Summer days

Where did the summer go? It feels like I blinked and summer was gone. I'm happy about it but also sad. It was a very humid summer this year. I can't remember when it has been so hot.
Not too much happened this summer. I can't remember anything exciting happening in June. July some friends of our family came down to visit for the 4th of July weekend. It was great seeing them and hanging out at mom's with them. They came to my work to watch Red White and Boom. It was fun watching all the kids play together.

At the beginning of August Mark's parents, little brother, Isabella and I flew out to visit Mark for a week. The trip out started off pretty good. We arrived at the airport with plenty of time to get to our plane. First flight went great! We went from Columbus to LA. Bella is a great traveler. She slept for about 3 to 4 of the hours we were on the plane. The next flight from LA to San Diego was delayed for almost an hour. We were SO tired by this point. Luckily the pilot really booked it and it only took 15 mins instead of 45mins. We got into San Diego a little before 11pm their time which is 2am our time. More things went wrong after that because of our delay. We call the rental car company to have them come pick us up and they don't answer. So, Mark and his mom get a taxi and go over and they are closed. When they get back we get a big taxi van to take us to our hotel. When we get to the hotel they say we haven't paid for our room which showed up on my credit card before I left. The guy at the hotel takes my checking account card and say he will only charge the account for one night so that we can just get some sleep and deal with it in the morning. Nice guy right..... Not really. They charged the whole week onto my check card. Luckily I had the money in there to cover it.

We go to bed and when we wake up Mark and his mom go to get the rental car. Mark calls me and tell me to check the bank account because the people there ran our card instead of his parents. So I check and now our account it overdrawn. Then they tell us it could be 2 to 3 days before the money is back in there. I start freaking out. I have to call my mom and see if she can go up to the bank and deposit some money so I don't get hit with fees. After that everything went pretty smooth. We went to the beach a couple times, to Legoland. It was a blast!

Can I just say I LOVE San Diego!! The weather is great and the people are nice. I'm pretty excited to move out there to be with Mark.

Here are a couple of recent photos of Isabella:

Isabella playing with play-doh. We sent this photo to Daddy!

This is Isabella getting ready to go to church one morning. She LOVES to go to church and see her nursery teacher!
Well that is it for now. I will keep updating this as often as I can.

Life

Life has been so busy over the past year. I'm not good about checking this regularly, I will try to get better in the future. The past year has been a whirl wind for us. In February Isabella turned 2! We had a big party for her with all of both of our families. I had it at the ward building so that we had enough room for everyone. With both of our families we had about 40 or 50 people. It's a lot of work to get a party like that together. We (my mom and mother in law) did all the food.
Also, in February Mark joined the Navy. He left for boot camp 3 days after Bella's birthday. It was harder than I thought for him to leave. He was working nights so I really only saw him on the weekends so I thought it wouldn't be too hard. Man was I wrong. After the first few weeks it started to get a little easier. We still miss him like crazy but it is all for the best for our family.
Now I am trying to get the house pack so I can put it up for sale. We will (most likely) be heading out to live in San Diego for a year or so. That could all change. Well, I will post more another time.