Guess what...

I just got an exciting e-mail!

I'M GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE SOON!  Just have a million things to do before I get there...

Part 3

More on my San Diego trip...I took most of these pictures from Jessica.  Thanks Jess!

One night we had dinner on the beach!  Dad grilled up hot dogs and we enjoyed the sunset and just chillin!

Cute parents!

This is what I look like with a little girlie on my hip...it's a good look, right?? :)

my BFF

Always taking pics of her girls...

Woo!

Soo beautiful.  Both Rachel and the sunset!

I love this one.

My cute parents again!

July 20th was my mom's birthday!  We woke up super early (5:30 am!) to go running at the beach for her birthday! 

Then we went to the temple...

Then we went to Panera Bread for lunch...yum!

We got some cupcakes made by our wedding cake lady for Mom's birthday cake.  YUM! 

Haha I love this picture of Maggie!  She is so funny!  And she sure loved that frosting!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Another day we went to Sea World!  It was so fun!

It took 3 of us to sunscreen Maggie...

Waiting for the Shamu show!  We sat in the handicapped seating because it was really good seats and it was totally empty and so crowded everywhere else.  Kind of breaking the rules and we were pretty nervous but no worries...we didn't get in trouble!  And so we got great seats!!

 The girls loved getting to touch the dolphins!

And then they got to touch a baby sting ray!  He was super splashy!

Sea turtles!

Oh my gosh this was so cute...I kept handing Maggie penguins and she kept taking them and hugging them tighter and tighter...so cute.  She said penguin the cutest way ever!  It was like "pennin" or something.  So cute.

The Sea Lion show...

Maggie was not afraid to make friends with the people sitting around us :)

Riding some rides

The end of a long, awesome day!

Another day me and Jessica took the girls to the beach! 

Maggie with her PB&J&S (sand)...yum yum

This is so funny...Rachel loved being buried in my hole I was digging.  And Maggie in the background, oh man that kills me.  So funny.

I look kind of freaky in this one...but Maggie started loving the water!  She was laughing so hard and kept saying "again! again!".  She was loving it!

Fun stuff!  More to come later!

Part 2 (and my 100th post!)

This is my 100th blog post!  Yay!!

Anyways, more from the fun San Diego trip!  We went to the Zoo one day!  Cody was so good with the little girls...good thing he was there to help!

Hippo!

Maggie fell asleep in the stroller :)

Look at these cuties!  Having a blast at the zoo!

Cody climbed up a real elephant!  Jk it was fake.

We saw lots of fun stuff at the Zoo!  And the girls were so exciting they were running around practically the whole time!  I almost got arrested though...yikes.  I used my mom's card to buy her a seasonal pass and the guy behind the counter freaked out and told me I was committing fraud.  He was like "I'll do it for you, but it's illegal, I hope you know that"  and I was like alright then why are you still doing it?  Haha it was pretty funny and scary at the same time.

One day we went to the Mormon Battalion memorial in Old Town.  It was way fun!  Maggie kind of had a little freak out during the presentation though...which was pretty funny.

In the covered wagon...

Rachel panning for gold...she was a pro!

Hahaha ok so they take a picture for you at the end...look at my mom!!  Hahaha so funny, offering some water right to Jessica's face.  So funny.  We were cracking up so hard when we saw this because mom didn't even realize she was doing it!

More to come later :)

3 weeks in San Diego!

In July I went to San Diego for a few weeks to hang out with the family and with my cousin Jessica and her two little girlies who were coming into town!  It was soooooooo fun.  The only sad part was that I left Billy all alone in Utah.  It was really hard being apart...but we made it! Jessica would probably laugh at that :)

The first week was a blast.  I got to be there for my bff Alisha's amazing wedding!  So I got to see all my PQ girlies!  It was a blast.  I also got to spend tons of quality time with my mom of course :) and with my whole fam which was awesome.

Beautiful Lisha on her wedding day...

All the girlies (and little Xander) at Laura's bridal shower :)

Me and my mom did lots of shopping!  At Nordstrom, Costco, and Target...our 3 favorite places in the world.  And we did lots of chatting and exercising...all of our favorite things.  It was so fun!

Then after I had been there for about a week, Jessica flew in with her girls!  At first they did NOT want to be there haha but they adjusted well and we all had a blast!  We did so many fun things...this is going to be picture overload.  I actually might have to break this post up into several.  And I think I will actually.  I can't remember a lot of what we did, but good thing Jessica is such a diligent blogger!  So lots of these pictures are hers!

Monday night we got a babysitter for the girls and we all went to the Padre game!  We had awesome seats!

Look how cute this picture is!  Besides Cody...yikes

Me and Jessica drove down to the beach one night to see the sunset.  It was gorgeous on the drive down but we barely missed it once we got to the beach!  By seriously like half a second!  But it was still gorgeous.

We love the beach!

One day we drove down to the Old Point Loma Lightouse which was beautiful!  It was so fun to see the sights in San Diego with our Texan visitors!

Look at these beautiful girls!!  Love them!

Here's a picture of a regular occurrence caught on camera...Maggie falling down some stairs and me and my mom freaking out...hahaha

What a cutie!  Climbing the stairs to the top of the lighthouse!

 Maggie is the CUTEST!  I just want to eat her up 24/7!

 Jessica is such a good mom :)

So much fun!