My NPs!

Meet Joey, Tracy, (me), Christina, Debbie and Amy. We've been friends since high school. Now 4 of us are married, two engaged, and one has a beautiful lil girl. We still have just as much fun together now as we did back in high school. Last Saturday we had a girl's night and it was a great night! Thanks Tracy for getting us all together. (We missed you Britt and Camille...next time!). Since I moved away to Utah for college, I missed seeing these girls often and its so nice to come back home and have everyone (except sadly Joey) live within a few hours of each other. Hopefully when we are 60 we will all still be getting together for girl's nights.

Easter Weekend in Central CA

Here are some shots we took with our new camera while in Cayucos, CA this weekend. My grandparents have a house up there and so we went up with my parents and sister Julianne; my grandparents meet us up there as well. It was a fun weekend! On Friday we drove up the coast to Big Sur. It was the most scenic drive I've ever been on. We stopped at a few old, small towns. We hiked through the redwoods and also walked along many semi-secluded beaches. Saturday we explored San Luis Obispo and other neighboring towns and beaches. I went running on the beach every morning (which is hard to do down here because the beaches aren't as flat and the sand isn't as hard) and also biked along the coast. There are such great bike routes all over up there. I can't wait to go again. Too bag its a 5 hour drive (with no traffic) or I'd be up there more often.

Nikon D80

It arrived! Our new camera came yesterday and I couldn't be happier. We've been talking about getting a nice digital SLR for over a year now and I can't believe we actually took the plunge. I wish I could stay home all day today and play around with it. There's so much to learn. I have a 35mm SLR camera and I love having so much control over how the picture turns out. Too bad film cameras are almost extinct. This weekend we are going to Cayucos and I was hoping that it would come before we left. The only problem is Andrew is just as excited as I am about our new purchase so it's going to be hard to share. Look forward to some awesome shots from our trip (hopefully)!

Oh and Jen...when I come out I want to take some fun shots of Kambria. Hope you don't mind me using her as my model all week.

Universal Studios

Thanks to Jessica Price, Andrew and I went to Universal Studios for free on Saturday! We had a lot of fun, thanks Jess! I hadn't been there since I was little and Andrew had never been so it was fun to finally go check it out. It was a perfect day, as we never waited longer than 10 minutes for a ride/attraction. The best part of the day was when we auditioned to be on the park's version of fear factor. About 15-20 people showed up to the casting call that was held in the park and they picked 6 of us to be in the show (the show was just for the park, not filmed for tv). Andrew's friend was in the audience and took pictures, so I'll elaborate more when she sends those pictures our way. All I can say is there was a variety of stunts, a nasty smoothie, a shocking machine and a good football style tackle (where I was the one tackled). In the end, Andrew was the "champion" and couldn't be happier that he can now say he beat me at something! It was a great day!

Better beard shots

Just for viewing pleasure I had to put up a shot in my full beard glory, before the shave and hair cut. It was for Savior of the World and I think I did a convincing job looking like an apostle. Still to come the most nasty shots when I shaved it into a handle bar...my sister is mailing those pics tomorrow, can't wait.

Happy Birthday Andrew!

Happy 27th Birthday babe! Love you!