Birthday Birthday Birthday!!!!

February has been a very busy month when it comes to birthdays in this family! over the past couple weeks we celebrated a few birthdays! For my mom's birthday we all got together at her house and had a yummy dinner and dessert at her house and all of us kids got together and got her a new purse! yay!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

Next we had Jeffrey's birthday, I got all of his friends together at his favorite place, WAHOOS!!!! we talked, ate, had fun with the mustaches I got everyone and then enjoyed some Mint Chocolate chip ice cream cake! 

THEN we had Val's birthday at Cafe Rio! but we had an extra special surprise this night! AMBER, JADE AND NOAH!!!!!!! They are here visiting from Kansas and we are all SO excited! I have missed them all so much! I can't wait to spend the next few days with them! Here are some pics from Val's birthday night!

Happy birthday to EVERYONE! :)

Distance

Jeff has been away on a business trip for FIVE days... I know five days is nothing compared to what other wives have to go through but man is it tough. I have had a rough couple of days at work and I just miss coming home to him and forgetting about my stress from work. And trying to sleep? Forget about it!

BUT... This guy comes home tomorrow morning and I can't wait!!!!

LOVE you Mr. Bean!!!

Cody Bean the Baller

My little brother in law is a B-Baller! ha He plays on San Clemente's high school Varsity team and Jeff and I love to go to the games and cheer him on!  This week Jeff was out of town and he missed a good one! Cody played a ton, scored a few point and got in a couple fights! And to top it off... THEY WON! Woot Woot! I had my camera there and I really loved getting some pictures of him in action. I'm pretty sure I embarrassed him but what are big sisters for right?! :)

Warming up!

SC Wins!

and what kind of game would it be with out... FANS! #11

Go Cody!

Surfer Boy

So if you haven't already heard my husband is such a surf bum! When we lived in Utah for our first year of marriage he missed the surf so much I felt bad when he would talk about it. So since moving down here to San Clemente I try to encourage him to go early in the mornings before work. ( Or I might just love having the bed to myself for a couple hours. ;) Either way I love that Jeff has a passion for something and I enjoy watching him. We both had this past Monday off so I told him I wanted to wake up and go watch him and take some pictures with my new camera! It was so beautiful for the first hour then the fog rolled in and it became FREEZING so we ran home and got back into our warm bed. Here are a few good photos before the fog!

Jeff and His friend Don 

Christmas Time is Here!

So this Christmas was mine and Jeff's first christmas since moving back to California and I was so excited to spend time with our families and really enjoy the time with them without having to rush off to the next party. As tradition goes we go to my Mom's house for Christmas Eve. Unfortunately I didn't have my amazing Christmas present from Jeff yet, ( I got a Canon Rebel T2i!!! ) so there are no pictures from that party :( We opened up our annual Christmas Eve PJ shirts, ate, laughed and skyped with Amber, Blake and the babies in Kansas! 

BUT! the biggest thing that happened this Christmas Eve was Miss Kurly Kins got engaged to her now Fiance TJ! 

Congrats Kurls and TJ! We are soooooo happy for you guys! Let the wedding planning begin! :)

On Christmas morning we woke up at Jeffrey's parent's house and went to church then came home and opened up our Christmas. Wow, I was spoiled this year! We lounged around, ate, slept and then headed over to Jeffrey's Grandparents house for dinner. My mom and Val come over too and we all had fun playing games! 

A few days after Christmas we went out to my Dad's house to celebrate Christmas with him and Shelley!  We had a "Very Merry Pinterest Christmas!" It was a lot of fun! Shelley Pretty much made a lot of the girls gifts from ideas off of Pinterest! It was so much fun! 

" A Bag of Dough"

My Nephew Luke is the CUTEST little guy! and so funny!

We ended the night with a little Dance off smack down!

We had such an amazing holiday with all of our families and I am truly so thankful for our family and friends!

One year down!

So again I am a horrible wife and I did not blog about our anniversary when it came upon us about mmm... over two months ago! :( but here it is now! Yay! So we started our weekend by going down to Downtown San Diego and stayed the night at the W hotel. We were told it was a fun updated modern hotel and right when we walked in I could see this was true! As we were standing there waiting to check in, I see a guy standing next to me eating a bag of ruffles and it took me a second to realize it was Darrel from The Office! I tried to discrete and get Jeff to realize but hen he walked out and I was able to talk out loud and tell him. I said "I should have asked him for a picture" So we go on and check in then head over to the elevators to go up to our room. As we are waiting I look over and see Darrel walking over to wait next to us. and the words just come out of my mouth. "Can I get a picture with you?" He replies "oh sure" as he rubs his greasy Ruffle filled hands on his jeans. Now here is when I get REAL awkward... I say "We just bought season 7 last night" (We really did) then i throw up a peace sign!!!! All that is going through my head is YOU'RE AN IDIOT! HE'S BLACK! 

(You can see the bag of Ruffles in his hand. Ha)

But he was so nice and then we enjoyed a really awkward silent elevator ride together... lets hope I don't run into any really big super stars soon... who knows what I'll do!

We then we went to our room exchanged our presents! :) Then we went out for a nice romantic dinner. Steak! Yum! We walked around the Gas Lamp district and shopped a bit, then stopped and had some oh so good ice cream at the Ghiradelli store! Double Yum! That night we also did the old 1 year anniversary tradition and ate the top of our wedding cake. I really thought it wasn't going to be all that great but Jeffrey's mom put it together for us and put a package of strawberries which ended up working out great since we didn't have any forks so we used the strawberries to eat the cake with! Oh my! It was actually really good! The next day we relaxed and of course shopped and took our time coming home. 

It was a great couple of days and I am so grateful to have Jeffrey as my husband I couldn't ask for anything more! Love you Babe!