Printed - Part 2

Brody was asked to be part of a segment for EnLIGHTenment magazine (a well known circulation in the lighting industry) featuring ALA's young executives, and their thoughts on the upcoming conference. It's SO fun to see him in print again, and is always a good thing to continue to have his name out there and counted as a part of this group! : ) 

Very, very proud wife here!!

(I circled Brody's photos in the photo below) : ) 

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Quick photo update...

I'll do some more posts soon, but here are some recent photos of our usual shenanigans, to hold you over. ; ) Things have been pretty busy and fun here. Life is so good!!

We recently went to Carnation Cafe. Brody's first time there since it re-opened. We had the fried pickles, which are SO SO good! We both almost didn't want to try them, but then ended up loving them!! This was such a magical visit to the parks. Little fun thing kept happening or working out just right, that it made it one of those golden trips. : ) 

 We had another Angels game a week or so ago. It was an afternoon game, and it was HOT! We came prepared with our coolers of water from home, ice packs (which came in handy for keeping us cool too), and lot's of sunscreen! Even had to put our phone and camera in the coolers for a bit, because they were getting way too hot. Despite the sun it was such a fun game, I love afternoon games here and there. Since it was a Sat afternoon, we headed to Disneyland after to cool off. Meet up with some friends and went on the water rides to cool off. : ) 

Hope everyone is having a great summer! Such a fun time of year! : ) 

(More to come...and keep checking our Instagram site. Link on the left hand side bar.) 

iPhone pics

A couple photos from my phone : ) 

We went out to the Bass Pro Shop recently because Brody is going fly fishing with the Scouts soon. It's a whole other world out there in the Bass Pro Shop, and it is such fun to look around. It's the amusement park of the outdoor world! It was so fun to see him all excited about all the little things for fly fishing. 

We've had a couple more games in our season ticket package, and one recently we ended up leaving a bit early by Brody's request and he surprised me with going to watch the fireworks on Main Street (so sweet, I love when he does things like that)!
What a perfect Summer night!! : ) 

 Last week we went clay shooting with my parents and a good family friend. I've been shooting before, but never with such a fast moving target! It was something to get used to! Brody and everyone else were great at it...but i'm going to need some work on my aim. Can't wait to go back out and try it again. And it will be just in time for my bruise to heal and start a new one ; ) 

Oh, and I had shrimp for the first time. If you know how much I have avoided seafood, you know this is worth documenting. haha. It was much better than expected, and I am excited to try coconut shrimp and have some seafood in HI this year! 

Happy 4th!!

The fourth was so fun and low key! In the morning Brody went on a close to 50 mile bike ride with some friends, and then home to some festive waffles for breakfast. A little early afternoon nap (for the bike rider), then off to Disneyland to start the celebration!! 

 Until about September they are having a group that normally preforms at Disney World, called the Liberty singers that preform before Great Moments with Mr.Lincoln. It was beautiful and just perfect for the holiday! : ) 

 Later in the day we met up with Mom and Dad for dinner, some rides, a concert and an all American BBQ.....oh, and fireworks!! 

 We watched a bit of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band preform back in Big Thunder Ranch before dinner. They were amazing and ended up doing mostly Disney songs! 

 We all had dinner at Big Thunder Ranch. What more could you want then a classic BBQ brought out to you in such a fun setting. The meal was so good, and the setting was so festive for the holiday! It was so fun!  : ) 

 Then we headed over to Fantasyland to caught some fireworks. As always, it was quite a show! They really know how to wow a crowd. There were so many times the park was lit up as bright as daylight. : ) 

 It was such a fun day!! 

(all photos were taken with our point and shoot and phones) 

Side show

We have been using an iPhone app for years called Istagram. It's a photo sharing app, where those who follow you can 'like' and or comment on your photos. It's a really fun app, and together we must have close to a thousand photos up on it---but, unless you have had an iPhone, you haven't been able to see them. I recently saw that you can share Instagram photos through a blog site called Tumblr, so I set one up! This will be a fun way to share our random day to day photos that don't normally make it to our main blog or Facebook. And for those still checking the blog, this will be a nice filler since I haven't been as diligent with blogging as I have in the past. : ) 

If you want to check it out, just click my little button on the left hand sidebar! 

(I know it's just ice cream right now, but i'm sure it will get a little more interesting) ; ) 

Glow with the show!

What's that? You want another Disneyland post?? Well, ok....luckily I have something! ; ) 

This past weekend we went to another Annual Passholders event called, 'Glow with the show". They handed out Mickey ears that synced up with World of Color (they will also since with attractions and other shows at the resort), they are normally about $24 so it was nice to get them free, since we don't normally wear ears. 

