Nature Reserve, Family Reunion

Nature Reserve

On April 23rd, Jeanie and I went down to our local nature reserve and went for a walk. I'll let the pictures below speak for themselves.

Family Reunion

From April 26th through April 30th, Jeanie and I went to Santa Barbara with the rest of the family for a family reunion! We had the opportunity to hang out with everyone, go to the zoo, see the sights of the town, and throw a baby shower for Steph and Ryan who will be having a daughter soon! Check out the awesome time we had!

Zoo

First stop at the zoo: elephants!

 

 Dad and I checking out the birds

 



 

Feeding the goats with Evan

 

Should've seen this coming. . .

 

Riding the train around the zoo

 

Santa Barbara Mission



 What an awesome, historic place!

 

 If Charles Shultz ever became ordained, he'd look like this.

 

 Checkin' out the Mission

The interior of the church 

 

View from the outside

 

Family Reunion

 

Evan gets his squirt gun 

 

 Drew and Evan have a showdown, but. . .

 

Evan thinks its more fun to dump his squirt gun out on the ground.

 

Baby shower time!

 

Aunt Lisa made them an awesome blanket for the newborn

 

Everyone had an awesome time. It was so nice to see everyone and catch up again. We can't wait to get together again!





Sean and Bree Come to Visit

On April 19th, our good friends Sean and Bree Tipper came up to visit us from Santa Clara, California! It was great to be able to catch up with them since the last time we saw them was just before deployment. For those who don't know, Sean is someone I met while I was in the Army and who I worked with during my first deployment. I now consider him to be one of my best friends. It was great to be able to hang out again and get in a few games of Warhammer. Jeanie and Bree have become close friends as well and have spent a lot of quality time together during their visit.

One of the things we did was go on a hike at Moulton Falls. Check out some of the pictures below!

The whole trip was tons of fun! We had the opportunity to spend time with dear friends, show them around Vancouver, and even play some board games. Sean and I also had the opportunity to play Warhammer and even some of our favorite video games. It was a pretty fantastic weekend! We can't wait to get together again in October!