BABY...... FINN HAWLEY

We have a new nephew!  My brother, Morgan and his wife Val had their baby. He is such a cutie  and look at all of his HAIR!  He was born May 4th! They named him Finn.  Brian and I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HIM!!! 

Air Show

Brian and I went to Langley Air Force base when we were down in Williamsburg a couple of weeks ago! Let me just say I'm a pretty GREAT wife because I had a fever and was way sick... but went on These adventures anyway.  Dave is retired from the air force... so he has lots of perks perks... and can get us on base. I think he was pretty important and ranked high but I am not and rank expert. All i know is that they salute him when they look at his military ID and that impresses me! Anyway, It was my first air show and I was amazed by how much power the thunder birds have. I kept asking questions trying to figure out how the air show demonstration was like TOP GUN only to find out Top Gun was about the Navy and not the air force. It was disappointing info but I got over it. Brian LOVED watching all of the planes and has already started planing our trip to next years show.

BETH!

Beth was in D.C. for a math conference and I drove to see her. We went on a night tour of the monuments... mostly I talked her ear off!!!  It was so fun to see a familiar face and catch up! I wish we could have spent a couple of days together! She is as cute as ever! I miss all of you pony girls!

Fun in Charlotte!!!

I am soooooo excited to be moving to Charlotte.. there are a million reasons why I think I will love this move! I will spare you all million! Two weeks ago when I was down visiting Brian we did a few of my favorite things...one being shopping... I will be minutes from a mall... the second being going to a sporting event.. this may be a surprise but after growing up going to Dodger games i really developed a love for going to games.... now don't even think about making me watch it on t.v. BORING!!! Anyway, we got to go to one of the many Charlotte teams games... We went to the Bobcats vs Pacers game.. We had a great time!!! Also one of the cheerleaders had the best hair ever!!! I even thought of asking her about what products she uses.. I should have snapped a pic of her..... next game!

MOVING!!!!

Brian got an offer to go to Charlotte, North Carolina!!! His company wants him there in 2 weeks  let me say that again TWO WEEKS on Feb. 16th.... we have so much to do between now and then!!!! We are so excited and we are packing and packing! I am going to stay up here and finish out the school year then head down in June!  I think we are about to re-live the weekend visits and teary goodbyes of our cross country dating!

Home Improvement

The Kitchen Counters and Back Splashes Before....

Brian STARTING to cut into the walls

Ellie helping her Daddy! She doesn't like to stand on the cold tile or hardwoods so she balanced on Brian to keep her paws warm. She spent almost the entire day like this!!!

The new back splashes! The white in the corner is my flash reflecting!  What an awesome husband I have to just whip this out in a day!!!!

 More Back Splashes!!! By the Sink!!!

Last weekend we decided we and by we I mean Brian would put in full height back splashes and under counter lighting in our kitchen so this weekend we embarked on quite an adventure! Brian cut holes in all of our kitchen walls... cutting holes might be an under statement.... he took a knife and cut huge strips out of the walls. He then did a ton of electrical work and I mostly stood around watching and trying to be helpful. He got the lights in and then it was time to bring in the granite. Granite is to heavy for me so our friend Steven came over the help lift and place the back splashes. They put them in really quickly and Ta-Da.. a new and improved kitchen!!!

CHRISTMAS AT THE HAWLEY HOUSE

We spent the holidays with my family and boy was it crazy! We had a great time! It was nice to be warm and hard to come back to the 20 degree weather we are having right now!  I miss them and it is harder to get on a plane and zip to LA for the weekend now that I live so far away. We were busy, busy, busy! We went to a ton of holiday dinners and parties, did some serious shopping, went to the observatory, cleaned out my parents garage, Brian put a microwave over my mom's oven, we went to the Getty Villa, hung out with our family, went to the Bush's Boxing Day party, played a lot of Rockband, went to the rose parade, and did some more shopping. They opened a Ti-pan 40 minutes from my parents house we went twice! Ahhhh how I miss Ti-pan & Rod Works!!! The pictures are more fun than reading all the details so .... enjoy!

Us with Santa at our family Christmas Eve Party!

Brian being a Shepard in the live Nativity at the Family Christmas eve party

Us at the Long Beach Canals..... Check out the house in the background

Our cute "Normal Family Picture" Emily and Hannah  are too cute!

At the Getty Villia in the Gardens

Brian checking out the LA Observatory's Basement

Now this is my kind of shooting star (it was made of 250,000 peices of star shaped jewlery and was a few hundred feet long)

A coyote we saw in Griffith Park. Creepy!!!

Playing at the Carousel it was built in the 1920's! I used to go there a ton when I was little!!!