Fishing!

Going fishing was one of the things Logan was really excited to do while camping. It had been a long time since he had gone. Lucky for him my brothers and dad love to fish and they had plenty of time to go. Some mornings they got up as early as 7 a.m. to hit the creeks and rivers and then went fishing again after dinner. They didn't have any amazing catches but Logan did catch a fish that was big enough to cook and eat. So, one night after dinner he had a late night snack of rainbow trout. He can't wait until the next time he gets to go fishing. Now he just needs a new fishing pole! Thats right, Ashlee is holding a fish... we're so proud of her. :) Just add a little garlic salt and butter and Logan is happy

Finally a real vacation!

We got to go camping with my family July 13-19. We had so much fun. It was the first time in a long time that we've had a real vacation, lasting more than 2 days. We were grateful for the week break and to be able to boat and camp all week long.We spent most of the time down at the lake soaking up the sun and splashing in the cool water. We did so much the whole week that I couldn't break it down into one post so I added all the different things that we did in a couple of posts. It definitely was a fun week full of lots of activities... I understand why people need a vacation from their vacation! :)

Of course like usual my mom brought lots of toys to play with. One was this blowup row boat. We tried to stand up in it for a picture but that didn't work out so great. It didn't take long for us to fall in. It was a really hard boat to paddle. For some reason it liked to go in circles. By the end of the week we were pro paddlers though.


Spending time at the lake was so relaxing that on one occasion Logan fell asleep in the row boat. I kept having to go get his boat and pull it back closer then finally I stopped and just let him float away. He woke up paniced wondering where he was. haha. It was pretty funny.

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Two men in a boat- Mike and Logan.


It was fun wehen Mike was able to come up. Him and Logan had fun in the boat together. They ended up tying the entertube to the boat and making a train. Mike eventually got out of the boat and swam using the flippers to pull the boat carrying our nephew Mazur and the entertube with Logan on it.


Logan also made sure to take very attractive pictures of me like this one.

Institute Graduation

Today in church I finally got my certificate for graduating from institute. Your probably saying... "you can gradutate from institute?" Yes you can and when I started college years ago I had made up my mind that graduating from institute was something I wanted to accomplish. Well this year I finally did it. Since SDSU's institute is pretty small they don't have a graduation so instead they send the diplomas to the bishops to sign and hand out in church. It was pretty embarressing. I felt like a teenager receiving my young womens awards again. Luckily I didn't have to recite any articles of faith. :) We also took the oppotunity to take a picture of me this week at 25 weeks pregnant... well almost. Monday it will be 25 weeks. Things have sure poped this week!

4th of July

Our 4th of July was awesome! The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate. I think especially since I just finished an early U.S. history class I had a little more appreciation for the 4th and the founding of my country. Luckily Logan was able to get work off this year. We decided to go to the beach with some friends in our ward. We were a little worried because last year the beaches were so packed that it took two hours to even drive in and find a parking spot. We were expecting that this year so we piled into one car and took a dvd player to keep us entertained on the drive. Surprisingly we drove right up and unloaded and found a great spot on the beach. We realized the reason there weren't nearly as many people there was because of the alcohol bans that they made last year. It's now illegal to have alcohol on the beaches in San Diego. It worked out great for us! No crowds or drunks acting crazy!!





The weather was also perfect so we first went sea kayaking. Logan and I took one out together. Getting over the waves was a little hard since they had started to get a little big. I was in the front I got the grunt of waves. I was pretty much going through the waves and Logan wasn't even getting splashed! haha We paddled out and around for a long time and finally decided to go back in and do some other things. Unfortunately the waves had gotten even bigger. As we got closer to shore the waves started carrying us so fast. It was a blast. Our last big wave that we had to go over didn't go so well. Apparently it was just too steep. When they get too steep there is basically no hope, even if you go into them straight your bound to get tipped over and that's what happened it us. Logan was thrown off of the kayak. The back tipped all the way over the top and landed right on top of me, hitting me in the head. No worries... my head can take some pretty hard blows. :) I think Logan got worried for a second when he didn't see me above the water. I surfaced after getting the boat off of me and we both started laughing then realized another big wave was coming. It was a pretty big task trying to get the boat back to shore while the waves were smashing into us. We had a lot of fun... being thrown off the boat just made it that more exciting! Logan also went surfing and caught 3 good rides. When he came in from surfing he told me that everytime he got up he just felt like yelling "cowabunga". Best part is he was being serious. haha... too funny. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of it. As soon as he went out to go surfing the marine layer came in. The fog was so think that I just couldn't get a picture of him. Then as soon as he was done the marine layer burned off.... of course it worked out that way!




We took a little barbeque with us and made killer tin foil dinners. I think I could have tin foil dinners everynight... that's how much I love them. Then we had smores...a couple of times. I'm not a big smores fan so I usually end up making them, taking a bite, and handing them over to Logan who loves them.







The fireworks were great. We got to see three different shows from where we were sitting. We first saw the show coming from Sea World, then the show on Mount Soledad, and then the grand finale.... the La Jolla Cove show. They were all great and really close the where we were. All in all we had a great 4th of July.







Packing up was a bit of a challenge since we brought 2 kayaks, 2 surfboards, a barbeque, chairs, toys etc. But, it was all worth the fun that we had.

Attempt #2

So the ultrasound went much better this time! We were literally seen right away. I hadn't even finished filling out all the forms when they pulled us back. It was on our 6 month mark and so far everything looks good. The pictures didn't turn out very good because she was being a little stubborn and not moving for the tech. I guess because she was sitting breech the tech had a harder time viewing some things. I don't know. We had a good time just watching and hearing her heart beat. So cute. :)

...and the Padres lose again! :(

We went to the Padres game tonight. A friend of ours had some extra tickets so he invited us along. We had a lot of fun... except for the fact that they lost.:( But we still love them! Tonight they gave out free jerseys to everyone that came in... Logan was so excited. He likes anything that's free!





The view from Petco Park is amazing!



Hot dogs, hot dogs, get your hot dogs. Logans going love finding out that I took this picture of him!

Viva Las Vegas

Logan had a school conference in Las Vegas last weekend so I decided to ditch my friday class and have a little summer fun. Logan was pretty much in class all day but I still had lots of fun hanging out by the pool and hitting the outlets while he was gone. I was also able to sleep in everyday. It had been a really long time since I have been able to sleep in. I took full advantage of that and stayed in bed till 9:00!! It was sooooo nice!!! Luckily Logan was done everyday by 5 which gave us plenty of time to hit the town at night. We ended up getting a great deal on a hotel room and because we booked the reservations through orbitz we got a 50 dolar gas card! Not bad! We had a great time even when on the drive home we were stuck in traffic for a couple of hours due to an accident. The traffic and wait just gave us plenty of time to play catch phrase and other word games. It did get really hot in the car. Of course I was in the seat that was completely in the sun so I ended up moving to the backseat out of the sun until we got moving again. I wish we had a little more time to take small breaks out of town! :)





Mount Rushmores newest edition!



Hanging out by the pool after getting to our hotel one night.

The little baby belly



They really do exist!

Yep! It was that hot outside!



Maybe the driver in the car accident was driving like this!