our weekend with the birds was SO FUN! i already want to go back, three days simply wasn't enough...haha!
(the weekend previous was spent in huntington beach with amanda. as always, it was a pleasure. she wrote about it here.)
although you might not be able to tell from this picture, disneyland is one of jon's favorite places in the world. mike and kim hadn't been there in a long time, so they were really excited as well!
we got there at about 3pm on friday. it wasn't crowded and we hardly waited at all for any ride. toy story had a 30 minute wait and that was the longest we waited for anything that day. it was awesome.
i'm not sure what was better: the sunset over California adventures, the world of color water show, or disneyland at night.
we ate at my favorite d-land restaurant carnation cafe. jon and i shared baked potato soup, a cheeseburger, fried pickles and a chocolate cherry coke that tastes like you're drinking a tootsie pop. it was grade A.
i think it was a good thing it was rainy on friday. it was pretty cold, but there was hardly anyone there! we made our three day passes worth it on day one with all the rides we went on! jon and i always tried to out-funny each other for the pictures. we wouldn't tell each other what we were going to do so it was always a laugh seeing the picture after the ride!
Kim posted about day one here.
the weekend after valentine's day was a fun one for both jon and i. he decided to go camping with wes and jeno while i held down the fort.
i spent the weekend:
staring at my cat.
eating healthy. (this is seriously healthy for me)
and getting lost.
katie and i did the black mountain hike. neither of us are hikers and we got confused more than once, but we made it to the top of the mountain and saw the most amazing view of san diego, mexico, and all the way up to orange county! she is a good friend. we've had our ups and downs, but the bond we formed while our guys were deployed got us through all of that. i'm already getting sentimental about who i am going to have to say goodbye to. ugh!
meanwhile, jon was doing this:
and trying to tip his truck:
the biggest part of the weekend was running my first 10k!!!!
my horse trainer and i ran it together. she runs half marathons all the time, so she inspired me to do this.
(we have a 5k in a couple weeks with jon as well!)
i did better than i thought and am happy about my constant pace. my goal was to finish it in 1:15 and never walk and i achieved both goals. it was so much fun and it wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. all the training paid off!
check me out! i look much cuter running now than i did five years ago. i have some work to do, maybe starting with some headphones that stay in my ears and don't scream at people as i run by.
after my 10k, we attended our second wedding (ever!). it was really nice! they had it at the juniper serra museum (the bride is an art historian). it was really interesting. the cocktail hour even included sparkling cider so that jon and i didn't feel left out while jeno double fisted glasses of wine.
we call this series "drunk jon". jeno and i were laughing really hard, but jon was not. if jon drank, this might be what he would look like doing it.
the best part of the wedding for me were the toasts; there were a few really good ones. the bride's older sister gave a toast and started talking about kyle (the groom who used to work with jeno and jon in the MC). she said that when paige first started dating him he was a hot bad boy, then he started to clean up and now he's just hot. she went on and on about how hot he was until the crowd and her sisters started cheering and making fun of her. this caused her to finish her toast with "okay, you guys ruined it. have a nice life." so hilarious!
i saw this on pinterest the night we got back from the wedding and it was so perfect. we ate wayyyy too much chips and salsa at the wedding. the waitresses kept refilling our baskets and we all ate so much we got sick.
as previously mentioned, the j's share our passion for food, so the next day we went to fudd's. they love fuddrucker's just a smidge more than we do, but we can never turn down a burger.
lynn and jeno named their little one after jon. when she found out she was having a boy, they knew they wanted to name him trevor but didn't have a middle name. for months, jon would refer to him as trevor jon as a joke. they surprised us when he was born by giving him Trevor Jon as his official name. very cute!
the best part about seeing the j's is all the laughter that ensues, the worst part about seeing the j's is saying goodbye to them. fortunately, we have st. george to look forward to the second week of april!!!!
our living room is the most 'finished' room in the house. it has come along way since summer 2011 and even more so since summer 2010. i can't believe how empty our house was and how small that little plant is on my desk! it is the same plant that is sitting next to the tv now.
our original brown sofa was the first piece of furniture we bought as a married couple. jon bought it for us actually and i never really liked it. looking back at it though, i kind of miss it....
i think we bought it for $350 from his friend who was getting out of the military. two years later, we sold it for $250, and bought this vintage blue sofa for $150. haha, a day in the life of the hagerman's.
the painting above the sofa is one that my uncle don did. he said that he, my mom, and my grandma were sitting on their porch in sugar house in 1976 when a little girl went by. don had intentions to paint a picture of their house, but when he saw the little girl he asked her if she'd like a portrait done of her. she said yes and he said she sat still for a solid 45 minutes while he worked. when he was finished, he showed her the finished product. she liked it, but didn't look long. she said that her mother was waiting for her! it's a quirky little painting, but i love having it and remembering that cute story.
see how good my plants are doing! i recently repotted them and am praying they make it through the move alright....
i got those knobs from anthropology. the red clock is the clock that used to hang in my grandma's bedroom right across from her when she sat in bed. the eagle globe and anchor is the marine symbol that my dad carved and painted for jon while he was deployed and gave it to him on the fourth of july in 2011.
my instagram pictures made it to coffee table books. it's fun because sometimes my visitors find pictures of themselves in there!
our nate berkus tortoise shell is one of our favorite household items. for a long time after we moved in, we could not figure out what to hang on our walls besides pictures and my eyes were so bored when i'd look around the room. we love this funny little thing.
we got that little Dalarna horse when we were in Solvang in November for Veteran's day. jon found that little shot glass that he bought from sweden while he lived there with the same little horse on it. he gave me the canvas print for our two year anniversary (cotton)! and we proudly have his associates degree displayed that he obtained in october.
here is one last photo for your viewing pleasure:
jon and alex in sweden with the dalarna horse in october 2008 after jon had finished his two year mission.
