Long Beach

Despite all the odds, Paul and I have really loved living in Long Beach. We were genuinely happy there, and I know, it surprised even us. We had great friends, we had an amazing ward, and we loved all the crazy stories. I'm including here a few of our last pictures, including: the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix, our going-away party as sponsored by Mikey and Amber Adling, Dave Stout's homecoming party, and our final full day at Disneyland with Paul's brother David and his two girls Molly and Katie.

So here's a really fast and cool formula 1 car going not-so fast.

It took like ten minutes to finally get a picture that had a car in it. Turns out the cars go really really fast.
A few people we claim are our friends: Brad Ward, Amy, Gage and Mason Duran, Mike Adling, Rosa Lauper, and Kim Ward hiding in the back.

More friends: Sebastian and Michelle Nava, Christina and Mark Freeman, Andrew and Kelly Nunnelly, and Brad Ward

A few more: Bronson Lauper, Wendy, Mikey, David and Lana Adling
Kim Ward, Amber Adling, Mady Ward, Rosa Lauper

This was at Dave's homecoming (from his four-month NASA internship in Virginia) / Weitzel goodbye party. Claudia tempted us into coming by making us delicious food. So here we've got (l-r) Dave and Raini Stout (who are coming to visit us next week! yahoo!), Claudia and Aaron Onsurez (who should come visit us), and Paul and me.


For some reason Paul wanted to take a picture of me on the carousel. He took about 20 shots and none of them worked out well. Go figure.

I think Paul got more sick on the teacups than anybody else. Seen here (clockwise): Paul, Molly, David, Katie