last few weeks of summer in pictures

Dane was in summer school and before the fall semester started we had 2 weeks off of school and I am switching jobs.

We went up to Swan Valley with my family and stayed with the Olsen's.

It was a lot of fun and the guys did a lot of fly fishing. 

Before we headed to Idaho for 4 days my family stopped in Salt Lake and we hung out downtown for a few days.

in Idaho the girls (mom, faye, tess and karina) went to Jackson Hole for the day and took this old time photo.

After Idaho we drove back home with my family to spend the last week of our vacation at the beach and hanging out with my fam.

We had a lot of fun.

Brooke wasn't too excited about the jersey we got for Charlee that Bret will put her in for game days. 

dane did a ton of surfing that week

one of the days we went down to the San Diego Zoo and then after Bret and Brooke told us about this place called Hodad's and it was awesome! the shake was heaven and the onion rings are 2nd to Bubbas in Kauai and the Burger was huge! we spit one-- we loved it, doesn't it look so good?

the rest of the time we spent with my family or at the beach

Happy Dad Day!

Happy Father's Day to the greatest Dad a girl could ask for

I was so lucky to have been brought up with such an amazing and "interesting" man----dad. 

For those who do not know my dad, we joke that HE is the most interesting man in the world.. like those commercials. But my dad really can survive on nuts, or dolphins always appear when he surfs. 

We made a couple commercials for his birthday a couple years ago check them out.. If you know how awesome my dad is you will love them and know they are all true. 

Love you too MOM! Youre the best and greatest too!

Thanks for being an awesome dad and great example to all of us.

We always have a great time with you and you are always up for an adventure and I love that about you. Love you Dad!

here are the youtubes.. Most Interesting Man In the World

Look Who I Found..in my coupons

I was looking through some coupons that arrive in everyone's mailbox

the ones we usually throw in the junk mail pile

As I was looking through coupons for gutters and airduct cleaning

I was about to give up until I saw...

my sister

FAYE

She did this photoshoot about a year ago in California

haha hilarious! and RANDOM

What is even more strange is when I was driving in my car a couple of months ago around the University of Utah I saw a bus and a large picture of a superhero girl in the same colors Red and Yellow.. I thought it's Faye! I never saw that bus again because I did just take a .0467 second glance but after seeing her in my coupon book it had to be her.

*I need to find that bus*

Happy Birthday Charlee

Happy Birthday

Charlee!

She is turns 2 years old today

and we love her so much!!

today on her birthday turning 2

feeding my pup Marley

this video is my favorite.. we put her in my wedding dress and she loved it.

She did not want to take it off and put up a fight.. but look at how cheesy she is!

Isn't she so fun and adorable??

speaking of birthdays... my moms birthday is at the end of this month and I know exactly what I am doing for her... after her birthday I'll post about the project.. I am really excited about it thought---just had to share!

Christmas 2010

I took very very few pictures during the break..

i don't like when i do that.

but Christmas was excellent! I loved being back at home with my family, I miss them all so much while we are in Utah finishing up school.

We had lots of fun while we were down there, we played Just Dance 2, ate yummy dinners from my mom, played games, and tennis, watched tess' soccer games, and just hung out together.

The week went by way too fast

especially because i got sick towards the end and slept basically the whole time.. not fair.

Here is a picture of the kids with our Christmas PJs on, my mom made the girls bottoms and the boys got some sweats. My mom is so clever.. she got us T's with our favorite tv shows. Dane&myself = The Office, Brooke&Bret's = Friday Night Lights, Tess = Cake Boss, Noah = Shark Week and Faye&Reese = Disney princesses

stole this picture from my mom.. thanks!

I haven't taken a picture of the Christmas gifts my mom made for me (I will eventually) but they were amazing and my favorite gifts I have ever gotten.

She made a quilt for me with all of my old volleyball festival t shirts (seriously incredible) she also made the cutest "grocery" bags
**but they are too cute to use just for shopping so I am using them for everything else too** 

People have complimented me on those bags asking where they could get one -- ya i feel pretty cool.

here are the only pictures i took while we were watching tess play soccer.. and Charlee is in every single one. she's too cute.

hope everyone had a merry christmas plus a happy new year

catching up

We were in California all last week and it was so much fun

I love going home.

We loved it so much that we even sold our jack johnson tickets so we could stay longer.

Here are pictures of our week :)

On Mondays during the summer my family has been going down to San Onofre (Sano) for the past 10 years. It is one of my favorite things.. watching the sunset, surfing, volleyball, smores, food and friends. 

 my surfer boy

Charlee was so fun and walking all over the place shes a cutie.

One of the days we went to the Orange County fair...

Tess got a fried Klondike bar.. which was actually very yummy.

Everything at the fair is fried.. they are now selling fried sticks of butter. Sick.

We tried..

a foot+ corn dog

Cinnamon Rolls

fried snickers (danes favorite)

We also rented a paddle board from Hobie and went to the harbor to test it out.

It was a different feeling.. plus it didn't help that I am a baby about cold water and thought it was freezing. I did not want to fall in.

Dane paddling

my dad with faye

brooke and bret trying tandem.

here is my mom heading out

and Dane and I (Dane is such a good sport because I might or might not have been freaking out about not falling in--i was cold)

We also went one night with my parents and tess to the play In the Heights. A very fun and up beat play. Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us come home. It was so much fun!

When we got back to Utah we started to get back to reality with starting new jobs, selling/buying cars, and had an evening to spare at the Dave Matthews Band concert. It was so good. I never really listened to them before but Dane likes them a lot. So I got him tickets a while ago and the music was awesome. 

lawn seats at the concert.. 

which were awesome until a pack of obnoxious kids sat right on top of us... oh well. we had fun!

Family and Swan Valley

My Family came up for the week and we had a bunch of fun.

We made curtains for some windows, hung some pictures and painted chairs to help out with our apartment. We also were able to go up to Idaho/Wyoming with the Olsens to their beautiful home for some R&R and fly fishing. It was gorgeous up there and so much fun to be with my family (minus brooke &tess but we will see them soon.)

checking out the Tetons or according to Faye, "What are the Te-tods?"

my parents with the olsens that gave us a wonderful weekend!

saw a young moose hanging out in the lily pads and the lupine flower (from the book Miss. Rumphius)

We went horseback riding up a canyon that was absolutely beautiful. Dane has never been on a horse before so we had to go. It was so much fun! Dane kept wanting his horse to just start running and go with it. Horseback riding was so great (minus all the mosquito bites!)

Later that same day we all went fly fishing which has started a new obsession for dane. He was loving it and learning how to tie all the knots (since I have no idea how) and getting the technique down better than me and caught 6 or 7 fish in a few hours. 

Here is faye and my dad with her fish she reeled in

my own brown trout I snatched. Slimy thing.

The fly went through his mouth to his eye. yuck. hopefully he is getting better.

Dane casting...

and learning

It is the Master and the Apprentice.

and one of the many fish he caught

It was such a fun weekend and loved that my family came up.

Dane is looking forward to the next time he can go out and fly fish :) hopefully soon!