California with B-man.

There is seriously (seriously) nothing I love more than going on vacations with B.

I've always been the kind of person that has things scheduled, and being late is a no-no, and no way am I gonna NOT have a plan. 

But then I married Mr. Chill over here and my life has never been better. 

Do I still schedule my life? You know it. 

But do I die if I'm 5 minutes late to church? No way Jose.

So what I'm saying is this. 

Vacations with Lover Boy are just spur of the moment and we do whatever the heck we want, whenever the heck we want.

Sometimes it backfires.

Like, we shouldn't have tried to get tickets to the Dodgers vs. Angels game 5 minutes before it started. Ya...we didn't end up seeing that one.

And we eat way too late at night because we don't think about getting food until we're starving and neglect to remember wait times (argh!).

But mostly it is just pure bliss.

We wake up when we want to, sleep on the beach till we're bored, eat as much icecream as we want, shop till we drop, cruise around and find celebrity houses while jamming to music, buy cool boogie boards because B is a professional, and eat all the peach samples at the farmers markets so we don't actually have to buy a peach. (is that legal?! or ethical?! Like, can you sample all the icecream at cold stone and leave without actually buying any cold stone?!)

Buuuut ya.

B and I always try to make it to California for a few days in the summer. 

It's our favorite place and makes us happier people!!

So it's 100% necessary. 

Necessary like how dry shampoo is necessary.

And side note: I cooked tonight.

Like boiled my own potatoes and mashed them, type of cooking. 

I'm so proud of myself I could die.

And when B got up and got serving number two, I acted like it was no big thaaaang. But inside...hello hallelujah chorus of 50,000 angels singing.

California with Nik

Stick with me here as I catch up on some blogging!

I've been bad (so bad!) at staying on top of this loving blog of mine.

So don't mind these pics of warm, sunny summertime even though it's Fall.

oh fall. My favorite. (and apparently everyone else's favorite too...uhhh, how you say #sweaterweather)

Now.

A few months ago, I went on a road trip to California with my parents and niki.

We, A) watched Nik compete in Jr. Nationals. Little kid got 4th. FOURTH! In. the. nation. 

or maybe it was 6th, heck, I can't remember..it was a long time ago! but probably 4th. 

and B) hang out on the beach, duh. 

and C) go to a cousins wedding. 

We drove, alot. 

like, alllll over California.

But it was so fun and I loved spending time with my family!

The only thing that was missing was my boo thang. 

B had homework and school (which gets a big ol' thumbs DOWN in my opinion).

But it is what it is, right?

Oh! and I literally (like literally) completely busted my phone right before we left on the trip. 

It was donezo and died a sad and tragic death. 

So, I was that annoying person that was always asking my fam, "hey, you using your phone right now? cuz I gotta text B!"

But they were nice and always let me borrow their phone so I wouldn't die. like my phone. 

So ya. 

Beach day was my favorite. 

And my dad was a complete GEM. 

He was all, "girls, this is your day. I'll drive you where ever you wanna go and do whatever you wanna do"

So we laid out on the beach (while he read his book and listened to music).

Then went longboarding (while he read his book and listened to music).

Then we interrupted his reading to make him take pictures of us, eat lunch with us, and shop with us. 

Hi dad, you freaking rock. 

Thanks for such a fun day!

^^reading his book, listening to music, and getting an awesome tan.

^^taught him everything he knows.

^^she's the cutest little thing. I love her, so much! So glad I have her as a sister and bestest friend.

Lucky freaking me. 

Our engagement video.

About a month ago, my mother-in-law found an SD card with our whole engagement on it. 

Apparently Sky boy filmed the whole thing!

You guys, I died when I watched all of it. 

All that raw footage?! I love.

It was so fun to re-live that night, cuz hello, it was one of the best nights ever!

And yes, I know this happened 50 years ago.

But that doesn't make it less awesome, okay?!

Thanks for capturing all of this Sky, I love you so much!

Also, read the ENGAGEMENT STORY HERE if you missed it 50 years ago :)

Brenn = cool.

I'd like to think I was as cool as Brenna when I was her age. 

But I just wasn't. 

And I doubt you were either. 

She's so cute and funny and chill and witty and sweet and rad and just coooool. 

Not cool like you and me. 

COOLER.

Like, when Blake and I are bored, we call Brenna.

and that doesn't make us lame, peeps. 

It makes us cool.

Exploring Salt Lake

Yesterday morning, I got a text from Lover Boy asking if I wanted to go explore Salt Lake City with him. 

What?!

This was so great for so many reasons. 

Between my 3 jobs and his full time school and job, our quality time has basically been limited to the weekends. We're just so busy!! Monday-Thursday I don't even get home till 10:30 or 11 at night and I usually come home to B whacking away at his homework. Luckily, we cuddle up hard every night around midnight and watch The Voice or Jimmy Fallon together, but I wish I saw more of him all week!

Also, one of our favorite things to do together is to go on drives, listen to good music, and scope out awesome houses. For some reason, we are complete suckers for older houses with lots of character. 

Hello freaking Downtown Salt Lake.

 Those houses are freaking amazing! 

We just day dream about the day when we get to pick out an old house of our own together and renovate the crizapp out of it.

Also, this song was our music of choice for the drive. We're the kind of people that will listen to a song 20 million times over till we're so sick of it we never ever listen to it again. You bet this song was on repeat the whole time. Thanks for showing it to me, Lachelly! B's obsessed. 

Also, we stopped at the capitol building and it was amazing. Not exactly sure why I've never been there, but I've already made big plans for a picnic on the stairs next time we stop by.

Also, the weather. It was perfect.

And the conversation? So good.

And the laughing? I couldn't stop. B was just being funny...and my mood was flying high.

Basically, it was a much needed adventure with my lover.

and I'm not exactly sure how it worked out so perfectly with our crazy schedules, but I'm so happy it did.

 ^^ we set up our camera on top of our car for a little self timer action and then crossed the street to take this picture. Right before the picture snapped, a freaking car drove right in front of us! We were laughing pretty hard, because it was kinda awkward and just really bad timing. But the camera caught this piccy in the midst of all of it (guess the car moved out of the way just in time!) and I love it.

^^and this boy. I can't get enough of him!