Happiest Place On Earth!!!!!

We just got back from a great family trip to Disneyland!! It was Mareesa's first time and Ry and my first time together... and it was SO magical!! My family flew and stayed a little longer than we did. Ry and I made the LONG drive and listened to three books on cd, overall it was a wonderful drive. We got a three day park hopper and made FULL use of it, we were there on all the days from almost open to close. Get ready for picture overload!!!

The only character pic that Ry would take with me...so cute right?!
Kaid and Weenie...feelin the magic!

The castle during the firework show... they had Tink fly over the castle AND Dumbo, it was so amazing; I swear I will never get sick of the Disney firework shows. We also went over to the Fantasmic Show which was also ridiculously amazing, but none of our pics turned out.Right after the fireworks...the castle was gorgeous, I should live there.

Ry pretending to be a bug in Bug's Life...

We got to meet Mickey!!!!

And Cinderella...I'm thinking I should try out for the part of Belle?

Tower of Terror...We went on this ride a thousand times all of us LOVED it!!!

Kaid and Ween scared before the Tower of Terror.

Indiana Jones...Single rider, I think so!

Ry and Me on the Alice and Wonderland Ride.

Anyone see the resemblence?!

In line for the Matterhorn... this ride has been broken the past few times I have gone and Ry hasn't been on it since 8th grade! It was still as fun as ever!!

Teacups...can't do the ride anymore, I get too sick, but this was a perfect photo-op!

In line for Indiana Jones, another favorite...

On the way down the escalator to enjoy our last night of Disneyland...tear.

In line for California Screamin'!!!

Dad meeting his favorite character and talking in Donald Duck language, Donald loved my Dad, it was HILARIOUS!!!

Love Donald Duck~

Buggies:-)

Sully, so darling and he gave us big kisses!

Cooling off in the Tiki Hut with a pineapple whip---yum!

HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH with my best friend!

Indiana for the tenth time...

Aladdin and Jasmine

Big Thunder Mountain!!!

In line for Big Thunder...

Thunder Mountain here we come!

Pirates... We love this ride!

Memorial Weekend

Every Memorial Weekend we have a tradition of camping up at our lot in Warm River, the weather is usually rainy, but this year we got the surprise of not only rain but snow! Other than our little snow shower we had a wonderful time together. Luckily Ry's parents let us take their trailer so we played lots of games, watched lots of movies and had the heat cranked up.

Grandma's headstone, this was the first time we've seen it, it took a while for them to get it set up, it's so beautiful!

Mareesa feeding the massive fish on our way out of town (also a tradition we do on our way out of town every year.)

Ry and me above Bear Gulch, my Dad's favorite fishing place as a child.

BEAR GULCH
So gorgeous, I wish I could live here!

The Warm River view of the Teton Mountain Range, you can barely see it through the cloud cover.

We all caught a few fish...and a stick or two.

Ry, Brekka, and Kaid fishing off our favorite bridge.

Portland Day Four

That about sums it up...

Pretty Starfish at the aquarium.

Cannon Beach

The cute seals...oh I love them!!!

In front of the million flavors of jelly beans.

My last day in Portland Jade made us yummy waffles and we went to sacrament meeting. After sacrament Ashton and I headed to Cannon Beach, where the beautiful rock formations are and Seaside, where all of the cute little shops and boutiques are. We enjoyed our day walking the beach, visiting candy shoppes and wandering through the cute boutiques. We also made a stop at the aquarium where the obvious highlight was feeding the darling seals!!!

I had the best time with my sister, I couldn't have asked for a better trip. Thanks so much Ash, love and miss you!!!!

Portland Day Three

Saturday we slept in super late which was heavenly! After we got ready we drove up to the Portland temple, it was breath taking; just a gorgeous white temple nestled in the forest. If you can't tell, I am officially in love with Portland, we should probably move there.

After we looked at the temple we headed down to the Farmers' Market. It was ridiculous compared to our Farmer's Market, they had everything you could think of. Lots of yummy food, homemade soaps/oils, and lots of fresh fruit and veggies. I noticed while I was there how green everything is, like tree-hugger green, and I loved it!! They have recycle bins all over the place, places to refill your water, dim lights in the grocery stores and lots more that I wish Idaho had.

We ate some food and sat by Lake Oswega and enjoyed basking in the sun.

After we were done there we got some things to plan Peyton's 2 year birthday party. We made a cute happy birthday sign and got some really fun things for her.

Portland Day Two

Ashton planned a fun day for us on Friday. We woke up and had breakfast with Peyton (she's soooo cute!!) and then headed over to Ashton's sister in-laws yard to see if there were any baby deer. Jade had told us the night before he had seen some so we had our fingers crossed that they would still be there, and they were!! After we saw the baby deer we went to the museum OMSI, it had lots of stuff to keep us entertained. They had earthquake simulators, light refraction displays, and so many other fun things. We went to the physics lab and the chemistry lab, which are surprisingly much more fun than the physics and chem labs from college classes. OMSI is right on the river, so we went out on the dock and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine. After playing around at OMSI we took P home for a nap and while she napped Ash and I oiled up and laid out and read our books.

Everday I was there was absolutely gorgeous and warm!! After Peyton woke up from her nap we headed up to the Zoo. Our first exhibit we went to see was Africa, it just confirmed my desire to save up to pick Kaid up from his mission, the animals were so pretty!! We had a blast looking at all the different animals and hearing Peyton talk about the "baby animals" she called everyone a baby, it was the cutest thing ever!! After we were done at the zoo we were SOOO tired; Ash had a babysitter coming a little later, so we called her and told her to come even later because we needed a nap. We tried to have Peyton nap with us, but she would not have it, so she went in her room for quiet time while Ashton and I were dead to the world until the both our phones rang (Abby, the babysitter's mom and Ry) luckily they called to wake us up, or who knows when we would have got up.

After the babysitter got there we got ready and went to dinner at PFChangs, it was so yummy! We were going to go to a movie but missed the first time and then decided shopping would be more satisfying than a movie, and we were right. We both found a few things we could not live without and went home full and happy. We definitely slept well that night...

Dinner at PDChangs...delicious.
Napping polar bear, love him!

The mama deer and her two babies!!

The view from the OMSI dock, gorgeous right?

Besties in front of the Zebras.

In the Chemistry lab at OMSI.

Peyton "riding" the earthquake simulator, she could not get enough!

In front of the elephant exhibit.

Portland Day One

I went to Portland this weekend to visit my bestfriend Ashton, we haven't seen each other in almost two years so this was a much overdue trip. I flew into Portland Thursday evening and could hardly contain my excitement while I was waiting for my bags. Ash picked my up from the airport and we headed to downtown Portland to a famous donut shop called VooDoo Donuts. They had the most insane flavors you could ever think of; for example, sour grape, dirt, maple bar with actual bacon on top (sick), lots of different ones sprinkled with cold cereal and tons more. After tasting the three we got we headed to her house, Peyton was already asleep, and I haven't seen her since she was a tiny baby so I was sad I had to wait until morning to see her little face. We stayed up talking and catching up on each other's lives.