I'm a couple weeks late with this post, but when are my posts ever on time? The first weekend in August Eric and I took a super quick day trip up to Fontana for my good friend Serena's wedding. We have known each other since elementary school and she was a bridesmaid in my wedding, and now I got a turn to be a bridesmaid in hers! I am so happy for her that she found such a wonderful man to marry and be a dad to her little boy and baby number two. It was a beautiful day and it was great to be there.
The wedding was moved up so dress finding happened super quickly which is why mine really doesn't match the others. Apparently all the others chose to go with the other half of the color scheme. Oh well.
I even got to catch up a little with our group of friends from high school. Wow it's been a long time since I've seen any of these girls besides Serena! We all met freshman year in band camp and were friends all through high school. And this year is ten years since high school so it sure feels like a long time ago!
Me, Crystal, Serena, Desiree, Veronica
Really fun day! And Abby was sure a trooper through the whole day. The reception was different (and way longer!) than any I have ever been too, but it was fun and we got some super yummy Mexican tacos. Worth waiting a couple hours for. And then it was back to SD before night time. Quick day. Busy day. But fun day!
Abby's hair is finally getting longer, as I mentioned here. It definitely gets messy and crazy at times now. Eric had fun with it during bath time a couple weeks again. It makes us laugh at least.
One of my absolute favorite places in San Diego is Cabrillo National Monument. We used to have an annual pass but its been over a year since we have been. Then our good friend Cori mentioned she wanted to go before she left San Diego to move back to Arizona and so we jumped at the chance to show her around. Love love love this place!
The girls - Me, Abby, Cori
Abby definitely wanted in on the exploring. Here she is conquering the tidepools with Dad.
Some more Dad time. (Love this picture!)
And the fam. She somehow managed to sleep as Eric bumped her along a dirt trail in her stroller. I tried talking him out of it but he went anyways. And she stayed asleep so what do I know?
Maybe we'll have to get that annual pass again. This place is just too pretty not to visit often!
We live in a tiny one bedroom apartment (which we love - mostly) so Abby doesn't get her own room. She gets a corner. We partitioned off part of our room with a tall wardrobe so it feels like we each have our own space. And really, most importantly, so she doesn't see us and want us to pick her up in the middle of the night. We have had this set up for several months now and had every good intention to make Abby's corner more than just bare walls. We are the slowest decorators on the planet though, mostly because neither of us really have any sort of design talent and we take forever to decide what we like or what would look good.
But finally a couple months ago (again, it takes us a while) we stumbled across an amazing artist who does watercolors. We loved all her work, especially the animals, and she has a beautiful collection of LDS temples. So we picked out several to hang in Abby's corner. And now, at last, her walls are no longer blank!
Our pictures of the pictures really don't look that great, but believe me that it is a huge improvement. And, hopefully soon, those other walls won't be blank either.
We took Abby to her first pro baseball game last night. We went back and forth for a while on whether we should go since the game wasn't going to start until her bedtime. But it was Mormon Night at the Padres and the tickets were cheap so we decided to just do it and cross our fingers that she would stay happy and hopefully be able to sleep some. We decided to take the bus downtown since we only live about 2 miles from the stadium which also made it Abby's first time riding a bus!
Since it was Mormon night we got to join a tailgating party with free food (always nice!) with other BYU alum and then walk around the outfield before the game. We all wore Mormon Helping Hands yellow shirts as part of highlighting some of the service the Church has done. Abby even got to wear one, though by the time we got our shirts they only had adult XL left so Abby was swimming in her shirt.
Waving to the crowd!
That shirt is so huge!
Then we went to find our seats way at the top of the stadium. Abby loved the game, all the clapping and cheering and music got her so excited. The hard part was trying to get her to contain her excitement to our two squished seats and keep her from rolling down the steep stairs that were right on the other side of Eric.
And then poor girl started getting super tired. But she wouldn't or couldn't fall asleep. Too loud, too bright for her. So she alternated between getting really quiet and fussy, taking a break to clap her hands every now and then though. It was also hard for her because I am still nursing her and a loud ballpark sure is not the place to trying to nurse a baby. She kept asking to nurse and then just couldn't do it with all the distractions. It ended up being the longest stretch of her not nursing we have ever gone, since she didn't nurse from early afternoon until the next morning.
We called it quits at the top of the 7th inning and headed home. Took a while, since we had to wait for the bus and then got stuck in downtown traffic. Abby finally conked out on the bus ride home, poor girl. Overall, it was fun - at least there were some fun parts. Sure can't say I actually saw much of the game, but I'm glad we tried!
