San Francisco (That's fun to say)

Brownie point to you if you can name that movie.

These pictures are a bit random since I am trying to add iphone pictures and ones from my camera, so i apologize.

Everyone's first trip on the BART

Loved the old cable cars

The famous Alcatraz

San Fran

The Wharf

What a life :)

You guessed it... the Golden Gate Bridge!

Heavenly Chocolate.  We got lots of free samples, and even splurged and bought real Ghirardelli Chocolate ice cream cones!

Crazy Lizzie hair

When in San Francisco you have to get fish & chips and clam chowder.  Check and check!

We wore the little munchkin out... he loved napping as we walked along the bay

We flew back to Las Vegas after a super fun and quick mini vacation.  Driving from Vegas to Salt Lake was  even colder than coming down!  -10 degrees?!  It actually got down to -16.  That's just mean.

This was our first real trip/vacation with a little one and it went so well!  Eli didn't fuss on the plane at all, he traveled great, slept okay in the different hotels, loved the wharf, and was so much fun to have with!

Now its back to the real world.  The Christmas decorations and tree are down, its wintery and too cold to go for walks outside, so I am trying to focus on a fresh new start.  Looking for a few fun decorations for the apartment, getting some books from the library, getting back in shape, and already looking forward to going home at spring break!!

Mer's Wedding and Monterrey Bay

We left straight from St. George to catch a plane in Vegas for San Jose to go to Meredith's Wedding!  She got married in the Oakland Temple, and the wedding was wonderful! It was so good to see friends from college, finally meet her great Fiance (husband now), and witness their marriage!

View from the Visitors Center in Oakland

Eli made new friends and partied it up!

The day after the wedding Bryan, Baby, Kenzie and I went to Monterrey Bay to play for the day.  It was absolutely beautiful.It was just so peaceful, sunny, relaxing, and sooo good to spend time with Kenzie who I met at college in the dorms!

 

And if you can't tell, I am supposed to look like i'm in the fish tank ;)

Zions National Park

While we were in St. George we got to go to Zions National Park!  It was especially beautiful because it had just snowed and was foggy.... and COLD!

Christmas in St. George

This will be more of a picture post since I have  A LOT of pictures....  We went to St. George the Saturday before Christmas and stayed there a week with Bryan's entire family.  It was so fun to have everyone together!

The drive started out a bit... chilly.

We took family pictures that night.  Mr. Eli looks like a grown man!

It warmed up a lot and we went to the park several times.

And bowling... always fun when the bowling ball weighs half as much as the kiddos

for FHE Jess and her family put on the Nativity scene for us!

Stockings all ready for Christmas!

We even had a mini tree

First present opening ever and he tore into it!

He had a helper too

Christmas Jams!

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Loves that cookie monster!

He got tired and needed a little help

We had a really fun time bowling, swimming, going to the park, getting the stomach flu, and laughing!  I guess the stomach flu wasn't so fun but I didn't gain any weight over the holidays ;)