Fish Taco Tuesdays

Its Tuesday. The most boring day of the week. But not when you live near Rubios! Tuesdays are $1.25 fish taco days here in San Diego - and we are avid fish-taco eaters! I don't know if its the warm corn tortilla, the crispy cabbage, that secret Chipotle sauce, or the piece of perfectly fried fish - but I love those tacos...

STELLA

Meet Stella! She is our grumpy, neighborhood watchdog.

Here are the facts about Stella:

1. We rent out apartment from an awesome family named the Richardsons.

2. We live on top of their detached garage.

3. Stella is the Richarsons chiwawa.

3. I love Stella.

4. Stella hates me.

Every time I come home and Stella is outside she growls at me and barks like crazy. She does this to everyone (or so I tell myself). As soon as you walk towards her she barks really loud, puts her ears down, and backs away. I just love her and wish she wouldn't be so scared of me. One time she let Nate hold her. I was jealous.





Also - this is our cute yard! It has been SO nice outside these past few days. 75 and sunny. To celebrate spring are going to have a barbecue and get fresh fruit from the farmer's market this weekend. Can't wait!

Birthday Fun!

Yesterday was my 22nd birthday! Nathan had planned on taking me on a picnic at the beach on Saturday to celebrate - but due to the rain (another rainy weekend!) he changed the plans took me to my favorite breakfast place, "The Original Pancake House" in Rancho Santa Fe. I ordered chocolate chip pancakes (and felt like a 5 year old) and Nathan got the famous "Flap Jacks"! Both were delicious. I think going out to breakfast is the best! I would rather go out to breakfast than lunch or dinner any day of the week.


After breakfast we drove around the fancy, Rancho Santa Fe part of San Diego. It is GORGEOUS! After the drive Nathan took me to the mall so I could pick out a new outfit!I got a few cute things and Nathan was nice enough to watch me try stuff on and dig for things to say about each item of clothing (even though I know he really doesn't care). He has certain colors that he associates with people or things I already have in my wardrobe. For example, whenever he sees anything coral pink he tells me I already have that shirt. Even though it is nothing remotely close to anything I own. Every time he sees anything the color dark purple he says "Kasee has that shirt". And anything with blue and white stripes is something Jessica owns, etc. It's very endearing. After the mall we came back and I had a surprise package from my Mom on my doorstep! She sent me a cute dress and shirt.


That night Nathan's parents took us out to my favorite Hawaiian fusion restaurant called Roy's in La Jolla. It was delicious as always! After dinner we went back to his parents house and had cake and hung out for awhile.

Nathan, me and my new dress!

Cake :)

Great in-laws!

On my REAL birthday I wasn't expecting much because we had already celebrated over the weekend. But Nathan sent gorgeous flowers to my office at work! I wish I had a picture because they are so beautiful! Last night we also went to see the movie -"The Young Victoria" which I loved and got dessert at Extraordinary Desserts in downtown San Diego.

Extraordinary? I think so..

I got delicious white chocolate mousse cake with vanilla bean soaked pound cake and raspberries.

It was a great birthday! I told Nate that I am actually excited to be 22 because it makes me just one year closer to a socially acceptable age for being married. Just kidding! Kind of...

Trendy Pineapples and Kasee Visits!

This past weekend my good friend Kasee and her husband Jason came and visited us! They are currently taking a semester off at BYU to do internships in LA. So lucky for me that means Kasee is only an hour and a half away for a few months! They got in around 8:30pm on Friday and that night Nate took us on a driving tour of the beach cities (PB, Misson Bay, etc.). We also stopped and looked at the seals sleeping on the beach in La Jolla. Most of all it was fun to talk and catch up with old friends and see how they are doing! Kasee and I could literally talk all day about life matters (and kitchen things of course), its great! Then we came back and watched a movie and ate homemade salsa and muddy buddies. She also brought me a cute housing warming gift AND birthday gift! The house warming gift included a pineapple (trendy?), warm homemade banana bread, and a special sparkling pomegranate drink. Yay! The birthday gift was also from Miss Jessica Veater and included fun kitchen tools from Williams Sonoma like spice cups, a jalapeno corer, and VANILLA BEAN PASTE! Thank you SO much Kasee and Jess!

The next morning we all slept in a little and woke up to rain. We had planned on going to the temple in the morning, but the rain foiled our plans of going sailing and to the zoo later that afternoon. Guess Kasee and Jason will just have to come visit us again now! The temple was great! It is so fun to be able to go there with friends.

Yay friends!

Us wishing we had a pineapple at the moment.

(Sorry I keep repeating the same inside joke)

He likes me.

(And also I know it doesnt look like its raining but it was really heavy on and off...)

Afterwards we got lunch, went to Coranado, and can back and hung out at our apartment. Thanks for making the trip down to see us Kasee and Jason! Can't wait to do it again soon :)