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5 years ago
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Hey Friends & Family,
Wanted to drop a line and say that I've switched over my blog. I won't be updating this anymore... so if you want to follow Garrett and I, you can check out the new and improved site: www.gees.me.
Jessica
Monday, July 18, 2011
We went out with some friend boating last week on Utah Lake. I LOVE boating. I don't do it enough. I grew up boating all the time as a little girl, but haven't done it much since. Maybe once a year. Garrett and I both did some wakeboarding, then he did some wake surfing. It's been so nice not working and being able to do stuff like this during the day. 
Mom came in town to celebrate Parker's 23rd birthday. We celebrated at Pizza Factory with Amanda and Trent and the customary Dairy Queen ice cream cake. :)
They are doing a girls flag football league this summer. Our old cowgirls all got together for it. We aren't practicing as much as we usually do in the fall, but we are still pretty good. 
Lyndsey Cosgrave and I started a side business called Party with Princesses. We had our first party for my nieces when they were all in town. It was so much fun. I dressed up as Snow White hoping they wouldn’t recognize me. At first, Seren asked if I was Jessica, but by the end of the party she was so overwhelmed she didn’t know I was even there. The best part was when my friend Cari, playing Repunzle sang the song that makes her hair glow and Seren’s face was SO excited.
We had another party for Cari’s neice on her 4th birthday. They didn’t know we were coming so when we knocked on the door, the girls were speechless. It was a Repunzle party and they were obsessed with Brittany, the girl who played Repunzle. We played some games, sang a few songs and then took them on a parade around the neighborhood as we dropped them off.
We are slowly getting things started but are looking for other customers. So, if you know of anyone interested with little girls, we’d love to come to their party! You can find out more about parties and pricing at www.PartyWithPrincesses.com.
Garrett has really enjoyed the last few months on the BYU Men’s Soccer team. He’s been lucky enough to be on the travel roster and go with the team to California for some of the games out there. He didn’t get as much playing time as he had hoped for out there, but he happy he had the opportunity to go. They only take 18 players to travel.
Last week Garrett achieved one of his goals. He started the game against Ogden. He told me when he made the team that by the end of the season he’d be on the starting line up. I’ve never seen Garrett not reach a goal. He works his tail off until he gets it. He told coach at the end of the game thanks for the opportunity. Coach told him he had earned it. He played great and really sped up the game.
Their last game is this week on Thursday. We’re still up in the air whether or not Garrett will return to school in the fall. The only reason he would, is to play soccer. But everything depends on his business.
BYU Broadcasting airs their games. The announcers are always really nice and say great things about his play and his businesses. You can watch a clip of his play here: http://vimeo.com/25699327
Garrett’s step-mom Laurie took Chris, Eric and I to opening night to see the final Harry Potter. It was amazing! I decided to go big and even dress up. I did my best to pull Luna Lovegood. Almost everyone in the theatre was dressed up. A group of a dozen or so girls dressed up in boxes as the Hogwarts express. Pretty much everyone else was there… Harry, Snape, Hagred, Ron and even Voldemort.
Earlier that day I was online and there was a Facebook contest having users answer trivia questions. I answered a question correct and won 4 free tickets to a showing on Saturday morning. Question: What flavor of jelly bean did Dumbledore eat at the end of Chamber of Secretes? Answer: Earwax.
Anyway, movie was awesome. Loved it. Both times. Garrett doesn’t like them because they are too dark, he just falls asleep.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Last Sunday we had a great time down in Spring City. We left early in the morning and attended the ward down there. Christina, Shelby and the twins drove from Arizona for the week. We had a delicious BBQ. Joe brought out the mules and gave some of the grandkids rides. Laurie made some sugar cookies. We all just enjoyed the beautiful weather and each other's company.
I've been cooking some new things lately. One of the coolest things I did was a Mother's Day present from Garrett. He and Cory bought Lyndsey and I a cooking class by La Jolla Groves down at the Riverwoods. They brought in an amazing chef who owns both La Jolla Groves and Chef's Table. He also was the chef for President Monson when he held large events. Here are some of the delicious things we made.