The show was spectacular, and we found ourselves watching the sea of ears change colors instead of the show. It was mesmerizing! The cast members even noticed that Brody's and a friend of ours ears weren't working properly, so they switched them out. It was such a fun event! My favorite AP event so far! 

Here is a clip of the show and the ears at work! 

Don't skip this!! : ) 

Summer is here

Friday nights at San O have started back up again for the summer! Such a wonderfully relaxing thing to look forward to during the week. It has all a summer should, the beach, BBQing, friends and family and beautiful sunsets! : ) 

Home from Dallas!

I get SO excited when Brody comes home from being out of town, even if it's only for one night. He's absolutely my very best friend and I miss him terribly when he's away...especially when he's away for a week in Dallas at the show. When he got home, we wasted no time getting back to some summer fun, in our most favorite way! : ) 

He came home with this beautiful 24k Gold, very light pink Swarovski crystal necklace for me! It stunning in person, and I love it so very much! And makes me think of our amazing trip to the factory in Austria several years back. 

It was Brody's idea to hit the parks, and how could I say no? We have been loving so much exploring and getting to know the newly opened areas of California Adventure 

 Little hot and crowded in the summer, so it's nice to stop in at places like the Muppets to cool off and get a nice break from all the people.

The Flying Tires...while it is a little slow moving, with the beach balls it's a really fun ride. : )

Nothing like soft serve ice cream on a warm day!!

It had been awhile since we had been on Tower of Terror, and when we walked into the park a nice lady stopped us and gave us fast passes for the ride! We do that a lot at the park and its fun when it comes back around for us too. : ) 

We also broke in Brody's shinny new annual pass that came while he was out of town! 

Here's to another year of magical fun memories!! : ) 

(all photos taken on our phones)

Cars Land & Buena Vista Street Preview - Part 1

This Past Saturday we had the opritunaty to explore Cars Land and Buena Vista Street, in Disney's California Adventure before it opens to the public on June 15th. It was one of the most fun trips we have had at the parks in a long time! These new additions will blow you away!! And we get to go back this Saturday for more! 

We checked in and got our wrist bands and special event tickets.

"Let the memories begin" : ) 

We entered back at the Wharf. From that entrance you get a pretty breathtaking view of Radiator Racers. Going in, all we could say was "Wow!!" 

The first thing on our list was Radiator Springs Racers! The rumor was that this was going to reinvent the E-Ticket ride. It exceeded our expectations and is now one of our favorite rides at the resort!  

The ride takes you through a little of the cars story and gives you the experience of getting ready for a race as Lighting did. It's a pretty addicting ride! Just make sure you have a rubber band with you, our you may end up with a ride photo like the one below. ha! : ) We ended up doing this 3 times that evening. 

Stopped by to visit Stanley, the founder of Radiator Springs. 

Flo's Cafe. Where we later had dinner. 

The details of this land are off the charts! I don't think they missed a thing. 

The Cozy Cone. We didn't have time to try the food here, but its on our list for this weekend. 

Us and Lighting 

Little video of us enjoying Mater's Junkyard Jamboree! ; ) 

A REALLY quick video of Mater driving around talking. 

This photo is really fun for us. For so many years we would stand back there on the other side of the fence at a place called Blue Sky Cellar (the building behind and to the right of us), stand on benches and excitedly try to see what we could of the construction. And now, we were inside the walls before opening!! : ) 

Eating at Flo's. The food was really good and the cafe is really cute! 

Everything photographs so beautifully 

Lighting driving around. They even showed the difference in the old road and the new road that Lighting had to pave while he was in Radiator Springs. 

I was ready to be pretty disappointed by the Flying Tires, but it was really fun! You can get some speed and the beach balls were really fun! 

Video of the street lighting ceremony, and they played my favorite song from the movie!! 

It's stunning all lit up at night! <3

On our way out to Buena Vista Street

The street is beautiful!! And gives you the feel of another, smaller Main Street. So many shops and little details. 

You know how on Main Street and back in New Orleans Square you can hear voices coming from the windows and offices above when its nice a quite? Well we heard some coming from Buena Vista Street from an Optometry office. : ) 

Can't wait to ride the Red Trolly, and try out all the new foods! 

Another photo from inside the construction walls!! : )!

1920's Mickey, and some twenty first century Starbucks Hot Chocolates (which tastes better at DL) ; ) 

The new big gift shop. It's very big and grand inside. 

Us and the new partners statue all boxed up, waiting for the grand opening. 

Goodbye amazing new additions, see you next weekend! : ) 

It was SO SO fun to be able to go in and see everything without the crazy crowds that will be there this weekend (and the rest of the summer). I was so excited to get photos with the walls still up, little pieces of history! : )