Trip to Cali!!

Hard at work on our cake!

1 am photo shoot

Being Crazy

Magic Mountain

As many of you know, I spent this past week in Valencia, California with my best friend Erica. Erica and I met in 5th grade on my first day of school after moving to California and became great friends very quickly. Over the years since we moved to Arizona I have seen her a couple times a year and we always write and call. For some reason, these past 2 YEARS we have not been able to see each other once!!! So of course I was very excited as I got ready to spent the week with her. The first day we just hung out by her pool and didn't do much of anything. Around dinner time we had a brilliant idea to make (attempt) a huge, gormet wedding cake with tiers and everything! To say the least, her entire counter space with FILLED with different sized cakes, cupcakes, buntcakes, heart cakes, ect... It was looking perfect until we tried to asseble it all together, when the entire thing cracked down the middle and ended up in little pieces! At first we were sad but quickly realized that the little chunks of cake tasted just as amazing as a good-looking one would have! That night we dressed up crazy to take a few pics and before we knew it, it was 1 in the morning and we had WAY more pics than anyone would ever want to see!! (We tend to get a little carried away...). That next morning we woke up early and went to Magic Mountain with a few friends that I haven't seen since 6th grade! Magic Mountain has always been one of mine and Erica's favorite places and it seemed like as we waited in line at each roller coaster we had at least one funny memory on that ride that we could laugh about. On Wednesday we woke up even earlier and drove and hour to Carpenteria Beach where her Dad dropped us off. We spent the ENTIRE day in the hot sun and perfect water. We could not have asked for better beach weather. As you can imagine, that night we fell asleep fast after a movie, exhausted and very sun burned. The next morning we woke up and got ready to go shopping! We got dropped off in Santa Barbara which is an absolutely beautiful city! We spent most of the day shopping and then took the trolley to the beach where we spent the next three hours just relaxing, swimming and tanning. Friday we finally got to sleep in and just hang out at Erica's house before leaving for the airport. It was such a blast to spend time with one of my favorite people ever and the week could not have been better! Even though a part of me never wanted to leave, I was so ready to get home and see my family who I missed very much. I'm so grateful for an awesome first trip of this summer!