Fun Saturday

This past Saturday Jared and I spent some time with our good friends Mike and Katie. We spend the morning doing a session at the Newport Beach Temple, then afterwards we went to Fashion Island and had lunch at Red Robin.

Sometimes when Jared and Mike get together they make things called 'Trash Art'. Well this time they decided to make an art piece that reflected everything they ate at lunch. This included their freckled lemonade, onion rings, hamburger, Mikes sandwich, and someother things. They were very proud of their creation so I took some pictures.

Jared and Mike with their creation.

They were so proud!

After lunch we wanted to go to the beach, but it was cloudy and a little rainy so we decided to walk around Fashion Island. We found the Pet store... I have decided that Jared and I need a puppy. I found this Yorkie Terrier that was too adorable and that would have fit in our little family so perfectly. However, since we dont have a home of our own right now we cant have a pet. :( Isn't that little face so adorable??

Finally around 1:00 the clouds parted and it was sunny, so we hurried to our cars and drove to the closest beach, which was Corona Del Mar (not my favorite). We had so much fun!! Jared and Mike spent their time playing in the waves and body boarding. Then we all took a walk and looked at some of the houses near by. (I wouldn't mind living there!!)

Body Surfing Wipeout!

Bestie Day At Disneyland

Andrea and I decided to have a Girls Day and go to Disneyland after work. It was so much fun! I haven't had a Girls Day in a long time. We went on a ton of little kid rides and for anyone that knows me, knows I love doing that!

'Alice in Wonderland'
'Sleeping Beauty Carousel'

'Roger Rabbit'

Cute Little Tidbits

I've started a new blog. This blog is for cute clothes, amazing quotes, pictures from my favorite photographers, and other things. Click the picture.

Tribute to Great Grandma Ruth

My Great-Grandma, Ruth Goodwin, passed away on Monday, June 1, 2009 at 7:10pm. She was 88 years old. She passed away in the comfort of her own room at her son’s house in Anaheim Hills. I am so grateful that I was able to be with her during her last minutes.

She was such an amazing grandma. Something that will stay in my mind forever is the countless hours that we used to watch Shirley Temple movies. These were some of her favorite movies, and she passed that love down to me. I feel very fortunate to have been able to spend time with my great grandma. She was such a loving, fun, beautiful person. She will be greatly missed.

I am grateful for the knowledge that I have that I will be able to see her again someday. I know that she is happier now that she is together with her husband, whom she lost over 20 years ago and a baby that died at birth. She lived an amazing life and was able to travel the world. A week ago, Jared and I were able to sit and talk with her. Jared asked her if she had any advice for us being a newly married couple. Her only response was to “love each other unconditionally.”

Thank you for everything GG. I love you.

Roseville Vacation - Part 2

So here is our part 2 of our vacation. After Yosemite, Jared and I drove the 4 hours to Roseville, CA. For those that don't know where that is, it's about 30 minutes north of Sacramento. We spent the first day driving around Roseville. Jared had a lot of fun showing me around at all the places he remembered from his mission. It was great to hear all the stories that he suddenly remembered after driving around the area.

We then made an effort and did a session at the Sacramento Temple. It is a beautiful temple that is nessled up in the hills of Rancho Cordova. It reminded me a lot of the Newport Beach Temple. Jared was serving his mission during the time of the open house and dedication. At that time he was working in the Mission Office and was able to work a lot with the open house. We stopped by the Mission Office, but it was closed. After the temple I went to my friend Kristen's bridal shower in Granite Bay. We have been friends since elementary school. It was great to get to spend time with her and see her family.

Jared infront of the Mission Office.
Jared and I infront of the Sacramento Temple.

Sunday, we drove up to Marysville which is north of Wheatland to go to church. It was great to meet some of the people that Jared served on his mission. They all said that he was an amazing missionary, but I already knew that. After church we spent some time at Kristen Wortham's house. She is the sweetest person I have ever met. Jared and I absolutely love her. Jared and his companion taught Kristen. It was great to meet someone who's life was changed because of Jared. We also spent time with The Blake's. They were so sweet. They live in Antelope, which was Jared's first area.

