red fish, blue fish....

up through the twisted roads of the sawtooth mountains, beneath the summit of mt heyburn, there can be found snow capped peaks perfectly lined with pine trees that melt into white sand beaches along shorelines of shimmering lake water....we found it....

billy's family is big on tradition...and almost every year a trip to these shorelines is on the calendar...we were glad to be able to make it this year...

ghost towns in mining country....

sun kissed baby skin and the great outdoors...what more could we ask for?

california dreamin'...

we did a lot of cruisin' around the santa barbara/ventura area when we were in cali....we went with some friends from utah...cassi, alan and little chloe (she's one)...

we stayed at my family's beach house....

we didn't take this picture...in fact we took pictures of everything...except the actual house...so i borrowed this from the house's mls listing...(it was for sale but no longer as of tomorrow!) yay!

lions, giraffes and flamingos...oh my!





we went to the santa barbara zoo....

she loved it....

fun shots of the beach....

so now we are home...and we will all miss this....







and those may or may not be girl's sunglasses billy is sporting... :)

oh vacations...

we might want to move here someday.... ;)

would you blame us if we did?

apart...

so so sad to say... billy has recently decided that he is going on a business trip to lake tahoe...for one whole week! :( i was distraught...what would i do with myself for a whole week without the hubsy? visions of sleepless nights and lonely me in our king size bed kept creeping up inside, i had anxiety just thinking about it, and then...

i thought about this.... and then this....

and then this....

and then this...

and of course this....

and realized what i HAD to do with my week...i'm goin' to cali :) and i am soooooo excited to be able to go...bumming that BB won't be there with me...but there is nothin' better then spending time with family and good friends when you can't be with the hubsy right!?

cali countdown....less then 2 weeks! :)