Memorial Day Weekend

We had a blast this Memorial Day Weekend. Our parents came all the way from Utah for a special visit!! They stayed with the Large family for a few days so we got to spend time with them as well. We made sure we made it to the beach of course....

Jesse and dad at the Channel Islands pier


Jesse made a lovely necklace out of the seaweed washed up on shore. Gotta love that salty smell!


What adorable parents.


The waves weren't very big, as you can see in the background. That's ok, we didn't do any surfing this time around... too cold!


I'm not sure why that sign behind them says, "Restricted, Keep Out"... nobody seemed to pay attention to it.


My beach bum dad


Mother daughter shot


Can you tell we're related? We both get cold so easily. Brrr...


And of course we gotta include one of the happy couple!


The Large Family had everyone over for dinner so we pulled out the extra table leaves and assembled the Large table. Next shot you can see just how Large the table ended up being....


The table all set, ready to seat 14! Mmmm, those poppy seed muffins were delicious!


Alicia and her half asleep husband. He liked this picture, even with his eyes closed so up it goes on the blog :)


BFF Nancee and Gayle; still friends after all these years...
Nancee was the chef for the fabulous meal.


Wow! The landscaping in this yard is amazing! They must have an incredible, hard-working landscaper (one of Jesse's jobs is taking care of the Large's yard). This is our family standing in the Large's backyard.


These are all the partakers of the yummy Sabbath feast!


Aubrey, Nate, Jesse (my handsome husband), Gayle, Nancee


The Risser Family: Nyah, Sade, Jeremy, and Kristy :) So cute!


I have a special place in my heart for Sade because she smiles for the camera the same way I did when I was little. Its so funny! She is just plain adorable.


Uncle Nate with Nyah and Sade. What fun!


This picture was taken in the church building my dad used to be Bishop in. This was in the hall after church in the Saugus III Ward. Mom and Lark Lungren are getting caught up on all the latest...

Saugus III Softball Team

This past Saturday was the championship game for Jesse's softball team. They had 3 games straight, starting at 4:00 pm and ending around 8:30. This was all in the 100 degree weather. They won 2 out of 3 games, taking 2nd place overall. It was an awesome season and gave us something to look forward to every Saturday. What a great team!

It doesn't get much hotter than this!

The past several days have been unbearably hot out here. We have had to endure a heatwave in which temperatures have been over 100 degrees. Jesse has to work standing in the sun in long black pants and a white shirt and tie. I don't know how he does it. We have no air conditioning where we are staying right now so we've tried everything to keep cool at night. We have 2 fans going and we get up and take a cold shower in the night to make it through. Finally, after several sleepless nights we decided we would just sleep outside instead of die of heatstroke. We brought a blanket and picked a nice spot under the stars, in the grassy cul de sac on our street. This seemed like a fantastic idea until at about 12:30 am the sprinklers went off and we awoke to a startling cold spray of water! Oh well, at least we got a good hour or so in of sleep. Last night our good friend Nancee called and let us know we could sleep at their place until the heat wave passed so we are very grateful for our kind friends and for the air conditioning they provided for us. We finally had a good night's sleep :) Zzzzzzz........

Have a Magic Day!

Since Jesse hit his 100 hour mark as a proud employee of Six Flags Magic Mountain, he got a free buddy pass which means he now gets to take a guest with him for free whenever he wants. Of course, he picked his wife! We thought it would be a nice free date for a Saturday evening. After the softball game against Saugus IInd (which we won't get into, its a sore subject), we hurried off to Six Flags to have our Magic day!


Haha this is an awesome picture. It was taken while moving on Revolution. It looks like Jesse has little firey devil horns coming out the side of his head...


In line at Viper. We actually got really lucky because we didn't really have to wait in line at all. Everyone kept asking us if we wanted to cut. I think Jesse must've winked at them or something.




When posing for these pics we used my red sweater as our Superman cape. The real Superman must've been pretty well off to afford such a fancy-pants costume.


just before he flies away....


up, up and away!


Sitting in Batman the ride. This was our favorite :)


I'm pretty sure this isn't the real Batman and Robin but Jesse explained to me that while they are off fighting crime they have to hire stand-ins to pose for pictures. Makes sense. He's so smart.


This was taken right before I almost had my heart attack. I noticed when we were walking back to the car that my iPhone was no longer in my back pocket. My heart plummeted and I started freaking out. We backtracked to see if anyone had found the phone. Luck was with us on our magic day because the first place we checked (Colossus), the girl who worked on the ride said she had found an iPhone. Yay! I was so happy :) After that we were starving and had a wonderful meal at Marie Calendars. It was a fabulous date!