New Santa Clarita Life

So we moved here and I hit the ground running in the making friends department and we have made some amazing friends here in Santa Clarita!

In March we went to see Hunger Games with our hubbies...

Hyrum, Becky, Paul, Amber, Danny, Tina, Me, Josh, Brooke and Jason

Some of us girls went to Time Out for Women...

Lucnh break at TOFW...thought we would try Hooters since we figured not many LDS women would be choosing this little place for luch hahaha...

Getting our dance grooves on at TOFW

This lady is pretty awesome Hilary Weeks an inspirational speaker/singer...She had a really cute talk about a Clicker and how it helped her to recognize her good thoughts instead of dwelling on her bad thoughts...It was a cute trend started by this talk...Click Click... Read the story here and part two here

Then for Tina's birthday acouple months ago we did a girls trip to the Beach NO KIDS!!! ahhhhhh...it was AMAZING! and it was all day...we went to The Habit after and hit baskin robbins for dessert...These girls no how to Par-Tay! hahhaha...

Rachel, Me, Birthday Girl Tina, Brooke, and Amber

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Me and Tina having a romantic moment of some sort....hahaha...

Bathroom Break ---One of many...are these stalls a little short??? Josh told me why later hahaha...

 Brooke just looked so comfy we had to come sneak up on her...hahaha hence the drunk look on her face...

Riding the Waves...

State Pageant

So Last Year Lexi was in the Gold Coast State Beauty Pageant Talent competition. She competed on Saturday in theTiny Talent Competition and her cousin Sofia was in the Beauty Competition the next day They both won their Divisions! It was so exciting that they both won!

Lexi Sang and Tap Danced to 'Won't you be my baby bumblebee'

October 2010

One Year Later, Lexi gives up her title as Tiny Talent and crowns the new Winner...

Taking Her Walk...

Fun at the Halloween Costume Party with her little friend Lexi Lou

Kim the Pageant Director

Pageant Sister Kayla

Pageant Sisters

And the new Tiny Talent Winner

Happy New Year

Our first visitors in our new home came just a few days after Christmas and a couple weeks after we moved in...The Stoeckles came to play!

We went to Mountasia, Magic Mountain, the Mall which had the Fossil Dig It Store {Lame} but the kids loved it haha... We went and visited Josh at his new work and on our way home stopped and visited his boss who was the manager of the City of Sierra Madre New Years Float...We got a free tour and the kids evn got to help decorate a little piece of one of the butterfly's wings...

Tami and I baked an awesome Chocolate Peppermint Cake for New Years and we did our traditional 8pm Happy New Years! with the kids and then played our favorite game Trains and Rummikub til we were too sleepy... It was a great week!

Mountasia

Magic Mountain

Dig-It Fossil

 

The Japanese Garden at City of Hope

Josh's work

Lexi working on the Float

Lexi watching it on TV

Our Yummy Cake

The kids center piece on the kids table ;) hahahaha

Our New Home

Finally after months and months of searching all over Los Angeles including, parts of San Bernadino, and Orange County we found it. And I mean the city too when I say IT... Josh has a bit of a commute to work everyday and while we knew Simi Valley would never work for us for a few reasons, I knew we had to be somewhat closer to his work...There were just a lot of items on our check list... Newish home, diversified city/neighbprhood, Good schools, higher than a rating of 5 please, lots of families, Mall {first on my list lol} view of some sort, room enough for the seven of us, lots of younger families in ward...just to name a few off the top of the list...

The night before we were going to make an offer on a home in Porter Ranch I was poking around on lds.org on the church house maps to see where there were a lot of church buildings...I noticed there were a lot of wards in the Santa Clarita area including TWO stakes! That's a lot...The population is only 176,000...We had to look here! And so the next day April my sister in law and her friend Anna who lives here in SCV took me out to see two sets of new homes that were selling and bam! This was just here waiting for us...pretty much, since it had gone thru two potential buyers and they kept lowering the price on it especially now that the year was closing in on them we got some pretty cool incentives to buy it! and now we are pretty much stuck! Awesome interest rate ;) Not going anywhere anytime soon! and I am pretty happy about that since this stake is pretty darn awesome...and I say stake since I have some friends in all the wards! But seriously Mint Canyon is pretty bomb... For you Tina... ;)

And living closer to the family is pretty nice I must say, yesterday we got to go and spend the day with grandparents and cousins and then turn around and drive home...And living closer to L.A. is pretty fun too! and I was missing those mountains...;)

 Our Secret Park  

Our home is just to the left of Deveon's ear ;)

An only one mishap from our double move...