Monday (Memorial Day) we went down to Sacramento. We both have never seen the Capital so we decided to walk around there. Behind the Capital was a large park with different memorial's. We felt that this was a great thing to do on Memorial Day. After visitng Sacramento, Jared and I went back to Roseville and had lunch at this place called Mr. Pickle's. It was a great sandwich place, however very expensive. The whole place had a Jim Carrey theme. I guess that the other places have different celebrity themes. After lunch, we met up with Jared's friend Bryce and his girlfriend Shelby and went to Folsom Lake. There were so many people there, but we figured that would happen. Bryce and Jared went skimboarding while Shelby and I layed out on shore. Apparently, Jared said that skimboarding was a lot different at the lake than at the beach, and he prefers doing it at the beach. (I don't blame hime since there were rocks everywhere.) After a great day at the lake we went to see 'Terminated Salvation' with Bryce and Shelby. I wasn't too big of a fan of the movie, but the action in it was great. Arnold makes an appearance in the movie and it totally ruined it for me.

Jared and I infront of the State Capital.
In the Capital they had a bunch of these for each county. Here is the one from Orange County.
Infront of Arnold's office.
More stuff from inside the Capital.
Jared and I infront of a monument in the park behind the State Capital.

I found this plaque infront of a monument for the Vietnam War. "Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heros you left behind."

Folsom Lake, CA

That was our wonderful vacation. We can't wait to plan another trip there. I love Northern California. It was so beautiful!!

Yosemite Vacation - Part 1

Jared and I recently went to visit his mission in Roseville, CA this past weekend. Since there are a lot of pictures I decided to split it into two different posts. Before going to Roseville, we stopped in Yosemite National Park to attempt to hike Half Dome. After going on the hikes at Girls Camp and some family hikes through out my life, I thought that this wouldn't be too difficult... well I was VERY WRONG. This was the hardest hike I have ever been on in my life!! Normally, the hikd is about 16.5 miles roundtrip, well we ended up getting lost (TWICE) coming back down and it ended up being almost an 18 mile hike for us. By the time we got to the car, Jared and I were walking like we were 80 years-old. It has taken us a couple days to fully recover from that, but everything considered it was an amazing hike. I have never been to Yosemite before, and it was absolutely beautiful!! I would definately go back again. Here are some pictures from our hike.

Yosemite National Park!

Jared and I just starting our hike.
Crossing over the River. We took the 'Misty Trail' up to Half Dome.
Me starting the climb up the "Misty Trail'. We hiked along side the waterfall.
Jared hiking along the 'Misty Trail'.
Still hiking... it shouldn't be called 'Misty Trail' it should be called 'Get Soaked by the Mist and Wind Trail'.

Our view from the top of the water fall.
Looking out over the waterfall. It was beautiful!!

Jared and I on top of the falls... still a long way to go.

We saw 5 deer along the trail. Jared almost got to touch one but some hikers came and scared it.
Jared almost to the top!!
Me almost to the top!!

This is Half Dome... 8,800 feet high.
FINALLY reaching the top of Half Dome. Here was our beautiful view!

Jared and I on top of Half Dome. So exhausted and dreading our hike back down.
This is what we had to hike up to get to the top. You can see some hikers coming up. This was the hardest part.
Jared on his way down. This part was really scarey and hard on our knees and legs. It was like walking down a billion steep steps.
Driving out of Yosemite we saw this sunset so I had to take a picture. BEAUTIFUL!!!

Such Excitement!!!

So tomorrow Jared and I leave for our much anticipated vacation to Northern California. We are planning to visit parts of his mission and visit some people that he became close to. I have never been to Northern California so I am very excited. On our way up we are going to stop for the night in Yosemite and do some hiking. Pray for us that a bear doesn't attack us or that we get lost.

Something else that we are excited for....

'So You Think You Can Dance' is premiering tomorrow night!!!! Unfortunately we will miss it, but thankfully Nona has U-Verse so we will be able to watch it when we get home on Tuesday. This has to be one of our favorite shows to watch together. Jared isn't much of a T.V. guy, so its nice to have that one show that we can sit together to watch. I think one of these days he wants to try out. :)