Sunriver!

The day after Christmas Andrew's parents picked us up to spend some time in Sunriver. We LOVE Sunriver! It is one of the places we miss the most in Oregon. Of course the summers are really fun because you can bike ride to the pools and all around on the bike trails and of course get some Goody's ice cream! Ok for reminiscent pleasure here is an old summer memory of a picture we took while out on a bike ride:

Whenever we go to Sunriver we stay with Andrew's aunt who lives there. She is in her late sixties but boy is she a firecracker! Of course there was the time when she told us she would take us on a bike ride and show us around. Well 13 miles later I wasn't sure I would ever walk again and was a little embarrassed I could hardly keep up with her!

Anyway, back to our post Christmas getaway! We knew it would take us longer than usual to get there because of all of the snow but really it was pretty smooth driving and it was beautiful!

Lucy Loved the snow! And she didn't want to just walk along the pathways. She wanted to be chest deep forging her own path the whole time.

Which was fine the first day. It was so cold so the snow was super powdery.

Andrew's Aunt Maureen's house.

We went to the little village to walk around the shops, see the ice skaters and get some hot chocolate!

The next day Lucy couldn't wait to get out in the snow again! Only by then it was starting to warm up and the snow wasn't quite as powdery anymore.

Resulting in this:

I had to put her in the sink and rinse the clumps off because they were so stuck to her! Haha

After her snow romp Andrew and his dad packed up the car and headed to the mountain to get some skiing in. Andrew's mom and I got dropped off at the Sage Springs Spa on the way! I absolutely love this spa and have only been for a massage there one other time but seriously this is a happy place! Sometimes when I am really stressed out at work I think about going here and it makes me a little less stressed. :) I had planned to get a maternity massage and as I looked into it more I saw they had a Relax Pass package. So as a Christmas present Andrew's mom and I both got a Relax Pass which included more pampering than should be allowed in one day! I got a 50 minute maternity massage, a 50 minute facial and a 50 minute pedicure! Oh it makes me happy just thinking about it again! Well we got there around 9am, got settled in our robes and slippers and spent some time in the relaxation room before our treatments began. Then got ridiculously pampered from 10am to 1pm! By then we were starving so we ordered lunch from the lodge to be delivered to the relaxation room! Then we noticed they carried Jane Iredale makeup which I have been wanting to try so we spent some time looking at makeup and getting help which color matching. Then we got showered and ready and by the time we were all done it was 4:30pm!! I still can't believe we spent almost 8 hours at the spa!! Incredible! I'm so ready to go back! Even Andrew's mom loved it and she does not normally love sitting around relaxing! I think we may make it a yearly tradition but we will see. Next year will be a little different with a baby girl to think of. :) Andrew has already volunteered to take care of her if it means I get to relax and I am going to take him up on it for sure.

Now we are back at Andrew's parents house on the coast, relaxing, shopping (NO SALES TAX!) and eating out. Basically I am ready for this vacation to never end. I love getting to spend so much time with my hubby and am not ready to go back to busy life!

Christmas Cheer!

This was a couple of days ago, we made it to downtown salem for a bit and got some holiday cheer in a cup!

For Christmas Eve Andrew and I got everyone flannel pajama pants. I found the idea in a magazine of making new Christmas Eve pajamas a tradition and thought it would be fun! We may not do it for everyone every year but we will certainly carry it on for our little family.

Lucy was Santa's best little helper Christmas Morning!

Lucy got a few doggie toys for Christmas but she LOVED all the tissue paper the most!!

Christmas afternoon my grandparents came down too and we all had dinner and more presents together!

My sister love and I!

All the kiddos!

Silly family with their apples.

The end! Tomorrow morning Andrew's parents pick us up to head to Sunriver for the weekend for more Christmas fun! Andrew and his dad are hoping to ski Saturday morning and his mom and I have appointments at the Sage Springs Spa for more pampering than should be allowed! We probably won't have internet again until Sunday but I have to say this is probably the most blogging I have done in a long time!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Winter Wonderland!

Andrew and I were scheduled to fly up to Oregon this last Saturday evening getting in around 4:30pm but as we kept watching Oregon news and weather.com we started to get worried that we wouldn't make it at all if we waited that late. On Friday they were predicting that a new storm would hit around noon on Saturday with snow fall between 6-12 inches! So we changed our flight for the morning one getting in around 10am. I am SO glad we did!! We flew Alaskan and a few hours after we got in they started canceling flights. I really don't know if we would have made it otherwise. I know other parts of the country get snow like this normally but Oregon really does not which means when we do get snow the cities really aren't prepared to handle it. My parents picked us up from the airport and picked up my sister in Portland as well on our way back home. She was coming just for the weekend and was planning on getting a ride back up last night. So she only packed clothes for 24 hours! The weather has gone from bad to worse and her boss told her to not plan on coming in until after Christmas. So now she is stuck in Salem with only a few items of clothing and none of her Christmas presents! My dad could drive her up with chains too but as we check odot it seems like that may not be happening today since the roads look like this:

This was Sunday morning. All night Andrew and I heard crack and then crash as the ice just got too heavy for the branches and they started breaking off. Here they are moving the glass table out of the way in case more fell. My dad, brother, andrew, and my cousin josh spent a few hours outside with the chainsaw cleaning up the mess.

