Birthday Boy

We went back to AZ again for Jake's birthday. It was great to see family and relax for the weekend! We especially had fun playing with Jake's twin nieces Sadie and Grace. They are pretty much the only thing I took pictures of the whole weekend.

Oh BONUS! I got see my wonderful friend Sarah, who just moved to Mesa. I wasn't planing on visiting her but Jake and I needed to go to the distribution center and when we walked in, there she was! She was busy working but it was so nice to visit with her for a while!

Sadie and Jake, Grace and Madi

Jake and the girls were playing with jitters, crawling around and barking at her. I think Sadie kept meowing though...

The girls had so much fun digging in the backyard with their new gardening gloves! And Grace found Jessy's hat and glasses and turned into a gangster :)

Jake + Wings =
:)

Creepy Jake. Creepy Madi.

To the Beach

Jake and I have been able to go to the beach quite a bit, so here a few pictures of our adventures.

We took a frisbee and the guys were playing in the waves. Jake made a sweet catch here! And paid the consequences with a burn from the sand.

My friend Naomi and I took our dogs to the beach last week. We had a blast! The dogs hate the water though. Jitters loves to run around in the sand, but I wasn't allowed to her off her leash.
Naomi looked so cute in her dress and sun hat. Here she took Jitters out to the water, she was so terrified!

LACMA

So a few of my friends here in CA and I decided to head to L.A. yesterday and visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It was AMAZING! We got sort of lost on the way there but thank goodness for iphones and for the good parking lot guy who gave us our money back when we accidentally parked 6 miles away from our destination. This museums is huge and spread over quite a large area so we didn't even get to see half of the stuff there, but what we did see was great! We started in the European art section which featured mostly Christian art which is awesome and creepy and super symbolic. I wish I remembered all the stuff from my art history classes! One of my favorite sections was the Roman gallery. They have some beautiful statues and jewelry and pottery. Ugh I need to go to Rome!

This was an interesting forest of lampost right outside the museum. It would probably look awesome at night!

I also loved the Japanese Pavilion. Such beautiful ink paintings on silk, and some pretty amazing block prints too.
I was so excited about these panels! I actually learned about these in my Japanese art history class. I never imagined I'd get to see these in my entire life!! Oh i love art museums!

This is a beautiful Mary Cassatt piece. She was a famous impressionist painter known for her paintings of mothers and children. She is my high school art teachers favorite artist.

I about died when I saw this chair. Back at Utah State I had to build a chair out of cardboard for a 3D design class and this was the EXACT chair I modeled mine after. I'm not sure why but I just love it so much! Designed by Charles Rohlfs.

Volleyball

Every Monday and Wednesday the guys get together to play volleyball before work. Last week Jake did a killer baseball slide in an attempt to save the ball, and this is what happened to his leg.

Pretty sweet scab eh?

Everyone loves action shots!

This one is my favorite! It's fun to watch him play sports and be competitive in something other than video games :)

Newport

Last week Jesse and Mallory invited us to their beach house in Newport! Wohoo! Jake took a day off of work and we drove down there early in the morning. When we got there it was pretty cloudy so we decided to go see Transformers and wait for the sun to come out. After the movie we spent a lovely afternoon at the beach! Jake and Jesse went boogie boarding and Mallory and I sat on the beach. Jake almost got attacked by a seal (haha!) and every once in a while a dolphin would show up to play in the waves.

That night Mallory's parents took us out to eat which was super nice. Then we walked around the shops at Huntington Beach, ate some ice cream and a frozen banana, and went back to chill at the beach house. We had to leave early the next morning but we had so much fun! Thanks Jesse and Mallory for a wonderful day!

Jake found a kite on the beach in the morning. After about an hour of untangling string, he wrapped it around a toiletpaper roll and ta da!