"You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experiences."
-Gordon B. Hinckley
Showing posts with label Fourth of July. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fourth of July. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26

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!!

Tuesday, July 13

4th

We had a wonderful 4th of July weekend! Full of the 'big 4', family, friends, food and fireworks!!
(the photo above I put together with photos we took playing around with sparklers. Can together pretty nice I think.)

We started out the weekend relaxing at San O...
Playing with our favorite little girl, Gabby

eating yummy hot dogs...
( why is it that they always taste so good at the beach?? )

We love Jeff & Camille
Saturday morning we got to go back down to San Diego, for another tour of Johns Ship. This time with Lauren, Dad and Brody!! It was great fun and another great tour. We saw some new things we missed the last week!
It was a nice day to kick back and relax. : )
And then do a nice workout!
The Bridge
Playin' Captain : )

So glad the guys and Lauren got to see Johns ship!
It's an amazing opperation, and we are all so proud of him!
Picking up a nice stash of fireworks to bring over the boarder to Newport! ; )
Saturday night Brody & I went up to Disneyland to see the Fourth of July firework show. This year they ran it for four nights instead of just on the 4th. It was such a great show, very patriotic!!
And, Disneyland was all decked out for the holiday!!
Awesome show!!
I love that we have Disneyland so close. There are SO many things I love about going!
Oh, and Brody renewed his pass for another year of fun! : )
On the 4th, we had fun celebrating not only the 4th, but Laurens (my Sister) Birthday too!! She's a Fourth of July baby! How cool is that? How great is it to have fireworks on your Birthday every year?? : )
After some yummy cake, Brody set up the fireworks in my parents backyard. My Dad had the great idea of doing them by the pool so they would reflect off the water! Brilliant!!
Gabby watching the captivating lights of the fireworks
Ooooooooo....
Ahhhhhh.......
We had quite a group watching....here are some of them : )
The fireworks were awesome. A couple of them shot little fireworks high up, but I keep missing that with my camera...oh well. : )
The aftermath. haha
Watching all those fireworks really wore out little Gabby.
How cute is she asleep? I want to keep her! : )
Such a fun 4th!!
...and so sleepy!

We LOVE the 4th!!
Hope everyone had a wonderful and safe holiday!!