Photo of the week

  My friend Sarah asked her friends to join a best photo of the week challenge and I decided to do it.  She has a cute little baby girl (who is not really a baby anymore) so I am excited to see all the outstanding pictures from her, and from everyone else. I posted two pictures opps, but in my defense I was standing in the exact same spot and took a picture of the street and then one of what I saw above me. Fall weather is...

Benihana

  Since I turned 29 our pastors invited K and I to dinner, and took us to one of my favorite places; Benihana.  I love Teppanyaki restaurants and Benihana reminds me of my dad, so +++.  We really love our pastors. They are just great people who truly have amazing hearts, and we are so grateful they consider us friends. We talked, laughed and they tried sushi they actually liked (which is a big deal if you...

Fresh, organic, local, delicious fruit

   Do you love fruit? We do too and our friends the Lewis' (Jonah's parents) are the most generous people and left a crate of fresh fruits at our door. It was the best surprise to come home to. Thank you guys so much, we have enjoyed our fruit! If you are interested in getting fresh fruit visit www.californiafruit.c...

The ups and downs

With the exception of 5 days, my husband and I have been together every day for the last 27 months. It feels like so much longer, and yet it feels like it’s been just a few weeks since we got married. There is still so much to learn, so much to see, so much to enjoy. But as much as we are still rookies in this marriage business, he has managed to learn a few things about me, and I have learned a lot from him and about him.  A few weeks ago...

Face time

Erin and I were able to face time, she is doing such an amazing job in San Felipe. To read her updates go to erinmissions.blogspot.com.  We miss you Erin!!...

Burgers and pants

Last week K and I went to the mall to get me some pants for my birthday, and we decided to get a burger. I found terrible pants (above), fun pants, huge pants, loooooooong pants, and then flare pants, and I had to try them on and now I keep thinking about it... flare pants on a 5'2'' human, I don't know, but they sure were cute. ...

First Sunday has been nominated

We love love love love love First Sunday. And in case you have never read about it here, First Sunday is an outreach ministry of Urban Church which aims to meet the basic needs of those in our community and has been hugely successful in doing so. The pictures above are pictures of our last First Sunday on September 11th (we know that was the second Sunday, it just made more sense not to have it on labor day weekend, don't judge...

Tennis and dinner

We love The Millers, we just love them all. We love hanging out with them, chatting with them, asking for advice from them, playing with the kids, everything. We were really excited to bring dinner to them one night and spend some time with them and with Brandon's coworker Brent and his family.  K played tennis with Brandon, Brent and Meradith, Brent's wife. Mel and I hung out with the kids. We had a wonderful...

Tea Party

  Our friend Julia and her husband Brandon took a trip to Europe in the spring, and after coming back Julia started trying new recipes and wanted to share a bit of her experience with all of her friends for her birthday party. So the Vegas hosted a lovely tea party with a plethora of amazing goodies to eat and delicious teas. Happy Birthday Julia!! Thank you for having us over. Ps....

Black Out

So all of you already know San Diego had a blackout. K and I were at the movies taking a break from work and suddenly the lights went out. We were watching The Debt and we were still at the beginning so we were ok with missing the movie. After waiting for a few minutes inside the theater we heard the entire mall was out of power, then we heard Chula Vista was out of power, then we heard Point Loma and La Jolla, and TJ were all out of power....

567 donuts

  For the last 3 years Urban Church has brought donuts and coffee to all the teachers, parents and students at Washington Elementary, and this last year we did it for Birney Elementary as well. We needed 500-600 donuts this year, and we thought of asking our new wonderful friends Josh and Jess if they wanted to make them and they said yes. Obviously we volunteered to help them,...