.
The last thing of the day was eating dinner. Normally on Friday night we got out to eat but we decided to order pizza in. Down Mission Blvd is a pizza shop Luigis. They sell a pizza measured at 36 in. It was Enormous! The pizza was pretty gross but it was hilarious trying ot get the box in the car and through our condo door!

The week went great, we counted up to have close to 50 people there with us all in 4 condos! My Dad decided that this year was the 18 year staying at this beach and I feel they have no desire to change beaches!

Beach Day 4

Thursday was a fun day. More beach, more surfing, and more eating!

After dinner Matt and I went on a walk down the beach and took some great pictures!

Beach Day 3

 

Today we went to the San Diego Temple. We went to the bright and early session so we didn't have to miss too much beach time. On our way home we figured out how many temples I have been to since we got married....Mesa, Oaklahoma, Bountiful, Oakland, Newport, and San Diego. Can you believe that? 6 in one year!

The sesion was totally empty which was pretty crazy for me since I'm used to Mesa being so full all the time.

We got home and went straight to the beach, of course, and enjoyed a pretty day at the beach with a few sunny times. So far this week has been a little on the chilly side except the one time I only felt I needed a jacket.

Everyone else in our group started surfing and LOVED it. Someone even went out and bought one from costco. We turne all the beach bums into surf bums.

We also introduced a new game to my cousins. Its one we have played a couple times with different people and loved it. The game is Celebrity Challenge. We got most of my cousins in here and played all night long. They loved it, especially Kevin who acted out Little Mermaid on the ground doing a perfect imitation of a mermaids flapping tail.

Beach Day 2

Today started out pretty chilly. Everyone was under a blanket or towel. We played a fun wiffel ball game with the whole crew. Matt and I went for a walk down the shoreline and had so much fun jumping and dancing over the ways. We went out to lunch to Hodads in Ocean Beach which is burgers and soooo delicious! By the time we got back the sun was out and shinning and ready for us to play!

Matt had an accident, he got a shovel to his toe. It was really painful for him. This picture is after he got it all cleaned up.



Later that night we went to Belmont Park to enjoy family night and half price rides. We did the roller coaster and Matt enjoyed some other scary ride that I would never touch foot on. (I got sic on rides so easily)

Day 2: Successful

Day 3: We are going to the temple in the morning. It will be my first time in the San Diego Temple and i can't wait!

San Diego Fun Day 1

Monday recap: Lots of boogie boarding, surfing, digging in the sand, working(Matt was so fun hiding behind his computer half the day), and this year's new toy - the Island from costco. This humongous flotation device proved to be tons of fun. As the large waves came in they would stand the island up vertical, one time dropping Greg(Christi's Dad) onto Christi, another time launching Zachary(Christi's cousin) from the boat. The only scary part was when Christi was trying to bring Grace in, she had a life jacket, but was too scared and wanted to go in. So first Matthew(Christi's brother) tried to take her in but couldn't stand and got freaked so Christi grabbed her but couldn't stand either. The waves were coming of course and that was so freaky! Christi started yelling help and waving her hands for her family standing on the beach to come help her and they all thought she was fine and just wanted them to come get her so she could go back out. NOT THE CASE! The lifeguard understood her cry for help and came running after her. So basically Grace and Christi were saved by the lifeguard while the family stood to watch!

In the evening we did take some family and couple shots.

Don't worry we are having awesome food!!!


Today was our first beach day in San Diego. We were having so much fun the camera didn't make it out of its case much.

Lots...LOTS....Lots

We have been doing so much. Non stop seriously going to the beach and eating! Matt's Brother Aaron is in town and has been here since Thursday. Matt picked him up from the airport around 1 and we went right to the beach. Then on Friday Allison, Justin and Emily came over for another beach day. All day seriously it was such a blast! We had a BBQ that evening in our little courtyard. I cooked, steak, corn on the cob, ($.37 from Growers) asparagus, and my neighbor Cori made mashed potatoes. It was so delicious. It was my first time cooking corn on the cob and I grilled it, seriously it was the best! We had cake later for Aaron's birthday, we did candles and sang!



On Saturday we got a later start to the beach but yes we still went. We only spent a few hours down there but it was perfect none the less. We later went to the Orange County Fair, and saw the Maloof Money Cup which is a skateboard competition. It was pretty fun, I really enjoyed it.

