One of Mahina's oldest friends Jessica was in LA for the weekend for her birthday with her husband Jeremy and their two friends Garrett and Meagan. They had all made the trip from Utah to celebrate Jessica's birthday with a trip to Disneyland. After a weekend of festivities, we were able to catch up with Jessica and everyone at the National History Museum.After the museum the group still had the rest of the afternoon before their flight back home … [Read more...]

For a couple of weeks in October, Mahina had been doing research on those farms that allow you to pick directly from the vine yourself. With Halloween right on the horizon, this weekend seemed like the perfect opportunity to head out and pick some pumpkins and whatever else grows on farms...The farm Mahina found online was a great family-run operation that reminded us both a lot of Roloff Farms from the TLC show "Little People, Big World." To set … [Read more...]

Since the wedding, we have had a lot more time to explore and experience everything LA has to offer. One thing that we did find and thought could be really fun was Lobsterfest at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro. This festival had the two things we love most: lobster and dogs - this festival is known for their dog parade.We decided to invite our friends Bridget and Ely, who we met at our Catholic Engaged Couples Encounter, a weekend that we … [Read more...]

The last wedding of the summer was right here in Manhattan Beach. Mahina's Theta sister Kasey Wafer got engaged to her longtime boyfriend Connor Stinson a couple of weeks after we got engaged and were married at Kasey's childhood church, Manhattan Beach Community Church. Mahina and Kasey had spent much of the last year trading wedding planning ideas, vendors and anything weddings, so Mahina was especially excited for Kasey's wedding.We met up in … [Read more...]

With a three day weekend ahead of us, we decided to head out to the Lake of the Ozarks to visit Mahina's parents in their new lake house. As we looked online for tickets we realized that we could redeeem some airlines miles for first class seats to St. Louis and quickly jumped at the chance of flying first class, a first for both of us.We caught the last flight out to St. Louis, which would put us in at about 10pm local time. On the way we … [Read more...]

Our third wedding of the summer took us north to Auburn, Ca. to be guests at Jenn Helberg and Jon Robirds wedding. Mahina and Jenn became really good friends when they studied abroad together at Oxford University the summer of the Junior year. Mahina and I took the opportunity to make it a road trip up to Roseville and Auburn and set out in the early afternoon after taking a half-day at work to try and beat the rush hour traffic. The drive took … [Read more...]

We started looking at houses for rent right after the honeymoon. Lucas started the search, prowling the web extensively to look for anything and everything in West LA. To tell you that we went to a few “grungy” homes, and we're putting that lightly, would be an understatement; some of those homes should have honestly been condemned. The ironic thing about our house-hunt was that this was the first house we went to see together and it ended up … [Read more...]