Poor, poor tree. so sad that it is loosing it's branches:(

Lucy ran around for a while and found the ice to be a lot of fun!
After a few hours of just hanging out at home and thinking of what we could do we decided to take a walk to the nearest safeway to get starbucks! So off we went on our icy adventure. Here are my mom and sister, so tough!
Me and my sweetie all bundled up! The snow is so beautiful and so peaceful.

This morning instead of waking up to ice we woke up to snow!! fresh fallen snow! So we let the pup out to run around and she is having so much fun!! I think she would stay out all day if I didn't make her come inside when I noticed her shivering.
One thing that I am super sad about with all of this snow is it means I didn't have a baby showers yesterday:( I am super sad that my friends Annie and Amanda put all the time and thought into planning and Amanda sent out beautiful invitations and then we didn't get to have it. It was going to be up in portland with mostly my college girlfriends and portland has been hit even harder!

So now I am snowed in with my honey, puppy and family and really couldn't ask to be anywhere else. Andrew is about to make some decaf coffee for us to drink and maybe we will watch a movie. I know everyone else in Oregon is so sick of it but since we just got here we are still enjoying it! Hopefully we don't loose power!

4 Year Anniversary!

Four years ago today I married my sweetie husband and every year I love him more and am more thankful that I married him!

This year to celebrate we went out to our tried and true romantic Piatti! We always love eating there and are never disappointed with our meal! I think we especially took our time and soaked in all the romance knowing this will be our last year to celebrate without having to think about things like babysitters! Andrew had mentioned to his dad earlier that day our plans to eat there to celebrate and when we got to Piatti our waiter told us his dad had called in and was covering our meal and to order whatever we want and try things we wouldn't normally try! Such a treat!

When Andrew called in to make our reservations they asked him if it was for a special occasion. I guess they are making fun menus for everything now! It doesn't show the date of our actual anniversary but it still makes you feel so special to have your menu personalized.
I am so thankful for who my husband is and how he loves me and our family and I can't imagine partnering in and walking through life with anyone else! We are both so excited about welcoming our baby girl this spring and the beautiful changes that will bring our family.

Christmas Cheer!

Last weekend we had a little Christmas party with all the Christmas treats! It was just a night to hang out and indulge in Christmas yummies and at the end of the night we watched the classic movie Home Alone!

Lots of yummy food!

Some of the party goers

Some yummy baby!

It was a lot of fun and I think I would have enjoyed it even more if I hadn't come down with a nasty cold a couple days before. Isn't that the downer of this time of the year?

Wedding, Reunion & the rest of the family fun!

I love weddings! We went to the beautiful wedding this last weekend of our family friend Andrea. Andrea's parents Dale and Carol founded the YWAM organization King's Kids, which is where my parents met! In fact my parents were part of the original King's Kids. We had a lot of fun this last weekend watching old videos of them! Ok back to the wedding pictures. The wedding was held at the beautiful Pasadena City Hall. (Funny side note: as I was looking through the pictures to decide which ones to upload we were watching Eli Stone and realized the City Hall building scene they show is the one in Pasadena!)

The super cute flower boys!
Vivi the adorable flower girl! Half way through she decided she didn't want to do it anymore because she didn't realize there were going to be people in the chairs! But then her friend Ivan, one of the flower boys ran back for her and she was ok walking the rest of the way. How cute is that!

The beautiful bride!

Worship time during the ceremony.All lit up at night!
Dancing a surprise hula for her new hubby!
The couples first dance amid a bounty of bubbles!
Andrew and I with Andrea.
Our family!
The next day was a surprise 60th birthday party for Dale and Carol and also a King's Kids reunion of sorts. It was fun meeting my parents friends that they did King's Kids with and singing old songs that us kids sang as well during our short King's Kids stint!
Cutest little Elena walking around serving food to people while they sat and told stories.
Erika, Heather my mama and I! ( Heather is Elena's mama)
On Monday Andrew, Dan and my mama took Lucy out to dog beach. Now I wasn't there myself but it looks to me like Lucy is pack leader of these pups here all running around. She loves all dogs it doesn't matter the size to her!

The next day my family all flew home! It was so much fun having them here and just living life with them for a week! I am glad I can look forward to seeing them again in just a couple of weeks!