Mom & Dad’s Anniversary

To be honest I am not sure which anniversary it was for my parents. It wasn’t one of the milestones like 30, I think it was 33. They had originally wanted to go out together to a nice restaurant, but Andrea didn’t want to be left alone. Then they figured since Andrea was coming that they would invite me. They wanted to go to this restaurant in Alta so we drove all the way up the canyon to realize that with it being between the resort seasons that everything was closed. So we ended up at Snowbird’s Steak Pit. It was beautiful! We ended up sitting outside and watching the sun set. It got a little chilly by the time the sun set, but I still enjoyed the view as well as the gorgeous flowers.

Rainbows

I love rainbows so beautiful and full of hope. during September it was raining a lot and I got pictures of a couple of rainbows. One was while Jake and I were diving home. If you look closely you can see a double rainbow in the picture.

This rainbow was so vivid and at one point a full rainbow. Although it was hard to get the full rainbow in the picture.

St George

When Jake got home in September it happened to be Labor Day so Jason, Rashelle, Jake and I decided to go to St George, just us four, no kids. It was  a lot of fun. We mostly just hung out. I think we went out to eat together one night. Another night we went to Mesquite Jason and Rashelle left earlier than Jake and I. The day after they left we got a massage. It was fun. One night I wanted to get some pictures of dusk looking over the city from Dixie Rock.

Camping

This is terrible I really should have done this long before now. I just had a crappy way to post and nothing was working. Know that I’ve got my Windows live writer it’s so much easier to post. Anyway the next few posts may not be in the right order. However, they are all things that happened in August, September and October.

I think this happened in August while Jake was in Alaska. Although that would make my August very busy because I know Oregon and New York were in August. Anyway, one weekend my parents decided to go camping up little cottonwood canyon. I ended up planning on meeting everyone up there. Well my parents have impeccable timing. They always seem to go either when it rains or we hit record colds for the summer. Anyway this trip happened to be the rain. 

Well on the way up I got a call from my mom saying they had shut down the road up the canyon because of an accident. Mom, Shelly, her kids and I waited at McDonald’s on 90th and 20th east to kill the time. Dad and Andrea were stuck up in the canyon. Anyway, Rashelle really didn’t want to eat at McDonald’s so we didn’t eat anything. Well we ended up deciding to eat at Buca de’beppo’s. As we waiting for a seat and got seated they opened the canyon and Dad and Andrea were able to come down and met us. It was fun to have dinner. Afterwards we went up the canyon and stayed the night. It ended up just me, mom, dad and Andrea that stayed the night. I didn’t get many pictures, but I was able to get some of the rain on the leaves and the drive down. I must say that I love Little Cottonwood Canyon it is so beautiful and I have so many memories from growing up going to Snowbird.

This last on is one of my favorite scenes driving down little cottonwood. 1 reason is that you can also see the seven sisters (which if you include my mom) is our family.

Nostalgia

So right after Oregon, literally Jake and I flew out of Oregon,  he went back to work and I went to New York. I had a two week business trip in Schenectady, which is upstate too far to visit the city. However, I enjoyed the trip. I went with a couple of co-workers that made it fun.

Anyway the nostalgia part is that I flew through the Detroit airport. Which reminded me of the many times I had been in that airport during my days working with Chrysler.  I flew in and out of that airport so many times. As I was wondering the airport (I had like a 4 hour layover) I kept saying to myself. “Oh I remember that place, I ate there with so and so” and “That’s a good place.” To be honest I actually like the airport it’s clean, it has a lot of things to do while your there. Plus to get from Concourse A to B you have to go through this under ground tunnel that has a color changing wall, the colors change to music. Then I had to get a picture of the jumping fountain in the main area (right after security.)

Well I was trying to load the video of the tunnel, but I couldn’t get it to work. I had to link my google account to a youtube account which I don’t have so yeah, I just decided to not post it. Sorry.

Finally Finishing Oregon

So I think it’s finally time to finish posting about Oregon. I know I haven’t blogged in a very long time, but be prepared for a ton of posts. I pretty much need to sum up the end of the year (from August to now) in three days. I would like to get all my 2011 posts done before new year. I guess we’ll see.

So Oregon is where I left off. Since it’s been awhile I don’t really remember the timeline so well (I know that’s why you’re supposed to write sooner) Anyway I’ll just give a highlight of the rest of the trip and put up some of my favorite pictures that I didn’t add.

The second day of Oregon we went to some tide pools which I have to say was my favorite thing. It was awesome to see some of the ocean plant and animal life where you didn’t have to scup dive. There were tons of starfish which were huge. After the tide pools we went to a lighthouse and took a quick tour. It would be interesting to be a worker of a light house way back when they were manually operated. The workers had to have been very strong. They pretty much had to carry heavy buckets of oil up and down a ton of stairs a few times a day.

As you can tell this lighthouse isn’t very big, but it still would be hard to do the up and down stairs all day. We had to take a 1 mile hike to get to the lighthouse and Jake and I decided to stop in the shade to get a picture. I’m just being silly. Finally my wonderful sister Amanda and her cute little chunker Matt. Although I love the picture because you can see the beautiful Oregon coast in the picture.

After that we pretty much relaxed at the house, played games, hung out and talked. The first day at the beach caused sand to get into my camera and wouldn’t work so I didn’t get anymore pictures after the day at the tide pools.

I love hanging out with my family and enjoyed this trip a lot. .

New Computer

So I know it has been way too long since I blogged last. I was having troubles blogging on my computer and Jake’s computer was never around for me to use. However, I know have a new personal computer. I am supper excited to use it and have something that I can keep without feeling like I rely and am owned by my company. It will take a while to get this computer to what I like. Putting my pictures and music on this one, but I can’t wait until it’s done.