Calling All Angels

One of the perks of my dad's business is our Angels season tickets. I can't stand to watch baseball on TV, but I really enjoy going to the ball field (I think it is all the treats I usually buy!). As a kid, my dad would take us all the time and I even got to go to game #6 of the 2002 World Series...it was awesome!

Do you think we look like sisters?

Kevin, me, Stacie, and Mitch

Little hams!
:)

Getting goofy...

We won!

Most Recent House Pictures

Our wonderful realtor has been really great about sending us pictures of our house every week and these are some of the most recent batch!

They are now working on the exterior brick/stone

This is a shot from the master bedroom into the master bath

The master bedroom

This is a shot from the great room into the dining room (on the right)
and the kitchen (on the left)

This is a shot from the great room looking at the entry on the right

and the dining room on the left

The Alpine Reception

My new sister-in-law, Shana, grew up on an orchard in Alpine, UT, but moved down to Southern California to go to nursing school a few years ago and thankfully met my brother Mark in the local singles ward. He is so lucky to have such a great bride and I am so lucky to have such a great new sister-in-law!

Well, two weeks after the wedding, our family took a road trip (which was very interesting, to say the least!) up to Northern Utah for the second reception. We had a great time getting to know Shana's family better and becoming increasingly more jealous of her upbringing in one of the most beautiful cities in Utah with tons of land and horses to boot!

Here are just a few pictures before the reception started :)

Baby Lydia Arrived!

On August 6th baby Lydia arrived...and her Uncle Kevin got to be there! When Kevin's sister Lisa went in to labor she gave us a call and Kevin drove up to St. George as a surprise to be there! It was worth it!

Opening Presents with the Newlyweds...

And all whackiness ensued!

Hanging out at their cute apartment

Mark's not really sure what to do with a green Mickey Mouse pitcher!

Shana's dress looks a little too small!

As does Mark's tux!

Not sure what Mark is pointing to...hint hint

(actually, I don't want to start any rumors...they are NOT expecting)

Mark and Shana's Wedding

On July 31 my older brother Mark married the coolest girl in the world - Shana Burgess. They were sealed in the Los Angeles Temple in the morning surrounded by family and friends and danced amongst twinkling lights and stars in the evening at an outdoor garden reception held in their honor.

Thankful that it isn't OUR wedding day!

Kevin and Kevin...groomsmen and brothers (in-law)

Father and son in tuxes...too cute!Tracy and Cody

They're married!

Just the beginning of a long day of pictures and posing!

The bride and all the groomsmen

The reception was held at the Fullerton Arboretum and it was so beautiful! My mom made the centerpieces to resemble the cherry blossoms found on Shana's family orchard in Alpine, UT...they turned out AMAZING!
Twinkling lights, candles, and stars!

Mark and Shana were so cute during the first dance :)

It was a great day!

Legally Blonde and a Blonde

Frequent and dedicated readers of the Kevin and Leslie blog will remember that last summer I willingly discarded my hopefully-well-established masculinity in order to indulge my sweetheart by attending “Mama Mia!” Because of this thoughtless act of generosity I have spent the last year scratching and clawing my way out of the pit of metrosexuality: I now belch more, tell dirtier jokes, and no longer enjoy the simple pleasures of a pedicure. Well, it appears that despite my best efforts the dog days of summer have a way of infusing me with unnatural levels of estrogen because I have done it again. I spent the last year scrapping to take a single manly step forward; unfortunately, going to the play “Legally Blonde” may have been two steps back.

HOWEVER, if you think this post is just another meandering rant about a chick-flick, I exhort you to read on and ye shall be rewarded. True, Leslie and I, along with her mother and sister, went to see “Legally Blonde” last week in Hollywood. I’m not going to lie, it wasn’t bad, but that’s not the point. As we sat in our seats skimming the playbill waiting for the lights to dim, Leslie grabbed my arm and in an excited squeal exclaimed, “It’s Bridget and Holly!” I looked over in time to indeed see Bridget and Holly walking past our row. Then, they sat down literally four rows in front of us!

For those of you who clearly have jobs and independently satisfying lives, I will explain who Bridget and Holly are: Bridget and Holly were on a little reality program called, “The Girls Next Door.”

The premise of the show is centered on life at the Playboy mansion. The “Girls,” three in all, Bridget, Holly, and Kendra (Holly is in the middle, Bridget on the right above), were Hugh Heffner’s girlfriends. Although we all thought surely this was a love meant to last forever, the group recently broke up and the girls went their separate ways.

To make a long story short, Leslie eventually dared me to go get my picture taken with them. At intermission, I watched as Holly left for the bathroom. Then, in a stalker-like fashion that even made me uncomfortable, I followed after her. In the lobby I caught up to her and trying my absolute best to not look like a lonely psycho loser who chases Playboy Playmates through theater lobbies, I asked in my least creepy voice if could get a picture with her. She was very friendly and someone passing by offered to take the picture. As I put my arm around her to get the shot, I just couldn’t help but thinking that Hugh Heffner’s withered, 80+ year old arms have been in this exact spot. Suppressing a shudder, I got the picture, thanked her, and went back to my seat where Leslie and I mused over our fortuitous brush with a B grade celebrity.

I must admit that although meeting Hugh Heffner’s ex-girlfriend isn’t exactly like having dinner with Jack Nicholson, this really was the first “celebrity” I’d ever met. The closest to celebrity I’d ever come besides this would be when I shook Elder Holland’s hand while on my mission. While I can’t be positive how broad the spectrum of celebrity is, I am pretty sure that I have now been to both ends of it!