Why is the Sea Foam not Green?

I decided kind of last minute to drive down to Pismo Beach to visit my sister Ellen. Let me just say, it was a GREAT decision!!! I was SO happy to see Ellen. Its been since Christmas that I've seen Ellen and I was also really excited to meet her beau Josh. I headed down Saturday morning and had a relatively smooth drive. We were all totally spoiled and had a beautiful sunny weekend (Ellen said the weather had been pretty if-y the whole week) We went to the beach (of course) shopped a little, ate realllly good food and just hung out and caught up on what's new in our lives. I couldn't stop thinking about how happy I was to be there! It was really awesome! Thanks for a fun weekend Ellen, Josh, Bianca and Scout(the dogs)! Oh and Ellen took me on an amazing hike on Monday morning before I left it was really cool!
The title of this blog came from one of my most quotable moments of the weekend was at the beach while standing the water... I said "why is the sea foam not Green???" haha, the sea foam was white. I know weird right??



Big Sister and Lil Sister!!

After an afternoon at the beach!!

The view from the Hike

Henderson, Nevada!

Bobby and I took a quick trip to Henderson/Las Vegas to visit Emily and her family and for Sarah's baptism. We caravaned with my mom and dad (who brought Ellie and Scot!) on Thursday. The drive was not near as bad as I thought it would be. On Friday Bobby and I drove to the Hoover Dam. We took an awesome tour! We got to go into the dam in all these cool tunnels and stuff! It was awesome. I learned that Bobby is afraid of heights. Some how I never new this. haha.

(There are kind of a lot of pics in this post, so it keeps going and going, so don't stop looking until you can't scroll down anymore! ha Happy Reading!)
The Dam View from the Dam Exhibit (hehe)^


Us in our "hard" hats, we took the Hard Hat Tour^


Me in a tunnel that Bobby had to duck in cuz it was so small!^


A Sweet new bridge their building going right by the dam^


Bob and the Dam^

After the dam we drove to the strip and went to the MGM where we got to watch the UFC weigh-ins! For FREE!! It was really cool, Brock Lesnar is huge. My camera was being slow and I didn't get the best pictures, but you can kinda get the idea here.


Stephan Bonnar weighin' in ^


Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin doin' their thang. ^

Bobby's favorite hotel to see was New York New York.



We went to this cool Shark Reef Aquarium on Friday night with Matt and Emily at Mandalay Bay. It was so neat! There was a Komodo Dragon, an Asian Water Monitor, some freaky sharks, piranhas, jellies and tons of other weird fish!

Water Monitor just chillllin.


SHARKKKK!!! (one, of toooo many, at least they aren't in the ocean)


Our favorite fish! It was a giant blue thing with HUGE lips and crazy eyes!

On Saturday, Sarah was baptized! It was awesome, I love Bbaptisms it's usually guaranteed you'll feel the Spirit! Here is the beautiful girl and her Papa!



Ok, so as a kid I hated fireworks, including Sparklers, but now that I'm all growed up (yeah, right ha) I was WAY excited to play with sparklers. I think I had more fun than the kids!



We had a wonderful trip, I was so happy to see Em, Matt, Sarah, Andrew and Baby James. I miss them already and I think we're gonna have to go back again soon...

Yosemite.

Bobby and I went to Yosemite this last weekend with his mom, dad, sister Kristy and Bro-in-law Matt. I still haven't quite been able to come up with words for how AWESOME that place is. Its so beautiful! We drove up to Bass Lake which is close to Yosemite and stayed the night in Gayle's (Bob's mom) condo. Way nice. Then Sunday morning we packed up the car and headed to the park. Our first stop, Mariposa Grove to see the Giant Sequoia's. Those tree's are dang BIGGGG! It was a fun little hike to the Grizzly Giant and the Tunnel Tree.

Tunnel Tree

Grizzly Giant



Bob showin us how huge the Fallen Tree is.

After taking in the Giantasauraus trees and the awful bathrooms (I have a slight phobia of those glorified portapotties that are a toilet ontop of a hole...ugh) we drove over to Yosemite Valley. We enjoyed looking at all the beautiful waterfalls and trees and mountains (and people watching hehe). Bobby and I wandered around just the 2 of us for a while. I ate lunch next to the Merced River while Bob climbed around on rocks. Then we later met up with Kristy and Matt and Gayle and Randy and walked to Yosemite Falls. This was SPECTACULAR. It made the whole trip worth it. I was literally in AWE! I was so glad Gayle invited us to go. It was so fun and I really can't wait to go back again! Maybe even do some real hiking. Half Dome anyone? ha. Everyone should make time to go there at some point in life!!
OH, and if you're looking for a good laugh, I realized as we were getting ready to head home on Sunday, that the WHOLE day I had had my white undershirt on backwards... yeah... too funny. I was like BOBBY! Why didn't you tell me! haha. And even more funny, well not to him, but Bobby's short zipper totally broke about half way through the day, were a couple of goof's. hahaha. :D


This is the first view we had after entering the valley through a tunnel! Gorgeous!

