:: Disneyland - 2011 ::

disney is so fun with kiddos especially kiddos who have never been but have been talking about wanting to go to disney since she was about 2.5-3 years old. diva loved it and couldn't stop talking about it and getting excited for it. i took tons and millions of pictures but here are just a few of them because this post was started back in august and i am just now getting the gumption to actually finish it!

before we left the house ... girl was stoked!

her most favorite part (and the longest line ever) princess fantasy land!

she was too into the shooting to actually look at the camera

first thing she spotted and loved!

he really did have a good time i promise!

we love the rides!

he was tired

waiting in line with doug for his favorite ride of all time ... it's a small world after all!

my most favorite ride ... dumbo!

diva's first ride

he was so not happy when we walked into the happiest place on earth

on the tram on the way in to disney ... can you tell just how excited she was to begin this adventure!!

we had such a great time showing diva all around the magical kingdom even B snapped out of his bad attitude and we had a great (full) day of fun!

::California - 2011::

Well ... we made the drive the Cali with 2 kiddos and 4 adults on friday august 10. we left at 5 pm and arrived in vegas at midnight! it was a fun first half drive and the kids were amazing. we only had one argument and it wasn't even a big one!

Saturday we left vegas at 8 am and arrived at our destination in oceanside, california at 1:30 pm ... we found our amazing beach house and then we found ... THE BEACH!

we had a great first couple days in cali ... jeremy couldn't come until monday evening so i was a single mom for 4 days and let me tell you it was rough but so much fun! we had a great time!

on our first night we walked the beach back from dinner and hunted for some awesome sea shells!

here's the kids and i at Oceanside Harbor.

on our first real day/morning the kids and i woke up and went down to the beach for some exploring in our pjs. B caught a huge fish and was a happy camper the rest of the day!

diva was just happy to be out of the car!

our first beach day the crew below did some major boogie boarding while diva and i took a short (ok super long) nap!

The first night we went out to our very own camp fire and had some delicious s'mores ... dad was very tired!

the cookie s'mores were AMAZING!

before we left for california the 12 of us drew names for dinner crews and of course krystina, chelle, and i got stuck on a team together (the three who don't cook at all) the above pic is us getting ready to head to 2 different markets on our bikes to get the dinner stuff for an amazing dinner.

the below pic is what we decided to make for dinner! hahaha just kidding ... we did make salad, pasta, and garlic bread with cookies for dessert. it was amazing. we brought the banquet dinner back as a joke b/c everyone was pretty concerned with what we would be making!

i have taken like 500 pics of cali but lets face it .. no one want to see that many pics all at one time ... next up The Diva's first Disney experience!

:: Day of Love ::

happy wedding day (finally) to the Trout's (or as i like to call them the fell-trouts)

one of my great friends got married in PC over the weekend and the wedding was absolutely gorgeous.

i met jenn at school when i decided to go back and get my degree in CSD. i invited her and CT out for halloween 4 years ago because i knew they had just moved to UT and didn't know anyone. we all had a great time and became fast and (in my mind) best friends.

i have been waiting for this special day and it was so fun to meet all of their family and friends from iowa and minnesota (where they are from) as i have heard so much about all of them.

my husband loves all the pictures i take!

the bowles' fam ... to bad i look HUGE AND FAT in this picture (are you kidding???)

the trout's first dance as husband and wife!

love you trouts welcome the married club!

:: one week ::

one more week exactly and i will be looking at this view for 7 whole days.

spending some much needed time away from the books, the computer, the clinic, classes, and work and spending some much needed time with the fam and the friends of the fam that i grew up with. we are taking both the littles and i can't wait.

b is counting down the time and is so mad we still have 7 full days to wait but trust me when i tell you it will fly by and before we know it we will be beginning our adventure to beautiful oceanside california!

we have a fun week planned filled with exciting stuff and relaxing stuff and i can't wait to share it with everyone (or someone other than me who actually still reads this boring blog!)

here's to the fastest 7 days of my life!

:: 4th Grade Already ::

well b-money is officially a 4th grader as of 7/26/11!

i took him to school for his first day to make sure he knew where to line up and all that fun stuff. i was so excited he was going to let me take him but once those friends showed up he looked at me and told me i should leave. i am pretty sure i shed a little tear but i guess that is what i get from a 4th grader!

happy first day of school to b-money

(ps i hate the utah year round system and wish i could convince b to go traditional, sucks that kids have to be back in school today)

:: wonderments ::

as i sit here at work B - O - R - E - D out of my mind i start to have some general wonderments about life

why do people take the time to post something on FB just to delete it once people start asking questions?

why do people post stuff on FB that make people as questions and then don't respond to said questions?

why can i not cook? i want to cook, i love food but i SUCK at cooking

why have i all the sudden had an aversion to CAPITAL letters unless caps lock is on?

why do i have to work AND go to school?

why have i not been camping in 2 years?

i am sure there are more wonderments, however, my brain is officially fried and i am done thinking!

happy pioneer weekend!

:: I Survived!::

well, i posted a while back that summer semester would be my death ... i am happy to say i have survived! now technically the semester is not yet over but i can say with confidence that i will survive this last week.

research paper is complete, printed, and in a safe envelope to hand in tomorrow.

ASD portfolio is pretty much all put together and ready to hand in on thursday.

final client paper work for one client has been submitted.

final client paper work for other client is 90% done just need final data and will be submitted wednesday.

three more sessions with one client, two more for the other.

no final in motor speech so only one more class to try to sit through and pay attention in.

no final in ASD so only two more classes to try to sit through and pay attention in.

i know now that i have written it out it looks like a lot still to do but basically everything is done and now i just need to attend 3 classes and 5 client sessions and the summer of death will be finished and i will have one more semester of classes ... can i get a hallelujah!?!?!

hope everyone else had a good and fun summer b/c i sure missed summer and i am counting down until Summer 2012 as posted previously!