happy heart & tan skin

so nick and i are house sitting in rancho bernardo for the family i work for.. 

they are away in hawaiian paradise

madison sent me this picture.. beautiful hawaiian waterfall

i want to go to hawaii so bad!!

so we are holding down the fort here and i'm enjoying a little paradise of my own. i am free all day every day and am taking full advantage of their house.. treadmill, bike, huge tv, infinity edge pool over lake hodges, spa, cabana, grill.. yep it's amazing. but what is better than all this.. friends & family to enjoy it with!! on wednesday my sister and her best friend road tripped down to stay with us for a few days..

i love those crazy girls.

this was day one of many

chloe likes to lay in the sun with me

perfect poolside snack

spa at the top with a waterfall that makes the most peaceful noise into the beach entrance pool

going to sushi with the girls

mochi. grosssss

old town!

FAMILY

sisters

my fav strawberry margarita ever @ casa de reyes

i loved having the girls down here!! i also got a visit from my sweet joshua friends, zach and hanna. they are precious and it was so refreshing to see them even just for a little bit.

then yesterday the saxmans came over and layed by the pool with us and swam and ate

stuffed mushrooms and burgers and watched a movie.

we're here for one more week and you can guarantee 

you will find me laying by the pool or swimming in it.  i love visitors.  

come lay out with me!

since it's father's day i think this is appropriate.

happy father's day to the best (and coolest) dad ever.

i love you!!

 

brookie is not so little anymore

little brookie is all grown up and graduated.  i am so incredibly proud of her. it's crazy to sit at her graduation and watch her get her diploma wearing the same cap and gown i wore five years ago.  right before her graduation ceremony my dad dropped her off with the rest of the grads to line up and as she was getting out of the car she hands him a letter and says 'i love you'.  it is impossible to finish reading that letter with a dry eye.  that letter made me so proud of my sister and the woman she is growing up to be.  she is beautiful, thoughtful, caring, hilarious, adventurous, fun and so many other things.  she has such a sweet relationship with the Lord and i'm so excited to see what He has in store for her this summer and the coming fall.

hands down, we had the biggest, best & loudest cheering section of all

we are so proud of her!!!

the beautiful graduate

brookie is SO loved!

brooke's friends are such nerds.. my senior picture were on the back of brooke's signs because we just reused them.. hilarious

so proud of her. watching your little sister graduate is surreal

i look like the little sister haha

this was brooke's senior page in her yearbook that my parents put together for her.. so precious

brooke's graduation party was unreal.. so beautiful and perfect.  i don't have any pictures of it right now but those will come.  before her party, brooke and i were getting our little cousin olivia ready and she kept saying.. do i look pretty? am i cute? is my hair still curled? 

it was beyond precious..

my dad and my uncle jim.. this twinsies doing some open mic

nick was teaching my uncle how to play dueling banjos

spending weekends up at my parents are always so refreshing.  

we leave feeling so loved and blessed that i wish we didn't have to leave :(

{alex & faith}

 

on saturday we went to the beautiful wedding of alex & faith.  the ceremony was held at the la jolla presbyterian right in the heart of the la jolla village.  the ceremony was beautiful.. very traditional with modern touches.  the reception was a few short blocks away at the darlington house.  it was the most precious and perfect location for a reception.  once again it was so wonderful to see old friends and celebrate faith and alex.  one of the special highlights, that brought me and literally everyone else to tears, was the father daughter dance.  here is a little bit of back-story.. faith has three brothers and one sister, and one of her brothers is mentally handicapped.  his name is grant, and he is so precious.  i went out to chicago (where faith is from) with faith for spring break our freshman year of college and i got to meet him, along with the rest of the family.  so growing up, grant always loved the movie an american tale:fivel goes west, and especially the song we all love, somewhere out there.  when faith was about five she sang that song for some function and her parents taped it and have held on to it all these years.  grant wasn't able to make it out to the wedding from chicago so they so beautifully honored him.  for the father daughter dance, faith and her dad danced to the song "somewhere out there" and it started with faith's five year old voice singing and ended the same way.  it was so touching and emotional.  after we got our tears out we danced the night away celebrating the new 

mr. & mrs. cameron!

my friend shelby sang a few songs during the ceremony. she has such a beautiful voice

mrs.zimmerman waiting to watch her daughter walk down the aisle