New Years A-Z

So excited to see what 2012 has to bring us but for a little look back on 2011 and some of our favorite hightlights A-Z...check it out!

Angels games and many more to come

Big Bear lake

Camping on the beach

Dave's first time doing hair! Gave me a good laugh :)

Eating delicious food on the houseboat trip

Fellow's family trip in October

Good friends the New family came to visit in July

Helicopter ride for Dave's Birthday

ICEE Long Beach Hair show

Jetski rides...well actually Sea-doo but it works :)

Kaptain Dave on our Lake Mead trip...ya that was a stretch

Musical that is High School musical with the nieces

Nelson's Lake Tahoe house & trip

Opening Presents Chistams Eve

Quick trip to Bear Lake

Regional Training in Houston (terrible picture but the only one I took)

Swimming in lake (one of the many lake trip this summer)
Thirtieth birthday!

Ultimate birthday shopping spree for me!

Valentines Day dinner...keep in might I'm not a good cook :)

Wedding cake top celebrating 1 year anniversary

seXy husband on Christmas eve. (chad sent him spam)

Yellowstone Reimschiissel family vacation

Zoo..visited the San Diego Zoo for the first time

There you have it 2011 told in pictures. (Sidenote: almost was too much work and may not do it next year haha )

I was watching the Ellen show and of course she is always so funny! Anyway she was giving advice on how to set New Years goals. It was to set a goal you have already achieved because then you won't feel like you failed haha. Good idea right! Then you know you can do it! Just joking...Im NOT doing that. Although I am using my same goal...it is not because I already achieved it, it's because I FAILED haha. 2012 will be much better!

My goal for last New Year was to be better at taking pictures & updating my blog. I know it is silly goal but, for myself, I am terrible at writing things down and this is basically my journal just one difference...everyone can see it. :)

Now since I didn't quite achieve my goal...did a lil tiny bit better but it is now my goal for 2012 again. How weird that it is 2012 already!

1year and counting!

Sorry ahead of time for the long post. I don't know who or if anyone reads this but its for my own journaling purpose. :)

Where the HECK does time go when you get married?! I remember hearing as you get married then have kids and so on time flies. Really though....it doesn't feel that much different so why does time feel that way. I remember as a lil munchkin I would count down the days until any school vacation, especially Christmas or birthday. Now it come tooooo fast and I am so not prepared!!

Anyways Dave and I just (well a lil over 2 months ago...probably should have posted then) celebrated our 1 year anniversary! GONE! We celebrated by going out to dinner to the Melting Pot restaurant. So delicious and fun way to eat. Then we went to this amazing new movie theater that opened up in Del Mar. I know it's weird to think how a theater can be amazing, but I will in a future post dedicate a whole post just about this fun new theater and why everyone needs to experience it. :) We now feel cheated when we go to the old ones. We are definitely spoiled living here in Del Mar. The movie we saw was Moneyball. A GREAT movie, of course about baseball so we couldn't pass that one up. All in all it was a fun & relaxing night! I did not get one single picture! I was so mad at myself because that has been a goal of mine to be better at taking more pictures but oh well.

It feels a little weird saying just 1 year because we dated for over 3 years before that. I still feel like my wedding day was a few months ago! I am just so grateful & blessed to be married to him. I know this is so cliche but it's crazy how someone can know me MOST times better than I know myself and literally is the other half. He and I are so opposite but yet I don't know sometimes what I did not having him there. This might give him a big head right now..but I don't think he reads this anyways. ;) He is definitely the most patient person and can always make light of situation. I know Heavenly Father was truly saving him for me because he knew I needed him. :) Through all the good times and hard times and am so thankful to have him as my husband and love him so much! Can't wait for years to come.

Another bonus I got to marrying Davey is his family. I really do feel lucky to have the Nelson's to call family. I think about that often because they have done so much for me and literally took me in right away and treated me like one of there own. Not going to lie...I was a lil worried about meeting a family full of mostly boys but they are amazing!

The main reason I was thinking about posting this now...a couple months later is that we actually just ate the top of our wedding cake a few days ago. Yes, it is January and we got married in October. The cake was left at my parents house in Vegas and for some reason it never got taken back to Cali. We went and visited them and my mom remembered it was in there so we of course dug right in.

