I spy a... skateboarding dog? and other things

I had quite a day yesterday... paint balling and then hanging out with the family. 

Marissa & I went paint balling with some of the youth in our ward.

 And I have some lovely bruises from it. It was lots of fun though, so it was worth it. 

After we drove along the coast and walked along some of the shops. We had a lot of fun as a family eating lunch and just talking as well as looking at the shops and walking around. 

 

 We ate at TGI Fridays. Marcus had salchipapas (hot dog and fry's) 

 We all had to have dessert (of course!)

 Mom and Marcus shared a brownie with ice cream. 

 Marissa ate two ice cream cookies all by herself. She was really hungry (:

 I shared a key lime pie with my dad. After sneaking a bite (or two!) of the others desserts,I have to say that the key lime pie was the best of them. It was delicious. 

 We walked around a bit, and later, because we didn't get enough sweets, 

we stopped at Starbucks for hot chocolate and triple chocolate cookies. 

 It was a bit windy and misty and cloudy yesterday but also very beautiful. We all enjoyed walking around together. 

 While there taking pictures we saw a very cute bulldog skateboarding. He was really cute. 

Here is the video I got of him. 

We also saw an exhibit of dresses made all out of natural/ recycled materials. 

The newspaper one was my favorite.

Boiling Water...

Boiling water to do the dishes has become part of our daily routine. It takes 5 pot fulls of water to do the washing and the rinsing. I will never take a dishwasher for granted again. We do have a water heater, actually its "on demand" water heating. But it is very picky, especially in the kitchen.

We have been cleaning the house today. It gets rather dusty. Its a desert, and we have a huge dirt mountain outside of our house, so it really is always dusty.  And they have really lame cleaning supplies. This really is like a camping trip, with electricity and indoor plumbing (thank goodness!). I am just glad we have gotten some rugs. We have all wood floors so it is nice to have rugs. We are working on getting some furnishing and appliances and are still waiting for our stuff to arrive (probably another month).  Here are those pictures of the house I promised:

 This is the backyard as seen from my room.

 This is my bedroom.

 My bathroom.

 The laundry room... we have had a terrible time with the washer/ dryer. I will tell you about it later. The laundry room is outside. 

 The kitchen table. We use the dinning room table to eat though so its just there...

I will post more pictures from the house but the internet is slow and it took 30 minutes just downloading these! I guess I will be working on patience. 

We have gone to the mall a few times, Jockey plaza, (pronounced chockey plaza) looking for applances and for something to do. It is a big mall. We had cupcakes and hot chocolate last time. 

 Mine was nutella flavored and Marcus's was a caramel chocolate flavor.  

Thats all for now!