Mohnacky Wedding

Congratulations to our good friends Dina and Mark who got hitched this weekend! We had a great trip down to the Central Coast of California for the wedding. They were married in San Louis Obispo and the reception was in Pismo Beach. This was the first time visiting both of those towns for us and they were both adorably quaint little places. The wedding festivities were amazing with no detail left unnoticed. Dina was gorgeous, the mission at San Luis Obsipo was the perfect church, and the bride and groom danced the night away at a fabulously fun reception. We ate like royalty the whole weekend as the bride and groom treated everyone to an awesome Italian dinner the night before the wedding, wonderful food at the reception cooked right there on site, snacks on a terrace following the reception, and breakfast burritos the next day. I know it seems a bit strange to talk about food for a wedding, but it really was over the top and a wonderful treat.  It was so much fun for us to be able to reunite with our California friends for the wedding.  We miss them all so much so it was especially nice for us to be able to get a whole weekend with so many of them.

The happy couple.

Could these girls get any prettier!


A lot of the Cali crew.

To top off the wedding, the Giants win! 

Chris and I managed to go the whole weekend without getting a good picture of the two of us, but I stole some pictures of the wedding festivities from our friends for this post (thanks friends).

See, I do have good picture taking friends who sent me some pics after this post.  Here we are together, both representing the Giants in our orange.

Got a Couple of Minutes? Wanna go Fishin?

We had some great times fishing in California, but it was always such a production to go.  We'd wake up super early, pack the car up, deal with the dog, drive for 2-4 hours and then finally get to fish.  It was such a nice change of events when Chris told me on Sunday morning that he wanted to go fishing and we could just fit it in.  We had about a two hour window in the afternoon when we could go and it worked out great.  Driving two minutes to the river is a heck of a lot better than two hours!  I kind of lost my gusto for fishing since I never catch anything, but this time I hooked a huge rainbow trout.  Note that I said "hooked" and not "caught." Because I never get any bites, I am not the best fish realer inner.  I lost the guy and it made me mad (but not before Chris saw him to verify my story), but the good thing is that I am excited about fishing again.  A beautiful 80 degree October day didn't hurt the cause either.  I am willing to bet that I catch the first fish here in Boise before that fisherman husband of mine does, I am feeling lucky.  Now the race is on.

Johnsons Times 4

This weekend was a quadrouple Johnson weekend as we had Chris' parents in town.  We had a great time with them exploring Boise and Eagle, celebrating with family, and getting some great lawn improvements (thanks Johnson men).  In case you out of towners have not heard, ESPN Game Day was in town this weekend for the Big BSU/Oregon game.  We were not the crazy fans that got up at 3:00 in the morning to step into a line that wrapped around the stadium and then some.  We did, however, make our way down there by bike in about the middle of the show to join the festivities.  It was awesome.  It felt like I was in college again - or what I imagine college would have felt like had I gone to a college with a football team.  The ESPN guys were fun and entertaining and paid great tribute to both Boise and the BSU football program.  It really is so much fun to live here during football season.  I think that the crowd was around 13,000, which is close to ESPN's Game Day record attendance.  To add the the greatness, BSU won last night in a great game.  Go Broncos!

Lee Corso even chose BSU, it was a big day!

After Game Day we played tourist and  took a walk around the nature center.  I think the highlight there was seeing  a 200 pound sturgeon.  It was a pretty cool place to go, much cooler than I remember from my field trip days.

Then we went home to do some relaxing, until the Johnson men decided that the back yard would look great with some lights beneath the trees.  So off to Home Depot they went.  They spent most of Saturday and a good part of today digging in lines and arranging seven awesome lights on the trees in the yard.  I love that I get to benefit from one of Eric's famous projects.  The man really has a hard time sitting still and this time my backyard is proof of that.  Thanks Eric for your great idea and all of your hard work. 

Hills

On Saturday Chris and I decided to go on a bike ride. I suggested the very flat farm road by our house and he said that would be too boring. So we headed for the hills, literally. Other than this summer, I have probably been on a bike a total of five times over the past ten years and all were beach cruisers when we were on vacations. Lets just say that my very short trip up the hill left me very winded. I should also say this out loud so that I am accountable to someone to do something about it - this girl is out of shape! The views were great from the top of the hill, maybe next time I am up there I won't be so concerned about catching my breath so that I will be able to enjoy them a little more :)

Labor Day

We made it up to Priest Lake for a second time this summer for Labor Day weekend. It was wonderful, as usual. We head to bed pretty early in our everyday life, but up there you are on lake time and I swear we were in bed by 9:30 at the latest. We read, mountain biked, fished ,had a picnic on the beach, soaked up the sun and some wine on the dock, and just hung out. I really am convinced that Priest Lake really is one of the best places on earth. My cell phone did not get reception up there and for the first time in about 3 years I was not overcome with anxiety for lack of a working blackberry. I don't know if that was Priest Lake or just my Idaho life in general, but I loved it. Thanks to Kim and Eric for another wonderful weekend at the lake!

We also had a great time watching BSU pull of the big win against Virginia Tech when we got home. We have been big Bronco fans for years, but are now more excited than ever to cheer on our home team.