California Trip - Day 2 Friday April 8th, 2011

Day 2 of our vacation we woke up to this....

ugh! i hate snow!

We had put on our itinerary that we were going to take a ferry around the lake that was like 2 hours long. Needless to say with the snow and freezing cold temperatures, that didn't happen. :(

Instead of going on the ferry, we took a drive around Tahoe for a little bit. We drove down a very scenic road with lots of trees and some amazing looking houses.

This was on our way to emerald bay. We were unable to go there as well because of avalanche danger. Stupid snow!

I really wanted to see it because there is a little tea house on the Island.  Couldn't even get a blasted picture!

This waterfall was just on the side of the hill. It had a pretty cool name too.

BRIDAL VEIL FALLS

 When we finally came out of the canyon and dropped into the valley this is what we saw.  It was so pretty and SO green! Reminded me of the Sound of Music..haha

The last time we went to California we had quite the laughs. We found this cookie store by the name of Uncle Biffs Killer Cookies and that was the highlight of our trip. And you couldn't forget "the smoker" it was a beat up rusty ole' car with smoke coming out of the tail pipe..haha. We kept asking people out the window if they have seen Uncle Biff because we want some killer cookies...haha ok well I guess you had to be there.

Anyways, to make a long story short, we had to pull over to find directions. This is where the highlight of this trip comes in. We pulled into this parking lot and there was this animal control vehicle backing up, and behind that car was a man guiding him back with this crazy crazy accent and he was yelling....."COME ON BACK!!" but you have to picture this guy with the accent when he says this. Anyways after that, we could NOT stop repeating "come on back" in this accent the whole entire trip and no matter what we were doing or where we were, if someone said it, we all cracked up laughing and couldn't stop! It was pretty funny.

Ok, so I'm a nerd haha. I heard about this next stop from my mom and she said if we had the chance,  then to stop and check it out.  It is located in Fairfield California and it was on our way to our destination, so what the heck why not stop. Kim thought i was weird, but oh well. haha

Jelly Belly Factory

There was SO many choices!

$24 later, I had what I went there for. A bag of jelly bellys for me, my mom and Bethie! :)

Yep...definetely a nerd!

We finally made it to Windsor California! yahoo! So this was our crib for the next week. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a murphy bed, cable tv, dvd player, internet access,  full kitchen and our very own washer and dryer. It was pretty sweet!

I thought i would take some pictures of the inside before the tornado hit..haha

so lets take a look around. :)

This was mine and Brittanys room! Umm yep, those are twin beds. UGH! They were the MOST uncomfortable  beds I have slept on in my life. Every morning I would wake up with back pain and the last 2 nights of the vacation, I DIDN'T SLEEP!  Stupid beds!

This is out the back door on the deck. There was 2 hot tubs, a pool, and a fitness area with a pool table, table tennis and a whole lot more.

Notice the tree. they were everywhere and so cool looking.

We unloaded our luggage and got a little situated and then went out to eat at ...

JOHNNY GARLICS

yes, Guy Fieris very own restraunt. It was so delish! I was hoping to see him, but no such luck.

 winding down. we were SO tired!

Well I tried to upload some videos of Kasey and Kolbey playing "just dance" on the wii, but blogger is being dumb so I will try again later.

We catch the first glimpse of the ocean on day 3...stay tuned.

California Trip - Day 1 Thursday April 7th,2011

After months of planning, this day came so quick that it was almost like we didn't have time to plan at all. Our destination....Windsor California/San Francisco California. :)

We packed up the car (my moms car) THANKS MOM!! :) and left early Thursday morning. Our first stop was going to be in Lake Tahoe and we all knew that it was going to be a long drive and seriously it was, with nothing to see but desert all around us. :/  So, what did we do.....

we slept...

well sort of....haha.

and we tried to strangle ourselves with seatbelts too. haha

We made it safely to Lake Tahoe and was very surprised to see that it was snowing and had been snowing ALOT!  I thought we were leaving Utah because of the weather? It was crazy how much it had snowed there. I have to admit though, it was very beautiful, oh so cold as well!

