Some photos from our CA trip

I say "our" CA trip, when in all reality, it was really only a vacation for moi (pronounced mua). Adam had a retreat for work in San Clemente, while I played at beaches and visited with family and friends for 11 days. It was SUCH a great vacay, minus the fever blister i got. BOO! It probably didn't help being outside 24-7 for 4 days straight. I guess I was (and still am) extra sensitive to the sun since I spend the majority of my life indoors now? IDK but I hope that I never get one of those nasty things again. YUCK.

Some people keep a journal to document their lives. I just take pictures of everything. I am not even good at taking pictures, but to me, a picture can help me relive those moments better than any words I could ever put together.

Needless to say, I was totally bummed when I realized my camera battery was dead when I landed in San Diego on July, 25th. It was my mom's birthday. I am so glad I was able to share it with her and the family. We went to Kono's for lunch, hung out at the beach, visited Seaport Village, went to my mom's favorite mexican restaurant for dinner, and got yummy desserts from Extraordinary Desserts. It was a great day. Here is the only pictures I have from that day:

Happy Birthday Mom!

They seriously have the best desserts ever. Each slice is like $12-15 dollars. You wouldn't even know we were in a recession, if you walked in there. It is always packed with people getting extremely pricey slices of cake and what not. Its just THAT good, and worth every penny.

July 26th: We had a nice lunch at BJ's with all the original Highbury folk. I was especially excited to hang out with my life long friend Erika :) We celebrated 3 birthdays, my grandma's, my mom's, and Alyssa's. 

Karen was trying to hide from the camera. Gotcha :)

After lunch, I was able to meet up with one of my old friends. It was SO good to see Meagan. It had been like 2 years, since we had last seen each other. Her sister got married that weekend. What are the odds we would visit CA at the same time? I am glad her sister chose to get married that weekend.

July 27th: I got my fix of CALIFORNIA MEXICAN food. I miss California burritos, and carne asada fries. 

Then we left to pick my sister and her husband up form the airport. We had a bonfire that night at Huntington beach (our favorite place to have a bonfire). I also miss the beach, and having bonfires.

s'mores with reeses = yummy

gotta roast starburst too :)

July 28th: We got into the O.C. Fair for $2. I am glad we did, because it doesn't compare to the Del Mar fair. Its still fun, but we only lasted a few hours.

We got bored with the fair, so we left to go the Huntington Beach. It was crowded because of the U.S. Open, but we were able to find a good spot to relax.

For dinner, we ordered a family meal from Pat and Oscar's. I also miss that place. 

Judy brought by a yummy white chocolate raspberry cheesecake for dessert. Her cheesecake seriously belongs at Extraordinary Desserts.

Instead of making this a super duper long post, like my N.Y. one, I will post the rest of the pictures later. I could go for some Pat and Oscar's breadsticks and another slice of that cheesecake right now.

Love, love, love our new home!

We celebrated last night because Adam got his bonus!!! :) Check back later for more pics of the house.

Its been a little over 2 weeks since we have moved in our new home. Its the most awesome feeling knowing this is OUR place. I still can't believe we have such a beautiful house! We sure love it! What is not to love though?  Charlie now has his own backyard, and tons of space to roam around. He is one happy boy! He is so funny though, because he has to be in the same room as us. He is definitely an at your feet dog.

I sometimes forget that we have an upstairs. lol. I am not used to having SO much space. We bought a kitchen table and some couches for the front room from Ashley's, so we now have furniture for all the rooms downstairs. Our upstairs is completely empty. Adam does have his projector set up in the media room though with our camping chairs lol. He has been playing lots of xbox lately. Two of our guitars broke during the move, so we are going to need to get new ones if we want to play rock band or guitar hero. I personally like doing the dance games on the kinect the most.

Since I am jobless, I got everything unpacked quickly. Everything was unpacked and set up a few days after moving in. I haven't started looking for a job yet. I am not even sure if I am going to work full time, part time, or even at all. You read that right, I said or even at all. I am enjoying this break. I have explored Mckinney, gone to Lowe's and Home Depot frequently, done a lot of grocery shopping, window shopping, watched a lot of Ghost Whisperer, and have done some P90x.

