Ward Talent Show Act

We had a ward talent show last weekend and this was our contribution with the help of John's brother David and a youtube video that we tweaked.



Lyrics:

Hey there Lisa, what’s it like at BYU?
I am just a quarter mile away, but feels so far away from you, but that’ll do…
‘Cause two years from now I’ll be with you, I know that’s true

Hey there Lisa, don’t you worry about the distance
Few more months and I can call you both on Mother’s day and Christmas close your eyes…and then just think of suits and ties…but not other guys

Chorus:
Because, you said you’d wait for me…oh…you said you’d wait for me.
Oh....I am at the MTC...oh… I am at the MTC…at the MTC…

Now have some patience and don’t think of dating Conner
Few more years you may be done with school, but I’ll return with honor
I can’t wait…just two more years till our next date…it will be great..

Hey there Lisa I’ve got a great new teacher at the MTC, he’s teaching me, the type of elder that I really want to be….hey, he even goes to BYU…maybe you’ll see him too....


Chorus:
Because, you said you’d wait for me…oh…you said you’d wait for me.
Oh…I am at the MTC…oh… I’m at the MTC…

I carry your picture around with me and talk about you constantly I am driving my new teacher insane.. ….There were RMs who made fun of me and said you’d never wait for me, To them I say, oh ye of little faith…For we’ve been dating for two months and I think that that’s long enough to know someone enough to feel this way… to feel this way….

Woke up this morning, checked the mail, right at dawn and just believe me girl how shocked I was to hear those words … Dear John I think were through… your teacher’s more more handsome than you…go ahead and cry if you need to…Sincerely Lisa missing you…p.s. we’re through.

Chorus:

Ohh…you didn’t wait for me…oh… you didn’t wait for me…oh…you didn’t wait for me…oh…you didn’t wait for me.,.,and I am just at the MTC…at the MTC…oh.. oh … oh….. oh…. Oh… oh.*sniff.

Twain Harte & Yosemite

My family has vacationed at the same cabin every summer in Twain Harte Cali (about 2 hours away from Bay Area) for the last 15+ years. So John and I decided to carry on the tradition even though my parents couldn't join us. So John's mom, brother David, sister Kristina, and Aunt Sharon joined us . It was a blast.

This is Twain Harte Lake... a lake with a sandy beach, diving boards, and not too freezing water:)

Mia loved it!

Grandma Kathy and Mia playing catch on the beach.

Norah loved hanging out on the sand

We had to mini golf at our favorite little mini golf course in Twain Harte.

We took a day trip to Yosemite. It was fantastic! This is below Lower Yosemite falls.

This shows upper and lower Yosemite falls.

This is bridalveil falls where we got soaked and saw rainbows all over the place... I saw a rainbow that was a full circle... no wonder you can never find the end of a rainbow, there isn't one! It's a circle! Hmmm... who knew?


Mia and Aunt Kristina wanted to see a bear while we were there....

Ummm... little did they know what they'd see on the way out of the park!!! We watched the bear break in the window, pull out a pillow and then hoist himself up and almost in until someone honked and he ran off. It was unbelievable!!

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

We have a Six Flags less than an hour from us that also has tons of animals. They have typical zoo animals (elephants, giraffes, penguins, etc) but they also have animal shows.... a killer whale show, dolphin show, tiger show, bird show and more. They also have lots of fun kiddie rides and fun waterplay areas for the kids to get wet. They had a deal where the season pass was only $20 more than admittance, so at the convincing of some friends we got season passes. Mia, Norah and I go with friends about every other week and we love it! Here are some pics from when we got to have John come along and Mia showed him all the fun things we do at the "silly park" (as she calls it).




This is the butterfly house that has tons of huge butterflies... none of which you can see in the pic unfortunately... but they seriously are huge.


John didn't pack a swimsuit... but that didn't stop him :)

Playing Around

My sister took some pics of us while we were playing around in the sunroom and backyard the other day. These are some of my favorite ones.

I Love to See the Temple

The other day we had some errands to run and were in the area of the Oakland Temple so we stopped to walk around and take some pictures. Mia loves to be on the temple grounds because she knows that's where mommy and daddy got married and that one day she can get married in the temple too. It doesn't hurt that in our house all the Disney princesses get married in the temple and then live happily ever after :) My sister Megan wanted to play around with a new camera so these were the results...









This pic sums up Mia's spunk lately... she sure likes to scowl and won't let me do her hair. When I finally do get it done, she pulls it out shortly there after. Is taking out your hair a time out-able offense???