Laguna Beach 2012

Matthew and I have always loved Laguna Beach growing up. We have both grown up watching the same things, liking the same things, and loving the same things and I think that is why we are so much alike. We have been on many dates in Laguna Beach and our engagement pictures were taken there. Another great memory was when we went there and Matthew gave me a handmade wooden jewelry box he made in wood shop for Valentine's Day. We have shared many great memories there before marriage and now after and now we get to make many more with our kids!

Matthew has been coming to his grandparent's timeshares ever since he was little. It was one of his favorite past times and he had many great memories with his family at Laguna Shores in Laguna Beach. Since being with Matthew, we have often visited his grandparent's when they stayed at their timeshares. Every time we went to visit he would remember new things to tell me of the things he and his family did. After we got married, Grandma and Grandpa Johnson were not able to make it down and offered us their timeshare for the week. It was nice to get away and we had so much fun! Matthew and I had a blast playing guitar hero and walking around Laguna Beach. We were hooked after that and he mentioned to his grandma that if she ever didn't want her timeshares anymore that we would take them off her hands. This was the year it happened and we are so grateful and happy to own them. We had so much fun this year! Knowing that now we can come here every year gives us the greatest feeling plus a great vacation every year. We could always trade them for other timeshares in a different location but for right now, Laguna Beach is amazing!

 View from one of our timeshares

 My aunt's birthday was last month and my moms was Sept 8th. My dad gave them both cards with a fake ticket that I made that was for a Rascal Flatt concert Friday, Sept. 14th. They were so surprised and they had a blast at the concert!

 Matthew and I took the kids for a walk everyday. It was so nice!

 Laguna Beach

 My kiddie kids!

 We went to the beach everyday

 No one was taking this. I had it on a timer :)

 Matthew hiding his ice cream. He didn't want to look like that's all he did the whole week.

 Playing at the park they had in town

 Matthew boogie boarding

 Beached whale

 Eating at one of our favorite spots.... The Cliff. It's also the place where we kinda got engaged!

Things to come!

So it seems like I've only been blogging about my kids lately. I guess when you become a parent, your life is all about your kids and you kinda forget about everything else that's going on. Well here is some news about the family. I'm really excited for the next couple of months!

This weekend we are spending Mother's Day in Palm Springs! Then 2 weeks later we are flying, YES FLYING, to Utah for a week! I have not yet had the experience of taking children on a plane, so I'm kind of nervous but excited at the same time. Mason is a GREAT baby so I'm sure he will be perfect. I'm a little worried about Alexa since she now understands a lot more and she may get scared when we are taking off and landing. Lately she has been watching movies on an iPad and computers so we bought her cute kid headphones. She loves headphones! At first she was using mine that are little and go in your ear, but after she kept taking the rubber part off that makes it comfortable for your ear, I immediately thought she needed her own before she loses those little pieces. Plus since she holds the little ones to her ear the whole time she watches things I thought it would be better if she could actually wear the headphones that are like a headband.

They came with stickers so you could personalize it. She loves them. We are going to take her headphones on the plane so she can watch a cartoon or something and hopefully it will take her mind off the flight. Thank goodness it's not a long flight.

After we come back, the following weekend is a birthday weekend! On Saturday June 9th it's Matthew's 28th birthday, and on Sunday June 10th it's my brother's 29th birthday! Then a week later it's our 5 year anniversary and I'm taking Matthew on a special secret vacation for a couple of days while my parent's watch the babies! I'm so excited for this trip because Matthew has no idea what we are doing or where we are going and he won't find out until we are actually starting to drive to our destination. While we are at the secret location I have a few new experiences planned. Matthew and I are really into trying new things, so it's going to be a great experience for us! We both agreed that from now on we will switch off taking control of what we do on our anniversary and the other person does absolutely nothing, not even a card. This way we can spend the money on one big thing that we both will enjoy and the other person can feel the love that year. Since I had a brilliant plan I decided to take charge of what we do this year. Sorry, only my parent's know what we are doing so everyone else will have to wait until we come back from our trip! :) It's TOP SECRET!

Yosemite Vacation

Matthew and I went to Yosemite from Sunday to Friday. It's been a family tradition to go every year before the new school year. I didn't take any pictures except for these ones on the last morning we were there. Matthew and I have seen bears in Yosemite before but this year we saw one that was in front of the cabin right next to us! My brother goes out and runs every morning and I was getting Roxy our dog to go potty and the next thing I know my brother bangs on our door saying bear bear! I pushed Roxy back in her carrier grabbed my camera and walked out our door to see this cute brown bear next door. It was eating this peanut butter thing. A guy walked by and kinda scared the bear and asked my dad if it was a bear? My dad said, no it's a deer. The guy then said, oh it looked like a bear. Then my dad said, no it's just a deer in a Bear's costume. The guy said, oh! haha we were all laughing so hard. He worked for Yosemite so I hope his job wasn't something important that can cause big problems if he isn't paying attention because clearly he couldn't tell a bear from a deer. We also found out our dog loves the water. When we went down to our favorite beach called Cathedral we put her on her leash and she followed us into the water, played with her water toys, and swam swam swam! We had such a good time with her this trip. She was such a good girl! This was a great family trip! My parents have decided to go to Yosemite every other year so we can do a house boat the year we don't go to Yosemite. Can't wait! Especially since there will be two little babies next year. My brother's boy and my whatever it is! :) Pictures to come on my belly soon. :)

Road Trip!

Okay! It looks like we will be going up to Utah on Sunday! :) We will be staying in Vegas at this Hotel called Sam's Town. I stayed there a lot when I was little and I really liked it because it has waterfalls and a fake mountain in the middle of the hotel. At the top of the mountain there is a cave with a fake wolf standing outside of it. It's really cool. Every now and then the wolf will howl. Early Monday we will be leaving Vegas and in Utah by 10am at the latest. It all depends on what time we want to get up. It's exciting to think about going up there. Even though its not during Christmas it will still be lots of fun to see everyone and Utah! I haven't been up there in at least a couple of years! I love taking trips outside of my bubble! This will be our first real road trip where we call the shots! I guess we did drive to Yosemite pretty much by ourselves because halfway toward Yosemite we had to get on an airplane to fly to Washington for Matthew's brothers wedding and once we got back to CA we were on our own, but only for like 4 hours. So yeah, we're excited!