Monday, May 31, 2010

River Trip

For Memorial weekend we all drove down to New Braunfels to camp out and float the Guadalupe River. We arrived around 1am and set up camp in the dark...that was interesting.
 
After we set up camp we all hung out and listened to the radio
(Karina, Jamie, Cooper, me and Britt)


 
 








Cole and Karina















The next morning we did the 5 hr float
Me, Britt, Cooper and Jamie
Karina and I
This is my little charcoal grill I bought, I love it!

Shea, Jamie, Britt, Me, Sam, Karina, and Cooper

Sam and Karina in line to rent tubes

Sam and I still waiting to get on the river. Today we waited a little over an hour to rent tubes and get on the shuttle bus. That was actually a short wait compared to other groups. There are 2 lines you have to stand in (the tube rental line, then the shuttle line). But half our group stood in the tube rental line and some of us stood in the shuttle line even though you aren't supposed to do that. So after all our tubes got rented the rest of our group joined us in the shuttle line (people behind us were so mad because the shuttle line wait time was almost 2 hours at this point).

Once on the river Karina and I started getting all the tubes together!

Britt and Jamie

Jamie and Britt

Britt feeding Blake some grapes

Britt and I



Karina and Britt

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Happy Mothers Day

Today the family got together for Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day Mom, Mimi and Mandy
Mimi, Dad and Grandad (My dad's parents)
Stacey, Me, Mom, Nate and Mandy
Mandy and her 2 boys, Kyler and Ethan
Mom, Ethan, Kyler and Me
Ethan
Kyler and Ethan playing

My mom and I
Stacey and her husband, Jason
Stacey and Nate

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Nate's 20th Birthday

Happy 20th Birthday Nate!
Nate, his friend Jacob and I met Stacey and Jason at their house so we could all ride together. The boys looked so cute all squished together in the front row I had to take a picture!
The beverage area

The Appetizers
Seafood Fondue, Avocado halves with shrimp and thousand island dressing

The weather was so nice outside we spent a little time out there before it was time for gifts
 
I thought this video was so cute, it shows just how shy he can be sometimes




Present time
He got 2 DVD's

New Sandals

Socks and boxers

Kyler wanted to help open the presents

Nate got a radio that he can hook his Ipod up to

He also got 5 new shirts, 2 new shorts and a new bathing suit

Our table setting

Cheers to Nate's birthday

Stacey and Jason

Nate and Jacob

Me, Mandy and Ronnie

After dinner it was time for dessert
Chocolate pie and little lemon desserts

Kyler and Gigi

Ethan loves his chocolate

So does Kyler!

This is me picking on Ethan and getting a pretty good laugh out of it

Monday, April 12, 2010

Back to Cali....

This time I visited a few different places than in January.
I went to Newport Beach and Balboa Park.


yummm



I was also able to do some Whale watching in Dana Point!
This is the entrance into Dana Point:
Before getting on the boat Ie grabbed lunch on the beach. It was so beautiful!


 
 

This is a picture of the boat that I took out to look for whales
Leaving the dock

There were people every where doing this
This is a Minke Whale that I saw, they disappear so fast so it's not a good picture

This is a picture I got from online of what a Minke Whale would look like
Catalina Island



Although I didn't see any other whales than that one Minke Whale, it was still so much fun. And I saw a ton of common dolphins

Off to Laguna Beach!

Lunch!
Fun drinks!
 

On my way back to the hotel I saw this mosaic wall. I thought it was really pretty!

This is a seat at a bus stop

I thought this was neat-it's a painted house
 
 
 
Back down South! 
SeaWorld in San Diego
Penguins

Beluga Whale
Polar Bear

Walrus

Commerson Dolphins
Alligator Gar
Catfish












Leopard Shark

More sting rays
Dolphins