We started off learning how to make some fresh pesto. I LOVE pesto. We used it in just about everything we made after. Like, this amazing tuscan tomato soup. I don't even like tomato soup, but this we delicious. He then taught us how to make rice pilaf and the the base of any soup. I learned I had been making soup wrong all this time. He then made panzanella - a breaded salad with fresh sun dried tomatoes, onions, pesto and a balsamic vinaigrette. He then taught us how to make a white sauce that we then used for shrimp scampi. Lastly, he taught us how to make chicken correctly which we then ate with the rice we had made earlier. Everything was delicious. I was full for at least a day. It was a great present. He teaches these classes once a month which I hope to continue to attend. There is one in November and December that is a cooking class for the holidays.
I've also done some cooking nights with some friends from work. We made the lettuce wraps from P.F. Changs and perfect Mango Sticky rice. Turns out you need a special pot and basket that you put your rice in that then steams. It was amazing. This past weekend we went up there and did a vegan night which was also fabulous.
Now, I just need to take some of these recipes home and make them myself.
Monday, June 20, 2011
A few things I've been able to do since not being at work...
That hill by the Marriott Center is a beast. I rode my bike to the temple, then went on a long walk with Brittany Thiess St. Claire and Benson.
Lunch at Sleepy Ridge with Cosgraves, Garrett and our new son, Ethan. Exploring Garrett's new panoramic iPhone App.
Kate Lowe Turner was in town this weekend with her husband for a wedding. We stayed up at Monica's grandparent's house and played some fun games and watched a movie. We of course made the most delicious chocolate chip cookies and had a great barbeque. I'm so blessed to have such great friends from college. It was also nice to stay with them since Garrett was in California with soccer.
Since we moved, we've been slowly getting furniture. We got rid of our last bed friend and were in need of a box spring. Cory and Ethan kindly walked the one I purchased at RC Willy 3 blocks to our apartment.
Lunches with my sweetie, Garrett.
I quit my job at 1 on 1 Marketing about 3 weeks ago. It was a really hard decision, but I felt it was the right thing to do. I really loved what I did and LOVED who I worked with, but felt that I should help Garrett with his stuff and it was a good time to pursue some of the sites I've been wanting to do.
I've spent the majority of my time partnering up with my mom on her site, www.decoratingideakidrooms.com. I'm working with an ad agency to get the site put on a CMS and give it much bigger, newer and more professional look. I'm REALLY excited for it. She has some amazing traffic, but such low conversion rate. She's basically done the WHOLE site herself for the last 6 years and does pretty well. I'm confident that with the revamp and some good marketing, it could turn into something really great. Stay tuned for an update in about a month.
I'm also taking over Capital G Design for Garrett. He's had a hard time lately giving clients the attention they need now that he is so busy with SCAN and BYU Soccer. So, I'm taking over the clients, project management, finances, etc., but Garrett still of course will be designing everything. It's been working well, so far.
It's been a really big adjustment not working full time. It is a huge lifestyle change. I've realized a few things since the switch.
1. Working 40 hours a week is useless. We work 40 hours a week because we are told to. I often found myself super busy at work, but the majority of the time it was doing useless emails, meetings and projects. We work 40 hours because we are told that's what we should do. We can often finish what we need to in a few hours... leaving us more time to do thing that we want. Thanks @CariStewart for introducing me to 4 Hour Work Week.
Last Wednesday I had what I thought was a good 4-5 hours of work, but I was in a crunch because I wanted to go play soccer at lunch time. I sat down at a computer, gave myself 1 hour and I busted out what I thought would've taken me the majority of my day. You can be very efficient if you want to.
So... I have much more free time. Which has gotten me doing some major self-reflecting. In 4 Hour Work Week, Tim Ferris talks about how we should work not to make money and sit on it, but to make money and spend it doing what we love. He spends the majority of his time traveling or developing a new hobby. He wins awards in ballroom dancing, kung-fu or something and other crazy activities. For me, I don't really have hobbies like that. I'm not super good at anything. The thing that makes me happiest in my life is spending time with friends and family. Its been interesting the past few weeks spending time during the day with friends and family and not feeling like I'm wasting time because I'm with them during work hours. I've been trained to think that if I'm not physically working on something from 8-5, I'm wasting time.
