Reconnecting with Friends!

A few weeks back our great friend growing up came back to town for a quick visit. Christine moved to Mexico to help out in an orphanage about 4 years ago. The result was her meeting the love of her life, a native Mexican- Antonio, and getting married to him. They now pastor a start up church in southern Mexico, about 10 hours from Cabo San Lucas. Christine and Antonio also had a baby girl about 18 months ago named Katherine and Christine is pregnant with baby #2, due early to mid March. We were so excited to get to host the Torre's once again, play with little Katherine who is just a hoot, and learn that they will be staying up here starting this month through April so Christine can have the baby here! SWEET!!!! We just love this family, and can't wait for more time with them!

Muah, Muah- Kristin

A Full New Home!

After Thanksgiving day, Aaron and I headed up to the Temecula Area to visit some of the girls from APU. Sara had brought Isabella down from Canada, and the day we arrived, so did her husband Matt. We had such a good time with everyone! Matt and Aaron took off one day, to hang at a local brewery (Aaron is brewing his own beer, and take a great interest in how other places do all that stuff) and Shauna, Sara, Isabella and I took to a little pre-Christmas shopping! Spending time with each other was so wonderful, and continues to remind of us of why we are all friends, and have stayed friends almost 5 years after college graduation.

The other reason we took a detour up to the Temecula area was becuse Shauna had just bought a new house!!! How exciting!! She has worked so hard these past 5 years and it has finally paid off. She is now the owner of a beautiful two story- four bedroom- two & a half bath- home, and has it fully outfitted!!! What a joy it was to get to share in the new step of her life, and her totally blessed home!

Muah, Muah- Kristin

The Drive to Costa Mesa- WOOt wOOt!

This will be a four or so part blog. So check back each day for a new event from the weekend since that is the only time I can seem to do anything interesting and I HAVE to go to W-O-R-K during the week!

Kaitlin, Kristy (her cousin), Erin S. and I all headed down to a weekend in Costa Mesa spent with Kaitlin's family! We were sooo stoked to go down there that instead of leaving Friday morning we took off after work on Thursday. Our 6:30 departure turned into 7:00...turned in to 8:00... OH WELL! Sometimes you just gotta go with the flow and we were in NO hurry! We made sure to stop off at In-N-Out and get a new found "secret menu" item thanks to Kristi- Double Cooked Fries....talk about a grease bath, but the grils loved them- animal style and all! I had of course the plainest of plain fries and cheesburger! Yum!

We headed out of In N Out about 9:00 and made the long drive down to Costa Mesa in about 5 hours! Woo Hoo! We got in at 2AM to a very welcoming Uncle JD! What a sweet heart he was. He came out and greeted us at our car... I am just glad he found us in the car and not in the middle of the cul-de-sac.....but that is another story......

Urban Ore

This past Saturday Aaron and I cleaned the house a bit and then took off to Urban Ore in Berekely; a place we have...ok I have...been wanting to go to for about 1.5 years! It's a mecca for the "refurbished"- or soon to be. They take in loads from contractors daily, who are renovating homes, buildings, etc and need a place to get rid of house hold and construction items that are still "usable" or "refurbishable".

From the moment Aaron and I first moved in to our condo I knew that there were a lot of things to be done, and so far we have pretty much turned this place upside down (in more ways than one), but there are still some projects that I am hoping to get to one day. My next three projects for this palce are: renovate the bathrooms, put in French Cafe doors to the laundry room and change all the door knobs. When I first heard about Urban Ore on a weekend news feature I was totally excited I knew this would be the place to go to find my french cafe doors and vintage door knobs. Though I didn't find the doors YET, I did find the vintage glass door knobs I have been looking for...though they are kind of expensive.

For the true "vintage" all glass door knobs I am looking at 15.00 per knob! YIKES! They have some fake ones for $1 each, wich is what I will probably put on the closests since those don't really matter. Never the less, I didn't get anything today, but Aaron and I had a great time walking the place! I can't wait to go back and do some purchasing when the time is right!

Old Radiators

Aaron and Kristin's Kid...

So Katie, Aaron and I were watching America's Got Talent last night (7/8/09) and this little girl walks on stage and does her act and we all look at each other and say "oh my gosh! I Aaron and [Kristin] had a kid this would be it!" Quirky, musical and full of energy....HEAVEN HELP US!

P.S. Hit PAUSE on the Pandora App at the very bottom of the page!

P.S. Haven Bella Kipp. was born last night at 7:08 on 7/8 weighing in at 6 lbs 7 oz and 19" long!

Day Two in Canada!

Day two found us all on a boat..."I'm on a booooaaattt!" We tried (and by we I mean Aaron and Matt and Clayton) a new Canadian water sport called Wake Surfing. Basically the idea is to take the toe rope out enough to get some speed (and if you are good you can just launch off the back of the boat) and then throw it back in and surf the wake behind the boat...you can technically surf it for quite a while. All the guys got up on the first try (...well Matt and Clayton are seasoned riders, but for the sake of the statement...). We had such a blast and a nice boat ride on the Okanagan (gosh hope I spelled that right...).

Turns out Matt is not only a seasoned wake surfer, but also a seasoned mucian (three bands and counting; one with a three time tour of all the Candian provinces). We set out in the evening to watch him play at...Church! haha! Really good service and little Isabella was, of course, the center of attention cooing like a little terridactile! haha! Pretty funny.
All in all a really great day two...
Bella in her new Le Top bathing suit- butterfly wishes












Bella blending in to the furniture...












Us on the Boat