San Diego

Number of times I've seen the movie Anchorman: 1
Number of times out of 10 I want to say, "Stay classy, San Diego.  I'm Ron Burgundy?" whenever I think of or say San Diego:  10.

Anyway, we went to San Diego for a few days this month with my parents, Zach, Kourtney, Brigette, Tera and Austin.  Here's the rundown of our trip:

Thursday night:  Sam gets home from work and we head to Mesa to meet everyone.  Zach and Kourtney were supposed to be on their way already, but their car got broken into.  Thankfully, only a pair of sunglasses was stolen.  So we stay the night in Mesa.  We watched some of Jimmy Fallon's Late Show and this little skit happened.  Many laughs were had.

Friday:  Dad, Mom and Austin leave, and the rest of us go to get the window in the suburban fixed.  We leave and take a weird (scary) detour through a field and closed road, almost run out of gas because Zach forgot to get gas in Yuma,  and eventually show up at the rental house.  We went to the Rock N Roll Marathon Expo and Dad and Kourtney got the stuff for their run.  Back to the house.  Let me just tell you about this house: It was like the people who lived in it wanted to make some money so they just packed up for the weekend and left.  All of their stuff was still there, it was dirty, there was no room for anything of ours, there were dirty clothes in hampers, and mouse poo.  Not what we were expecting, so we got a refund and a hotel.

Saturday:  Sam and I went to a Spanish Session at the San Diego Temple with Mom and Dad.  Sam was excited, and the rest of us got to wear headphones the whole time.  I really just wanted to stay in the temple all day.  I just love going to the temple, and the San Diego temple is the biggest and most beautiful one I've ever been in.  I'm ready to go back now.

Bad picture of me! Yay!

After the temple we went to Sea World! Sam and I had never been before, and I was pretty stoked.  We didn't see everything, and Sam took a lot of pictures of the different animals, but I mostly just have pictures of some of the shows from my phone right now, so they'll have to do.  We had fun, and got to cross Sea World off of our list.

After Sea World, we wanted to go to Olive Garden so Dad and Kourtney could carb-load for the race the next day, but there was about a 2 hour wait, so we found a local place and waited for about 15 minutes instead.  We let a random Marine eat with us.  We're nice sometimes.  

Sunday:  Dad and Kourtney woke up really early to go run 13.1 miles (does anyone else find this completely insane?!). When they got back, we went to Coronado beach.  Sam had never seen the ocean before, and the inlets in town just were not enough for him.  We didn't swim since it was only about 70 degrees outside, but I made Sam walk out into the water.  We decided that when we're millionaires,  we're going to buy a house there and live there sometimes.  

 After the beach we headed to Petco Park for a DBacks vs Padres game.  Another first for Sam.  We got matchy-matchy jerseys for the game.  I was ridiculously excited about that.  Sam had to make his experience authentic.  He had 2 huge hot dogs, and of course, peanuts and cracker jack.  The Diamondbacks won 6-0! I think there were 3 home runs.  It was a pretty good game (for us DBacks fans, anyways!) 

Navy Appreciation day at Petco Park

Super excited!

On Monday we headed home.  Zach, Kourtney, Austin and the girls went to Disneyland.  Even though Sam has never been and I wanted to go, we decided to wait until we have kids old enough to enjoy Disneyland with.  Sam said he would feel silly going, even though I've told him several times that you can never be too old for Disneyland.

Good times.

  

Guilty Pleasure

I'm not really a big fan of the bubble-gum pop music... but there's just something about this song that makes me dance in the kitchen.  

