Big sur

not our pic but still pretty.

There are no photos of this trip just yet, somehow i lost my card reader so i guess we will just have to wait. I do want to share with everyone what a wonderful time we had! This is the first time we had gone camping in general as a couple! No more having to sleep in separate tents or one of us in a tent and one of us in the truck. It was... I wish i could think of a better word than great, but that's all my little mind can think of right now.

We had a bit of an adventure getting to Big Sur this year. First off I had to work the day we wanted to leave, so we couldn't leave until the evening... which everyone knows, on a Friday night, you are not getting a camp site. We had high hopes though because this weekend wasn't a holiday or even near a holiday-- boy were we wrong! The spot we wanted to camp was FULL people on top of people and cars lining the street. So we went to the site where we have camped before, even though the ranger told us we were not getting a spot that night. As we drove we were coming up with a plan of where we would camp, Sam wanted to drive on to this mountain top, and i was just stressing. We get to the new spot and sure enough everything is full, well all but one spot but it looked like it was reserved. We find the rangers , Cindy and Dennis, and asked them is there were any spots, Dennis is crazy and yells "no!" and then Cindy says "go to number 8." So we go and sure enough the person bailed and didn't show up, and we got the spot! we were so happy we hugged and danced and hugged some more and even jumped up and down like little school girls. God blessed us so much because she told us that she had turned away 30 people that day! We also had the best ocean view. God had a plan for us that day.

Day one: after having a wonderful mickey mouse pancake breakfast, made by yours truly and i was so proud because I have never made them and they actually came out looking like Mickey, we of course went surfing. It was really hard but so much fun. This time Sam let me do my own thing and just figure things out for myself, and guess what? I stood up for the first time ever on my board! I was so proud, Sam was so proud and we canoodled because of it. Then one after another i got up on my board... Sam got amazing waves too and it was just a really good time. We went back to our spot and napped... man it was the best nap. Has anyone ever noticed that when you're camping the naps are always the best? Then once our glorious nap was sadly over we had to go to the store for some fire wood and treats. This ended up being a site seeing trip to the store we ventured off our path and went and looked at a bunch of fun and beautiful thing. We went to the most overly priced store ever and bought nothing that we actually needed because it was ridiculously priced... so i had to mooch off our neighbors which was more interesting and fun.That night we had a really good dinner and because our site had a wonderful ocean view we got to watch the sun set while enjoying it.

Day two: We had a huge breakfast and cleaned up all our things and got on the road. But we couldn't leave with out more site seeing and getting in a little hike. So we drove a little bit and went to Jade Cove (Jade cove is a cove-obviously- where they mine jade) we tried to dig up some jade but had no luck and I was scared we had poison oak so i wouldn't touch anything haha.

This was one amazing trip....pictures to come soon.

Sam is 24

cute

I was so happy to celebrate Sam yesterday for his 24th birthday. It really brings me an overwhelming amount of joy to be his wife. The whole day i was excited to celebrate him and love on him. Then once he finally got off work I got to squeeze him and hug him... we did have a bit of family drama that put a damper on the fun and squeezing we were doing, but like all family drama it finally fizzled out. Then we were back to hugging and being happy about Sam being another year older.

lots of planes in this place very cute

I ordered Sams' gifts a little too late so I was present-less but still told him what I had gotten him. I said "I got you an ipod!" he was moderately happy about this.... then i said "and we are going to Zuniga's for dinner" and Sam was really really excited anout this.

 So basically he was more excited about eating at one of his child hold restaurants than getting a new ipod ha ha that's Sam for ya. However, I can see why he loved Zuniga's so much his family has so many memories there. I enjoyed hearing about all the things that they used to do as kids, and since the restaurant was at the Watsonville airport we watched people land and take off in their private planes. The food was soooooooo good and we ate way too much and both ended up having gas for the rest of the night, and maybe into the morning as well ha.

One sad thing we noticed while we were there was a really unhappy married couple. It broke my heart to see how unhappy these people were, and how there just didn't seem to be any love between them. it's weird that these situations (which we don't run into often) make me cling to Sam more. I feel like i need to make up for what they're lacking, I need to hold Sam so  he knows I love him more than anything... which he already knows but it's just nice to make him feel it. I prayed for the couple because I have no clue what they're going through and i prayed for us because I don't want us to end up like that. is that horrible to think? Oh well that's how i really feel. I'm sure we wont and I'm happy about that.

I love my wonderful, silly, over emotional, handsome, cuddly, smart, funny, caring husband and I am so happy that i get to spend the rest of his birthdays with him and celebrate the man God has made him.