Childhood Summer

We have been here in California for a month now and I feel so much like i'm enjoying a childhood summer. The orginal plan was for Max to work for the Pest control company while I find some side summer job. My first week or so here I did quite a bit of job hunting. After a month of only hearing back from one person who was interested until I mentioned I was only living here in the summer we decided I would just fill my time with other productive activities! So far i have spent a lot of time with the other wives of pest control boys. We have all become great friends Marissa (Richard's wife) and I have already known eachother for years. I just met Krystal Wood and Britney Lewis this summer and they are great, they both have young children. I have been learning to be somewhat crafty. Marissa and I workout nearly everyday which feels great. I have become the perfect wife by making sure the house is clean and dinner is on the table when Max comes home from work. ;) I have been catching up on journal writing and researching a lot about babies and insurance because that may be coming up soon. I have whole heartily taken on the goal of finishing the Harry Potter books. When it get's warmer (next week hopefully) we look forward to taking advantage of the pool in our courtyard! Needless to say i'm going to take advantage of this last summer I will not have to worry about being a grown up. Just playing, swimming and some wifely duties (which i absolutely love anyway). My husband is so amazing for allowing me to do this. He is having a lot of success with his job which is great news!!

Reecer's wedding

This last weekend we took a short trip to Reno for Max's "twin's" wedding. Reece is one of Max's best friends. They were roommates the year before we got married. They try to be gymnasts and acrobats together. Reece was a groomsman at our wedding and helped us so much. We wanted to make sure we were at his wedding and could do anything to help! We left Friday evening and drove four and a half hours to Reno. We arrived around 11 pm and we were invited to sleep in Mary Ann's (the bride) parents office. we were just happy to be able to stay anywhere because we weren't planning on coming the night before. We woke up and headed to the Reno temple. I found out that I had left my temple recommend in California in my temple bag so luckily we arrived an hour early and were trying to get ahold off some of our bishops. We realized we hadn't even met our current bishop but we tried calling him as well as our BYU bishop. We couldn't contact any bishops and after awhile a counsilor in the temple presidency allowed me to enter. I felt so silly. It is such a weird feeling to feel so close to the temple and worry that you wont be able to go in. I always want to be prepared to enter the temple! Anyway, we were able to attend the beautiful sealing which was the first live sealing we were able to witness since ours a year ago. Everything was so beautiful and we are so Happy for Reece and Mary Ann. We didn't really know anyone else at the wedding but we met many people and many of the came up to Max and said "oh, your'e the twin," "you're the fun roommate" "you're the gymnastics guy." It was good to know that Max had a positive reputation among the Jones family.

Reece and Mary Ann Jones! Our specific responsibility was to check into their hotel and decorate for them. We were so excited to do this. We decorated with Rose Petals, dove chocolate, martenellis, and some other fun gifts and essentials! We of course left a baby in the room seeing as Reece was the one that gave us our first child, Dot! we meant to take pictures of the hotel room but we forget.

20 minutes before the reception ended we found out that no one had decorated their car so we took a quick run to Walgreens and got whatever decorating supplies we could find and decorated the car at a rapid pace! It turned out pretty decent!

We are so happy for Reece and Mary Ann.

After spending all day doing wedding stuff Max and I were remembering so many details of our wedding which we haven't really documented but really want to remember. So I am warning you that we may have a long post coming about our wedding even though it was a year ago!

Mother's Day

No, I am not currently a mother, but i do plan someday to become one and so we celebrated! We are living in California as part of a pest control selling team. Among our team there are 4 married couples and 2 of these couples have young children. The lovely men of the team decided that they would get together and make dinner for all the wives! (and do the dishes). This was a brilliant idea. Us women enjoyed a great meal with no clean-up. Thank you men! Later, Max surprised me with flowers and chocolate, woohoo i'm a lucky girl.

Anniversary in San Francisco

This weekend was our one-year anniversary!! This year has flown by and been the best year of our lives! Life just seems to keep getting better. We just moved to Merced California (Central) last week for the summer. We decided to take a trip to San Francisco while we are living close. Neither of us had ever been so we just went to explore. We walked around pier 39, saw Alcatraz, went to the aquarium, ate at the Hard Rock Cafe, and walked around the city together!
In the Aquarium!

We didn't ride the trolly but we got a picture on it!

We experienced the Hard Rock Cafe! It was mostly because everywhere else had seafood and we just had seafood the day before. It was an overpriced experience but we loved it!

I love my husband and I'm so happy that I get to spend eternity with him.

Zion's National Park

When finals were done, we decided to go camping with our good friends, Richard and Marissa Patterson. We headed about 4 hours south to camp and hike at Zion's National Park. We arrived in the evening and set up camp. My cousin Kim came with her husband Tyler for the evening. We made steak and potato tin foil dinners and ate s'mores and played games.

Day 2- we went on two of the many hikes in zion canyon. The first hike was steep and strenuous. This is the view from the top..
Steep switchbacks. (Willard's Wiggles)

There were parts of the hike that were very steep with very high cliffs on each side. We had to go up holding on to the chain. Scary!!
Looking towards the gigantic mountain we were about to conquer.

We enjoyed climbing in the random caves in the rocks!

Our group at the top of the mountain.

Looking into the canyon!

Kim and Tyler!

After the first strenuous hike we decided to do one more less strenuous hike.

We hiked around some beautiful waterfalls. It was such a fun and short trip and I'm starting to appreciate some of the beauty of Utah.

Sunday Picnic

So the weather here has been great when it isn't snowing and we have been enjoying sunday afternoon walks. Last sunday we packed ham sandwiches, orange juice, apple slices, and no-bake cookies and walked to a park that we had never been to before. Max insisted on bringing our children (Dot and Penelope). I am so embarassed of our children. Anyway, we had so much fun talking and eating and playing Dice!

Max's Commercial

Max got to be in a commercial for his work. He had so much fun. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWKtrPwMHo