Lots of excitement

Here's me living up to my namesake by making YOGURT! Manburger and I got a gift certificate for test driving a Hyundai (sweet deal, huh?) so I got the yogurt maker and he bought himself the set of X-Men DVDs. My yogurt turned out tasty. And it's not too hard either, just heat the milk and dry milk, let cool, add starter, and place in yogurt maker for a few hours and ...it's yogurt!

Here's Manburger pretending to be truck driver on moving day. He did a great job loading and driving the truck. He definitely gets brownie points for making this move a lot more fun than I thought it would be. What a husband!!

This past weekend we went up to Santa Clarita to visit Manburger's best friend from high school. That's Bryce and his fiance, Rebeckah, in the photo with us. We had a great time and Bryce and Manburger really enjoyed themselves eating Nana's famous banana cake.
Isn't this a beautiful picture? It was kind of cloudy the day I took the picture, but this is what we see when we walk the 1.5 blocks to beach at sunset. Is it any wonder we chose this place over living in the desert?
The funny little dark spots in the water are surfers. No doubt this is California.
 

Our New Place

Tadah!! It's our new apartment...less than two blocks from the beach, less than a mile from "the Village" dowtown, and complete with a fireplace!

Here's our wonderfully large bathroom with big mirror and lots of storage space. Now Manburger can shave and I can do my makeup without having to fight over the mirror.
This is Yogurl's dream kitchen (atleast for now). The only catch is that the oven is electric, but I think I can put up with it for all the cabinets and counter space.
This is the bedroom with the double doors that open onto our private patio. Someday when we have money we'll buy a new dining set and move our current plastic table and chairs to the patio.
 

World Premier vs Free Burritos

This week we found out that the coolest thing was happening right near where we live. Chipotle was giving out free burritos for one night to all military and their families! Also that same night, on base, was the world premier of the WWE enternainment movie, The Marine, starring John Cena. As far as I know it's a movie about how John Cena is really buff and can kill people in ridiculous ways. Anyway, I thought it was really cool that they had the world premier here on base. We went at the beginning part when all the stars were showing up, and then left before the movie started. A free Chipotle burrito sounded more satisfying than a corny action flick anyway. Besides, I just wanted to go so I could see Rick Flair, Triple H and John Cena.
Yogurl here: Yesterday Manburger and I drove down to La Jolla for a ward temple assignment. Since we got there a bit early, we decided to go see the Mount Soledad Cross that has been a popular topic of controversy for the last few months (something about separation of church and state). The view at the top was amazing!! We drove up some crazy windy, steep streets to get there and saw lots of houses that were worth more than we'd make in a lifetime (literally). Thankfully our little blue car did just fine up the hills. The picture below shows most of La Jolla and the beautiful Pacific.

On a side note, Manburger and I discovered an awesome new Weird Al song. It's called "White and Nerdy" and is a parody of the rap song "Riding Dirty." Really, really hiliarious. We found it on MSN Videos. There are a few things he says in the song that totally reminded me of those crazy boys in our ward who made Star Wars movies constantly and had most of the Holy Grail memorized. Anyway, just pull it up and watch it, it's sure to make you laugh.
Also, seeing as how I am Yogurl I have to mention something about food. Yes, our Chipotle burritoes were "da bomb." And after our trip to La Jolla instead of eating at the Whole Foods market like we tend to do, we decided to save some $ and buy ourselves wonderful Mexican pasteries from La Perla. Manburger and I are sure going to miss that place when we move, but since this is Southern California, there's sure to be another somewhere near us. Maybe not as good as La Perla, but possibly. They have this wonderful version of a Hostess cupcake with custard in the middle...fabulous. And their Tres Leches is the best I've had yet.
They finally closed the pools here. I know it's only October, sheesh! The weather is getting a little cooler, only in then 70's during the peak of the day. I'm starting to think I might have to wear non-sandals soon. It's crazy how quickly I've adapted to this warm weather. I'm trying to keep my body from thinking that the high 50's are cold. Soon enough the rain will come and end this eternal summer.
That's about it for this week. Happy Columbus Day to all and have a great week!! 

Yogurl couldn't find a dress and neither could the ring girls!

Hey everybody, great week here for Yogurl and me. We got approved to move to our dream place. It is bigger, nicer, cheaper, and most importantly only two blocks from the beach. It is quite a bit further from work, which means no more riding my bike everyday, but quite a bit closer to everything else. We still haven't told anybody in our ward that we are moving, but we'll get around to it. We'll have pictures of the new place up soon. We'll be moving in the 19th.
Friday night we went to watch some free boxing matches at the field right near where we live. It was pretty fun. Yogurl and I hadn't ever seen live boxing matches before. I don't know if Yogurl had ever even watched boxing before. It was pretty fun. The first match was a super welterweight match. I think they weighed like 110lbs each. One guy was making his debut and the other guy was 0-6. He was 0-7 after this match. Poor guy. Yogurl's favorite part was the ring girls who looked like they forgot to put clothes on over their underwear. After the first couple matches they put more clothes on, partly because it was getting cold I'm sure. After four matches our friend had to take her daughter home, so we just left with them.

The next morning Yogurl got up early and went to a gown give-away. She was number 314. Not surprisingly, she didn't make it home in time for the morning conference session. Sadly, she didn't find a gown she liked, though she did get free shampoo that smells like banana and licorice. She later found some gowns she likes online. They are a good price, so I like them too.

We thoroughly enjoyed conference. We got to see Mike's dad talk, and he did a great job, as well as my friend Derek's dad. Anthony Perkins was his name. No, not the one from Psycho. Conference was just full of really great talks, as it always is. Yogurl wanted to go to church for the Sunday morning session. She thought that there would be a lot of people there, but that is because she doesn't know how California works, yet. When we got there it was just us, three sets of Elders, and three other people I believe. A few more showed up, but not the amount she was expecting. It wasn't done very well at the chapel, either. The sound was about two or three seconds ahead of the video. It was like watching Kung Pow, Enter the Conference. We watched the rest online at home.

Everything else is going great here. Love you all, give us a call or e-mail us sometime!