Hey Look at Me!

I realized I can't let it be a whole year since I updated this thing. Nathan asked me why I hadn't written and I told him we didn't really do anything. He said well, yeah we did! We do tons of things. Hmm maybe I just don't think anyone would be interested in them. Anyway, since last August...let me look thru my pictures to refresh my memory.

Well folks, I don't have any pictures from about end of August to the beginning of December. We were doing far to important things than carrying around a camera. DUH

Here are December/Christmas pictures.

Here is Paisley and Kevin enjoying their Christmas Goodies.

Christmas afternoon/early evening we traveled down to Sunriver to Colbys Sunriver house for the last time before they sell it. We didn't get to eat Christmas dinner anywhere so good 'ol Subway was our delicious meal. 

Here is the gang, minus me of course!

 We went shooting one morning, here are some pics from that. 

This is Jonica (Brandon's girlfriend, Jessica, and me)

Aaron brought the Biebs for target practice. 

Here is my 'I'm feeling artistic' capture of part of the multitude of guns everyone brought. 

The results of Justin Bieber.

And last but not least another artsy-fartsy shot of Paisley, cuz who can refuse a face like that! This I believe was taken by Jew.

When we got back from Sunriver we celebrated a new year, which also means another year married!

We worked during the day and went out to the Ringside for dinner.

We then realized we needed to loose weight and this was our last dance with yummy, delicious, mouth-watering food. :)

Ok, we didn't just realize this, it was planned out for a little bit.

NEXT!

Hawaii

I went to Maui the last week of Feb. with my parents and sister. They took my other sister and brother in June so now it was our turn!

Here we are at the airport when it was SNOWING.

(I don't think my dad had his morning coffee yet, hence the cheeseball smile)

 And here we are waiting to board and buying scratch-its so I don't get too bored. HA it still happened and I thought it was never going to end.

The second night we went to the Old Lahaina Luau and watched the pretty sunset. It was a buffet of some yummy and some kinda nasty foods. The sweet potatoes were purple! and really thick but pretty good. 

The first night we went to a random restaurant and I had to get something authentic, so I got the loco moco with a side of kim chi. YUM I could only eat about half but it was good! Egg, hamburger, rice, mac salad, and gravy...yummy yum yum.

I was a little dissapointed by the beaches, they weren't what I have seen from saved by the bell and full house when they all went to Hawaii :) We did find one beach with a bigger sand area and the waves breaking at the shore were crazy. Me and my dad had fun standing out there...

 And then we decided that was enough fun and we swallowed enough salt for the day, but not before the ocean took away my sunglasses!!

We went whale watching and these are about the best pics I got. They're quick and a little unentertaining when you really want them to perform. They got close to our boat though, that was a little freaky.

Windy! and look my long lost sunglasses :(

Oh and OF COURSE I had to stop and get REAL shave ice. The best ever with guava flavor! We ate some pretty good meals here, they make good food over there :)

Ignore squinty eye... arrrrrr I look like a pirate

Here are more pictures... We made leis, 

 And laid by the pool...and maybe took a little dip or too but not for too long!! 

 And then we napped. 

The END! I missed my Paisley dog too much, and Nathan, so it was nice to be home and sleep in my own bed for a short while before going to work :)

Vegas

Had our honeymoon during Spring Break this last week.

Nathan's first time and my third, not sure if he really knew about all the walking!

Here is is resting. 

We stayed at Planet Hollywood, walked around the strip looking at the hotels and window shopping.

We wanted to go see a comedian or a show but we could only afford eating at the yummy buffets

The Jaspersons were also breaking in Vegas at the same time so on Tuesday, we met up and walked around. We sampled all the Coca-Cola's from around the world. Italy's BY FAR the worst. 

Tasted like old grass and dandelions. The others were pretty interesting and actually good.

At night we went to old vegas, which I had never been too and was pretty cool to see what vegas was and what it is now. 

Going into tasting...

And the aftertaste of Italian's Coca-Cola... GROSS

When we got there we couldn't check in to our hotel so we had a few hours to kill. We sat down at some machines, first Nathan got pretty lucky and won a couple bucks. Then we found a slot called Texas Tea, we won about 8 dollars! haha

Everytime we gave my camera to someone to take out picture together, it stopped working and then eventually died so I don't have too many to show but we had fun and can't wait to go back and be able to do more!
Here are some random pics. Enjoy.

Beach Weekend

Billy's godmother has a beach house at Cannon Beach, so we all went up for 'valentine's day', a week late. :)

It was so sunny and nice at the beach that weekend too!
No wind, not that cold at night, and sunny all day, made it really nice for the only shower which was OUTSIDE! 

