Happy Birthday to Daddy-o Smith!

My (Kristen) Dad's birthday party was a blast (as always)!

It definitely seemed like there were more people THIS year than last, but we didn't get a group photo to prove it! This is a shot from last year:

Engagement Photos!

We took our engagement photos today with the wonderful Kellie Valdez! She is super speedy & has already given us a sneak peak! Can't wait to see and share the rest of them!

Bless Baby Brandon

If everyone could please please please pray, think happy thoughts, send well wishes (whatever your preference may be) to my dear friends Andrea and Donny and their baby boy Brandon, it would be greatly appreciated ♥

Steven's Birthday Weekend!

We got back yesterday from a weekend of fun! We left Friday afternoon and headed that way. Monterey was a good 25 degrees cooler than Elk Grove/Sacramento by the time we got there & we loved it!

We wanted to try to stay away from the typical touristy things that we so often do while we're there, so for Saturday we decided to wonder around. We found the "Path of History" and ended up getting sucked into some pretty cool Monterey history. We got to stand where George Washington once was - THAT's pretty nerdy cool. :D

We met up with Amie & Shawn who wanted to venture around Monterey! We wandered and had a lot of laughs, Shawn realized he may not know his own strength, impatiently waiting for a trolley only to run frantically to another, avoiding a bunch of snobbish red and whites, and singing happy birthday - yeehaw! 

 Us in front of the Colton House where the constitution of California was written.

 This guy JUST KNEW!

 Us with Amie & Shawn waiting for the trolley

 Shawn & Amie at Bubba Gumps

 Us at Bubba Gumps (shortly after they sang to Steven :D)

 17 Mile Drive

 

Sunday came way too fast! After checking out we headed to the 17 Mile Drive, took lots of pictures, played with squirrels, and adventured on the rocks! After too much traffic and a different route home we celebrated with wine and lounging in the hot tub!

BIG THANKS to Papa LeBeau!! If it hadn't been for him, we probably would have spent the weekend at home!