Ryan's Birthday weekend

The weekend of Ryan's birthday Alex and Kyle came into town to help us celebrate.

New games on the Wii

Driving Range on Friday night

Saturday golf at Glen Annie golf course. It was an awesome day and a great course. We are still talking about Kyle's eagle on the 13th hole.

Finished the day off with yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Ryan's favorite.

Sunday afternoon we went for a little nature walk to Lizards Mouth. There were incredible views of Santa Barbara and the ocean, and the rocks were pretty fun to climb on.

It was a good weekend.

We are back and playing catch up

I have been missing in action for to long. Time to catch up on our summer events and fill you in on what we are up to now.

July 26th we drove to Redlands to hang out and say good bye to some good friends. One of Ryan's mission companions and his family moved to England, and it was our last time to see them for a long time. We stayed up way too late, but it was well worth it. Jason and Amy we miss you already.

Hawaii

On July 4th Nicole, Chris, Isabel, Cami, Ryan and I all made our way to the Big Island of Hawaii. It has been a couple of year since the O’Duttonmeister clan has been in Hawaii together and it was wonderful. We enjoyed our afternoon on the 4th in Hawaii but the fireworks were a little disappointing. They got cut short because they were blowing back on the hotel. (Or so they say, we all guessed budget cuts) Sunday the 5th Mom and Dad arrived and the party officially started. We did our usual activities: golf, eat, relax, shop, sleep, talk, swim, and eat some more. It was perfect and we already want to go back.


Isabel's first fireworks

Thank you Mom and Dad for a WONDERFUL trip!

Trip to Reno

On June 21st Ryan’s little brother Kyle was going through the temple for the first time in preparation for his mission. We flew home on the 21st to be there for the occasion, to celebrate Father’s Day and spend time with the family. Saturday morning after we arrived all the Stodtmeister boys played golf and the Stodtmeister girls got pedicures. Sorry no pictures. As a family we went to the temple in the afternoon and had a wonderful experience being together. Everyone was there except for Kipp who we missed greatly. Afterwards we all enjoyed dinner at P.F. Changs and yummy cupcakes.

This temple is special to us because we got married here 5 years ago.





Sunday we went to church together and then celebrated Father’s day by picking cherries from the tree in the yard, watching Soda catch a Frisbee, having a BBQ and spending some time together as a family.

Chris' first Father's Day as a daddy

Dad's first Father's day as a grandfather.

(Alex if you read this I promise to send you the family pictures tonight.)

Girls Week

Ryan went as a leader to Scout camp in June so Mom, Nicole and Izzy came to keep me company. We had a blast. I am a proud aunt as you will see by the many pictures of the cutest niece in the world (at least I think so).

Lunch together

She is so patient. She let us shop for 4 hours at the outlet mall and was happy as a clam.

except for one blow out
She loves to watch TV


I love a baby with a binky


This one is just because it is so cute.

Ryan was tired when he got home from Scout camp so she just chilled with him on the couch.

Fun Friends

I need to make up for lost time:

June 12 we had some fun visitors come to Santa Barbara. Dan, Steph and baby J joined us for a fun filled weekend. A few of the things we did were: eat Mexican food, visit the mission, ate breakfast on the beach, shopped at an estate sale, enjoyed Pinkberry and Yogurtland, drove to Solvang, walked along the beach, ate home made pizza, and talked a lot.

It was a great weekend please come back soon.

Nothing cuter then a baby in sunglasses

We are back from our vacation and I have a lot to catch up on. I promise new posts soon. (I think I said that in my last post, sorry.) For now you will just have to enjoy this preview of my super cute niece.