Yes, our condo was at 7,400 ft in elevation. Basically at the top of the mountain, where it was 10x as cold as it was in the valley. 

This picture was taken near our condo. you can see the valley with Lake Tahoe in the background. It was quite the view.

After we got settled in at the condo we ventured out to find something to eat. Poor Brittany had a migraine that night, so we went on the hunt to find her a cheeseburger per her request. We took her burger back to the condo and then  Me, Kim, Kasey and Kolbey went to Cabo Wabo Cantina,  Kims favorite place to go because of Sammy Hagar. Sammys son actually owns this cabo wabo and it was fun to see. For me, the food was just ok. Kim ordered me a waborita, which i didn't even drink half of and was feeling a little tipsy, so I stopped. The atmosphere was awesome and the waitresses were very nice.

Here is a photo taken at Cabo Wabo of all of us...minus brit. we missed you brittany!

Sorry for the blurriness, its a picture taken of a picture.

good times!

We were all pretty tired from the drive from Utah, that once we got back to the condo after dinner, we all pretty much crashed! 

I wish it had been a little bit warmer in Tahoe to see more things, but that just means I will need to go back in the summer when its warmer.

Our first leg of the trip was over and we had more to see in the morning. :)

St. Patricks Day!

here are the letters that i did for St. Pattys Day.

at first i didn't think the green was bright enough

but once i got the embellishments on them, i think they turned out ok.

Happy St. Pattys Day!  :)

jazz game & baby blessing

this was one crazy busy weekend. we were finally able to get tickets to a jazz game on saturday march 5th and were able to go with lots of friends and family. we got tickets for the jazz vs. sacramento game, and boy what a game it was. :]  alot had changed since we had gotten our tickets. head coach jerry sloan resigned as well as his asst. coach and deron williams was traded to the nets, but the team seems to be doing ok and i think it will take some time for them to really work together and win some really good games.
i don't think i have yelled that loud in a very long time. in the final minutes of the game we tied it up and it went into OT. YES!! more yelling......

and we won!!

such a fun time with everyone.

wish i could afford season tickets.

i actually got alot more pictures but only am posting my favs.

[Raja Bell]

[cj miles]

[andre kirlenko]

[paul milsap]

[bear!!]

[al jefferson]

the new guys

[derek favors & devon harris]

[this girl LOVES ice cream! ]

after the jazz game we had to make the trip to logan for a baby blessing on sunday morning. we got to quintin and amandas after midnight and had to get up at 6:30 am to make it to church in weston idaho by 9. yeah, lets just say we were all tired and ornery in the morning. we wouldn't have missed this blessing for the world.

[sweet annie jo kropf] i believe i see some red in her hair. adorable.

bethie got this side shot of annie. i love it!

and....i could not leave these too beautiful little girls out for nothing. they are growing so fast!

[abbi] isn't her hair beautiful!?

[Lilli] so cute!!



good times!

i'm still trying to get caught up on my sleep! ugh

headed here in about 28 days :)

i can't wait! :]

 

it seems like i have time to change my blog background, but never have anything fun or exciting to post about.

there is something wrong with that picture.

oh well..at least my blog is cute. :)

on another note...

i'm going to cali in April.

i'm getting pretty excited.

-beach

-baseball game

-shopping

-safari (maybe)

-fresh fish

-swimming

-restraunts with calmari + seafood

ahhhh...i can't wait!

 just not sure about flying home for the first  time ever in my life.

at least i won't be flying alone.

valentine letters

here is my latest craft project

 *Valentine Letters *

these were actually pretty simple as there was just alot of painting because the letters are quite large so i couldn't really cover them with decorative paper.

i added some bling to the letters as well as a few buttons

the bling added a nice touch and made the letters stand out more.

i think they turned out awesome! 

Happy Valentines Day!