THE SLO LIFE


San Luis Obispo is starting to feel more and more like home. We have had so much fun exploring all of the bike and running trails and eating our way through all the fun restaurants here. San Luis is so much more than a college town. It is filled with family owned businesses, farmers markets and caters to an active, healthy lifestyle.

One of our favorite trails with the kids, is a beautiful paved bike path called The Bob Jones Trail. It winds you through the hills of Avila Beach, a golf course and takes you almost to the sand of Avila. It is a charming little oceanfront town that I can't get enough of. The trail is 5 miles round trip. A perfect ride with the kids and one of our favorite runs for date night!

This is our other favorite date night run. Johnson Ranch Trail. This trail is unreal. The first time we ran it, I literally thought I was going to start crying, I was so excited. The lush green rolling hills are breathtaking, the old oak trees, the creeks and grazing cows. I am in love!!!! These trails take me back to junior high when I used to run jungle trails in Malaysia with my dad....but with leaches, right dad???


Another thing about SLO is, there are festivals, carnivals activities.... every weekend. There is always something going on. Generally, these are the types of places we would avoid, but we joined the Salter Family at the Apple Festival and had a great time.

Gracey painting a strawberry pot with Scarlett.

Beckham and I doing a cupcake walk

My favorite part of our new life here is our home. I love watching the kids exploring the outdoors. There are no neighbors or cars to worry about. We chase gophers and ride bikes all day. Sometimes, I feel like I am a kid again.

Beckham watching the chickens


Bike riding cuteness


Rob and Beckham after moshing the Range Rover all over our muddy property.

Beckham loving on Koda. Notice he is in his jammies. That is because it is 6:30 am and I notice him from our bedroom window outside. Apparently, they were eating peanut butter pretzels together. He loves Koda. He feeds him first thing, drags him around with him and is his best friend. Easter and Birthday parties are coming....

Does your Grammy do this?????

So, I am driving home from the gym Valentines morning and I get a phone call from my mom. Her and my dad are on their way over, with a day of treats planned for the kids! It started with...


Heart Jello Jigglers



Homemade pizza's



Frosting brownies with lots and lots of sprinkles!




Valentine's gift's

What a fun surprise! Grammy and Papa's are the BEST!

CELEBRATE!

A few weeks after we moved to SLO, the Harris', Waldron's and Alexander's came to visit. We had such a fun weekend together and even got to celebrate Charlie's Birthday.
I still remember the day Charlie was born. I couldn't wait for my work day to be over so Rob and I could go visit Ryan, Leanne and Charlie in the hospital. The nurse was so sweet and let us stay after hours because we were so excited to be there. It has been so much fun watching Charlie grow up into an incredibly funny and talented little girl. So glad we got to celebrate with her!

Girls on a walk

Our little artists

In true Leanne fashion, she just whipped together an amazing cake at our house.

Girls hot tubing

Watching a gopher peep it's head out and squealing with excitement/fear each time. Loved this great friends weekend. Thanks for visiting!

First things FIRST!

One of the first things I did when we moved was to find Jazzercise. Well, here it is! It's held in a hall, filled with about 10 ladies all over the age of 60 and 2 die hards, that are my age. It is definitely a different vibe than our Oceanside Center, but it is growing on me. The older ladies are super cute shaking it to Shakira! Hey, maybe I'll even get invited to a Bingo game!

Jeri came with me for my first SLO jazz

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......