By the way, the cake was not to bad. Tasted good....frosting not so good but I was surprised how it held up. I was not expecting much, actually nervous to eat for fear of my health afterward. All in all 1 year old wedding cake was a success. A big Thanks to the lady who made it!

Soooo NOT prepared...

This might be a post that is a little bit more boring...no pictures to follow but totally blog worthy! I wanted to remember this so I don't make this mistake when something worse happens here in wonderful San Diego!

What do you do when the power in goes out? I mean BLACK OUT from southern OC to parts in Mexico. Well you don't want to do what I did...lock yourself out of the house during the HOTTEST day of the summer in SD. Haha a laughing matter now but not to funny then. It was such a crazy day but I had wished I was more prepared because it would have been much easier. Now I have a goal to make a 72 hour kit for Dave and I, and get a spare key!

The power went our around 3:30 and I was in the middle of a phone call when my cell phone shut off and the lights went out. I called Dave with little reception and he was out in Vista at one of the salons and said the power went out there also. Sheesh, that is 30 mins away and I had no Internet, no cell phone, or TV and no idea if it was just our area or a bigger area. At that point it knew it was pretty big for how far away he was. I saw my neighbors coming outside and walked out my front door on to my porch to talk to one of them. Well dumb idea...because at that point I went to go open my door to go back inside and guess what...LOCKED. Nice...real nice! I was lucky I had my phone on me...right, well cell phones didn't have a lot of service cause I guess the lines were all backed up from everyone making calls. I had no way of getting a hold of Dave to let him know I was locked out and to SAVE me because the Internet didn't work either. GREAT... I ended up sitting outside in the hottest day of the year for 1 & 1/2 hrs until I received a text message from Dave that he was coming home. Hallelujah! Then he proceeds to tell me that its going to take him longer to get home because since the power was out all the traffic lights were out and it was CHAOS! What normally would have taken 30 mins took him 1hr 30mins to get home. If you count that I was out there for almost 3 hours haha just sitting on the chair waiting with a dead cell phone! On any other day Dave would have been at his office 15 mins away, I probably could have called him on a cell phone that had service and maybe waited 20 mins outside. I WILL now have a spare key for my house outside!

When I got in the house I was kind of scrambling to find the flashlights candles, and the lantern because it was getting dark and still had no power. At this time it was 6ish. For dinner we had a delicious meal of PB & J. Our stove is also electric so that was a no go on cooking anything! I keep thinking what if...the power does not come on for a few days? I was seriously SO not prepared. We also have no land line and never really thought about getting one cause why do we need one? Well my cell phone was all ready dead. Dave's had a lil charge but thank heavens the laptops had a full battery charge because we plugged our phones in there and sucked the battery dry to charge our cell phones. I didn't realize how much I need electricity for everything we do. Dave and I had no idea what to do that night haha. We ended up camping in the bedroom and watched a movie on the other laptop that had a charge hoping for the power to come on. It did eventually come on at 3:30 that next morning luckily, but I really am going to be prepared and get my emergency kit together ASAP. We learned our lesson real quick. We did end up having to throw away some food in the fridge but not as bad as I thought. The freezer stayed cold so nothing was ruined in there. Luckily!

Sidenote: The stake president asked our stake a couple weeks to make sure we have 72 hour kits by October. So weird that the black out happened cause now I think everyone is not taking that lightly. I was asked to make a reminder poster about the 72 hour kits. This helped me also learn what needs to be in the kits and get a lil more motivated to get going on them. Now I got called to be apart of the Emergency preparedness committee...so funny how things work out. :)

Summer at the Lakes

We had so much fun this summer and it is still continuing! I think we have been somewhere just about every month and the time has flown by. We have been so spoiled traveling around this summer! These last couple lake vacations we were in Bear Lake, UT and Big Bear, CA.

