New Year's Eve

The Dean family (Mom Christy and Dad Carl with triplets Mia, Sophie, and Gracie), family friend Nancy, and Nathan and me.

Carl covered in baby girls!

The Otten family... they live behind my parents and have been friends of the family longer than they've been neighbors.

My Uncle Bob and Aunt Deanie came to visit early. She made us this beautiful quilt for our home. It's already on display in the living room!

Happy 30th Anniversary Mom and Dad!

We celebrated my mom and dad's 30th wedding anniversary on December 30th at Steamer's in Pismo Beach. It's a great seafood restaurant overlooking the ocean. My Uncle Bill and Aunt Linda joined us as well.

We're Engaged!

Nathan proposed to me on New Year's Eve in 2005. We were on a mountain overlooking Shell Beach, and we were entertained by the most beautiful sunset and lots of "God light." Sadly, by the time we hiked back down, it was dark and we didn't get any pictures of the event. One of my goals for our California Christmas vacation was to re-enact the proposal in the exact spot where it happened three years ago.

My idea was conceived very romantically, but my Dreamboat crashed into Reality Island when we arrived at the bottom of the mountain. Gales of wind were whipping all around us, and sand and dust were biting at our faces. On one side of the mountain was the ocean. The other side contained the freeway with cars honking at us. It was a harrowing, perilous journey up and down that steep mountainside, but Nathan and my dad (our photographer) made it happen for me anyway. Whew! What we do for love... :)

Morro Bay

Yummy fish and chips right on the ocean. It doesn't get much better than that...
until you see all kinds of animated creatures hanging around!

Montana de Oro

Kristen, Nick, Mom and Dad.

The whole fam.

Exploring the coast.

Shadow picture! From left to right, me, Twine, Mumers.

The boys.

Me, June, and Twine.


It's called the "Mountain of Gold," but it's really just a rocky, beautiful coastline. :)

Another Delay

Allison, I deeply apologize. Yes, you also have a few pictures to look forward to of our awesome layover in PHX with Allison... and a wedding we went to this weekend. Nathan performed his first wedding homily, and he did a great job.

Please pray for us as we attend a funeral this morning for Nathan's best friend (and the best man in our wedding), Ryan, who died unexpectedly on Friday.

Love to you!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! There are many pictures waiting to make themselves onto this blog, but it's been a very busy week back to school, and I simply haven't had the time to post. Hopefully I will have those up tomorrow afternoon. If not, it will be early next week. Reader, you have several topics to look forward to, including but not limited to:

Family trip to Montana de Oro
Good times at the Nipomo house
An engagement re-enactment
New Years open house
Amy E.'s visit

I hope you're all finding 2009 to be a blessing so far!