Memorial Day Weekend....a lil late

A very random and quick houseboat trip for the weekend but it was a FUN first for my parents and I. Now Daves family, they are professionals at this houseboat trip stuff. Dave has many good memories about these trips and was like a lil kid getting ready for it! The lake is his ultimate vacation! As for myself my first choice would be somewhere exotic but this would be my second choice. :P It was just us and both our parents. So relaxing just to hang out and do absolutly nothing and its beautiful scenery! We were not able to go skiing on the lake because it was to cold. We just cruised around, played games, ate yummy food and watched movies. Best kind of vacation...NO schedule!

The guys driving us to our camping spot

Captain Dad!

I think my dad had a good time driving the HUGE boat. He did a great job....we MIGHT have turned him into a lake vacationer :)

Love birds<3 (The pic above haha)

Mom in the kitchen & dining
area.

Grill master! He grilled some delicious food while we were there.

You would not have known we were on a houseboat. We ate some

seriously good food!

The crew...minus my mom

Getting some sun on the front patio.

Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day MOM!

Disneyland 2010

I'm a day late on posting but I have a good excuse. I was in Orange County with my in laws on mothers day and didn't have my laptop. :) I really did want to write some thoughts, memories and feelings down though especially about my mama. She is the BEST and since this is like my journal it is in need to be written down.

- I LOVE that I got my mom (& dad) to myself for my last years at home (not that I didn't miss my sisters tremendously!) My mom and I made such good memories with cruises, random trips to Utah and Cali, Disneyland, running errands together, shopping, going to lunch but it was just me and her and I love that and will cherish that forever.

-She is always there for me no matter what. If I called her at anytime and needed her....not only will she be a listening ear on the phone but she will also be on a plane in 2 sec if it was needed.

-She is always sharing her testimony with us and others. I know my mom loves the gospel and it has always been taught in our household on a daily basis. I love that she spends her Friday mornings at the temple working.

-Dave always teases that the worst thing about the Reimschiissel girls is that we can't say NO. Which is obviously a compliment ;) Really though it is because we learned service from our mom. She is ALWAYS doing something and keeping herself busy helping others.

-Can I mention her good looks! She is absolutely beautiful and looks like she is 25 and one of my sisters. I sooooooooo WISH that when I am at her young age that I look like that! PLEASE PLEASE can I get that gene?!

-She is always striving to improve and learn. I remember in high school her going back to school to take classes and I may not have said it then but I was so impressed and proud.I thought it was so cool. Also I have good memories of us taking piano lessons together and it was fun to practice together. It made me want to do better seeing her example.

-She has so much patience. I know that I had lots of ideas when I was younger and she just went along with them. A funny memory I have is when she would take me grocery shopping. I loved running errands with her. I know I asked for everything down the isle but then when we got home I had to play cashier. So before she put anything away I had to line it up and check everything in and add the beeping noise. So she just waited and put things away one by one until I was done playing. Now that I think about it...how annoying haha

I could go on and on and cry some more talking about my mom! She is seriously the most amazing woman and I am truely thankful I got her. I don't know where I would be without her and her example. She is my best friend (I talk to her at least once a day) and is alot of peoples best friend I know. I just try and soak up everything from her cause I want to be just like her when I get older. I just hope I can be a mom to my future kids like she is to me. I LOVE YOU MAMA :)

A Different view of San Diego

NO one got SICK! I was a lil nervous cause I had never done anything like this before. Niether one of us is really scared of heights but we haven't experienced anything like this before. The helicopter was a pretty small one so the windows and all were surrounding us. It was amazing and so cool. Not scary at all! :) I would recommend this to anyone!

I wanted to make sure to post a few pictures from the helicopter ride so that others could see the view and the fun memory to have for Daves Bday. It was so cool to be up in the air and get a different view of San Diego. This is such a beautiful place to live and I am loving it more and more everyday.

We had a great pilot and he answered all the questions Dave had for him.

The ear muff things are the the best thing for your hair. :)

The downtown city of San Diego

San Diego Zoo...too bad you can't see the animals

PETCO Park

Padre Stadium

I think this might be La Jolla area

One of the best things about San Diego is to see this temple so often

just driving down the freeway. We live about 5 mins away from the

San Diego temple.

SEAWORLD! It was fun seeing it from up high cause I never really knew

how it was mapped out right along the water.

For some weird reason this picture makes me look pregnant.

Its just the wind...NO baby! :)

Peanuts and Cracker Jack

Spring Training 2011

I really look forward to this vacation every year!! We always have so much fun!

Being in Arizona in nice weather

(well i guess in San Diego we pretty much always have nice weather !)

baseball games every day

laying by the pool

watching movies

sleeping in...nice lil vaca!

(for those of you who don't know what Spring Training is...its pre-season baseball games where all the professional teams go to AZ or FL to play games)

Dave is a huge fan of baseball especially the ANGELS and has been going on this trip for a long time. I have gone the last 3 years but I am looking forward to it every year to come!

Tempe Diablo Stadium

We had great seats for this game in the shade and all!

Mike and Estee are our friends that we go with every year. Actually his parents live there and are generous enought to let us stay there.

Can't go to a baseball game without

Eating the Big "A" hot dog and nachos!

Yes that is what the hot dog is really called...go ANGELS! :)

I have to admit...

I have a lil CRUSH

on this baseball player

right here

Torii Hunter

we got to see him play yay! :)

The BIG 30!!

The Mr. hit a BIG milestone on March 13th! If you couldn't tell by my title he turned 30!

( i think he handled it pretty well ;D but seriously....time flllyyyyyssss....)

We had a little fiesta birthday party at our house with family that day. It was fun having everyone over at our place for the first time!

Here is the HUNK blowing out 3 candles.

Didn't think 30 would fit on the cake.

Dave had been wanting to do something for a long long time

so I figured this big day would be the day to give it to him. He waited 30 years.....

It wouldn't quite fit in this bag but he needed to open something

To go on a HELICOPTER TOUR!!!

Can you tell i'm a lil excited for myself too :)

We are going on the 26th and flying over San Diego

seeing PETCO park (Padre baseball stadium), coronado island,

wild animal park and some other fun things.

Hopefully I don't get sick!!

Amy and her family were here from Henderson that weekend

It was so fun having them stay with us!

Kim and her girls came also and this is her lil munchkin Sydney!

Grandma Opal, Katherine, Sandee

sometimes i'm not sure if he is really 30...this face was looking to see

if some CASH money falls out :)

Thank you everyone for coming!!!

80 Degrees and sunny!

On Saturday we visited this place to play a round of mini golf!

Too bad we didn't get the final score because of course I lost my ball on the 17th hole!

(not that I would have won anyway but maybe I didn't come in last)

Here is the Mr. showing off his skill.

A lil bit of the Mrs. actually getting the ball in the hole. :)

Our golfing partners.

Doug and Tyler

Thanks for coming with us!

Its days like this that I am reminded how much I LOVE living San Diego! I had my Utah family and friends in mind because right now the ground is probably white and 40 Degrees (Freezing!) outside! I definitly do not miss that in March! Not to rub it in. :D

Better late than never...

I have been wanting to start a blog for a long time now and finally did it! I can't say I will the best at it but I really want to remember things that have happened in our lives. Especially since we have been married and all the new/exciting/crazy/busy things that come with it! :)

I am terrible at remembering to take pictures and that was one of my goals this year was to document more things we do with pictures.

(My camera doesn't always have a place in my purse but my handy dandy iPhone does! So my pictures aren't going to be the best quality. Its a start for me, maybe my next goal will be to remember my good camera!)

So here we go...