disneyland never gets old, to me

i still love to go to disneyland.  in fact, it brings to mind such strong memories of my youth and my dad, that i would go to disneyland all by myself.  today, i let my kids and my husband tag along.  it was crowded for sure, but still had the magic for me.  we enjoyed a fun day starting with space mountain and ending with a train ride all the way around the park.  i will say that my kids had much more stamina as pre-teens than they did today as teenagers, as they all claimed utter fatigue at around 7:00 p.m.  thanks for going with me because i loved it!

13 Ks

we got to see another baseball game today in san diego.  before the afternoon game, we went to old town san diego, where we looked in some fun shops, bought a few kitchy items and then had lunch at the coyote cafe, allegedly the best mexican food in old town.  i enjoyed the fried ice cream for dessert!  then we headed for the game.

we felt so lucky that we got to watch tim incecum pitch.  he has fondly been nicknamed "the freak" because of his unusual pitching style and his long hair.  we got to see him get thirteen strikeouts, a really good number for a pitcher.  this is the view from our seats today:

this is probably my favorite view at any baseball park.  it was chilly and a little rainy, but we got the whole game in.  here's jake trying to get on the jumbotron:

after the game we headed for anaheim.  we were lucky enough to listen in on the phone when ramsey, evan's roommate, got his mission call to olangapo, phillipines.  we also passed the san diego temple on our way from san diego to anaheim.  it's a beautiful, castle-looking building right on the side of the I-5.

home opener in san diego

today was the home opener for the san diego padres.  we were lucky enough to stay in a hotel right across the street from the stadium.  in fact, we could see much of the field from our hotel room.  we had these awesome home run porch seats.

pregame was exciting.  during home opener player introductions, lots of celebration occurs and every player and member of the coaching staff for both teams is introduced.  we even got a fly over after the national anthem.

this huge flag was marched out by members of the navy.  it covered the whole outfield.

isaac and craig weren't sure they would be at this first game because they flew down, so their seats were a few rows behind us. 

it was a very exciting game even though we didn't catch a home run ball.  only one ball was hit deep to left field and it didn't clear the fence. 

after the game we had a yummy italian dinner in the gas light district of downtown san diego. 

outta here

i love a good road trip.  i was so happy to get outta here.  it's spring break and it's not really that warm in utah and it's just good to go on vacation.  we are missing evan, but get used to it i guess.  jake, caroline, sam and i headed out this morning, destination: vegas.  we had a great drive, made good time and the kids were productive in the car.  we checked in at the cosmopolitan and had a great view of the dancing fountains at the bellagio.  the four of us walked what seemed like a mile to the forum shops at ceasar's palace and had such a good dinner at the cheesecake factory.  after a little shopping, we hit the hay for a big day tomorrow.  we're meeting craig and isaac, who are flying, in san diego for the padres home opener.  can't wait!

conference breakfast

a favorite tradition is conference breakfast!  each conference sunday, craig's parents host a yummy breakfast for friends and family of eggs benedict and scones.  my kids countdown the days to the scones and i love the eggs benedict.  ryan usually goes and makes the poached eggs just right for me (runny), but he was sick today so i had to settle for hard eggs.  other than that, it was fun to see everyone, fun to eat, and conference was again wonderful.

conference

today was a good conference day.  i loved president eyring's talk.  i loved having evan home with the five zoobies he brought with him.  i loved getting a pedicure with caroline.  i loved watching the red sox get hammered by the rangers.  i loved the warm weather until it started to rain.  i love knowing we are going to california next week and it will be warm.  i loved dinner with caroline and isaac at salt city burger while the boys were at priesthood.  after priesthood, the boy group ate at texas roadhouse.

s.b.o.

today was a horribly long day.  i went to the temple in the morning, that killed two hours.  i went for a walk with the dogs.  that killed maybe 35 minutes.  i cleaned and did a little wash.  45 minutes.  did some computer work.  30 minutes.  i got sleepy so i laid down and thought i could kill 30 minutes that way, but i was way too hyped up to fall asleep. i turned on the end of the phillies-astros game and that was the ticket.  it was a very exciting, phillies-come-back-in-the-9th-inning, kind of game.  so that killed the rest of the time up until about 1:50 when i started to just stare at my phone willing jake to call me.  i knew that they were announcing the new student body officers for next year at 1:50, but jake wasn't calling.  i texted him.  i texted him again.  then i called him.  finally i gave up and called the school, asking who won the sbo election...the secretary who answered read jake's name third.  whew.  so excited for him!  congratulations jake.