Swarley Stinson Rose!

It has been great to be home for the summer. One awesome thing about it was that I was able to go to the surplus auto auction in Davis. As soon as I laid eyes on this car I loved it! I honestly didn't have much hope that I would actually get it, but we bid on it and....I got a car!!! So this is my ford focus wagon.

With a little tune up he's running like a champ and I totally love this car! It took me a little while to decide on a name for him. But after help from my friends, trying it out, and a final vote from Mary!... I decided on Swarley Stinson Rose. For those who don't know the name comes from How I Met Your Mother. And I think the car is worthy of the AWESOMENESS its name expects of it. :)

Monterey

I'm home for a couple months for the summer and Taryn has been home too this past week. We took a little overnight trip to Monterey. The day we got there it was cloudy cloudy cloudy so we just looked at the beach a bit in our jackets then went on the 17mile drive. It was a nice drive and we saw some cool stuff.

Taryn and me before the wet coastal air made our hair crazy.

And along the coast.

The lone cypress.

I was the one driving and during the drive I saw two young bucks(deer not boys) on the side so I pulled over quick and snapped a shot.

We stayed in an awesome bungalow at The Sanctuary Beach Resort. It was really nice and we had a great beach view.
And maybe my favorite part was the robes in the room! Oh and the fact that we got our own golf cart to drive around!

Day 2 was sunny so we got some beach time and we stopped at Phil's Fish Market for lunch.

I'm only a little burned and I enjoyed our time there.

Back From the Break

Now that it is close to February I figure I might as well put up a little post about Christmas break. I know it is very after the fact but I figured I'd get some up caused I'm sick of going on my page to link to other peoples blogs and seeing the same last post! So here is a very quick recap of Christmas break:

Went home to Davis and it was wonderful! All the family was home for at least part of the break so it was great to be with everyone. We got to make a stop at the Farmer's Market I was super excited I love it! I didn't realize how much I really liked Davis until I moved away to Provo. It is always nice to come home and visit the hometown. And even better to get to see family and friends. I got to spend some time with my friends from home and it was so good to see them and catch up I've missed them lots. And I of course spent most of my time with my family which was wonderful!

Christmas was great as always! Except for the fact that I got sick and felt miserable for most of the day. But still it was good and we got fun stuff and it was good to be with the family. We all got our Christmas PJs and sported them together:)

While we were all home together we also took family pictures for the Christmas card. These are just a few...

And the while in the oh so lovely California....we took a trip to the coast! We went to Monterey and Santa Cruz it was the best. Unfortunately Holly had already gone back to Utah so we missed her there.