Molly has a new crush

So the other day Molly and I headed down to San Jose to watch the first round play of the SAP Open.  It's a small tennis tournament held in the bay area every year and this was part of our Valentines day celebration.  We've been playing a lot of tennis lately so this was a lot of fun to go see.

HP Pavilion is a pretty cool place.  They had huge tennis balls set up right when you walk in but there was something else....

A huge THING of Andy Roddick on the stairs.  That's right...Molly is sitting on his shoulder giving him a kiss.  Roddick better watch out.

Taking Northern California by sea

Wow, I have really taken a sabbatical from blogging. I will start in January and work up til present day.
The third week in January we went with Kc's classmates on a San Francisco dinner cruise. There school has a few activities a year and this was a good one. It was really fun to eat and float under the Bay Bridge at the same time. We also got to hang out with some friends we don't get to see very often, the Babcocks and the Hatchs.

 

Here is our little harbor boat, El Capitain

We thought we were riding on the Commodore

 

Eating dinner

Posing in the cold

Do you think CA is growing on Kc yet? 

Then the last week in January my friend Joanna invited me to go surfing. My first surfing trip in Northern California ever and my first surfing trip since before college. I just need some of my own equipment to get going more. It wasn't as easy as Huntington or Newport but it was a lot of fun. She said, "If you can surf in Northern CA, you can surf anywhere."

She made me do that hand motion, haha

All suited up, waiting for bigger set

Gorgeous, and rocky-not so nice for the girl with no booties.

Took a few hours to regain feeling in my feet

Craigslist rug search

So in San Leandro, we have all wood/vinyl except for one room where we have less than attractive brown shag carpet that my Zerorez father would say emmmhh about. We need to cover some of the hard surface though, cuz it gets cold...especially with the storms recently. How about these alpaca rugs? Kc (and I) loves alpacas from our visit to Chile and the San Juan, WA islands. Anyone connected to Peru in their hearts?

Christmas Break Highlights

We had an awesome time over Christmas. Here are some of the highlights!

assembly line for Christmas Card 09

Getty Museum visit on a beautiful day

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale

Greenbay game

Martha and I "Santas Elves" painting a portrait for my mom and dad's gift

Playing tennis with our awesome new rackets

Laguna Beach

Getty view

Slide at Rustlers Rooste

Watching Avatar in 3-D

No I am not still wearing 3-D glasses those are my dad's ray bans

Sisterz

Camelback Mtn. Hike

We had a great time with family in CA and AZ. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Alameda to San Leandro

Kc and I have been voted off the island of Alameda and have moved closer to Kc's school. We now live on a street that looks like the community on LOST. We moved out right before Christmas and came back from break to a bunch of boxes. I also came back with a case of pneumonia so our apartment is not quite set up yet. We were sad to leave Alameda, excited for a new place-but we are only 15 minutes away, so come visit anytime!

Christmas Playlist

I am trying to put together a Christmas playlist and there are too many good ones. Classic ones from Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Amy Grant, Anne Murray, James Taylor, Mannheim Steamroller, Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, the 1994 Mariah Carey album (Nick Cannon at that time hadn't even starred on Nickelodeon yet), Jimmy Eat World, O.C. Christmas v.3, Sufjan Stevens, Elf Soundtrack, National Lampoon's Christmas songs, and the list goes on. Sufjan Stevens has some of the best song titles, for example Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day, Well You Deserved It! and Get Behind Me, Santa!

Classic clip that Kc has been imitating all week long

Big ole' Thanksgiving

The loooong table in the Mission Home

Family picture

Martha and Ava, looking good in stripes

Football BYU vs nonBYU graduates

Egg toss for our olympics

another game my coordinated cheerleader cousins came up with, I was not a cheerleader for good reason

Kc and I just got back from a really fun reunion with my dad's side of the family for Thanksgiving. I have always been really close with my cousins and now that we are older and have added so many people to the group it is hard to get together. But with a lot of energy from my grandpa and aunts and uncles we did it. We had over 45 people assembled together in Las Vegas and all but 3 were from out of town. We chose Las Vegas so that our Mission President uncle Peter could attend. We had Thanksgiving dinner, played football, tennis, "olympics", went black friday shopping and hungout in a casino to watch the BYU/UTAH game. Good times.