Since quitting my job, I've been able to play soccer twice a week at noon for 2 hours. Have a quality scripture study daily. Go on long runs with friends. Meet up with friends at 7 Peaks. Spend time with family and friends that are in town. Go to the temple. Go work to class after class at 24 Hour Fitness. Meet up with friends for lunch. I'm still productive and get the few things crucial things that I need to get done during the day. But I can now take the time that I need to do what makes me happiest in life. It is still a huge adjustment and I feel like I need to be somewhere or am still going back to work.
Hopefully things will start going well and the things I am working on will be fruitful.
Last week Lyndsey and I went to participate in the audience at Good Things Utah. They gave us free tickets for us and our husbands to attend the Strawberry Days Rodeo. I was really excited. But I quickly realized that rodeos aren't that great for a few reasons. 1.) Allergies. Pretty much all of us were dying of allergies from the animals. 2.) They totally torture the animals. I didn't know they tie up the horses testicles to make them buck. Of course they freak out. And then, one of the other games is the cowboys jumping on a baby cow and tackling them to the ground.
The best part of the night was a milking contest when they let 4 grown cows loose and teams of cowboys had to then catch them and milk them. The tables turn on the cowboys when they are being drug 40 yards in the dirt by a cow or being pummeled by one. It was awesome.
Anyway, rodeos are fine if you enjoy that kind of stuff. I'm not really into it. But it was still a good night, especially because after the rodeo we met up with some friends to have a private party at 7 Peaks from 10-12 pm at night. We had the whole park to ourselves.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Lyndsey had a fun trip up to Salt Lake today to attend the Good Things Utah show. I wasn't super familiar with the show, but it was a fun experience. They had some unique people on the show and we were in the audience with the the top 7 participants of Miss Pleasant Grove. But we did get free tickets to the PG Strawberry Days next week. :) They let us stay after and take pictures with the hostesses of the show. We're hoping to go back another time when there are a little bit more interesting guests on the show.
Garrett left last Wednesday for a few days in California. He spent 1 day up in San Francisco where his QR Code City team went to Google IO and met with investors. Garrett had one meeting with a large investor company there. They had had a ton of success with finding people who are interested in potentially investing in their start-up. So now it’s on to choosing who they want to go with and how to proceed.
They had 2 games in Cali that weekend. They lost 2-0 to Fresno and tied the other in Orange County. I’m sad I missed them.
I was back in Utah moving. We moved across the street into a little nicer apt, but a little smaller. We were looking for a change and a fresh start. We are redoing a bunch of things and getting rid of some of the crappier furniture we got when we first got started.
I’ve had fun shopping and planning out some new decorations. But Garrett is actually really involved in what is done. He likes to have a say in things. Its interesting trying to get our styles to blend. He’s a little more modern, I’m a little more country. But we are coming up with a good mix. I’ll post pics when it’s done.
Anyway… Saturday, I left for Florida with my family. We had been planning a trip for a while. I planned the whole thing. The thought was, if Garrett makes the soccer team, he wouldn’t go. But if he did make the team, he wouldn’t go. And, he made the team… so we spent a long 11 days apart. L
We flew in to Ft. Lauderdale with intentions to spend the first two days in the Keys. We got to our hotel in Key Largo. It seemed to be a pretty nice condo. I went to bed at 11:00. Jim came in to the bedroom to say good night and said, “mom, there is a bug on the wall… it’s a tick.” He then moved her pillows and found another. Then lifted up her sheets and found her bed to be infested with ticks. I jumped out of bed and there was a HUGE tick on my pillow (right where I was just sleeping). Turns out there were ticks in every bed. We called the front desk and left about 30 mins later with a refund. We found a hotel in Florida City, about 30 mins away. The front desk said the only way that ticks could have gotten in was from a dog or something from another guest. Either way… we will be writing a long post online destroying that hotel’s reputation. They messed with the wrong people. 
