May and June

Here's what we've been up to the last two months. It's only been summer for a week and already we've done so much!

Visiting family.

Visiting New York.


Birthday boys!

Harvesting our strawberries.

Camping with our ward which included sitting by the fire,

fishing (no luck,)

throwing rocks in water,

and horse rides. (There was also a giant slip n slide but I didn't get pictures.)

Well, there you have it. It's been a blast so far. Sorry for the lack of posts. Hope all your summers are starting out as fun as ours!

Dashing through the snow

Well, we're off to Utah and Idaho. As if it isn't cold enough here. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and happy New Year!!

The rest of So Cal and Vegas

Took a little hiatus from posting about our trip but I'll get back to it to appease family. After San Francisco we continued South toward you know where...that's right...Las Vegas. On the way we stopped in Modesto (Helena's hometown! Woot!), Fresno, Redlands, and Palm Springs. Palm Springs was where Ben and I honeymooned and though it was good to see it...it was better to see it from an air conditioned car. Hot, hot, hot.

Fresno Temple

Redlands Temple

Palm Springs hotel

I proceeded to take trillions of pictures of the windmills on the way out of Palm Springs. I love windmills. Blogger wouldn't let me upload all of them so you just get one.

I wish I could say he got his eyelashes from me.

We got to Las Vegas and with downcast eyes, finally found our hotel. We stayed at the luxurious Circus Circus. I hope Ben listens to me the next time I'm suspicious of the hotel price in Las Vegas. The room wasn't that bad....but it wasn't that good either. Oh well. Live and learn. We were pretty pooped from all the driving so we didn't venture out into the city until the next day. We started out in the morning and tried to duck into air conditioned buildings whenever we could. It was so incredibly hot there.

Look out Bryant!

The Venetian....loooooved the canals.

Lots of cool statues at the Caesar's Hotel mall.

Will got a panda from FAO Schwartz.

From Vegas we proceeded North towards family and cooler air. After this monster of a trip we won't be traveling for a loooooong time.

Nor Cal

SACRAMENTO, CA

The beautiful Sacramento temple.

Bryant in front of the California capitol.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Bay Bridge

Dolores Mission

Too foggy that day to see the Golden Gate Bridge :(

And Google keeps crashing so that's all the pictures for now....or maybe ever...heh j/k j/k.

Oregon Coast and the Redwoods

So....we thought while we were headed towards beautiful country we should go camping. On the way we passed some pretty coastal cities. We let the boys get out and run around on one beach. Too bad the water was cold.


Well, when we got to the redwoods to camp, we realized the camp was about a half mile off the road, and straight down. We decided to drive all night instead and stop to rest at rest stops. We saw a few redwoods...in the dark. Heh. We'll have to go back in the daylight sometime.



Anyway, driving all night probably wasn't the best idea. We were pretty tired in the morning. And Bryant didn't like the curvy road we took to get to I-5. We were pretty happy to see Sacramento in the morning. Next post...California. :)

And we're back

Wow, it's been a while. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come. We got back from our super long trip on Monday and boy was it nice to be home. Then we had family in town this past week so now finally I have a chance to post. I think I better break this up into a bunch of posts since there's so much I want to show ya'll.

NEWPORT, OR

We left August 5th and headed down to Newport Oregon. Here's Ben and Bryant before we went into the Newport Aquarium. Below are a few pictures from the aquarium.

Look at this monster! No the crab...I'm talking about the crab. It's a Japanese Spider Crab and it can live to be 100 years old! And you thought you wouldn't learn anything from my blog.


I think that's enough for one post. Until next time.

Oregon, Cali, Nevada, Utah bound

On Tuesday, we'll be headed on vacation to Utah. We'll be taking the scenic route through Oregon, California and Nevada. I hope gas goes down a couple dollars before we leave! I'm really excited to see family. I'll post pictures when we get back.
Other news. Will has been walking quite a bit more although his walk makes him look like a mini-Frankenstein. Very funny. I know you all want to know this, but Bryant's been making quite a bit of progress with potty training. Except for naps and bedtime of course. Anywho, I might blog while we're away but probably not. See ya when we get back!