Thursday, January 14, 2010

the first snow for jones

christmas eve 2009
we went to mesa for a couple days to spend christmas with famliy...
then for christmas eve we went to payson for a fun day in the snow... we had so much fun!!!
above is jones with uncle brandon...
below with cousin owen...
with brent...
with me...
payson is so beautiful!
.....
merry christmas!
(december 24-25 2009)

christmas on knob hill

i hate it when i let a month go by before i actually post the amazing pictures that shauna took! of course i forgot my camera... and shauna did not, so she got some great shots of the spectacular house on knob hill oceanside ca... over 80,000 lights...
crazy...
and santa was there and jones actually told him what he wanted (ok, i helped), but he was happy for just a few seconds when santa was talking to him about wanting a bike... so cute and amazing light display!!!
i think this may be one of my favorites... there is something i love about pictures of people when they are so happy and dont even know that there is a picture being taken... i love catching a picture of brent in the middle of a laugh... LOVE...
and then it was my turn to try?!?! to take a picture of the hollobaugh family... at least you can see that there were a million cool lights in the background...
sorry... i will work on my photography skills...
.....
then we had to share with the hollobaughs one of our favorite treats... happy to report... they loved it too!!! yumm!!! and with justins awesome, and much better than my photography skills, he got beautiful shots of all of us shoving our pinkberry down our throats... as if we were hungry... we just ate taco bell... but couldnt pass up going to pinkberry even though it was totally out of the way...
i will spare those shots and post only the cute kids...

spoon licking good!
can you come back so i dont feel so dumb wanting to drive a half hour just for some fro yo...?
(december 19th 2009)

Saturday, December 19, 2009

so happy to have visitors...

jones was very happy to see his cousins!!! we love our visitors...
we shared "dinos" with them... (marshmallows covered in sprinkles on a stick)... as a welcome to oceanside treat...

Thursday, December 17, 2009

love thursday... santa and his reindeer...

did you know that santa visits disneyland....
...he promised jones that he would be sure to visit soon...
... then we went to visit santas reindeer... i promise they are in the background...
the princess and the frog parade...
has anyone seen this??? was it good??? would jones be entertained enough to go... i really want to see it...

Saturday, December 12, 2009

donuts

it was raining saturday so... we found a donut shop...
... "donuts" in carlsbad...
we are having so much fun discovering and finding new places

Thursday, December 10, 2009

the real pictures...

remember this post...

well...

i finally got the real pictures that have brent in them... here they are!

brent was just promoted in this picture...
the top three of the class standing here... martindale, hinojosa & donnelly
the whole class...

Monday, December 7, 2009

rainy day...

it is so so super rainy today... 70% chance of rain all day and night... and crazy gale force winds...
so...

i just found this website.... and i am in love with some of the ideas... i already liked to recycle... but being in california makes you want to recycle even more... the city gives you different bins to sort your recyclables and you can even go and turn some of your stuff in for $$$ back... anyhow... i think we could all do a little better about helping our mother earth and recycling more...
plus... the website also has some fun ideas for a green christmas...

... then...
who doesnt like granola...
this company lets you order your own granola the way you like it and then delivers it to your door... yum!!!!
thank goodness the sun came out for twenty minutes so we could get out of the house to take pictures of us in our rain boots... i knew they would come in handy someday...

...and thanks for the great ideas design mom...

Sunday, December 6, 2009

what is on your fridge?

so we have been a little busy and i cant believe that i have not posted for a whole month...
brent returned to mesa after finishing up his mos schooling in north carolina...
he gave me a very thoughtful belayed anniversary gift...
5 years = silverware...
well we already have that... so thoughtful brent decides to have his brother jason and dad help to find an old antique spoon and make it into a pendant... as his dad says... "who thinks of this stuff"... i love him for being so thoughtful!!!
too bad that the gift i got him didnt make as big a scene as i was hoping... he told me that he would have to open any packages in front of his staff sergeant... so i got a box full of some of his favorite candy and a miley cirus cd, 'put your hands up... party in the usa' (you know everyone loves that song!) embarrassing... right... i wrapped it all so pretty in victoria secrets paper hoping to embarrass him like crazy having to open it with everyone watching...
too bad for me that they just handed it to him and he opened it by himself... and then he was disappointed that the victoria secrets tissue paper was just a front...
anyways...

he then had to report to camp pendlton after a short few days of leave... after just over a week in oceanside while he was getting "checked in", which turns out it is a week long process and not just a day or two like we thought. and then some more house hunting for the second time... the first house that we thought we had fell through... another couple offered more $$$ and a faster move in date... at first i was mad and heart broken... i had already mentally moved us in the cute little house... but now, like i knew it would be... we are grateful for this happening... we are so much happier with our second find... even better and even more perfect for us... so perfect, we are both so in love with the house and neighborhood that we dont want to even think that we will have to move away from here someday...
so after a crazy month of back and forth between mesa and oceanside we are all settle and even had my family over for thanksgiving only a few days after moving... i made my first turkey which not to brag... ok i am bragging... turned out so good! i was so surprised... i was a little nervous... having never cooked a whole turkey but thanks to this recipe: altons thanksgiving turkey it was amazing!
thank you family for coming to visit and to trust that i could make a turkey... thanksgiving was so yummy and so fun! i love a house full of people you love... i think thanksgiving just might have been officially made my favorite holiday!!!
i love thanksgiving!!!
we are also so grateful for awesome neighbors... we have not even been here that long... and have been so busy enjoying brents time off and unpacking that we have only shared a quick hello and wave as one or the other is passing by... but yesterday while outside and our neighbor said she had a bought a present for jones... a house warming/welcome to the neighborhood...
a dog...
jones was so happy and utterly in love...

thank you neighbor...
you made our little boys day!!!
now... the real reason i started this post...
both brent and jones are sick today... and so i was bored... found these magnets from college days... so i wrote a little something for my love that is sick in bed...
our love story:
"love story
you are hot!
smile drool
first kiss
lets be 2gether
yes boyfriend trust me i crushed 4 ever
gorgeous
sexy
attractive
sexy
romantic
like i heart you for sure
dates
love letters!!! time! heart throb
the ? is
4ever ?
devoted yes love
sweet with you rrr
crazy sweet luv forever
'heart'
he she will be always true soulmates
throb"

so what is on your refrigerator?