Young Women

Oh brother, today was such an emotional day....especially for an already-emotional pregnant lady!...because I was released as being the Young Women President in my ward. I was so excited to be called into the Young Women program in 2010, and it was just as amazing as I had hoped. I am so grateful for the time I had to serve these awesome girls and to learn and grow so very, very much!

Serving dinner to the elderly folks in our ward

 Winter Youth Conference 

 Road Show performances

 Getting together every Wednesday night for something fun

Oh, I love these girls!

  Hiking at San Onofre State Beach

 YW Over-nighter at San Mateo

Girls Camp

 And more Girls Camp

Baptisms at the LA Temple and water balloon volleyball

Our YW trip to Lake Arrowhead

 Hiking and boating

Kayaking and devotionals

Memorizing "The Living Christ" together and reciting it at New Beginnings

 Bishopric Appreciation Dinner and Senior Gratitude Dinner

Winter Youth Conference

Baking bread for the sacrament

 Camping at Crystal Cove

Graduating Seniors luncheon

I am going to miss these young women and the YW leaders so much!
I am so grateful for all the wonderful memories I'll have of our time together. 

Beach Day

We got our Saturday jobs done early this morning and then headed to the beach for a couple hours.

 39 Weeks! 

 Bryn and I walk to the beach a few times a week to watch the surfers and so Bryn was so excited to "surf" on Josh's boogie board. Josh helped her ride the little waves in.

 Oops! Luckily Bryn thought this spill was funny...I thought she was going to come up scared!

We've been trying to spend as much time at the beach as we can since we've only got 6-7 weeks til we move to New Hampshire.

I'll miss these beautiful, relaxing beach days!

Pillowcases for Camp

My young women are heading to girls camp in a few days and I'm so sad I won't be up there with them! 

(I thought it probably wouldn't be a good idea to go into labor out in the woods -- I don't think their first aid certification covered "labor and delivery"). 

I made some simple pillow-cases for the girls to use at camp. We only have five girls from our ward going to camp this year, so hopefully the bright pillowcases will make them stand out among the other girls in their cabins! My camping "skills" are pretty minimal, but sewing camp pillowcases is one thing I can do! 

Girls Camp last summer....such a fun week! 

Father's Day

 We had a great Father's Day today! Bryn worked hard on a little card for Josh.

Of course, my favorite part was her drawing of she and Josh. I love her drawings lately! Oh man, they crack me up.

 I am so grateful for Josh...such a wonderful father to Brynlee! I am excited for him to become a father of two soon, and this new baby-to-be is a lucky little girl to have Josh as her dad!

And of course, I am so grateful for my amazing Dad! I wish I could be with him today!

(I guess I need a current picture of my Dad because this is the best I could find and it's a year and a half old! And we're missing my brother LOGAN! .....and my mom.....and Josh and Bryn!)

I LOVE YOU, DAD!

Beach Night

 Today was such a beautiful day! I wish we could have spent the whole day at the beach, but at least we fit in a couple hours tonight.

 Bryn and Josh love flying their gecko kite any chance they can get and the beach is one of their favorite spots to do it. (I love that they share this little hobby!)

 Cheesy Bryn holding on to the kite string

 This is Bryn's response to "Smile for a picture, Bryn!" ...Faking dead. 

Josh was doing the same thing to me, but we just didn't get a picture of it :)

 I love this girl!

 The pier is always full of random musicians. Some are better than others, but we like these guys on the drums!

 Certainly not a flattering picture of myself (...is there such thing as a flattering picture at 38 weeks pregnant?), but Bryn was so cute dancing to the drums! She was shaking her little hips and loving every minute of it. 

 Why do we ever spend Friday nights at home when we live a mile from this place??

Fun night!

Swimming

 Bryn's had swim lessons the last couple weeks and has loved it! 

She does little private lessons with Maddy, a cute girl in our ward. This is her second summer of lessons with Maddy and it's been great! 

Second Cousins

 My cousin Alli is in Southern California this week, and it was so, so fun to get together with her today! 

We met at a fun park in Orange....which was great except I forget how HOT it is when you go inland! I'll stick to my 65-70 temps in Huntington Beach! :) 

Luckily for us, there was lots of shade!

 Alli's daughter Racquel is just two months older than Brynlee and she's the sweetest little girl. Bryn and Racquel have probably only met a few times (sad!), but they are cute little buddies and they play really well together. 

Bryn was so sad to leave our play-date and the whole way home she kept asking to go back and play with Racquel some more! I wish we lived closer!

Love you Alli!!!