California...need I say more!

So, we decided to take a little vay-cay and went down to California. And we took Kyle, Richard's nephew, with us. Our main reason for going down was to go the the BYU-SDSU football game on Saturday afternoon. But we figured since we were already going down, that we would take a few extra days. So we went to St. George on Wednesday night and stayed with Richard's sister Christi and her 5 amazing children. I always love seeing them. On Thursday morning we got up and left to go home, it was a 6 hour drive. We arrived about 2:00 in the afternoon at my mom's work. She is the librarian at an elementary school. The boys (richard and kyle) put books away while I helped with checking books in and out for the kids. Mom was done at 2:45, so we went home with her. We took showers and then I went to visit my friend Anna and her little boy Jeremy. Anna is one of my very best friends. She and I have been friends since before we started school. We found out the when William comes, he and Jeremy will have the same age difference between them that Anna and I have. Fun huh? and funny if I might add. Then we went and watched a family friend, McKayla Cook, play in her Freshman volleyball game at Saugus. My old stomping grounds, weird? kinda! And dad got a new digital "heavy duty" camera. It is super nice, and he is learning slowly how to use it. Apparently one of the tenants in his building left it, and didn't want it because there were some things wrong with it. My dad found out what needed to be fixed and spent $80 on fixing it. It is an $800-$1000 camera. But he is having fun anyway! :) We got back home and ate dinner, I love eating dinner with my family, around the table, I am excited to have a family of my own one day.
Friday we went to the beach and it was 80 degrees...at the beach. It was so much fun there. We loved it. The water was cold, but what's new? The weather was perfect. And we had so much fun. When we got back to Saugus, it was 95 degrees and we all had sun burns from the beach. Richard and Colby went to Magic Mountain after we ate dinner and my mom took me shopping for clothes that I can wear for the next couple of months, since the ones I have don't fit so well anymore. She definitely spoiled me.
Saturday, Richard, Kyle and I got up early and drove down to San Diego and went to the temple. I haven't been there since my honeymoon, I also got my endowments out in that temple. Good memories. Then we went and got me a salad before we went to meet everyone for the tailgaiting party in the parking lot. We got there about 12:00 noon and hung out until dad got there with the grill, then we started grilling up the brats and hot dogs and chicken wings. It was so fun! We (as in me and Richard) taught everyone the Cougar Fight Song, or at least tried. The game started at 3:00, so off we went. We had so much fun at the game, and actually had really good seats. We could see everything. We won 38-28 and sang the Cougar Fight Song quite a few times! :) And we had this little boy, he had some kind of mental handicap, but he was so cute. We were sitting in front of him, Richard and I, and my dad was sitting next to him. And he kept talking to us, he was so excited about the game! It was awesome. We left the stadium and went to In-and-Out for dinner. Fun! We got home and hung out for a little bit, but went to bed soon after because we were all beat. Fun weekend.
Sunday we got up and left to get to St. George so that we could have dinner with Kyle's family for his birthday. We had some good BBQ pork and dutch oven potatoes. And there was also some good pumpkin cheesecake for dessert. Thanks to the Robert Beers family!!! It was fun hanging with ya for a few hours. Then we made the rest of the trek home and after dropping off Kyle we got home about midnight...whew! Fun Fun Fun.
And back to work....