Thursday, November 10, 2011

Adventures

Well we have been very busy the last few months. Braeden's dad was in Anahiem for a business trip staying at the Grand Californian Hotel, so we drove down with Cameron and Cassidy and had a wonderful weekend. Disneyland was all decorated for halloween so it was fun.

A few weeks after that Braeden and I went home for my sister's wedding. It had been 2 1/2 years since I had been home and it was so good to be home! Braeden stayed for a short 3 days, but I got to stay longer and spend some time with my family. Right when we got home from Washington we moved right next door to where we used to live. I am so glad to be out of our small two bedroom dungeon and now we have lots more space and WINDOWS!

Braeden just got accepted into BYU-Idaho's bachelor of nursing online program and will be starting in January. I will hopefully start that program shortly after. We are looking forward to the holidays!


Disneyland






Seattle

We took on of my sister's bridesmaids the fastest tour of Seattle. Had to show her the gum wall.






Cousins :)



My brothers have sure grown up!



Halloween
Braeden always does the best job on his pumpkins





Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Aloha

Our vacation to Kauai, Hawaii was awesome! We were there 6 nights and had a wondering time. I loved the smell when we walked off the air plane.. it smelled tropical. Yes, we did take millions of pictures and sorry I couldn't decide on a few so there are a ton!
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This was our luxurious hotel, The Kauai Sands. Ha ha it was really old.. we had some sweet green shag carpet though. It was cheap, it was right on the beach and we left early in the morning and came back and crashed so cheap was the way to go.
This was the beach at our hotel

Wailua Falls

Hanalei

Spent all day every day at the beach relaxing


We went on a kayak trip that had amazing views and hiked to Secret Falls
Secret Falls

This was tree tunnel road, it was my favorite road

Waimea caynon- they call it the grand canyon of the islands


The upper right picture is a mountain called King Kong. It was in an old Indiana Jones movie




Pu'u o Kila lookout- this was the most breath taking view we had ever seen. I wanted to just sit there all day and take it in.

This is a monk seal that came and slept on our beach the whole day. There are only 33 that come to the island of kauai. There are volunteers that you call if you see one and they come and rope it off and educate you about the animal and sit there until they leave.

Snorkeling was amazing! The fish were so bright and colorful. We snorkeled every day for hours and hours



This is Po'ipu beach, our favorite place to snorkel

The food was amazing there and especially the banana pancakes at a small family restaurant.
Our favorite place to eat had these delicious hawaiian polish dogs with pineapple relish..yum.. I still crave them. If you ever go to this island you have to go to Puka dog. More favorites were this Korean bbq restuarant, shave ice with macadamia nut ice cream, kalua pork tacos and fresh pineapple.


Hanalei Bay

Tunnels beach- also a great place to snorkel. We got to swim with a sea turtle and it was awesome.

View of the Napali coast- 17 miles of no beach
Opaeka'a Falls


I love this tree


I got up at 5:30 our last morning there and watched the sunrise. It was beautiful and Braeden sure missed out! It was so hard to leave this amazing place. Every time we drove by the hospital we wanted to stop in and see if there were any jobs, but we didn't and decided we could go back real soon! For those who want to go to Hawaii I would definitely recommend Kauai.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

July Fun

I can't believe that summer is almost over! We have been very busy this past month. We went to southern California with our best friends Travis, Amanda and their little one Treyden. We stayed at their grandparents house and it was so much fun. We spent a lot of time at Huntington Beach and the boys had fun body surfing and boogie boarding. It was a nice relaxing trip that was much needed. Then we had a family reunion in Mount Pleasant, Utah. Braeden's parents flew out to come to the reunion and we all had a great time. After the reunion his parents came down to hang out with us for a few days before heading home. Next week we are off to Kauai, Hawaii! Sorry there are a lot of pictures.. I took a lot!

Cassidy, Amanda and I at the Tuacahn amphitheater watching The Little Mermaid

Family Reunion, Zion & New Harmony

Smore time!

Braed and Cam acting as oxen for our pioneer day skits.. ha ha I love this picture

Zion



Cute little Harper


Cousins




California