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7.15.2012

Monterey Bay and Carmel

We had another wonderful weekend.  We only have five Saturdays left until Landon's internship in California is over so we are trying to take advantage of as much as we can, even when the weather is not sunny beach weather. It never is in northern California, but some days are better than others.  We drove to Monterey Bay Saturday morning and began our 13 mile run at Lover's Point.  We both felt great after our run and it really wasn't too hard!  The physical body amazes me.  It's crazy to think four months ago my body was housing a little baby and now I'm running further than I've ever run before.  I feel so blessed to be healthy and have a healthy family.  The views on our run were beautiful.  Landon says the beaches here are a tease and he's never been a fan of overcast, but I thought it was perfect for our run.  I do like listening to music while we run, we usually leave one headphone out so we can hear Capri if she cries.  Landon told me I listen to wimpy music so I listened to a rap station on Pandora half way through the run and loved it ha ha!  I don't even know what any of the songs were saying, I just liked the beat. After our run we changed our clothes in the car (so no, we didn't shower in these pictures!) and met up with the Hoopers and Samuelson's to eat at a yummy Mexican Restaurant.  Our booth overlooked the water and we watched a sea lion hang out on the rocks. The Hooper's have been awesome about showing us around and wanted to take us to their  favorite beach in Carmel.  It was the prettiest beach we've seen in the area.  We played around, tossed a football, kicked a soccer ball, and too a walk to Pebble Beach to look for golf balls.   I found my dream house along the way, I think I was drooling. Gorgeous Right?   We loved the beach town of Carmel.  It was fun to see the shops and look at the artwork.  I found myself a candy store and I also loved the Sea Side Children's Boutique, but sorry Capri, I don't think we will ever buy you a swimming suit for sixty dollars while you are still in grade school.  We walked around enough to work up an appetite and went to a pizza place for dinner.  On the way, we got pulled over for running a stop sign, darn it.  It was dark and a little rainy and neither of us could see it; no sympathy from the officer though.  Landon already got his first ticket in California for being on his phone in the car  just a few days after we got here.  We innocently (I guess it was more ignorantly) didn't know that there was a law about cell phones here.  Oh well.  Tickets stink, you just have to pay up and try not to think about it.  At least we didn't let it ruin our fun weekend!  


Don't we look fabulous in our running attire?  I decided to document it anyway :)





 Landon and Craig Sporting their favorite college teams.  At least Craig actually has ties to his school.
 My Dream house.  Looks good on us right?










 Landon just had to throw a football on Pebble Beach Golf Coarse.



7.05.2012

Happy Independence Day


We missed home today.  Wish we were playing with the kiddos above.  We missed the Kaysville parade and all the little girls in their red, white, & blue hair bows, family, and fireworks. The fourth of July is one of Landon’s favorite holidays and has become one of mine.  I remember being fascinated with Landon’s patriotism when we were dating.  He loves America, loves the colors red, white, and blue, and loves every country song about our nation.  This is the second year in a row we have been away from family on the 4th, last year we were in Lithuania.  We did celebrate in Lithuania by wearing our patriotic colors and watching the movie “The Patriot” on our laptop.

Though we missed family, we still had a great day!  It began with a morning run along the beach, it was only supposed to be 6 miles, but Capri fell asleep toward the end so we ran 9 miles to give our babe a good nap and catch up from a missed run earlier in the week.  We loved running in Santa Cruz again and felt great!   I am a little obsessed with the beach houses along the water and like to dream about a day we could own one, or vacation in one.  The weather wasn’t super hot but we still enjoyed the beach with our friends the Hoopers.  We have so much in common with the Hoopers it’s a little crazy, I’m surprised we didn’t run into them prior to moving to California.  Their little girl is also named Capri, they are from Davis County, Andrea went to Davis High School, Tyler got his MBA and is working at Cisco, and they love to travel and have been to almost all the same countries we have!  They have been such good friends and have made us feel so welcome here.  After playing in the sand we met up with Landon’s mission buddy and his wife Patrick and Danielle to stroll the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and watch fireworks over the water.  We went to bed thinking it was the weekend, but back to work and then another play day in two days!