huntington beach, california.

Last week we went back to my happy place, Huntington Beach. Devin's good friend Margo was turning 30 and we wanted to be there to celebrate with her! We helped throw her a Dirty Thirty birthday party, where people dressed up white trash/redneck. It was such a fun night! Coincidentally, my Hawaii/Thailand/Cambodia friend, Hailey was also in town the same week. I was soooo excited! We had a jam packed 5 days of fun.

-Sushi with some of my Huntington favorites.
-We saw Margo's favorite band Dry the River in LA to ring in her birthday. Superrrrr good.
-Birthday breakfast at Harbor House
-Beach day with Margo and Devin's friends Matt and Anne who flew in town from Provo to spend the day with us! (We love them.)
-Dirty Thirty party! Where Matix was crowned the twinkie king after winning the twinkie eating contest!
-Bike rides and snow cones at the beach
-Anaheim Angel's game.
(Where we got the best surprise of special parking in the Lexus lot, right up front! We were so thrilled. The perks of driving a nice car, I guess. Thanks dad!)
-La Brea Tarpits where Matix got to see real life Paleontologists hard at work. A dream come true.
-Dinner with my Tesoro family at Wood Ranch in Irvine.
-And no Huntington trip would be complete without a trip to the Sugar Shack!

We had such a fun trip.
I can't wait to go back!!

memorial day weekend.

We had the best Memorial Day weekend, without traveling too far! Surprised? You should be. I usually take advantage of any chance I have to get out of town, and we were planning to go up to Zion for the weekend but it didn't work out last minute. So we made our own fun, and it ending up being pretty perfect, and a very busy weekend!

I had some wedding stuff with Lyndsay Friday and Saturday. 

Matix had a pirate birthday party for his church friend, Luke Orr.

 We made a fort.

 Raced go karts at Fast Lap. (Devin won)

My friend Luke had a birthday swim party barbecue. 

Then on Sunday night me and my friends decided to throw together a camping trip in Lovell Canyon. A group of 14 people ended up going. We made tin foil dinners, set up camp, pitched tents, made Reese's s'mores, played Catch Phrase, sang camp songs, and just had an all around great time. I don't think things could have gone any better. I can't wait to do it again!!

After we got back to town, we didn't want the fun to stop so we decided to head to our favorite local pool, Cancun Resort. Me, Devin, and Matix head over there about once a week to enjoy some fun in the sun. It is the best pool, never crowded, huge slides and perfect temperature. We love it. We all headed over and laid out and played in the pool for the rest of the day, before heading to my sister's for an evening barbecue and back home for our weekly Bachelorette viewing party. What a fun day and weekend!

lyndsays wedding.

This is my gorgeous friend Lyndsay. She married her mister over Memorial Day weekend. I couldn't be any happier for her. Her photographer snapped a few pictures of me, dev, and Matix...which I'm kind of obsessed with. She did such a good job. 

Also, please enjoy this sweet, sweet note Dev and Matix left for the bride and groom. I about died of laughter.

(Another Lindsey is our roommate...hence the confusion)

Love those boys.

last day of preschool.

I can't believe the school year is over. Matix successfully completed his first year of school! Even though he told me all the time how much he hated school, I know he actually loved it. I think his cousin at his dad's house had something to do with it. In fact, I even implemented a rule that every time he told me he hated school, he'd have to tell me three things he loved about school. He always had no problem coming up with things he loved about school. And he absolutely loved doing his homework and showing me his papers. He's getting to be a smart little cookie. We will miss all his friends at I'm the Future Preschool and Miss J!

father & sons

Matix loves being a boy. He loves outdoors, and hiking, and camping, and everything boy. One of his favorite things to do every year is go to the annual father and sons campout with his papa. It's such a fun thing for them to do together. He's gone every year, but I've never blogged about it because I never get pictures. Until this year! Devin decided to go join in on all the fun, which is awesome itself....BUT I also got picture text updates. It looked and sounded like they had a blast hiking, climbing, sleeping under the stars, and slipnsliding! Love my boys. 

creepy crawler birthday party.

When I first started bringing up the idea of a birthday party a few months ago, Matix's immediate response was a dinosaur party. Of course. But I was not about to do the same thing I just did last year (even thought I do have a ton of tails leftover so that would have been convenient), so I put him to work coming up with ideas. He bounced around a ton of ideas including an eyeball party, a fan party, and a truck party. Finally he made the decision to do a GREEN CREEPY CRAWLER party and it stuck. For two months he would tell everyone he came in contact with that he was almost four, his birthday was May 18th, and he was having a green creepy crawler party. To say he was excited would be an understatement. 

Devin had to work the weekend of Matix's actual birthday, so we decided to have his big birthday bash the weekend before. Father and Sons was Friday night so it was busy busy, but everything worked out perfectly. We had a great turnout and was a lot of fun. All the food was green, of course. We had a bug hunt with nets I scored at the dollar store, a spider cake made solely by yours truly, played with bubbles, and ended with the party with fun on the bouncy house. 

Happy Birthday Matix!! 

We sure do love you.