St. George

we traveled away to st. george a few weeks ago to see my family... especially to hang out with my aunt and cousins from back east. it was pretty enjoyable to hang out with everyone and meet a couple of the new babies we've now got in the fam. we had a big family bbq, a mini photo session with little baby {P} and went to the lake to enjoy the sunshine and lay out on the sandstone rocks. here are some shots of the weekend:parker and heidi enjoying girl time.

chase. love the goggles.

aunt heidi's bonding time with ty.

our camp for the day.

mandy found these flattened coins in her pocket. they're from Matsumotos Shave Ice in Hawaii!

court.

this is my mum's kitty, Bella. she's the strangest little thing... but LOVES jake. :)

my gorgeous aunties.

my cousin's wife and their sweet baby girl.

aunt kelly, grams, whitney, baby p.

mandy and scott lookin like teenagers. ;)

p.s.

oh, and....

I PASSED THE P&C TEST!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEAH!!

meet murray... our little man fish.

some eye candy for ya.... bug & the newest addition to our fam- murray. :)

okay!!

okay okay!! i know you're all very upset about the lack of 4th of july pics... so i stole these babies from an undisclosed location {cough} [rayni's blog] {cough} so you can see how cool, yet HOT, we are at the dam. the dam pictures if you may:

(jake looks pretty good with a stroller, huh? ...wink!)

its been awhile

SO i should probably say "whats up" to all my fans. ;) well its been a stressful few weeks... jake is in summer school... still... his second session of summer school actually. blah. he'll agree with me there, too. and i'm going to be taking the state property & casualty insurance test tomorrow to get licensed to be an insurance agent. really, i'm just trying to secure my job... as i'm not planning on being here for tooo much longer... we're still in need of my income for a little bit. i had to go to insurance school for two weeks. monday, tuesday, thursday, friday from 4:30-9:30. sucked since i still had to work all day on top of it. and its SO much information to retain. but hey, i did it and graduated. :) i reeeeally just need to pass the test, though. and its stressing me out big time. my company is paying for it.. but if i don't pass on the first try i'll be paying for every time after that. talk about pressure.
we had an awesome fourth of july with jeff, rayni, & aurora coming down from st george and jake's cousin clark and his friend stephanie coming down from slc. went to hoover dam and played in the sun.. watched the best firework show ever in boulder city. man it was great to have some favorite friends here with us. they are seriously the coolest people ever to want to come see us. the oddlings that we are. jk! (right?)
vegas is hot. like the blazing pit of hell.. which it can definitely be comparable to in many other factors besides the temperature. but hey, we're healthy! haha... na, i mean life is crazy right now- yes- but we're doing good. going on a trip to island park, id the weekend of the 31st, so that'll be a FANTASTIC break. jake and i are going to sneak off to yellowstone on saturday to see the sights- it's 35 miles from the cabin we're staying at. so talk about heaven for us..... we'll get to see BUFFALO and MOOSE and OLD FAITHFUL.. everything anyone could ever need in life! so i'm hoping to take a plethora of images to display to the world of cyberness. so stay tuned.

and since everything is better with a picture, i'll share these images with ya'll. (i'm not at home, so i don't have any of the 4th of july or "goings on" pics..) but a lot of you know this gorgeous gal... jena asked me to take some prego pics of her and these are a couple from the session. isn't she beautiful?! she had her baby boy, kade, a couple weeks ago! seriously good looking family. :)

um... photos.

So i have another lovely spattering of images for ya... since I'm just now getting around to showing you the pics of our CA trip, I thought I'd throw in a few more so ya'll can see what we're lookin like these days. First we'll start out with the most recent of Lauren and Jake pics... then a few of the "Gornichec Sibling" photoshoot.... then we'll be on to the second star to the right and straight on till morning............ (what?)..........







Wishing all of the wonderful mothers out there an exceptional Mother's Day!!!

Vacation!

California was SO GREAT. Fantastico!! Went to San Diego where we hung out with my dad and mama ganda for a minute. They worked all weekend, though, so we didn't get to see much of em this trip. :( Both Saturday and Sunday we went to the beach and just laid. It wasn't super warm, so half the time we were bundled in our clothing, but it was still absolutely perfect... just laying there, listening to the repititious rumble of the waves... birds chirping above... children digging in the sand and laughing... all whilst we drifted in and out of a slumber. Awww..... Vonderful.. Monday morning we drove up to Anaheim to our happy spot. DISNEYLAND. It was pretty busy all day, it being spring break and all, but it was just Jacob and me so we had a blast. Soaked it all in. Didn't have to do too much rushing around... just enjoyed the perfection of that place. I mean, sure the lines totally suck, but there's something about it that makes you breath a little easier. I might not completely mean that one day when I'm dragging my own kids around.. making them enjoy themselves damnit! Sorry... jk. Monday night we stayed at the Convention Center Hilton. It was really nice... the bed was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo comfy. Especially after walking around all day long. Tuesday we woke up and went to California Adventure for a few hours and rode all the good rides before we had to come home to this stupid desert. Far cry from Disneyland, that's for sure.. boo. It was a very nice vacation. I love hanging out with Jake. Sometimes we get so caught up in our work and school lives that we're stressed and forget how much fun we can have together. That's why we try to vacation often. :) Alright, well I tried to add a couple pics from the weekend, but apparently the format they're saved in is too big so its not loading. Always bloody something. So I'll add em later. Sorry, I know you were all on the edge of your computer chairs just a waiting for some California images of your two favorite people... CHEERS!