Nostalgic

Travis surprised me for our anniversary by taking me to relive parts of our first date.
Instead of visiting Jimi Hendrix at his grave we went to the Experience Music Project museum. They are featuring Nirvana right now which was very cool!
Instead of staying up all night listening to Pink Floyd we went to the Dark Side of the Moon Laser show. I have never been to a laser show before and it was super trippy. I felt like I was being hypnotized lol!
We also added Thai dinner and a trip to the grocery store lol!
It was so much fun and I am so lucky to be married to such an amazing man. It was so cute to see him trying to plan the surprise. I eventually caught on and he let me help him plan our date- He had a lot of good ideas but he is super indecisive so he kind of needed my help anyway.

Happy Birthday Jimi and Happy Anniversary to us!

What if 6 was 9

High school sweethearts!

After the laser show. Is it sad that I fell asleep during the last few songs?

He likes the picture above better and I like this one better so I am including both

Dates

The picture of Travis and I  in the last post is from our date Friday night. We went and watched the Everett Silvertips play hockey. It was fun even though the home team lost. Hockey is such an exciting sport and like most sports I liked watching the minor league/college players better then the pros. There just seems to be so much more heart involved.
Saturday Trav took Kailyn out- they went bowling and then walked around the mall. Other then a lady in the candy store acting like a total neurotic freak they had a great time.
Trav took a couple more pictures but they are on his phone and I will have to get them later.
There is a super cute picture of her devouring a cinnamon roll at Cinnabon that I have to share once I get it from his phone! Aren't they precious? They look so much alike to me in this picture! People always tell me that Kailyn looks just like me but I don't know, I think she looks a lot like her daddy.

When they got home Allias and I headed out to hangout and do a little shopping. My nephew Gavin came along as well.

The pretzel line was super long so they hung out in this sweet ride and waited for me.

I am quite proud of myself because I let him choose the radio staion (R&B- blah), the place to eat (McDonald's- YUCK). I didn't actually eat anything at Mcdonald's though but I don't think he cared. He was just bummed that I didn't tell the girl in the drive through that he thought she was hot. I was so going to but I thought he would get mad!

We spent most of our time shopping! I am pretty sure next to watching or playing sports it is his favorite past time. He got some new cologne and a belt for church from Ross, some jeans and a nice polo from the Calvin Klein outlet and some basketball shoes and a Lebron James tee from the Nike Outlet. There were some killer sales going on.

Here he is with his shopping bags.

There was a church dance that night and he wore his new outfit- I should have taken a picture. He looked so handsome. He complains that people here in Washington don't dress "fresh" enough. Not quite sure what that means but I know people ask him why he wears shirts with collars every day lol. I am glad he isn't interested in adopting the sloppy style of dress I see a lot of the kids around here wearing.

Raven Rock, Rose Prom and Quirky K

Travis and I went to Raven Rock Saturday- just the two of us. We had the best time and are going to try to hike on a regular basis.
We did the four mile hike- they have another loop that is more like seven miles that I would love to try.
There were so many cool trees and plants- and we even found this awesome bug!

This tree was totally hollow on the inside but massive. We saw a tree that had been recently struck by lightening as well.



Travis set the camera on a cliff- set the timer for ten seconds and then raced back to get in the picture- it was great!

Raven Rock


It had rained a ton the night before so the river was super muddy.
We jogged part of the way so we were nice and sweaty by the time we reached the lookout.
This picture is adorable to me
Tyler and Allias went to Rose Prom Saturday night with a group of friends. It was a lot of fun!
Here are the boys all decked out and ready to dance.
Kailyn keeps getting taller. I have measured her three times this month and each time she has grown at least a quarter of an inch. Today we were getting ready for church and her head was about at my nose!
These next three pictures are so totally her- they make me smile!

backpacking, backtracking, basketball, barns and birthday bliss

Allias has been letting me use his camera since mine is broken. I was going to do a bunch of different posts but I got lazy and did it all in one. So pull up a chair and enjoy.



I totally forgot that Travis took Kailyn and Allias camping at Raven Rock last month- Tyler had to work so he and I stayed home. Travis ended up getting off much later then expected and so that left me in charge of getting everything together. I pretty much just threw everything in the back of the van so they could go- which ended up being a mistake because they had to hike in four or five miles just to get to their campsite. And since Travis had gotten home so late they hiked the last two or so in the dark.
Luckily the ranger had a few extra packs so they only had to make one trip. Kailyn even carried one of the packs the entire way.







Here is Kailyn posing in the kitchen this morning, sometime in early spring she and I went to the mall and they were having a MAJOR clearance sale at Hudson Belk. We got over 300 dollars worth of clothes for 56 bucks! I keep meaning to have her put on a fashion show..... This is one of the outfits- so stinkin' cute and only 8 dollars. We got the shoes later- another store another clearance sale.


Swinging at the park the other night.
Tyler and Allias after playing basketball in the rain.

Our home school group went on a field trip to the Agri-fest at the fairgrounds.





I seriously almost brought one of these home!!!
They were selling them for 50 bucks!
and oh my goodness they were the CUTEST things ever!!!!! Not to mention that at only two days old they were already only pottying in one corner of the pen. Brittney do you want me to bring you one when I come to Utah this summer???


Kailyn learning how to spin wool into yarn


My birthday weekend was pretty cool. Travis and I went out to dinner Saturday night and then we went shopping. My dad had sent me some b-day money and I wanted a new dress. I even got to speak in church Sunday. (I do enjoy it actually).
And then Monday morning in seminary I got not one,

but two chocolate cakes-

which I was happy to share with the class. A couple of the kids had a cake eating contest and finished off the big cake in a matter of minutes.

Then I went out to lunch with some of my very very favorite people.
I bought this shirt with my b-day money too!
Travis had to work late but the kids and I had strawberry shortcake.



And last but not least I took Allias to get his haircut today. Kailyn decided she wanted hers cut too. It turned out soooo precious. Even Allias told her how pretty she looked when we got in the car.
This is another picture where I go wow! Allias looks so much like my younger brother!