Sunday it rained really hard in the morning. But by the afternoon it cleared up and we went on a GREAT boat ride out to a beautiful reef. They took us to a Jesus statue that was placed under water like 80 years ago. But there was tons of fish and great coral there. We went to a delicious seafood dinner… except I don’t really like seafood. Everyone else enjoyed it.
Monday we went to the Everglades. It’s the Maughan Family destination of choice. We took a fun boat tour where we saw lots of alligators. Not too many mosquitos like in years past. We stopped for a short walk around a spot where there were dozens of alligators. They were HUGE. And so close. That place is amazing. It will always hold a place in my heart.
We drove up to Orlando on Monday night which was about a 4 hour drive. Our hotel up here is great. We have a really fun hotel room with 3 rooms and a nice kitchen. We come back every day for either lunch or dinner. It saves so much money.
We’ve spent the last 3 days at Disney World. I've loved every second of it.
We did go one day to Universal Studios so that we could check out Harry Potter World. It was A-Mazing. Loved it! That ride is probably my all-time favorite now.
The team came in on a different airline and got in about an hour after us. By the time we got the rental car and ended up at the hotel, we were there about the same time. The hotel was… not bad. Lynds and I got to be in the same room as Cory and Garrett. Friday morning the boys had early morning practice. It was great when the team picked them up on the “bus” which turned up to be a bright blue trolley car. It’s a good thing we got the rental car because there wasn’t room on the bus for family. We got to spend some time at the beach that day. We had fun playing in the waves and playing football on the beach. That night we went for a luxurious dinner at Denny’s. It took some over 2 hours to get some food. The game in Mayaguez was great. They were the biggest of all 3 teams. We won 3-1. I think all 3 goals were from Garrett Losse. The stands were full of members from around the area cheering for BYU. I don’t think the other team had fans there at all. But the stadium was awesome, right next to the beach. Sunday we went to a local ward with some of the players. Probably half of the team speaks Spanish from their mission. It was fun to see the guys come alive there and pull into missionary mode and talking with the members. Monday we took off in the morning with the Cosgraves to Old San Juan. We checked out the old fortresses. Very cool. Nothing I’d want to see again, but it was really interesting. The team met up with us afterwards and Garrett and I were able to have a lunch together on the water… until Lance and Ethan came to join, but it cool to have them join. Garrett gets really goofy on vacation. He is usually such a hard worker and a really focused back home, but on vacation he lets everything lose. He can’t really focus on anything. He is super spacey. That night there was a game in Bayamon. They played a local team. They won 8-1. Garrett played the whole second half. But it was POURING rain. But lots of members still showed up to support. Tuesday was the day off. We went to the beach all day. It was a blast! The team swam out to a sand bar/coral reef. Garrett freaked out when we had to walk through a bunch of seaweed. It was fun, but creepy to have lots of creepy crawlies beneath us. We took a long walk on the beach around the corner to the best waves ever. The weather was perfect. The waves were huge, but not too big that I was scared and beach was perfectly sandy. I loved it. We went home that evening and went to a semi professional soccer game in Bayamon. They gave us great seats. We stopped for some ice cream on the way home. Wednesday morning the boys had practice, so we took off and went to the rainforest. The rainforest was beautiful. We took about a 20 minute walk into the rainforest to some huge waterfalls. It had just rained, so we weren’t able to get in the water like we had planned. I was surprised how there were no bugs or creepy crawlies. But VERY beautiful, lots of green and it smelled so fresh. I started feeling sick during the day. I came back to the hotel and took a long nap. That night, they had their last game. It was postponed until later that night. There was a little bit of rain. This team was supposed to be the best team they would play, but I’m not sure where the confusion was, but we killed them. 10-0. Garrett had some great playing time and had 4 AMAZING assists. It was a great end to the trip. That night, after the game we had a late-night talent show. It was SO funny. We along with Cory and Lyndsey did our little stunt where our husbands throw us over their shoulder and we crawl through the legs and up to the front without touching the floor. Sounds complicated. It’s “what married people do in their free time.” All in all, great trip. Got a tan. I’m still oddly allergic to the sun. I get a bad rash on the back of my arms. Not sure what’s going on. It happened in Tahiti too. I need to get that fixed. 
