Well, I’m home from a most excellent trip to California! I hadn’t been home in almost 6 months, which is probably the longest amount of time that I’ve gone without going home. The trip was awesome, and believe it or not I’m going to give you a break down of it!
Day One:
I arrived in California in time to go to my cousin’s reception, it was so nice to see my family after such a long time. It was overly warm outside (I forgot what summer was like in Calfornia) but it was still nice.
Yes, The basketball hoop is important to that family. :)
Day Two:
I got to go to church in my home ward, but for the first time in my life I actually felt like I was visiting. It was uncomfortable but to be honest I figure that it was going to happen sooner or later. All around just a weird feeling. After that it was basically a regular day with the family. I got to sleep a lot and I figure that’s what Sundays and breaks are for, resting.
Day Three: BEACH TRIP
The day was pretty overcast and I was kind of disappointed but overall I can’t really complain about the beach. The company I would say is even better than the beach itself. It’s been a long time since Stephanie and Alex had some time to sit and talk.
Weird stuff happened though, as we were walking along the beach there was about a mile, a little under where the beach and a line of ladybugs, all but one that we saw were dead and they looked like they came in on the same wave, it was so weird. On a happier note, we saw a hilarious sign on the walk back, check it out:
Just imagine sound effects:)
Day Four: I got my herrrr did.
I got a PERM! I no longer have virgin hair, but so far I like the look. Its fun but it’ll be interesting to see what I can do with it.
That afternoon I met up with Alysha for Frugos, and as if Yucaipa were welcoming me home, they had yellow spoons!!!
That night I helped to arrange a bon fire on the beach out at Huntington Beach. Thank you Kevin and Danny for providing the goods.
I was behind the camera so I wasn’t in very many of the pictures.
It was an excellent night:) We also ended it with In-n-Out so it was great.
Day Five:
I got to run errands with my Mom. And as silly as this sounds, it may have been my favorite day of the whole trip. Just like the good ole days when she and I would spend a day shopping together and get to talk about the things going on in our lives. My soul needed that day.
Day Six:
Packed, waited, drove to Arizona
Day Seven:
I spent about 4 hours out in the pool and got a sweet tan line. It was a blast being able to hang out with so much of my family. We played games like alligator, colored eggs, Marco polo and the matchstick game. Epic All.
Day Eight:
My oldest nephew got baptized!!!! It was so good. I was reminded and touched when they sang the opening song “I Like to Look for Rainbows” it resonated with me when we sang the lines about the earth being clean again, because it was something that I had been thinking about and that I desired, symbolically so much for myself. It was incredible to think of starting over, new and fresh; then I was astounded at the power of the Sacrament—it has the power to make us clean again, just like after baptism, every week. Wow.
We left that evening and drove through the night and arrived in Provo at about 4:30 AM, I slept for a few hours and then went to church and didn’t take a nap that day, apparently I was too excited to be back.
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