Fun in the SUN

Its been a while since I have updated and that's solely because I have been in the gorgeous state of CALIFORNIA for the past couple weeks. Every time I go back to visit orange county I wish a little more that Josh and I could live there, from my opinion its perfection there... from the beautiful palm trees, beaches, and amazing weather to the amazing family and friends I love and had missed so dearly. I definitely wasn't in Kansas anymore!! I had a fabulous time with my family going to weddings, Laguna Beach, movies, pedicures, shopping, YOGURT! (my new love), reading my favorite new books on the beach, just hangin with my lil bro who is truly my hero, (seriously Colby I wish I could be as cool as you), playing cars and trains about a million times with my adorable nephews, who by the way loooved my fifty cent bouncy ball gifts. It was so hard leaving them I felt like I lost my own baby when I had to leave my lil man Baron at church on Sunday for the airport, but I am so glad I got the chance to plant my new name "aunt Bertney" in his lil chinese language. I also had the chance to meet up with some of my favorite girls and have one amazzzing girls night!! We went to CPK my favorite restaurant on earth, and rented Dear John. SO fun. I also had a very fun girls night with Taina, we swapped hair cuts and color, and pedicures and rented the Young Victoria. Its soo fun to have a best friend that has the same career I do! After a week and a half of playin at the beach and enjoying dancing and taking a million pics at the weddings with loved ones, I was exhausted and ready to come home to my hubbie. I had never been away that long from Josh and it was definitely a challenge for me. I will never forget the feeling I had when I turned the corner of the airport and saw my husband patiently waiting for me. It was the same feeling I got the night I saw him for the first time, I cant even remember what we said or did, all I remember is how in love I fell all over again that night and how happy I was to be back in Kansas.

Enjoy the pics!! cant wait to go back in the fall and this time with JOSH! :)


plane to California= tiny!

beach pictures





Laguna Beach

my lil bro Colby

the only pic I took of our girls night! our
cute toes

baby Baron a.k.a "bear"



toy story 3 with the fam, go see it! its adorable


Every time I got ready he would find my hats or
belts and put them on. love him!



what a stud


Christy and Sean's wedding


My beautiful mother


Our seminary teacher who has been at everyone
of our temple weddings, one amazing man!!


Kurt and Vilate's wedding


Baron cousins


dancin at the reception... SO fun


My bff for a cousin Kristen.. love her!

Girls day

Yesterday a few of us decided to go to the movies and have a lil girls day out. We planned on going to the cute new movie Letters to Juliet and had bought our tickets and everything till we got in the theater (which was a room of literally 20 seats) And the only seats left were of course the VERY front row! we were pretty bummed, so much that we even tried to watch the first preview to make it work... definitely didnt, Soo we decided to go see Killers. If you havent seen this movie go see it! its adorable. I have now seen it twice and its a fav. We had a great time, and laughed A LOT. I am havin a blast getting to know all the fun, sweet wives this year, love them!

Race day!

We did it!! Emily Julie and I decided to run the kansas city hospital hill run today. I ran the 5K and Em and Julie ran the 10K. It was SOO fun, we were havin a blast, it was a killer race on your legs though with lots and lots of hills but we made it to the finish line and Emily and I both met our goal time. Julie was awesome enough to be our lil picture taker and ended up kickin some butt in the race! it was pretty hilarious to see her cross the finish line with bags, cameras and all at good timing when she wasnt even planning on running it at all. love her. Im so glad emily talked me into runnin the race... way worth it. It was a beautiful cool morning so we decided to stick around and take some fun pics. New goal: run a 10K in the next month. I am lovin every bit of this this summer in kck!


Before the race... I got maybe four hours of sleep not sure why I
was so nervous.


The sweeet fountain we just had to capture


off we go!


In front of the hUge dino


WE did it! we conquered the hill... very sweatily






at the finish line!


We were cracking UP at julie trying to take pictures of us


Em and I by this adorable lil bus by the train station where
we parked



decided to throw this one in there too... this was a fun memorial day with some of
the wives!!