That's right, disneyland. We met my fam there...but you really can't tell. We decided to take pictures of ourselves kissing instead. Go figure. It was quite the whirlwind going from 8-11pm. But, it, was, AWESOME! We will definitely use our passes post-work/school again, totally worth it.
Tomorrow is mine and Brett's "all-important" 6 months anniversary :) So, I thought I'd take a second to brag about my husband. First, he puts up with my "stares of death", is so fun to be around, does things for me all the time...just for fun. He's so good in fact that his brother overheard all the things he had done for me one day and said, "Why did you do all that, are you in the doghouse or something?" To which my humble husband replied, "No I'm just a freaking good husband." And that pretty much sums it up...I have a freaking good husband. 
(Just wanted to include this pic of an old-school boat in SD Harbor, from when we went on a friend's boat a couple of weeks ago. San Diego is so great.)
Our little baby special one, niece Avery, has turned one. Her birthday was "magical" too ;)
This party was awesome! My sis in law Cass sent out the CUTEST invites and made the party favors to match. 
We had cupcakes, and one of the best parts was seeing her dive her face right into the frosting, so fun. 
We love Avery. That's pretty much what we say about 1,007 times a day when we are with our cute little cupcake. Can you blame us?
I couldn't resist posting this one from our avery photo shoot.
PS: I found the adorable (if I do say so myself) little shirt Avery is wearing. I just couldn't resist, it has cupcakes on it...AND the party was cupcake themed, too ridiculous!!! (luckily Cass had the perfect matching cupcake clip...so meant to be)
So, I am one of those people that absolutely adores their birthday...really. Brett even told me (as I was a little sad at mid-night) after my "special day" was over, that he had NEVER met anyone who loved their birthday, more then me. Its true.
But can you blame me? In my house growing up birthday's were amazing. You got to do whatever you wanted and force whoever you wanted to join you. You got to eat on a special plate, select your fav dinner, you got presents, you didn't have to do chores and...you got to pic out whatever cake you wanted. In short, my childhood birthday's were pretty magical.
My 24th birthday was no less magical. Brett really stepped up to the plate. Well...in all areas, but one.
I came home from work and brett had slaved away making me a beautiful cake for my birthday. What a man. I thank him and then examine the cake. "Brett?"...yes..."What kind of cake is this?" Brett-"Its fun-fetti cake with vanilla frosting"..."Brett, isn't that YOUR favorite cake?!" And thus started a heated debate about if birthday people really get to select their own flavor of cake...THEY DO! It was a pretty good time, and it will definitely be a good story for the children.
Other then "the cake" and the fact that I was "deathly-ill" my birthday was amazing! We had a fabulous lunch in westwood, good delicious ice cream sandwiches, and went to one of my favorite places in the world, The Getty Museum (in LA). And (being serious) the best part was that I got to spend the WHOLE weekend with my sweet husband...bliss.
I love going to Eden, UT every year with the fam. I love it so much I almost want to re-dact the promise I made to Brett when we got married, that I will never make him move to Utah. 
(Poor little daddy had food posioning)
Yes, it's true Brett and I got to see The Beal Family!!! It's so rare and we feel so honored that they had dinner with us when they were in town :). I got to meet Brigitte, which was really such a treat. This girl was AMAZING! Totally the offspring of Christy and Gabe. Spunky, energetic and completely entertaining. She was so busy and happy. I can't wait to hear the hilarious things that come out of her mouth in a few years. We had such a fun hour and a half.
(This was our first attempt...clearly we needed a do-over to get rid of Christy's "uni-curl" and my "super cheese face")
(Better, but I over corrected slightly in the smile department)
(Yeah...I actually got to hold Brigitte!!)
Brett and I occasionally challenge ourselves culinar-ily. Brett has recently decided to make homemade pizza's his creative outlet. He makes the dough, and the sauce FROM SCRATCH (obviously not the cheese and pepperoni from scratch, I mean does anyone even know how to make those things?). So I ask you is there anything better than a husband who cooks? I think it is AMAZING! I get homemade pizza about twice a week!
Although I've become lazy in the cooking department since starting work again. I decided that I wanted to cook something "hard" that I had never made before. I went on Williams-Sonoma's website and found this little gem. It was rather delicious if i do say so myself. The cake had almost the consistency of a doughnut and the "frosting" had ingredients like marscapone cheese, vanilla and sour cream. It tasted divine!
We went to Maui with my familia! We are so lucky that they still like to take us on trips. We felt like we won some sort of sweet vacation from Regis and Kelly. We are SO spoiled, or as my mom says "well taken care of."
happy father's day daddy
kassidy and brett's version of yoga
we went parasailing
tropical water falls
yep...
for some reason wild cats around at my feet as I enjoy a picnic is NOT enjoyable
beautiful sunsets (and a beautiful husband, i mean really, what a hottie!!!)
interesting faces
...and a rainbow of colorful tropical vacation shirts (wow, we really ARE a good time!)
AND we had a 4th of July Extravaganza with BRETT'S fam! Two words WATER - BOUNCE HOUSE (ok, pretend those are two words :)....and another word AVERY! (and I love the boys too of course!) Thanks for the INCREDIBLE weekend Hawkins/Montgomery's/Torgerson's
Thanks to Blake for the sunglasses. I couldn't have seen the men that jump out of the airplanes without you.
Brett looks like he doesn't know what just happened to him...
but clearly he enjoyed himself
my husband does back flips...he's THAT cool
Cass, clearly a little concerned about having to teach me sewing basics...but in reality it was AWESOME, i have a patriot banner thing now!
and avery and colin....priceless
