We had lots of fun staying in Vegas in between our trips to California! Zan always makes a delicious dinner and Alina and Peter provide great entertainment!
Little Alina has a silly habit of humming while she eats. I tried to capture it in this video, but you really just have to see it in person!
Aren't they so cute sitting at their little kid table?!
While we were in California Chandler got to do lots of surfing! I love seeing him out there surfing, he’s getting really good! I didnt have my wetsuit and was too wimpy to join him. Lame, I know (the water was freezing!). But on our last night down visiting my sister Chandler and I drove down to Old Man’s. Its the beach I surfed at back in the day. I have SO many memories at that beach, SO many early morning surf trips. I had such a great time just sitting on the beach remembering all the fun times and watching Chandler catch some sweet rides.
After work I flew back to Chandler so we could have one last trip before his school stared. We spent a few days in Vegas and then headed back down to California to stay with My sister in her awesome beach house that she lives in year round!!!
The 3 minute walk to the beach from her place…
Amy’s children are obsessed with Chandler. He played with them pretty much the entire time we were visiting. Even when he tried to take a nap Nora wouldnt leave him alone…
One morning Chandler and I went for a walk. After walking through a long stretch of rocky coast we found our own little secluded beach :)
While we were down in CA my parents celebrated their 31st Wedding Anniversary!! We all ate out at the melting pot, yum!
We tried out the free breach shuttle one morning. We visited a beautiful beach and had such a fun time with the girls!
The girls having a blast with Chandler... Right after this picture Chandler quickly put the girls down (Nora was pretty sad as you can see below) He told me later that when he picked them up they both screamed s0 loud in his ears that it felt like a sonic boom. I laughed so hard when he told me that. He’s definitely not used to little girls screaming all the time!
She really wanted to be out in the water!! Look at those cheeks!!
We spent a lot of time in this baby tent. We could seriously talk forever!! Love my sister :)
After the wedding I flew back to Provo to work (Chandler stayed in Vegas with his family). After work I flew back to be with Chandler, but first I had a fun girls night with my old roommates! I’ve been through a lot with these girls. They were the friends I made when I first came up to Provo 4 years ago!! We really have been through everything together and I feel so lucky to have them as friends. These girls are my very favorite and it was so amazing to be all together again. We are all so busy and it was the last chance to have us all in the same State :( I hope we do it again really soon!!
These pictures required lots of practice shots with me pressing the timer and running back to the couch…you get the idea. Anyway, it was so worth having a good picture to remember our fun reunion!
Brian and Naarah are married!!
Amy is really good at this….you cant even tell what shes doing!
The reception was so gorgeous!!
Chandler and I loved going back to the LA temple for the first time since OUR sealing! We will miss having Brian and Naarah close by!
I was so excited to go down to California for Brian and Naarah’s wedding!!! We had such a fun bachelorette party! We ate at a yummy Indian restaurant and got our nails done. It was so fun seeing Naaras mom and meeting her sister Ingrid (and her two adorable children)!
My favorite guest at the party!
Chandler and I celebrated our first anniversary!! We decided to drive to Vegas and stay in a nice hotel on the strip (like we did last year after our reception in Vegas). The hotel was so nice and I took a wonderful nap after working all night! We enjoyed a fancy dinner and Chandler took me to see Phantom of the Opera!! I had never seen it before and absolutely loved it!! Chandler also got me a new camera!!! Ive been wanting a smaller camera to carry around in my purse for a long time. This was truly a selfless gift because Chandler HATES taking pictures.
A TV in the mirror!
Chandler and I have had an amazing year. He is truly the love of my life. I think we really make a great team, I make him take out his contacts every night and he makes me wear my retainer :) I love our late night talks and lazy days. I love our summer night bike rides, midnight snacks at Wendy’s, Wii wars, yummy dinners, the list never ends. On our anniversary we danced to our wedding song and remembered our special day. Our wedding day was such a beautiful day, everything went perfectly! We have been through so many big changes this last year and we are so excited for our eternity together!
