Salt Lake City

While in Salt Lake we stayed at my parents house and drove all around the valley to meet up with several different friends. On Wednesday afternoon we sent Jeff out golfing with my dad while we set up for the SURPRISE graduation party my mom and sister planned. We scrambled about and got everything done right before they got home. We had yummy homemade cafe rio burritos and rice for dinner, bandaid cookies, hand and foot bone cupcakes and better than sex cake for dessert. We loved being in Utah and getting to see and hang out with everyone again.

Last Seare dinner together before we left for Florida

That chloe girl knows what she wants
Frozen Yogurt with the Larsen sistas of mine, so overdue!

Last night with the kiddies and my friend Whit came to say hi/bye!



love that tongue!

Jeff's surprise Grad Party

Play date @ Ab's house with the kiddies


warner and lauren took turns running down the cushions and jumping on me




lollie's bear she packed around, it was bigger than her

LAS VEGAS

We rented a car and drove from Newport to Vegas to meet all the Seares for a much needed weekend of family fun. We stayed at the JW Marriott in Summerlin and spent our days soaking in the sun poolside, shopping til we dropped and playing tricks on everyone else. I could have stayed forever. We had so much fun we unfortunately didn't take any pictures but these..

Dinner at Geronimo's

love our underwater camera

Newport Beach, Cali

We started our 19 day trip in Newport Beach, California, on Balboa Island more specifically. We stayed with some friends who live there on the island. We loved getting to stay and play with them and made use of our time in the sun.

Day 3: Jeff and I rode their beach cruisers to Huntington Beach

Day 2: Disneyland and California Adventure!



the new Little Mermaid ride









Balboa Island Ferry

Day 1: Dayna Point for surfing lessons, taught by Tanner






Thanks for a fun weekend Tanner and Margot!

Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene really freaked us (me) out but probably not in the way you would expect.. I wasn't so much worried about rain, flooding, being without electricity, food storage, etc. I was however, majorly stressing out over the fact that Irene was scheduled to hit the coast on saturday evening and all day sunday and we were scheduled to fly out of JFK the following monday. All I was thinking was hell or highwater, literally either way I was making that flight!

This was our "emergency" stash

Jeff getting ready to go out and move the car (we were parked under a large tree)

Our water supply, probably only would have kept us going for a day, maybe

We really lucked out in our area and were spared major flooding and damage, in fact it cleared up so early that I drove into work at 230 pm on sunday afternoon. I didn't care though, cause that just meant that our chances of getting out on time on monday were better, and we lucked out! We even departed JFK a few minutes early ;)