My Sister

This post is waaaaay over due. Back in August my good friend Kari offered to do a fun photo shoot with me and my sister "Boots". My sister LOVES posing for pictures and modeling, so she was all for this idea. We had such a blast and Kari did such a great job! I believe she has her own photography business and if anyone is interested in her services let me know and I can get you her info!

I am definitely not as cute as my little sis Boots- but I love these pictures anyway and I am glad my sister and I can be best friends. We have such a good time together and we are always laughing.

Here she is- what a skinny, cute, model!


Some more of us trying to be serious, but I can never pull it off as well as she can. I was constantly laughing and Kari was desperately trying to snap shots in between all the giggling. Good work Kari- you are a trooper!
This part of the evening was pretty neat! Boots was lovin the silhouette look- and she got tons of cute pictures but I picked the best one of her and the best one of both of us.

Our last shots of the night were Boots' idea. She got me this cute matching t-shirt and she wanted to do some fun angled photos. Pretty cute.


And the woman of the hour--- KARI! Isn't she adorable? We met about a year ago in Biology class at the University of Utah (I love this school by the way) and I am so happy we are friends. She is so cute and talented and smart. We have a great time together (even though I haven't seen her in a while :( Sad stuff) and I just adore her! Thanks for the great photo shoot Kari!

Hey hey hey!

I am so lame lately and don't have much to report. With this semester slowly coming to an end, that is all that I have time for. I can't wait until December, maybe I'll have a life again :)

At the beginning of October we decided to take one last trip to Disneyland before our season passes expired (Sad Day!). And we were so excited when our close friends Eric and Colleen said they would come too. We love these guys and they are so fun and cute. We had only a couple days planned for California and they were really busy days! We loved all the Halloween decorations at the parks and had a blast in the warm weather. There was one thing about this Disney trip that was extremely disappointing-

This Halloween, Disney decided to throw a Micky Mouse Halloween Party (which he had heard a little bit about), this party is on Tuesday and Friday nights, so they CLOSE the park at 7 pm (which we had NOT heard about). The catch is- you can go to the party if you pay an extra $70 (after the hundreds you have spent on tickets in the first place) and they only do their fantastic, fabulous, wonderful Halloween firework show at this party. This is one of the main reasons we wanted to go in October!! Last year we drove down for one day of Disney just to see this show. Needless to say, we were a little disappointed that day. So when we got the boot at Disney, we spent our evening at California Adventure and watched World of Color- which is also cool :)

I am sure all of you are sick of hearing all about our frequent Disney excursions, but never fear- I don't know when we will be going back now that our passes have expired. I don't know if I'm up for buying another pass just yet, maybe in a couple years we'll try again.

We were pretty terrible at taking pictures this time around, we mostly got photos of all the fun decorations, but these are our cute friends and these are the only 2 photos I got of us. And no one got a photo of all 4 of us... we are so lame.

In other updates, we celebrate quite a few birthdays in October. So here is a birthday shout out to my sister-in-law Shanelle, my boss DB, my good friend Ambria, my cuz Alec and my brother-in-law Shawn! Happy (late) Birthday everyone! Here are a couple photos from Shawn's birthday party. I love Lexi's expression in this photo. Don't mind my extremely tired face.



And all the girls love to help dad open his presents. I can't believe how big my nieces are getting! They grow up way too fast. (Again- don't mind my nasty face... proof that school is slowly killing me)



With the holidays coming up- I hope I have some fun photos and stories.

Celebrations!!

We have been doing lots of celebrating the past couple of weeks. This month was our sister-in-law Angie's Birthday (Happy Birthday Ang!) as well as our niece Autumn's birthday. We had an awesome BBQ in their backyard to celebrate and Ang made this fantastic barbie cake! Professional!!! Autumn loved it. She is such a cute girl and I can't believe how fast she is growing up. She turned 6 and I am blown away by that. I have known Autumn since she was just a few months old. Happy Birthday my cute girl!

We also celebrated another wedding anniversary... my grandparents 50th!! How cool is that? To celebrate my Nana wanted to go to La Caille. We rented a room that had a great view and beautiful decor. The grounds there are really neat and we had the chance to get family photos done. We also set up some fun tables for Nana and Papa. We had some of their wedding photos, family photos and a little book for everyone to write them a note. My Aunt made a slide show as well and man was it adorable!!! I think Nana and Papa had a good time- I know we did! Happy Anniversary Nana and Papa. They are so sweet and good to us. We are blessed to have such an amazing family!

The couple of the hour!

2 Years

September is our wedding anniversary month! This year makes year 2. I can't believe how fast time flies. It feels like we were just married a few months ago. This year we didn't do gifts since we had just spent a week in California and Disneyland. But Scott did take me out to a really fancy dinner at our favorite restaurant- Ruth's Chris.

This place is amazing! Scott told them it was our anniversary and they really went all out. The table was decorated with candles and rose petals and they even had a cute "Happy Anniversary" card for us.

