San Diego!!

One of the perks of living in Arizona is that we are FIVE hours from the beach! This is pretty awesome for us because from Utah it's more like a 10-13 hour drive. We decided to visit San Diego over Labor Day weekend with the Rafferty's. It was such a blast! I went to high school with James and Amy and they actually live in our same apartment complex! It's been great having them around and we had a blast together in San Diego. We packed SO much into 2 and a half days! Here's a few of the things we did:
We attended a session at the San Diego temple. It was so beautiful!

We took a complete gamble on the food places we tried out, but it worked out very well! Saturday night we went and tried out a pizza place in Little Italy. And it was AMAZING! Definitely the best pizza I have ever had. Mike said it was the first time since his mission that he had pizza that tasted like that.

Sunday morning we went to an amazing ward! I have never been to such a touching and spiritual testimony meeting. After church we went to La Jolla where there were sea caves and beautiful beach.

We also got to see a cute family of sea lions. There was two babies, a mom, and a dad. The dad was GINORMOUS!!! But I didn't get a picture of them all together.

We spent a little time playing at the beach:

Later we went over to Point Loma to go to Cabrillo National Monument where we got to go inside a Lighthouse and get a quick look at tide pools.

Amy and I tried really hard to get a cool jumping picture, but we didn't do so hot...

That night we found another awesome place to eat called Rockin' Baja. It was a bunch of fun and way yummy!

Monday we drive over to Coronado. We chilled at a beach/park for just a little bit. Then we grabbed some yummy frozen yogurt and headed over to Old Town. We were way excited to see the Mormon Battalion Monument there, but it's closed for renovation so we'll just have to see it next time. We did get to see a grape stomp like in I Love Lucy, so that was awesome!

On our way to San Diego we passed this hilarious hotel in Gila Bend, AZ called the Space Age Lodge. We thought it was so funny that we decided to make awesome tin foil alien hats and take a picture on our way back. (James' idea) We were trying to beat the sunset, but we didn't do a very good job.

Moving!!! - Finally...

Ok here's the actual moving update. We spent about a week and a half packing up - mixed with spending time with family.
Here's some of our junk stacked up:

And here's how we slept for three days because we had put our bed up to have more room for boxes: (Notice the little lantern next to the bed - Mike wanted to pull it out because we were "camping" haha He cracks me up!)

We spent a very long hot day (at least it wasn't in Arizona) packing up the Uhual. My parents and 3 siblings were wonderful to come and help. Plus we had a few friends and family come by to say goodbye which was very sweet. My dad was amazing! He spent the whole day standing in the Uhaul and he packed that thing like sardines! It was awesome! We were able to not only fit all of our stuff, but also all of our good friend the Rafferty's stuff. They just got married and didn't have a way to get things to Arizona.
Here's us in front of the Uhual:

We got here safely and are now settled. We both really like it here. The only thing that is missing is family.

Pincock Reunion 2009

We had such a perfect ending to our Utah life by having the Pincock Reunion up until literally the day we packed up the Uhaul.
We did an paper airplane flying contest:

And the winner got to put the Mentos in the Diet Coke. This was such a cool thing! Everyone should try it out - in a place where they won't have to clean like an field.

We did lots of other fun things like volleyball, card games, and of course Settlers of Catan. It was also very fun to get to hear my grandpa tell us that he was just called to be the 1st counselor in the Monticello Temple Presidency! We were also able to get group pictures. This made me really happy since the group pictures that they took during Thanksgiving had everyone except for Mike and I. Here's just a few:

Holy Cow - It's Been a while.

Wow! Sorry everyone! It's been a crazy couple of months, but we're finally settled and I feel like I have tons of stuff to add to my blog! I will get to the move in a post later, but it'll make me crazy if I don't put up events chrologically! So here you go:
The weekend before we moved we went up to Leah's cabin! It was SO much fun and such a great way to end the whole "Heidi and Leah" phase of my life. :( I know it's sad...but we're still way close - it's just lame that we live to far away from each other!

This is everyone that went. It was great to hang out with old friends and new ones!

Later that week Leah made us a yummy vegetable pizza for dinner:


After we had dinner we decided to go to Willow Park Zoo because Mike and I had never been there. It was a lot of fun, but kind of a lame park. I definitely wouldn't call it a zoo. (Mike says "Whatever, it is too a zoo.") But it was fun to see the cool things they had and even more fun to walk around with Leah and talk.

Anyway there's a little update. I will try and slowly get caught up throughout the next few days.