I had been debating for a while whether or not I should go to Puerto Rico with Garrett and the BYU Men’s Soccer team. I HATE beingalone. Let alone, be alone while I know my husband is in a tropical climate. Then I realized that he’d be there over our 2 year anniversary. So, with that, I booked my flight.We left early, early Thursday morning for the airport. I traveled with Lyndsey Cosgrave and Cory’s parents. I was so happy that I didn’t have to travel by myself. It was a LONG day, but we got into PR about 6:00pm. I decided to rent a car since I absolutely hate being dependent on people and being stuck places. It’s a Maughan thing.
We quickly realized that boys aren’t the best planners. You have to be VERY flexible. Plans constantly changed. Meals were never on time… if they were even there. Next time, they need to put some girls in charge.
Saturday the boys had a quick morning practice and then we followed them on the bus across the island to Mayaguez. We stayed in hotel out there, which may have been the shiestiest hotel I’ve ever stayed in. I can’t even explain how it was. We spent forever looking for our room, but didn’t see it when it was literally right next to the front desk. Garrett and I got to go upstairs and have our own room for our anniversary. We both dressed up in our sweats and tried not to touch anything. I took the blanket from the plane and used that. One of the players broke out in a bad rash from that place. Who knows what was creeping around those beds.
For lunch, we went to the Stake Center and the members prepared lunch for everyone. It was really fun to be there and just relax. That night was probably my favorite. They held a fireside for the members where 6 of them gave short talks. I was actually super excited that my Spanish wasn’t bad. I probably understood 70% of what they said… the players that is. I can’t understand the locals. But it wasn’t bad. When I tried to speak it, usually some mix of Spanish/Russian/English came out. It was fun to see them in a different setting. That night, we drove the 2 hours back to Bayamon.
Thursday morning the team took off early. We didn’t leave until 2pm. I was still feeling really sick. We just hung around the hotel until our flight. It was crappy traveling while I was really sick. Especially knowing that I have to go to work the next day.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Zucherberg, Bean Benefit & Clown Shoes
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Mark Zucherberg came to BYU. I was pleasantly surprised by the forum. Props to BYU for getting him there. He had some great insights on starting companies, company hiring and doing things you are passionate about.
Lyndsey Cosgrave put on an amazing event called the Bean Benefit 5k. It was a freezing cold
morning, but I was able to get out and run. They raised a lot of money for a struggling student. I was so impressed with how well it turned out and her hard work and dedication. Good job Lynds. You’re an amazing example to me!
Last weekend we went to Logan to see Amanda and Trent. Parker is an idiot and was too lazy to try on his new pair of shoes and ended up with a pair 2 sizes too big. He looked like a clown.
It has been an absolutely crazy month and a half. Garrett’s business, QR Code City was a semi-finalist and then a finalist in the BYU Business Plan Competition. They chose 8 semi-finalists. From there, they presented in front over a dozen or so judges. I believe they told the teams that there was over $134 billion dollars in that room. Garrett said his presentation went great. They were asked the perfect questions. Later that night, they had an lovely dinner for the Founders from the Center of Entrepreneurship at the Hinckey Center. Everyone had the nicest things to say about Garrett’s presentation that day. It was a long dinner and of course, they waited until the very last second to announce the 3 finalists that would present the next day in front of the public. They announced the companies in alphabetical order… Adviral… Kalood… and QR Code City. Garrett was SO hap
py he made it to the finals. He was mostly grateful for the head of the competition, TJ, who encouraged them to enter the competition from the beginning, because they weren’t going to. You could totally see the sense of relief as Garrett’s name was announced. He had worked SO hard. There were a few good all-nighters made by him, Kirk and Ben. Garrett kept saying how all he wanted was to share his business with everyone. He was so proud of his team and what they had accomplished so far and just wanted to share that with everyone.