As we are admiring the setting and the table and the beautiful restaurant, we see our best friends across the room enjoying dinner as well!! We asked them to join us but they had all ready finished. These two are the cutest ever.
Our dinner was delicious and our desserts are exquisite! This is my new favorite food right now... bread pudding with white chocolate ganache. I crave it daily. I loved the message in chocolate!
Happy Anniversary my love. These past 2 years have been amazing, fun, happy, and full of awesome memories! Thank you for being mine forever!

California Part III / San Fransisco

Our final stop in California was San Fransisco! We stayed in Japan Town and we didn't even dare go to any of the Japanese restaurants. The closest thing to Japanese food that we got was Benihana's. Ha ha. It was delicious though and we had a lot of fun.
One of the first things we did in San Fransisco was venture on over to Alcatraz. If you have never been there, or never heard of it- Alcatraz is a prison on an island about a mile away from San Fran. So you take a Ferry over to the Island and take an audio tour. It's really fun and interesting.
Pretty much the only other thing to do in San Fransisco is to wander around the Wharf, go to Pier 39 and visit Ghirardelli Square. I love Ghirardelli Square. It is so delicious!!! This time of year was the perfect time to go because they have new flavors for fall and they are fabulous. Truly.We also wandered around China Town for a little bit one evening. I have never been there before, so it was fun to see all the shops.
One of the last things we saw in San Fran is the "Full House" house! It was just down the street from our hotel. We ran into a couple cool guys from Florida who asked us if we knew that this was "Danny Tanners" house??? They were so funny and were nice enough to take this photo for us.
So that was our latest California trip! We had a blast and I love love love travelling with my honey. Thanks for taking me to all sorts of fun and interesting places!

California Part II / Disneyland

As you all know very well, Scott and I LOVE Disneyland. We always have such a blast there. This trip we were only there for 1 evening and 1 whole day. We still got lots of stuff done and got to see lots of fun new things. We got to eat at our favorite restaurant The Blue Bayou- we rarely had to wait in a single line for the rides- we rode a couple rides that we have never been on before- and of course we rode our favorites. So it was a very successful trip to Disneyland.

One of my all-time favorite rides was closed though- because they are getting it ready for Halloween. I was sad. We also stopped in Pooh-Corner and went to this cute bakery and got chocolate a chocolate dipped apple that said "hunny" for MY honey! (Side note: as we were enjoying this delicious apple, a family had sat down near us and this little boy in his stroller looked at Scott and said "HEY! Can I try that!!!??" It was sooo funny and cute)

One of the new things we did at Disneyland was over at California Adventure called "World of Color". They remodeled a bunch of fountains in this little pond in the middle of the park and you have to get tickets for the show that night. It is about a half hour long and they do a water/light show with music. It was really fun and we enjoyed it! If you are planning on going to Disneyland anytime soon- make sure to get your fast pass ticket to this in the morning and then go see it at night. It is seriously really cool. :)

California Part I

Our trip to California was for business- but we had a lot of fun as well! Our first stop was Newport Beach. We arrived in the evening and decided to take a drive around town and get some dinner. The concierge at the hotel informed us we were super close to Laguna Beach and Huntington Beach as well. So our first stop was Laguna Beach. It was SO beautiful. We found this little cove and walked around in the sand and water and watched the waves roll up. Scott even found this long stemmed red rose that washed up and he gave it to me and we were teasing that it was a rose from the Bachelor. It was all slimy and gross so I left it behind. Ha ha.

We also went to Balboa Island and Balboa Pier (they are right in Newport) and we did some shopping, bought some "Bluth's" frozen bananas. (Give me a Gob!--> If you haven't seen the TV show 'Arrested Development' you should definitely watch it. So funny.) We also took the ferry over to the Pier and enjoyed this amazing sunset.

The next night we actually spent the night at Disneyland- but I will do that in my next post. So really... a couple days later we went over to Huntington Beach. My family went there a few years ago for my dad's business trip and we really loved it. So I was excited to take Scott there. There was a giant farmer's market going on down the main street so we wandered around that for a little bit and then ate dinner at a nice restaurant. Afterward we got some gelato and walked down the Pier. It was freezing and dark, so the only pictures we took didn't turn out so great.

While we were in Newport we also went to the Newport Temple. It is gorgeous and super small! It is also fairly new. We enjoyed walking around the grounds, getting some good snapshots and doing a session. Such a gorgeous place.

After Newport beach we spent a day in Disneyland (which will be in my next post) and later we headed out to San Fransisco. I went there a couple years ago with one of my best friends Ambria and we had a blast! So I was excited to go with my man. We decided to go to the Oakland Temple since that is really close to San Fransisco and we spent almost the entire day there. It is such a pretty place and has some amazing views! It sits up on a hill overlooking Oakland and San Fransisco in the distance. We also did a session here, and it was a great experience!

These pictures are a little out of order... but my next post will finish it up. I know I have millions of pictures, but I LOVE to remember the fun things we did.