While there we saw stinky animals and a fresh garden with all sorts of vegetables and fruit. We had a lot of fun and we are glad we went.
A picture Matt got of Shaun White...he got second on the half pipe (I think thats what its called)



On Sunday it was pretty low key except Matt and I gave a talk. Everything went fine but we both felt like it wasn't our best. We all (Matt, Aaron, and myself) took a 3 hour nap and enjoyed a delicious dinner at our friends house the Fullers. ** Just as a side-note, Kristen Fuller is my visiting teaching companion, she is from Mesa and get this.... We got married on the same day...AND in the same Temple! WILD I know, we were both so excited when we found out! So I made this delicious fruit pizza that turned out pretty good. I have actually made it twice now and it has not even been a full week, its super easy too!


** Another side-note, Matt took a bite out of the pizza crust before I had finished making it, you can't tell from the picture because he purposefully took it at an angle so you couldn't tell. I was TICKED!

On Monday Aaron and I hung out while Matt went to work. At first I felt like I was pretty boring for him so I asked him if he'd like to go shopping and he was actually excited. (His Mom had given him money for new school clothes) He ended up getting a lot of new stuff so it was fun. Later we met Matt, Allison, Justin, and Emily at Thousand Steps beach.


I picked up our friends the Konkles (pictured above at the beach) and enjoyed a good time. I attempted skim boarding and was not successful. However, for those of you who go to San Diego and know skim boarding as an activity that is fairly easy looking, WRONG! I saw a whole new level to it. These guys were jumping on the board heading towards a wave and ended up surfing back in.





It was crazy and I had never seen anything like it. As you can tell from the pictures the waves were HUGE. We were not very far out and the water would start at our waist and after a wave end up at our necks.


The picture also shows it being really clear which was pretty cool. Since then our days have been pretty low key. We are heading for ARIZONA tomorrow and I really can't wait. This week has been so long its been killing me! My cousin Robin is getting married to Spencer, they re so cute together and I am so glad she found such an amazing guy!

4th of July HB Style

We had such a blast over the weekend I swear it was non stop partying! We started out on Thursday evening. You see, for Matt's job if he does 10 billable hours in one day the company will take him and his wife (me) out to dinner. We decided to go to Macaroni Grill. I twas awesome, we walked right in and we shared an appetizer, we had our owned salad and shared a meal. We ended up with more then half the meal left but it was all SOO delicious! We then did a little shopping and headed home. There we rolled our TV out of our garage and into the court yard of our apartment and enjoyed Independence Day with friends from the complex.







The movie was over at Midnight and pretty much everyone was knocked out except Cori and I...The girls pulled through to the end. The next morning Matt woke up at 7 to go check out the activities. He then came back to get me at 8 and thats when a day of riding bikes started. We rode down to the PCH which was closed to cars so it was totally rad to be on that.
...There was so much fog the visibility was very little...


We went and parked our chairs along Main Street for the big parade and went out searching for some yummy breakfast. This is what we had ...



Belgium Waffles with Strawberries and Blueberries on them with cinnamon and sugar on it. It was so delicious and filling.

Next was the parade. Our favorite part was the beginning with the Red Bull parachuters landing right in front of us, they had rocket packs on them so they were going so fast!



The airplane cars were pretty cool too



Then Tito Ortiz showed up, I guess he is from Huntington Beach




The parade ended up being 3 hours long so we left early to go home to our neighborhood BBQ! Which was so fun as well, lot of good food. We then all headed out to the beach, it was such a beautiful day there and surprisingly the beach we went to wasn't as crowded as we thought. We all went home and got ready for the fireworks show that they shot off the pier. It was so beautiful and not to mention the first time I had to ear a jacket on the 4th of July!



We loved the Kettle Corn, between 4 of us and Marley we pounded it!



The beautiful display, next year Matt wants to get closer to the water so we can see the reflection.



This was the ride back, there were so many people heading up Main Street from the pier and beach it was crazy, somehow we crossed it alive.

The next day we went to a Birthday party right outside our door. We had Hot Dogs and chips and delicious dessert! We also went to the beach. The water was so wonderful, nice and warm but chili when you first touch it.

Our weekend was a blast and we hope everyone else had a fun and safe holiday!

Fashion Island

So We went shopping at Fashion Island a couple weekends ago. I was not prepared to go. We started out at garage sales so I figured I would stay in the car. We made our way down to New Port and figured we better stop by. While there we went into Bloomingdales, I had never been so I wanted to see what it was like. We stopped by this purse clearance table (the purses were still over $200) There were all these ladies there and when we walked up Matt saw a purse he liked, he yelled out "DIBBS" and every lady there turned there head to see what he had called. I think they were making sure the didn't want it. We were laughing so hard then Matt knocked over the sale sign.