California

i was going to wait to do this blog because i wanted my dad to send me some photos from his camera to post on here, but he hasn't sent them yet. so i'll just add those photos to my blog later.

i flew into california, long beach airport last thursday the 24th for sierra's baby blessing. it was so fun to go to california and be with everyone, well everyone except jody and dieter, they couldn't come, but it was fun anyway. when i flew in my mom, jenny, sierra and i went to souplantation, where i used to work, for dinner. we were there for about two hours and i was eating the whole time! some people may think that i might not eaten very much anyway because i eat so slow... here's some pics though!

that's me eating an ice cream cone and there's my mom and sierra

i don't know how sierra did it, but somehow she managed to pee and it went through the diaper, through the blanket and on my mom... they changed her right away and wrapped her in a different blanket then gave her to me. it looks like in this picture sierra and i think it's pretty funny that she peed on mom.

well, the next day, friday, i met up with some old friends from high school and we ate lunch together at pick up stix. i ate with stephen nelson, kenny palmer and sean april. that was so much fun, i had a good group back in high school. we went to balboa island as a family too. it was fun. we all went to the salt water taffy place on the island and then my mom really wanted to go to the toy store there. it was pretty cool. we also ate at BJ's and had pizookies for dessert! those are sooo good!

here's the pizookie!

here's some pictures from saturday morning. sierra is so fun.

she already recognizes her favorite uncle!

during the day, my dad and i went to taqueria for lunch then we went and saw hancock at the birch street theatres. it was pretty fun. then we had a family bbq which was delicious. i think i also got some campitelli cookies on saturday too.

on sunday the baby blessing was great. jason blessed sierra and did a great job. here's a pic of sierra in her little white dress with her parents.

i was supposed to fly out sunday night for provo, and when i got to the airport, i found out my flight was delayed 6 hours... while i waited i just read my book with the occasional break to do some people watching and what not. about 4 hours into my wait, they announced that my flight was cancelled. so, jason picked me up and i went back to their house. i caught a flight monday which had a stop in las vegas. i sat next to a pretty old lady. when the plane was taking off, we were both way excited and said to eachother at almost exactly the same time, "take offs and landings are my favorite part!"afther that, she was talking to me non-stop. during the flight she was looking at land marks and guessing which cities we were flying over. it was pretty funny because she'd get so excited and prove to me which city it was by explaing all the surrounding landmarks. i had my tv on the flight tracking channel so i could tell her our speed and altitude every couple of minutes too. she asked where i was flying to and i said salt lake city, and for the rest of the flight she kept asking me about seattle eventhough i told her about 5 times i wasn't going to seattle but to salt lake city utah. haha, later she asked my major and when i told her psychology, she said that she sat next to a psychologist on the way to california... and the psychologist was from seattle too. i love meeting people on the plane!

oh and here's one last picture. you know you're professional at holding babies when you can hold one like this...