I know, I know, I know... where have I been and why haven't I posted? I do have good excuses... life has been crazy. Let me give you a little time line.

January 19 Yosh and I brought the boys down to Santa Monica and were just relaxing. We were talking and saying that maybe we should think about living by the beach. I mean, come on, we live in Southern California, shouldn't we at least TRY the beach life? But we had no real reason to move, and we liked where we currently lived, so there was no real motivation to get us looking. Well, the next Friday it kind of came up again and we decided to go scope a couple areas out- Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades. Friday night we looked at a place and thought it seemed like a pretty nice area. We didn't really like the placed we looked at but thought it might be fun to live in the area. Saturday we looked at another place and the next thing you know we're telling the lady that we want it. This is on Sat the 26. Well they already had another couple that was willing to start renting on March 1st, so if we wanted the place we needed to start renting before then. Because of our schedules, the only plausible week to move was the following one. Somehow we got everything packed up and moved on Wed the 30. Crazy, I know. Everything happened so quickly (which was actually real nice because I had no time to think which meant I had no time to stress out about moving!) We had our first visitors that weekend- Hailey, Derek and Devree were in town- and just tried to get everything unpacked and in decent condition before we left to go on vacation on the 10th. It was a great deadline because I just kept telling myself that we only had to work hard for a week and a half and get everything done and then we could relax and come back to a HOME! It was a good goal and motivator and brought forth results! I'll have to try to post some pics of the new place. We are now only 3 minutes from the ocean, it is almost 2 times bigger than our previous house, and the kitchen bathrooms are nice!!! Not to mention there is a clubhouse with three tennis courts, a kids pool and regular pool- both heated year round, and a playground. I feel like we're living in a resort! Huge improvements and we are loving it so far!!

Anyway we took a nice 2 week vaca to Hawaii (well for the boys and i it was two weeks. Yosh got about 8 or 9 days!) We stayed with Yosh's grandma the first five days and then had our own place the other week. it was great because there were always plenty of willing hands to help with the kids. The first week Ali was there in addition to Grammy and the second week Derek and Chelsi (Yosh's cousin and his wife) were there. Seriously we got into the perfect routine of eating, hanging out, playing tennis, eating again, swimming, playing cards, and then eating again, and then possibly more cards. I mean life does not get much better. We did not have one bad weather day! Oh it was incredible. The boys got sun-kissed and loved playing in the pool. Especially at the Marriott where there was this 2 foot deep pool so they couold play all by themselves. Dallin loved learning to swim (he's getting real good!) and doing backflips. Porter would just cruise along on his tippy toes trying to keep his head above water. He also loved putting the water wings on and just floaing. They were in heaven! But all good things must come to an end and this was no exception. Fortunately after two weeks, I was okay with coming home!