Happy Holidays! Matt and I returned home from our two week vacation with his family in California! We had such a blast and definitely couldn't complain about the weather in the 70's! We stayed at Matt's parents house. Thanks again Roger and Cheryl for everything!! We had soo much fun! This is kinda a long post of pics... enjoy!
Mine and Matt's 1st married Christmas!
My 1st Christmas away from home. Which was hard, but the Heyman's treated us so well and
we had a lot of fun.
I helped Cheryl decorate the Christmas tree! The theme was the beach which I had never
seen before and it turned out very pretty!
1st time going to the Newport temple!
On our 4 month anniversary we went to the Newport Temple with Matt's parents and it was beautiful inside and out! After we went to CPK.. can't go wrong there!
A day later we went to Balboa Island where Matt's sister lives. It is so pretty down there.
This bird really liked hanging around Matt, his wing was hurt and I felt bad.
The whole family met us at Balboa island and we went out to eat at Ruby's on the pier .This is a view from the ferry we took to get to and from the island.
After that we walked around the island and looked at all the beautiful lights!
My 1st Christmas with out snow!
Christmas Day we woke up and opened presents, then we headed to Mike and Shauna's (aunt and unlce) house for food, more presents and fun! It was beautiful weather that day so we played out side. Matt is throwing the football.
1st time at Mike and Shauna's
The kids playing badminton.
We all played softball.. and Mr. Indredible showed up. (Jaden)
Their dog Snickers.. he was soo cute!
The following week I went with Matt's sisters (lisa and Shauna)
and his mom to Orange, Orange county. We went to this cute little cupcake shop. They took an original Tiffany's ring box and matched the blue color to their walls.
Tasted just like a snickerdoodle
Cheryl sittin on the cute bench.
1st time going to Orange.
we went with everyone to the tide pools at Dana Point and saw a ton of Sea Stars.
It was such a nice day!
1st time at the Rose Parade!
Every year as tradition Matt's whole family attends the Rose Parade! They reserve this big median and the night before they take shifts staying out to make sure no one steals it. This year Matt and his cousin's shift was from 2 am to 7 am. We celebrated New years by going out to eat and then drove up to LA. I stayed at his Aunt's (thanks again Mike and Shauna) and Matt slept outside. Roger woke him up at 6:30 when he got to the route and Matt went and slept in our car until the parade started..what a trooper-this gave us front row seats at the parade and it was awesome!!!
Audrey and Carter. Some one in the family brings this "you're 1/2 way there" sign every year. It's a 5 1/2 mile route and we are at mile 4 1/2 so they only have 1 mile to go but it's funny to see the looks on their faces!.. some get really mad because they are so tired..but several new it was a joke because they've been in the parade so many times. One girl from another state saw and was like "I Hope!"..haha
Matt look sooo tired here.. he got hardly any sleep
this pic is for LUKE! I'm glad i finally found the dragon he was talking about!
For those of you who don't know.. the floats are strictly made out of organic living things.. they can't even be in the parade until they have been examined. So everything you see consists of flowers or seeds or fruit , leaves etc. everything edible you could think of. It was really cool!
this one had a cool water feature I liked.
The day before we left to come home, we went to the beach again. It was so nice out.
Matt soakin up the sun.. and loving the cold wet sand!
The water was a little chilly bit it sure didn't deter the surfers and swimmers!
This was on Jan. 2nd.
After the beach we met up with everyone for some biking on beach cruisers!
Bradli and Heather
Roger surprised Cheryl with a beach cruiser for christmas..it was brown and pink, so cute!
The Browns and Saunders rode Surrys
That was our fun vacation in a nutshell. Now back to reality!
