lake powell 2.0

Another year of dental school down, another year of celebrating at Lake Powell! The highlight of Johnny's trip was flying right seat in his dream airplane, and mine was sleeping for 18 hours a day. In case you didn't understand, I mean literally 18 hours a day. Breakfast, nap, lunch, nap, play, dinner, bed. It was the most glorious week of my life. Thank you, Amber for another great trip!

maui time

Earlier this summer my family went to Maui but it was right during finals week for Johnny, so we packed it on up and went without him. It was a little sad, but the beach, banana bread, and pirate ship cheered us right up. I love this photo of Pipsqueak diving headfirst into the pool, which by the way, was a lifesaver at the beach.

daisy fields forever

^^ Does the grass here ever not look like a Shakespeare sonnet? Everywhere we go there are endless fields of flowers. It's every child's dream for picking posies, and every hipster's dream for making flower crowns. ^^

^^ I love this photo because it is the perfect moment: sunshine, flowers, and playing under the blanket while listening to a little Joao Gilberto. I've decided movie scenes are cooler than real life because 1. They are fake; but 2. There's a soundtrack, which is why I try to take my music speakers everywhere we go so we can have our own soundtrack to life. That might be lame. Okay, it is lame. But we like it. ^^

^^ Birthday surprise to the symphony! If you are a classical music fan, go download Maurice Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite." I had never heard of it and now I can't stop listening. ^^

^^ And birthday cake for breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper, of course. ^^

so many things to do!

Every day I try to take the girls on an outing because there are so many things to do in this city I don't think we've even scratched the surface. I need to narrow down a bucket list--any suggestions?

tide pools and stinson beach

When last weekend started out with Munchkin learning to wink and cook breakfast, we knew it was going to be a good one. We ventured up north to the Muir Beach tide pools to poke poor unsuspecting sponges, and shove our pockets full of beach glass, broken mussels, and rocks, which are obviously treasures. 

We then drove up to Stinson Beach to build sand castles and bask in the sun. I feel like after 20 years of Utah winters, these sunny February are too good to be true. Sorry if you're reading this from Boston. 

over the hump

We're halfway through dental school and we have a party to prove it! UOP throws a big Over the Hump party every year for all of the second year students and we had the best time dressing up and going out without kids!