California

This past week Gunnar and I went to California. He was speaking at a conference at Saddleback Church and they sent me along too! We went to Orange County it was where some of the fires were. The mountains were beautiful, it was nothing like I pictured it to be. This picture is at a park right on the edge of the mountains where the fire stopped.

On the first day I went sight seeing with one of the other wives while the guys were in meetings. She took me to this place called San Juan Capistrano Mission. It was beautiful, it is the largest and oldest ruins in America. It is were the famous Swallows of Capistrano come every spring from Argentina. It was full of beautiful flowers humming birds, and tons of butterfly's. We saw tons of cocoons in all different stages it was pretty cool.

On our last day after the conference we went to Laguna Beach and drove up the coast from there. It was the most beautiful I thought. There were huge houses behind us on the cliffs. I lived in Florida for 15 years and never saw anything this beautiful there!! I guess it is the combination of mountains and the beach that made it so beautiful.

I have to admit before going to California it was one of those places I really didn't care if I ever went. Now I want to go back and see some more. We only got about a half a day to look around. We would love to go spend about a week and see everything.

This is Gunnar with Aimee and Leo. They work with Gunnar in the Stewardship department. It was there first time to California too!

The kids spent the week with Lynnie (Melynda), Sue-Sue and Meme. They had a blast, I think I missed them more than they missed me. I called to talk to Katy and she told me to hold on because she was in the middle of something! It was nice to have some adult time and go out to restaurants and talk to other adults. I am so thankful for the opportunity to go I had a blast!

Opening to the Hillsong Conference

This is awesome, it is about 12 minutes but worth it!

Halloween Pictures

Here is Katy in her costume, this was my cheerleading outfit when I was her age. I was so excited to see that she fit in it perfectly this year!

Elijah walked right up to this game and made the first two shots! I think the guy running it was shocked. Yes, that is a lollipop in his mouth I could not get it out of his mouth.

Katy with her best friend Ariel

You can get a glimpse of Gunnar's costume. He didn't wear the wig and glasses thank goodness! Jenna this might bring back memories, it is the same costume he wore while in Las Vegas! He won't let me get rid of it.

We let the kids have one piece of candy last night and Eli chose a sucker.

We had a huge fall festival at church on Tuesday night. Aunt Susan and Lynnie went along and we had a lot of fun. The kids have gotten more wear out of their costume this year than any other year! Katy went as a cheerleader, Faith as Mylie Cyrus (she was Hannah Montana but the wig was terrible) and Elijah was Jack Jack or Dash, I prefer Dash because that's really what he did if you put him down. Last night we went around the neighborhood, the kids had a lot of fun. There were kids everywhere! Gunnar wore his "costume" and it was great spending time as a family. When we would leave a house Elijah would wave and say Bye. It was really cute.