twenty six & two

Happy birthday to Dallas and Landon! I love that our family is so big that almost no one celebrates their birthday alone!

Landon andEmily thinking it's hilarious that they have put frosting on each other's faces :)

Dallas did have his traditional german chocolate cake for the party on Sunday. On his actual birthday on Thursday we went to dinner with his mom and I didn't want to have him be completely with out cake so I made this. Of course I got the idea from pinterest, and of course mine doesn't look quite as adorable haha! I also couldn't find a tee, I looked everwhere, I thought that golf tees were like bobby pins, I just thought they were everywhere.. I guess not, so I had to use one of my pink ones haha!

Seriously? Dallas broke is wedding ring... and had no idea how... Finding a replacement has been harder than picking one out in the first place, so we went in search of his joseph smith ring, we finally found it, after I got him a nicer one for his birthday. Isn't that always how it goes?! 



cali & family

we were so happy to get to spend a few days in cali with my family! it always feels like we have to wait too long to see each other, but in the case of my brother it had been two and a half years too long so i was especially thankful u to get to see him before he got deployed! if all goes to plan he'll be home again just in time for Christmas!

i sure love these guys!

san diego zoo safari park, and 8 cups of mt. dew

we didn't see alot of animals, but the elephants were my favorite (partly but not only because there was a fence to sit on covered by shade haha) and it was pretty cool that the lions were this close to the glass!

what can I say, we love the beach

santa monica pier, oh and sand crabs, there were millions of them, and they were kind of cool, but they really creeped me out

we really missed dani and cole, wish they could have been there with us :( but they were home with miss tia

and hopefully the next time we are all together and we'll be able to meet these three:) my brother's beautiful wife and gabe, and their cute new little one royce!