Happy Easter!

Today Cody and I were able to enjoy a fun Easter barbecue with his family in Spanish Fork. It was very nice! And of course we ate too much. After eating, the kids had an Easter egg hunt (of course!), so that was fun to watch. Here are a few photos from the festivities:




In other news, we've noticed more and more people mentioning our lack of procreation recently .. Is it selfish of us wanting to get into a bigger house, pay our debt down, and make sure Cody's job is going to be reliable? I know that if we were to wait until we can afford to have kids, we wouldn't ever have kids. But I don't think it's unreasonable to make sure we can provide for said offspring. Don't get me wrong, I am so excited to have a family with Cody. Nothing would make me happier than to stay home and raise a family in the Gospel. But, that's just not realistic right now. *sigh* What it comes down to is that this is our business and we have to do what is right for us. Some people have been able to start their families right after the wedding, and that's awesome. Moral of the story: Relax, we'll have kids soon enough! :)

California: Day 4

Today we attempted to eat our leftovers from Friday for breakfast.. and it was gross! Luckily, I had an apple from breakfast yesterday, so all was not lost! After packing everything up and checking out of the hotel, we drove up to Rialto for one last visit with Rusty and Michelle before going over to a local tree nursery to get some more souvenirs. This guy was really funny.. and we stayed way too long! We bought a Chinese Windmill Palm (can survive down to 5 degrees!), an ultra-dwarf orange tree, and a weird orange tree that makes really small ones that are sour. The two fruit tress will stay inside the house until we can get a little green house figured out for them, but the palm should be able to go out as soon as Cody can plant it.



After spending the rest of our cash ... We left for home! We stopped in Barstow to eat at the original Del Taco .. It was pretty good! I wasn't expecting it to taste different, and it may just be because it's in California with fresher ingredients, but I was pretty impressed! The chicken-soft taco I got was definitely bigger and it had tomatoes!


The drive home was pretty boring .. I got to surf the internet for most of the trip, but that got old after a while. So, we listened to music the rest of the trip. The trees in the back was pretty comical, and the wheel cover came off our car about half-way home. Cody was able to fix it (well, cut it off!), so it was ok.


Well, we made it safe. I'm really missing it already, but I'll be ok *sniff* 'Night ya'll!

California: Day 2

Today we headed over to the beach which was surprisingly close to our hotel! (only about 5 minutes!) Cody was still feeling a little under the weather, so we mostly just walked around and enjoyed the sun.



From there, we drove around a bit and found a nice little spot for lunch. We went to Subway to grab some lunch and went back to the spot to eat. We shared with some pigeons who quickly became our best friends .. It was pretty funny!


After eating, we walked down to the water to warm up from the cold drinks and shade. We ended up staying until about 5 just watching the surfers and amazing waves. It was so nice to just sit wand enjoy the scenery!


When we were finally able to tear ourselves from the beach, we went to dinner with Cody's Aunt and Uncle Michelle and Rusty, along with their daughter Marcy and her friend. We went to Claim Jumpers and it was pretty yummy! After eating, we went over to the local Walmart to look at their plants (since we bought a nice spider house plant last time that has been doing really well the past two years). We didn't really see anything special, so we just went back to the hotel and to bed!

Blogspot formally known as write12

Cody and I have been married for almost three years (Feb. 18), so to keep up to date with family and friends, I've decided to create this blog for us! I also have a photoblog (sepiatonelovin12.blogspot.com) and a blog for my writing (write12.blogspot.com) .. If you are interested in viewing either of the other blogs after January, please email me (alexithymia12@gmail.com) and I will invite you, they're going to be by invitation only. This one will be for our updates and such, so feel free to comment! Here goes nothin'...