California weekend stay :)

I flew in Thursday night. Thursday was a long day for me. My first flight was delayed about and hour, so I had to change my connecting flight. This meant a lot of wait time at the airports. I got to the dfw airport around 11am and didn't get to California until 6:38pm,  which was 8:38 my time. I basically spent my whole day in airports, and next to a screaming baby on the flights. I must be a magnet for babies or something. Even with a headache, I was so happy to be in CA. My dad picked me up at the Ontario airport and we headed home. It was surreal to be back home and to know my brother was flying in the next day. Erika came down and helped us paint his welcome home banner. I was so tired and went to bed at midnight which was 2:00am my time.


Friday: We headed over to the San Diego aiport to pick up my brother. We got there 30 min before his flight came in, and my mom wanted us to roll the sign out then. My dad and I refused to hold it for 30 min. lol. We should have just listened to my mom, because his flight came in 10-15 min early. As soon as we were about to roll the sign out, I spotted Blake on the escalator and yelled, "There's Blake!" My parents frantically started to roll the sign out. It was pretty funny. They rolled it out in time for him to see it, but felt bad we didn't have it rolled out before he came down the escalator. We all hugged and enjoyed the moment. It was so fun to see Blake for the first time in 2 years. It kinda felt like he had never left, as we started hanging out. He is the same Blake, just better. His personality is exactly the same. However, he is less shy, more mature, and definitely more spiritual. Oh, we just love Blake!!! Its good to have him back home. He is the postitive, optimistic one in the family, who would never say one negative thing about anyone else. He is such a sweetheart.

Blake had us try on his cowboy hat. It was kinda fitting for me since I live in Texas!

We grabbed some lunch at Kono's in San Diego. They have really good breakfast food :)

Blake and I got some yummy breakfast burritos. Mine had a lot of avocado :)

Walked down the pier. It was extremely windy. I was sporting my Jessica Simpson aviator looking sunglasses.

Enjoyed driving by the beautiful San Diego temple!

On our way to pick up my sister we stopped at the Rainbow Sandal outlet, so I could get a new pair :)

We did a lot of driving on Friday! My brother didn't know that my sister and I were going to be in CA for the weekend. He thought we were flying in the following weekend for his homecoming talk. He was very surprised to see me at the airport, and we tried to play it off that we were going to a fancy fish place in Longbeach, instead of picking up Brooke from the Longbeach airport. He eventually figured it out, and was very excited to see her too :)

We got home intime to change into church clothes, before we went to the Washington building for Blake to get released.

It was fun to hear Blake's testimony and hear about his mission.

We put up Blake's sign after we got back. It was getting pretty late. Guess who showed up as my parents were putting up the sign.....my handsome husband! No one knew he was coming. I thought it would be a nice surprise. My mom was SO happy :)

Saturday: I got my hair done at 8:00am. Leslie did a fantastic job lightening up the bottom. After that Adam and I hung out with his parents for the afternoon.

Soon after we got back, the Martin's came over.

 The Martin's are like family. Love them :)

We headed over to Chandler's wedding right after their visit. They looked so happy :) It was great to see old friends and people we have grown up knowing in the church.

We went to Aubrey's wedding after. She had hers at Harveston, and it brought back a lot of memories for Adam and I :) I saw some old friends there too which was fun.

Sunday: We went to the high council meeting as a family, at 7:30am. Wow, talk about super early. It was really neet to go to that. I am glad we all went. We went home and then went to my parents ward, but we only stayed for sacrament. We came home and relaxed a little bit. Then we sang to my brother, made some treats, and went to a photo shoot.

We sang "Happy Returned Missionary to you!" haha. Then ate some Marie Calendars Pumpkin Pie (My brothers favorite)

We took a couple pictures by the sign before we left for our photoshoot taken by Kristin Fuller :) Will post those later!

After the photo shoot we had a yummy home cooked meal: shrimp and chicken alfredo pasta with ceasar salad and garlic bread :)

Then we had a little get together!

A lot of people showed up!! My mom has pictures of everyone who came. I only posted some pictures with my friends.

We had a lot of yummy desserts for the party. Judy made her famous cheescake, Brooke made oreo truffles, my dad made scotcheroos, Sheila made Pecan pie bars, The Bishops brought lemon bars, and Matt brough some chips and salsa.

Adam and I were able to meet Brooklyn :) and visit with Cameron and Celine! Brooklyn is adorable!

We were able to hang out with Sheila and Steve on Saturday and Sunday. They got Adam some new pants and shirts for his birthday which is this coming Friday, and we also went out to eat at Manhattan on Saturday. I got some yummy blueberry blintzes.

I was also able to meet Cade and visit with Heather!! :) He is such a cute baby, and looks so much like Heather.

Kristin took some awesome pictures of us earlier that day. I will post some of those later! Kristin don't tell anyone what happened to me at the photo shoot. haha. j/k I am still grossed out by it though!

Monday was another all day airport affair. There was a screaming baby on the first flight, but it wasn't sitting next to me, and the baby stopped crying 15 min into the flight. One plus! My second flight was delayed and we sat on the plane about and hour and 25 min before it took off, because they had to de-ice the plane. My layover was in Salt Lake. It just happened to start snowing right before the plane was suppose to take off. Then after we landed it took a long time to get our luggage. It was a big plane and everyone had carry on luggage they tagged. I ended up getting home at 11:30 instead of 9:45. I was so excited to see Charlie!! I had missed him a lot. My family would know. I probably brought him up every single day during my visit.

Its good to be home, but I wish I could have stayed a little bit longer!