Meet Lindsay

This is Lindsay.

Lindsay and I met in High School, where our mutual love for Phantom of the Opera, books, and anything to do with Joaquin Phoenix made us best friends instantly. Lindsay and I started doing everything together including.......

Going to the lake....

Going to Death Cab for Cutie concerts.....

Flying on airplanes to go to EFY together....

Oh, and did I mention she was the Maid of Honor at my wedding??

So last January, Linsday left on an LDS mission to South Korea for 18 months which was SOO exciting! I really didn't realize how much I missed my very best friend I had for years until she came home last Wednesday!! And now that she's back we'll be

Going to the lake (this weekend!),

Seeing a Fab Four concert at the fair,

And basically just hanging out all the time.

I'm excited. : )

It's Good for the Soul

This picture just warms my heart.

I can't look at it without getting those butterflies in my stomach and the smallest hint of a smile on my face.

I love that my two boys are looking at each other and smiling, something I get to witness on a daily baisis.

I love that the weather is clear and the ocean beautiful.

I love that I have a husband who enjoys being active and getting out of the house with his family.

Most of all I love that I have such a beautiful family. It's just good for the soul.

4th of July Weekend: Part 2

So this morning Brian and I got out by about 10 am and headed to Avila Beach. Its the first time we've gotten around to a nice, relaxing day at the beach this summer. We've been wakeboarding at the lake a few times and sometimes Brian will go surfing in Morro Bay but we haven't been able to just go lay out at beatiful Avila. So we packed up our tunafish sandwiches (thanks to Brian), watermelon, Keebler Grasshoppers, and Vitamin waters and were off. It was SO beautiful! Its been so hot in Paso and the beach was not too hot, not too cool, and not too breezy!

We love this special boy : )

Doing his daily squats routine

I just LOVE his cute face!!!

This was Jackson's sweet getup. We brought his pack-n-play (yes, I was a little embarrassed at first but it ended up working out PERFECTLY!) and we bought a $15 umbrella from Walmart and Jackson had an awesome little place to play! He stayed out of the hot, gross sand and was surrounded by toys and treats and was able to stay cool!

Adorable.

Jackson didn't know how he felt about the cold water when it hit his feet...

...but he absolutely LOVED running along the cool sand!

What a good dad ; )

4th of July Weekend: Part 1

This year's 4th of July weekend started on Friday for us, when our AMAZING friends Alyssa & Jesse Hunt had everyone over for a Harry Potter wand making night!! Of course, me being the biggest HP nerd, I was asked to be the Harry Potter wand expert of the night (and, no, I'm not ashamed of it.) The night before I put together a long list of every wand that JK Rowling ever mentioned in her books. (Side note- Brian asked how I put together this list, to which I answered that I just happened to know where she had mentioned each wand in her different books and was able to locate them fairly quickly. Is it weird to brag about that??) Anyways, I also made delicious Nutella filled doughnuts and called them "Golden Snitches" to go with the Hunt's world famous homemade ice cream.

In case you haven't noticed, the vibrant purple shirt is my "Hairy Otter" shirt, with a picture of an otter with glasses and a scar on it. Yup.

I have to say, Jesse was pretty awesome when it came to wandlore! We had a straight up Mr. Ollivander on our hands....

Beautiful.

The whole Harry Potter loving crew

Ezra was showing me his celery stick wand

Ohhhhhh Harry Potter.......