Sunny California and Levi's Wedding

We just got back from beautiful and sunny California.  It was glorious!  The first few years we were married, Jarom and I made a yearly trip to Cali, and we took Bryson twice, but we hadn't been back in three years.  So when we heard that Levi was getting married near Lake Tahoe this summer, we used it as an excuse to rent a car and take a road trip to California.  We visited friends and family in Southern California after stopping in St. George the first night.  We can't thank Leslie, Jason, and Jordan enough for providing our home base!  From there, we traveled to Sugar Bowl Ski Resort for the wedding, which was a lot of fun.  Levi and Chelsey know how to throw a party! We had a total blast going to the beach several times, surfing, swimming, and eating at In N' Out and other great restaurants.  We also enjoyed touring Downtown Disney with one excited five year old, seeing my sister Monica who also happened to be vacationing in Cali at the same time, taking in the scenery atop the ski lift at the wedding, and hanging out with awesome people.  We had a great vacation, and I can't wait to go back to California.

Enjoy the pictures as they are the only ones that were still on my camera before our hard drive with YEARS of photos and other files on it totally crashed.  So heart-breaking!  We took the hard drive to the Geek Squad at Best Buy, but they were not able to recover any files.  They sent it off to their tech lab, so hopefully they will be able to work their magic on it and we will get back as many videos and photos as possible (anything else on it isn't as important).  You might have thought we'd learned our lesson when all of our 2008 photos were erased the week after Bryson was born, but we only backed up our files and photos until 2009 until the last hard drive was full.  We never imagined we'd have a hard drive fail, but it does happen.  Now we'll be buying another hard drive, doing back-ups on all files, and uploading as many photos as possible to the Internet so we'll always have them.  Thankfully we have our blog for "the best of the best" photos and videos that we can save on a new hard drive, but it's still a tragic loss if the hard drive with so many photos and videos on it is not recoverable.  Unfortunately I had just dumped the trip pictures from our camera to the hard drive when it stopped working, and I was only able to recover a few of our trip photos.  So many thanks to Jordan, Staci, and Randy for giving me some of their photos to supplement my small collection.  Enjoy the photos we do have in our possession of our 2013 California vacation.  I just wish we had more!