Welcome to San Luis Obispo!
Jan 2011


Grammy May loved on these cute kids for a week, while I frantically tried to make our new house feel like home. They spent countless hours riding bikes, exploring our property and making friends with the chickens next door. Grammy's are the best.

Gracey and Beckham are loving the ranch life. They are obsessed with the chickens, horses, cows, rabbits and sheep that surround us. The Central Coast is absolutely breath taking; from the stunning green rolling hills to the rocky, uninhabited coastline.
We miss our family and friends in Oceanside, but have really enjoyed exploring our new home town. Can't wait to share the fun we are having!

Oceanside....you have been good to us

Cute sunset pose on our balcony, the evening before we moved.

Miss this view!!!



May Family Christmas

I think this was Gracey's favorite part of Christmas...having all of her May family together, especially Linny from Utah.


Christmas Smiles and New Rides!

Santa didn't disappoint! What princess obsessed girl wouldn't love this sparkly pink bike? Gracey had been talking about this bike since it surfaced at Costco last summer.

Beckham's new ride from Grammy and Papa

The mini Kick. I love this scooter. (Secretly wish I had one)

Linny loves her stuffed animals.



Gracey and Eliot watching a morning show together



Proud Grandparents


Christmas 2011



Firm Christmas Party

We changed it up this year and had our Firm Christmas Dinner catered at our house. We loved being able to laugh as loud as we wanted and play silly games with some of our favorite people.

The wives... and my best friends

Dance Party

Gracey has been dancing at Ariel's Studio for 2 years. We looked forward to every Wednesday and especially loved it when Skye joined the class.

Our Wednesday's usually went something like this-
Met our friends at Jazzercise to work out, watched these darling girls twirl in their tutu's and then made our way to Chick-fil-A. Thanks to our frequent Chick-fil-A visits, my sweet little boy always says "my pleasure" just like they do at the Chick counter. Love it!!!

This little boy is on the run and loving it!

This is our last week in Oceanside and it has been filled with one beach day after another! We can't get enough of this warm weather and blue skies. I am especially grateful for packers coming on Thursday. I love that I am out playing with the kids, instead of stuffing boxes every spare moment.
We sold our Oceanside home this week (Yahoo!!!) and are moving to San Luis Obsipo on Friday. I found out that we are going to be in the same ward we were in as newly weds, in our college days! It will be a lot of fun catching up with some old friends.













Tubbing after a day in the sun and Beckham not loving the group hug.

Next post will be from SLO.
To my friends: COME VISIT! PLEASE......

MAY FAMILY 2010
Merry Christmas to our loved ones! I knew this year I was going to have to get creative with our family portraits. Beckham is curious and active and Gracey doesn't like smiling for the camera. Dominique did a wonderful job of capturing our family and even won over our sweet Gracey girl.




































To check out more of Dominique's photography: dlphotos.net

THANKSGIVING IN UTAH


Gracey could hardly wait to see "Grammy and Papa from Utah" She waited patiently for hours.
Unfortunately, we got stuck most of the day in the airport waiting for our plane. The best part was once we boarded, the pilot couldn't remember where he had just flown from because it had been " a long day". Awesome.

Beckham made some friends in the airport

All smiles. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving week. We love getting spoiled, eating yummy food and spending time together.

We got to see a lot of this little lady. We love her sweet voice and Gracey wanted Linny there every moment of the day.

Darling Linny


Gearing up for the frigid outside.

Despite the cold temps, we still ate some delicious gelato at Costco.



Linny loves stuffed animals.

We spent Sunday with our good friends The Kennedy's. Gracey and Amelia loved playing dress up together and sneaking caramels. We are always grateful to catch up with some of our favorite people.