Castle, Concert & Vegas

On the day Jeremy and I decided to tour Hearst Castle, Ellia decided she was done 'walking' on her knees. We took the backpack carrier but she would have nothing to do with it. Try keeping a one year old ready to practice her new walking skills on a four foot wide tour rug without touching any walls, furniture, plants, statues, well without touching ANYTHING. Fun! The castle was still amazing none-the-less and we are glad we did it.




The indoor pool


This floor tile had 24 karat gold


just one attempt to control Ellia

This building was built using limestone from Manti, Utah!

Finally a little time to relax
Afterward we stopped at the beach and at a tiny fair in Cambria, a quaint and beautiful little moutainous town by the coast. It's nickname is little city in the pines or something. We even saw a deer - which oddly enough was pretty exciting because we really haven't seen much wildlife since leaving Utah. We walked to their beach which was more of a tide pooling beach than a swimming beach, but the weather was nice and cool so we just relaxed there for awhile before driving home.

Poor Ellia was so tired she kept trying to sleep on the sand - even though we had a blanket and a pillow for her.

The little fair.

Family: I wish you could experience this booth more by picture alone. Minus the somewhat sanitary screen, this looked and smelled just like the Mayfield 'buffet' line used to!

We also recently returned to Buck Owens Crystal Palace for another concert, this time to see David Allen Coe. It was quite the personal little concert! Jeremy tried to describe D.A.C. to me but I had a skinny mid-thrities cowboy pictured instead of a 68 year old cross between ZZTop and - well I just don't know.

Yes, those are two braids hanging down off his beard.

If that 'ain't country . . .

Perfect country western song

Next, it was off to vegas to visit Jer's family, see some of his brothers baseball games and take his sister shopping and to see Hoover Dam.

The bridge for the new road...yikes!

In other news I bought my birthday present this week and I am so stinkin' excited! In Oct, jeremy and I will be attending the So You Think You Can Dance live tour. Wahoo!

Recent Weekends

Camping and Hiking at Fish Creek

Of course Ellia is carrying a rock Jeremy found and wanted to take homeAlthough not impressive in size, just look at that color! (Jeremy made me promise to post this picture)

Grilling hamburgers for dinner
What a night! Actually Ellia had her bast camping night yet. She sleeps between Jeremy and I, we just zip up the tent and let her crawl around until everyone falls asleep - she is usually last. When I woke up she had fallen asleep on my legs, but she slept all night without waking up, doesn't she look rested?

Morning view from our tent

Our camp spot
This picture doesn't even come close to showing how dirty she got

Relaxing in the tent
Too tired to hike



Ventura Beach

Ellia now understands where hats go, she just hasn't figured out WHAT a hat is.

Camping at Big Meadow

It is truly just a BIG meadow - this doesn't do it justice. It seemed like it should have been a lake, and that's what Jeremy and I kept calling it by accident. We went up with our ward to help get it ready for the girls camp, (thanks Pam for letting us borrow your camera since we forgot ours!) I think our presence was appreciated, except in the middle of the night when Ellia woke up and screamed for twenty mintues!

All About Ellia

Eevil? Never.

First she took all her toys out of everything, Then she started putting her toys (and other things) back in everything (shoes in DVD drawer etc.), Now SHE gets in things like toys and DVD drawers!

Sooooo tired.

Faker

How she likes to "walk"

How she can walk

Family Trippin'

At this point so much has been going on and I feel so behind on posts that I sortof gave up. Then Jeremy suggested a way to organize our recent noteworthy acitivities and now I'm back.


So Jeremy's parents and brother and sister came to visit over her birthday and we went to the American Girl dolls store, and Angels Yankees game, Newport Beach, and then home to our pool. Here are some pics. Jeremy's sister Addie.
Like mother like daughter...always ready for a handout.





Her gift from our New York Trip.
Though she may look tired, she squirmed through the entire game.

Jeremy's brothers, Travis and Gunner and Travis's wife Liz.