Palm Springs at Christmas

What a beautiful day

Hidden little Treasures

I was downloading some pictures off a camera I don’t use very often and came across some photos I forgot that I had taken.

Happy Birthday Joelle (from July)

Doesn't the city look awesome in these pictures. The blue is perfect.
These pictures make me miss the city and the people there.

Baby Shower

Last weekend I flew home for my sister's baby showers. It was a really nice weekend that I got to spend with my family and relax at home. These are not the best pictures in the world but didn't have my good camera.

Nicole is due in less then a month and she looks awesome.
These are the two great grandmothers
Grandma Bailey and Grandma Dutton
Hot Chocolate bar

Nicole's friends did a beautiful job

My favorite was the cute home made labels for the blood orange soda.

Nicole actually had two showers that weekend and I was able to be there for both. Unfortunately I didn't take a camera to the second shower but it was just as beautiful. While I was home we went to check out the open house for the new postpartum wing at the hospital she will be delivering at. It was pretty nice for a hospital.

I wish I could fully express how excited I am to be an aunt. 30 days and counting.

New Music

I love new music

My newest purchase:

Narrow Stairs by Death Cab for Cutie

Really Good!

Visitors

Two weekends ago we had some wonderful visitors to Santa Barbara

Joelle and Nick were visiting sunny Los Angeles and drove to Santa Barbara and spent all day Saturday. It was so fun to have them here even if it was for a short time. (Miss you, Joelle)

We had lunch by the harbor and shopped State street.

We watched the sunset from our favor spot on the beach, and ate Sprinkles cupcakes. SO YUMMY (thanks Joelle and Nick)

Then we had great Mexican food and called it a day.

Oh and I don't want to forget to mention that Joelle and I got to go to the Golden Globes.

(sorry no pictures from inside but they said no cameras)

Definantly a once in a life time opportunity.

Thank you Bill for the tickets, Thank you Nick for letting me have your ticket,

Thank you Joelle for taking me

Rusty and Laura's Reception in Reno

We missed Kippy but his evil doppelganger kept popping his head in.

Pictures from New York

Sony building Christmas Tree

MOMA

Columbia

Thanks for a yummy dinner Brad and Jill

Our Christmas Holiday

Blogger is being really dumb and not letting me upload pictures. I can't wait any long because I am getting so far behind so I am going to update without pictures (sorry for everyone who only looks at the pictures) and then add pictures later.

Our Holiday break was a bit on the crazy side so lets see if you can keep up...

December 13-17: We had an awesome time in New York for the Pershing Holiday party.
December 18: We were in Santa Barbara for one day so I could work and we could repack our bags.
December 19-21: On the 19th we drove to Provo Utah for Rusty and Laura's wedding (Ryan's little brother and our new sister-in-law) It was a fun weekend full of driving, snow, Cafe Rio, wedding festivities, and more driving.
December 22-24: We were in Santa Barbara again so I could work, do laundry, and repack our bags.
December 24-25: We drove to northern California to be with my side of the family at my Grandparent's house. Christmas Eve we had a fun family dinner at Trade Vicks and then we had a baby shower for my sister who is expecting in February. Christmas Day was really nice. All us granddaughters made breakfast and then we opened Christmas gifts. The rest of the day was relaxing and grazing on yummy food.
December 26-28: Me, Ryan, my mom and Dad, two sisters and brother-in-law all drove down to Palmsprings to spend some warm days at my Grandparents other house. Even though Ryan and I were sick of driving it was a really nice few days. We played golf, ate mexican food, played Wii and sat around.
December 29-31: Sunday night we left the rest of the family in Palmpsrings and we drove back to Santa Barbara so I could work for a few days, we could dump all our Christmas stuff off and we could repack. For New Years Eve my parents, two sisters, and Brother-in-law joined us in Santa Barbara to celebrate. We had dinner and then watched a movie and played games to stay awake.
January 1-4: New Years Day we all got back in the car and headed for Reno. We made a quick stop in Solvang for breakfast (which I highly recommend) and continued on the road. We were in Reno for Rusty and Laura's second reception. We enjoyed family meals, decorating, Christmas with the Stodtmeisters, and video games. We drove back on Sunday night.

So I hope you were able to follow all of that. We have been really tired after all our traveling but feel lucky to have been able to be a part of everything. (Oh yeah and we literally drove over 4000 miles in 3 weeks.)