San Ooooo

Last Friday night when Brody and I pulled up to the beach---we saw this. I hopped over real quick to get a photo and meet one of my Dad's mission companions and his family, who were here visiting from UT. The Duckworths are such a sweet family and it was such fun having them at the beach with us! : ) 

Baby Chad

The girls getting ready to try surfing

The whole group heading out to sea

Camille and Gabby

Brody getting the BBQ ready

The whole group enjoying a great summer night at the beach! : ) 

We've had a couple nights that were nice and warm, luckily for our visitors this was one of them. 

Such a classic summer night at the beach! We are so very lucky! : ) 

Happy 4th!!

We had a fun, what turned into a 4th of July week!

We started off with going another one of our season ticket Angel games....and took the train again (It's just so easy and a fun break from driving)! The photo below is taken from the train station....yup, it's that close! : )

Since we were playing the Nationals we got the see the race of the presidents, which I guess they do at least every home game. Seemed fitting for the 4th too. : )

This was a great game! We got some exciting home runs and the crowd was SO into the game!

some game time photo out-takes!

Of course the thing we look forward to the whole week in the summers...

San O!!

It was such a beautiful day!

We tried bacon wrapped hot dogs that we picked up at Costco....they were really good! But I think I'd make our own with a thicker cut bacon. : )

Enjoying a beautiful night at the beach...

Saturday we had a great lunch at the newly re-opened Ruby's Shake Shack!

The menu now is great!! So many more options and better seating.

That night we went to the parks to check out the 4th of July World of Color show!

Since we showed up on a whim, we did the dining package where they give you premium "seating" tickets for the show after dinner, so we would be guarantied to see the show.

We ate at Ariel's Grotto. It was amazing because we had tickets to the 10:15 showing, so from the restaurant (which is down at water level) we could see out the big windows the 9pm show while we were eating! It was very magical (yup, magical)! : )

Some photos from the show

And there were a lot of fireworks with the show too!

It was amazing!!

Sunday after church we headed over to my parents house and we all went down to take a nice walk along the beach, it was so relaxing and beautiful!

(Happy 4th)

Dad and I : )

I really love this photo of my parents! It's so cute!

Then we went back and lite off a big box of fireworks Brody picked up on the way home from work.

Brody puts on a great show!!

On the 4th we hit the parks again!! One of the best kept secrets of the summer, is that the park is SUPER slow in the day time on the 4th. We walked on so many things, it was such a great, fun and relaxing time!!

We took a couple more flights on Star Tours...and had some Stormtroopers show up!! That was awesome! One of them followed me for a bit! I just wish Darth had come out too! : )

On Big Thunder

No one puts on a firework show like Disneyland!! It was amazing! They really stepped it up from a normal show! : )

Hope everyone had a wonderful and safe 4th!!

Sunday driving

I had my monthly doctors appointment this past Friday, we went over a lot of things, as we normally do. Many things are improving, while the panic attacks have stubbornly stuck around. We came up with a new plan---and step one of that is being tapered off the current drug I am on for the attacks. As you can imagine, there would be some adjustment that goes on because of those levels shifting, and on Sunday while I was visiting my home ward for a missionary farewell, I had a bit of a panic breakdown!

Luckily I was there with my Mom (Brody and my Dad were out of town on business). She had the brilliant idea to take a nice drive....we ended up driving down the coast to San Diego. It was such a beautiful, fun and relaxing day! Leave it to Mom's to take something dark and replace it with such light and love.

I am so grateful & lucky to have such an amazing and supportive family!! : )

Here are some photos of our drive....

At one point we found this really cool look out where these paragliders were floating around. It was so fun to be outside in the warm sun watching these gliders softly fly back and forth in front of us, and enjoy the beautiful setting which we were in! : )

They would go all the way down over the Torrey Pines golf course.

Taken from the car driving along Hwy 1.

It was such a fun day!! Thank you again Mom! Love you so much! : )

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