Dream Trip!

My dream trip, not out of the country, not on some exotic island, not to see one of the world wonders. But a trip with my family, everyone of them! ... and thats what this trip was, we hadnt taken family pictures since I was eleven so a few things changed since then and we needed to update so we did a trip down south and everyone came! Hadnt been that way in a while with everyone together so it was just that ... a dream. Me and Zach started a new hobby movie makin and made this...it sums up the weekend...

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My seattle Family

The most amazing part of all my adventures was spending the kind of time with Zach and Amanda that I have never had the chance to do! It was so awesome to wake up every morning and get to hang out with the two of them over and over again...A-MazinG! I felt so at home and when I left it was super hard because they had become my family, best friends, and my home! Anyway here are some miselaneous pics of our time spent together!

AJ & ANG Adventures

This is my friend AJ that I met here, he is actually from Utah, here is our latest adventure...Kayaking!

Mt. Rainier

If you have ever flown into Seattle, WA upon decent you most likely noticed the giant volcanic glacier coming up through the clouds...that my friends is Rainier. We went camping up in the mountains near it and drove up one day to this little town called paradise that is one of the highest spots you can drive to. I also acomplished my second camping endevor and decided on my career field...Professional Marshmellow/Smore Maker. I have perfected the art. :)

Yanks!

I got to check off another thing from my dream list...Watched the Yankees play live.It was so cool and to add to the experience it was my first time at Safeco Field and I loved it there. The only down part of this night was the small fact that they lost...they were up 1-0 for most the game, then in the botton of the eight Mariners third baseman hit a GRaNdSlAm! Making the final 1-4 :(....It was still pretty awesome though and Zach was more than thrilled with beating my team. . . Fun Night!

Awesome Day!

So last Friday was an AWESOME day! It was nonstop coolness and fun! It started off with the morning...I drove out to Bellevue to go to the Seattle Temple, it was gorgeous and I had a really neat time there. Then I headed from there to Redmound where Zach works, to meet him for lunch...the Microsoft campus is amazing and cant even explain it, we ate in this mall like building with stores and restraunts just for their employees (and their family) there is like one hundred buildings on their campus and it has the biggest parking garage in the world! Anyway it was awesome to see where my big bro works except while walking around the campus I suddenly felt even more blonde and dumber than usual walking amist all those computer geniuses. I told Zach, "I am pretty sure I am the dumbest one here,except for the small children" he replyed, "nope they are prob smarter than you too!" (there is a lot of Indian people and Zach said they are really tough on their kids to be smart and competitive so sadly he was probably right). Then just when the day couldnt get any cooler...it did! .... but this post is too long to tell you about it....okay I will anyway, I met Laird Hamilton! yup, if you dont know who that is he is one of the biggest names in surfing and he is way hot! :) Awesome day right, best part is I drove to all these things and navigated all by myself ok maybe I got a little lost just once but found my way!

The Hoh! :)

No not the Ho, get your minds outta the gutter. The Hoh National Rainforest is well...a Rainforest, the only temperate rainforest in the pacific northwest. If you want to see what Im talking about just watch Twilight or Harry and the Henderson's (both were filmed there), its a pretty amazing forest. Speaking of Twilight we stopped in Forks and LaPush on the way into the Hoh and saw where all that Vampire stuff took place, Im not a fan of that stuff but still thought it was cool to see. Anyways we went camping in the Hoh, it was kinda my first time camping minus girls camp. Zach taught me lots, like setting up my tent and making a proper fire. We even got charged by some mama elks that part was not even cool but now a good story to tell.