goin goin, back back, to cali cali!!!

since it's been over a year and nobody has updated our blog i figured i should probably do it since we have so many people wondering about what's going on in our lives ;)
this past week we took a vacation to california. we left sunday morning to san diego, and spent sunday shopping at seaport village, eating the best mexican food ever at old town, and visiting the mormon batallion where my dad found his true destiny; gold panning. monday morning we went to the tide pools and to point loma where my grandpa used to work at the lighthouse for the coast guard. then we went to this delicious seafood place then back to old town to look around some more. then we spent the rest of the night driving down to huntington beach. my dad had to work tuesday thru thursday so it was kind of sad going to these places without him. tuesday thru friday we spent in huntington beach. tuesday morning we spent walking down huntington beach pier, riding bikes, and swimming at the beach. on wednesday we went to knotts berry farm. it was really fun actually going somewhere besides disneyland. the lines were alot shorter and the riders were alot more extreme. my favorite and scariest one was the xcellerator and it went 0-82 before we even had a chance to scream. it was insane. we all felt a little sick around 5 or 6 so we went back to the hotel and got ready to go eat at the best chinese restaurant i've ever been to in my life! maybe having half of california being populated by asians had something to do with it? i will never know. on thursday we woke up super early to go and look for sand dollars. sadly enough we didn't find any, all the old people beat us too it. on our way back to the car we got yelled at by a hobo :( that's the last time i ever try to help one!! we went back to the hotel got ready and came back to the beach to swim. nolan taught me and megs how to catch sand crabs and we pretty much spent the whole time trying to catch little baby sand crabs. the rest of the day we spent shopping and walking on the pier at sunset. then friday morning we made our journey back home to the 110 degree weather. woo.

day with brookie.

brooklynn is the bomb, and nobody can say otherwise! she sings, dances, and fantisizes about adam lambert i mean who doesn't like him. ha. sike. anyways she always finds time during the summer to come over here and play board games with us or watch a movie. she brings lunch every single time and she always doubles her amount than what she gave us :) it's funny.

our playdate.

yesterday megan and i made two new friends summer[3] and autumn[5 months]. both these girls are our next door neighbors and we had a play date with both of them! this morning megan and i were our cleaning my soon to be car (one day when it runs) and summer came over wanting to play house inside the car. so as we listened to hannah montana and jonas brothers we "drove" to, the park, lins, and a store. then we took a little trip to home hardware for string and beads to make bracelets. then when we got home it was time for her to leave :( but when she left another little baby came over. her name is autumn whiting and she is adorable! she is the happiest little thing i've ever seen in my whole life. my mom had her talking and laughing it was so cute. we didn't get any pictures with summer but we took some with autumn, here they are.

our gardener dad!!

lately our garden has been producing like crazy! we planted strawberries, jalapeno's, onions, green beans, artichokes, carrots, beets, snap peas, and tomatoes. my dad has invented this "acid juice" for the plants and supposedly it was supposed to make the plants grow bigger and produce more. nobody believed him, but obviously it seemed to work. my mom has been trying to keep up with the tomatoes and making salsa at least twice a week. and we can make most our salsa out of our garden! so it's nice. i love my mom's salsa :) mmmm.! here's some pictures of my padre harvesting haha.
we also have some lizard friends that like to come visit us during the summer. his name is lizzy and we haven't named his wife and kids yet.

track state.

so first off all i have to say about track was it was flippen freezing cold there. i secretly loved it, but at the same time it wasn't too nice running in snow :) this year state was in Reno Nevada. and on our way up there the bus broke down just outside of alamo which i might add was FABULOUSS!! NOT. it wasn't to bad. but we had to ride up with virgin valley.. and by the end of the trip we were all friends, which was nice. but here's some pics. Ashley
this is the best i got at state, and it was 4th in the 300 hurdles.

girls camppp!

every year, a week or so after school ends the logandale stake heads up to camp kolob for 4 days :) no cell phones, no electricity (except for nights in the bathrooms), and of course the worst partt; no boys. oh and by the way, if you couldn't tell by now it's ashley. my mom wouldn't say something about me missing boys.. anyways! girls camp is probably one of the best parts of my summer by far. it's so fun and you just get to be weird with a bunch of girls doing the same thing. no make-up and french braids everywhere. my favorite part of the whole camp is our songs and skit night! and of course our ward being the shizzle, we make up only the best skits and songs. the first night we're there we just have fun and mess around with other wards, the second is skit nightt, and lastly but not least is testimony meeting. this year it started pouring right in the middle of our testimony meeting which made the fire go halfway out and to top it all off it was like a whopping 40 degrees! woooh. i really couldn't complain, because i'd rather be in that weather than the 110 at home!! but here's some fun pics from up at camp..

the happiest place on earth! :)

megan's school has had rewards for doing well in school this year which were called "pride trips" their last pride trip was held on friday, may 21st and they got to enjoy a wonderful trip to DISNEYLAND! although they were going to the happiest place on earth, they had to leave at 1:30 in the morning so i'm sure they weren't all the happiest about that. they first arrived to the park at 9:00, and left the park at 11:00 at night and then came home after a very long day. megan said she had woken up to the flashy lights as they came into Vegas and every single kid she saw was asleep. (no surprise) megan finally returned home at 5:30 in the morning. she enjoyed herself there with her best friend delia with mr. incredible :)