You are my Sunshine

Last weekend was spent in Visalia with my family. Of course this weekend marked the release of the final Harry Potter book. My mom and I met my brother and his girlfriend at Border's around midnight to try and get a copy. So many people were there that we would have been there hours. So, my mom and I decided to let my brother take care of getting our books since we aren't the night owls we once were. I woke up the next morning with the book sitting by my door with a little sticky note saying how much money I owed my brother for the book. How sweet! My brother and I read the book off and on throughout the weekend trying to get ahead of the other to spoil something that was coming up. Sunday afternoon my sister and older brother came over with their kids to play and eat. These videos are of my sister's youngest daughter, McKenna, who is around 2 years old. She's singing 'You are my Sunshine', attempting to sing 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' but not getting the words right so singing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' instead. She may seem shy in these videos, but she actually LOVES to sing and will sing all day while she plays. Oh, by the way I finished Harry Potter today and it was awesome! I think she wrapped it up perfectly.

'Chariots of Fire'

Travis and I were driving to San Francisco for a work function this afternoon and we saw smoke in the distance. We thought it was a wildfire because there have been a few around here this summer. As we approached we saw that there was a fire burning out of control, but it had been started by a car that had flipped off the freeway.

Transformers

I've really been looking forward to seeing the new Harry Potter movie. A while ago I had a conversation with Travis about seeing it together the first Saturday it came out. Yesterday as I was talking to him about my plans to go today he claimed that he didn't remember agreeing to go to the movie. With much persuasion he agreed to go to the 'theater' but he wanted to see Transformers instead. Luckily for him they were playing both movies starting at the same time or else he would have had to watch HP with me. Mine was good, but like always the book is so much better! Transformers, on the other hand, according to Travis is the best movie he's seen in a long time! Here's a video Travis found that he thought would whet your appetite to see the real thing. We'll let you be the judge.

Stanford

We explored Stanford's campus this afternoon. I thought it was really pretty. I've never seen a college with mission style architecture, but I haven't seen many colleges. Of the campuses I've seen I'd have to rank UVa #1, Stanford #2, BYU #3, UVSC #4.

Brian Regan

Tonight Travis and I went and saw one of my most favoritist people in the world!! BRIAN REGAN! For those of you who don't know who he is, he's one of the greatest comics I've ever heard. He has the goofiest expressions and his jokes are very clean. If you get a chance to see him don't turn it down. His concert was outside at a winery in Saratoga, Ca. It is up on a mountain overlooking the bay area.
This is from his DVD I walked On The Moon.

This is one of my favorite skits! The video isn't very good, but you can hear him. It's about his early years in school.

7-11

Today is July 11th, which to most of us is just another day. To my husband though it's his second favorite holiday (4th of July being his first). 'What holiday?' you might ask. Nothing other than 7-eleven's birthday and that means FREE SLURPEES!!! Of course they give you smaller cups, but that doesn't matter when you hit up a few 7-11s during the day-or even just go multiple times. Today though we only went twice. Travis' record is 9! See if you can top that next year when this special day comes around.

Happy 4th of July!

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. Travis and I spent ours in Pismo Beach/Morro Bay area. My younger brother, Kris, had a baseball tournament last weekend in Morro Bay. They did well-won 3 lost 1-but didn't make it to the championship. My parents decided to make a vacation out of the tournament and rented a beach house for the whole week. We drove down for the tournament Friday evening and on Sunday Travis left me to go and work on Monday and Tuesday. On his way back to Santa Clara he had the scariest experience of his young life as he spun out at 75 MPH. Someone braked and swerved into his lane trying to avoid an accident. The next thing Travis knew he was spinning out of control like Ricky Bobby. Miraculously he was able to avoid flipping or hitting anything and nobody hit him. He drove back down Tuesday night to spend the 4th with us. I had a fun couple days at the beach with the family. For the 4th we decided to fight the crowds in Pismo and set up camp on the beach to watch the fireworks they shoot off the pier. There were thousands of people and many things going on. It was a nice sunny day, but a little windy down on the beach. At 6 o'clock after being there for about 4 hours already the fog started rolling in. At this time the boys were freezing after boogie boarding in the cold water. Not being able to see the testers they were shooting off the pier, we decided to leave. Hoping the weather was clearer in Morro Bay, we headed back to our beach house. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't any clearer or warmer. But the boys were able to take warm showers before we headed down to the beach to see the fireworks. We couldn't see a thing! The fog blocked everything, but would light up with the different colors of fireworks. When a green one would go off my brother said it was a soul coming back from the dead. You'd have to have seen the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie to understand. Travis was disappointed considering this is his favorite holiday! We ended the night with ice cream from Fosters Freeze and back to our place in front of a fire by 10 o'clock. If we had been in Pismo we would probably still be walking to our car. Travis and I woke up at 5 in the morning (yes I said 5) to drive back for him to get to work. At least I got some good pictures of sunrise.

Dad's New Phone

Dad got a new phone recently and it has a camera on it. Here are some pictures he took of our trip to Pismo for the 4th of July. Pretty good quality huh?

Mom and I in front of Morro Bay rock.

Travis, me, Mom, and our friend Annette on Cayucos Pier (her son is on the baseball team and stayed at the beach house for the tournament).

Travis sunbathing without a towel.

It may have been sunny, but it was windy which made it very cold.

Tag!

I just realized that I've been tagged by Jamie Ormsby to do this questionnaire. I usually don't do these sort of things but I decided to live on the wild side and just do one. Here it goes!

4 places I've worked
1. Aunt Bonnies, Visalia. It was a cookie and ice cream shop in the mall. I only worked there for a few months because it went bankrupt. I wonder if it had to do with the employees being to able to have free food while they worked?
2. Harbottle Law Firm, Visalia. Secretary/filer for an attorney.
3. Dr. Berg's Orthodontics, Orem. Orthodontic assistant.
4. Dr. Bickers Dental office, Charlottesville. Dental assistant.
(I feel like I'm writing my resume.)


4 Places I've lived
1. Visalia, California. 0-18 years old.
2. Provo, Utah. 18-21 years old.
3. Charlottesville, Virginia. 21-going to be 24 years old.
4. Santa Clara, California. Just for the summer but it may be 24-?? years old.


4 places I've been on vacation
1. Pismo Beach, California. We've gone at least once a year since I was little.
2. Europe. For a school trip when I was a junior in high school I went to Switzerland, Rome, Venice, Florence, Nice, Paris, and London.
3. Australia
4. Cancun


4 movies I could (and HAVE) watched over and over
1. Legally Blond
2. Pirates of the Caribbean
3. Napoleon Dynamite
4. Shrek


4 favorite TV shows (just 4?? Because really I can name more.)
1. Grey's Anatomy/ Office
2. Shaq's Big Challenge. Just started last Tuesday and I'm already hooked!
3. Lost/ American Idol
4. Live with Regis and Kelly/Oprah


4 favorite foods
1. Mexican. Especially Cafe Rio.
2. Raising Canes fried chicken strips with their dipping sauce.
3. Italian. Pasta and pizza.
4. Splash's clam chowder (Pismo, Ca. Show up early because the line goes around the block.)


4 places I'd rather be
1. Where I am right now with family-Pismo, Ca
2. Any beach though would do
3. Anywhere with my friends from Charlottesville. Not IN Charlottesville though.
4. Utah with my friends from Utah.