EARTHQUAKE!!

We had our first earthquake experience last night around 9:30pm. It was a 5.7 and the epicenter was about 65 miles east of us. No damage has been reported but it shook the house with two good rumbles and I was a little unnerved by it. We'll keep you posted. (Obviously a Google image and not a picture I took.)

In other earth shattering news...

Morgan is potty trained. Yeah! She still wears a pull-up during naps and a diaper at night but she's been doing great. We started last Tuesday and she took to it right away. She went several times a few months back but then I decided to drop it until after the move. I'm glad I did because she was totally ready this time around. We've been to the park, the post office and target all with no accidents. I'm so proud.

And...


We bought a car. Another Yeah! After about three weeks with only one car, we bought a 2005 Toyota Highlander this weekend. We're happy with it so far and look forward to using the extra cargo space on our trips up to nor-cal.

Just as a side note, we love the beach.

Next Time Won't You Sing With Me

Morgan has started to sing many of the songs we sing to her. As you can see, she is pretty proud of herself(mom and dad are too). Turn up your speaker, she starts out pretty quiet.

It's offical

Well there are lots of things that are official.
1. Brent graduated and is now a Doctor and a Lieutenant in the Navy
2. Florida is beautiful
3. Grandparents are great
4. Morgan turned 2
5. We moved across the country and arrived in San Diego

See more info below on each. Sorry this is long but it's been a while.

Brent graduated and is now a Doctor and a Lieutenant in the Navy. After four long years of painful lectures and difficult patients, Brent finally finished optometry school. He says he's not a multi-tasker, and I usually agree but he managed juggling school, being an awesome father, a great husband, and a scout leader amazingly well these last several years while also dealing with and helping me complete my schooling. I am so proud of him and am grateful for all his efforts and sacrifice on our family's behalf.




The commencement speaker at his graduation was an admiral in the Navy. He is the highest ranking optometrist in the Navy. Brent was lucky enough to have him do his promotion ceremony. After graduation, he was promoted from an ENS to a Lieutenant and retook his oath. It is a pretty big deal. Thank you to the family and friends who attended.




Florida is Beautiful
After Brent's graduation and before mine, we took a trip back to Pensacola FL. Both Brent's parents and mine were able to come out for the graduations and so we gave them this trip to FL for their Christmas present. This was our third time to Pensacola and we love it. This time we stayed in the Portofino Resort and it was awesome. If anyone is planning on heading down there, let us know and we'll give you the info.









Grandparents are great
Seeing how we lived in Mississippi and Morgan's grandparents live in California, they didn't get to see each other very often. This trip made up for it. She loved spending time with her grandparents and if I can take the liberty to say it, they loved spending time with her. When the Collins have 30+ grand-kids and the Hunters have 11, it is rare to get one on one time with the grandparents, especially a whole week.








Morgan turned 2
I know it's hard to believe for me too. Morgan flew home with my parents after the graduations so we could pack and drive the moving truck across country and I'm soooo glad they did. After we got unloaded in SD, we drove back up to my parents and stayed for over a week visiting family on both sides. While we were there Morgan turned 2 and we had a little cousin party. My parents have a little farm with cows, a goat, lots of puppies, and a big red barn. Morgan was in heaven and wanted to go see the cows and puppies all the time. We even had two baby cows come while we were there. So we had a barnyard party. We played with bubbles, did the chicken dance, ring around the rosie, had cake and opened presents. We all had a great time.






She got a little princess castle and a darling frilly outfit. So she is in her castle with the outfit on. In case you were wondering about this picture.


We're back in CA
We made the drive in pretty good time. It took about 30 hours and that was in a moving truck pulling a car. We are just now getting fully moved in. Here is a picture of the outside. I'll post inside pictures when I get it decorated. We're in Spring Valley. It's about 15 min East of Downtown San Diego. The weather has been wonderful so far. We do expect visitors.

Easter Eve Fun

The Saturday before Easter was beautiful and we decided to take advantage.We went to Dixon Garden and Galleria in Memphis (it's free Saturday's from 10-12) and then to a little park to play. Morgan has already learned to avoid daddy when he has the camera so that is why she is not looking in most of these pictures. I picked out the flower pictures, not Brent, so he may not be happy with the ones I've chosen, but they are the ones I liked. It was a great day and I'm glad we got to spend the time together as a family. We didn't take a single picture Easter Sunday. I'll tell you the Easter Bunny came and Morgan got a bubble flower, a swim suit, play doe, and a new robe. She loves hunting for Easter eggs in the house and the yard. She's actually pretty good at finding them. We enjoyed conference and had a yummy Easter lunch with some friends. I went a little picture happy.

Pre-Easter

Since Easter was conference weekend, we had to dress up for church the week before. Morgan and I wore matching outfits. It was kind of fun.


The traditional bunny cakes. It's hardly Easter with out them.

I couldn't have done them however, without the help from my friend Brien. She chose to make a purple one. I thought it turned out great.

Morgan was not super impressed with the egg dying process. I think she was just overly tired. We put hers in this whisk so we didn't have to worry about her dropping it. But she didn't want to put it in the water, she just wanted to shake it. Finally we just gave her an egg and let her put stickers on it.

Here's the finished product in all their glory. Yeah, we're not very artistic.