Raspberries at Riley's

A few weeks ago we made the journey out to Riley's Farm to stick with tradition (since we did it last year). It's a bit of a trek to get there but it is well worth it... it is a cute farm and colonial styled home, workers, shop, and more.

We got lots of YUMMY raspberries... some of us went home and made jam with their bounty... others (like me) just ATE them!

Here are some pictures:

PICKIN' BERRIES

Kristy and Brady picking just the right ones!

Looks like a good one, Sawyer!

Maddie contemplating her choices

Master Picker Chris

Coleman didn't pick any but he was sure good a looking cute!

Kallie Koo and her basket too!

Libby's First Trip- Hope many to follow!

Grammy coaching the boys on which ones to pick

Brady... What a stud in his cool-guy classes


SHOWING OFF OUR GOODS!

Collin

YUMM!

Carter, Davis and Maddie... good buddies and cousins!

That one looks like a good one Carter!

Nice Picks!

The young ones... so cute!

I'm proud of my Papa!

So let me sum up my spring break week with my family (but unfortunately without any more pictures). My mom and dad left on Wednesday that week to fly to SLC for our church's general conference and because my dad said he had special meetings for him as a stake president to attend.

The rest of the week I got to hang out with my grandma and Paydan (and Chris) at Newport Coast. We went out to eat, made puzzles, Played the game of LIFE, ate out, hung out at the pool, and Chris and I even took Paydan back to Disneyland on of the days. It was a lot of fun and it was nice to get some sibiling bonding time with just my little brother!

Back to what my parents were doing...
We thought it was a little strange that my dad HAD to go to SLC for these meetings and that my mom had to go too. I had asked him what exactly they were, but never got a super clear answer. Chris even grilled him on what they were all about. But I didn't really think much of it.

Well Friday night, my dad texts me and says make sure to watch Saturday Afternoon session of Conference and to keep him in our prayers. Hmmmm? What's up with that?!? So of course we begin spectulating what it is and then on Saturday we listen and we hear this:


(sorry the quality isn't great... and volume is low)

So my dad was called as a Area 70! I guess the one time it is okay for someone to mispronounce you name (Bussey, my maiden name) is when an Apostle does it! I am so proud of him and I am so grateful for the wonderful example he is to me in my life. I know he will be great and will be blessed!

Overall I had a FABULOUS spring break and I am so glad I got to spend that time with my family!

Laguna Beach with my family

On Wednesday of Spring Break, and the last day before my parents had to fly to Salt Lake (more on that later) we decided to go to Laguna Beach and see if we could find any tide pools.

Some of the cool things we got to see

The whole gang! Can you tell that Chris is Excited to be there!

This is kind of an awkward picture because Chris looks like a giant...oh well!

Paydan trying not to get wet... but of course later on he did!

Right before Chris had to leave to go to class.

After Chris had to leave for class, my parents, Paydan and I went into the heart of Laguna and ate lunch and looked at some shops.
Another great day of Spring Break!

Disney and Dad's B-day

What better way to Celebrate a birthday than at the happiest place on earth. So for my dad's, ummm... "31st", Birthday we spent the day at Disneyland. It was fairly crowded since it was spring break time but we lucked out much of the day and got on a lot of the big rides. We even talked my dad into getting and wearing a birthday button!

About to watch Captain EO... yes its BACK! I just loved watching everyone try and reach out a grab the little furry creature with wings!

Me with Paydan and the Pops waiting for Matterhorn

Whole Crew (unfortunately Chris has a mandatory class that day).

It was a wonderful day, I loved being in one of my favorite places with some of my most favorite people!

Newport Beach with my Family

So on Monday of Spring Break we went to Newport Beach. It was a beautiful day and we had a good time playing in the sand, Chris and I braved the COLD water, reading, talking and even a run in with a dead sea lion ( I know... very sad)

My wonderful parents! I hope I can look as great as they do when I am their age.

Chris and I enjoying the beach

Me, Grandma, and Chris. Grandma was a bit chilly (like usual) and we wanted to make sure she was protected from the sun, hence the towels

Paydan and my dad working on his sand "castle"... or more like PIT... I thought he might dig all they way to CHINA!

Here is a Seal we say swimming in the water, so cute!

Now, although this looks like a peaceful sleeping sea lion, he unfortunately is dead.

Earlier we had seen something out in the water which I just thought was someone's flippers. Well Chris was swimming and got talking to a guy on his surf board and they saw that the "flippers" we actually a sea lion's. He looked like he was struggling, but the surfer cautioned Chris, saying they can be very mean and not to get to close. Like a half hour later, we saw a group of people a little bit down the beach and it was the Sea Lion washed up on shore. It seemed as if he was sick and maybe even a little bit food deprived. It was quite sad, but it was neat to see a Sea lion up so close.

Gobble Gobble and a "BLUE" Christmas

Happy Belated Thanksgiving everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful time during the Thanksgiving time!

THANKSGIVING
Our Thanksgiving (our first as a married couple) was spent here in Provo. Chris's sister Katie and her husband and three kids came over to Provo to celebrate the holiday with us. Since our apartment is...well... a bit small there was no humanly possible way to squeeze all 7 of us in to have a nice thanksgiving feast. So we decided to turn the turkey and the trimmings over to Mimi's restaurant. I know its not quite good ole home cooking, but it was SUPER easy, no cooking and more importantly no CLEANING! The food was good (much better than I could have ever made) although the one draw back is they were pretty busy and so were trying to serve people fast and get people out of there quickly. Oh well. We then we made the trek to the movie theaters like many others to see the movie 'Enchanted' (which was pretty cute). The day was different then my usual turkey day but it still was wonderful!

BLACK FRIDAY
ok no... I did not brave all the crowds early Friday morning to get some good deals (although Katie did). But does shopping later in the day at the gateway mall count even though the few things we bought were not on sale and were for ourselves! (haha, the only reason we bought things is because we couldn't resist because the gateway finally got our favorite store Urban Outfitters). But then late that day we went to temple square for the first night they light the lights.

THE HOLY WAR
Ok so one of the main reasons we stayed in Provo for Thanksgiving was so that we could go to the BYU vs. Utah game. Well not much to say other than I wish I could have as much control over my husband's emotions as BYU football does. Seriously within five minutes Chris went from sitting with his head down about ready to cry to pure euphoria jumping up a down and screaming "yea!" in the peoples' faces around him (one being a Utah fan, but don't worry he apologized later for getting in his face). But it was a great victory, especially for our last home BYU football game as students. So of course as our last hoorah we rushed the field with the hundreds of others and took our pictures in the end zone and walked through the players tunnel. It was a good way to end our BYU football experience.














Here we are at the game, you can tell this is early on, because Chris is still all smiles. Then there is Chris celebrating with the crowd rushing the field behind him.


Here is Chris pointing to the final score! and Thumbs up to my cool endzone picture (I will probably never set foot here again unless they honor me for some reason when I am older at a game or if our son plays football for BYU)

*I was trying to take some pictures when we first got on the field but the camera was on video instead. So i do have some very poorly filmed video of Chris hi-fiving Kehl while he was on other peoples' shoulders and some other things.