Memorial Day 2010

Happy Memorial Day!! We got together with the Bradshaws, Hunts and Fairfields for some brunch at Tupelo Junction Cafe. So glad that we're already all hanging out together after our homegroup has ended. Such a great group of people and I'm so grateful that we were all brought together in our group.

After we stuffed ourselves silly and I'd had almost 3 cups of coffee (what?!?!) we took a quick trip over to the I Madonnari festival at the Mission to walk through the chalk art.

There was one artist that was drawing three kids that were so lifelike. It turns out that they were his kids, and they are watching on.....how neat!

You could tell who the artists were pretty easily.

There were so many great ones, it was hard to pick favorites.

There were so many people out there enjoying the artists and their work.

We then decided to go over to the grassy area and just sit for a while.....well, after smelling the roses that is. It was the most wonderful afternoon. The sun was out. The sky was blue. The conversation and company was awesome.....AND Caitlin made me a little clover necklace. I'd never seen one of those before and it was so pretty.

We sat around for a long time doing a whole lot of nothing this afternoon....mainly I was getting caught up on my blog while watching Grey's Anatomy on hulu. The last two episodes were so crazy intense. Seriously....I have never been that upset about a silly TV show...but man, oh man.

So, after that was over we decided to go on a bike ride. Brett pushes me when we go work out so now I'm even more sore than I was earlier today. :)

Ok.....I'm done. Wonderful weekend!!

Sunday Funday

It's Sunday Funday and it started with church for me and Brett, and then we stopped by Camille's right in time for the judging of the Bread Pudding Contest. Jen, Suzy and Camille all made up some yummy puddings for us to try.

We tasted. We voted.

Camille's chocolate bread pudding won.....which made our hostess very happy. :)

Brett and I headed back and ended up biking over to the AT&T store for some routine phone stuff....or so we thought. Half way through the proceedings, Travis asked us "How attached are you to your phone numbers?", and then explained that I'd have to switch mine if we wanted to combine our accounts. So.....I dropped the 512, and now I have an 805.

I was so excited to meet up with Juliann and her family at Santa Claus Lane beach for some family photos. I really enjoyed meeting the rest of her family - she's one of my favorite people in SB! I hope that her Mom likes what we end up with.....I think I got some pretty sick shots. :)

It was a little later in the evening when we went back over to Camille's house for some more hanging out and dinner.

Great Sunday....but so glad that we have tomorrow off work too!! Woohoo! :)

Love our Friends

What a special Saturday! It started out at breakfast with Jen and Jake at Jeannine's. They are off for 6 weeks for their summer project in Santa Monica, so I was so thankful that we were able to spend some good time with both of them before they're off.

We got to hear more about the beginning of their story, and it's such a great one. We've got two weddings between the four of us and I think we're all equally excited. :)

We then got on the road to LA to pick up Brett's ring and get my band sized to match. I had to leave my ring with them for the day, and it was such a weird feeling to not have it on my finger. I kept feeling for it all afternoon.

We went to meet Dave, Dayna and Hadley for the afternoon. Little Hadley is growing up so quick, she's such a doll. We both had such a good time hanging out with her and wish we got to see her more often. After a quick bite, we took a stroll around IKEA before going back to pick up our rings.

I love spending our time with our friends and I'm so thankful for them being in our life.

Coffee Cat

If we were at Texas A&M, they'd be calling our Friday morning meetings a tradition by now. I loved that we were able to meet up again this Friday, this time somewhere new....at Coffee Cat.

For anyone that isn't already doing this, I'd say you should. I find that there isn't enough time in the day, the week, the month, to spend with the people I love, and so I cherish the mornings, and the fact that I get to go in at 9.

Cafe a la Vanessa

I didn't snap a picture....but I should have. This morning Vanessa and I met for breakfast, but at a new place - her new house!! She cooked us up some yummy eggs, wonderful coffee, and as usual, it was a wonderful time for us to hang out.

Potluckness!

Tonight was a bittersweet night. We got together with our sweet homegroup for our Potluck Dinner. It's been such a wonderful season of getting to know this group of people better. I am sad that we won't be meeting as a big group on Wednesdays for a while, but I'm excited for us to continue building these relationships over the summer.

The Views!

It was so wonderful to attend Reality SF today and see the fruit of the church planting with Dave.

After, Brett took us a different way for our drive home. Instead of taking the 101 we headed towards Monterrey. We stopped for a little seafood lunch on the pier there. It was so windy but it was a gorgeous day!

One of the coolest things is that we stopped into a candy shoppe on the pier and watched them make taffy. I was too enamored watching to catch any pics....but it was pretty cool!

The drive took us through the some of the most beautiful parts of California! I couldn't get over how blue the sky was today!

Oh my gosh....the wind!! So funny! :)

Seriously......isn't this so beautiful?!?!

As we continued our drive towards Cambria, the views were just so amazingly vast. They went on forever. I'm glad that we took the drive going south, I think it's a much prettier side to be driving on.....although, if you get the chance to drive north....go for it! :)

After we passed Bixby Bridge outside of Big Sur, we had to stop and get a picture. It's so crazy that we were right on the corner of the US. One wrong turn and we would have fallen off the side of California!

We got back to SB a little after the sun went down....what a great weekend, drive and a wonderful time spent with my future husband. The countdown is getting less and less by the day....but oh.my.gosh, the big day can't get here soon enough!