Hunter Family Time

For my brother's wedding, most of my family was able to come down and spend a couple days in San Diego. While they were here, besides wedding stuff, we went to the beach, went bowling, mini golfing, swam in my pool and just hung out. It's always fun to have family together.



Nice action shot of Cypress


Lexi and Dylan congratulating Bode on getting a strike.

Grandma and Morgan making a sand castle.
Everyone left Sunday after the wedding and I took the girls and drove up to my parents for the week before the reception that Saturday.


The kids enjoyed sitting on, not riding, grandpa's new miniature horses.

Brent flew up the day of the reception and the girls were happy to see their daddy.

Jarom and Alyssa's Wedding

Since we lived in San Diego, my little brother Jarom has lived with us. He finally married Alyssa Danner after 6 years of dating on Aug. 12th. They got married in Balboa park and it was beautiful! The ceremony was really nice and Morgan got to be one of the darling flower girls. The reception was gorgeous in the Prado. Dinner was fabulous and all the adults had a great time dancing and chatting without the kiddos.


The wedding rehearsal followed by a great Italian dinner.


Morgan and Jaycee with their girl cousins on my side.


My favorite people!

She forgot to drop the petals but looked darn cute carrying the basket.




The head table.


The next week we went up to Gridley and had a reception up there that was also gorgeous but I don't have the pictures for those. Hopefully I'll post them later.

Disneyland

There has been a lot going on here and I haven't blogged in months. I figured I would start with something fun and easy. Brent was able to get a good deal through the military to go to Disneyland for 3 days. So while his brother John and family were here from Africa, we went together. They have an 8yr old girl, 4yr old girl, and an 11mo. old son. Three days was plenty long but we had a great time.
Here is the gang at California Adventure.





We enjoyed the rides and parade. Morgan was very brave and went on anything she was tall enough for. We especially enjoyed the new little mermaid ride.

We swapped out babysitting with Brent's brother so we were able to have a late evening out together going on the big kid rides. Thank goodness we had fast passes or we would have only been able to go on one ride instead of four. We loved the Tower of Terror.

Jaycee was mostly happy as can be strapped into her car seat or chest carrier. She got to go on a few family rides but not many. We love our happy little baby.


And of course with three little girls, we spent a lot of time with the princesses. We danced, did story time and waited in line several times to see the different princess. But they were great and beautiful as always.
Once again, it was great but we don't plan on going back until 2013 and NOT in the summer.
Thanks John, Megan and kids!

Catching Up

So I haven't blogged in like 6 weeks so I'm going to make an effort to share a little of what we have been doing. We moved 2 weeks ago and much time was spent preparing for that, then moving, and now trying to get settled. So the oldest stuff is at the bottom of this post if you want to start at the bottom.

Fire Pit
For Brent's birthday, he got a fire pit and has been so excited to have a little fire on our back porch. Last night, we finally did. We just roasted some marshmallows and had a nice time. Morgan loves marshmallows anyway so thought this was pretty cool.

Love that gooey goodness.
Our New Home
So many more pictures are to come but even though we're settled, we're still getting the decorating done. We still live in San Diego. We're now in a suburb called La Mesa. We really wanted a house with a yard and although our new yard is small, we have a community pool and love our new neighborhood. When moving, there are always things that work in your new home and some things you need to buy. Our kitchen was crying for a hutch so we searched craigslist and found this beauty. I'm not sure what it is about it but I love it and thought it could represent our new home.
TIMBER!
Friday night, we had our first overnight guest in our new home (Bryan Allred) and headed to bed about 11:45. At midnight we hear something terribly loud, a crash, and the house shook a little. We come running out of our room and so does Bryan. This is what we found.



There were no recent rains, no strong winds, earthquakes or tornados but that tree just snapped right off and landed on our patio table and roof. Brent cut most of the limbs down but a tree service is coming out to cut the whole tree down tomorrow. We're glad we're just renting.
4th of July
My sister in law, got the girls these darling 4th outfits. The tutu's have red and white stars on them.


We went to some friends for a bbq and swim party. Then came home and relaxed in the afternoon. This is our porch.
In the evening, we went to my brother's new house in Ocean Beach and had dinner, and played games. Then we walked the two blocks to the beach and watched about 5 sets of fireworks. Morgan hid under the blanket the whole time and Jaycee watched intently. Immediately following the fireworks, the whole beach busts out their marshmallows for a war. If you are on the beach, you are fair game. I even got pegged a few times sitting on my blanket holding Jaycee. It was rather fun. I didn't take any pictures though. Then we went back to my brother's, made smores in his fire pit and played games to miss the traffic. We had a great 4th!
This is at Jarom's house.

Jaycee.
My beautiful, smiling and rolling baby. She is so much fun and growing so fast.



This is what happens when daddy gets her pj's on with Morgan. Everything is a game and we all have a good laugh.

I've been trying to get a movie of Jaycee rolling but she will not cooperate on camera. I thought this was evidence enough. We laid her on the blanket, went upstairs to hang a picture, and came back to find her like this.
Brent's 31st birthday
I know, he's getting old. I guess we all are. He had PRK surgery (like Lasik) the day before his birthday so if his eyes look a little tired and glossy in these pictures, that's why. We were also moving the same week, so his birthday didn't get much attention. I did try and make my first fondant cake. Nothing exciting but it was a good start and I think I'll try it again, maybe with something a little more complex.
Jaycee's crib
Since we've moved into the new house, Jaycee has been in the crib and sharing a room with Morgan. I was so afraid she was going to wake up Morgan all night but in two weeks, she hasn't woke her up once. Dad is proud to have daughter #2 in his crib.