We ate, walked around on the beach, hung out, drove to Astoria and Seaside, and just relaxed.

I bought Nathan UGGY OOS, haha, (or Ugg's), because he wanted some house slippers for our artic tundra.

And Nathan's gift to me was a spur of the moment/we were kinda bored/it would look awesome piercing

(you can click to enlarge it, or google tragus piercing if it doesn't work)

A good vacation to start out the next few weeks of finals....
dun dun dunnnnnn

Montana

Headed off to Montana early Thursday (7-2) morning, (longest car ever)! jk

My parents, brother, and I traveled to Montana/Wyoming when I was 13 and from what I remember, was not as long. Except for the fact I had to sit in the back with my brother...who poked me whenever I fell asleep.

We stopped a million times for gas, and finally got there at 7 pm.

Ate spaghetti and meatballs, hung out with billions of mosquitoes, and went to sleep.

The next day, Nathan, Kevin, Jake, and I went to Dillion to get some fireworks.

For being a state where it's legal to have huge flying fireworks, they didn't have many cakes, just breaks which were still cool.

I got this one called Pink Diamonds, which said it shot up 50 feet, but it turned out to be a fountain... BOOOO

But they were still really fun.

We went out to Virginia City too, which was a neat old town and they had lots of wooden signs with funny sayings on them. and went on a tour of the town.

It was a really relaxing and fun family reunion in Twin Bridges.

Nathan got to shoot lots of guns, we rode 110cc's (motorcycles) which were fun, until I was falling over. haha.

I wish I took more pictures but I didn't.

Me and Nathan will for sure be going back during hunting season to shoot us up some deers and all sorts of the other red meat.
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Oh wait. This vacation doesn't end there...
After the fireworks, Hoa and Thuy + kids, were gonna leave because they were worried about their motor home breaking down. Me and Nathan went with to help drive and ya know, just in case something were to happen.
I stayed up till around 3 am with Hoa to keep him awake then I fell asleep, Nathan doesnt sleep in cars, especially if someone else is driving so he laid on a bed until I fell asleep.
Nathan woke me to up because we had stopped to 'use the restroom'.
I looked our the door and we were in front of a HOUSE!
I said, we can't pee here, people live there!
To which Hoa says, OH don't worry it's an abandoned town.
And Nathan tried to tell me it was a Rec Center...yeah right.

Great. talk about creepy.
Very reminiscent of the Hills Have Eyes (don't EVER see that movie. you will have nightmares or radiated, nuclear bomb, incestual people).
There were old cars and boarded up houses, in the dark!
(p.s. I'm really afraid of the dark...so it might not sound very scary to others).

On the road we went, and around 7 am, everyone was waking up.
Nathan was driving and Leann, Dillion, and I were watching a movie in the back.
And the front and back windows are covered in smoke, and we hear huge chunks of something falling on the road.
Nathan pulled over and we were stuck.
Good thing we were at least in Oregon.
Called AAA, and waited for the tow truck and another semi with a truck on the back.
The Phams took the truck and followed the semi to Hermiston to stay until Nic was passing through and picked them up.
Me and Nathan got to go with the tow truck guy in his semi to drop the motor home off at a repair shop in Pendleton.

Interesting ride. Never been inside a semi-truck.
The driver had his 2 year old son with him, who knew every kind of truck there is.
Finally got to Pendelton, where it was 100+ degrees outside.
We hadn't ate yet or really drank anything. I had some water left, we rationed...ha

We decided we wouldn't actually die if we walked up too a hamburger place and ate some food.
It was next to a gas station, with A/C so we got some drinks in there and walked back to the motor home.
We passed a river and wanted so badly to just jump in, but we didn't.
We opened the door and windows and fell asleep for a little bit but it was so hot, it didn't last long.
We walked back up to the gas station, got gatorades, and sat there for an hour looking at magazines and auto traders.
*By the way, we totally looked like we should have been missing 5 teeth and that we just crawled out from our cave*
Walked back down and FINALLY, after being stranded for 5+ hours, salvation came. haha
Kevin, Rich, and Paula came and we shuttled everything in the motor home to the trailer on the truck, hopped in, and headed for home.
We thought we were gonna be stuck again when going over hood river, and we had 1 mile left to go before we ran out of gas, when luckily there was a station with about .25 miles left.
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Left at 11 PM Saturday and got home 1030 PM Sunday.
Uh, I think next time I might fly. Or drive a car with nothing attatched to it.