Well, after all the chaos of moving away from Provo, we were so relieved to finally make it to San Diego! Yay! We got in on a Saturday night and had a good time relaxing at home.
Sunday we headed up to Brea for Carter's baby blessing! It was a good blessing and so fun playing with Sierra and Whitney (even during church hehe). They are the cutest girls ever. Sierra kept wearing my necklace as a crown and she was very proud of that. We went over to Jenny's to eat and hang out for the rest of the day. Whitney was playing so hard with Billy that she fell asleep on him during a movie :) And Sierra had a lot of fun taking tons of pictures on my phone...
Monday and Tuesday were wedding prep for cousin Tyler's wedding, and then the wedding day on Tuesday. Monday we make all the flower arrangements and headed up to Gene and Michelle's for a rehearsal dinner type gathering/pool party which was great. Tuesday was the big wedding day! Billy and I were really happy we were able to go to their sealing. It was great. The only bummer was that it was POURING rain that day! Kind of a major bummer for your wedding day! But they seemed very happy and to not really care too much :)
We headed over to the reception and set up. It was at the Marine Room, which is a restaurant that is RIGHT on the water. It was awesome. And the food was incredible...it was art-ish food, but that made it so fun to eat and to take pictures of. I took lots of pictures of the food.
Lobster Bisque
I didn't like my Lobster Bisque so they asked me if I wanted a salad so I said "sure!" and this is what they brought...uhhhhh...
Billy's salmon
My Lobster
Cake and ice cream :) (sorry it's sideways...I am too lazy to fix it)
The sunset on the way home from the reception...beautiful!
The next day was busy getting everyone to the airport and such. Don't remember what we did to be honest :( Thursday we were lucky enough to get to go to Cody's wrestling match in the evening and see him wrestle! Yay! It was awesome. Then we went to eat at Rubio's as a fam :)
Friday was such a fun day. We got to go to DISNEYLAND!!! It was Cami and Travis' one year anniversary and they invited us to come celebrate with them at Disneyland. It was such a great day. We had so much fun.
First ride of the day...Tower of Terror (Travis was so scared haha) (Also look at my golden hair...how I miss it!)
Throwing up the gang signs...I can't tell if Cami is making a funny face in this one or if that is her scared face haha love this one.
The new Cars ride...no one knew where the camera was. Believe it or not that is my genuine happy/excited face! Yikes.
Cars land...at night
Out to dinner at the Rainforest Cafe! We ordered the Volcano dessert but didn't want to because they shout "VOOOOOLLLLCAAANNOOOO" as they bring it out...how embarrassing. But we had to, for anniversary's sake. And it was delicious. Happy Anniversary to these two!!!!
And us, the tag-a-longs
It was such a fun day. We got to ride lots more rides than shown, just don't have pics for them. We rode everything we wanted to, minus space mountain because it was closed (as always). Thanks for inviting us Travis and Cami!
We dropped Travis and Cami off in Long Beach and then headed back to Jenny's to spend the night. We had some more fun playing with the girls :) They love to play this mommy/baby game where they pretend to be babies. It's weird but funny.
Being babies...
Whit Whit laying on me all limp...so funny she pushed me down then just laid on me like that
Then we headed back to San Diego. We went over to the Walton's for a graduation party for Sadie which was way fun and the food was so good! Then we went to Christmas Card Lane on a double date with Cambrie and Cody! We like hanging out with them...they are fun.
Cody
Cambrie
Me being creepy Elf
Billy
Cody and Cambrie being goofs
Me being a dalmatian
Cody and Cambrie being people
Cambrie: "What should I do in the picture?"
Cody: "I don't know. Go over there and do something funny" Haha!
Sunday was fun seeing everyone who was home for the holidays! It is always fun going back to your home ward. That night we went to dinner over at a ward member's house.
Monday was Christmas Eve!!! Me and Mom went running and then worked on making food all day! Gene, Michelle, Maddy, Cami and Travis and the missionaries came over for Christmas Eve festivities including delicious food, a small program, and the Cajun Night Before Christmas. It was the best.
Tuesday was CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooo it was so fun! Pennie was going crazy all morning it was so funny. Christmas is her favorite day. We did the whole usual morning routine of seeing what Santa brought, looking in our stockings, then a delicious breakfast of cinnamon rolls, then opening presents! It was a great Christmas for sure. Billy and I came away with a brand spankin new CAMERA! A Canon Rebel T3. Its sweet. Want to see tons of pictures we took on Christmas with it? Okay...