Well, he got his wish and presented at the finals, the next day in the JSB in front of over 800 people. Garrett was the first to present. He did AMAZING. He probably shines more than ever when he is up in front of people telling them about something he loves. He looked great (all stylish in his skinny tie, cardigan, and JEANS… I wasn’t a fan of that) and was really confident. Their presentation was AMAZING! Ben had done some incredible videos that really made the presentation engaging, instead of just a guy blabbing on. Every time they would say something, the whole crowd would cheer. With 175,000+ downloads, an invitation to the Twitter Conference, and hundreds of users already, they were LEAGUES beyond the competition.
Garrett said when the next team who presented sat down, they asked, “how come they didn’t cheer for us, like they cheered for you?”
The other 2 companies are well on their way. But even despite my bias, we all thought QR Code City won it. The other companies got railed on in their Q&A, while Kirk and Garrett were completely solid. Plus, their presentation, by far was the best.
Sadly, QR Code City got 2nd place. Which we shouldn’t complain about, they still won $30,000. To our defense, Kalood (the 1st place team) had a handful of the judges on their advisory board. They also presented in front of the Founders the month before. But… no excuses… they did amazing and are THRILLED about the way it turned out.
My mom was in town, Parker and his girlfriend attended, a bunch of our friends, and the entire BYU Men’s Soccer Team. There was an amazing support group and we are so blessed to have the love that we have.
Well… it’s not over yet. Garrett’s company was the only one from BYU invited to the National Competition at Rice University next weekend. Over 500 teams entered, and 42 were selected. So, things have not slowed down.
The BPC was such a great experience. I don’t doubt that the company wouldn’t have worked out, but because of the BPC, they got the momentum that they needed. Garrett has had multiple investors calling him, various partnership opportunities and countless people offering assistance. I really think he can do very well with this. We are STOKED about the opportunity and grateful for the blessing that the BPC has been to us.
I told Garrett that he could stop working on Capital G Design projects and focus on QR Code City. Its been harder on us financially, but there is no doubt that this thing will take off in some way or another.
It’s official. I have caught the Gee Travel Bug. The week after California Part 2, I went with Lyndsey down to Vegas to watch Garrett and Cory play UNLV. It was actually my first time TO Vegas and not just driving through. We stayed at Lyndsey’s Aunt’s parent’s house. We had such a fun road trip driving down, singing and dancing.
Probably the best part about the rip was Yoga. It was the first time we had both done Bikram Yoga. Her aunt and unc
le talked us in to it. I had wanted to do it for a while. It was awesome. Well… it was hell. But it was great! Fifteen
minutes into the class, I was dripping in sweat. It was a 90-minute class of absolute hell. But afterBut afterwards you feel AMAZING but smell AWFUL.
Seriously, I’ve never smelled so gross in my life. It was a great class and interesting to see the different types of people. No one is really wearing close. And man alive, some people sweat like a fountain. A guy in front of me was wearing a Speedo and sweat was streaming off of his limbs. Sick.
We went over to the game at 1:00. It was gorgeous out! The best part… Garrett actually played. His first time on the actual BYU team he played about 30 minutes. He actually played REALLY well first half. He had this amazing run where he took a guy on, juked him out, then another guy, hit it far post… and then it bounced out. Garrett had even started a victory dance. But it didn’t go in. L He played amazing! Second half… let’s just say everyone sort of struggled.
That night we went to The Strip. Vegas is lame. Let’s be honest. We spent like $30 bucks splitting a mac-n-cheese and frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity.
That was fun. We walked about a block up to the Bellagio fountain, and I was spent. We parked by
Caesar’s Palace. I of course, had to gamble. I was the only sinner of the group. Garrett gave me $5 to do some slots.
We went from $5 to $7.50 and then cashed out. Lyndsey wanted to teach me a lesson and have me spend the $2.50 that we won. So I did… except I won $100 buck off of it! Hahaha. It was awesome. Garrett had just been to collect his $7.50 from the teller and she looked at him like he was lame. Then went back to get $100. Good times. It paid for our trip there and back. Satan is good.
Overall, I think I maxed out on Vegas for my life. It’s a depressing city. You lose faith in society.
You can find out more about our trip from Lyndsey, here.
