March Weekend #1
We went camping with friends Jeff & Mary up near Ortega Highway, in the De Anza wilderness. It was really fun. We camped on Friday night made cobbler in the dutch oven and then went hiking on Saturday. Gregg got this sweet camping stove for Christmas and i had fun using it to make sausage and pancakes for breakfast.
March Weekend #2
Gregg and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary on March 17th. We spent the weekend before our anniversary in Carmel, CA. We stayed in the cutest hotel called the Normandy Inn.
We ate our 1st dinner at the yummiest Thai restaurant. We found it a few years ago on our way home from our San Francisco trip.
The next day we spent a lot of time walking up and down the quaint little streets and going into all the cute little shops.
Then we went to my FAVORITE cheese shop where i spent a fortune on cheese.
Then we went to the beach. Carmel has the most amazing white sand beach - it is usually windy but so beautiful.
We had dinner the 2nd night and the really unique restaurant called Casanova. They serve a 3 course meal that was super yummy and wonderful desserts (Gregg had a cold and couldn't taste much so he wasn't super impressed, but i thought it was great).
The next morning we woke up early and hit the road. We drove home on Highway 1. It was so beautiful driving down the coast. We stopped to take lots of pictures.
We saw whales - it was so neat!
We took a little detour and went on a small hike to this waterfall in Big Sur. It is coming right out of the mountain down to the beach - so rad.
Gregg and I just love spending time together. The last 2 years have flown by but they have been the best 2 years ever!
March Weekend #3 - We took a break and stayed home
March Weekend #4
The last weekend in March we drove out to Arizona. Gregg went camping with my dad and his scouts to a place in Northern Arizona called Horton Springs.
Gregg and Dad making chicken and dumplings for dinner - Gregg said that it was the best thing he'd ever made - he is still talking about it and its been 4 weeks since then.
Dad made pineapple upside down cake in his mess kit - how awesome is that!
New favorite camping treat - marshmallows and chocolate stuffed in a banana and then roasted over the hot coals. You have to try this!
While we were in AZ we celebrated my sister Melanie's birthday and my grandpa's birthday. They have the same birthday, April 4th.
My nephew Owen found his belly button
April Weekend #1
We spent general conference weekend in San Diego visiting our friends Dave & Stephanie. We went out to Coronado Island and walked around. Its a pretty neat place. We got ice cream for dessert at this place with a cow in the front.
April Weekend #2
My brother Matthew came to visit us for Easter weekend. I took the day off on Thursday and we spent some nice brother sister time together hanging out down town. On Friday night we went out to dinner with our friend Kristal. We went to this place in South Laguna called Tabu Grill. Super pricey but very yummy. After dinner we went to our favorite beach, Table Rock, and had s'mores. It was a cold night but the moon was out so it was really pretty.
On the way down to the beach we saw this HUGE spider - so scary!!
For Easter I made dinner for the 3 of us. Matthew doesn't like ham so i made salmon instead.
I made this homemade lemon blueberry poppy seed cake for dessert.
April Weekend #3
Just this past weekend Gregg hiked Mt. Whitney with some buddies. It was a 22 mile hike that they started at 3 am on Saturday morning. The summit was at 14,800 feet or something crazy like that. All the guys said that this was the hardest thing they have EVER done. Gregg forgot his sun glasses so not only did his face get sunburned, so did his eye balls - it was very painful but Gregg just says "lesson learned, I'm ready to do it again." I think he's crazy but that's just one of the million reasons why i love him.
April Weekend #4
I'm not exactly sure what we are doing this weekend but i think we need a vacation from all this fun we've been having. To be continued.....
