Giving in to Ryan's Home Run Derby

A while back you might have read about one of our good friends, Ryan, was trying to acquire a baseball bat and baseballs to have our own little home-run derby. Well, eventually that would mean that we would have to actually go out in the heat and hit some balls around. It actually turned out to be a lot of fun. Just have to remember what is the current "correct" way to wear a hat.

According to Erin this isn't quite the correct way.

Juan and I kind of by happen chance color coordinated that day.

Captain wrong side of the plate

She looks so cute choking the bat.

Always smiling even if she did miss the ball.

Erin's favorite and an advertisement for my uncle 909-725-3330 ;)

Summer Heat Black and White

Last week, Erin wanted to meet up with some family friends in Palm Springs. The Fousts have had a condo in Palm Springs for a number of years and this year they invited us to tag along. Sure enough, the temperature in Palm Springs in the middle of July is plenty hot enough.

The temperature reading from my bro's truck. Luckily, we could start the truck from inside and have the inside cooled off. Now if we can just figure out a why to cool off the walk from the door to the car.

Quick shot on the street.

A rare glimpse of Erin in pig tails. RARE

We were told that everyone gets out for a stroll along market night. Nevermind that it was still over 100 degrees at 8 when we wondered the streets looking for free mister stations; only the water evaporates before it even gets to your face.

Erin going through a brain freeze attack from ice cream.

We spent most the trip trying to stay cool with A/C on full blast in the condo or in the pool early in the morning or late at night. The pool water actually gets too hot, unbearable by 10 o'clock or so. All in all, it was a great vacation to get away for an overnight trip and Erin LOVED to hang out with her "adoptive mormon" parents.

Somehow I didn't stay 22 forever like I had planned. To celebrate Kevin took this grandma out for her birthday. He took me out to my favorite restaurant, Yard House. We didn't try the yard long beers though. Maybe next time.

Next stop: Disneyland. The only place you get a button on your birthday and the employees have to say happy birthday. Happy birthday count: 1. Rude Disney worker count:3

Black and White.

My favorite ride.

I had the best birthday. Kevin got me scriptures that will soon have my new and improved name on them. Kevin, his family, and my family all made me feel so special. I'm a very very lucky 23 year old girl.

Date Night - Competition

Since Kevin is busy taking my math test online I guess I'll blog.
The other night we went on a DATE! With work/school/wedding business we hadn't been on a date while. Unless watching Deadliest Catch and eating pizza counts as a date :)

We started off at Panera (yum) and then went over to Fiesta Village to play mini golf and laser tag. Spoiler alert: I beat him at both. Badly.

Lining up a shot.

Totally random, they gave us our wedding colors. And by random I mean Kevin picked out yellow and purple.

The first game I won. Not to mention, but I am right now, I got a hole in one at the 18th hole. I had to make it down a tiny ramp, PAST a ball that was stuck in the way, and through a rotating wagon wheels that only had 2 spaces in it. Amazing.

Then I beat Kevin at laser tag 33 to 11. At least I was really humble about it.

Fun fun fun night. It's not very often that Kevin Durr loses...twice...in a row.

Wedding Registry

A few weeks ago we went to Target to start registering for the wedding. Little did I realize how much Erin really, really like to call Target her second home. Before we went in we grabbed some Juice It Up drinks and then started on our journey.
Of course, Erin took the scanning gun first because she had been dreaming about this opportunity for a VERY long time. We had no idea what we needed to register for so we just started browsing around the Kitchen area. Soon enough we were aisle by aisle deep in stuff that we needed (wanted) and started to decipher through the numerous options available.
Some couples warned me of little disputes occurring when registering but Erin and I had a good time. I started to fade around the second hour mark and we left feeling pretty confident that we got only things that we would need.
Mother and friends still suggest going to Bed Bath and Beyond because they will have more of a bathroom selection with colors. Erin said I can't look at the registry to see what we are getting like Nathan did and I had to promise that I wouldn't.

Trying to find Ryan a bat

This last Friday night we spent with our friends Ryan and Katie and went about as Ryan really, really really wanted a baseball bat. Before we would start our trek, we needed to stock up on rally good food. Panera is the best place to go because everything is SO good.

Across the street from Panera is Costco. We thought since it was Baseball season still, somewhat, we would be able to find something. While we did manage to buy some gifts for Juan and Audrey's new baby, the only thing close to baseball we found were wholesale Dodgers tickets.

Another unexpected by at Walmart was when I bought an ipod. It will be mainly for educational purposes and luckily Erin signed off on it, with the stipulation that mom is going to help pay for it. Still no baseball bats.


At Sport Chalet we found BATS!!! Only they cost around $100, and those are for the cheaper ones. That was above Ryan's budget, so he got a dozen baseballs instead.

Erin somehow broke the trim on their car door, but Ryan will fix it after he fixes his large, medium, and little trucks.

Erin found her next automobile purchase. No registration or insurance required.



Who doesn't like to end up and Barnes and Noble looking at magazines and other "SELF HELP" books. We had a good time as we kept trying to stall Ryan from going to other places to try and find a bat. AND WE WERE SUCCESSFUL. Towards the end of the night we went to see Juan and Audrey's baby Natalie. Audrey's parents were gracious enough to share some holding time but with the ever so watchful new grandparent eye. SHE is so CUTE with here super long arms. Pics should be up later.

June Midway

June put Erin and I past seven months of being happily in love with each other and we look forward to each new day. June has also brought the taxing attention needed for finals and summer preparations. Some where in there, I kept getting an urge to find a place to live NOW! A number of places are offering great SUMMER MOVE IN SPECIALS but I need to be patient. We are hoping to pick out a place in late July and move in sometime in August to get a place situated before summer quarter finals and something about a wedding in the beginning of September.
Oh yeah, the wedding. Well due to some planning conflicts, at the moment, we are thinking about having our reception a week later. Stake conference trumps a wedding reception in San Bernardino. But we want to accommodate so we are opting to move our reception to the following week rather than asking people to choose us over stake conference. Some people are having a hard time with that, but we see it as an opportunity to enjoy the Wedding day with Family and Friends from out of town and then a week later to relax and have a little party with people from around the area. Hopefully most will agree. Besides that, everything else is going very smoothly. Erin is lighitng up with joy everytime we walk by some cute wedding decorations or see something she wants. Lately, she is working on finishing touches on the wedding annoucement. Ribbons, pictures, stamps, quotes, and more for annoucements. I am so grateful that she is choosing to do this with such little help from me.
We aren't quite sure what to do for fun because or Disneyland passes are now being blacked out and the weather isn't really copperating to let us go to the beach. So hopefully we will have some more adventures to post about soon!!!!