the marvelous wonderettes

the sis, the mom & i like to go to plays on occasion. even though in the picture i don't look to happy, i promise you i was ha! i just wasn't ready for the pic. just a few blocks from my house is a small theater called the hale centre theater. i remember going there as a little girl. it always amazed me what they can do with such small space with a center stage. this play was super cute. it is set in the late 1950's and include these songs. i love oldies songs. every saturday growing up my dad would blast his old school music. 

some of my favorites in the play included:

and of course...




do you have any favorite old school songs!?

artsy.

a few weeks back i had to write a paper analyzing a piece of art work so my mama and i headed down to the byu art museum. we had a wonderful time looking at the different exhibits. i love doing simple activities like this. they had an awesome quilt exhibit going on that mama bev just loved. my favorite piece was the display of books they had. it was so cool! {it is the first one pictured} i thought it was so creative and just awesome. i never realized how much i heart art until this year. it just makes me happy. 

41 years

Happy 41st anniversary to my parents!!! I love them so so much. Aren't they so dang cute? I made them do a little photo shoot with me this afternoon. We snapped a few. I even got my dad to smile :) I am so happy that they are my parents. I am so blessed!

I love that my dad still opens the door for my mom, takes her on a dinner date once a week, and I love hearing them laugh. It's so cute.They are pretty cool and I couldn't image life with out them. Thanks for your love and support through everything Mom and Dad. You mean the world to me.

 I'm so glad I'm your baby girl.

road trip with the rents {part seven}

{June 23, 2011}

Highlights:

-double decker bus

-in and out

-china town

-new purse!

-h&m

-saks fifth ave

-running into my sis

Point A: San Francisco, CA
Point B: Sacramento,CA
Miles Drove: 101.23

it was so lovely to not really drive this day but to sight see. i LOVED san fran. it rocked. we did the hop on hop off double decker tour bus. i loved each and every part of this day. china town was fun and i was in the hunt for a purse. i found a perfect one with a matching wallet for a great price. all the cute houses on the hills reminded me of full house and the whole day i wanted to watch an episode ha-ha. we ate a fantastic Waldorf salad and i had chili in their famous sourdough bread bowls. my sis and her hubby were on a trip for their anniversary and we ran into them :) mom and i went shopping to saks fith ave and i found a lovely perfume! 

yumm. also h&m in san fran rocked! 

Point A: Sacramento,CA

Point B: Reno, NV

Point C: Orem,UT

Miles Drove: 690.35

the next day i slacked at taking pics (after all, i had taken hundreds in the previous days and so i just read hp6 & slept on the way home.) but we drove straight home. it was a long trip a lot of driving and a lot of fun. good time with the rents!! thanks mom and dad for a wonderful, relaxing, and memorable trip.
 i guess their are perks of being the youngest and only one not married ;)


next trip will be to the great state of TX to see my sis and her little girlies! hopefully this fall!!! 


thanks for letting me share this trip with you.
and looking at some of my favorite pictures.

road trip with the rents {part six}

{June 22, 2011}

Highlights:
-the redwoods
-break dancers
-driving across the bridge


Point A: Crescent City, CA
Point B: Redding, CA
Point C: San Francisco,CA
Miles Drove: 429.15

the redwoods were HUGE!!!! the pictures don't do them justice. and they were so so so amazing. i cannot get over how large they were. it was an awesome to drive through them. we then drove into san fran just before dinner time. it was so cool driving across the bridge! i had never been to northern cali before so it was fun to visit. we walked around the different piers and i watched some break dancers. they were pretty legit! i wanted to jump in and start dancing with them! i was exhausted from all the driving and walking and fell right to sleep especially knowing that the next day would be a full day of touristy adventures in the big city! 


ps isn't the cat with the life jacket HILARIOUS?!

road trip with the rents {part five}

{June 21, 2011}

Highlights:

-jack in the box

-light houses

-super 8

-finished hp5!!!!!

Point A: Newport,OR
Point B: Florence,OR
Point C: Eugene,OR
Point D: Crescent City,CA
Miles Drove: 331.84

lots of driving this day. it took a lot longer since we drove down the coast through the smaller roads. but the scenery was stunning! oh so beautiful. so lush and green. the ocean was fantastic. it was really overcast that you couldn't even see a lot of the light houses. after a while we cut on over and got on the freeway. else it would have taken us days to drive all the way down. 

i love the ocean.