Baby Animal Days - Round 2!

We discovered that there was a Baby Animal Days going on last weekend in Kaysville at the USU botanical center... sooo of course we wanted to go :)

We called up some friends and checked it out!  Though it was really small and not as cool as we were hoping, we still had a great time "snuggling" with fluffy bunnies and duckies.

 One of Jeff's good friends Peter and his wife Chandel.  

It was pretty tempting to take one these home.  They were so stinking cute.

 This little guy had us cracking up.  Jeff put him right to sleep while petting him and his head just flopped right down.  Ha ha!

We sure love us some baby animals :)

There is Beauty All Around... in Portland!

Jeff conveniently had the day of our anniversary off last week (as well as the two days after), so we took the opportunity to celebrate two wonderful years in Portland!

This was Jeff's first time going to Oregon and he was blown away by it's breathtaking beauty.  So much so that now he wants to move there :)

(FYI, I didn't take the time to alter my pictures for the Web, so they don't look as good... maybe I will change that later.  As of right now I don't feel like re-uploading them ha)

 As soon as we got our rental car we headed out to the coast!  We ate lunch in Tillamook, then drove out to Cape Meares, and then onto Cape Lookout (in the picture).

 On our way back to Portland we saw a sign for a Waterfall ahead and took the short detour to find this beautiful surprise!  

 We filled the rest of our day with more waterfalls... the famous Multnomah Falls of course!  

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.  LOVE that bridge.

Wahkeena Falls!  This one was probably my favorite.

 My cute Jeffrey :)

Annnd... I can't remember the name of this one... Oops!  But it was in the same general area as the other ones.  It was also very pretty.

For our second day in Portland we stuck around the city until our flight that evening.

We first visited the International Rose Test Gardens... 

 ...and saw lots and lots of lovely..... bushes.  And rose buds.  Luckily it was free, because apparently we were a bit too early for the roses :(

 Next we ventured up to the Pittock Mansion.  Unfortunately the prices were a bit too steep for us to take the tour of the inside, but it was a Beautiful house with a Beautiful view!

 Gorgeous view of Portland.  And a snow topped Mt. Hood (I think) way out there beneath those clouds. 

(might be able to see it better if you click on the pic to enlarge it)

 Our last place to visit was Fort Vancouver across the river in Washington.

It was.... nice.  Ha.  

We got all the way up to the fort to realize that they actually wanted us to pay, then walked back to our car to get cash, just to walk all the way back.  All of that so we could barely step foot into a couple buildings and peek into the windows and yank on all the doors of the ones that were closed.  Needless to say... apparently it's once again the wrong time of year ha ha.   

The coolest part was the watch tower with all these cannons and windows up top.

 Uh oh.  Looks like someone's been naughty...

There's a lot more to Fort Vancouver than just the actually fort part.  Most of the buildings are closed/being worked on, or are homes, stores, businesses, and we were also running short on time.

  This building was the hospital!  I'm a sucker for old buildings.  I love them.  I wanted to go explore it so bad, but they had it closed up.  Looked like they were working on making it structurally sound and fixing it up.

So anyway, we had a blast in Portland.  Oregon is beautiful and we got lucky with two gorgeously sunny days.

9 Hours in San Fran

A couple weeks ago we took a day trip to San Francisco!  We had about 9 hours - 3 of which were spent on buses trying to get to and from the airport and city.  The other 6 ish hours were spent at Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, and sitting in the airport.

 Riding the fairy to Alcatraz!

Looks cozy huh....??

 The outside "playground" for the inmates.  If they were good they got yard time.

 Baseball diamond and water tower

 The Warden's house.  Check out that cool fireplace and chimney!

 If you can't tell... it was SUPER windy!  We had a hard time getting my hair under control ha ha...

 Great views of the city!!

And finally, we wandered ran through Fisherman's Wharf, grabbed some grub and hopped back on the bus!  It was a short trip but we had blast!

PS shout out to GoogleMaps.  It made figuring out the San Fran's public transportation super duper easy!  

The Best Two Years

Two years ago today I was sealed to my best friend in the Salt Lake Temple for time and all eternity.  

It was the best day of my life.  And it's been the best two years :)  I couldn't have asked for a better Best Friend to spend Eternity with.  

We've had some great adventures together and I look forward to the many more that lie ahead of us!  

(sorry I know it's blurry and small... I will fix it later!)

I just love this man!  Happy Anniversary Jeffrey! 

Tip-Toe Through the Tulips

Last weekend we went down to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point with some of our friends!  Jeff and I had never been before so it was great and we saw lots of pretty tulips!

 Such cute Newlyweds!

Annnnnnd the Oldlyweds :)

(2 years baby!!)

Our last week or so has been pretty fun... On Monday we went to San Francisco for the day (post and pictures to follow)!  Thursday, Jeff had something down in American Fork so we drove down for that, then continued on to Provo to visit one of my old roommates that I haven't seen in awhile.  

Then, we figured since we were down we would go visit the Mapleton Kids.  It's awfully convenient that my brother and sister live 3 houses away from each other and all the nieces and nephews are in one location!  We hung out at my sisters house for a bit playing Monsters in The Dark in the closest under the stairs, (attempted) to play Candyland with Brynlee, coloring, and got lots of baby time of course!  I just can't get enough of those little ones.  They are 7 1/2 months now, growing up too quickly, and are cuter than ever!

(If you look close enough you can barely see the waterfall waaay up there at the top.  It's a lot better without all the snow ha)

On Saturday we wanted to go on a hike so we picked Donut Falls up Big Cottonwood Canyon.  I totally didn't think about the fact that there would still be snow up there... and I had the bright idea to wear my chacos... ha ha.  Despite the fact that pretty much the entire trail was covered in a LOT of snow and you could hardly even see the waterfall, we had a blast and even made some friends :)  We ended up hiking most of the way up with a retired couple who just moved here from Kansas ha.  They were very friendly and happen to have a son who also is a commercial airline pilot. 

  

And we even saw a moose!! :) 

(Jeff loves moose so we're always looking out for them, but rarely see them... so we were pretty excited!)

Friday night we went to some friend's graduation party in Salt Lake and then Saturday night we hung out with our good friends who were down from Logan!  This last week is the most social we've been in a long time ha ha.  It was great to spend time with so many great friends and family!