Winter Happenings

Gosh... I'm so bad at updating this blog!

We've had a busy couple of months here in the bay!

January

We celebrated our 5-year anniversary of when we first met! Crazy, I know.

For those of you that don't know... Jonathan and I met on Bourbon Street on New Year's Day in 2009. I was there with Crimson Line, and Jonathan made the 30 hr drive to New Orleans with some friends. It was one of the best days ever! Not only did the Utes kill Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, but little did we know that the person we had just met would be the person we would spend the rest of our life with.

February

Jonathan celebrated his 29th birthday this month! Next year is the big 3-0. He is getting SO old! :)

To celebrate Jonathan's birthday, we moved to a new apartment in Menlo Park! We're still in the process of unpacking, hanging things on the wall and picking out some new furniture. We are loving all the extra space!

Jamie (Jonathan's younger brother) and Brittany came and visited us, and we took a tour of the Giants ballpark. We got to explore the locker room, hang in the dugout and walk on the field. The two boys were in heaven.

My cute cheer comp team celebrated a 3rd place victory at nationals in Las Vegas! I am so proud of them and all of their amazingly hard work. It was such a fun and rewarding season.

March

Adam (Jonathan's older brother) also came to visit us for a couple of days. He recently moved back home to Utah, but stopped to visit us in the middle of his drive there. I was so impressed that he fit everything he owned in his small car. Kudos to him!

Here we are exploring Land's End up in the city. There was a cool hike that we took around the point that gave us spectacular views of the Golden Gate bridge. So fun!

I promised the girls I babysit that I would take them to a Stanford gymnastics meet, so they made a poster to celebrate. "We Love Gimnastics" They are so darling and couldn't take their eyes off of the girls during their routines. It was so fun to spend a girl's night with them!

The next weekend, my parents and little brother Matt came into town! We went to the tide pools, ate lots of tacos, went to the Stanford vs. Utah basketball game, hiked in the Muir Woods and spent a day in Monterey. It was so fun to have them here!

Since our new apartment doesn't have any wall decor hanging yet, I decided to create this mega bracket on our wall for March Madness. I love March Madness. Every year, each member of my family fills out a bracket to compete  against each other. We take it very seriously.

To cap it all off, Jonathan spent last weekend in Tahoe snow camping with the scouts. Both he and I were put into YM and YW immediately after moving into the Menlo Park ward. We went to church our first Sunday and then got callings the next Sunday! We are having a lot of fun getting to know the youth in this ward, and more people in the stake. 

So long from sunny California!