Last Day in Utah

 

So we started our drive home from Salt Lake on Wednesday the 13th, stayed the night with our friends Heidi and Andrew in St. George and then continued on to Ridgecrest the next day with a few stops in Las Vegas.  

Grandma's Funeral Day

The funeral was October 15th in northern CA. Tony and I drove up on the 19th and got to Woodland kind of late but we were staying with Linda and she doesn't mind so much so it all worked out nicely.  My dad and 2 of my brothers were driving from Idaho on Sunday and staying at my grandparents home in Rocklin along with my Uncle Ron.

Another Day, Another Day at Disney!

My cute niece in her themed outfit for the day - Incredibles!

Keep reading to see what else we did on this day!

Disneyland Week - Let's Go!

A week? Oh yes, pretty much...almost a whole week! I didn't think I could survive 3 days in a row at Disneyland after going last June and running myself ragged. The MaxPass is a huge time saver on your feet and waiting in lines. We got on soo many rides, it was for sure worth it! Here are some fun pictures from my trip, starting with Monday.

Some back story first, I was invited to meet up with my sister and her family who live in Washington, when they came out to go to Disneyland for a couple weeks. Yep - a couple weeks! They started out with a pass for a few days then upgraded to a year pass that included the MaxPass with it. This trip has been planned for a year or so and I was super stoked that it finally was happening! I haven't seen this particular sister and her family for a couple years...far too long!

A Saturday Well Spent

Saturday was my last full day in Utah to really get everything done that I needed to.

Started out with yard sales in Daybreak and man, Laura and I only covered a small fraction before she had to get home so Rocky could go sell tires. I wanted to go back out, and could have, but I had a ton to get done and just until probably 9pm to do it.

Let's Go to Utah!

Yep..you read that right. After about a week and a half of being back in CA, it was time to go back to Utah. I got to make a fun stop on the way though to stay the night and hang out with my friend Kylee in Logandale and we took her Razr out the next morning for some fun desert views. Check it out!

Wednesday is the Only Day

Wednesday I woke up super stressed because I had a lot to get done and it was the only full day my parents were going to be in town. Where I was staying at, Tony's cousins house, they are working on putting it up for sale so Joey asked me to take Charlie and Daphne to my car so they didn't bother the lady coming over. Well..

Meet Raeya!

My newest niece was born on May 10th in SLC, Utah.
6 lb 7 oz, 18.5 inches long

Christmas in Idaho! (Part 1)

 I know I have taken a break from blogging again for awhile because life just got way too busy for me to be able to keep up. Thought I'd drop a few pictures here (thanks to my dad for some of these) of Tony & I in Idaho for Christmas. It just worked out better this year to be here instead of California and we may continue to come in the future depending on what happens with life.

A Trip To Idaho

 

My dad emailed my family on Friday letting us know he was going to get a new calling on Sunday in his ward if any of us wanted to come see it all go down. I'm always down for a roadtrip so my sister Laura, her 2 boys and I all headed out Friday afternoon to Boise.  Tony wanted to come but had too much homework and Rocky was still in Peru. So..girls trip! (minus the 2 boy-kids traveling with us).

LDS Conference Weekend With Family

I am not too happy with myself for not taking more pictures when my family was in town for conference weekend but we were just having too much fun and so busy that I didnt really take many pictures but here are the ones I did take that I can share!

James arrived Thursday evening. He has visited Laura & I in Utah once before. Julianne , Shawn and Hailey arrived Friday evening and stayed at my place. They have never come to stay with us in Utah before.

We ate at Zupas Friday evening for dinner.

Hailey and Tony were playing a cup game.

90 Is A Big Number!

I drove to California on May 7th for my grandpa's 90th surprise birthday party which was happening on the 9th. 

Christmas in Idaho Part 2

 Pulled up to my parents house in the afternoon on Christmas Day after leaving Tony's parents house and found my brothers outside having a snowball fight. You can see a snowball flying right in the middle there I think. 

I Stink At Bowling

Friday evening after a day of shopping, Tony and I drove by these awesome deer outside a new shopping mall area in Meridian. I felt like they were playing volleyball or something over the telephone wires. Teheh.

What Thanksgiving Consists Of For Me

This year it meant pretending to send a Snapchat to my friends of my brother Evan and then him lecturing me on how bad Snapchat is. Tehe

Watching Riley

My sister and her husband had some things to do one morning and since I was home I was able to watch my nephew Riley who is almost 2. I havent gotten to watch him for a long time so it was fun to have him over.

Trying to escape. Thinking he is all cool with one pant leg up. Jk. Holding on to his puppy. So cute

The Rest of the Reno Reunion

This is the hotel everyone was staying at and where we hung out for the most part while we were in Reno

Reno Family Reunion - On Our Way

Sweet sunset as we are heading out of Utah...

I am so lucky to have been able to go to 2 family reunions in the last month! The Reno one was unexpected and unplanned (for Tony & I) but we were able to pull it off and make it work to be there. I'm so so glad we went! We drove all night Friday night and since we were not in a super rush we stopped at a car show in Wendover...

Where Have I Been?

Certainly not blogging, that's been obvious! Makes me so so sad. I've fallen really behind. I blame it on starting a new job and not being able to be online much during the day. Not that I really blogged during work before but once 5pm hit I could get a blog post up or if I got up before 9am I could write something and schedule it to post later in the day. Sigh. I'm not sure that there is any other explanation besides the fact that when I get off work I dont always get to go straight home & when I do get home I have piles of stuff to clean up (clothes, dishes, mail , etc) and then I get so tired because Im getting up earlier for work.  Also some nights I've been falling asleep earlier leaving less time for online stuff and just other life stuff in general! Excuses? These are mine. I am realizing I'm so bad at managing my time and I am trying to figure out how to be better.

So...here's what I have been up to (esp on the weekends) during the month of June!

Thanksgiving Point - Tulip Festival!

Recently I found out I won 4 tickets from ArtsyFartsyMama's blog to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. Since I was leaving town on the 25th and the tickets arrived in the mail on the 20th, it didn't give me a lot of time to use them. No worries though because I made it work on Wednesday evening before Tony & I headed out of town.