hot pink skies and hot pink eggs.

Last week's highlights are brought to you by the color pink.

In honor of summer solstice last Monday the sky turned bright pink at sunset. These photos don't quite do it justice, it was the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. 

On Friday to celebrate surviving another week of work, we tried out a new restaurant.

They happened to have one of our favorite foods ever, deviled eggs! But wait! They were pickled deviled eggs! They were the most lovely shade of pink, and had a serious kick that I love.

We also got prosciutto pretzel sandwiches which were the bomb. 

What would life even be without food?

PS- I came home from work today and turned the heat on in our house. It's so cold here and it's JUNE???!

miles discovered a way onto the roof of our little house.

we do not have a fancy neighborhood, but we can see the ocean from that rooftop and for that I am grateful.

home.

I'm currently sitting on my parents back porch in Utah. It's green, warm, and quite. I love living in the city and near the ocean, but this trip home has brought me a very great appreciation for home. The older I get the more I realize how special Utah is. The mountains, hot summers, snowy winters, ahhh its magic. My family has lived in the same house since I was born which I absolutely love. I love the memories here and the sense of safety and peace every time I am home.

Miles and I love the idea of getting to move around and live in new places, but more than that, I want my kids to have a home base where they can come and everything is familiar. I'm exited to see where that will be.

Flash forward a week and I'm finishing this post....

My trip home started with a classic Carrie embarrassing moment. 

On the airplane I had my headphones in listening to music with my eyes closed. The plane was dark. I was using the side buttons to turn my music down on my phone but it wasn't working. I noticed through my closed eyes that there was something flashing in the plane, so I opened my eyes and realized that I was the source of the obnoxiously bright flash. While trying to turn down my music I had actually been taking tons of pictures and the flash had been going off and lighting up the dark airplane. Everyone around me was staring at me like who is this girl with the freaking strobe light on her phone?? I have about 15 photos of this dude, who is clearly not pleased. Sorry guys!

 Mom and I did a session at the new Provo City Center Temple. It was my first time seeing it completed. It's beyond beautiful. It is so intricate with it's beautiful wood carvings, murals, and stained glass windows all throughout. After the session I was using the restroom and had a spiritual thought/revelation. (in the bathroom of all places! haha) Even the bathrooms in that temple are fancy. The doors to the stalls were beautiful carved wood with gold handles and beautiful tiling. I had the thought come to me, "why would the church spend sooo much money on temples? Couldn't they have just installed a regular old bathroom and saved a ton of money?" and then I realized.. We go to the temple to learn about who we really are to God, and what we can really become. Being in that beautiful temple this week made me feel like royalty because of the spirit and it's physical beauty. I think that's how Heavenly Father wants it. I believe He wants us to feel at home in the temple and to feel special, privileged, different, and just awesome. (all in good ways)

I like being in the temple and I have a lifetime of learning to do there.

One of the huge highlights of the week was meeting up with all of my freshman year roommates. It's a miracle that all of our schedules lined up to be together. These girls are truly some of my greatest friends. I have never laughed more, danced more, or been weirder than the year I lived with them. It's cheesy, but we will really be friends forever.

I also got to see Ashley, who was my storage unit mate last summer in Provo. I love her SO!

The stars aligned and brought me how for the week of Strawberry Days. We hit up the concert in the park, had fresh strawberry shakes, and rode some rides at the carnival. Parker is talking now which makes my little aunt heart just melt.

Aubrey (better known as Sister West) drove down to visit me. I love and admire her.

Let's talk about how adorable Ivy is for a second. Jenna is basically my sister, so Ivy is basically my niece and I love her. I'm so glad we got to spend some time together before they move to Oregon for school. Look at her!!

It was such a nice week catching up with friends and family. I needed a break form my job and I think I needed a break from the city as well. The only thing that could have made it better was if Miles could have come, but I'm grateful he has a job and is hard workin and stuff. It was weird and hard to go 6 days without him, I don't know how I ever lived without him before! I just really like him.

Finally, I'm not even ashamed to report that I ate at Taco Amigo 3 out of the 6 days I was home.

Success. 

saturday.

Miles took his final CPA exam this week. That test is a beast. This meant that this was the first weekend of our marriage that Miles didn't have to study! (WHOOP!)

