US Open of Volleyball

Just wanted to write a quick FYI:

I'm playing in a qualifying tournament tomorrow for the US Open of Beach Volleyball! It's an event that goes along with Karch Kiraly's tour (Corona Wide Open) which is a competing tour with the AVP. It's going to be held in Manhattan Beach and play starts at 9 am. I believe it's a single elimination qualifier and somewhere between 4 and 8 teams will qualify.

Here's the link:

http://www.usopenbeachvolleyball.com/

There will probably be a way to follow the matches tomorrow on the site somewhere. It's not up yet, but I'm sure results will be posted!

Wish me luck! :)

Laguna Beach

Scott, Tacker and I recently went down to Laguna with a new friend we all made, Anthony. Anthony lives down in Laguna Beach and wanted us to come down and hang out, so we drove down to Irvine for a business meeting that the three boys set up and headed over to Laguna after. Here are some of the great pictures we got. It really was beautiful!

The beginning of our walk/hike around the coves.

Tacker and I hangin out.

A really cool house and view.

Really pretty little cove area.

We decided to have a goofy photo shoot. Scott is doing his Baywatch run, haha.

Tacker getting ready to dive in.

Scott and I takin' a walk :)

Someone (probably Tacker) told us to turn around for a cheesy photo shoot.

One of our cheesy shots :)

Scott was working on his photography skills.

More Scott photography skills.

About to jump down.

Really cool lighting pic.

The area we hung out the most. It was GORGEOUS!

The vball court, it was busy the whole time!

Sunset in Laguna, that also was beautiful!

H-town!

I just got back from a really great trip to Houston! Yea for seeing the fam!! Scott even got to come down with me because he had a bunch of business to take care of (and it all went really well!). Anyway, I had lots of good meals (Taste of Texas, Chuy's, Houston's, bbq with the fam, hmm I'm sure I'm missing some others) which is one of my favorite parts of Houston! And, of course the best part was getting to actually hang out with my fam! It was kind of a quick trip but I still got to see all of the immediate fam at least a little, which was nice.

We ended up with some pretty great pics from the weekend so I wanted to share those...

I really miss my animals out in Cali! Snoop is awesome, but not so cuddly!

I got to go up to Jake, Josh, and Courtney's school two days. The first day, I went with Jenn and Jill and we had lunch with Jake. Then, I went to Mrs. Squillante's classroom and met her kids. They were all awesome! This is me and the girls from Courtney's class.

Scott came with me the second day and we ate lunch with Josh, then went to Courtney's classroom again. This is Scott with the boys, haha. In case you are wondering why two of the boys have their fingers under their noses and one of those two boys has his on his chin as well - Courtney, Scott and I drew mustaches on their fingers and a goatee on the one boy's fore finger and thumb.

Here's a close up. Haha :) Yeah, we did that, not the kids!

This was at Marble Slab after our yummy dinner at Chuy's. I LOVE their creamy jalapeno sauce! Thanks for taking the pic Mom.

Silly boys with Grandebs glasses on (Josh, Owen)

This is the first picture of a hilarious photo shoot! Imagine trying to get an 8, 5, and 3 year old, and a 10 month old to all stand still, look up and smile... at the same time haha

Another try... Owen looks like he wants to attack Jill haha

I think this was actually supposed to be a silly pic... maybe not haha

Different line up... almost got it

I love Josh in this one, haha, who knows where Owen is going, and poor Jakey is trying to be such a good big brother but looks like he's getting tired of it all!

Haha weird, Owen's being goofy :)

So close!

We give up, just be goofy!

Owen's individual silly pic

Jakey's silly pic... we couldn't seem to track Josh down

"Adult" group pic. We had to change locations due to GINORMOUS spiders in the lawn.

Apparently it's difficult for the "adults" to pose nicely too :)

Normal pic, yea :)

Kiki and Courtney being goofy! No way! :)

I think this is one of Jill's possible Halloween costumes...SOO cute!!

Jill's individual shot :)

Getting Owen to take silly pics didn't prove to be much of a problem, haha

Jill's CUTE lady bug costume!!

Owen walked into the living room with this on...hahaha

Jake and Josh with random mustaches :)

Thanks for a fun time fam! I miss you guys a TON!!!

9/11

I know I didn't get to post on the actual day (9/11), but I want to make sure I mention it because I do still believe it's INCREDIBLY important! I just want to say thank you to all of our troops out there for sacrificing the comfortable lives they led in the US to go overseas and fight for our freedom. I have always appreciated the job that our military does but it really didn't sink in until my cousin Kelli's husband, Mark, was deployed. I have realized so much more what these service men and women, and their families, are actually sacrificing! So, I'd like to say thank you, and also ask everyone to say a little prayer for the men and women fighting today, our fallen soldiers, and victims of 9/11. And, another special prayer just for Mark and Kelli! :)

Utah Golf

Here are pictures of my 18 holes in St. George, Utah. The pictures really don't do the course justice, but you'll get the idea! It was funny driving up to the golf course because St. George is desert, plain and simple, it's super dry, no plants anywhere, so you can see the golf course from a million miles away because the green looks so out of place! All this orangey desert and then a huge patch of bright green grass, haha. Anyway, I pretty much dominated Scott and his baseball friend/teammate Josh Womack :) Don't tell Scott I said that, he might try to argue, but whatever he says, I totally won! Haha

Josh, me, and Scott

Scenery

Action shot!

Pretty background

Josh in action

Time out to pose... the scenery was AMAZING!

Awesome view from/of one of the holes

That's me putting... I'm sure you can't see the ball because it went in the hole, of course :)

Took a time out for a photo shoot!

This might have been my favorite view!

Kind of intimidating, huh?

Ok, maybe this is my fav... That's a view from one of the tee boxes.

That's me putting waaaay in the distance, haha

The end! :)