Hick's Family Fun Time!

My family came out to visit. We had a blast!! I road tripped it down with them, which was quite um...interesting to say the least...but it was so fun to be with them again! Thanksgiving day, we took the train over to Hollywood. The kids had a blast.

Cool old time projector at the train stop in Hollywood!

Now you're going to see TONS of pictures of the stars on the sidewalk. Deal with it! :) What's the use of taking pictures if you don't post them anywhere, right?

Frank had a star on both sides of the street! Pretty sweet...

Brooklyn has always loved Shirley Temple! So fun

Good old Michael Jackson :)

My mom doing the Thriller! Ha! Highlight of the walk!

Mmmm...very very sessy :)

Hicks! HAHA!! Cool...

It's Parker's star!

We thought it was cool they put their stars next to each other  :) Awww marriage

Hollywood sign!!

Dylan hanging from the Hollywood Blvd sign! I totally thought it was going to break off!

We decided the 'W' was for Wendy :)

The ceiling at the train stop

Waiting for the train...

Our method of transportation

Thanksgiving dinner!! Kari made us yummy food! Thank goodness I have an awesome cook for a husband! My mom and I did help a bit :) I'm grateful for Kari!

We all fit! How, I'm not sure. But we did :) Best Thanksgiving ever!

Doing the dishes! I'm very good at this part of dinner :)

My mom, Brooklyn, and I went shopping on Black Friday. That was fun! :) We didn't leave until like 7, though. It was nice to sleep in a little bit! We still got lots of cool stuff! I may or may not have bought cute little USC pj's and onezies for our future children that we aren't even planning on having yet...but they were just too cute to pass up!!! It was fun to stock up on movies like the Grinch, Elf, and Happy Feet for me and my cute hubby since we don't have any movies! Then we headed down to the Newport Beach!

Triplets!! Lifeguard Newport Beach hoodies :) Love them

Not sure we knew what we were doing here..but my mom's look is priceless!

Ooo la la :)

Kari performing the Heimlich on me or something...lovely

My cute parents sitting together on the beach :) Had to get a shot of it

~Sisters~

We ate at Ruby's, which I was way too excited for. I'd never eaten there, but I'd heard it was a must try. It was saddeningly disappointing...Maybe it was just what I got, but I was sad. It was cool to eat off the end of the pier, though.

Saturday was 'freeze our bums off at the pool' day, and of course, the U of U vs BYU game!!! It was so fun to have the family here cheering for the right team while my poor husband sat there being confused...I still have faith he'll figure it out one day ;)

VICTORY!!!

Mom was such a good sport throughout the whole game

I just love Kari's face in this one!

Brooklyn's birthday is the 28th, and they're driving home that day. So we celebrated it after the game.

 Her cake. It was supposed to be the shape of 13, but it didn't cooperate very well...

Mmmm...presents

Cute Parker filming everything. He hid the presents, too!

Spoiled! Cell phone at 13! Awesome!!!

Kari wanted to play with his phone and be cool, too

AND a new camera!! Sweet...

Make a wish!

Cheesy smile. I love it!

We were very sad to see them go. We love having visitors! But our home seems so quiet and empty when they leave :'-( We will see them soon, though, so that helps. Kari made it lots better by taking me to AT&T and buying me a new white Blackberry Torch!!!! :) They didn't have a white one in stock, so it will be here in a couple days. Can't wait! This week rocked! It helped remind me of all the many, many things in my life I have to be thankful for!

Fair Oaks Pharmacy

Kari and I were out driving around doing errands the other night, and decided to stop at this cute ice cream place! It was old diner style place with a cute shop connected to it. We shared a very large sundae, and just had to take pictures!

Didn't even get close to finishing it! But it sure was good :)

Nightstand Makeover

So we've been using one of our bookshelves for Kari's nightstands, but I decided I wanted it in the hall. We looked tons of places for a cheap, but cute, nightstand for him. We didn't find anything we liked that was reasonably priced! (I guess we're just too spoiled, getting all our other furniture for free :)) We went to the thrift store down the street and found this cute one!

I just loved the cute little details, and it was only $15!

We did it in blue to match his desk.

Turned out pretty cute, I think! :)

October Fun

October has been so fun! Kari's parents came down to visit us. We have missed spending time with them so much! So it was great to be able to see them for a couple days. We went down to the Newport Temple, rode the ferry at Balboa Island, ate dinner in Newport Beach, and went to the USC football game.

Newport Temple :)

At Balboa Beach. This was sent to the sisters, but I thought it was a cute picture :)

Riding on the ferry over to Balboa Island

Kari getting camera happy

Getting ready to carve pumpkins!

This is my Jack-O-Lantern face. Ashley is giving me a well deserved 'what the heck is wrong with you' face :)

Our finished pumpkins :) 

Can you tell which one is mine? The big U smiley face doesn't give it away at all, does it?

USC vs Oregon game

Oh my gosh, it was FREEZING!! So Kari bought me an SC blanket :) Mmmm warm :)

On Halloween, we went over to a friend's house and made carmel apples, doughnuts, I brought my 'dirt' pudding, and we watched a scary movie. Fun night!

I think my freaky eyes are perfect for this pic! Good job Kari.

We also went to meet with Kari's friends, Neil and Megan, at Downtown Disney. It made us want to go to Disneyland! Unfortunately Kari has school and mid-terms and lots and lots of other excuses ;) but it was still a lot of fun! We ate an ESPN Zone, which was the guys dream come true. We watched the World Series game, and San Francisco won, so the place was pretty crazy!! 

Neil and Kari by some guy they thought was cool...I forget his name...whatever :)

Hopefully we'll be better about taking more pictures with the actual camera so we can post more of our fun adventures :) Maybe Disneyland or something...you never know!