California trippin'

Rylie and I got to go to California to visit my sister and her family at the beginning of the month for 8 days to help them pack for their new house in San Clemente. Lindsay is expecting her 4th baby and was needing a little extra help at this busy time especially because her husband travels for work. So we were beyond excited to go out and help. My Rylie and her youngest Emmitt are 1 year apart and they had so much fun playing together.... And biting each others fingers. We called them frenemies on this trip. Friend/enemies. They are going to have fun growing up as cousins and being so close in age! While we we were there we ate and ate and ate. We also went to the beach and Rylie played in the sand for her first time. I think she ate 1/2 a cup atleast of it. We had a yard sale. My second one ever. I'm getting the hang of the chaos and I like it! We had Mcdonalds ice cream way too much :) We packed a lot of boxes. We went to Trader Joes which I love love! We celebrated Lindsay's birthday with Nothing Bundt Cakes Bundtinis which were AMAZING! Thanks Scott :) We walked around the harbor and watched the sunset. We seriously had so much fun living in their lives with them for a week and hopefully we were able to be more helpful then not. Ha I know Lindsay went out of her way to let us have a good time while we were out there and not just pack boxes. Thanks Lindsay and Scott for everything! This is a trip to remember for sure! 

Picture time

Rylie's second airplane ride ever

Can ya tell we are sisters?

Jojo and Rylie 

Loving my view 

Sushi and summer rolls at the beach. YUM!!

Skyping Jason every night was sooo fun

Baths were a new thing for Rylie because we only have a shower at home so she was loving all the water she could play in.

Such a big girl

I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream! 

Stealing drinks of DP

My girl

These two were soo cute together

Pool time in the backyard 

Rylie loved playing with Jo and Sienna too

Yep more ice cream :) no complaining here

Beautiful sunsets 

Going home to see daddy in Utah

 

2014

I just purchased my 12 week workout routine from zbodyfitnessinc.com only $40 instead of $60. This girl Zoe is amazing. She is a trainer and seriously has amazing results with her workout programs. She posts her clients pictures and I'm a believer! We are going to Hawaii in May for Jason's graduation present and you better believe I'm gonna work my booty off for swimsuit season. But while I'm sweating like a pig daily I am also eating cleaner than ever with only one cheat meal per week and drinking tons of water!!! (A gallon) I'm going to do it and make it all the way through. Do it with me! This is a good place to post and feel like I'm accountable so I don't give up!! Holler for New Years resolutions Right? I have lost 43 pounds in the last year but I also gained that much being pregnant with Rylie. Eek! I can do anything as long as I focus and keep pushing through all the rough days of not wanting to go to the gym or not giving in to every treat offered to me! Self control, I'm learning and trying to have more of this. Life is so fun and I'm learning so so much being a young mom and wife. Cheers to getting stronger, fit and healthy this year!!! 

-Rach 

 

Macdonald family reunion - Part 1

Grandma Phyllis held a family reunion here in Utah this last week... so my sister Lindsay drove to Utah from California with her 3 kids Sunday and we got to play with them all week. Monday night we celebrated my Step-Dads birthday and ate yummy homemade Costa Vida salads. Everyone was there (except David, he's on a mission for a few more days... Like 8) I Love when my family gets together, We have a such a good time and always laugh so much! But Happy Birthday Dar!!! 

Tuesday we got up early and went to Seven Peaks for the day (7 hours) Lindsay's babes have never been to a waterpark so this was super exciting for them. The Grandparents were helpful and came to watch the babies for a little so we could have fun on the slides.  You can't bring food into the park so we made sandwiches and went to our cars for lunch. The weather was 94+ degrees outside. What a hot car picnic! When we were about to leave Jason couldn't find his keys anywhere so an hour later we had checked the lost and found multiple times and went to the car and finally Jason found the keys in the car that he had forgot to lock!!! Scary. He was a little anxious to get into seven peaks and play with us. We learned our lesson.

Rylie makes the silliest faces, so Dad had to copy.

Later that night when Rylie and Emmitt went down to sleep I got together with my two older sisters and Sienna & Josie and we went to Sub Zero for Ice Cream!!

They loved watching the ice cream be made

Wednesday we woke up early and went to my Dad & Delanie (step-mom) in Spanish Fork for breakfast. They made us waffles with cinnamon syrup and whip cream, scramble eggs from their chickens, hash browns and melon, Delicious!! My dad has chickens so after breakfast we went to go see the baby chicks. Rylie tried to rip their heads off literally. We didn't let her touch them after the couple attempts of her 'petting' them. 

Cousins

Grandpa teaching them how to hold the chicks

Sienna & Jojo

1 year and 2 days apart

Wednesday night was the first night that the family reunion had begun. We got together at my Aunt Lynn's church and had a Hawaiian themed night and dinner. We were greeted with Lei's and flowers for our hair. We ate Hawaiian haystacks for dinner and had cute sandal, sand dollar cookies and shave ice for dessert. We learned to hula and sing some Hawaiian songs. I don't know how authentic it really was especially since Jase couldn't be there but, we made it our own and had so much fun! Aloha! 

Mariah & I

Mariah, Rylie, Jon, and me

The parents

Oversized flower decoration >> I had to

Hula

Lindsay & Rylie

 To be continued...

Weekend

Friday night Jason worked so Ry and I went to my mom's as usual and hung out with her and Grandma Phyllis. (her mom who lives with her) Rylie LOVES her great grandma, like squeals and smiles and moves her legs like crazy every time she see's her, it's the best! So we hung out there and then picked up Jase once he was done at 8. Jase was going to see World War Z with his brother-in-law's Kalae and Curt. So Daniel (my brother) and Hannah picked us up and went to her parent's house. We are super close with them like family so it's so fun when we get to see the Hill's and they LOVE babies so Ry was in heaven with all the attention. Our night didn't end until after midnight! So fun! If you know Jase he loves zombies... Walking Dead (tv show) is one of his favorites. So he was pumped to see Work War Z and let's just say he was not disappointed! 

Saturday Jase worked, I hung out at my mom's and at night we hung out as a family. After Ry went down for the night I went shopping...not for me though. The bebe has no clothes, she's ruined too many that had to be thrown out. So I had fun finding some outfits. Ross is the place for cheap cute finds! 

Are these not the cutest? I love bows!

Sunday we went to Hannah's younger brother Max's farewell. He is going to be serving in Texas (Spanish speaking) and he's so ready! He gave an amazing farewell talk and I definitely felt the spirit. 

Pictures in church (oops) 

Little family pic.

Afterward we went to the Hills for Jdawgs and treats. Later that night we got together with one of our couple friends who we love... Dallin & Jess. We ate Lasagna, salad and brownies for dessert. Yum! Ps when making brownies always follow the high altitude recipe on the back if you are in Utah anyway (it makes them taste WAY better. Good to know>>> thanks Mariah! (My little baking sister) After many different movie choices, the boys finally gave in and we got to watch the movie Jess and I wanted to see... Safe Haven. It was really good and the boys liked it too! I love Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel, and together they were amazing. Highly recommend. Such a fun weekend, how was yours? 

Not a great quality picture

Jessica and Rylie 

Dallin & Jessica (I thought IPhone camera was suppose to be amazing) 

Party woot