I thought it was going to be hard to do P90x, but it really isn't. I have completed every single dvd that I have put in. The only one I have been avoiding is the chest one, because what girl feels she needs to work that area? I am sure I can handle the video, I just don't feel like doing that one. I have been rotating between the rest of the videos.

 I haven't been doing them in order either. I started with the yoga dvd, and by the time I was done with it, I felt like I had been working out longer than an hour. I then thought well Pilates is slow so the time just goes by slower, but then I turned it back on to see how long it was and discovered it was and hour and a half. I really enjoyed that one, but no wonder it seemed like a long hour! I don't feel like I am going to lose any more weight. I lost a few pounds initially, but have stayed the same for a while now. I am not trying to lose weight. I do want to tone up though. I have just been doing zumba the past year, and my body needs something new. I don't do the dvd's everyday either. I initially did, but I have decided to just do them every other day. Who knows how long I will last doing this. I am already starting to get bored.

I have met a few people in the ward so far, and everyone seem really nice. They have a recipe club which I am excited about. I am sure I will start cooking a lot more, now that I have SO much time on my hands. The days use to seem so short when I worked 10 hour days. I now feel like I have all the time in the world. I know that will all change when we have a baby. I am thinking the second bedroom downstairs will not stay an office for very long, if you catch my drift.

We are just loving every minute of this new stage in our lives. Love, love LOVE our house! I especially love our large open kitchen. I have so much space which makes cooking so much more enjoyable. I need to update my cooking blog with lots of recipes. I never rush to do that though because I don't let people know anymore when I post a new recipe. If you want to know when I post something new, you will just have to follow my recipe blog. Mom, did you read that? I know you are like the only one who looks at it. lol. I did it for myself though. I wanted to make it easy for me to find recipes. I hated going through my printed off recipes, or trying to find the recipe again online. It took too much time. The same reason I love pinterest. You can save everything to one page. It makes life so much easier! However, I feel like Pinterest needs a search tool for each board. Sometimes it takes me a while to find stuff on there.

Anyways, just wanted to mainly say we love our new home!

Moving into our NEW house!

After weeks of paperwork, walk throughs, and patience, we are finally able to move into our new house! We have been pretty busy these last two months. Another Chiropractor was brought on in May, so I was extra busy managing the office for two chiropractors by myself. The office now has three women doing my job part time. I will miss the friendships I made at the office with all the patients, and miss the people I work for, but I will not miss working full time Mon-Sat. After this work week is over, I will be taking a LONG vacation from work. I am pretty excited about that. I need time to get settled into the house, and then I am flying out to CA to spend a couple weeks with my family :)

We close on Wednesday, and start moving this upcoming weekend. I wish we were done packing. We still have a ways to go on that. I just started packing the kitchen today. I have had lots of goodies to help me get through the packing, and I totally think it is worth any extra pounds I have put on. haha.

During the last two months we have enjoyed all these things:

Charlie's birthday was on the 23rd of this month. He is now 2 yrs old.

Father's Day!

Mother's day! My husband made me a home made card out of poster board. It was so sweet. The message inside made me cry (tears of joy of course). He is the sweetest guy ever.

I also enjoyed lunch dates with friends, a going away party, in door rock climbing for the first time (even though I almost fell to my death), Zumba with my favorite teacher (will miss her and my friends in that class), being showered with love and treats from my Beehive class (miss those girls already), and all the Sonic shakes after 8:00pm. Just shake it off! Looking forward to our new adventure out in McKinney.

Looky!

Our house is coming along nicely!! It actually looks like a home now. We went out this weekend to take a look at the progress, and to hang out with the Starr's. Great weekend! I can't wait until both of our houses are done :) Only 57 more days to go....

TOFW & Fort Worth Art Festival

I had a blast with these girls at Time Out For Women the weekend before last. I went a couple years ago with family, and this year I got to go with friends and family. My sister-in-law left early, so she isn't in our group photo. If you haven't been before, I highly recommend it! They give you a tote bag. It really is all about the tote bag. Once you go, you will understand what I am talking about. I have to admit, I was a little disappointed with the tote bag this year. My other bag from 2 years ago is much cuter. They slacked a little bit on that this year. The messages were great. The music was fantastic. I felt spiritually uplifted for sure. Plus, I got to take a day off from work. It was a great weekend.

