California!!

A few months ago, my brother offered Mitch and I tickets to an Angel's game in California, if we'd take his two boys Dillon and Payton. Of course we wanted to go, so that's what we did this last weekend. Our trip was pretty short, but lots of fun. We picked up my nephews and started out on our vacation Friday morning. About 2 hours into it, we decided to stop at Stateline and grab lunch.... when we got a lovely surprise. Right as we pulled off the exit, the younger of my two nephews, Payton (5) got car sick in the car! Thank goodness we were already off the highway. So for about 20 minutes I tried to clean up Payton and the car without getting sick myself. Finally when that ordeal was done, we ate some lunch and headed out on the road. After we checked into our hotel in Santa Ana, we drove around in search for a place to eat dinner. We decided to stop at a restuarant called Maggiano's Little Italy. So we walk in and immediately wondered if it was such a good idea...... everyone was dressed in suits and dresses and it looked SUPER fancy for us! Anyways, it was a little more expensive than we were planning on, but it ended up being amazingly good food. I definately want to go back there one day. Anyways, after dinner, we headed off to the baseball game! Mitch missed our turn on the highway... and then we got stuck in traffic for 40 minutes... but finally he asked for directions and we got to the game right after the first inning. We missed a few homeruns, but that's okay. The boys had been saving up money to buy hats and little bats, so we got those before we went and found our seats. Our tickets were for the 13th row and just passed the 3rd base line..... in other words, they were really good seats! The boys also got Angels' baseballs and Dillon bought a Rally Monkey. The Angels were playing the Padres and of course they won! It was so much fun!

Dillon and Payton at the game

The view from our seats

Me and Payton

Payton with his hat and bat

Isn't he so cute?

Dillon, me and Payton

The boys

Payton and Mitch watching the fireworks

Angels Win!!!!

Me and Mitch

After the game, they turned off the lights in the stadium and had an amazing fireworks show for like 10 minutes!

The next day, we woke up and went to Newport Beach and Balboa Island Park. It was overcast, of course (refer to the previous blog about being forever white). It was so much fun though and the boys loved it!!

The boys posing by a painting on a wall

Pretending to pet a dolphin...

This painting was amazing and it went all the way around a building at Balboa Park

At Balboa Park... aren't they cuties?!!

By the water at Balboa Park

Walking down Balboa Blvd.

Picking up shells at Newport Beach

Mitch, Payton and Dillon in the ocean

They loved running in and out of the water

Running some more...

Dillon running...

Did I mention the running?

Mitch getting sucked into a wave...

Me and Mitch... notice that Mitch is all red from jumping in the FREEZING cold water

Running from the huge waves

Dillon (7) did a good job taking a picture of us!

A pier...

Dillon, Payton, and me riding the ferris wheel at Balboa Park

Dillon sleeping on the way home...

Can you tell that they were both exhausted?! We weren't even in California for 24 hours, but our trip was still super fun and we can't wait to go back again!

Forever White!

I've come to the conclusion that I will be blindingly white forever! I know that the summer has just started, but everytime that I've had a day off and tried to lay out, it's been overcast. I'm pretty sure that the weather hates me and doesn't want me to get a tan :) One example of this happened two Fridays ago. Mitch, my cousin Kimberlee, and I went out to Sandcove Lake.... Mitch went to fish, and us girls went to tan. Well, it was sunny the whole drive there, then about 10 mintues after we arrived, the clouds rolled in. We still layed out... but it didn't do any good. Mitch fished for about an hour and was about as successful with that as we were with our tans! As always, I took some pictures of our little adventure.

Mitch trying to tie a fly

Kimberlee... enthusiastic as always haha

Me and Kim right before we tried to float in the lake... and about froze to death

Like my matching swim suit and tube? haha

My cute little husband floatin around on the lake

Go Braves!!!

For those of you who don't know my husband very well, he has been a lifelong Atlanta Braves fan. I knew this while I was dating him, but I don't think that I understood HOW much he loved them until we got married and I saw his memorabilia! I've realized the fact that he will always be obsessed with everything red and blue, the letter A, Chipper Jones, and tomahawks... so I might as well just get used to it. So I decided to take some pictures and show off his collection :)

This is the Braves sticker on his truck window...

The frame around his license plate...

His key chain...

His Braves locker.... with his name and number

His shoes...

Some of his hats...

His Braves tomahawk and the mirror that he made in High School

And this is his duffle bag... that he even uses as his temple bag.... can we say that he loves them a little too much?! haha I'm sure he'd say otherwise :)

Fun At The River

A few weeks ago Mitch and I decided that it'd be fun to go play and swim down at the Virgin River, since it was pretty high. We packed up the dogs and picked up 5 of my nieces and nephews, plus one of their friends. The river was kinda cold, but that didn't stop us from jumpin in. The current was surprisingly strong... and I was half expecting to have one of the kids get swept away! Somehow, they managed to stay standing, even though I was twice their size and struggling! We'd float down a ways and then very slowly march our way back upstream. Anyways, we had tons of fun and I can't wait to do it again! As always, here are some pictures!

The Dogs

Dillon, Payton, and Blake playing

Everybody gettin ready to go swimming

Payton and the dogs

All the boys... Payton and Blake's faces are hilarious

The girls watching Mitch

Mitch and Andy... I love this picture!

Me and Mariah

Mitch trying to help Payton walk upstream... which turned into him being dragged haha

Blake's face is so funny!

Floating down the river with Mitch and Ky

Kylee trying to help Payton not get swept away!

Payton's face says it all :)