Angels vs Mariners

As everyone knows, Jeff loves the Mariners.  We try to see them play every summer, but it is hard for us to get there on a weekday.  Luckily, they happened to be playing the Angels on "Mormon Night" and it was a Friday so they have fireworks! Triple bonus! We gathered some dental school friends and headed to the game.  Unfortunately for Jeff, they lost the game on a wild pitch in the 9th inning. But we had fun with friends and managed to find super cheap seats.

The group. Except you can only see Jeff's legs. He missed the picture memo.

Angel's Stadium

Girls in front. Boys in back.

Sorry Dad and Dave...

The Boys.

Tons of fireworks!

Basketball Champs

FINALLY! Jeff has been dying to get a t-shirt from winning an intramural championship, and it finally happened Monday!  I swear his teams have come so close every quarter in all different sports.  Unfortunately, the t-shirts were back ordered so we don't have a picture with the actual shirts, but they are coming soon! Yay for Jeff. I am so proud of this stud.

Going for the drive. (Jeff is #11) 

For a 3!

What a good wife to keep score and stats!

Sweaty boys. And this was one of the closest games.

Since they shirts weren't there, they made them take a picture in their jerseys.

Crystal Cove

This weekend was the Youth Beach Trip to Crystal Cove since it was the last weekend before school starts for the kids.  I didn't take very many pictures, but it turned out to be a very beautiful day. 

Sandblasted hair.

One of the boys was trying to catch a pelican with cheetos.  It almost worked.

Goodbye Swindles

This week was very sad because we said goodbye to our good friends the Swindles.  Luckily, we were able to throw them a surprise going away party last week with a few other couples full of inside jokes and innuendos.  We also got to play one last game of Ticket to Ride during the week, where Jeff destroyed us all, and we hit up market night in Redlands for their "last supper".  Jeff and Andrew got to experience real-life tetris fitting all of their stuff into a POD before they hit the road.  Hopefully we will get to see them in the near future up in Utah!  They will definitely be missed!

This is my favorite picture to remember the couple.  Please don't hate me for posting this :)

Yummy treats.

We wanted to do a fishing game because Andrew loves to fish, but we didn't have a fishing pole, so Drew made one with his golf club? It didn't work, but was funny!

Packing up. :(

Winner of our last game of Ticket to Ride.

We will miss them, but wish them the best in school in work!

Montana Wedding

Last weekend, Jeff ventured to the far off land of Billings, Montana for his friend Brad's wedding.  Brad was Jeff's last mission companion and then they lived together at BYU until they both left for dental school. Jeff flew into Billings, where the temple is and then everyone drove back to the bride's home 2 hours away after the ceremony. (Sounds similar to our wedding!) However, they got to have their reception in her family's huge barn!  The boys' boutonnieres were made of daisies and real fishing lures (since Brad loves to fish).   Jeff had a great time out in the middle of nowhere with some of his closest friends. Here are the pictures he took:

The Pink Temple

We are so blessed to live in an area with so many temples near by {4 within 1.5 hours}! Since we moved here, I have wanted to go to all of the temples that are close.  However, until last weekend we had only been to the Redlands one that is 15 minutes from our house.  We had a free Saturday and decided to combine our beloved beach day with a temple day too! We decided to go to the Newport temple since we like to go to Newport/Huntington beach anyway.  This is a very unique temple because it is PINK! {History Lesson: The members of the area asked and funded the temple by themselves, unlike any other temple}.  It was so gorgeous inside!! I encourage everyone to see it at some point in their lives.

In pictures, you can only barely see a pink hue. Still very pretty.

So after the temple, we headed to the nearby beach.  Unfortunately it was crazy packed and we drove around for an hour looking for parking.  We decided to head down the coast a bit to Huntington and alas, we found parking! It was a beautiful day with some great waves.  We even got to see the beginning of a white trash chick fight. hah.

Soaking in the rays.

We both had sun screen on and weren't out super long, but apparently sun screen only helps where you put it:

You can't tell very well in this picture, but apparently I striped Jeff's back... ooops.

I guess rubbing the spray sun screen around after you spray it, doesn't cut it!

Fashion statement?

1,000 Steps Beach

Saturday we finally ventured to the beach! We decided on Laguna since we had never been there before and heard good things.  We ended up going to 1,000 Steps Beach (although it is only technically 218 very steep steps... I counted).  Because of the steps, it is way less crowded than other beaches and it has decent waves.  The weather was hazy but warm, so it felt great to be in 70 degree weather instead of 98 degrees with no air conditioning.  It was fun to play in the waves and we got to play some bocci ball with our friends the Swindles!  Successful trip to the beach.  

Everyone thinks we are twins. Yes? No?

Champion.

This picture cracks me up. The boys trying to decide who's ball wins.

I was obsessed with all the dolfins swimming so close!

Right by the shore!

Poor Jeff had to carry the heavy bocci set up the "1,000 steps".

Jeff now vows to go to the beach any weekend that we don't have plans.  I concur.