Showing posts with label travels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travels. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

Tame your inner Bridezilla

A few years ago I was on a flight home from Miami. My brother Sam and I had just gone on a carribean cruise with my grandparents (Papa Jim and Grandma Ida) celebrating Sammy's high school graduation. Anyways... by chance I was sitting next to a young couple who informed me that they too were flying home from a carribean cruise. We got to talking and they told me that next weekend they were getting married. I couldn't believe this when they told me. I thought for sure that there must have been a time conflict and they were forced to take their honeymoon before the wedding, but that wasn't it at all. They simply wanted some time to relax before their big day. Genius! Turns out they had planned on taking their honeymoon a few months after the wedding so that they could fully enjoy the time with their friends and family.

This has always stuck with me and when it was time to plan our wedding I of course wanted to do a pre wedding relaxation vacation, but of course realistically we couldn't afford to do anything like a Carribean cruise. So instead, Trev and I along with a handful of our friends headed up to Leavenworth a few days early so that we could get some relaxation in before the big day. Thursday before the wedding we did exactly that. A 4 hour float down the Icicle, which turns into the Wenatchee, river. We had so much fun that we decided to do it with even more of our friends and family the day after the wedding. Here are a few pics from our mini relaxation vacation.






To every bride and groom out there! This is the best advice I will ever give you.... during your wedding week take time to relax and HAVE FUN with the people who love you!

Monday, December 22, 2008

Adobe MAX & ADIM

November 16-21st was my first Adobe MAX and ADIM conference. For those of you who don't know what that is... its basically a totally nerdy designer/developer conference. It was held in the fabulous city of San Francisco and was an excellent graduation present from Mom & David. I got more information than my brain could retain, made a ton of friends, and came home with a bag stuffed with free junk.




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Mexico

November 1st- 8th my Dad's side of the family went on an amazing mexican cruise to celebrate my Papa Jim & Grandma Ida's 50th wedding anniversary! We stopped in Cabo, Mazatlan, & Puerto Vallarta. It was an amazing time, and an extremely special celebration for all of us.




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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Hello Again

I have been a horrible blogger these past few months. A quick catch up on what I have been doing...

Graduated College
Moved
Got a Job
Went to Mexico
Welcomed our new niece Peyton.
Went to San Francisco
Went to Leavenworth
Began Wedding Planning

Most of these things require their own individual posts, so there will definitely be a huge catch up blogfest coming up shortly. :)

For now I will leave you with an image of my Grandparent's (Papa Jim & Grandma Ida) backyard in Leavenworth, WA. For those of you who don't know, Trev and I will be getting married here on July 18th. Keep in mind this picture was taken in late November ;)


Thursday, August 7, 2008

Sand in my shoes....

These are just a few of the many highlights from our annual trip to Seaside with Trevor's family.

- Melissa teaching Trevor how to cartwheel

- Watching Carter stare at Travis

- Driving scooters around town

- Long walks (it's what we do there)

- Playing frisbee in the ocean

- Deal or no deal & fascination

- Thai-rone

- Sugar overload at zingers

- Carter's wave, and the face that he makes when he does it! :)

- Stargazing in the Hammock at night, and getting sun in the hammock during the day

- Realizing that I am most likely psychic... haha

- Spending time with the people we love! <3

I wish I had taken more pictures, especially of sweet Carter boy!


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Seaside teaser!

Monday, July 7, 2008

The last week of break has arrived :(

These are some pics from my trip to california. It was so awesome relaxing in the sun, playing with my little bro, seeing high school musical the play (i know your jealous), and getting a ton of wedding stuff started!

I missed my AJ!
I love the beach!
California Sunset
Aidan driving his uncle's chevron
Racing is in his blood.
Safety first.
Yeah it was fun except for the 120 degree heat!
Hair blowing in the wind.
Crazy face
Hey Mr. G!
On the Jungle Cruise!
Peter the Magnificent
Peter the Magnificent and I had many a sword fight.

