Redlands California (Carina's Mission) October 2018

We decided to go visit Carina's mission for Fall Break. We left in the evening because Carina and Sidney had classes. We spent the night in St. George because we knew it would be to hard to drive all night long.

Here we are all loaded up!

We drove all the way to the beach before going anywhere :) We ended up in Laguna Beach!

We found a fish taco restaurant by the beach called Wahoo's so we had to take a selfie for Brianna (she always uses that Wahoo)!

After lunch we walked around the beach some more! Ahh the sun!!!

Then Carina took us the farmer's market

We stayed with a family that Carina knew on her missions (the Biberstons) they had a big house and they were so hospitable! The live close to the mission home so they just had the Dixon's (mission president and his wife) come over for breakfast so that we could meet them. Everyone is so nice!

As we were driving back from the beach the night before the car was making a horrible noise and we figured it was the breaks! And it was so we had to take it in the next morning to get them fixed. It took all morning so it just delayed us a little bit the next morning. While we waited for it to be fixed we sang karaoke and played pool at their house.

Our nice guest room at the Biberstons

We then drove out to Palm Springs and found these sculptures. Kind of cool!

That night we also went out to dinner with Ed and Rebecca (another of Carina's families that she knew on the mission)

Joshua Tree National Park

Sidney dances everywhere she goes!

The place where we stayed at in Palm Desert

The Redlands Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Mr. GQ! We also went to another park where you can see the whole valley

We did go to two sacrament meetings so Carina could see some more people. But after this little park we drove back. We didn't get home till like 1am but at least we were home :) It was a wonderful trip! I loved being able to see all of the areas where Carina served and lots of the people that she worked with.

October 2018

Here are just a few of the things that we did in October:

We got a new car! The red car that Cee Ryle was driving died and since Cee Ryle is now responsible to get his own car, we figured it would be better for Casey to get a car and then Cee Ryle could just drive the van if needed for work. This is a Ford Escape and so far we love it!

We had a big hail storm that ruined many roofs in our area including ours. So we had to replace it. One day I came home from work and this was in our driveway! Hmm... we couldn't park any cars in the garage and we had just brought home the new Ford. 

We went out to dinner to celebrate Kailee's birthday at Este Pizza. Amanda (Kailee's roomate came along). It's always a treat when we can all be together!

Traditional Girls Night out while the men go to priesthood (but there was no priesthood session this time because now it's only once a year). So we went out the night before and went to thrift stores and Leatherbys! Fun traditions!

A few of us went to try to get in at the Conference Center but there were way too many  people and we didn't get in. We did watch it in the conference center though so it was still good!

There were all these rumors going around about General Conference announcements that would be made and a bunch of memes came out about it! I thought this one was funny!

Some of the things that they talked about in the Women's Session.

Kailee's birthday cake!

We love Kailee! Happy birthday! She's always busy working and filming but she still makes time for family! We are so proud of her!

Playing around at the store

Cornbellies!

Free hot chocolate from Jet Blue!

For her birthday we gave Kailee season tickets to Pioneer Theater. And I got some for me too so we could go together! It's a scheduled fun date for us about once a month! This month it was Sweeney Todd. A little morbid but good nonetheless. 

Halloween Dinner

And Tayevion's birthday!

We decided to bring costumes to dinner so we could see what everyone was dressed as. Cee Ryle and Sidney were Juni and Carmen from the Spy Kids movies.

Carina was popcorn

We were hippies 

Kailee and Amanda were characters from Riverdate

Jonas was Chewbaca and Zildy a cheetah

Tayevion was a dinosaur

Fun random characters talking together!

Our pumpkins for Halloween.

Post dressed up as a sumo wrestler at the school

Trick or Treating

Gracie was a raccoon!