Our trip to California over the weekend was wonderful, but too quick! We started out in my hometown, Newhall, Thursday night. We stayed with my dear friend Ashley, her mother, and her sister in their beautiful home (where I think I spent half my time growing up). It was strange to be back there after more than seven years has passed. It's weird how so much changes, yet so much seems to stay the same! We enjoyed seeing some other friends as well, Katie and Carrie, Belinda, Chelsea, and sweet baby Tylie. I am sad to say that we took no pictures during our less-than-24-hour stay there (although we had our family pictures taken by my friend Heather), but we did get some while visiting my brother and his family from Friday night to Sunday night in San Clemente.
We were especially excited about meeting our newest nephew, Crew. What a sweet baby! Here he is trying on his chili pepper Halloween costume with his big sister Mikelle.
On Saturday, we got to go watch our nephew Ty's flag football game. Ty is seven. He gave us his best football pose for this picture. ;)
In this picture, Ty is off the right. He scored an extra point and his team won the game!
We were sorry we didn't get out early enough Saturday to make it to Cole's tackle football game before Ty's. Here is a picture of the handsome, quickly-growing Cole (who turned 11 last week although he looks older) throwing the ball to a friend during Ty's game.
Luke is about a year and a half older than Carter. He is so nice to Carter and Carter fell in love with Luke all over again this visit. He followed him everywhere and if he ever became separated from him, he would get desperate to find "Yookie," wandering around calling out for him. Luke is a contagiously happy kid with scrumptious naturally curly blond hair!
Here's another picture of Luke -- this one was taken at Ty's football game at the park.
Mikelle is quite the character. She is in Kindergarten this year and is learning a lot fast! She goes to a Spanish-immersion school, so she already knows a lot of Spanish. She loves singing songs in Spanish. In particular, she likes to sing about the days of the week and months of the year. She lives out loud! I love this picture of her, especially because my brother Chad is smiling adoringly at his cute daughter in the background.
The following pictures of Mikelle were taken at the park during Ty's football game.
And here are some of our own Carter taken at the park during Ty's game.
Flower for Momma. What a sweet boy!
We celebrated Shane's birthday on Sunday while having dinner at Chad and Nicole's friends' lovely home. Here's a picture of the birthday boy with his cake! He's officially 29 now!
We don't have pictures from it, but we had an especially fun time on Saturday night. Chad and Nicole took us to a yummy local taco place called Wahoo's. Afterward, we headed over to Velvet yogurt for some delicious frozen yogurt. While we were there, multiple families and even the missionaries showed up, all people Chad and Nicole knew. It was a total party!
Thanks to all for a great little trip!
We got home this afternoon and already want to go back sometime soon! :)
Carter and I had fun during the day trying on different fun Halloween costumes. Carter especially liked this one, which he alternated between calling dinosaur and dragon.