Me after eating lunch.

Bob climbing on stuff across the raging river.

A Mountain...

Us at Yosemite Falls



Lower Yosemite Falls

Mokelumne River Adventure Challenge

So the day for my big swim finally came! I did really surprisingly well with training. I went to the pool every weekday morning for a whole month! I really loooove swimming. Well this morning we went with Bobby's brother Bill and his fam down to Lodi Lake and triathloned it up! I swam first, which went really well it was just semi disorienting swimming in a murky lake compared to a crystal clear pool, but I felt good after the initial freezing cold water shock ha. Then I handed off the bracelet to Bobby and he ran 3.2 miles, and did it in an awesome 22 minutes! Which is not to shabby considering he ran about 2 times for his "training." The Bill jumped in his Kayak and paddle a 7 mile round trip on the Mokelumne River! We came in 5 out of 11 teams! It was super awesome and we were glad to do it for our amazing nephew Josh. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation was a sponsor.

Blog 1 of our EPIC Weekend!

Dude! Fun weekend! Last night (Friday) we went to my wonderful long time friend Hannah Moore's reception! It was so fun! Delicious Cuban food and Letherby's Ice cream! Mmm-mmm good. AND there was a photo booth!!!! The cutest idea ever! It was so funny! (Our friend Jo scanned the pictures for me form the photo booth but the wouldn't upload...sorry) They had the best wedding coordinator ever!!! MY MOMMA! She did a beautiful job and it was a wonderful reception. And thankfully the wind died down just in time for a beautiful evening. Congratulations to Hannah and Nathaniel Cruz!


The Beautiful Bride and me

Front Yard!

Our front yard has a beautiful lawn and nice trees. But the area next to the walkway has always looked kinda crappy. The bark was yucky and old and the plants were weird and dying. And, unfortunately I took the picture after Bobby had already pulled out all this ugly weedish type stuff, I seriously can't even describe what it was, thats how ridiculous it was! HA! I think it was meant to be a type of ground cover but it was just dumb, you can see it in the trash can hanging out... So here is the some what before picture! (I'm getting better about the pictures)



Bob got all most of the before work done, so we called our wonderful friends Justin and Kim over to help us pick up some fresh new bark in their giant truck! After getting the bark we jammed over to Home Depot and got some shrubs, then headed back home to get to work. We got all the old bark out and tore even more of the old plants out then planted our new shrubs, found a new spot for the bench and then spread the new bark! I am going to paint the bench sometime soon, I just didn't get to it yesterday. So now our whole front yard is beautiful and not just our lawn! YAY!!! Thanks Kim and Justin for your help!!

TADA!!!!!!

Swimming, Swimming, Just keep swimming...

On Sunday my sister-in-law Kelly E. (I guess I have to put E. because I have 2 sisters-in-law named Kelly :D) asked if Bobby, Bill and I would be interested in all doing part of a triathlon to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and our lil nephew Joshy and asked me specifically to do the swimming portion! I was supppppppper excited because I've been wanting to get back into swimming for a while now. (I even had Bobby buy me a cap and goggles a while back) So this seemed like the perfect opportunity! There is a neat indoor pool in Roseville and I knew I should try and get in there to start my working out for my .6 mile swim. Just a reminder for those who can't remember... I haven't swam competitively in about 6 years. But anyways. I went and found out all the info I needed and got signed up. This morning at the crack of dawn (5am) I got up with all my goods to get ready for the day and went and swam laps for about 45 minutes! I was so excited and I loved every minute of it. I thought to myself that I wanted to not go to work and swim all day! It was awesome! But, I can totally tell I am WAY out of swimming shape. My arms were burning and I was lil short of breath. But I am determined to be able to swim the .6 miles! I smelled like Chlorine all day even though I showered, which was gross, but I'm sure I'll get used to it in no time! I'm so excited!!!
as Dory said in Finding Nemo
~ Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim, swim. ...are you my conscience?~