Two weeks after we went to California with the Cosgraves and Hadfields, we went back for the baby birthday part at Disneyland. Violet, Brady and Olivia were all born about the same time of year. Last year Garrett and I missed out on the bash in Arizona because of Tahiti (longing sigh…) where they did a cowboy-themed party with a real live pony.
This year they took it up a notch at took everyone to Disneyland. We stayed at one of Rich’s resorts about 2 blocks from the parks and had a few different rooms. I drove down with Chris, Eric and Joe. Garrett had soccer and met us there the next day.
It was nice to be in the warm-er weather. Friday we all went to the beach and had some fantastically, awful beach volleyball. It might have been one of the most boring games ever. We enjoyed lots of time with the family cooking, eating, watching fireworks from the balcony, and seeing the little kids play dress-up.
Saturday we all went do Disneyland. The older kids (I guess that's us) got a hopper pass and spent the majority of the day in some pretty long lines. But we had a blast. We did get the chance to see the kids ride some rides and see Donald Duck. So cute! We were there for the majority of the day. I was able to watch BYU kill San Diego on Garrett's iPhone while we waited in line at Toy Story.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
"That's How we Party on President's Day"
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Over president's day weekend we made a trip with some of our friends to California for some fun in the sun. We needed a break from the freezing cold weather here in Utah so we decided to hit the road.
We stayed at a resort in Anaheim, just a couple blocks from Disneyland. The night we got in, we decided to hang out in downtown LA. We met up with Garrett's sister Gabes, (such a cute girl) and she took us to a restaurant called Urth for lunch. The food was pretttty delicious. Then we went shopping in Santa Monica where the boys spent WAY too much time in Nike Town. From their we got some more food and then had dessert-my favorite! We went to a place similar to smart cookie, but even better. And it cost 3 bucks total for our dessert. That's my kind of place.
(Sadly we didn't document this day very well)
The next day we went to DISNEYLAND!
Thanks to Cory and his knee surgery, we had handicap parking privileges. It was amazing.
The boys were excited to say the least.
Branson's eyes are closed^. Surprise, surprise. They are in every other picture.
I need to superglue them open.
The Gee's having fun on the gigantic jungle gym
My first time at California Adventure. And sad to say it almost tops Disneyland. If I wasn't so attached to the memories from my childhood , I'd have to say CA adventure comes in first.
By far our favorite ride...Toy Story. We went on this over 5 times. It was WAY too addicting. We kept wanting to beat our scores, plus it was so fun. Garrett topped us all with a score of 191,000.
A bug's Life ride. Pretty amazing what people can do with technology these days.
SO HAPPY to be there! Even though we experienced a down pour...it wasn't as sunny as we had planned, but it definitely made for some funny moments.
Disneyland churros are THEE best.
Nice Branson...
Haha! This is Cory in a nut shell. Such a goof.
Gar Bum and his huge turkey leg. We all agreed that it tasted like ham?
Our last full day in CA we decided to take it easy and relax. B and I and Jess and Garrett went to a ward close to the hotel and Lynds and Cor went to a ward with a family member in LA. After church, we decided to walk to the beach (since we didn't have a car) but it was super close. We joked along the way that the boys looked like two missionaries that had picked up some blonds and decided to ditch out on church. haha. We probably looked pretty ridiculous. When we got to Huntington it ended up being pretty cold. But we shopped a bit and then had lunch at BJ's. We had to introduce the Gee's to one of our favorite desserts-The Pazookie. From there, B and I met up with one of my best friend's Sierra and her boyfriend Tyler for dinner. They were so nice to come up to Huntington to visit for a while. We had a good time as always. While we were visiting with them, the rest of the group went to Balboa. They took some great pictures and it made me miss it big time. It's beautiful there.
The blonds and the "missionaries"
Gar and B playing some football on the beach
The Huntington Pier
Balboa
Some good-looking people right here :)
Then before we knew it, the trip came to an end and we had to head back to Utah. Cali, you will be missed.
P.S. I literally cut and pasted this from Shelly's blog. Hope you don't mind the Plagiarism!
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