We went to the Art Festival in Forth Worth this weekend (the biggest art festival in Texas). It was pretty sweet. The weather was perfect. They had SO many neat things to see. People from all over the U.S. displayed their art. I am glad we went, and I was happy to get out of the house and take a break from working on my talk that I gave Sunday. That was the second talk I have given in this ward, and we have only been in the ward a little over a year and a half. Adam gave his second talk in February. I am sure when we move, we will be giving talks in the new ward fairly soon. We have given talks every year since we have been married, but I wasn't expecting 3 within a 2 year period. Maybe we won't be asked to give talks soon. Not that it matters, I was just surprised. I actually enjoy preparing talks, because I learn SO much.

I am starting to get really excited about our house!!!

I CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE IN AND DECORATE!!! We are going to go see it this weekend :)

We are planning to go to a different art show Saturday. They have so many events here in Texas. Should be another fun weekend.

We just bought a HOUSE! :)

I know everyone already knows via Facebook, but I thought I would post it on blogger as well. I have been M.I.A lately, and its because we have been house hunting like crazy the past couple months.

We are SO incredibly excited that we officially own our first house :) We are so ready to get out of the apartment life, settle down, and start a family. This is exactly what it will look like, minus the grass in front of the garage ;) I got lots of comments on Facebook about that. lol

It has 5 bedrooms (we converted one to a media room), a game room, 3 bathrooms, and its 3,100 square feet. It will be ready the end of June. Building is SO fun. Charlie will be excited to have a backyard!

Here is the floor plan of the first floor:

I love that their is a bedroom right next to the Master bedroom. This will definitely be the nursery when we start having kids.

My hubby had a birthday!

Adam turned 28 last weekend. He wasn't all that excited about his birthday this year. I think its because he  is only a couple years away from turning the big 3-0. I still think he looks great for being 28!

His birthday dinner was at BJ's. We got our favorite pizza, and he got his b-day pazooki.

My homemade gift to him: 28 reasons why I love him

Charlie had fun helping him pop all the balloons to discover each message inside.

His real bday gift that we are still acquiring:

We hopefully will find the time to go out to Dallas and get a set. Adam has been working like crazy lately, and so have I (No surprise). Missionaries for dinner tomorrow night after work, and then baby sitting duty the following night. Hopefully next weekend!

March Challenge

I got bored with the photo challenge, so I gave up on it. I am still going strong with my other challenge! I have almost made it two weeks! yay! I am glad I am doing it, but I think I will be having a dessert party for myself when its over :)

Zumba makes me a better person. Looking forward to my classes this week.

Photography Challenge: Day 8

8. Candid

Photo Challenge: Day 7

7. Awesome

My J. Crew necklace just came in the mail

Photo Challenge: Day 6

6. Lines

I like patterns like this

Photo Challenge: Day 5

5. Water

I definitely miss the beach out here in Texas. I could go back to to this St. Maarten beach.

Photo Challenge: Day 4

4. Favorite women

These are the most recent photos I have of these amazing women.

Photo Challenge: Day 3

3. Three

Since it is a disaster every time I try to take a pic of my family of three, I decided to use this pic our brother-in-law took for us.

Photo Challenge: Day 2

2. The letter C

Photo Challenge: Day 1

1. Green
Yes, I pamper my dog

Challenges in March

I am going to do this photo challenge for fun

and I agreed to take my zumba teacher's challenge: No sweets for a whole month. This I am obviously NOT doing for fun. I think I will be able to pull it off, because I went without sugar for 4 1/2 years during High School. My husband though is Mr "Sweet Tooth." Our cabinets are full of sugary things. My in-laws are staying with us this weekend. I will just have to be STRONG. No sugar for me! Adam's birthday is also at the beginning of this month. I guess he won't complain, because there will be more dessert for him to enjoy. The first couple weeks are the hardest........I can do this right?!

Anyone want to join me in either one of these challenges?