"Love has a way of finding you when you stop seeking it and start being it."

-unknown

Happy {late} Valentine's Day...

So...

I had high hopes on this V-day post--making it all extravagent & what have you,

but an epic fail on my part (or should I say my camera's part)

since the pics I took came out just short of horrific...

(one day I'll will learn how to use a camera or

find one that is good)...

We did have a pretty good day however...

(even without men in our lives)

homemade Valentine's for Jake's school

festive nails

(like i said..they really are cuter than they look)

delicious cake pops

...pretty much the hott new bakery treat

(munched up cake+frosting+chocolate+sprinkles=a whole lota yummy goodness)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

xoxo

How Do I Love Thee...Let Me Count The Ways-Part 2

The way you use sign language in your own cute little way

The way you start cracking up laughing for no apparent reason

How you lay your head on my shoulder when you've had a long day at school

Your sweet kisses that you give out freely to anyone

& everyone regardless of size, age, nationality, or gender

How you sing out loud in your own melodious way.

The way you wake me up @ 6 in the a.m. and
come cuddle in my bed with me...

(ok, I lied about loving being woken up @ 6)

The sweetness that escapes out of you in every way...

your disposition, you hugs, your face, your smile, your love for family...

everything about you.


xoxo...

Forgive Me...

Hey Lovers!





I haven't forgotten about you...I promise...





it's really all my computers fault (our internet decided to stop working for the past couple weeks) so I'm doing this lame post at my work computer & therefore can't upload pics at the moment...





I just started working tax season again this year & already we are super busy & I'm still coaching gymspastics on the side & weekends so life is busy but great...





A post-Valentine's Day extravagent soon to follow...





stay tuned!!





In the mean time...remember this post from a while back?

check it out =)

A December to Remember...

This holiday season has been a-maze-zing.

Ash & Luke & the girls have been here all month...so naturally

we've been enjoying ourselves.

Here's what we've been up to all month:

we went to "Pretend City..."

pretty much the coolest place in town for
kids to "pretend" to be whatever they want...

some of us had more fun than others...

we did a little springboard diving...

Clearly, Ashley's still got it

we went to John's Incredible Pizza...

(first timer)

we left our footprints in the sand...

we went flying with Mr. Stud

(aka: mi padre)

we had a birthday bash for the cutest 3 yr. old on the planet...

we made fools of ourselves...

we got pedicures with our awesome aunt Wendy...

we rode rides...

until we were pooped...

we opended up some sweeeet presents...

we played with uncle Brad...

we smiled...

{a lot}

"Children come from the Father pure and undefiled,

without inherent taints or weakness. Their souls are as stainless

white paper on which are to be written the aspirations

and achievements of a lifetime."

-David O. McKay

(photo by Ashley)

Halloween-Part Two

Jessie and my boyfriend Woody

Ward Halloween party
(complete with every Halloween decoration my mother owns of course)


(he doesn't want to hear about it)

all the cute little kidos

Miss America and Dorthy are in the house!

Despite not being able to go Trick-or-Treating, it was a pretty awesome Halloween...
until my car broke down and my parents and I waited 2 hours for a tow truck...

good times.

Crazy Campbell Clan

"We may not have it all together...but together we have it all."

(my mother may kill me when she sees this...

in that case I will miss you all...xoxo)

Halloween-Part One

Today Jake's school had a Halloween Parade, complete with plenty of awesome costumes, lots of pictures, marching around the halls (or chillin in a wagon while your teacher pulls you), and of course, trick-or-treating.

We pretty much have to super glue that hat to his head or he will take it off immediatly

Smootching with grandma

(closed eyes and everything...what a pro)


Decisions, decisions...

Are we having fun yet?

(stay tuned for Halloween Part 2...

I will be in costume for this one...

I know your killing over in excitment)

Conference Trip

Hola mi amigos!!

I realize it's been quite some time since I posted, and my only excuse is that I have no camera...

usually I use the parentals but "someone" decided to go and lose the memory card,

and therefore we haven't taken any pictures in a while...

which is a total bummer because this past weekend was full of amazing memories

that I wish I could have stored somewhere other than my brain.

But I will try to do this post justice using only words to capture the

essence of just how awesome this weekend really was.

Thursday

-flew to SLC, Utah

Friday

-Went to Salt Lake Temple

-shopping

-relaxing

-site seeing

-Dinner @ "The Roof"

(if you've never been you must go before you die...it's amazing...expensive, but amazing)

-Joseph Smith movie @ the Memorial Bldg.

(cried my eyes out)

-Dance @ Studio 600

(not so much worth the $10 bucks we paid to get in)

Saturday

-General Conference

(Kandice and I were lucky enough to sit about 12 rows

from the front thanks too Uchdtorf's body guard who is a

family friend of the Smith's and Winn's)

-Work the corner haggling people for tickets

(quite an experience...let me tell ya)

-more shopping

(surprising, I know)

-Dinner @ Zuppa's

(Utah's version of Corner Bakery)

-games, swimming, ice cream, staying up way to late, etc...

Sunday

-more haggling people for tickets

(we held up a sign that said "Will Choose the Right for Tickets")

-General Conference

-Reunion of family and friends...

Brad, Kellie, Dane, Holly, Dave, Shelley...

-group photo

-ward testimony meeting

Monday

-"California here I come,

right back where I've started from"

(I could barely wait to see Jake)

I was so lucky to get to go on this trip with the singles ward...

it was the most spiritual, uplifting, fun, sleep deprived, awesome,

rewarding weekend I've had in quite some time.

Favorite Quote from Conference:

"We become what we want to be, by consistently being what we want to become."

-Elder Scott

Reminiscing...

Found this lovely gem while going through some old photos today...

enjoy.

It's the most WONDERFUL time...of the year...

Autumn is pretty much my favorite time of the year...

despite the fact that I live in California (the land of no seasons),

& I don't see the colors change as much as I would in say,

Utah or Oregon... there are still so many more reasons

why I love this time of year:

*fresh starts

*General Conference (I get to go this year...yay!)

*football games...need I say more?

*perfect weather

*sweaters

*picnics in the park

*Holiday's

*Family get-togethers

*nature

*fall fashion

Happy Autumn! =)

Diving...it's harder than it looks

Somewhat inspired by a good friend...

I have decided to start doing some things in my

life that I've kind of always wanted to do,

but just never really got around to doing for whatever reason...

(a bucket list--so to speak)

up first on the list:

Taking DIVING lessons!

(springboard diving that is...not scuba-I'd rather die)

Anywho...I'm taking a diving class @ Cypress College

and my coach is non other than Ashley's old diving coach

(who is awesome)...

how cool is that?

(this may or may not be an Olympic Gold Medalist and not me)

ps...little bro Brendan is also taking the class
and is already been picked to be on the school's div team!
yay Brendan!!

pss...at the beginning of this crazy idea of mine
I made a list of all the dives I wanted to accomplish.
Not gonna lie...that list is somewhat modified,
and by modified I mean all the hard dives taken off,
due to my recent "smack" on the high dive
(which left welts and bruises on my thigh for a week).
But don't worry...I'm no wuss...
these are the dives I still plan, aka: hope, to accomplish before the class is over:

-front full twist
-back one and a half (on 1 meter)
-back dive pike
-reverse dive
-front one and a half (on 3 meter)
-front two and a half (on 3 meter)
-inward one and a half

and some that I've luckily already accomplished:

-front one and a half (1 meter)
-inward dive
-front dive tuck/pike
-dive off 5 meter

(stay tuned for some more things on the "bucket list")

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

-George Bernard Shaw

...a few members of our "heaven" are missing :(