What An End To The Day

There are times recently when I miss living in the midwest.  The fall season out there is gorgeous.  Our drive to church on Sunday mornings had us strolling down leaf colored streets with bright orange and yellow above us.  The air was crisp and there was cider to be had everywhere.  I miss it.  Fall is my favorite season.  But it is hard to miss it when 1/2 a mile from my house, I can take my girls on a sunset stroll on the beach and see this.............

                                                                              Going

                                                                              Going

                                                                           Gone

What a beautiful way to end a beautiful fall night!!!!!!

Can You Feel It?

I love Fall!!!  Fall brings with it feelings of family and togetherness for me.  It is the smell of pies baking in the oven and the feeling of a warm sweater wrapped around my body on a crisp evening.  This summer was not much of a summer, we had cooler temperatures.  So, is that the reason that it is 106 at 3:30pm at the beach here in California?  Seriously?  Our house does not even have air because we were told that we were so close to the beach that we didn't need the air, a beach breeze will cool us down.  I don't think the beach breeze wanted to come out today because it too wanted to stay indoors and keep cool from this heat.  What is going on?!!!!!  Oh, and the above picture?  Totally not taken by me, I got it off of google because we don't get pretty fall weather like that in California at the beach.  I did get 2 seasons of seeing this when we lived in Illinois and I miss it!!!!  So, California.....or God, if you are listening, please turn down the heat, it is Fall!!!!

Free Coffee Day

I love coffee.  I have normal coffee days with my friends and you can find me inside a Starbucks or Coffee Bean at least a couple of times a month.  Coffee Bean is more my fave and today is no different.  Every so often they have free coffee days, mostly when they have a new flavor come out.  Today between 4-7, they are having a free coffee day for either their Pumpkin Spice Latte/ice blended or Cinnamon French Toast latte/ice blended.  I went with the french toast latte and it is super yummy!!!  It tastes just like french toast and now I want to be 8 again on Christmas morning opening presents and spending time with my family.  It is so warm and cozy!!!!  I heard a lot of people say how yummy their ice blended ones were too.  So, check you local Coffee Bean and go get yourself some free coffee!!!  Oh, and I see a lot of blogs who plug businesses and have this little snippet at the end, not sure if it is a legal thing or not but I feel like I must.  I am not getting paid in any way to endorse this company, I just freakin love their coffee!!!  Alright, now put your laptop down and go get some coffee!!!

Crazy Weather

A couple of days ago we got some pretty weird weather here in California.  I actually saw my friend Ashley post on Facebook that the storm was crazy and her power was out.  I looked out my window to blue skies and no clouds.  I basically told her she was nuts because it was a beautiful day outside.  Around an hour later I smelled rain.  The smell you get when you have had a huge storm and you walk outside after and it smells like fresh rain and concrete.  I first thought that maybe someone had hosed off their patio or driveway and that's why I was smelling it.  Then I decided just to go look outside.  To the north was beautiful blue skies, to the south were jet black ominous skies.  Yep, there was the storm.  I was able to watch it actually move over our house.  And since we have lived in the midwest for years it was normal for me to see it, and I had been missing parts of the midwest so I guess it was God giving me a little bit of back east.  However, all the California natives?  They went crazy!!!!  a guy on the news had a video of the storm and screaming that it was the end of the world and if anyone found the tape, he was alive and to find him.  And I thought I was nutty!!!!  I don't remember the Bible saying God will come back via thunder storm and rain.  People, it is a storm, a summer storm that makes the weather hot and sticky.  Granted, it normally happens far east of here but it is still a normal thing.  And what did we get in the end?  A beautiful rainbow that I saw go from the beach to the hill behind my house.

And after the first rainbow, I saw a faint second rainbow form right on top of the other.  A double rainbow!!!

I know it is hard to see but if you look a little above the first one, you will see a faint line of the second.  It was so faint it was hard to capture on film, but it was super pretty and I for one loved the storm!!!!!!