Palm Springs

Palm Springs is one of my favorite places in the whole world!!! Its beautiful. Its calming and relaxing. I just enjoy sitting around, laying at the pool, eating yummy food and just enjoying a slow paced life. I love seeing my grandparents and spending time with them. I only got a few days but I loved every minute of it. I can't wait to go back next winter!!!

Beauty!!!

The whole family at the pool

Hot tubing

Celebrating Pam and Gregs Birthdays

Eating cake on the grass!!!

Yummy cake huh Brinsley...

Im the lucky aunt of these two BEAUTIFUL GIRLS!!!
LOVE YOU TWO!!!

Seattle

I went to Seattle to see my cousin, her husband and their 2 kids. It was so nice to get to visit and play with Carly and see baby Tyler. I hate that they live so far away but Im so grateful that I was able to visit and spend time together. We had a lot of fun going to the aquarium and seeing Christmas lights and doing fun christmas stuff. We even went to Kirks work christmas party (microsoft) it was amazing!!! I had so much fun!!!

Touching the Starfish

An Octopus!!! I have never seen one before!!

Coolest thing ever!!! I freaked!!

Lots of fish swimming above us

Seattle Aquarium

Christmas lights

more Christmas lights

Photobooth

Snowflake Lane Christmas Festivities!!!

Sun Valley

Over the 4th of July my family went to Sun Valley to bike, eat, shop, and enjoy life. I love Sun Valley... Its just a fun little town with so much to do. It was so nice to get out of town and enjoy a quick weekend in beautiful Sun Valley with the fresh air and mountains!!! Im so grateful to have places this close to home to visit!!

Waiting to get picked up. Brinsley got so excited when she saw grandpas truck so started waving like crazy! It was so cute!

Stopping for lunch in a really small town. This was the only food joint around. But it was yummy!!

Entertaining Brinsley in the car ride with my iPad. She loved watching short movies on it.

Bike ride down the mountain... talk about and adrenaline rush!

Some parts were really intense!!

Me and Amy and the beautiful view!

Family bike ride to Hayley to eat lunch at Shortys.

The crew... Greg was tough and dragged Brinsley along

Ice Skating!!! This was my most favorite thing to do in Sun Valley when I was little so it was fun to do it again!

We ran into Hoda from The Today Show-Kathy Lee and Hoda. She was super nice and talked to us for a bit.

Playing at the park.

Testing out the fake Gondola

Brinsley driving the train (or she thought)

We got pints of Ben and Jerrys ice cream and then sat on the grass waiting for fireworks!! This was a highlight of the trip for me. I loved it!!!

Picnic lunch on the drive home... After visiting the ice caves (which I dont have pictures of)

Such a fun trip!!! I love Sun Valley so much!!!

Palm Springs...

This last week I went to Palm Springs with my cousins Chelsey and Lacey to visit my grandparents. Its not like me to not take pictures but for some reason this trip I didn't take pictures. I mostly just enjoyed the break in life. All I did was lay out by the pool in the beautiful 80 degree weather. I didn't have a worry in the world... Every night I would go out to dinner with the grandparents to yummy fabulous places!!! I went to the new Apple store on El Paseo 3 times!!! and even spent a morning window shopping there :) I ate at yummy Panera Bread (which just opened there) went on a golf cart ride... Got some fresh Lemons (instead of Grapefruit) and enjoyed the company of my grandparents and cousins. Life was great and Im sad to be home :( Palm Springs in probably my most favorite place in the world!!!!!!!


I did get one picture in the pool that Chelsey took with her phone


Oh and the best part, we ran into Trace Adkins in the Palm Springs airport!!!!!!!!!!!! I was super excited and of course I had to get a picture then :) He was in a rush but was nice enough to pose with us and talk for a minute!!! So fun :) You should all be jealous!!

Pittsburgh to visit Tiffany and the Twins!!!

Last week I was lucky enough to go to Pittsburgh for a whole week to visit Tiffany and the babies... We had so much fun hanging out, catching up, doing embarrassing things, playing with the babies, shopping, movies and lots of yummy food!!! Here are some things we did...

Panera Bread!!! I heard this place was good but really IT WAS AMAZING!!! We ate there multiple times and I even have to get bagels to take home... Probably one of my most favorite places... Yummy... Im craving it bad!!!!

Hallie got her ears pierced... I don't know who was more traumatized Tiffany or Hallie... ha ha... but she sure looks cute!!!

We went to the Phipps Conservatory and it was so cool!!! I loved all the different rooms with flowers and Bonsai trees and Tiffanys favorite Orchids. It was so much fun and smelled yummy!!! It made me feel like it was summer again... almost :)

So pretty...

Tiffanys favorite flower...

in my favorite color (purple)

We did a lot of shopping... they have an H&M in Pittsburgh so of course we had to go twice and Hallie and Emerson were so patient. They even fed themselves :)

Photo shoot!!! There were many more pictures taken but I only put up this one... They are both so freaking adorable and I got to spend a whole afternoon with them while Tiffany went to Darrens school... Lets just say the twins probably think Im crazy... ha ha

My little thug... :)

This is the city!!! So pretty...

We took the Incline up the hill to see an even more beautiful view

Here it is!!! I loved it up here.

many more views... all the bridges along the river

This is a shout out to Greg and Pam... I am pointing at the Steelers stadium right on the river...

I have always wanted to go to Dave and Busters... I have seen a million commercials for it and of course Utah doesn't have one so I had to experience it... and lets just say I had a blast!!! We played some super fun games. Skeeball, Deal or No Deal, Horse racing, car racing and a trivia game. We also ate some yummy snack food and won enough coupons for nerd ropes!!! ha ha... I will not tell you how many games we played to get them :)

Tiffany winning the most coupons at Skeeball

SCORE!!!

Thanks Tiffany for all the laughs and great memories!!! Thanks for everything!!! Give the little ones hugs and kisses from me :)