Monday, May 26, 2008

A heafty dose of perspective.

Yellowstone National Park
What a trip! More to follow.


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Monday, May 5, 2008

The tulips are gone :(

We drove up north to see the tulips on Sunday, but to our disappointment they had all been harvested. We did however find this pasture of nearly dead daffodils. We also had a great lunch in the town of Laconner, and stood in line for 45 minutes to get a giant scoop of ice cream.




Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Birthday Weekend!

This year for my birthday, Erin, Trev, Chris and I went on a weekend trip to Seaside, Or.  We left really late on friday night because Chris didn't get off work until 10pm.  At around 1:30 AM Trevor was pulled over for speeding in the middle of nowhere Oregon.  Luckily she let us off with a warning, but in reality we don't think Trev was speeding, we think she was just bored and ours was the first car to come through there in hours.  We got to the beach at around 2:30 and stayed up talking until 4!
The next morning Erin woke up to me, like a kid on christmas, ready to go!  After all it was the most amazing day, at one point the thermometer reached 70 degrees!  We went to Bagel by the Sea for breakfast, did some shopping, and walked along the beach.  When we returned the boys were just getting up and heading out with the canoe to drop the crab pot.  More than enough time had gone by to drop the crab pot and the boys still weren't back.  We started to wonder what was taking them so long, so we hopped on the bikes and rode down to the bridge where we could see them standing on a bank, quite a ways down the river. While Trev and Chris were taking a leisurely stroll down the river, they had been stopped by a police officer.  Apparently it is illegal to canoe without a life jacket, even when you can stand up in the completely still water that you are canoeing in.  Once again we had a run in with a bored police officer, but this time we weren't as lucky.  Even after showing Officer Oconnor Chris's military ID, he gave Trev a ticket.  We walked the canoe back to the house and headed off to Cannon Beach.
Cannon Beach was amazing, we walked out to haystack rock and Erin and I waded around in the tide pools.  We found a lot of hermit crabs that looked like tarantulas with shells.  I didn't really like them.  On our way back to Seaside, Erin and I got our noses pierced.  I almost chickened out as always :)  We went to Dundee's for dinner (best chicken strips ever!), then we had a fire on the beach.  After putting out the fire, we went to Girtles for some Karaoke!  We never did decide on a song and we were all getting tired, so we went home, made funfetti cupcakes, and went to bed.
On the ride home we didn't have any run ins with the law.  Around factoria, Erin pulled off an exit and was going a way that I had never gone.  I didn't think it was possible for her way to be faster, but I wasn't in any hurry and didn't complain.  I was starting to get very confused as to where we were going, but I still played along until we pulled into the humane society parking lot.  My eyes lit up with excitement and I immediately turned to Trev.  WHAT!  I have been wanting a cat for so long, but Trev had been resisting.  Turns out that Erin and Trev had been planning to surprise me with this on my birthday for a while.  They even had a cat carrier in the trunk, covered by a black plastic bag.  sneaky sneaky!  We went into the building, but were unsuccessful in picking out a kitty.  The one that I loved, was sick :( Don't worry I'm going to keep looking!

It was an amazing birthday weekend.  I have the best friends and fiance!



Right after they got the ticket for not wearing life jackets.

I love this picture of us, on the town.


Cannon Beach











After our nose piercings


Erin took this awesome pic of Trev and I.  sneaky!


Sunday, April 13, 2008

Proof of the Divine Creation Theory

Olympic National Park


















Trevor and I have a bit of an obsession with national parks and so when we awoke to a beautiful morning we decided what better way to spend the day.  It was a full day of climbing snow covered mountains, dipping our feet into beautiful blue lakes, and enjoying a west coast sunset completely alone on the incredible Ruby beach.  What an experience!  We are planning our next big National Park trip to Yellowstone in May, but are hoping to do a quick weekend trip down to Crater Lake National Park sometime before then. Yay!