Molls Balls, the Glove & baby Hank

Visiting home

After having a fun week of celebrating our fifth anniversary and attending Lindsey's wedding Hank, Martha and I drove Anne's car back "home" to my parents. Hank loved the beach, how bright and sunny my parent's house is and sleeping with waves crashing in the background. In my mind it is paradise, and going from our apartment to their house reminds me why my Dad growing up would say, "Why do you want to go to Hawaii?, we practically live in Hawaii." Yes, there are fun cultural differences when actually vacationing in Hawaii, but CDM is pretty close.

Here are some pictures I took before my camera died.

One handed picture taking

Notice the lady in her backyard doing yoga or meditating- what a view

Watching the birds

Hank loving grandma and grandpa's house

My parents are motivated to workout every day until Thanksgiving, so I am joining with them. While down south we played tennis a lot and went on walks. My parents are always in great shape, and beat me at tennis every time. I wish I was better and will have to practice since I am obsessed with the US Open right now. My mom and I also took Hank to Little Corona where he learned how to pat a bucket with a shovel and make a sand castle. He went in the water and loved to people watch. Then while Hank was napping I helped my Dad out a little on the house. People like to give you weird looks when you are standing on your roof with a plug in sander, paint chipper and baby monitor in your hand. Hank slept right through the scrapping and sanding anyhow.

Nothing like working on the doghouse and getting a leg tan

I wish I had a picture, but Martha and I went to a Sky High Sports Airobics class where you jump on a trampoline for an hour straight and do crazy moves to workout. It was intense and about 80 degrees in the gym. It was hilarious, but serious at the same time. During the class two people sprained their ankles and the instructor always stopped and had us clap them off. I am laughing typing about this. It was funny. Martha and I also got to visit my awesome cousin Megan and her husband Justin who were in town staying in Long Beach. We had fun eating, going to the LB Museum of Art and looking at a few thrift shops. It made me super excited for our Christensen Family reunion in November.

Need to learn how to make frames like this on my own, anyone have any tips?

thrift shopping- paper jackets rule

Lindsey's Wedding

After our Anniversary a lot of my best friends came up to the Bay Area for our friend Lindsey's wedding. We are so happy for Lindsey and her husband Mike to finally tie the knot. They are so cute and we had a great time partying with you guys and the Irvine crew. We fit a lot into two day and it was so fun to get together with my girl friends I don't get to see enough, Meka, Tracy, Lisa, Kristin and my sister's Martha and Anne. And yes I am wearing the same outfit I wore to my anniversary dinner. I need a new dress cause when I was looking through my closet my choices were a maternity dress, or a dress I bought before I was married that was sleeveless and the rest is church clothes. Here are some pics of the weekend.

Breakfast with the Bride

Fancy nail place

Hank doing his own nails

Rehersal dinner at Mike's parent's house in Danville! So beautiful

Tracy, Me, Meka and Kristen at the Rehersal dinner

Ceremony in Walnut Creek

The ladies minus Anne, she was the wedding ceremony director

Happy Couple

All the ladies

Family Shot

Sisterz

Resting our feet from uncomfortable shoes

Hot ladies

Hot Mamas

Getting our dance on

Meka and I also took a trip to the Oakland Museum of CA where we ended up having a photoshoot just for fun. Meka works at a museum in Seattle, so she was getting some inspiration. On the way home my car sunroof shattered into little tiny pieces. Every time I go to Oakland near Lake Merritt my windows shatter! Funny I thought the little triangle shaped piece of glass in the Jeep was expensive- nope try the vista sunroof in a Ford Edge. The show went on though, we drove out to the rehearsal dinner and forgot all about it.

Teaching Hank how to draw, lasted a minute

Climbing in Yosemite in the John Muir exhibit

The museum had a lot of interactive pieces with backdrops and photo ops

I want this in my house! It even had a 4D scent spray to make you feel like you were there

Hank reaching his museum limit

Fifth Anniversary

It has been five awesome years and boy have we done a lot. I stayed up one night to design a book, and I ended up pulling an all nighter to make a thorough 5 year recap. I first sectioned off all of my photos into years pre-wedding, wedding, 2006-2011. I am so lucky to have married my best friend and am excited to continue to grow together. We have hit a fun and sometimes tricky transition phase where KC is working hard and I entertain Hank and wait for the few hours a day I get to see good ole Kenny. Happy five years "Case" I love you and am so thankful for all your hard work for our fam.

KC planned a sweet dinner for our anniversary and our good friend Whitney came over to babysit. When we got home Hank seemed like he wanted us to leave again, cause he loved Whitney that much. KC picked Slanted Door, a restaurant I have been wanting to try for a while and when we got there they did not disappoint. I loved how they used all Heath Ceramic dishware and had beautiful reclaimed wood tables and interesting art. Nice choice KC lets do it again.

Some picture highlights of the book, entitled "5 Years, Not Even a Drop in the Bucket"

Looking at the picture I kept thinking, the couple that plays together...stays together.

The couple that works out together...stays together. Teaches seminary together, etc, etc.