Visiting Dog Beach

A couple of Thursdays ago Michael took a sick day from work. We decided that we were going to take Sage to the beach since she had never been and it was suppose to be really warm, and we didn't want to suffer through our day together.

The beach was so beautiful. This is a river that runs into the ocean in Del Mar. The dog beach is on the North side of Del Mar and it was so beautiful.

The other side of the beach is pretty much blocked off by rocks so it makes the beach nice and secluded and gives the dogs limitations to run and play. We were surprised how many people were at the beach since it was a Thursday and people were suppose to be working, but I guess we were suppose to be too. :-)

Sage really enjoyed the water. At first she was so overwhelmed with all the other dogs running around. But once she discovered the water she loved it. The other dogs were swimming all the way across the river. She was pretty afraid of going in over her head. So we would throw her a stick and she would watch the other dogs and do what they did. She would check back and make sure that she was doing it right.

Then she would bring the stick back. She was such a good girl and after a while she was listening better and paying more attention to us than the other dogs. Unfortunately, we didn't let her off her leash at all because she is still too young to stay focused. But she still enjoyed herself.

In the end she was dripping wet but nice and cool.

The poor girl was so tired after her long day on the beach. Not to mention she was freezing! She had all of her body she could in the tiny bit of sun coming in the car and her arms under her to stay warm.

And here she is under her beach towel staying warm on our drive home. Yes our dog sleeps curled up in a blanket every night, no matter summer or winter!

Yum Yum

In my free time I really enjoy cooking and baking, especially baking. Here are a few of my experiments over the past couple of days.

Mmm... Homemade tortilla dough!

It was quite a challenge to roll it our into a nice circle, and I don't have a tortilla press so doing it by hand was really interesting.

In the end they were delicious with honey drizzled over them fresh off the stove. Probably one of my favorite snacks!

Okay second experiment, this one was inspired by my Mom. The other day we were chatting with my parents on skype and my Dad mentioned that my mom had made this killer caramel corn. After that I could not get caramel corn out of my head, so I had to make some.

Here it is hot out of the oven! It was a little chewy but tasted wonderful!

Michael and Sage enjoying the caramel corn. Unfortunately Sage never got to actually taste it, but she sured did try!

San Diego Zoo

Today we went to the San Diego Zoo with some friends, David and Sonja. We had a lot of fun.

I've been looking for a good hiking hat and i finally found one. GO figure it was at the zoo.

We saw lots of animals. here are some:

We have year passes ( and to the wild animal park) so we are going to go back of course. Our next adventure might have to be to the wild animal park.......

Girls Night

Tonight it is just me and Sage, the girls of the house. Michael is at a training camp out and so Sage and I are all alone. It is the first night I will have to be away from Michael since we have gotten married and I am not looking forward to it.

Sage is missing him already she keeps waiting at the door to see if he is going to come back in from outside, So we are going to watch all of Sages favorite movies starting with Beauty and the Beast and then fiddler on Roof. Hopefully that will keep us distracted because I don't know how to break the news to her that he will not be home until tomorrow night...

California Adventure of a life time

On Wednesday Michael and I took work off and went to California Adventure and Disneyland. We were fortunate because Michaels Aunt Judi knows someone that has worked there for 24 years allowing him to get us in for free! We were so excited to go. I had never been to either and Michael had never been to California Adventure.

We went on almost all of the rides, I think it would be near impossible to go on every single one in just one day. So we went on as many as we could. My favorite was the Toy Story Mania 3D shooting game. Where you ride around in a cart and shoot plates, ring aliens, and pop balloons. Another good one was Tower of Terror, the feeling of free falling will never get old.

This was us on the tea cups before the ride started. We ended up spinning so fast that we felt sick and extremely dizzy!

It was such a beautiful day we could not have asked for better.

On the King Arthur Carrousel

On my White Stallion on the King Arthur Carrousel

Waiting in line for the best ride ever ... Toy Story Mania in 3D! Woot Woot

Happy Valentines Day

Hello February!

Wow how the weeks have flown by... There is so much to catch up on.

For our 1 year anniversary Michael and I went to a place called Huntington Library,It is right next to Pasadena, CA. It was breath taking. We were there all day and did not ever see half of the grounds. We visited 3 of the 6 art galleries, the Japanese garden, The bonsai tree garden, part of the Australia garden (the third meet the parents movie was being filmed while we were there so we could not tour the whole garden), The Lily Ponds, and the desert garden. Which the desert garden was not that interesting because it looked like California. The other exhibits were fantastic and it was so nice to enter into a new world at every different exhibit.

This room to the left was my absolute favorite!!! It was the Library. This place is amazing ... they have the original Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Jane Austins, Lord Tennyson, first publications of the blood lines of numerous countries, journals from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on top of the Gutenberg Bible. The Huntington's devoted their life to finding rare and significant writings. The Huntington library is closed on certain days of the year to allow scholars to come and study the books and scrolls that they have in their collection. To say the least it was extraordinary!

Our trip was wonderful and we were so glad that we were able to take it. We have been so blessed in Michael's job. He really enjoys it and they are good to him. We are so thankful for all that Heavenly Father has done for us. Even though we may not see it at first. Recently I have received a new calling in our ward as Primary Chorister. I was VERY hesitant and new that the calling was coming. I was so worried when they finally extended the call to me ... I just wasn't sure if I could do it. But after much praying and pleading with my Heavenly Father I realized that he is supporting me 100% as is Michael and the entire Primary Presidency. I am so glad that I had the courage to accept this calling I have already felt the growth.