My Handsome Husband

Nathan just had some pictures taken by a friend; I think he looks really good and wanted share them:

My brother, sister-in-law and niece were in town a couple weeks ago. Since our family has changed quite a bit with the addition of children, we decided to get family photos taken. Here’s a slide show of the pictures taken at Bush Park.

CA Trip Part IV: Disneyland Day 2

CA Trip Part III: Beach Bums and Old Friends

We went with Renee on Piper's first trip to the beach (Huntington Beach). We had the most awesome tacos at a little restaurant there (man, I could use some of those right now).

On Thursday, we went to Murrieta to visit my bestfriend from my freshman year of college, Alicia. We hung out with Alicia, her son, Judah, and her husband, Brent (a link to their blog is at the right). Below is me on Judah's bike (observing safety by wearing a helmet).

Nathan sporting the "Billie." You can purchase your own Billie via Alicia's online knitting store clinking on the "Etsy" link to the right.

The infamous woman herself. I sure do miss hanging out with her. We had a fabulous time!

CA Trip Part II: Disneyland Day 1

Our first visit to Disneyland was the Monday after Halloween. The parks were still decorated for Halloween, which was fun. We got to the park early, had breakfast at the La Brea Bakery, and kicked it at the park all day.

As we were getting off Buzz Lightyear, the Dream Team handed us Dream Fast Passes (a Fast Pass for each of the major rides in Disneyland and California Adventure). The park was pretty quiet that day, so we didn't use all of them, but it was still pretty cool!

CA Trip-Part I: Driving, Babies and Pumpkins

Nate and I just returned from our vacation to California to meet our niece, Piper. We decided to save some pennies by driving, which Nathan did all by himself (not that I didn't offer...but I'm not complaining).

We left October 30th at 3 pm and stopped in Winston to have dinner with our cousins and meet their beautiful girl, Zoe.

The drive was most difficult from about 4 a.m. until about 5:30 when Nate found a Starbucks, which was the first blessed sign that our trip was almost over. My drink was wrong, but it was the most heavenly thing I had tasted in days. The sun was starting to come up as we hit L.A.

When we arrived, I got to hold my niece for the first time before crashing for a long nap. Later, we all went to the pumpkin "patch" (it was a parking lot with pumpkins scattered on the ground) and carved pumpkins (let me tell you - we paid a buttload for those pumpkins and weren't about to NOT carve them. Note to self: Bring your own pumpkins next time).

The proud grandparents...Saturday, we hung out with the family and went shopping at "The Block."

The pool wasn't safe to swim in....Brandon's remote control shark was on the loose.

Our Beautiful Niece, Piper Belle Bodenstab

At 2:16 a.m. this morning, I officially became an aunt. My brother, Brandon, and his wife, Renee, had their first child. Piper Belle was 20 inches long and 6.9 pounds. We couldn't be more excited for the blessing that she is and we are so excited to meet her.

Piper's got the Bodenstab grimace...at least Nathan tells me I make that face a lot.
I wish I could see more of my brother's face in this photo. I love it.


Beautiful little niece. I can't wait to meet her!