Part 3

After we saw Stevie in Berkeley, we headed to Phoenix Arizona to stay with Steph (Christian's sister) and her family. It was so hot there! I loved it! Stacy flew down while we were there so of course she spoiled us! We did a lot of shopping, swimming, eating, and laughing. It was so much fun to play with our niece Eliot for a whole week. A huge thanks to Tyler & Steph for taking care of us.


The cute little monster:




I've never seen a child dance so much:


We visited ASU to talk about their grad program and Christian LOVED it! It's now our #1 choice for grad school. Say a prayer for us that he'll get it! He loved everything about the campus, the program, the classrooms...and of course I loved the heat! We would love being so close to family and friends if we ended up at ASU.



One of the days we got to meet up with Carissa and Fielding. We ate and went to the Scottsdale mall. We miss them already!

Part 2

After Katie and Sammy left, we drove to California. It took us 13 hours to get to San Jose where most of Christian's extended family lives. We stayed the first night at Mark & Linda's house and the next day drove to Santa Cruz to camp on the beach with them. We camped with the Williams from July 30-August 3rd.

Before we left for the beach, we went and saw Grandpa and Grandma Hulme. We love them so much and had a great time with them at their house. I only got a picture of Christian and Grandpa, so I guess we'll have to go back soon to get one with Grandma and myself in it too! It's crazy how much Christian and his Grandpa look like each other.


Our campsite:


Christian discovered a new passion. Surfing. It was freezing at the beach and I'm too big of a wimp to get in that cold water, so I just took pictures.



We did lots of fun things while camping at the beach. One of the days we walked around Capitola which was a cute little beach town. We went to lots of fun shops and had delicious mexican food. I almost got nailed in the face with a football. Thank goodness for Christian's skills of stopping flying footballs with his feet.




Me and Christian and Leah (Christian's cousin) went to the Santa Cruz boardwalk and rode rides and ate corn dogs.



From August 3rd-6th, we stayed in Berkeley with Stevie. We saw the campus for grad school and got to see my cousin Michelle, her husband Chris, and their new baby Chloe who is such a cutie!




We are so grateful for Uncle Mark and Aunt Linda for letting us tag along with them on their beach vacation! And thanks to Stevie for letting us stay and steal your bed!We had so much fun in California! From there we drove to Phoenix...part #3 coming soon.

Part 1

We have been so so busy and we have a lot of fun things to blog about so I'm doing it in parts so it's not too long.

PART ONE:

At the end of July, Kate and Sam came to visit us in Rexburg! We did alot of fun things with our friends Jordan & Danielle, and Danielle's brother Josh who is the girls' age. Our first night we went to the Civil Defense caves and played glow in the dark hide and seek. We hiked a ways into the cave until it was black and then we broke a ton of glow sticks all over the rocks and our clothes. It was so crazy how easily everyone blended into the rocks! Poor Sammy tripped and broke off a fingernail!

The Crew:


Doctor Jordan fixing Sammy's finger:


Sisters:


I tried to take pictures inside the cave of everyone and the rocks glowing in the dark, but this is all we could get. Creepy huh? Maybe I have a ghost-identifying-camera:


The other fun thing we did was go on a hike to a waterfall. Everyone except for me hiked even further past the waterfall to the wind-caves. I was so tired so I took a nap on a comfy rock. When the girls got back down I woke up and went to sit by them. As I did this animal emerged and started walking all over the rock I had just took a nap on. It could've eaten me.

Upcoming plans...

We are so excited for the next few weeks! We have lots of things planned and hope everything works out!

Friday July 22: Last day of FINALS.

Monday July 26: Katie, Sam, and Bristol are coming to visit.

Thursday July 29: Christian and I are driving to California.

Friday July 30 - August 3: Hanging out with Christian's exteneded family.

Wednesday August 4: Visiting Stevie in Berkeley. Also visiting the Berkeley campus to see the Architecture department to see if Christian wants to apply there.

Thursday August 5: Driving down the Pacific Coast Highway while stopping and touring at multiple possible grad-schools.

Friday August 6: Driving to Phoenix where we'll get to see Tyler, Steph & Eliot and visit ASU campus.

I'm sure we'll have LOTS of pictures and stories to blog about when we get back!

25th Birthday

Christian turned 25 on Thursday! For dinner I made his favorite: Fried chicken, corn on the cob, and loaded-mashed-potatoes. We might have heart attacks by the time we're 30, but at least we're living life to the fullest.

Then we had all of his friends over on Sunday night for Birthday cake. My sister Denise made the invitations for it which turned out so great! Thank you!



Pictures of the dinner/party coming later...

4th

First of all, I'm going to shoot my computer. Or Christian's phone. I took all of our pictures and fun videos from the weekend using Christian's phone...and somehow it does NOT want to cooperate with my computer. So sorry. Pictures may or may not come later. The pictures on here are just pulled from the internet for now...

Friday we drove to Orem to see ALL of the Hulme side of the family. Our friends Danielle and Jordan rode with us and we dropped them off in Farmington. We went to Utah because Grandpa Hulme's sister passed away so all of Dougs siblings and families came up for the funeral. When we got there, all the cousins and aunts and uncles went to Seven Peaks water park in Provo. (They have a cousin who owns it so we got in free...yeah, I married into the coolest family ever!) We had lots of fun being in the warm sun!



On Saturday, all of the men went golfing while us ladies went shopping. Stacy bought me two really really cute shirts from Old Navy. She's the best mom ever.
That afternoon Christian, Doug, Stacy, and I went to an El Salvadorian resturant to have pupusas. They were very delicious and Christian could not stop oohing and ahhhing everytime he took a bite.

Later that night, Doug and Stacy suprised me with....


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A BOSCH! YES! MY VERY OWN BOSCH! I never ever ever thought I'd own one before the age of 50, but no, they like to spoil me! I'm so lucky and I love my new mixer! Thankyou thankyou thankyou Doug and Stacy!



On Sunday we went to Sacrament meeting and then took Doug and Stacy to the airport. We drove back to Orem and stayed the night with our friends Jen and Trevor. We had smores and hung out.

Monday morning we went and saw JD and Dana and the girls. We went to the airforce base and swam for a little while but then had to meet up with the Bevan's and drive back to Rexburg. It was a really fun weekend! We wish we would've had more time with the Hulme's, but it's good we're back to finish our last TWO WEEKS of the semester! Wooo! If I can get this to work, I'll add pictures later.

An Eye-full...

Christian works on campus buliding the play sets for those who didn't know. On Monday while working, he was using a router (it cuts holes) and he got wood splinters or chunks in his eye. And YES, he WAS wearing safety glasses. He tried to rinse his eye out, but he could still feel things in there. He kept working and by the time he came home, he was in a lot of pain. I made him go to an urgent care clinic. The doctor numbed his eyeball and then started digging around in there. It looked so painful but Christian kept saying, "This is so cool! I can't feel anything! But I can still see things!" The doctor couldn't see anything in there so then he put drops in that made his eye glow in the dark. He had me hold up a black light while he tried again to find what was hurting his eye. It scared me to look at him with a glowing eyeball. I pointed out a little chunk to the doctor and he took it out. There where tons of tiny little cuts all over Christian's cornia. He told us for the next 48 hours it might still feel like there's something in there even though everything was removed, due to the cuts and scratches the wood caused. So he prescribed him some eyedrops and we were on our way. On Tuesday morning his eye was swollen somewhat shut. It looked painful. He's all better now though! And he can see very well...he even drew himself a new tatoo yesterday.