Anniversary Video

Put together a little video of the awesome day I spent with the love of my life. More still pictures are posted below. Thanks for a day of too much perfection Mikey.

6-Year Anniversary

Mike and I celebrated six years of marriage yesterday. Mike had our whole day planned out so first we drove to San Simeon on the coast to check out Hearst Castle. The sky was clear, the sun was shining and it was absolutely gorgeous. William Randolph Hearst built a castle that was very heavily influenced by Eurepean architecture. The tour was phenomenal. Then, we took a scenic drive to the beach. Later, we saw a Bubble Gum Alley in San Luis Obispo. That's right, an entire alley filled with chewing gum on the walls. And finally, we ate dinner at a place called Apple Valley.

One of the pools. It was 10 feet deep all over and had 24-karat gold tiles lining the walls and bottom of the pool. There was a tennis court on top of it.

Our favorite part of the tour...the Neptune Pool. Here the marble statues are depticting the birth of Venus the Goddess of Love.

Another view of the Neptune Pool.

The Dining Room. Every candleholder is pure silver.

One of the guest houses.

The entrance to the main house or La Casa Grande as Hearst called it.

Statues and fountains were all over the castle grounds.

The ocean view from the castle.

Mike in the Bubble Gum Alley. This is only one tiny section of the alley.

Dagger

Bought a dagger today. Since Jill and Nick got shotguns I figured I needed a weapon of my own. Not quite as impressive as a gun but it will do. I had the choice between some Lord of the Rings ones or this King Arthur one I chose. Do you love it!!

Christmas Lights

I absolutely love my calling. I get to be one of the leaders for the 10-11 year old Faith in God girls. They are way hilarious. And we only do 2 activities a month. Nice.

Tonight, we walked around Christmas Tree lane so I told the moms to bundle their girls up. The moms thought I was crazy because they said it was sooo cold even though it was 50 degrees out. Silly Californians. Thought I'd share some highlights of the evening.

We found Santa on Christmas Tree lane!! Santa!! Santa!! We decided to sit on Old Saint Nick's lap. And of course, I made them take a funny pic. It was like a party outside this place. There were buses, cars and people crawling all over the place.

Nice and cozy right before we left.

The normal Santa shot.

Willy Wonka

Mike and I found this sweet candy store. When we walked in, we were amazed. They had every kind of candy you can imagine. And in the back of the store, they have the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory playing nonstop. When we went to investigate more, we found autographed pictures of all the kids in the movie all grown up. We also found a bubblegum dresser where you have to open the drawers to pull out the gum that is separated by flavor.

We went there because I had to buy candy for a Primary class I taught and bribed to behave. Works every time! I ended up getting suckers for those little suckers! But the suckers were cool because they were shaped like feeet.
Mike and I holding our goods. I have a Wonka Bar (disappointed that I didn't find a golden ticket though) and Mike has a piece of bubble gum the size of a yard stick.

Fresno Metropolitan Museum

Mike and I called up my good friend Kayann and headed to the Grand Reopening of the Fresno Metripolitan Art & Science Museum. It was awesome because it was free and it featured a feathered dinosaur exhibit. Unfortunately, they did not allow us to take pictures inside. I was even asked by a security guard to put my camera away. And he seemed to follow me around knowing I wanted to pull it out and take a sneaky shot.

Sweet sign outside about the dino display.

Posing by a statue outside.

Here's the illegal photo I took inside the very green stairwell.

Mike and Kayann checking out the brochures.

Halloween Fun

Mike and drove to Reno to go Trick-or-tricking with the kids and to be at Ben and Angie's Halloween party. As always, we had fun. I even won a name that tune game (even though Angie really won). And I think Ben and Angie by far had the best costumes.

Mike and I as Trinity and Neo.
Check out Mike's hair. Very hot!

The Mexican wrestlers! Ben actually wore those gold undies.

Mike packed Reyn around the most Halloween night. He would take her up to doors, hold out the bucket and get some candy. Who could resist the cute little hot dog with my gorgeous husband.

I almost thought Tiago wasn't going to get into his monkey suit. He kept saying No, but he eventually climbed in and went around getting candy. He wouldn't say Trick-or-Treat. He would just hold up his bucket.

The cute hot dog with mustard.

Ayzha the little witch.