On Labor Day weekend my side of the family did a spontaneous vacation to Big Bear. It ended up just us, my parents, and the Gueck family going but it was such a great weekend. This was my first time there and it was fun to escape to mountains in the middle of crazy southern CA. We rented a cabin right on the lake with a dock and a great view! It was definitely a BUSY BUSY time to go there because of the holiday the lake was so packed! A lil downer because there was no way to wakeboard or ski safely but the lake was really cold to. My dad bought new sea-doos right before we came, so we had a blast on those, hitting the waves and just cruising. We brought the jet boat with us and had so much fun on that also, so we made up for not having the other stuff to do. Ended up being a great time and so glad to spend that time with my family. LOVE THEM!

Our other lake trip we went to was Bear Lake in Utah. This was also a first time for me there and this was another great trip! We went with Dave's family and met up with some of his extended family that had a lake house. So beautiful and so fun to meet that part of the family. We were on the water all day every day and soaked up some serious sun there. Luckily no one got burned... to bad but just about everyone got in to the water to test out their skills. Both Dave and I tried wake surfing for the first time. Of course Dave did better than I did but it was worth a try and sometime I would like to do in the future again! When we were not on the boat we played bean bags, sun bathed, watched movies,played games and ate, and ate, and ate! Dave's Aunt Cathy is such a good cook and fed us so much. I was told that you can NOT leave Bear Lake without trying their famous raspberry shakes. Oh boy, they were so good, it ended up being breakfast for us on the way out but we couldn't miss out! :)

A Big THANK YOU to Cathy, J.R and family for inviting us out there with them for such a great weekend!

Oh and something amazing happened! Both lake trips I some how did not get ONE mosquito bite! I am one happy person :).....maybe I'm not as sweet anymore. Haha really though so thrilled! I usually get eaten alive.

Reimchiissel Family Vacation!

I was counting down the days until this vacation! We had such an amazing time with my family. Thank you so much to my awesome parents and also my sister Amy for planning this trip and making memories! We first flew in to Idaho Falls then went to Amy's house in Pocatello. That next day we all loaded up and drove about 2 hours to island park to start the party/vacation!

Things we did:

-went to a rodeo in Montana

-drove up to Yellowstone 3o mins away

-saw Old Faithful, tons of wild life, paint pots, lots of

different falls & hiked

- drove the 4 wheelers around & explored

-rented wave runners & a tube & were lake bums for a day :)

-went on a moose hunt and found some near the cabin

-celebrated Bailey's 4th bday

-cooked amazing food

-had fires at night and the guys in the hot tub late nights

-went to a high school musical local play

-went to local restaurant and ate bison burgers

-guys & kids went fishing (Bailey was the only successful one)

There is a little bit of a picture overload below but there were so many good ones.

Yellowstone & Island Park

This was the cabin that we stayed in. It was a perfect fit for us and was in such a beautiful place! It had a great big yard for the kids to play in, plenty of space to drive the 4-wheelers, hot tub, fire pit, and rocks to throw. :)

Some falls on the way up to Yellowstone

Local rodeo in Montana. The kids had a blast and especially Connor. He absolutely loves horses and was just in heaven with it right in front of him.

Famous Yellowstone entrance sign of course we had to get a photo :)

I know its tiny but there is a bison in the middle. The scenery was so beautiful!

Many times while driving around the park the wild life were just eating and walking around the sides of the roads. So amazing to see them up close! This picture is not zoomed either!

This was a spot at the Paint pots. It was amazing to see such clear beautiful water! It was boiling like crazy and certain spots really did look like paint. A lot of small geysers were around them also.

My sister Ashly made these cute capes for the kids to wear. They were adorable! The little boys at reversible batman and superman ones. Then the girls had reversible princess crown and flower capes. Of course the kids loved them!

Dave had a little too much sun so this was his problem solved haha...a little to late cause he was already burned at this point! The guys were soaking themselves in aloe vera the next couple of days. I think it was worth it cause the wave runners were so fun! The dock was just around the corner from the cabin so we all were there on and off all day.

All the kids were so much more brave then I thought they would be on the wave runners and 4-wheelers. So many good memories! I ended up getting pretty good air on the tube with both Dave & Brandon driving. Lets just say I ended up with a few good bruises the next day! :)

lil Lacie Bree :)

Cannot wait for the next family vacation/reunion! SOOO much fun and a huge thank you to Mom & Dad and Amy for the planning!! You are AMAZING!