Trip to Sac

Friday night Matt had a mandatory work meeting in Chico which I thought would be the perfect excuse to drive down to Sac, I mean after all we were going to be 1/2 way there. So Friday night we headed down to Sac and then on Saturday we met up with our good friends Chris and Deborah, who live in San Jose, and are also pregnant. Just last Thursday they found out they are having a little boy!!! We had so much fun with them and we shopped until we almost literally dropped. I bought a few cute outfits for Malea, a diaper bag for myself, a sheet for Malea's mattress (that came in today!), a rug for her room, and a few other little things. But most of all we had fun just spending time with our good friends and talking about life, babies, politics, God, money, and more. We are so blessed by our friendship with them and we can't wait until our babies are old enough to be friends too.

Here are Matt and Chris trying to figure out the baby Bjorn

(it was pretty hilarious and I don't think they ever actually got it figured out)

Deb and I comparing bumps. She is finally starting to show and we've both grown a lot since the last picture of our bellies.

Matt and Chris showing off their bellies... boys will be boys. :)

Louisiana Pictures

We had a great time in Louisiana! We had so much fun with our friends Josh and Rae Lynn and they did a good job at introducing us to the whole other culture of people that live down there in Louisiana!!! Here are a few of the pictures from our trip:

Josh and Rae Lynn at lunch on our second day

Matt and Josh at dinner. Mexican food and live music,

can't beat that!

Me and Rae Lynn

Our introduction to the ghetto. These signs ACTUALLY say

"Playaz and Playettes"!

The alligators at the Bass Pro Shop

Bass Pro Shop=hunter's heaven.

You can even shoot guns in the store!

The Lonestar concert that we went to where we got to see all kinds of very interesting people. We couldn't stay for the whole thing because there was WAY too

much smoking going on around us.

Yes this is me in an astronaut suit at the Science Museum.

They had all kinds of fun things to play with!
This is what Matt would look like as a cone head!
Our introduction to fried everything. The seafood platter consisted of fried shrimp, fired crayfish, fried catfish, and french fries (of course)! Needless to say we all felt a little uneasy after this meal but if you're in the South you've got to try it!

Our first horse race!

Matt and I with one of our losing tickets. Matt's horse got 4th place and mine got 7th place. Horse races are WAY more fun than I expected, I can see how people get addicted!

This is the nicest of the GHETTO cars that we saw out there. Practically every car has

HUGE ghetto rims, no matter how crappy the car.

Rae Lynn and I enjoying frozen yogurt from a HUGE bowl (those are the smalls if you can believe that!). We had some pretty good laughs over our yogurt experience.

Let's just say that some people are so strange.

Saying goodbye in the airport :(

And we're off...

Tonight we are taking off to go visit our friends in Louisiana. Neither of us have ever been to Louisiana so we are very excited because we here there are some very interesting people and attractions there. Should be fun. We will be back next Monday and then Tuesday we get to go in and find out what that baby is!!!!!! Yippee! I'm so excited. So my next blog will start out something like this, "IT'S A..." Stay tuned to find out the answer! I hope you all have a wonderful week and weekend!

And we're off!

This afternoon Matt and I are packing up the car and we are heading down to San Jose for a wedding. I am excited about the wedding because it is one of Matt's family friends but I am a little nervous because we are being bussed up to the wedding and then we are stuck there the whole time... could be interesting. Hope they have lots of food and potties! :) I hope you all have a wonderful wedding and we will see you at the Stirring on Sunday night!

Day Trip!!!

Saturday morning I woke up sick and tired of all of the icky smoke. I'd just about had it with being couped up in the house all week because I didn't want to go out and breathe the deadly air. So while Matt was reading the paper I suggested that we take a day trip and get away from the house, the smoke, and any responsabilities that Saturday may have for us. Matt loved the idea and within the hour we were ready, the car was packed and we were on our way to Ashland! We had such a fun day! It was so nice to get away from the smoke and to just hang out and have a date with just the two of us.

Here's Matt doing a great job driving:)

Here is our favorite landmark along the freeway! Go "State of Jefferson!"

Here is the totally cute Italian cafe where we sat out on the patio and had lunch:

Here's a view of the Shakespear theaters from the park:

And here we are happy to be having such a wonderful day
(smoke-free!) Saying goodbye to Oregon:

All of the great views that California had to offer us on our way back. On our way up we could see Mt. Shasta but on our way back it had completely disappeared!!!

This is my "sad to be going home" face:

Jamaica BABY!!!!!

Today I booked our flights and made our hotel reservations for a trip to Jamaica in October! I am so freakin' excited!!!! How am I going to make it until October? Here is a picture of our hotel. They will be opening their doors for the first time in September so as a germaphobic I am very excited that it will be almost brand new when we visit.

One year ago...

We were touring castles and enjoying a beer in Ireland...

We were climbing into English phone booths with our new friends Josh and Rae Lynn...

We were walking down the streets of Paris and sipping on French wine at a sidewalk cafe...We were passing through the streets of Brugge enjoying Belgium chocolates (for the girls) and beer (for the boys)...

I was loving every minute of the Tulip fields in Holland... We were dressing up and dining in style... also loving that we could have as many main courses and desserts as possible...

And after all that we vacationed in New York, one of my favorite cities!!!

THANKS DAD AND JOY BECAUSE WITHOUT YOU NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE!!! YOU'RE THE BEST! (This is all 12 of us (plus our server) that went on this amazing trip).