Fun at the Lake with Reed!

After 2 yrs--Reed's back from Brazil

Reedy Kid is HOME

Welcome home to My little brother Reed! What a stud muffin. His flight came in at 8 AM on Wed the 16th. I had Kari, Tami and Chad with me out in Gilbert and to say the least we were rushing to get to the airport and yep yep its true, we missed his grand exit off the plane despite our running through airport with his welcome signs (Becki and I spend hours making) and balloons. It was such a good day! We then spent 3 days at the LAKE! YAY! Uncle Reed got to see his NEW nephew. Today Reed reported along with Tami and I AHHH! yes I had to speak. I was short and sweet cuz we all wanted to hear from Reed. WHAT A GOOD BOY!! LOVE YOU REED!!

reed's still got skills!!

Things We Love About San Diego..so far!

Building sand castles and romantic walks on the beach.
Annual Pass to SeaWorld

Everyday park weather
Everyday 5k weather

A backyard with a hammack

Crosby Family Reunion

Crosby/Johnson Reunion

The Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed....

Up the skirt of Lisa's bed, not the water spout and it wasn't itsy bitsy EITHER! Let me tell you what happened, I was rearranging my bedroom a few days ago and I guess I disturbed this wolf spider who was chill'n in a sac I had in my room. I am not afraid of spiders, but this one creeped me out. I guess because I was holding the sac in my hand when it popped out and quickly scurried up on to my bed skirt to get a better look at me. Despite my heebeejeebee fit, I was able to pull myself together long enough to snap a photo. Then I made the quick and smart decision to force him off my bed skirt with a clothes hanger onto something hard like the floor or the wall (you cannot smash a spider against a bed skirt). So now with my attacker on the ground I needed something to slow the sucker down I ran to my bathroom and snagged my airesol can of hairspray. The creepy crawler was now behind my dresser which I moved (i was on a mission) pointed the poison and sprayed. It worked!! My 8 legged intruder was now not so agile and speedy. I watched it for a minute, don't ask me why, I was kina fascinated WEIRD i know. then I grabbed my weapon, Thank you Stephanie Meyer, and sent the poor guy to the next life (its in a better place). I guess its just been so hott outside that the bugs want in. I don't blame them. sheesh! When I recounted this dramatic event to Barry he told me that it was a brown recluse and that I was lucky to make it unscathed and that I was sooo brave, but I knew better so I Googled my friend spider to discover it was Wolf spider which aren't aggressive but ARE POISONOUS .....okay okay like a mosquito and there's like 5 different colors and they can live for 5 years. Remember Marks little shower friend?? He kept him around for a while.....humm I don't think so!

At the Request of KARI

I am putting up some videos of "the kids" instead of just the house!

Milea was excited to be in CA.

Mark and Holly's big MOVE

Auntie Lisa and sleepy girl. Milea napped on me like this for 45 min. cute
Good BYE to AZ HEAT and to their little condo!
LOADING UP The 26ft truck!! Bret and Barry were a big help. Thanks for your help BAR!!

Sweet lil MILEA
We make it about 10:30pm and started to unload that night!
Kaemon and Milea seemed to just love their new house with lots of room to run around!
Traveling
This one of the beauties on their street! I'm in love with the weather in Chula Vista CA.!!

VICTORY!!

Here is the BEFORE "under construction" phase........but its a good look at their neat house! I love it. I was glad I got to help out with moving couches and desks to playing with the kidos!! so FUN! love you guys! ~lisa

My trip to Utah

 I'm so glad I got to spend some time with Kari on her b-day. I love pedicures!

This is one of the big houses that Chad and I saw on our walk in the neighborhood just below Aunt Nan and Uncle Denny's house. ther was 3 open houses and I loved walking through all the custom homes! FuN! as you can see Chad loved it too! wink

                           This is Josh and Megan and my new pal Randy.  Below is their home in Draper, where I spend the last week. Megan is my Prego friend I went to visit and go to her baby shower.
Here is Megan being  "showered".  Girls are so fun to spoil. Her baby Girl Savannah is going to be the best dressed baby on the block! 
We played fun games like musical bottles, taste test baby food and can't say baby or I get your diaper pin! cute Megan ALMOST won. winkwink

Here we all are at her shower! Megans the pregnant one!
Megan took me to a unique place just outside of SL claled Gardner Village.  It is a old mormon homestead with a bunch of houses that were restored and turned into a very quaint shopping center they had all kinds of unique shops we spend hours there and ate lunch at a bakery.

This is Megans cute nursery. she had a rad mural artist come paint it. CUTE As a button
this is Josh's sister and husband at a arena football game . I was there too.

Megan is the most adorable pregnant person EVER! she is so spunky you would never guess she's 8mos PREGO if she didn't have a little lump!!hee hee  I had a GREAT time in utah visiting my friends --minus the freak'n freezing weather (i'm a wimp, it wasn't that bad if you're from ut) . Megan kept me busy with all kind of fun projects. I'm mad we didn't take pic of CARD night. I  went with Megan to her craft evening and got to make 8 homemade cards --scrapbook style! I was proud of myself.

Sites we saw on Vacation

Well, I'm finally getting around to posting pictures from our trip to West Virginia. I was glad that Mark posted his graduation pictures, that was the most important thing that we got to do. Its pretty awesome having a Dr. in the family now! These pictures are out of order, but these are some the the things we were able to see and do. Not posted are Stonewall Jackson's home, our carriage ride around Lexington, VMI, (Virginia Military Institution), and Williamsburg, where we spent a whole day walking through a completly restored town. It is SO beautiful back there! Green, green! When you drive on the highways, you can't see anything but huge trees along both sides! Of course the weather was still nice, not to hot or humid yet!!

This is at the Virginia Marine Aquarium, they have alot about all kinds of turtles and I learned that crabs shed their shell when they out grow of it and then take in salt water that expands their body 25%, then they grow a new shell in 24 hours.
I've always wanted to say that I've swam in the Atlantic Ocean, maybe because I grew up next to the Pacific Ocean. It was way to cold and windy to do that!! This is Virginia Beach, right where Bret served 6 mos. of his mission waiting for his Visa to Peru!
What a neat statue, you can see how huge it is!! Virginia Beach has a boardwalk that people can walk for miles along in front of all the big, tall hotels, then another path next to it for bicycles and joggers. They rent alot of 4 and 2 people bikes, which looked like fun!

This is in Lewisburg at Lost World Caverns. They have alot of these neat water wheels back East! This one was just for looks, but some others we saw were real, functioning water wheels.
Here we are down in the Caverns, they were really quite spectacular! Lots of neat formations! I just love caves! So did Kaemon!!
This is a side view (my memory card was full before we got around to the front!) of "Monticello" (the c makes the ch sound,) Thomas Jefferson's Mansion. It's the building that's on the back side of the nickel, (he's on the front!) This was probably our favorite site. We learned so much about him and his accomplishments. He said that "the sun never caught him in bed"! Maybe that's why he was able to accomplish so much in his life. We had a great time!