Enjoy.  (and please don't judge)

Alive & Boring

Hi.  I'm here.  Just boring.  Seriously, my life has been super lame lately.  Usually, I'll be doing something, and I'll think, "hey, I could blog about this!" Well, NONE of that has been happening lately.  Boring = me.  Yup.  Absolutely nothing has been remotely exciting  enough to blog about.  So here we are... and I'm still stuck with the borings, but I'm going to try and get an acceptable post out of my life. Do you guys do Instagram? It's kinda cool I guess.  It's an app that you can edit and share your pictures with.  So I like it.  Especially because I follow a few people who have exciting lives and go to places like Italy and Florida and Japan and stuff.  Well here are some of my instagrams.

I am proof that all of AZ is not desert.  I've lived in AZ my whole life and I've never seen this kind of cactus with flowers.  

Zoey and I went for a walk yesterday.  It was only 91 degrees outside.  After 2.66 miles, she was a little tired and hot.

Did you know Sobe juices don't come in glass bottles anymore? Lame! Well, anyway, this was on my Sobe lid the other day.  It made me feel pretty good about myself.

We got Sam a BBQ grill.  And he taught me how to use it.  I can now grill up a mean chicken breast.  

This one isn't an Instagram, but it's important.  My mom's dog, Coco got bit by a rattlesnake the other day and died.  It was really sad.  Even though she couldn't figure out the doggy door, I really liked that little dog! Well, luckily, the day after Coco died, my mom was able to find a lady selling Shorkie puppies in Casa Grande and so they loaded up Kourtney's suburban and headed down there.  I met them in Casa Grande right when they were picking up the puppy.  Meet Angel.  She's super tiny and cute.  We miss Coco, but we are glad that my mom was able to get Angel.  

March Happened...

I just didn't really get around to blogging about it.  Here are some highlights and not-so-highlights.

• Started off the month right with my birthday! I turned 22 and Sam bought me a Kindle Fire.  I love it.  And I also love Sam (not just because he got me a present - but let's just say I don't love him less for it.)  And unlike last year and the year before, I had no classes or tests to take.  
• I got called to be Relief Society Secretary.  That means I'm not in Primary anymore! I am super excited to be around grown ups again.  Don't get me wrong, the kids in my class were (mostly) good and well behaved, but maybe now I'll actually get to know the people in my ward!
• We went to Joseph City for Founder's Day.  It was the first time I've been since high school I think.  Well let's just say that the fire department's BBQ is not the same without my dad in charge.  But my Grandpa Bushman was being inducted into the JC Hall of Fame, so we braved the yucky beans and watered down punch and listened to a very nice little speech and maybe got a little teary-eyed.
• After the BBQ/hall of fame ceremony thing, We went to Flagstaff to see The Hunger Games with Zach, Kourtney, and Austin.  We had to sit in the second row and I think I experienced a little motion sickness, but the movie was pretty good.  I also lost my ticket and had to show the cashier guy the transaction on my bank app on my phone so they'd let me in the theatre.  Whoops.  Thank goodness for smart phones.
• We are dog-sitting my mom's dog, Coco while they are in Utah visiting Blaine.  She can't figure out the dog door to save her life.  But she has figured out that if she's stuck outside for long enough, Zoey will open it for her.  Teamwork at its finest.  Coco is kind of like a little furry lump that follows me around and then lies down and waits for me to go somewhere else so she can repeat the process.  Here is what is behind me practically anywhere I go.  It's just what she does.

• I went visiting teaching for the first time since we moved into the ward.  I'm really on top of things.  
• I discovered Saved by the Bell is now on Netflix instant streaming.  Life is good.

Bragging Rights

I have always known I picked an awesome husband.  Here are some things he's done lately.

• Washed my car.
• Taken off my toenail polish (the glitter kind that is SUPER hard to get off).
• Paid off the washer and dryer.
• Not made fun of me for crying over silly things.
• Told me he's proud of me when I go running.  Even though I'm really slow.
• Scrubbed the shower until it literally sparkled.
• Got acrylic paint out of the carpet.
• Put an extra blanket on me in the morning before he leaves for work so I don't get cold.

Seriously people, he's the best.  The cat's pajamas.  The bee's knees.  The bomb dot com.