The ANGELS have my HEART...so does the BEACH!

Oh the beach. One of the millions of things I miss in California. And then there's the Angels baseball team.
Who are on FIRE right now!!

We went to the beach in the morning with my auntie & her cute cute kiddos! Oh man they are awesome!

Raquelle

Lucas

Jordan & Thomas

So Lucas would not enter the water at first..then once we made him he wouldn't leave the water! It was so rad! He would hold my hand & Mike's hand...then if a wave splashed him in the eye he would hurry & wipe his face & grab our hand again! He was freaking! He loved it!


Mike's hot!
Oh how I miss the beach...laying out, surfing, the waves, people watching, freezing in the water...it's wonderful!

PLAY BALL!

Something about baseball...I don't know what it is...I think growing up watching it all the time, but I LOVE IT! And I LOVE the ANGELS! So after the beach we rushed over to the Angels game...& I mean rushed! Oh but it was worth it! They were playing the Red Sox. So I was ready for a brawl. We were decked out in our Angels garb.
Isn't it pretty. Every time we go to an Angels game I have to get one thing.

Pink cotten candy! YUM! It was such a killer game too! Oh man we were shutting all those band-wagon Boston fans mouths shut with our home runs & triples!


We got some good photos in while we were cheering our team on to a 11 to 3 VICTORY!



Plus it was BIG BANG FRIDAY! A great way to end a great game! I have to say...California has some AMAZING fireworks! Man the rocked!

D to the ISNEYLAND

So whilst in CALIFORNIA one of our many adventures was
DISNEYLAND & CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE
It was AWESOME! I hadn't been to either of these parks for a while & I forgot how much fun they were! We went on a Thursday so even though it was Summer it wasn't too crowded. I think the longest line we were in was for Indiana Jones & it was like 50 min if that even. If felt like longer. But we all had a fun time. We first went to California Adventure. They have a few fun rides. Those are the ones we went on. Soarin' over California...which is an awesome ride where you are in a theater but flying in a seat...did that make sense?...& you go over California & smell Oranges & the Ocean. It's rad! Then we went on the Hollywood Tower of Terror! This one drops you 13 stories! Most of it's in the dark too! Then we went on California Screamin'
the roller coaster they have there that shoots you out way fast! It's SO fun! & if you know me you know I LOVE coasters!

A little family picture. & no ladies...my brother is not engaged, he just had a lady friend come down for the weekend.
We went to a place in California Adventure where you can figure out what Disney character you are! It was in the Beasts Library! Oh man how I wish I had a library like this! With real books of course. We all figured out which character we were..
I was Tinker Bell. Mike was Woody. Brooksy was Jiminy Cricket & Nick was Aladdin. Jordyn was The little Mermaid & my dad was Tarzan. My mum was the Queen of Hearts (har har) but she didn't like that so she had a re-do & ended up with Lady from Lady & the tramp. It was pretty cool. So we said our good bye to California Adventure and crossed into Disneyland. Oh the happiest place on earth! It had been a while indeed! It was a lot of fun too! We went on the new SPACE MOUNTAIN ride! It's pretty sweetical! It was all decked out! You have to go try it out! Oh Pirates.... How I love ye! They made new "additions" to Pirates of the Caribbean. There are quite a few Cap'n Jack's in there. I got in trouble for taking these pictures. Apparently the "characters" don't like the flash...yeah, I don't get it either.


My hat was the coolest. Ok..onto the second coolest thing at Disneyland. The TEA CUPS! Oh yeah! Mike didn't want to go fast so Nick and I went together on this one!
I wanted to go as fast as possible! I knew I could count on Nick! We totally kick My dad & Mike's trash! Man it was worth being dizzy for like 10 min! I wanted to go again!

If I had a backyard I would totally have these... We went to visit the Mad Hatter

He made Mike try on a Happy Birthday hat since his birthday was within the next few days. We headed over to the Peter Pan ride. I know you are thinking that this in a tiny top ride..BUT...it is an AWESOME ride! For reals! Go try it out next time you go! It's pretty cool! You get to ride in a Pirate Ship! We went on a few more rides then we all tried our luck at the Sword in the Stone.


Nick almost had it....

so did Mike.

It was a good time had by all.
Farewell Disneyland

Until we meet again.

Oh how I've missed you...

California.

So we went on a little trip. To visit mi familia. We had it all planned out...well most of it planned. We left on a Tuesday & came back on Monday. Man it was awesome. What made it even better was that we missed the earthquake. Anyway, Wednesday we were suppose to go see my favorite Late Late night TV host Craig Ferguson.
He's on CBS right after David Letterman. {Another favorite of mine.} But I don't know what it is about Craig, maybe his scottish/british accent. I've always had a thing for an accent. Plus he's just down right funny. I'll be watching it in bed while Mike is sleeping & I'll have to go into the other room because I'm laughing too loud. Dang he's good. Check him out if you wanna laugh. SO....we drove all the way to Hollywood. 2 hours to be exact. & as we are walking up to the CBS lot where we needed to go be to go to the show this guy in a black V-neck tells us we're too late & they are full. That people had been waiting since noon to get into the show. What?! How come I reserved tickets to the show online then V-neck? Well you can come back tomorrow the wanna be day's of our lives actor says. No I'm not coming back tomorrow, I'm not driving another 2 hours, PLUS I'm going to Disneyland tomorrow. So as pissed as I was that I wasn't going to see Craig and Sir Ben Kingsley & the crap I gave my brothers for making me 10 minuets late {we definitely would have gotten in if we were there 10 min earlier.} We went shopping in Beverly Hills.
It did make me feel better. I got a bloody hot purse & some killer threads. Not to mention some rad accessories. So after our adventures in Beverly Hills we went to visit my Grandparents. They are in an "assisted living" home. My poor dear grandma has Dementia & my grandpa had a bit of a drinking problem so he would fall a lot & break bones. So together they were having a hard time in there own place. They are doing SO much better where they are...but I know my grandma is taking it harder. But it was wonderful to see them & dear old grandpa can't hear a thing but you know they loved seeing us rascals. After all the driving & shopping we were dead tired. Plus we had to sleep for our Magical day to follow.

The 4th

I know I know...Its been a while since I've got one of these things up here! I've been busy!

Anyway....



My favorite holiday..oh the 4th of JULY. Watermelon, BBQ's, heat, parades, & best of all...fireworks! It came & went, but it was a good day & I got paid for it too! I love that. So My dear husband had to miss out on some of the festivities due to his 'demanding' job. But I survived without him.

It all started with a parade.
I could not believe how many people could fit in Provo. & not to mention how rude they could be. {I'm just saying BYU.} It was my first experience with the Utah County crowd. At a parade that is. But it was a pretty darn good parade. They had balloons,


pirate floats


Me & Averi trying to be pirates!
& even Glenn Beck was there! Kudos Provo...Kudos.
We went to IHOP after to eat breakfast & I took this pictures of Averi & I though it was cute...
After that we went to the Freedom Festival. Which is kinda like a street fair. I bought a water & it was warm. Who sells warm water? Then after a quick nap we went to Mike's Uncle's for a BBQ and a wicked awesome firework show!

I didn't know if they were selling fireworks or what. But his uncle spent $1200 on fireworks...yeah.
It was a pretty good show. Music and all.








My cute mother-in-law Donna yelling at David to let him know that the cops were there! No tickets at least! Oh don't worry...he still had 100 fireworks left!

Even Jack was patriotic.