just because you're on a diet, doesn't mean you can't look at the menu!

i'm back from California!! and i had so much fun... it was amazing to be able to spend time with my whole family, well minus nichole and jordan who weren't there. but that's ok cause they just closed on their first official house!! how exciting right?

so i will take you through our week at laguna/dana point : ) ummm.... a 6 1/2 hour drive up (which meant a TON of reading), food, beach (all the time!), food, parcheesi, reading, pool (an hour after we ate of course lol), more food, movies, reading on the beach, hot guys (a wise friend once told me that just because you're on a diet, doesn't mean you can't look at the menu... like i said, very wise!... is it bad to say yumm about the surfers?), tanning, more food, reading and then another 6 1/2 hour drive back to arizona and the HEAT : P it was absolutely beautiful in california... the weather was so perfect 75 and sunny most of the day, 106 in AZ is not my friend. so from my wonderful descriptive vacation summary you can guess that we basically revolved everything we did around our eating arrangements (it's a fat people thing LOL)... we eat a LOT! i started and finished 3 books during this trip. never really knew i liked reading that much... i mean i've always liked to read, but three 300ish page books in 1 week... that's pretty much crazy right?? anyways so this trip has given me the world's worst tan! from my previous sunburn to a tan/burn on top of what was already trying to heal i have peeled so badly on my shoulders that i look like a white dalmatian with even whiter patchy spots. : D all i can do is laugh it off... and so, i say... HAHAHAHAHA!!

so i talked to a bestie named erin noray (yes i'm including your middle name because it's beautiful, not hideous) henderson, and basically everyone should follow her blog. she is apparently a very talented and funny writer... who knew she had these talents ; ) just joking...love you erin! and she is the brightest ray of sunshine mot will ever meet <3 anyways, we definitely talked for 2 hours 1minute and 15 seconds (according to her calculations) last night/this morning, and that didn't even come close to breaking the record. somewhere in the 4 hour range!

jumping from topic to topic is a lot easier than trying to make it flow, soooo next: work is still just absolutely wonderful. i love Malia and love taking her places and playing baby dolls with her (all 12 of which are named Emma... so cute). when she laughs it is just the cutest thing in the world! ah i love that little angel!! <3 <3 <3 <3

now ashley is at EFY for the week and i am already going crazy here without her! however me and my mom just had an awesome talk! i love her a lot a lot and love talking to her, she is amazing. random thought : ) well it's bedtime!

oh! 175 days...