Catch Up

Well I do have A LOT of catching up to do on here, but this will be a start.  I REALLY want to blog about our house but someone [ALLEN ;)] still has a few projects to finish so I will do that later. We haven't been up to much lately; work is keeping us busy and the "honey-do" list seems to be never ending at home as well! We had a great summer spending time with family, but here is just a few Random Pictures from the past few months...

In February my one and only baby brother left for his LDS mission. He is serving in the Farmington, New Mexico Mission and working with the Navajo Indians. He is loving it and doing so well but all of us girls do miss our brother :)

(Me and Trev the night before he left for the MTC)

 On one of the first "warm" weekends Allen and I went out to folsom Lake for a bike ride and had a lot of fun. We did this before our weekends became consumed with remodeling our house :)

At the end of March, Allen's sister Holly and her husband Eric had their first baby, Warren Michael.  He is such a cute little chunk and really enjoys his "disco dancing" time with Uncle Al!

Warren and I at the Hospital

Allen with Warren in Fort Bragg

In April I got to go to "Time Out for Women" with my Mom, and sisters: Krista and Ashley in Fresno.  It was such a good weekend and we had the chance to listen to some amazing speakers!

Ashley, mom w/ baby Ty, Krista, and Me

My "BCF" (best cousin forever) Courtney got home from her mission this Summer!  I was so excited to see her but now she left me for Greece!

Courtney and I at the Temple

Me and Al Boy

We are loving being close to family in California and getting comfortable in our first home!  I will catch up some more soon so you can see what a fun and busy summer we had! 



ONE YEAR!

Allen and I just celebrated our one year anniversary, and I can't believe how fast that one year went by!  So much has happened this past year and we have grown together in so many ways; I'm grateful for him and the amazing husband and best friend that he is!

Allen surprised me with a trip to Santa Cruz!

The first place we went was the "Mystery Spot."  I always see people with this bumper sticker and never knew what it was so it was fun to go and find out.  It's this little place in the Redwoods where they say the law of gravity doesn't apply.  We went on a tour and even got a bumper sticker! haha

 

Then we headed to the beach.  We love the beach, that is where Allen proposed so it was fun to go spend some time by the water.

We went to the boardwalk and walked around, then went mini golfing at the 2 story indoor golf course!

The next day we drove up Hwy 1 to meet up with Allen's family for New Years in San Simeon.  The drive is beautiful but long!

We had a lot of fun in San Simeon seeing the elephant seals (so weird) and touring Hearst Castle!

Thank you so much for the trip Allen, it was a blast!  I love you happy anniversary!

Our Very Merry Little Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year spending time with friends and family.  We are so blessed to live close to both of our families so it was nice to be able to stay home and relax a little as well.  It was an eventful Christmas and we loved it!

Even though our living space if VERY small, we still decided to get our own Christmas tree.  It was little, but perfect! At the lot...

Growing up, my family had a Christmas tradition that each year we would get a new Christmas ornament, so Allen and I decided to do that too.  Since this was our first Chritmas as "Mr. and Mrs." this seemed to be the best option...

On Christmas Eve we went ice skating with my family and had a blast, even though our feet were killing us by the end!

That night we went to Allen's aunt and uncles house to celebtate with the Boberg family (didn't get any pictures). Then, we opened our first presents which were new PJs for Christmas. We got all cozy and we went for a drive with Allen's family to look at Christmas lights.

We had a small Christmas morning together, then kind of split the day with our families.

(our tree and presents)

(my family "Merry Christmas 2010")

we have adorable nephews!

We are so grateful for all of our blessings and loved being able to celebrate this time of year.  We hope everyone had a great holiday as well!

Fall 2010

I can't believe fall is almost over.  It is my absolute favorite time of the year, I love beautiful colors of the changing seasons.  This was my first fall back in Loomis in a while since I have been at school in Idaho and it was wonderful.  These are just some of the fun things we did...

In the beginning of October we went with my Family to Bishop's Pumpkin patch.  It was so much fun, we enjoyed some apple cider, watched the pig races (haha), and found ourselves a pumpkin!

Carving our pumpkin..

and the finished product...

Another thing I loved about fall growing up was that it was soccer season. My dad is the soccer coordinator for the red league here and was short some coaches so he asked me if I would coach the under 16 girls team. Our team name was the chaos, and that was definitely fitting. We had a "defeated season," but I had a lot of fun with the girls even though they drove me crazy sometimes and it was a good experience. I can't wait to coach my own kids someday.

My team...

We had a great Thanksgiving.  We went and played football in the morning, well Allen did, I played soccer with my sisters and had a lot of fun. Then we just spent the rest of the day relaxing, and of  course, EATING!!!

Al and I on Thanksgiving

 I love him

Lastly, my sister Ashley had her baby boy!  They named him Tyler Stephen Ross and he is sooo cute.  We had a lot of fun holding him for a few days but they are back in San Jose now and we cant wait for them to come visit again.

We had a great time this fall with our family and friends, and have so much to be thankful for.  Now, we are excited for Christmas!!

Labor day Weekend

I know this is a little late but I haven't had the time to blog in a while which at times I feel is ok since there is a total of about 3 people that actually look at our blog but that’s ok!

For Labor Day weekend we headed up the Coast with some of my family and went camping at Fort Brag. We had so much fun camping, playing on the beach, and dutch oven cooking! We want to make it annual trip because it was so nice and relaxing to be by the ocean and get away for a few days!

A Day At The Beach

My Family had a friend from out of town visiting who had never been to the beach so we decided to go on a short trip and after being in San Francisco for a day we went and had some fun in the sun at Santa Cruz.  I have lived in Northern CA all of my life and had never been there so I was excited to go, Allen had to work so he couldn't come but it was a fun trip!

We started the day at a beach by the boardwalk and went out to this small light house

The fog finally burned off and we met up with everyone at National Bridges state Park, it was beautiful there, but the water was still a bit too cold for me!

Looking at the tide pools

Austin and Uncle Trev

Then we went to the beach on the boardwalk to play some beach volleyball and enjoy the sun

my sisters

my brother

The whole group