Captivating. Beautiful. Life.: PICTURES Gallore!! Whoo hoo!

Tim and I have been doing a LOT of traveling lately. But wait, before you think for one second that we are fancy let me assure you we are not! As an update, Tim and I, while we have yet to fully embrace and become huge fans of Los Angeles living, we have embraced how stinking BEAUTIFUL this place is that we live and are doing our best to make the most of it! We have also a ceaseless aching for friends and family who are far away so we are doing our best to get out and see peops! So our travels started the last weekend in April when Tim's work sent him to Nashville for a few days! I mean, I couldn't let him go to Nashville without me so I tagged along. As per usual I took almost zero pictures. But here is what I do have ...

That is right, we were caught for TWO hours in stopped traffic on our way to pick up our bibs to run the Nashville Half Marathon. This guy behind us was frustrated too.

Just us and a few of our friends waiting for the race to start!

That is Hannah on the far right, and then Ellen in the yellow and Tim... Mile 9.

Ellen and I at dinner the last night. We were feeling pretty tired by then! Let me tell you... we lived it up Nashville style. What is not pictured was the beautiful farm we stay at where Ellen was house sitting (yes I said farm - this included horses, sheep, a donkey, three dogs, a bunny, and a lot of cats ... we had to feed them and keep them alive which was hilarious!), the Main Street Festival in Downtown Franklin that was so fun, seeing my LONGEST friend Kristen and her family, time with MOEN and her sweet hubs, Tons of BBQ, and live Bluegrass music! It could not have been more fun and I have now seeing Ellen twice in a matter of months! hooray!

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Ok so then two weeks later Tim and I took a stunning one night trip to the central coast because we had never been to Hearst Castle and it is a must see on our newly created Bucket List! Of course I didn't take one picture but I found so google images of exactly what we saw ... I swear to you this trip was good deep in my heart! did I mention we camped ... hehe So "fun"!

Ok while we were in the central coast we did get to see our sweet friends the Thomson's and meet Michaela Rose for the first time. She was about 10 days old. We became Besties! Don't be jealous... ok be a little jealous that I got to hold that little squooshy thing!

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THEN (yes no joke I mean we were road warriors) two weeks later Tim and I took to the roads again for a visit in Sacramento with some of our most favorite people in the world ... THE PETERSONS! and nope I took very few pics ... see below.

Me in Karen's onion glasses ... I think they kind of worked.

A trip wouldn't be complete without pics of our sweet Kylie and her sweet pooches. She owns Geoffrey but also dog-sits sweet perfect yellow lab puppies in training to be Seeing Eye Dogs. She is so gifted with those animals!

HAHA He is going to KILL me for posting this picture! We took Kylie to Old Town Sac for Jazz Festival and Tim went shopping for his fedora ... he even agreed to try this one on!

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Ok the next weekend Tim took off with his buddy, Jaime, to climb Half Dome at Yosemite (I swear to you we really aren't as cool as all of this makes us sound... we have just been adventurous lately) and Selah and I went to visit our sweet friends the Hylkemas. I only got one pic :( Selah is such a foodie ... sophisticated palate you ask ... Nope! String cheese works for her! I am pretty sure Elliana didn't even know Selah was there for the first 10 minutes.

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Finally, one night Tim and I got away for a sweet date night out and I actually DID take pictures this time!

Yep, me being paparazzi because I swear to you that girl over the shoulder of the girl in the front was my sister's clone! I texted this picture to Melissa and she was very confused!! haha I love being paparazzi! She even had the same manerisms! Weird!

My most favorite dessert in the WHOLE WORLD ... Molten Chocolate Lava Cake!

I just literally love my hubby so much! And Food! hehe (I was trying to get right in next to Tim in the picture but ended up looking like I am hiding! oops!)

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Another paparazzi moment ... well... i might get sued if i post it so feel free to ask me about it and i will text you the picture. It involves a bandaid in a strange location and a rockin' pair of overalls!

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Ok, it is my Friday off and it is time I go recover from all this craziness and enjoy this ...