Dad's 1st Ever Backyard Getaway!

For Father's Day this year since I was still in Cali with Logan, my family decided to put together a "Backyard Getaway" for my Dad.  If you know my Dad, he LOVES to go on vacation; problem is, no one ever has anytime...including him.  So to simply things, we had a very trendy "staycation" and it turned out awsome.  We opened our staycation with a BBQ & transformed the backyard....which we enjoyed for the rest of the weekend (and summer) as well.

Opening Night: Backyard BBQ

It wasn't quite as warm as Palm Springs or Hawaii...but much closer!!

We had a yummy dinner of BBQ ribs, corn on the cob, sweet potatoe french fries and homemade ice cream!

 

The next day we went to Irvine Park.  The two boys (JT & Logan) went on pony rides, then we all ventured over to the zoo, had a picnic lunch & finished off with a train ride.  I was even super thrifty and managed to find coupons for all our events online (I was very proud of myself because I'm normally not that prepared).  More pictures when I get a better internet connection!

Megan's Wedding-June 2010

Megan's wedding turned out beautifully!! Megan & Dan were married in the Newport Beach LDS Temple on June 11th and we are sooooo excited for them!  The ceremony was wonderful and the reception that night was a blast.  But we took about 2weeks to recover from everything!!  The bride & groom get a honeymoon to relax after the wedding, but I think the family & friends that put the wedding together deserve some sort of honeymoon as well to recover from all the months of prep work.  Anyways, of course I have NO pictures from the reception because we were too busy helping out (or chasing Logan around), but hopefully as soon as meg gets some from the photographer I can post some.  The reception was pirate themed...and turned out awsome...thanks to everyone's hard work.

and yes, my mom made the dress-it was AWSOME!

such a happy groomsmen; he's just upset he didn't have an eye patch!

yes, I'm wearing a grandma sweater! I was freezing & it was the only thing I had in the car (at least I took it off for the professional photos)

The hard working boys who helped to pull the reception together!!! They were even hanging swags of fabric from rafters trying to make them look like sails! (they did end up looking like sails after I intervened a little!!!)  It was quite the sight to see none the less~


CONGRATULATIONS MEGAN & DAN!!!

Laguna Beach-June 2010

I'm slowly but surely getting caught up on posting all my picutres from this spring & summer.  Meredith was our personal papparazzi, so I have TONS to post.  But here was a quick trip we made to the beach before having to take Brent back to the airport after Megan's wedding.  We went right after church (hence the monkey suit at the beach).  We love walking around Laguna Beach because its where we got engaged.  And Logan loves the ocean now too.

Office Construction Has Begun!!

Construction has FINALLY begun on the new office.  We were down this weekend for a couple meetings and were surprised when they were actually further ahead with construction than we had anticipated... truly a miracle contractor story!  Sorry for all the random construction photos, but we know what they mean!

Front entracne

Waiting room

Front Office (the "check in/out wall isn't up yet)

Office Manager office (on left), Consult Room (on right)

Patient Bathroom (Sterilization on the other side)

Hallway (4 ops on left, and sterilizatioin on right)

Op 1

Op 3

Op 2

Storage Closet

Surgery Suite

Brent's Office (& Bathroom)

Lab (and our lab tech inspecting his work space!)

Staff Lounge

Windows into ops

Part of our construction crew

So happy to finally be moving forward!!!

Here's to hoping it continues to go this smoothly!!!! Yeaahhh!

Beach- June 2010

Merzy and I took Logan to the beach one day & it was so nice and sunny about by my parents house but when we got down to the beach it looked like this and was fairly chilly.  Logan was still excited to be able to go over a bridge with the train tracks below, and then watch a train come by about every 30minutes.

Probably the best part of the beach....THE TRAIN!

CHEESE

Still haven't figured out this new posting with the pictures!

Trip to South Coast Plaza-June 2010

The day after the wedding we were all exhausted but we decided we needed to get out of the house. So Brent, Logan & I headed to South Coast Plaza to take Logan on the Merry-Go-Round & Merz decided to tag along & be our own personal paprazzi. We also just had to stop at Cafe Rio for dinner since it just happened to be on the way.

Daddy & Logan being wild and crazy in Cafe Rio.

On the merry go round...logan can't wait for it to start.

I think he was saying "all aboard" here... one track mind.

"CHEESE"

making a butterfly

because Logan saw a giant butter outside the Rainforest Cafe.