Highschool Friends!

I love my friends! I know I don't stay in touch with everyone from high school but it's hard and I feel like I did a great job picking and choosing because they're the best! We went to the opening night of the brand new bowling alley Strike in the brand new District! The District people is the new Spectrum...everyone goes! I went 4 times while I was home!!!!

Here are the boys...Ferg, Calvin and Bobby! They're great because they get things organized (Bobby) and manage to get the girls out of the house and even bring their cameras along (Cal) to document such a rare occasion!

Here is Ferg and I....we broke off into teams and even though we didn't win, Ferg you'll always be a winner in my eyes :)
Anna didn't bowl with us but met up with us later at the near by Irish Pub (I'm telling you the District has everything). Here is Anna and Cal!

Here is Tay and I being friendly...and then we decided to arm wrestle. I'm not quite sure what brought this on because I think I weigh literally twice her body weight but needless to say I did win!

And finally the highlight of my night...my dearest friend Bobby!!!! I love Bobby because he seriously is a true friend, he has your back no matter what and loves you even through all the lame stuff you pull but mostly I love Bobby because he is a man of his word. He knows I hate going out and especially staying out until 2am so when it was 10:30 and I said I wanted to go home he made me a bet...I stay until everyone leaves (which happened to be 2:30!!!) and he would go to church with me the next day! I pulled up my end of the bargain and he pulled off his, lucky for him church was at 11 but I give him credit because he woke up (after much alcohol intake into his system) on his own! Love ya Bobs!

T-ball!

My nephews are growing up so fast!!!!! I missed their soccer games because I was down under but I was able to catch their final T-ball game! It's great because all the kids have a chance to bat twice and no one keeps score and there are no outs...that works really well for my boys!

Here is Ryan mid-swing. I think he might be the next Babe Ruth ;)

Then you've got the mighty and ferocious Tyler (when I was walking up to the field I saw the scroniest kid ever and thought he was adorable...then I learned it was my nephew)And Nathan just has this personality that he won't be left out! He wants to do everything the big boys do....and he does just that!

I have a Disneyland pass :)

I'm totally spoiled!!!!! My mom treated me to a Disneyland pass when I was home! My mom, sister and her kids all have one so they have fun going all the time! With me moving home sometime within the next year it made sense for me to have one also! It really saves me money especially since I got the So Cal discounted price ;)

The best part about this trip to the happiest place on earth was that Ashleigh has to be in a wheel chair so we got front row access to most of the rides! At one point we snuck my mom in the chair while everyone else was having lunch and we went to sneek on Space Mountain...I've never laughed so hard!!!!!

Ash and Ty loving the advantage of having a wheel chair...seriously it's so much easier with little kids to NOT have to wait in line :)
Nathan and I on the Merry-go-roundRyan! Check out that haircut...hopefully he doesn't get beat up with that in kindergarten next year!

The weather was so hot that I was pretty much dying, apparently Snowbird has changed me! It was nice to take a break and have lunch and watch the Star Wars show! Nathan passed out so we watched it twice which turned out to be a good thing because the first time the boys were too scared to participate and just wanted to watch. By the second time they found that manlyness from within aka the force!!!! Here is Ryan fighting Darth Mal
...and Tyler fighting Darth Vader

The Beach!!!

So since the half marathon I swear I've done things!!!! Just after you accomplish that nothing else feels very significant! Oh and I tried running 2 miles today....only made 1 mile before I had to walk :/

Since it's inbetween season at work I decided to take a vacation home :) I took 2 weeks off work (I know my bank account hates me also) and went home to spend quality time with the family and take a test :( I'm applying to get my teaching credentail and masters in education...sorry I'm only applying at schools back home!

Anyway while I was home I of course made a trip to the beach. It was the girls and my cute nephews. We didn't get any pics of the girls but my nephews are so cute it kills me!

Here is Tyler....

....next is his twin (I love how they look nothing alike) Ryan...and finally the most spoiled of them all...Nathan!!!

I really enjoyed this trip because I felt like I had no worries and was able to just chill. I've seen my family and friends a lot since OZ but this felt back to real life normal....it was good to be home and I'm excited to move back there!!!! Love ya guys!!!!