First picture we ever took...boo ya
Scary...
Pennie...my main subject
All the boys got airsoft guns
Fire
Mom trying and failing to get out of this picture hahaha
Took these on "sport" mode...
Talking to Derek!!!
The sunset on Christmas...
Eating a bone
Me stretching after running the day after Christmas
Mmmm bacon...
Yep that's it for Christmas and the day after. We were a bit camera crazy.
The day after Christmas was me and Mom's shopping day! We were in heaven...Nordstrom had so much good stuff. And we scored some new boots too. It was a blast.
Thursday was the big day of.......................the haircut. I cut off at least 12 inches. Not sure how many. I was NOT expecting to cut that much, but it happened. And I am sad, but getting used to it. It was very traumatic I caught myself tearing up a few times.
I thought this was all he was going to cut...
But nope he kept going...I think this is about where I started crying. Too short!!
This is my "he cut it way too short and I just want to leave and cry" face:
Later that night, out to dinner at Islands. Feeling a bit better about the change.
Yep, that was sad. Can't wait to grow it back out :)
Friday we went to Costco (yay!) and then Skyzone!! I don't have any of those pictures, I'll have to get them from my Dad. Skyzone is this place filled with trampolines and stuff and we had a blast jumping around and diving into the foam pit. I think me and Billy thought we were younger and more athletic than we really are because we were way tired after :)
Saturday was the Sutherland Christmas gathering! We went over to Grandma and Grandpa's for dinner and a Christmas program and hanging out. It was super fun...I love family! Grandpa is the best for keeping us all together as a close family.
Sunday was just a normal day :) Then Monday was New Years Eve! Me and Billy went with my parents to see Les Miserables! OMG IT WAS AMAZING! I am dying to see it again! I made everyone watch the Liam Neeson version the next day hehe I love it. We went and dropped Cody off at the New Years Eve dance and then came home and played games like Apples to Apples and Headbandz where Jayce would do a terrible job at answering yes or no questions and basically just give us the answer every time. It was so so funny. For example, I had a picture of scissors on my head and I asked "am I clothing?" and Jayce was like "you cut clothes with it" and made scissor motion with his hand hahaha too funny. At midnight, we went outside and sprayed silly string everywhere!
New Years day we went with Jen and Brandon to Coronado Island with the intent to go ice skating on the beach! I've never been to Coronado in all my years living in San Diego so I was way excited to go. When we got there, ice skating was way expensive and the rink was super tiny, so we just walked around, soaked up the view and ate ice cream. It was a blast!!
Fun on the beach with Jen and Brandon
Hotel Del!
I felt like a tourist but I was so excited to finally see this place in person! And look Billy even caught a seagull in flight.
Yummmmmmmmm
Terrible pictures of us with the beautiful view
Driving over the bridge back from the island, looking at Downtown San Diego
It was so so fun! Thanks Jen and Brandon for the fun time!!
Then we came home and ate delicious New Years dinner! Pennie always wants to be where all the people are.
Wednesday we just had to pack, pack, pack. It was tough getting everything to fit, but we did it! Even though we had to bring an insane amount of luggage...we did it! Mom and Dad had to leave for a while that day and Mom said as she left "Pennie may want to hang out with you guys" to us like she was a younger sibling wanting to hang out with the cool big kids hahaha and she was right! Pennie did want to hang out with us. She followed us around everywhere. I love that funny little dog so much if ya can't tell. She made it kind of difficult for Billy to pack...
Thursday morning we left the house at 4:30 am...gross. It was the funnest break ever and we were so sad to leave. Luckily we had a direct flight to Baltimore, which I basically slept all the way through. It didn't hit me what we were actually doing until we were descending into Baltimore and I saw all the trees and I was like whattttttttttt are we doing? We are crazy but we are here and we are living it up! Sorry for this novel of a blog post...just had to get it all down!
Tomorrow Billy starts his internship and I start getting oriented for student teaching! Wish us luck!!!
I can't believe you are there, right. now. I'll bet it's lovely! And so jealous of your new camera, the pics look sooo good, it's amazing the difference a good camera can make! Take lots of pictures of DC for me! yay!
ReplyDeleteIt was fun catching up with you guys. Don't let Billy play with his Airsoft gun in DC - they don't have much of a sense of humor in that town.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to your first post showing the new place.
Good luck in the morning!!!!