California Trip

I got to spend a full week down in California visiting some family and very close friends of mine.

Asher with Great Grandma Grace!

This is Aliya. I used to babysit her when she was little and now she is all grown up! What a privilege it has been to be around watching her grow into such a beautiful, mature, and respectful young lady!

The Benabous… a crazy fun family that I've been "big sister" to since I was about 12!

Great times at Nathan's birthday party!

These two were such little hams for us!

I really do have the best little traveler! He does SO well on planes!

Camping #2

Well for our second camping trip of the season we went to Riffe Lake which is in the west side of Washington and it has excellent fishing(for the guys). We went with our good friends Russ and Kimber. We had such a blast despite the torrential downpour of rain! Unfortunately this is the only picture I took that weekend but it is near and dear to my heart. I love tent pictures, I just think they are so cute and fun :) 

Oregon Trip

We were blessed with a weekend off in the beginning of June and were able to make a trip down to Eugene. We had Victor's brother's high school graduation, a friend's wedding, a big three-way birthday party (Mindy, Whitney, Dad), Bette's (niece) 2nd birthday party, and just catching up and hanging out with our friends! It was a crazy busy and super fun weekend!

On the road to Oregon...

A cool replica of Stonehenge

Our sweet niece Hannah and nephew Nathan

Emily's (2nd from left) coffee themed bridal shower

One from our family photo shoot

Some fun and uber doober cute, if I do say so myself, pictures that Kirsten took :)

Vic and his brother's at Blake's high school graduation

Camping

For our wedding we got a lot of camping gear so we figured we'd try it out. I was so excited to get out into the wilderness with nothing but my husband and dog!

I had the responsibility of finding the campsite so I randomly picked one by a lake so Vic could fish, obviously. When we showed up we drove into a golf course. "Are you sure this is the place?" Vic asked me. "Over there I see tents!" I excitedly exclaimed. What I really saw were parking spaces with gravel for a tent. Nothing like the camping I imagined. We soon found out that I booked our wilderness adventure at a resort! We thought about going back home and camping in our backyard but we already paid for it and since we're poor we were not about to waist $30!

We unpacked, got the tent set up and explored our resort. It ended up being a total blast! We were able to rent a boat and took Ranger out on his first boat ride. Would we camp at that place again? Absolutely not! But it was a very fun weekend :)

What a hunk rowing us out into the lake! ;)

Poor buddy was cold so he snuggled up under Vic's sweatshirt!

My very first fishing experience!

Christmas in Oregon

The church shuts down the whole week after Christmas so we were able to go down to Oregon after our Christmas Eve services! We spent Christmas day with Victor's dad's side of the family and later that Friday we had cocktail party Christmas with his mom's side. Unfortunately my parents were out of town but we did get to take advantage of their house to ourselves for a couple days which was very much needed! Here are some of the fun, goofy, and darling pictures of our nieces and nephews during our stay...