Jul 14, 2008

Random May and July Fun... California... St. George... Enterprise... Birthdays... etc...

Here are a few random shots capturing May and July:
Also... Law School update... Sam just made Law Review and was awarded an academic scholarship! He's going to be busy next semester with Communications Law Moot Court and Law Review... good thing he's got such an AMAZINGLY Supportive wife!


California!
We visited the Lowerwalds in Newport Beach. After a tour of the area on stellar beach bikes, (just 10 minutes from the beach) we ate at this fun little Italian restaurant, and then got asai berry frozen yogurt. I LOVE BEACH BIKES~!

Here's a shot from the beach!


10 Year High school Reunion
We visited my folks near the end of May for my 10 year high-school reunion. Here's a shot with Grammy who took such good care of Peter while we were gone...

Peter loves his Grammy and Grandpa Castor!

At the reunion I won a cool laptop bag for having the most jobs (16!) since high-school . It was a fun Saturday, with a picnic in the afternoon and then a dinner at Provo High that night.


St. George - 4th of July

This is Dad, Peter and Mom enjoying the Fourth in St. George.

Grammy Castor, Peter and Annalise watching fireworks. It was a LONG night...



Enterprise!
For the 5th we headed up to Enterprise. Peter loves "driving" the "Gator" and checking out the Enterprise farm. There is a fifth-wheel trailer just behind this shot and if you look close, to the right side is the hay storage unit, tractors and all... the left side, directly behind Uncle Dallin and Peter is the infamous paint-ball course where many a bruise has been earned.
We invited my brother Rich and my parents and the Leichty Boys to come on out and play with us at the Enterprise course (aside from most of the Co2 air tanks getting too hot on the way up and leaking or breaking... we had enough air for those boys to have a terrific time!
Steven shot me right in the back as I tried to run back with the flag in a "steal the flag" game. He was quite the young sharp shooter! We'll try to get some shots of them all decked out in oversize camo' and the paint-ball gear.

Believe it or not... Dallin is actually more exhausted than Peter in this picture. Dallin just finished a HUGE national volley-ball tournament in Salt Lake.

Annalise's Birthday

For Annalise's Birthday we went to the Eiffel Tower across form the Bellagio in Vegas and had a little pheasant and duck. I told them it was our anniversary because it technically was the 5th year anniversary from the day we met. The couple right behind us was celebrating their 18th anniversary and the couple to our right (in front of us) was a fella who just proposed to his girlfriend. It was a nice "past present future" of marriage kind of theme... after dinner we grabbed some Cold-Stone ice cream and then we ran up to the J.W. Marriott on Fort Apache where we stayed the first night of our honeymoon.
Annalise visited her friends (Rachel Busbee.. sp?) the Thursday before her birthday at the Nordstrom's Cafe.

This is a shot of the Bellagio water show... what a view from the tower!
Side note: Annalise always gets the same thing at Coldstone... strawberries and sweet cream with white chocolate chips... she's committed... as for me I like to try something new every time. This time around ColdStone was on some sort of "cake batter" kick so I got half a scoop of blueberry cake batter with half a scoop of oatmeal cake batter and then mixed in reeses peanut butter cups. It was like a symphony of sweetness elevating my mouth to heavenly levels of flavor. Wow!


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

you guys are busy! congrats on the law scholarship! Peter is such a cutie pie and we can't wait to see him at the beach! Brady can't wait to come play paintball sometime soon... I would consider it.. but I might be too big of a baby!

Katie @SwimBikeQuilt said...

Hmmm. It looks suspiciously to me like you went to Las Vegas to play, not to work. :) I can't believe how big Peter is getting. Or how blonde. Happy Late Birthday Annalise--I actually had a layover (from San Diego) in Vegas on Saturday, and sang you happy birthday from the plane. Did you hear it? :) Katie

Kathy's Boys said...

Nice update Sam!! It's about time!! Love to look into everyones business on their blogs. It is fun! You guys
are so cute, Happy Birthday Annalise, and Happy Anniversary. I like to remember Cory and I meeting Sam at EFY before he met Annalise later on that summer. He made a great first impression on us... good catch Annalise!!

Jones said...

looks like you're having some good old fashioned fun! Congrats on law review and the scholarship...Trev made law review too! I've heard that wives of law review students should commiserate not celebrate. At least Annalise and I can complain about our husbands being busy together! Happy belated b-day!!
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