Pennsylvania

Doug and myself, my parents, Devonna, Joe, and Reagan all got to go out to Pennsylvania a couple weeks ago to celebrate my grandparent's 50th Wedding anniversary. It was Doug's first time on the east coast and had so much fun there. He got to shoot guns with my dad and uncle, we went to Hershey World, the Cabela store, and Doug even got to go to a drive through liquor store with my Uncle. We roughed it in a motorhome and the freezing cold temperatures (We're Californians, so we're wimps). But we did have a bonfire almost every night we were there. Plus there was homemade apple pie, fresh apple sauce, and always a potful of coffee!

They had a ride that showed how they made chocolate in a very Walt Disney fashion; singing cows and everything.

Reagan liked the candy pillows. He's small enough to do this still

He's really into taking everything out of a drawer, or cupboard, or shelf, and then putting it back

5 lbs. of chocolate. $40 dollars. No thanks, I'll buy my chocolate in smaller increments :)

Trying to burn off some of his energy before going back in the car



Hershey Kiss lamposts in Hershey, PA

Cabela store. It was huge. Carried everything from shoes to hunting clothes, to firearms, to fishing gear. Everything for the outdoorsmen. Plus lots of animals that were stuffed from elephants, tigers, zebras, deer, and bears.

In front of a fake mountain with a bunch of stuffed animals all over it. Wolves and bears, goats, etc.

Polar Bears!

We went to a local hardware store and they had a stuffed giraffe in the middle of the store that the store owner had shot

We went for a walk down the canal which also runs next to a river. We got to experience fall with all of the colors. It was 4 miles of beautiful scenery

Sitting outside next to the fire on our laptops. Everyone kept making fun of us

Reagan came out with us when we shot clay pigeons with shotguns. He didn't really care about the noise. He didn't like wearing the headphones though

Family Portrait

Shooting cans of soda with the BB gun

It was a great trip, but we did have to hit the ground running by jumping right back into work and school. We're just trying not to get sick and stay on top of school and make ends meet. But life has been good :)

So much change!

So it has been forever since we've updated our blog. Thanks facebook. haha it's hard to update when it feels like we update our lives on it all the time. But here are some photos and updates from the past couple of months.

First of all, we're married!! Our wedding was gorgeous, the perfect wedding from start to finish!

My dad walking me down the isle and Doug's reaction when he first glimpsed me

As we walk together to be married

Saying our vows

Our gorgeous ceremony site

The wedding party

First dance as Husband and Wife

Then there was the honeymoon in Kauai!

The view from our room at the Marriot

Us at Waimea Canyon



Gorgeous view of the Pacific!

A napping seal on the beach

Showing off our Hawaiian position of "taken" with the flowers

This is our lovely one bedroom apartment. I figured people might want to be able to picture where we're living now.

The front door, the closet that holds our laundry room, and the kitchen

Our laundry room. We're so blessed we can do our laundry in our apartment instead of down the hall or across town.

The Kitchen, complete with appliances

Our sitting room, with the bookcase that Doug built for us, Joe's t.v. that we're baby sitting, and the world's comfiest couch that we got a great deal on!

Our dining room, with the table and chairs that we also got a good deal on during all the 4th of July sales! And our porch with our rocking chairs that Doug's mom gave us.

Another view of the room



The bathroom with our double sinks

The bedroom with our penny saver dresser

The other side of the room. And we have a walk in closet that you can't see in the photos.

We've been very excited for fall coming. We're happy it's finally cooling down and we've been burning our "pumpkin pie" candle to help it smell like fall. So a couple days ago we made Halloween cupcakes! they were delicious and we've ate almost all of them...

Disneyland

So last Monday we got to go to Disneyland! Our schedules matched up and we figured it be the perfect day where we were able to get a good amount of sleep the night before and before summer really hit and the crowds roll in. Disneyland is open a lot later than California Adventure, and earlier too. We got there around 9:30 and it was awesome. It was the perfect weather. It wasn't too cold at all but still cloudy, so we weren't baking in the sun. The first thing that we did when we got in the park was go to the Blue Bayou to make a reservation for that night. It had always been the policy that reservations could only be same day. Well, they changed that rule. Now you can make reservations 2 months in advance! Luckily we were able to still get a reservation for 9:20. It was a late dinner but we figured we'd be done with most of the rides and ready to just sit for a while.

After that we went on Pirate's of the Caribbean. I still miss the old one and don't like that they re-did the ride to fit the movies, but oh well. It was still fun. We also got Fast-passes (best invention ever!) for Indiana Jones and came back and rode that later. We pretty much got to go on everything that we wanted, and some rides we went on twice. Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Matterhorn, Finding Nemo, Star Tours, Buzz Light Year Star Command, Indiana Jones, Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion, Winnie the Pooh, Snow White, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Thunder Mountain, and probably more. It was an awesome day.

We asked a woman to take our picture in front of the castle. She seemed rather annoyed, which surprised us. And she didn't even get the castle in the background...

So we did it ourselves...kinda



Here are some of our ride shots. We took a picture of the screen that portrays the picture...so some of the shots aren't that great

Splash Mountain. We're in the very back. We were in a group of other people and they all put their hands up, so we joined them. But Doug's face got blocked by one of the other guy's hand.

Space Mountain. Such an amazing ride. But you gotta be in the front for it.

Buzz Lightyear. We were shooting all the targets. We both look like we're stoned

Space Mountain again. Our second time, and this time in the front.

Right before we took off on the Matterhorn. The best thing about just us going is that on a lot of the rides the attendants were calling for groups of two to fill up other cars. We'd immediately shoot our hands up and volunteer to go in front of everyone.

So they re-did and re-named Tom Sawyer's Island. It's kinda sad how they keep changing things, like the Swiss Family Robinson Tree house to Tarzan's tree house. It makes sense because they're keeping up with the times and what kids will know, but both attractions were tribute to classic novels. With saying that, I must also say that Pirate's Lair (the new name of the island) is really cool and was a lot of fun to explore.

Us in front of one of the buildings there. The people that are sitting in the back have a checkerboard between them

Doug in a tree house that's built there

Me on one of the swing brides there.

They have one of bone cages from Pirate's of the Caribbean that you can go in. It's anchored to the ground completely, but was still fun to see and pose in.

In a lagoon there is a boat that has this whole filled with water...

But if you pump this pump for a few minutes...(I know, you can't really see the pump...the guy taking the picture missed the point)

you pump the water out and treasure and a skeleton appears!!

Doug on a bridge made out of wooden barrels. It moved a lot.

Just us again. I think this is on jungle cruise...

This is one of the scenes in the line for Who Framed Roger Rabbit ride. Doug saw the calendar for August and was excited, so he took the picture of it.

Us at the Blue Bayou. We had the photo shop the picture a little because we were so washed out since it's so dark in the restaurant. When we first went in we originally were seated at the very back of the restaurant. But as we were walking to the table I saw that they were clearing a table right on the water edge. I asked Doug to ask the staff if we could move to that table, and they said yes. So we got to be right on the water. It was so romantic. Except for the people on the ride who would yell, "Is the food good?!" haha. But it didn't happen all the time, so it was still a lot of fun. And the food was absolutely delicious.



Now it's time to really start wedding planning