Its official!!

The rumors are all true... I am officially a BUNN in an OVEN!

Oops....

I mean....

I have a BUNN IN THE OVEN!!

Posting Something

So I was talking with my wife today on the phone while at work and I told her I was looking at our blog. She said "You can post something if you want." So, here you go Kamaili, I am posting something.

What are the odds?

(Thanks to Riley and Kandas for the inspiration...you are always up to something fun!!!)

Finally, I decided to get creative on our anniversary and surprise Whitney with something "amazing"!! Whitney and I are big fans of "The Amazing Race", so with the help of my team (you know who you are) we "worked" on the race for days. Without bragging too much....It could have been awesome!

Notice the "could have been" part? Yup, you guessed it. Never before had Whitney been asked to work nights, but he was asked to work the night of our anniversary. WHAT?? Ahh Sigh.... So we rushed the preparations and got everything ready to go the night before. It could have been great then too! Yup, you guessed it... called in to work that night too!

Having had a minor lapse in judgement, I must have admited my plans were foiled, yet again! Whitney picked up on the comment and unable to contol his curiosity, he went snooping in my email and found the top secret plans. With a few hours on his side and and all of the contraband at his fingertips he conspired a little race of his own. I think, however, I may have foiled his plans as well. I came home from work early and found him ready to leave the house with his hands full of amazing race clues! Thanks to Whitney, we still had our AMAZING race, it wasn't quite how I expected it, but we both got a grand prize! I love my IPOD touch! Thanks honey for such a memorable day!

Happy Anniversary!

I am so grateful that I get to say this FOREVER! I love you Whit! Thank you for 3 years of love, laughs, and tons of fun! Here's a look back on the beautiful day...

Hiking

We love inviting the kids over the spend the weekend with thier favorite Aunt and Uncle (for clarification purposes...that would be myself and Whitney)! This weekend we decided to go hiking so we packed up some water, snacks, and the kids and headed for North Mountain. We feel like the trip was overall a success...

We did get a few looks when Kamee kept pointing to the guys hiking without thier shirts on and saying, rather loudly, "Hey, he's immodest". Naturally, our response was "oh honey, they're going swimming!"

Baseball is a family affair

Dad always made Jayce's little league games a matter of high priority. I would always get a call from him on the day of the big game asking if we were going to come support Jayce or if we had found more important things to do! (he was never afraid to use the guilt tactics!) So of course we came and always had a good time.

The Jones family fans!

Note to self: Keep Hana and Broc seperated. They always get in screaming competitions!

Grandma and Grandpa watching the game from the executive suite!

San Francisco Remembered

For Whitney's birthday we planned a trip to SF to hang out with Aunt Martha and do all the fun things everyone claims there is to do there...

Is there a better way to start off a trip than by eating lunch at a haunted restaurant? We took a the long drive to Moss Beach Distillery hoping to have an encounter with the Lady in Blue...but we had no such luck. We did, however, have a GREAT meal and an even better view of the ocean cliffs.

Whitney and I got adventurous and went out climbing on the clifs overlooking the ocean.

Aunt Martha got us tickets to go see Wicked. It was awesome!!

Don't we look like the typical tourists? On the boat out to Alcatraz.

As we walked down Pier 39 we saw a little shop with a huge sign that said "BIKE THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE". We asked about the ride and the lady said the trip is a about 8 miles one way and takes about 1 1/2 hours.

so we said "Sure, that's not bad"

(note: we are usually pretty honest with ourselves about what we can and can't do..not today!)

As we left the shop, I swear they just laughed and mumbled "SUCKERS"!

Items the shop attendent failed to mention:

We are biking into a 50 MPH headwind.

The seat is only comfortable for about the first 3 minutes.

With few exceptions, the trail is almost all uphill

and

freezing cold temperatures + sweating profusely = an irritable woman who can't figure out whether to keep her jacket on or off.

We were quite the travelling duo. Okay, if we are being honest, we looked pathetic! Even the runners were passing us at a high rate of speed. I probably could have walked my bike faster than I rode it. Well again, if we're being honest, that's what I did!

Too bad this isn't our victory photo...only 4 more miles to go!

Ahh, the bridge! Why does it have to be so long?

3 hours later... We finally made it to Sausalito. This is more like our victory photo! As much "fun" as the ride was, we decided to take the ferry back across the bay. Whew! I don't know how much more these bunns of mine could take!

After a well deserved good night's rest, we headed to an amusement park. The animal shows were awesome and we even got to ride an elephant. The extra passenger was a little girl in front of us, who at the last minute, started crying because she was scared to ride alone. We invited her to ride with us and she did!

We headed up to wine country (northern cal) to check out the grape vinyards. They are beautiful! While there, I had one goal in mind...to find a non-alcoholic grape juice. Talk about finding a needle in a hay stack. We went to 2 or 3 winery's with no luck. On our way out of town, we stopped at a little store and we found...VINJUS the all natural grape juice!

What is a vacation without a visit to the temple? The Oakland temple is beautiful. Well worth the trip across town.

We polished off the trip with a visit to the chocolate capital of the world and we came back with plenty to share!

Thank you Aunt Martha for such a fun visit!

Family Vacations

I have been doing some organizing lately and found some pics of a vacations that we took earlier in the year, but have not yet shared. We hope you enjoy!!

The whole family took a trip to Safford in April to get Dad out of town and ride the golf carts for a weekend. The campground we stayed at was surprisingly pleasant, aside from the gigantic roach that climbed up through the drain as I was washing dishes!

We met up with the Claridges' at the dunes. Dad sure enjoyed his adventures with Ron

Every one took turns playing on Ron's new toy.

Thanks Ron... now all the boys, instigated by Dad, are conspiring to buy their own Ranger!