It has been insanely foggy here lately. People told us that June and July are like San Francisco's winter but I didn't quite believe that. Well, now I do. I literally have worn a puffy coat to work every morning because it's cold and foggy. It's the strangest thing, but also really pretty and cool to watch the fog roll in from the ocean.

On Saturday the sun made it's first appearance in what felt like weeks, so we spent as much time outside as possible. We went for a run on the beach which is way harder than those super fit chicks make it look. We weeded the garden and washed the car which actually felt like a treat because it was all done in the sun. Of course I'm super sunburnt today, shocker.

Yesterday evening we went on a Scoot date. It started with me demanding Miles that we pull over so that I could stand under those pretty flowers for a picture. I have never had so much envy for a garage before. We scooted around UCSF's campus which is beautiful and felt like we were in the mountains, then stopped by Japan Town for some Udon for dinner. Scoot dates are the best dates.

Aaaaannnnddd...what would a Saturday night be if we didn't go to the grocery store at 10:00?

We are there every Saturday night, no fail.

Procrastination at it's finest.

to get ahead of ourselves

"Can we not appreciate that our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves? To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays, to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could, to give as we have never given, to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever—this is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves." - President Thomas S. Monson. 

This whole talk was amazing, and a reminded that I truly needed this week.

**photos from last night's sunset at Twin Peaks. 

hayes valley

Sometimes I think about all the places in San Francisco that we haven't seen yet and get a little panicked because I want to see it all before we have to move away! Jobs and being an adult really gets in the way most days.
We devised a plan. Every weekend that we can we are going to pick a new neighborhood to explore. I swear we could live here for 10 years and still never see it all, but we will try.

Memorial Day we took on Hayes Valley.
We shopped, ate an amazing Italian burger on a ciabatta bun, and tried the famous smitten ice cream.
It all gets a 10/10.

 Smitten makes their ice cream to order. They mix the fresh ingredients and freeze it right in front of you, it's so creamy and wonderful. We tried the Strawberry Balsamic.

 & here is our failed attempt at a picture together. It's silly and it works.

rootin, tootin, scootin

Last week we joined a scooter gang.

It's actually not a gang, but we pretend.

Scoot is an awesome start up company in the city that has planted hundreds of electric scooters throughout the city. To become a member you take a little training course, download their app, pay a small monthly fee, then you can scoot your little heart out! You can pick up and drop off a scooter anywhere downtown, it is such a brilliant idea.

We took our first scoot ride last weekend and I had that stupid grin on my face the entire time! It's such a fun way to explore the city.

Prepare yourself to see many more pictures from our Scoot dates.

memorial day weekend

Can I just say how grateful I am for a little spare bedroom/bathroom that is attached to our house? My favorite part about living in SF is having guests come visit, and it's just dream having a place for them to stay!

Last weekend our great friends Andrew and Steph drove up from LA and they brought their little 5 month old TWINS with them. Oh. My. They are the cutest things I have ever seen.

Andrew and Miles were mission companions, then roommates, they took every class together in college, and are now working for the same company just in different cities. Steph is a superstar blogger and the cutest Mom around. 

While they were in town we finally made it to Off the Grid (a huge food truck round up) where we tried a sriracha philly cheese steak, YUM. We picnicked in the park, hiked around Landsend with the Lethcos (Braxton also served in Tacoma and he & his wife are in our ward!) We ate so much good food and explored a little, but mostly just talked in baby voices and danced to get the twins to smile. It was baby heaven I tell ya. It only fueled the fire of my baby hunger.

Is this not the cutest picture you have ever seen? Brooklyn's little chubby cheeks, I could die!

 The view from the lookout tower at the de Young museum.

the office I work at is on a busy street in the city and the front desk is right next to the front window next to the sidewalk. I was in a terrible mood today. I had talked to far too many people who had toothaches and were mad they couldn't see the doctor until august. I was on a particular phone call where I was trying to sort out a mess with an angry woman when I heard a banging on the window. I turned to look, and standing there with his face pressed against the window was an old homeless man. I imagine I looked confused and slightly annoyed, but he just stood there with the biggest grin (which included only one tooth) and waved at me. as soon as I cracked a smile and waved back, he walked away. 

it was strange and funny and it brightened a somewhat awful day.