A Year in Review

This year has been a year of thankfulness and blessings! A quick review...

Jan - The year started celebrating with great friends! I traveled to Albuquerque to help one of her best friends pick out a wedding dress!

San Diego Safari Park - Jan 1, 2012

Feb - We enjoyed celebrating Valentines Day at one of our favorite restaurants in town & doing some sightseeing on the weekends. We also had some wonderful friends from Albuquerque come visit for a long weekend! We had so much fun at Disneyland, the zoo & Coronado Island!

Point Loma Light House - Feb 12, 2012

March - Was a quiet month. 

April - Was another quiet month, we needed that before the rest of the year!

May - We celebrated David's birthday! He was spoiled this year with a set of golf clubs! I also had my sisters and mom and dad in town for our annual sister's weekend. I am so blessed that David never complains and grills for us!

Outside Gaslamp area in San Diego, CA - It was a windy day!

June - June was a HUGE month! We found out we were pregnant! YAY! We had 16 visitors...all at once! We had a full house with my family and had lots of fun!

David & I with all the kids at the Mormon Battalion 

July - We traveled to Sacramento for Fourth of July, I went to Albuquerque again for my friends Bridal Shower and we heard our baby heart beat for the first time! 

August - David started his Staff Academy school up in Camp Pendelton. It's the first time he has gone to a school in our 7 1/2 years of marriage and be close to home at the same time! It was a blessing and a curse all at once, I made it easy for David to be distracted from school, but so wonderful to still be close by! 

September - We had a ultrasound and found out that baby Dunn is Baby Eleanor Mavis Dunn! We are having a girl! I traveled to Albuquerque again to be in my friends wedding. It was a fun 4 days visiting with her and helping her get ready for the big day! I was also able to see some other friends while in town and it was good to catch up with them as well!

The bridal party having a pampering day before the big day! September 14, 2012

October - David graduated his Staff Academy school! I was able to go to her first military graduation ever! We also made a very impromptu visit to Sacramento & Modesto to visit family. We were able to see my dad and oldest brother and grandpa, aunts and some cousins! We were also able to see David's family and cousins and uncle! Pretty good for only 2 nights! We also took a mini trip to Yuma, AZ with our friend to visit her husband who was away for work. We celebrated his birthday and just had a relaxing weekend.

At David's graduation - October 17, 2012

November - We spent Thanksgiving in Sacramento. Unfortunately, I had to work majority of the week, but it was so nice to be with family! We also celebrated our 8 year anniversary! How has it been 8 years already! We also had my brother Tim, his wife Lonita and two sons in town the week after Thanksgiving! It was so much fun and the boys are a ball of energy and kept everyone on our toes! We loved every minute!

December - We celebrated my birthday. My parents came to town for Christmas . We were able to go whale watching, the Midway, the San Diego Temple lights, catch up & bake away! We had a wonderful Christmas spent with family and our military family.

It has been an eventful year and we have a feeling it will be anything but slowing down next year! We are looking forward to Eleanor being born and all the adventures we will have with that!

Freedom Rules

This Fourth of July was a fun quick 3 day weekend. The Hansen's came to town and arrived Saturday Afternoon.

It started off fun, the boys & David got "marine cuts" up on base. We then came home and made Easy Hawaiin Kalua Pork Pizza and it's amazing! We had a nice easy evening of just hanging out and playing around.

Sunday morning, we went to sacrament meeting. We had a lot of fun listening to testimonies. For the Hansen's, they said it was nice being in a military ward and not in Utah so it was focused on America's freedom rather then the Pioneers as that celebration is also in July. One of the first testimonies was from a 12 year old boy and he talked about how he was glad we won the Revolutionary War so we could have the freedom to practice whatever religion.

After Sacrament Meeting we came home real quick, put the dogs in the kennels and left to go get some lunch and play downtown. We went to the The Corvette Diner and us adults all ate some yummy cheeseburgers! We then went to downtown and caught a 2 hour cruise around the bay. It's always lots of fun and we enjoyed seeing everything. We then went to the Maritime Museum where we toured a Russian Submarine & an American Submarine. Made me really appreciate being an American when differing the living conditions!

We finally made it home late that night and David cooked us up some amazing carne asada that we put in burritos. I'm going to say it, David is amazing with the grill! We then had ice cream cone cupcakes for dessert and they were yummy as well!

Monday morning, we all got up around the same time, but we took it easy. Donna & I made us French Toast with Berry Butter and replaced the half & half with buttermilk. We also didn't have enough maple syrup so we made Buttermilk Syrup. I had never had buttermilk syrup, but I don't know if I will ever be able to go back! It was so good.

That afternoon we headed to Coronado Beach where we had a fun afternoon and that evening we went to the La Jolla Fireworks. They were beautiful, felt like we were right under them!

We had so much fun this weekend and are missing then Hansen's when we woke up Tuesday morning. Thanks for visiting!