Summer Vacation

We just returned from a much needed and very long vacation to my home town in southern California. It was so great to see old friends and celebrate the weddings of Angie and Ted (Kieran's cousin) and Jimmy and Samantha. I loved being back but I realized on our way home that I have no desire to ever move back to California with my family. I didn't realize how comfortable I had become in my bubble world here in Utah where everything seems so...so...pure? It seemed like such a culture shock to see girls dressed in skimpy clothing and smell people smoking everywhere and hear cuss words in the grocery store. You'd think that I would be used to it since I grew up there but being in a BYU culture for so long has changed my outlook I guess. Kieran and I both agreed that it made us appreciate our peaceful lifestyle up here in Orem, Ut.

But you want to hear about all the fun we had right? We did have a lot of fun. But first let me get past the bad. Kieran unfortunately lost his 80GB iPod. It fell out of his pocket when we went to the movies and of course it was gone an hour later when we came back. Bummer! We stayed with one of my BFF's Denise, she was so awesome for letting us impose on her family for over a week, we sure appreciated it. Her girls were so adorable and it was so fun to see them all grown up. We went to the beach with Jimmy and Samantha and got to go with Denise to her girls soccer games and got plenty of sun. Let me remind you my husband is a red head.:) It makes me laugh to think that all my babies are going to have fair skin as well and I have to be prepared for lots of sunburns in the future. Most of all, it was really nice to take it so easy this week. We truly were able to relax on this vacation and we were prepared to come back.

My favorite part of this whole trip was suprisingly the drive home. It was so fun to be with my wonderful husband and have the quality time to talk and laugh and enjoy eachothers company. I would make that trip again and again just to have that time with him.